August 21st, 2009
Retro Comic: The End
Here you go, another retro comic from the depths of the Optipess archives. This one was one of the very first strips I made back in 2007, and I dug it up figuring it would contain a shred of entertainment value even now. My rediscovered essays from grade school, on the other hand, still surely don’t.
August 21st, 2009 at 00:30
Dino Riders!
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August 24th, 2009 at 20:50
I actually rather like this one. Definitely more than a “shred” of entertainment value. This reminds me fondly of the stories I wrote in elementary school, although my dinosaur and alien stories never mixed. Are there many more “retro comics” you have yet to put up on the website?
August 25th, 2009 at 01:39
Thanks! I still like this one as well, but I didn’t post it earlier because I couldn’t quite get the line in the last panel to work. If I were to re-do some of these old ones at one point (not very likely) I’d try to get rid of the text altogether. Anyway, I rearranged the words before posting it now so it sounds a little bit better at least.
But yeah, I have some more of these old ones still lying around, and while I may not post all of them to the site for various reasons, I’m kinda planning an alternate way to get them out there. Stay tuned!
August 26th, 2009 at 12:28
tmork, you read my mind. my comment was literally going to read:
“Dino Riders!”
August 26th, 2009 at 13:33
Hah, scary to think that my readers might have a hive mind…
But actually, since I had a rather Cable TV deprived childhood I never saw Dino Riders, although I of course went through an obligatory phase of obsessing about dinosaurs. I’m just not entirely sure it ever ended.
Btw, Jackson – I dig your blog, adding it to my RSS reader now!
August 29th, 2009 at 21:30
I remember Dino Riders. My sister tried to sell of my Dino Riders VHS, so I totally biyotch slapped her. I was not amused. >:( (/me Does not condone sibling abuse… no wait, yeah he does!)
August 30th, 2009 at 06:14
Thanks, Kristian! I’m glad you dig my blog.
I never had cable TV either. My Dino Riders experience was mediated entirely through tiny plastic action figures.
October 18th, 2009 at 06:57
[...] The first 15 Optipess comics were made within a few weeks of spring 2007 to meet the deadline to a comic strip contest run by Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet. Of these, only five has been posted on this site; Amazing Superpowers, Bomb Threats, An Epiphany, Stopwatch and The End. [...]