COMIC: 'Our Blazing Destiny' - Welcome to the Oregon Trail
[Our Blazing Destiny is a weekly comic by Jonathan "Persona" Kim about our society, cultural postdialectic theory, and video games. And about fording rivers and not being able to carry enough food back to the wagon.]
"My classes have started! I'll try to get the comic back on schedule next week so bear with me!
My friend had a copy of The Oregon Trail on her computer and I played it again out of nostalgia. It surprised me how easy it was to get to Oregon now that I was older and was more capable of micromanaging small virtual travellers. Maybe it was harder back when it only in green and black on the Apple II?"
[Jonathan "Persona" Kim is sometimes a character animation student at the California Institute of the Arts, other times a ninja illustrator, but in his heart, a true comic artist looking for his destiny in the sea of stars. His path on the torrid road of comics include a quarterly manga on The Gamer's Quarter and his website on the awesome collective Mecha Fetus. A new website design that's almost finished is coming soon! Also, the link to the Gamer's Quarter has finally been fixed!]
Comments
Someone linked this in irc and we found it to make very little sense.
I assume you're implying that they ate her but in the third frame they buried her. Then all of a sudden they found food. wtf?
Posted by: Legion | September 15, 2006 11:04 AM
Heh, I'm not sure what it means, but any Oregon Trail reference is worth high-five/secret handshake/whatever's hip with the kids these days in my book. :)
Posted by: RedWolf | September 15, 2006 11:36 AM
I think she died and then there was 'mysteriously' more food, or that's how I read it :)
Posted by: simonc | September 15, 2006 2:33 PM
Awesome.
Posted by: Corey Holcomb-Hockin | September 15, 2006 4:31 PM
Maybe Mary was part of someone ELSE'S Oregon Trail.
:o
Posted by: Persona | September 15, 2006 6:23 PM
Nice one. For old time sake I opened it up in the gimp and made it green and black.
Posted by: d | September 15, 2006 7:46 PM
Oh, whoa! You have to upload that and let me see!
Posted by: Persona | September 15, 2006 7:52 PM
120 pounds for a girl. Damn, she must of been a little piggy piggy.
Posted by: EJ Shin | October 3, 2006 8:14 PM