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The lighting in this update is just so pretty. I love how the line art changes color in the first panel, and the shadows in the second are really nice as well. Another nice touch is that the background behind coyote's infinite eyes and teeth is a panoply of stars.
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1stGear posted:I kind of envy the people who have forgotten what it's like to be 13 and stumbling through your first "real" relationship. Some of those sperglords probably never went through the process at all...
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Nov 8, 2013 20:06
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BobTheJanitor posted:It's going to be Kat running in to say "Hi" and then the last half of this page. I just noticed Annie's hair is sort of on fire here. Ah, I love it when concepts are so thoughtfully implemented in a story. Dr Subterfuge fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Nov 18, 2013 |
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Nov 18, 2013 21:55
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You all do rereads far more often than I do. Is that behind-the-shoulder shot of Kat a first for that angle in this series? I like how it gives an air of uncertainty to a statement that would otherwise be read as fairly resolute. Yay for complicated feelings!
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Nov 25, 2013 17:04
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Thanks. I love how goofy perspective means emotional distress. It makes the beginning take on a completely new character.
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Nov 26, 2013 05:13
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ReidRansom posted:I feel like Annie will be upset, but only because Kat was hiding her relationship generally (scared of losing her BFF, why didn't she talk to her about something important like that or trust her to be supportive, blah blah blah teenage poo poo), not that it was with another girl, but that Kat will misunderstand it as being bothered with the nature of the relationship rather than whatever else, and over the course of the remainder of the chapter they'll sort all that out. Nah, there have been plenty of times in this comic when Tom has had the opportunity to go into a bout of dramatic irony like that and he almost never takes it. It's one of the many reasons I like this story.
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Nov 29, 2013 23:23
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Kennel posted:"But I already thought that you are into girls" is surprising and amusing. Especially given how she was teasing Kat about Eglamore in the previous chapter.
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Dec 18, 2013 19:02
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RabidWeasel posted:Bisexuality is a thing that exists you know. Glagha posted:While I'm sure someone else is going to say the same thing, having a crush on Eglamore, and being into girls, are not mutually exclusive. Fair enough. I'll go off and try to extract my foot from my mouth now.
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Dec 18, 2013 22:24
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It is tempting for me to think of Jones as a personification of Earth, despite the fact that she is explicitly an observer of life, rather than an active progenitor of it like most Earth personifications/deities. Her physical abilities just seem so Earthy (or at least earthy) to me.
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Jan 7, 2014 14:33
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Feb 20, 2014 17:47
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Rasselas posted:People love to look for something to be outraged at, even if it was never meant in the sense they're reading it. Jokes are especially good for that because there will be SOMETHING there you can find wrong. "You are terrible if you don't bow to our superior and highly specific sense of ethics, now grovel and beg for mercy, villain" Please tell me more about how bad people's senses of superiority are 
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Mar 3, 2014 00:48
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I hope this is also the story of how Jones finds Gunnerkrigg Court.
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Mar 13, 2014 13:25
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I'd say Mort's choice for how he should appear is pretty indicative overall of his view of the ROTD and totally consistent with the depiction of daddy Dracula in his flashback (which is obviously his perspective). Present Dracula is from Annie's perspective. Presumably the eldritch monster librarian was as well, given the similarities in tone between it and everything else happening in the ROTD in this chapter.
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Apr 7, 2014 22:12
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GodFish posted:Under the mask: Eglamore? The Artilleryman? Definitely gonna be Eglamore. GENUINE CAT HERDER posted:Who is it going to be? Who is it going to be!? I think it's time to take this joke into the Ether. It had a good life but it's time to move on.
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Apr 11, 2014 15:22
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RainbowCake posted:Well yeah, but I feel like Friday pages tend to be worse. Pretty much the latter. They're the worst 1/3 of the time, as are Monday and Wednesday.
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May 7, 2014 16:20
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Dammit Internet the only thing that is similar between Zimmy and mystery girl is the messy black hair.
