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The Matrix
"Run, Saga, Run"
Online comic
Written by Spencer Lamm
Pencils and Colors by Keron Grant
Inks by Rob Stull
Letters by Comicraft
2002 |
One of the Oracle’s students bristles
under the constraints of training.
Read the story at the Internet Archive
Didja Know?
This story originally appeared on the official Matrix
website in 2002.
The title
"Run, Saga, Run" may have been informed by the title of
the 1998 German experimental thriller film Run Lola Run,
an experimental film that touches on chaotic cause-effect
relationships and free-will vs. determinism, which could also be
said to be at play in this story.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this story
Saga Talmer
Spoon Boy
Potentials
The Oracle
operator (unnamed)
Agents
driver (unnamed)
Didja Notice?
On page 1, Spoon Boy is seen among the Potentials in the
Oracle's apartment.
| On page 2, the Oracle appears to be in her original body
form as seen in The Matrix
and The Matrix Reloaded, not the new body seen from
Enter the Matrix onward. |
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On page 3, the Marritt Marquis hotel is seen. This is a play
on the
Marriott Marquis hotel chain. A sign for Obak, an
unidentified business, is also seen outside the hotel.
Also on page 3, Saga is seen using a pay phone booth. A
Mugen Power decal has been stuck to the outside of the
booth. An electronic billboard advertising Mugen is seen on
page 13 as well.
On page 13, an electronic billboard advertising GXR is seen.
This may be a reference to the
Ricoh GXR camera.
At the end of the story, Saga, with the Agents on her tail,
is transported out of the Matrix over a hardline phone
connection to safety. But the Agents know the call has gone
through and remark, "It's almost too easy. She's gone. Start
the trace." This seems to imply that this trace is what
allows them to find the location of Zion in the physical world
to begin the machine invasion of the human stronghold as
seen in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix
Revolutions.
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