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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:How does that sound anything like a demon that rapes men in their sleep to harvest their seed?
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Parts Kit posted:Obviously Jones is a special kind of succubus that sustains herself by running her fingers through dudes' hair while they sleep. Ah, so this would explain this event recovered from apocrypha:  The poor guy just doesn't have any hair  Maldraedior posted:if there are tiers for paintings I will be so mad that I will have missed them Why would you be mad about missing something that hasn't happened yet? When (or if) a Kickstarter for GC goes live you can throw in money to get a painting or two. And if you think you can't, you can always save money for the event. vvvv Tom said Topatoco's going to stock it very soon. Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Oct 11, 2012 |
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Fragrag posted:But what would he kickstart? Is Volume 2 back around yet?
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Yes, though the only place to get it at the moment, it off the publisher's site. http://store.archaia.com/products/Gunnerkrigg-Court-Vol.-2%3A-Research.html Topatoco is yet to get it back in stock though. Edit: Tom's Twitter says there is a shipment on the way to Topatoco soon. Yak of Wrath fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Oct 11, 2012 |
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He could have a reprint drive to print with someone that doesn't take such a big cut he doesn't make any money if someone buys it from Amazon or anywhere else but Topatoco? I dunno, I just think there should be more money in his hands somehow.
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Maybe a side story? I'd love a full 24/32 page printed city face comic.
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Or some Coyote stories. It'd be a good opportunity for him to try some other art styles, too, since he keeps saying he wants to experiment more artistically.
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Elizabeth Langdon, looking like a longish time before the last update - possibly long enough time that she had a different name in between being Elizabeth and being Emma (not that it matters). The caption, "Everything is taken from her," makes me wonder if this incident was the first time this sort of thing has happened to her. Clearly, like most immortals, she takes new names and moves on in order to avoid being discovered (at least until she came to the Court where people don't seem to care so much about that sort of weirdness), but if she stuck around long enough to be thought of as an "old heiress," then it might be she began as Elizabeth Langdon. And, if not, it may be noteworthy to learn how she became an heiress in the first place.
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Bongo Bill posted:Elizabeth Langdon, looking like a longish time before the last update - possibly long enough time that she had a different name in between being Elizabeth and being Emma (not that it matters). The caption, "Everything is taken from her," makes me wonder if this incident was the first time this sort of thing has happened to her. Clearly, like most immortals, she takes new names and moves on in order to avoid being discovered (at least until she came to the Court where people don't seem to care so much about that sort of weirdness), but if she stuck around long enough to be thought of as an "old heiress," then it might be she began as Elizabeth Langdon. And, if not, it may be noteworthy to learn how she became an heiress in the first place. Or, to summarise,  .v mystery solved. mrpwase fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Oct 12, 2012 |
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I'm certain that next week we will either discover or begin to discover the origins of Elizabeth Langdon, or we won't.
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scary ghost dog posted:I'm certain that next week we will either discover or begin to discover the origins of Elizabeth Langdon, or we won't. I don't think it's important. It's been established how she moves on by taking the names of people close to her, and this page shows the trouble of being immortal. Of course, judging by Tom's comment, it might be possible that she originally started as Elizabeth Langdon. My guess, she was a rich lady made a Faustian deal with somebody to become immortal. In doing so, she gave up her soul and didn't understand the perils of immortality. Because writers love Faustian deals.
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Yeah, my guess was that she was originally Lady Elizabeth too. Anyone familiar with fashions and uniforms who can guesstimate the decade?
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MikeJF posted:Yeah, my guess was that she was originally Lady Elizabeth too. Well, we're apparently talking "many decades" before WW1. Or does that mean many decades before the present? I would guess (and it is a wild guess) we're looking at the mid-late 1800s.
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Industrial age - 1870-90 or therabouts - I think. I am basing this almost entirely on the fact that the dude in the fedora looks like a steampunk nerd.
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"Jones? Is that the name you have stolen this time, Wandering Eye?" If Coyote was getting on Jones' case for stealing people's names, I suspect this isn't her original identity, because if she started here she'd have only had, like, three names Coyote might have known about, tops.
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Speculation: Separated at birth? (separated by death?) This has been done before, right? http://i.imgur.com/Hffiw.png As Coyote was made by man's imagination, so too Jones was revived by Dieago's belief when Jeanne disappeared. No, wait - Because the robots worship Jeanne, their beliefs have created Jones, which is why she is like a robot! She is the robot GOD! It all comes together! Goffer fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Oct 12, 2012 |
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That's the problem with being immortal. When you don't die eventually you have to assume a whole new identity and then there's the whole problem of faking your own death and inheriting your own wealth...
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I wonder if the accusations of the hat man are actually accurate. Maybe Jones recieved the identity and wealth from the original Lady Elizabeth the same way she recived the name Jones.