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Jul 25, 2014 15:23
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Captain Oblivious posted:The area under her eyes. It looks a lot like how Zimmy does when the rain has washed WEIRD BLACK poo poo away. It really doesn't, actually. Zimmy's eyes look like they just had weird black poo poo washed away: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=196 Mystery Girl looks like she has on eye liner. Also this: Nihilarian posted:I don't think that's Zimmy. It might be that she looks almost nothing like her, or maybe that even though she's only been in a single panel it's already apparent that she doesn't really act like her, or maybe because "she fixed all her problems off-screen" is kinda boring, but I really don't think it's Zimmy. Jack probably just likes goth girls.
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Jul 25, 2014 19:05
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Captain Oblivious posted:I could be misremembering, but I was thinking of one of the more recent instances of Zimmy in the rain. It's hard to compare that older art, for me. If you are thinking about this and the following pages then I still would have to say what I said before: The markings emphasize the gunk that would be left on her cheeks. There is very little of anything like eyeliner beneath her eyes. And when other people are feeling the effects of her illusions, they get dark circles under their eyes, which also doesn't look like eyeliner. Also, seriously, Zimmy has red eyes and this girl doesn't. This should be enough. The only reason we know she has red eyes is because we can only see them when her powers are subdued.
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Potsticker posted:maybe she got contacts Occam's razor  ...Yeah I'm done though.  and all that. Monday can't come soon enough.
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Jul 26, 2014 03:05
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Today's page was everything I could have asked for and more
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Jul 28, 2014 18:19
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If the Court administration doesn't start meddling in Kat's business after this then I'm not sure I understand the Court at all.
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Aug 25, 2014 13:35
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SHISHKABOB posted:They probably already have their noses in it. True but at some point they tend to send in someone (in Annie's case: Jones) to influence events, which is more what I was thinking.
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Aug 25, 2014 16:05
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I don't think anyone from the court is going to step in now. More likely it would be later as a consequence of whatever happens here. If Jack can sneak around the court without them tracking him then so can the robot secret police. This is mostly up to Kat to solve, I think. Though honestly we still don't have all the pieces. Do they really think that an experimental arm is enough to make something flesh? We also still need to know who was talking on the previous page.
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Aug 25, 2014 18:08
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The Robot-as-cult-leader plot line is honestly one of my favorites. The fact that we like Robot (or at least I do--he's easily one of my favorite secondary characters) gives the creation of the cult much more weight and tension than it would otherwise have.
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BobTheJanitor posted:That panel of Gamma is ominous. I mean the whole page is ominous, but that one in particular is pretty grim. Looks like she's trapped, separated from Zimmy, and possibly just emotionally stunned. Like she's probably rocking back and forth and whimpering. How are they going to meet up in their usual place and escape? This doesn't bode well for our fair heroes. I really like this panel because how effective the fence is at communicating the feelings of dread and isolation. The fact that the fence partially obscures her make her feel cut off and trapped. On top of that though the fence also communicates the idea that she is not unaffected by the goings on of this particular iteration of Zimmyland like usual. She's huddled down and...afraid? Shocked? Feeling guilty? Certainly not in a happy place, and certainly worse off, at least for the moment, than the others seen today. Except maybe the S classes. They look like they're having a bad day.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:32
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For the people impatient with the release schedule, even having the whole thing magically come out all at once wouldn't be enough because then there wouldn't be any more.
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Sep 16, 2014 14:20
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SHISHKABOB posted:No, it's good when things end. All things must end. The true showing of a story teller's abilities is the ability to end a story. If you are not satisfied with a well-ended story then you are. 21st century consumerist man-child and should probably kill yourself. Just because I can empathize with the endless desire for more content doesn't mean I share it. But go on, who else should kill themselves because they do not meet your standards for living
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Sep 16, 2014 17:24
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Maybe a little, but that's kind of how things would go if you went to a big enough school and only interacted with one other student with any regularity.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:I gave up the moment I saw the horns I gave up the moment I saw numbers as letters.
