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Heliotrope posted:Holey moley I love Annie's expression in the second panel. This whole chapter has been full of great expressions from EVERYONE. The art is really on fire. And the story in this chapter in particular has been quite the blend of sad and hopeful, but in a good way (at least for us readers).
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I really, really, really want Tony to redeem himself and apologize to Annie and be a good father. C'mon Tony, don't be a Bad Dad. Also Tom, I probably speak for a lot of us here when I say I'd LOOOOOVE a chapter that's all flashback to Tony and Jimmy Jims school days. Anything like that planned?
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Apr 6, 2012 18:08
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So I just mainlined Gunnerkrigg Court's entire archive in the last two days. Pretty great comic. Love the focus on mythology, and its plot has improved along with the increase in the "technology versus mysticism" bent. My biggest takeaway right now: Coyote seems like a cool guy, but I really kinda freaked the gently caress out there for a bit when Robot and Shadow got sliced in half.
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Apr 6, 2012 20:15
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Mods please change my name to Jimmy Jims tia Or if he weighed the rocket before launching it instead of just assuming he got the numbers right. Also does the blinker stone actually physically exist and have mass or is it entire etheric or what?
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Apr 7, 2012 01:41
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JT Jag posted:My biggest takeaway right now: Coyote seems like a cool guy, but I really kinda freaked the gently caress out there for a bit when Robot and Shadow got sliced in half.
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Apr 7, 2012 03:54
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Personally I'm just too busy being distracted by Donny's tiny, tiny eyes.
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Apr 7, 2012 04:08
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I started reading this the other day because I'm a huge nerd for Neil Gaiman and saw the recommendation. I am greatly enjoying it so far and while it has many wonderful qualities what stands out for me is the sheer cuteness of it all. Every character is extremely adorable and lovable and it is the best. I'm not far into it but I'm hoping the adorableness never ceases.
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Zeeco posted:I started reading this the other day because I'm a huge nerd for Neil Gaiman and saw the recommendation. I am greatly enjoying it so far and while it has many wonderful qualities what stands out for me is the sheer cuteness of it all. Every character is extremely adorable and lovable and it is the best. It pretty much doesn't, I think you'll find.
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Apr 7, 2012 05:14
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Incidentally the inexplicable boxbot abuse was ok for a while but it flipped right around to pity right at the end there. "Did I miss anything important?" "Yes." Robox is a dick
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Apr 7, 2012 05:42
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JT Jag posted:My biggest takeaway right now: Coyote seems like a cool guy, but I really kinda freaked the gently caress out there for a bit when Robot and Shadow got sliced in half. Reminder: Coyote is not your bro.
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Apr 7, 2012 05:46
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1stGear posted:Reminder: Coyote is not your bro.
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Apr 7, 2012 05:48
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Was the author inspired by Bone in any way? I can't explain exactly why, but certain pages, this sequence of pages in particular remind me a whole lot of Bone.
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Apr 7, 2012 05:59
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Not an Owl posted:Was the author inspired by Bone in any way? I can't explain exactly why, but certain pages, this sequence of pages in particular remind me a whole lot of Bone.
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Apr 7, 2012 06:05
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So do you guys say "kye-oh-tee" or "kye-oat"? 
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feetnotes posted:So do you guys say "kye-oh-tee" or "kye-oat"?
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Apr 7, 2012 06:27
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According to Christopher Moore's Coyote Blue, the proper pronunciation is "Kai-Yo-Tee" when referring to the animal, and "Kai-Yote" when referring to the character from mythology that takes human form, as in "Old Man Coyote." I still call him Kai-Yo-Tee in the comic.
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feetnotes posted:So do you guys say "kye-oh-tee" or "kye-oat"? [kɑi.ˈjoʊ.ɾiː] which matches up more with your first one. Who the gently caress says the second one? Not anyone who lives anywhere with coyotes that's for sure. People who've only ever read the word and never heard it spoken by people worried about their pets getting eaten by coyotes.
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feetnotes posted:So do you guys say "kye-oh-tee" or "kye-oat"? The only time I ever hear the second pronunciation is from old prospectors in cartoons. So, the first one.
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QueerPope posted:Who the gently caress says the second one? Not anyone who lives anywhere with coyotes that's for sure. People who've only ever read the word and never heard it spoken by people worried about their pets getting eaten by coyotes. There are plenty of coyotes in my area and I've heard several people use the second pronunciation?  I didn't know it was considered weird.
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YES bread posted:There are plenty of coyotes in my area and I've heard several people use the second pronunciation? Yeah, I think it's pretty normal for rural people in Texas and the Southwest to pronounce it that way. It's just an Anglicized pronunciation of coyote, which was Hispanicized from the original Nahuatl word, so none of us are really saying it right anyway.
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You just have to live near people who chase the cai-yote up t' crick off yonder.
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I live in Canada, and while most of the time we say Kye-oh-tee, the second pronunciation is often used as a shortening or nickname of sorts.
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Apr 7, 2012 08:42
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Haha jeez, not being a native English speaker, I usually read words like these (names of animals that are written in more or less the same way) as I would in my own language so I always end up pronouncing it ko-yot (or maybe I added a silent-ish 'e' there at the end). Really hadn't thought more about it and had no idea how wrong I was about how it is pronounced.
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The link to the page where Coyote binds Annie's wrist reminded me. Are we to think that Ysengrin lost his missing ear due to something similar? One of the following pages always made me wonder: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=829 It's probably been discussed here before, but I don't recall. Could just be an old injury from fighting, but we've seen Coyote punish Ysengrin before. If he did lose it that way, that leads to speculation about how exactly Ysengrin defied Coyote.
