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What's so great about this comic is that we have no way of knowing for sure whether or not Annie is right, and we probably never will. Lots left up to interpretation, all of it valid.GENUINE CAT HERDER posted:Character montage! This makes me think of one of those face pairup things from some fighting game, except Coyote is the referee and Annie is disappointed because she knows she's going to get stomped.
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Battle Pigeon posted:Yeah, it was the amazing looking Coyote avatars that eventually made me go look for the source of where they were all coming from. Mort is great but one day I'll get my own Coyote(or City Face, because username), the art is so drat pretty to look at. I've said it before but the Coyote stuff reminds me of a lot of the Haisla art I saw around me as a kid when I lived in B.C. so it makes me happy. City Face pigeon is also awesome because pigeons! This update made me feel sad. I want to believe the same thing Antimony does about Jones but Jones seems pretty convinced otherwise. EDIT: I just saw I've been avatared! Thank you, Avatar Fairy! (And spotted dick is really very tasty; everyone should try it.)
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I like how Jones doesn't change her expression. It really helps me hear the voice in an emotionless tone. Perfect for Jonesbot. And I too am one of the readers lured in by avatars. I'm trying to find one to adopt for myself GENUINE CAT HERDER posted:Character montage! And I'd totally do this one without the symbol next to Jones' head. Now I just need to come up with a clever title and a few bucks.
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A Jones' love is not like a square's love.
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Actually... on page 25 of Chapter 40, I noticed something. Jones talks about her physical and mental characteristics, and it stood out to me: "My movement and senses fall well within human boundaries, though I do not eat or sleep." She doesn't, but can she? Can she eat just to appear normal? I'm guessing she could pretend to sleep, but could she fall into a similar unconscious state if she wanted to mimic sleep? I'd like to get a chance to live a week in the life of Jones. Alien minds fascinate me that way.
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Warmachine posted:And I'd totally do this one without the symbol next to Jones' head.  This work better?
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I really liked that interaction between Annie and Jones. Who knows if Jone's side was genuine, but it was nice anyway. 
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"Beauty vs Age". Well this was a nice chapter, and I think we got a lot more answers than we are use to. I'm hoping for a Kat focused chapter next personally. Matlock Birthmark fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Dec 10, 2012 |
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Jones n Anne bonding moment, awww.  The two best characters havin' a good time. Sankara fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Dec 10, 2012 |
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Awww Annie. :3 She's kinda right, Jones is too into helping people to be truly detached.
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Doctor Reynolds posted:I wonder what non-readers think of Coyote avatars. As long as the Coyote avatars outnumber the frogatars, I'm happy.
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GENUINE CAT HERDER posted:
I feel like they should all be facing the same direction, maybe with Antimony in the middle.
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Annie is relearning poker face from Jones.
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Macaluso posted:I drew some Gunnerkrigg fanart... sort of The best fanart ever. My top two favourite webcomics brought together at last.
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Androc posted:I feel like they should all be facing the same direction, maybe with Antimony in the middle. Or maybe with Coyote still in the middle but facing forward toward the viewer. I have no clue if there are examples of him doing that, though.
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SynthOrange posted:Thanks Antimony. Thantimony. Good job, now my co-workers think I'm insane for laughing so loud all of a sudden. I saw the coyote avatars and realized they were based off coyote from the myths, and a bunch of them worked well without further context. That was when I would only see like 2 or 3 regularly and I figured it was either a comic or someone making avatars specifically. I had actually been linked to Gunnerkrigg Court a few years ago, but didn't read very far due to finding football-headed Annie off-putting. I think I really only got sufficiently curious when I started seeing other avatars of the characters and realized they were from the same thing (although I didn't connect the robot avatars to it until I had read those chapters, and I quite like those..except the boxbot ones obviously). Also a page or two was posted in the Funny Panels thread maybe. At any rate it came up somewhere else with a link to the actual comic and I kept clicking, as one does with this, and decided to go to the beginning and finished it up in a few days. Just lent the books to some friends, sorta curious how quickly they'll burn through them since they're already on holiday break from school.
