Camp Weedonwantcha by Katie Rice — Olly Olly Oxen Free

Dog · July 2014

Camp Weedonwantcha by Katie Rice — Olly Olly Oxen Free

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streever · July 2014

Katie, this immediately brought to mind the Interactive Fiction game 'Ollie Ollie Oxen Free', in which the protagonist helps children navigate a crisis situation following a bombing.

Not sure if you're interested in IF at all, but it's a beautiful little story, and I thought I'd share.

Thank you!
http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=ugca99t2yhtat452

AntonNUL · July 2014

Oh, so that's why Seventeen ended up in the camp.

Versen · July 2014

Just created an account (marathon-ed this comic in about an hour or two, love it)

But yeah. As its been pointed out, that is (was) a moonshine still. Very troubling. Glad she seems ok though.

curryp · July 2014

Ok, I guess it's now : "direction The Camp !"

markutis · July 2014

I feel a Garfield and Nermal situation coming on. Seventeen's siblings are going to put her in a box, write "TO: Abu Dhabi" er, "Camp Weedonwantcha" and off she'll go!

hajen · July 2014

ahh... the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back; she didn't cause the incident, but her proximity allowed the consequences to be associated to her.
... but it is nice to see that Polly at least tried to protect 17, instead of herself.

And for your viewing pleasure: the north end of a southbound kitteh

Peter Rogan · July 2014

So she was Seventeen before she even came to camp. Interesting. The backstory is deeper than we can fathom. Unless it comes out in her memories as they root her out.

Dasilodavi · July 2014

My speculation is that she's the seventeenth child in a large family, apparently one that makes moonshine. Kind of like Cletus' family from The Simpsons.

metfansc · July 2014

Easy kitty gets an early running start from the explosion

metfansc · July 2014

Isn't speculating that she is from a large family that makes moonshine at this point like speculating that the sky is blue? Did I miss some other possible explanation for the last couple comics that I am not catching up to?

MrNumbers · July 2014

"I just know I'm going to be blamed for this, but in my defense... Tag! You're it!"

Invisible · July 2014

How do you think these people learn of the camp?

I am going to continue to speculate the camp is out of time and space. Possibly the kids do not physically age at camp and in fact the kids might be from different times.

hibryd7 · July 2014

That escalated quickly o_o;

PsycheRach · July 2014

Aw man, this is so sad!
Cute little Seventeen, just being adorable.

Mjolnir74 · July 2014

At least we don't have to see her being miserable at the camp in the last pane of this comic.

@INVISIBLE Brochures.

Sovoq113 · July 2014

It's hard to tell whether she really does care for Seventeen or not, at least she still tries to protect her though.

Peter Ebel · July 2014

Seventeen done blowed up the whiskey still. Now I sympathize with the older, wiser siblings.

Victor Grunn · July 2014

It's interesting to see Polly actually kind of conflicted about this, even if she clearly just walked over the line to 'yep, get rid of her.' Hell, even the surly looking brother frankly said 'It's better for her', and look at these guys - it really is.

zio · July 2014

so... assuming that the camp really is purgatory... she died in the explosion.

Nigel · July 2014

So were they distilling moonshine? The jars Polly was holding looked to be full of clear liquid and that would also be justified by how back-woods that family seems to be.

darthmidget15 · July 2014

I got it, 17 is 17 because 17 is the 17th kid at the moonshine distillers house

Papadoc · July 2014

For all those saying "Seventeen" is the Seventeenth kid, you might be right.

But Seventeen isn't her name because if you check under the "meet the campers" section of the website you'll see that only Seventeen doesn't have a fancy nameplate under her picture, unlike Malachi and Brian.

cB557 · July 2014

streever wrote: »

Katie, this immediately brought to mind the Interactive Fiction game 'Ollie Ollie Oxen Free', in which the protagonist helps children navigate a crisis situation following a bombing.

Not sure if you're interested in IF at all, but it's a beautiful little story, and I thought I'd share.

Thank you!
http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=ugca99t2yhtat452

Apparently, it used to be used as a way to say a game of hide and seek was over. I know this due to having just checked a page on Halopedia because I thought this was a Halo reference.

Ilze123 · July 2014

hopefully we never learn what the nature of the Camp truly is. My fear is that the "magic" will be gone. Just like in the series Lost. It was fun to watch, untill we knew the truth

cB557 · July 2014

Ilze123 wrote: »

hopefully we never learn what the nature of the Camp truly is. My fear is that the "magic" will be gone. Just like in the series Lost. It was fun to watch, untill we knew the truth

It's a place where people go to abandon their kids, duh. Unless you were referring to something else?

Decap · July 2014

cB557 wrote: »

Ilze123 wrote: »

hopefully we never learn what the nature of the Camp truly is. My fear is that the "magic" will be gone. Just like in the series Lost. It was fun to watch, untill we knew the truth

It's a place where people go to abandon their kids, duh. Unless you were referring to something else?

Well, there's the fact we haven't seen a living adult yet.

XMinusOne · July 2014

Okay, how did Seventeen's siblings know about the camp and how did she get there?

With each strip that's posted, I'm more convinced the camp is some sort of sanctuary for children's souls that have died; possibly violently. Not a Purgatory per se, but rather a way station so they can enjoy the childhood denied them by their early deaths before proceeding to Heaven with the adults.

For instance: I don't recall seeing anyone eating, have you?

Ilze123 · July 2014

Decap wrote: »

cB557 wrote: »

Ilze123 wrote: »

hopefully we never learn what the nature of the Camp truly is. My fear is that the "magic" will be gone. Just like in the series Lost. It was fun to watch, untill we knew the truth

It's a place where people go to abandon their kids, duh. Unless you were referring to something else?

Well, there's the fact we haven't seen a living adult yet.

What I meant to say was that part of the fun is the speculation what is happening in the story. When we know the true nature of the camp, the speculation stops. At this point two things can happen.
- the fun stops
- it is just one veil of mystery gone and we still don't know half of it (and we continue to speculate)

cB557 · July 2014

Decap wrote: »

cB557 wrote: »

Ilze123 wrote: »

hopefully we never learn what the nature of the Camp truly is. My fear is that the "magic" will be gone. Just like in the series Lost. It was fun to watch, untill we knew the truth

It's a place where people go to abandon their kids, duh. Unless you were referring to something else?

Well, there's the fact we haven't seen a living adult yet.

Yeah.
Because none of them are gonna stop by the camp for any longer than it takes to toss their kid out of the car.

XMinusOne wrote: »

For instance: I don't recall seeing anyone eating, have you?

No, but they clearly can pee and poop, and it'd be odd to take away eating but leave those in there.

Ilze123 wrote: »

Decap wrote: »

cB557 wrote: »

Ilze123 wrote: »

hopefully we never learn what the nature of the Camp truly is. My fear is that the "magic" will be gone. Just like in the series Lost. It was fun to watch, untill we knew the truth

It's a place where people go to abandon their kids, duh. Unless you were referring to something else?

Well, there's the fact we haven't seen a living adult yet.

What I meant to say was that part of the fun is the speculation what is happening in the story. When we know the true nature of the camp, the speculation stops. At this point two things can happen.
- the fun stops
- it is just one veil of mystery gone and we still don't know half of it (and we continue to speculate)

Personally, I want to see the campers trying to survive. Getting a food supply, finding ways to ward of predators, that sort of thing. Keep up the comedy as the A plot, but have that kinda serious survival stuff as an interesting B plot.