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It's already been mentioned in other threads, but make sure to vote for Gunnerkrigg Court for the final round of the competition. If you care, anyway. Goblins as of typing this is a little ahead of GC and gently caress letting that comic win.
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MMM 2012 Round 7 Finals Goblins (51%, 4,798 Votes) Gunnerkrigg Court (49%, 4,579 Votes) Total Voters: 9,377 Just voted.
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Ya know how you read these articles or visit pages like ComicMix and then accidentally start reading the comments even though you KNOW its just gonna piss you off, well... (Bolded for stupidity emphasis) Some Idiot posted:Well. Read MSPA in its entirety in four days to prepare for this so I could vote fairly, then come back and see that Gunnerkrigg won. How about that. So apparently, Tom, you're not begging for votes enough. Clearly, if you did that you'd prove your worth as a
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man, I like Goblins, especially when it focuses on the goblins and not one of the other 2 separate storylines running at once. but it doesn't even belong in the final and should not be winning right now. what the hell, internet?
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So I went to have a look at goblins. It's holding my attention, but does the art get worse as it goes along? 
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Apr 7, 2012 13:03
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This is pretty much exactly what I'd expect to happen to the brain of someone who read MSPA start to finish in four days, yes.
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If Goblins actually wins this it will be the most shallow victory I've ever seen because no comic except Goblins has actually asked their readers to vote for them. Most other comics, if they mentioned it at all, asked their readers to use this as an opportunity to check out other comics. Goblins? Goblins has had exactly 0 non-competition news posts since this started. The author has also been posting "incentives", like answering questions about things in the comic to get people to vote for him (although he apparently realized how much of a jackass this was making him look like and said he'd do it regardless of if he won or not). I don't hate Goblins like the people in the webcomics thread seem to, but this isn't helping. Fake edit: goddamn we're posting a lot about comics that aren't Gunnerkrigg Court. I've been taking up Gimp lately and used the Random Gunnerkrigg someone posted a while back to make a couple avatars:  I think swords are neat do you think swords are neat?  Real slick, Donlan.
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Ya know, it's interesting that Ysengrin hates humans so much considering his tree body makes him closer to humans than anyone else in the forest. Even the shadowmen. Well I guess there's the fairy dudes and the green dudes. But still, he's a lot more like a human than wolf at this point. edit: Goblins sucks. MSPA sucks too but not as much as Goblins.
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Macaluso posted:Ya know, it's interesting that Ysengrin hates humans so much considering his tree body makes him closer to humans than anyone else in the forest. Even the shadowmen. It completely fits, though. To gain more power, his original body (which he is probably proud of) grows weaker while he starts to seriously depend on a human-like body which he probably despises. I'd say it's one of the main reasons he's so drat bitter. The problem with Coyote and his gifts is that he has a sense of humour.
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Macaluso posted:Ya know, it's interesting that Ysengrin hates humans so much considering his tree body makes him closer to humans than anyone else in the forest. Even the shadowmen. That's kind of a bizarre way to think about prejudice, though isn't it? That the more you look like something the more you should like it. So naturally feminine looking men shouldn't be misogynist, for example. And I'm trying my best not to go to into parody, "Ysengrin is actually reclaming bipedism from the humans. Herons were doing it years before humanity started." thoughts.
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Nettle Soup posted:So I went to have a look at goblins. It's holding my attention, but does the art get worse as it goes along? It varies wildly. The artist has picked up some skills since the first stages of the comic, but still is completely unable to draw faces in 3/4 view. The story's OK, the art's OK, the humour is reasonably consistent, the update schedule is just hideous. It's an average-to-good comic, IMO, save for the wildly inconsistent update schedule. It's not a patch on Gunnerkrigg, though, in any of the above categories. Sad Gol-Shogeg will be sadder if Thunt's constant blogging about this stupid contest makes him win it.
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thespaceinvader posted:The story's OK, the art's OK, the humour is reasonably consistent, the update schedule is just hideous. It's an average-to-good comic, IMO, save for the wildly inconsistent update schedule. It's not a patch on Gunnerkrigg, though, in any of the above categories. Lies. Compared to stuff like Gunnerkrigg and Unsounded the art looks loving awful. I can barely tell what the gently caress is meant to be happening.
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You guys could always buy delightful gunnerkrigg merchandise and use the delightful donate to gunnerkrigg button to make up for the hundo he'll miss out on by not winning a random internet poll.
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Around here ky-oh-tee and ky-oat are used interchangeably, depending on context. Like how sometimes I'll call my parents "my parents" and sometimes I'll call them "my folks." I've always seen "ky -oat" as more rural/informal way to say it.
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I don't understand how anyone can look at Goblins' art for long enough to read more than one strip and not start vomiting uncontrollably.
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I just blasted through this over the course of this morning/afternoon because of the lull Homestuck is currently in. Oh man. The art is beautiful, the plot is hauntingly intriguing, the pace is never slow or uninteresting and everything is just so fantastic.  I almost choked up during a few parts - the artwork resonated with me so much. I was absolutely in awe at chapter 26. "You saw three Ysengrins tonight: the way others see him, the way he sees himself, and the way he truly is. I want you to keep in mind the real Ysengrin!" The panels and the dialogue worked together brilliantly for that entire sequence. My only regret is now I have to wait for updates. 
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