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The Coyote avatars are the best thing to happen to these forums.MoonwalkInvincible posted:Man, Tom has gotten really great at drawing faces in profile. Seconding this. Most webcomics seem to either have zero profile shots (B^U, for example), or people in profile look like horrible ape creatures, especially in any faux-anime comics.
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Macaluso posted:I drew some Gunnerkrigg fanart... sort of This is just the best thing ever.
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Matlock Birthmark posted:"Beauty vs Age". I can just imagine Coyote in his smug-rear end tone going "Age before beauty, my dear Antimony."
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bathroomrage posted:I can just imagine Coyote in his smug-rear end tone going "Age before beauty, my dear Antimony." And then Jones cuts in front of him.
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Ursine Asylum posted:And then Jones cuts in front of him. While Coyote cracks up laughing.
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Macaluso posted:I drew some Gunnerkrigg fanart... sort of Battle Pigeon posted:This was a great chapter but I'm glad it's finally over, reading online it felt like it was going on forever-though in the book I'm sure it will work fine.     " panel, but the dozen or so pages of the Smiles Brigade afterward seem anticlimactic. I feel like it might've been a tiny bit more effective if the imagery and the dialogue alternated more. Another data point for Siddell to ignore because he's so far beyond the rest of us!
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Just reread the latest strip, and at the second-to-last panel I imagined Jones thinking "ugh, this again" before her line in the last panel. Funnily enough it works just as well as her being genuine there. Oh Jones.
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idonotlikepeas posted:Since we're on avatarchat again, just letting the new people know that there's a post tracking avatars, or attempting to. (I try not to bring it up much because comic-chat is better than avatarchat.) I'd done one myself a few chapters back when people didn't recognise the make-up stuff. YF-23 posted:
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Urban Space Cowboy posted:I liked the long slow build to the "Jones formed out of the Earth! Yeah, that was the part that felt like it dragged on a bit for me as well. The Jones flashback could almost have been it's own small self-contained chapter.
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I was happy with it, although I did keep looking for the end of chapter symbol  Overall I think the whole thing will work a lot better for future readers going through the archives, which is the point I guess!
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YF-23 posted:I'd done one myself a few chapters back when people didn't recognise the make-up stuff. Should be in there already under "Everything Else". Reene posted:Has he said what the next chapter will be about? I'd love to see whether the Medium thing turns out to be a fakeout, but it might be too much to expect for us to get right to it. Seems like the sort of thing he might tease us with for a while, but you never know. The next chapter might be all about some robot delivering someone Form 8X-99RM: Notice of Medium Duties.
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Twitch posted:Seconding this. Most webcomics seem to either have zero profile shots (B^U, for example), or people in profile look like horrible ape creatures, especially in any faux-anime comics. I haven't bothered going back to see when it started, but it does seem like Tom suddenly started drawing lots of profiles right around the point he went full-time. So it looks like he decided to leave his comfort zone a little before announcing that he'd be focusing on GC. Which is great; most people are too scared to draw them since they're so hard to do without making people look wonky. He's getting pretty good at it. SynthOrange posted:Thanks Antimony. Thantimony.
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Zenzirouj posted:I feel like I recognize this reference but cannot place it Look around you, you might figure it out.
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Zenzirouj posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jtU9BbReQk
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Urban Space Cowboy posted:Another data point for Siddell to ignore because he's so far beyond the rest of us!
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idonotlikepeas posted:Should be in there already under "Everything Else". Oh dammit, so it is. I could've sworn I'd looked through it first but I guess I missed it. I can watch this forever.  Actually this put me on a trait of thought that evaporated almost instantly but left me with the question, would Jones, having lived the entirety of mankind's existence and having learned endless languages preceding English, have a British accent? Would she have an accent? Would it be recognisable as anything we might know?
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After being around that long you probably would have gotten very good at mimicking the accents around you. I'd guess that she just assumes the accent of the majority, wherever she happens to be. Or one which she finds more favourable? Accent talk for a comic - There's no right answer Tone, I'd say she was quite stern and delivers everything totally deadpan
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YF-23 posted:I can watch this forever. Tom said (on Formspring, I think?) that Jones doesn't have a specific accent, i.e., you can't really place where her accent is from.
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