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This chapter is great and I bet you all bitch about Blade Runner too. 
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I'm happy with the pace, the comic should be written for the book/archives, not just for those of us reading along every week. 
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Nov 5, 2012 12:55
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Man that does not look comfortable at all.
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Nov 5, 2012 13:09
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No wonder she doesn't need to sleep. She got all caught up in the hundreds of millions or billions of years she was trapped in volcanic rock until the ocean eroded it away enough for her to get out.
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Nov 5, 2012 13:11
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Well, that explains why she's got such a great hair.
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Nov 5, 2012 13:53
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Lava, because I'm worth it. e: now in avatar form. 
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Nov 5, 2012 14:41
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TracyFentonHS posted:Maybe shes a fallen star or commet like Yvaine from the Neil Gaiman novel Stardust. Just the vibe I'm getting with this latest update. And that would explain why Coyote told Annie to ask her about the stars in the sky. I'm sticking with this theory until Tom blows it out of the water on Wednesday.
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Nov 5, 2012 15:03
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Holy good gravy. Tell the truth, Tom. Everything, Jones' whole background, is just so you'd have the chance to draw all the stuff in this chapter, isn't it?
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Nov 5, 2012 15:11
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Yeah, it's a bit slow reading it update by update. But the pages look amazing.
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Nov 5, 2012 16:57
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I discovered Gunnerkrigg last week and have read the archives through twice now. Coming into it now (of all times) is crazy frustrating but at the same time awesome because answers about Jones are needed and also the artwork is stupefying. I really need this thread to balance out that other BSS thread I read.
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Nov 5, 2012 17:16
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pumpinglemma posted:(I kid, but amazing artwork aside this pacing really is utterly terrible for a serial reader. It's all the more jarring since pacing is normally something Tom's very good at...) 
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Nov 5, 2012 19:33
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Fecha posted:Seriously, everything's going by so fast! 4.5 BILLION YEARS in just eight weeks, I agree. Great chapter though, I'm enjoying it quite a lot.
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Nov 5, 2012 19:38
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That is an absolutely beautiful page
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Nov 5, 2012 20:58
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Fried Chicken posted:That is an absolutely beautiful page I agree, I've really enjoyed this chapter. Rome and this one are absolutely stunning. Edit: and the Gobi Desert. Some really awesome artwork in this chapter.
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Nov 5, 2012 21:03
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Jones is the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. She was hurtled from her home planet after it exploded, where even there, she was quite old.
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Nov 5, 2012 22:01
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Dodgeball posted:Jones is the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. She was hurtled from her home planet after it exploded, where even there, she was quite old. We've gone back in time far enough for dinoaurs not to exist yet.
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Nov 5, 2012 22:03
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Cat Mattress posted:We've gone back in time far enough for dinoaurs not to exist yet. Sure, on OUR planet...
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Nov 5, 2012 22:04
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I'm throwing my lot in with the idea that Jones is a sort of emanation of the very Universe itself. Not really human, but in a human form. She's standing outside of time and has known the entire history of the Universe in her primordial state from its beginning to its end all along. She's in a human form because she knew what humans would look like before they existed (that is, if we're even supposed to understand her as physically in that form in this history). Her purpose as such a being is to observe on behalf of the Universe to make sure everything is following the Rules, which is why she's lurking around the Court - they are up to something unnatural, attempting to achieve Godhood on their own and she is there to make sure they don't disrupt the fabric of space-time in the process. She may also not necessarily be in this actual form, I mean, this is an artistic medium telling a story and while she appears to keep the same form all the way back to the formation of the planet, that could just be Tom's way of representing her because it's really hard to draw things that have no Form. She's there but not physically. She's incarnated physically now because it's expedient but back then it would have been less expedient. But again even if she is physically there in that form, that's okay, because she's not born of mortal flesh and since she stands outside of time (an observer to infinity) she could see any number of potential forms to take.
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Nov 5, 2012 23:07
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In the beginning was Jones, and Jones was with God, and Jones was God, and through Jones all things were made. e: basically I am saying Jones is Jesus.
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Nov 5, 2012 23:24
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Paramemetic posted:I'm throwing my lot in with the idea that Jones is a sort of emanation of the very Universe itself. Not really human, but in a human form. She's standing outside of time and has known the entire history of the Universe in her primordial state from its beginning to its end all along. She's in a human form because she knew what humans would look like before they existed (that is, if we're even supposed to understand her as physically in that form in this history). Her purpose as such a being is to observe on behalf of the Universe to make sure everything is following the Rules, which is why she's lurking around the Court - they are up to something unnatural, attempting to achieve Godhood on their own and she is there to make sure they don't disrupt the fabric of space-time in the process. 