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I really like how this chapter reads as a whole so far. Day to day though the format exposes how hard it is to do action a page at a time and make it as satisfying. Oh well, it's not as if I object to reading things again, and the experience as a whole is ultimately more important than the weekly pages anyway. Speaking of rereads, I'm still trying to figure out how they managed to get Zimmy to switch shirts with Jenny.
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Yesss. Down the rabbit hole we go. 
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Dec 29, 2014 09:26
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Hugoon Chavez posted:Also, anyone else getting really creeped out by Robot? The whole robot cult to Kat started fun but it's getting kinda dark. Robot is one of my favorite characters in this story. I love his design -- the only robot who wears clothes, complete with a hoodie that sometimes seems more like a cowl. I love the duality of his nature, how in theory he is one of Kat's greatest protectors, and at the same time the most dangerous thing in her life. How competent he is, while at the same time how misguided his philosophizing is. He seems to be single-handedly turning her into a god just by twisting her words into a sermon that fits his own agenda. The whole cult thing is just this delicious slow build of drama that is eventually all going to get set loose in one glorious flood of conflict. I can't wait.
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CannonFodder posted:The trees are Coyote's bones, and Ysengrin's tree body is a gift from Coyote, so Ysengrin's wood hands are Coyote's hands. Specifically here: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1089
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It's still the same shirt. Both she and Smitty are wearing oxygen tanks or maybe filters on these sort of sash things. You can see the sash from the back in the fourth panel. No idea why their guide doesn't need one, though.
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What a dick. But on the other hand, the potential for conflict here is so deliciously tantalizing. Just how meddlesome are you going to be Tony? Talking it out isn't his thing. And in a story where talking is usually (thankfully) the resolution to conflict, that leaves things wide open for other shenanigans. I wonder what his thoughts about Kat's current biology project would be... Dr Subterfuge fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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YF-23 posted:What the hell guys, Annie isn't feeling like she is because Anthony is "being a tosser" (he isn't), she's feeling like that because her father is actually back in her life, so suddenly. It's got nothing to do with him acting like a dickbag (he's not) and everything to do with someone very important to her, whose absence was a defining characteristic of who she is, is no longer absent, with no warning. Absentee father showing up like this and acting this way absolutely is awful. And it is also entirely possible that she doesn't see it that way.
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Yeah that's more or less how I see it going down.
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Mar 27, 2015 21:06
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Annie kind of has a problem with authority. She knew Coyote was The Coyote and spanked him anyway. Renardine has been telling her for years that she shouldn't be cheating and has been doing it anyway. Annie knew the prohibition against unauthorized access to the forest and went anyway. She then proceeded to skip the detentions she got for doing so. The only authority figure she seems to respect other than her father is Ysengrin, who is a similarly cold, no-nonsense person. Jones gets an honorable mention, but since exercising authority isn't really her thing, and she actually isn't all that cold, it's kind of a moot point anyway. Basically, she wouldn't have been good at following the court's orders as their medium, and the court knew that. And to them that is definitely a liability. e: grammar Dr Subterfuge fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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Rand Brittain posted:I get the impression Antimony respects people who are straight with her, which is Coyote, Reynardine, Ysengrin, Jones, Anja, and Donald. Not so much Eglamore, Llewellyn, or the Court in general. Coyote might always speak the truth but he is anything but direct. Reynardine is like a father but at the end of the day when he overtly tries to act that way (like how we would want a father to act) it just reminds her that he isn't her father, and she pushes him away. She stole that picture from the Donlans, which I think is indicative of a certain lack of respect. She obviously cares about all of those people, but that, I think, is different from respect.
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She remembers the dream, I imagine, otherwise she wouldn't have asked Annie if she thought her dad was involved. To literally interpret what appears to have been a dream doesn't strike me as something Kat would do, though, even if she does hates him.
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