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Looks to me like the sword cut him away from the floor and the sudden shift to three dimensions is making him feel a little sick.
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Poor Parley, I don't think she's going to be able to handle a sword for a while.
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Dec 2, 2011 16:04
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Great idea, Annie. This went super. 
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Dec 2, 2011 16:10
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Dec 2, 2011 16:18
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I think it's pretty touching that a creation of the Court and a creation of the Forest have such a close bond with each other 
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Dec 2, 2011 17:05
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Brannock posted:I think it's pretty touching that a creation of the Court and a creation of the Forest have such a close bond with each other I know! Makes it all the more  .
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Dec 2, 2011 17:14
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Brannock posted:I think it's pretty touching that a creation of the Court and a creation of the Forest have such a close bond with each other Maybe Coyote's plan was to sow dissent. After all, the sword cut Robot like warm butter but can't seem to injure a resident of the Forest.
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Dec 2, 2011 18:14
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I don't get why people are so freaking out about this so much. From what we've seen I doubt Robot can even be "hurt" unless he suffers damage to the chip housing his CPU/Memory. Physical damage to his body is just an inconvenience. Shadow 2 on the other hand...is it three-dimensional in that last panel?
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Dec 2, 2011 18:14
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Oneiros posted:I don't get why people are so freaking out about this so much. From what we've seen I doubt Robot can even be "hurt" unless he suffers damage to the chip housing his CPU/Memory. Physical damage to his body is just an inconvenience. With Tom's comment on this page, that's what I assumed was happening.
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Dec 2, 2011 18:19
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FronzelNeekburm posted:Guessing it actually sends Ysengrim off the deep end when they take Shadow 2 back to the forest, Annie refuses to tell him about the sword, and he assumes the Court just came up with a weapon to kill forest creatures. Nah, the court can already do that. Remember Eglamore's sword?
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Dec 2, 2011 18:28
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As a side note, I love the new winter layout, especially with the slight visual distortion it creates! (looks like the snowflakes are rotating out of the corner of my eye)
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Dec 2, 2011 18:57
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Esme posted:Nah, the court can already do that. Remember Eglamore's sword? See, I assumed the light killed that Shadowman, rather than the sword. Without a shadow to hide in, he had no resistance against it. Fren posted:Maybe Coyote's plan was to sow dissent. After all, the sword cut Robot like warm butter but can't seem to injure a resident of the Forest. I'm not even sure Coyote is the "planning" type! He strikes me more as the "come up with a plan, abandon it halfway through when he thinks of a 'better' one" type. My impression is that while some Coyote stories are about him outsmarting other gods and creatures, some are also about normal people outsmarting him!
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Dec 2, 2011 19:10
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Bobulus posted:See, I assumed the light killed that Shadowman, rather than the sword. Without a shadow to hide in, he had no resistance against it. I had to stare at the page for ages, but I *think* the light is cast by the actual sword. It doesn't seem to be coming from the lamps, it's the wrong angle and shape. I guess at this point we don't know if it's special shadow killing sword light, or if any old light would do the job
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Dec 2, 2011 20:59
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Fatkraken posted:In unrelated news, someone made a dating sim Kat can play Fixed that for you. (In case anyone's wondering, the game is a dating sim about a human girl who disguises herself as a bird so she can attend a prestigious all-birds school. Yeeeeeah.)
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Dec 2, 2011 21:13
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Fatkraken posted:I had to stare at the page for ages, but I *think* the light is cast by the actual sword. It doesn't seem to be coming from the lamps, it's the wrong angle and shape. I guess at this point we don't know if it's special shadow killing sword light, or if any old light would do the job The shadow-men can only survive if there is a shadow for them to be attached to - in this case, the shadow under Robot's feet. That's what all the lights on the bridge are for - to eliminate shadows for them to hop between. So when Robot is lifted entirely off the ground, Shadow 3 has no shadow to be connected to, and hence he dissipates. DontMockMySmock fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Dec 2, 2011 |
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Dec 2, 2011 21:37
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DontMockMySmock posted:The shadow-men can only survive if there is a shadow for them to be attached to - in this case, the shadow under Robot's feet. That's what all the lights on the bridge are for - to eliminate shadows for them to hop between. So when Robot is lifted entirely off the ground, Shadow 2 has no shadow to be connected to, and hence he dissipates momentarily. ? Isn't the shadow in that page a DIFFERENT shadow, which is killed by the light/sword/whatever?
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Dec 2, 2011 21:55
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FredMSloniker posted:Fixed that for you. (In case anyone's wondering, the game is a dating sim about a human girl who disguises herself as a bird so she can attend a prestigious all-birds school. Yeeeeeah.) Someone on another forum I read is LPing that right now. She got killed and dismembered by the creepy doctor-bird.
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Dec 2, 2011 21:59
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Fatkraken posted:? Okay, yeah, I said "Shadow 2" but you find out in the next chapter that it was actually a different shadow-man. I'm gonna call him Shadow 3. RIP, poor shadow 3.
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Dec 2, 2011 22:45
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Fatkraken posted:? Yeah that wasn't Shadow 2, it was some bad mean shadow dude.