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While her body doesn't seem to age, it seems that her mind does. Maybe her eternal poker face is because she had all emotions eroded away from her by the flow of time; and the only feelings she still seem to express are tinged with melancholy. How many times can you get attached to a life only to see it all -- the people and place you loved, the things that framed your daily life -- fade away, as your friend wither and die and you have to move to a new place with a new identity?
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I'm sure that her origins are going to be more significant than "rich human heiress who got immortality somehow". We've still got a ways to go in Jones' life, and I expect we won't be done before we see her tie in with Coyote again. He had to get to know her before she became Jones after all, and she's had that name since the mid 1900s.
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Maybe immortality was one of Coyote's Gifts.
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Pester posted:Maybe immortality was one of Coyote's Gifts. As I understood it, when Coyote gave away a Gift, he lost the power himself. So that'd imply that Coyote could and would die.
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I don't think there's any particular reason to think that this is her original life. "Heiress" could mean any number of things, such as marrying a rich guy decades before this comic happened. Something like that would have been recorded, along with her supposed age, so she would need to become a recluse to not arouse suspicion.
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Pester posted:Maybe immortality was one of Coyote's Gifts. Maybe Coyote gave away his eternal boredom.
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Goffer posted:Speculation: Separated at birth? (separated by death?) This has been done before, right? The only similarity is that they're women with blond hair.
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Fister Roboto posted:The only similarity is that they're women with blond hair. Yeah - Jeanne has been a fiery, passionate woman in every scene we've seen of her. Jones... I don't even need to complete this sentence.
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Freudian posted:Yeah - Jeanne has been a fiery, passionate woman in every scene we've seen of her. Jones... I don't even need to complete this sentence. I dunno, it makes sense to me more and more now we know for concrete that Jones is some sort of static being. The arrow that ripped Jeanne's emotions from her, and tied it to the Annan waters, and now her emotionless body wanders about-- a wandering eye. However, that theory doesn't hold a whole lot of water since you'd think that Jones would, in that situation, be more tied to the Court through the years. And that she does have some sort of feelings for Jimmy Jims. So, either the situation is a little more complex than that, or they are just two similar-looking women.
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Freudian posted:Yeah - Jeanne has been a fiery, passionate woman in every scene we've seen of her. Jones... I don't even need to complete this sentence. The shell of her body was discarded, but her anger/hate/etc was left as the river ghost. We've seen the skeleton on the bank so the original body has rotted away but I suppose that doesn't rule out some sort of copy. Fister Roboto posted:The only similarity is that they're women with blond hair.
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Freudian posted:Yeah - Jeanne has been a fiery, passionate woman in every scene we've seen of her. Jones... I don't even need to complete this sentence. Boy are you going to have egg on your faces on Monday. She's definitely either: (a) a manifestation of the robot imagination (ala Coyote's origin), and since robots don't have those emotions, so she's empty like that, or (b) when she died her personality/spirit split and she's kind of just a emotionless shell (with amnesia!) while her emotional being is trapped in the river. It's like a Planescape mortality separation situation! It all fits! 
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Goffer posted:Boy are you going to have egg on your faces on Monday. I don't see anything Robot in the flashback, though. You'd think that the living manifestation of the Robot consciousness would have something to do with robots in at least one of the first ten pages of a chapter about her origins?
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Goffer posted:since robots don't have those emotions Gunnerkrigg Court robots definitely have emotions.
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Jones seemed to slump from a whealty person to a worker in an factory. Something probably happened inbetween. I kind of think that she's more emotional than she seems but she's hindered by her perpetual stone face.
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Numero6 posted:Jones seemed to slump from a whealty person to a worker in an factory. Something probably happened inbetween. Well, she got arrested and her fortune taken away from her because she'd been in that identity too long and was meant to be an old lady by now, so they thought she was a fraud.
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Numero6 posted:Jones seemed to slump from a whealty person to a worker in an factory. Something probably happened inbetween. Well, it says that she loses everything. So there's no "inbetween", we're seeing it happen here.
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Given her lack of emotion, I wonder what would cause someone to fall in love with Jones. So far, we've seen at least 3 dudes all up in her petticoats.
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She's a pretty lady. Dudes are shallow.
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Tender Child Loins posted:Given her lack of emotion, I wonder what would cause someone to fall in love with Jones. So far, we've seen at least 3 dudes all up in her petticoats. Dudes love a challenge. And clearly she's not COMPLETELY devoid of emotion - she sits reading a book while stroking her man's head in her lap after a meal. She just has precisely one facial expression and tone of voice.
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A book of stories about Jones through the years would make a nice Kickstarter project. Just, you know, throwin' that out there.
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Would it be possible that Jones is a robot/golem built by Diego? Looking through this chapter and that's the general vibe I'm feeling. EDIT: Also, based on the robots' dialogue further in no way in hell is Kat not magical/ethereal in some form, beyond the robots' and Zimmy's perception of her.
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