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Nov 6, 2012 00:03
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You know what I bet Jones likes the most about people becoming a thing? She finally knows what the whole vocal chords thing is about. Seriously life must have been boring before people showed up.
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Nov 6, 2012 02:51
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Jones would have invented language, but she doesn't really like to talk much.
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Nov 6, 2012 02:58
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MoonwalkInvincible posted:Jones would have invented language, but she doesn't really like to talk much. She was too busy inventing the frown.
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Nov 6, 2012 03:14
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 I thought this was relevant. Also, can you imagine Jones teaching a World History Class? "So class, millions of years ago, <insert fact here>." "Miss Jones, I don't really believe that." "Bitch, I was there."
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Nov 6, 2012 03:50
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Maybe Jones' first name was Theia?
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Nov 6, 2012 05:08
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The reason she's so bored all the time may just be because she's literally lived out every single event that's transpired over the course of earth's history countless times before. She looks like she's casually reading off of a script because she's seen how everything's going to play out, and likely sometime in the near future, Coyote or someone is going to send her all the way back to the beginning again.
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Nov 6, 2012 05:18
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That has to be the worst type of "Groundhogs Day" scenario.
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Nov 6, 2012 05:27
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That's like Endless Eight, except with billions. Endless Earth.
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Nov 6, 2012 05:38
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Tom drew the Madoka Magica cast. Apparently he hadn't seen the characters yet, and drew this while someone else explained the characters to him.
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Nov 6, 2012 07:46
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tsundair posted:Also, can you imagine Jones teaching a World History Class? Oh man, historians and paleogeologists at the Court must have basically exploded with delight when she joined up. (Assuming she's amenable to being interviewed) If the Court has any such things. (I'd imagine they have geologists, dunno if they care much about history)
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Nov 6, 2012 08:54
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Or Jones plays off the whole 'perception makes it real' thing. She had to be around to see everything happen otherwise it wouldn't have happened at all. She's just there to see things. That's it. I guess that makes her rather like the personification of History, if history wasn't just a bunch of academics arguing with each other.
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I have had fun watching people speculate about what Jones is, only to see their theories destroyed in the next couple pages; so I figure I should make one myself. Jones is Gaia. She's been there since the Earth was formed, but was dormant. She awoke when complex life and ecosystems appeared.
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Nov 6, 2012 13:15
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Cat Mattress posted:I have had fun watching people speculate about what Jones is, only to see their theories destroyed in the next couple pages; so I figure I should make one myself. I've thought of this. Would it make sense for her to side with the Court, all the manmade mechanical stuff? Or is she there for a different reason? Hmm.
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tsundair posted:I've thought of this. Would it make sense for her to side with the Court, all the manmade mechanical stuff? Or is she there for a different reason? Hmm. She doesn't side with anyone. Whenever she refers to anyone, it's always "they" or "them" and never "we" or "us".
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Nov 6, 2012 15:14
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Onean posted:Tom drew the Madoka Magica cast. Apparently he hadn't seen the characters yet, and drew this while someone else explained the characters to him. Pretty spot on, actually.
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Cat Mattress posted:I have had fun watching people speculate about what Jones is, only to see their theories destroyed in the next couple pages; so I figure I should make one myself. I'm going to hazard a guess we'll either see her floating in space, or being assembled from gas and dust.
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I saw GCC being mentioned in the mock threads but the first few chapters kinda were off-putting so I put it on the back burner. At least I got to read more from the archives  Man, what a pretty webcomic. Thread posted:*Jones speculations* Wasn't the chapter title 'The Stone'? Would be a safe bet that it'll be related to Jones. Not necessarily related to what Jones is, of course. Then there's Coyote's remarks about stars in the sky.
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Nov 6, 2012 18:30
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Onean posted:Tom drew the Madoka Magica cast. Apparently he hadn't seen the characters yet, and drew this while someone else explained the characters to him. For not having seen any of the characters that's pretty accurate. I would buy a poster of that.
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Nov 6, 2012 20:12
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Nettle Soup posted:I'm happy with the pace, the comic should be written for the book/archives, not just for those of us reading along every week. I agree with this. I'd rather have a satisfying comic to re-read later on than a quick comic that I'd read only once.
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Ha ha ha ha! My god Tom, you are amazing. This comic and the comment are the best after these past few weeks. I do hope we'll learn more though. Matlock Birthmark fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Nov 7, 2012 |
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