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Dec 2, 2011 22:46
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FredMSloniker posted:Fixed that for you. (In case anyone's wondering, the game is a dating sim about a human girl who disguises herself as a bird so she can attend a prestigious all-birds school. Yeeeeeah.) This sounds incredibly stupid and yet I want to try it out.
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Dec 2, 2011 23:02
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FredMSloniker posted:Fixed that for you. (In case anyone's wondering, the game is a dating sim about a human girl who disguises herself as a bird so she can attend a prestigious all-birds school. Yeeeeeah.) Haha, geez, Japan has some of the oddest things. 
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Dec 2, 2011 23:17
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Heliotrope posted:This sounds incredibly stupid and yet I want to try it out. found via this comic http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/970
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Dec 3, 2011 00:33
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Pretty off topic guys!
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Dec 3, 2011 19:21
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In all fairness the main topic is a bit  right now. Dammit Monday come faster (but don't because my weekeeeend)
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Dec 3, 2011 19:27
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"@gunnerkrigg posted:Look at this electron microscope picture of a sea worm: http://twitpic.com/7o3zmj Hoping these two tweets are related.
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Dec 4, 2011 16:29
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I dont know if I should be excited for or afraid of what's coming in today's update.
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Dec 5, 2011 08:17
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I think the new update is worth a sigh of relief. I... kind of hope Shadow 2 can stay in the third dimension. I'd bet he'd like it, if he can get used to it.
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Dec 5, 2011 09:11
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As frightening and worrisome as the situation obviously is it still doesn't seem anywhere near as bad a result as dropping the insanely sharp blade that is also the tooth of an unpredictable trickster god could have led to.
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Dec 5, 2011 09:19
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Oh good. He looks a little weird but looks like he'll be okay.
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Dec 5, 2011 10:04
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I'm curious as to what's going on at his base. In the past, shadows have died if they weren't connected to anything, but obviously the normal rules aren't applying here.
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Dec 5, 2011 10:42
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This makes sense. I think Coyote would find it much funnier to suddenly give a shadow a third dimension than he would to just kill it.
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Dec 5, 2011 12:54
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Honesty, its about time he was given a bit of depth.
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Dec 5, 2011 12:56
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SynthOrange posted:Honesty, its about time he was given a bit of depth. Perfection. Also, I didn't realize at first why Kat was asking Parley to take them all to her workship - I mean, what, is everyone so distraught they can't walk themselves? Then I saw the last panel and felt really really dumb, and also excited. Group teleporting? Now that would be fun. Well, as long as it doesn't end up like The Fly. [edit] vvv Of course. I don't actually consider something like that even possible in this comic 
Buff Skeleton fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Dec 5, 2011 |
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Dec 5, 2011 14:11
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The way Jones explained, George's unique talent allows her to distort time and space; a "Fly scenario" would require dismemberment/rearranging of matter, it's teleporting, but different.
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Dec 5, 2011 16:17
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Another reason they didn't just walk, is that the Court is big. No, really big. Some shots have made it appear to be as large as a metropolitan city. And yeah, I think they are quite distraught as well. Kat and Annie aren't showing it as much, because they don't want to upset Parley even further. Edit: Here's a good page to show how vast the Court really is: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=149 Madrox fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Dec 5, 2011 |
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Dec 5, 2011 16:49
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Madrox posted:Edit: Here's a good page to show how vast the Court really is: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=149 Or, hell, the second panel here dwarfs even that view. At this point I'm pretty sure the Court is slowly building itself and spreading like some kind of crazy seed-bismuth fueled mould.
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Dec 5, 2011 17:04
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I wonder if we'll ever get a satellite view of the court. That would be awesome (although it would probably take forever to draw, even if sourced from a real photo).
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Dec 5, 2011 20:22
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It seems sort of significant that the Court, forest, and river have all been treated as effectively infinite, with no boundaries or clear relation to the outside world or internal geography beyond the small portion given over to the boarding school. Defining it that way would sort of run against the mystery. I really don't think it's going to come up in next chapter that oh yeah the Court is twelve miles across, shaped sort of like an egg and up the M62 north of Manchester
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Dec 5, 2011 20:38
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Tubgirl Cosplay posted:It seems sort of significant that the Court, forest, and river have all been treated as effectively infinite, with no boundaries or clear relation to the outside world or internal geography beyond the small portion given over to the boarding school. Defining it that way would sort of run against the mystery. I really don't think it's going to come up in next chapter that oh yeah the Court is twelve miles across, shaped sort of like an egg and up the M62 north of Manchester True, and clearly a good design decision for the story. But considering Kat's been on vacation elsewhere in the world, I think we can at least assume it isn't this all-encompassing mass of urban jungle. Not yet at least! The more I think about this kind of stuff, the more curious I get about the unspoken details and hints we've gotten so far.
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Yeah people come and go but you're never given any suggestion as to how. I mean, hell, look at Antimony, she just kind of... shows up there. May be notable that it's also not the only creepy technomagical cityscape with no defined physical properties people just kinda pop into and out of within the story. (  )
Tubgirl Cosplay fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Dec 5, 2011 |
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