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I want gunnerkrigg to be over because I'm an impatient child who wants more more more because it's good stuff. I don't mean to say I want no more pages than Tom needs to finish it, just that I want all of them right now.
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I hope it builds up toward a tragic war related death only for him to be killed by a falling piano.
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Mar 6, 2014 23:15
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Clearly he suffocated on his sheets. Not the brightest bulb in the box.
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Mar 6, 2014 23:59
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Seriously hoping Mort died on Halloween dressed up as a ghost.
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Tollymain posted:If you read a thing in one go you have less of an opportunity to appreciate the details. There are a ton of things in the story I wouldn't have noted but for the long road and other serial readers. I can agree with this as well. Recently, I took a look back through the comic from the point I started reading forward. Turns out that there's a ton of little details that I missed when I read those chapters back when they were new. For example, the first thing that I noticed was the clever use of perspective on the fourth panel of this strip, where Kat is looking down on the Sky-Watcher through her magnifying glass, with only her left eye visible. I hadn't noticed it at the time, but that panel, and the ones that follow it, really makes her seem like some sort of God. All it took from her was a simple rasp of the Sky-Watcher's antennae and a momentary glance for her to completely comprehend what he was and what he had been designed for. Seeing that single page again was, essentially, enough to remind me of exactly why the Court's robots see her as an angelic figure. Mind you, her importance to them was clear to me as I was going through the comic update by update after I'd read the first 24 chapters back when I started, but I forgotten the early hints of that significance. If I had just blitzed through the comic in one go, I would very likely still be ignorant to little details like the ones in that example there. For that reason, I've got to agree that reading the comic as it's ongoing is definitely a big benefit to getting the most out of it.
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Mar 7, 2014 04:13
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Well i started reading from a page someone linked (again) and I noticed: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=654 Who is that guy in the first panel? Anyone we know? Or is he just some random dude that's there to let the reader know this is a bad plan made by bad people?
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Mar 7, 2014 04:33
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Baron O Beefdip posted:Well i started reading from a page someone linked (again) and I noticed: He's the mysterious Artilleryman after whom Gunner's Crag is named, I think.
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Mar 7, 2014 04:36
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It hasn't been confirmed who that is yet, but the Artilleryman is probably the most popular guess.
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Mar 7, 2014 04:49
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It's clearly Andrew Ryan in a bizarre moment of morality! Just look at the brown suit, it's a dead give away! ... yeah, I've got nothing.
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Mar 7, 2014 04:58
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Has this comic really been going on for nine years? I thought it was a three-or-four-year-old comic at least.
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Mar 7, 2014 07:28
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Casull posted:Has this comic really been going on for nine years? I thought it was a three-or-four-year-old comic at least. April 2005. So nine years. Time flies when you're having fun, I guess. Man, it's criminal this comic isn't more recognised. And profitable.
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Mar 7, 2014 08:48
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Pretty atmospheric image there, Tom. I bet you could do a whole series like that. The life and death of a character told in images, no words, just your skills as a visual artist. Wouldn't that be great? People would remember it always, they'd say "Hey, remember that chapter where the characters life was displayed in pictures? Man, that was a great chapter." Do it. Live the dream. Be the creator you were meant to be Words are for the weak  Embrace the new flesh
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Mar 7, 2014 08:53
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Yeah, Tom's comment is probably going to set the tone for this whole chapter. 
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TurninTrix posted:Yeah, Tom's comment is probably going to set the tone for this whole chapter. Goddamn, that comment
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Mar 7, 2014 09:04
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Now I'm going to need an entire chapter on Betty. The comment leaves out a lot of detail.
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BattleCake posted:Goddamn, that comment Funniest thing on the site in months.
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Mar 7, 2014 09:06
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aegof posted:Funniest thing on the site in months. Well yeah it's definitely funny as well. But drat haha that's brutal.
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Mar 7, 2014 09:08
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Is it just me or does Betty look a lot like a very young Elizabeth from Bioshock: Infinite?
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Mar 7, 2014 09:08
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Morty/Betty shipping sunk while still in drydock. 
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Mar 7, 2014 09:10
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Wyld Karde posted:Morty/Betty shipping sunk while still in drydock. I don't think you get shipping.
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Mar 7, 2014 09:16
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This entire chapter is going to have mostly depressing backstory tidbits on the various ancillary characters in the comment sections (much like The Stone had "To learn more, see The X era"), isn't it.
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Mar 7, 2014 09:17
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Daaawww lookit all these cute little dead kids!
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Mar 7, 2014 09:21
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Jesus Christ Tom. I thought I only had to worry about soul-crushing alt text when I read Whomp.
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Mar 7, 2014 09:22
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Or perhaps we only get a couple pages of Mort backstory, some big reveal, and then off in a new direction entirely...
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Mar 7, 2014 09:23
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He's been a ghost for 60 years.
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Mar 7, 2014 10:07
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Mort looks like he shares the hair with the Badger guy in Red's class.
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Mar 7, 2014 10:10
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I love how Mort's face is instantly recognizable, even though his features were previously (or eventually) limited to his sheet.
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Mar 7, 2014 11:12
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aegof posted:Funniest thing on the site in months. And geez Mort "jerry" is a ethnically charged slur. Be more open minded dead kid from the 40s. 
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This is going to be really sad, isn't it. I guess the question is - did Mort die in London, or in the country (or en-route)? The country would make more sense given the Court's location, but we don't know if ghosts are tied to specific locations in the GC world. EDIT: Assuming that he is in London, he could be in Birmingham, or any number of provincial cities. EDIT 2: I'm an idiot, Mort seems to be obscuring the word "London" on the poster. Gravitas Shortfall fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Mar 7, 2014 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I guess the question is - did Mort die in London, or in the country (or en-route)? The country would make more sense given the Court's location, but we don't know if ghosts are tied to specific locations in the GC world. His life and death are unrelated the Court, he haunts it because that's where the ROTD stationed him.
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Mar 7, 2014 14:27
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Compositionally, I wanted Mort to be standing "in" London. The word, the city, and the area of the poster showing London for good measure.
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Mar 7, 2014 14:27
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I assume because has has a fun adventure in London and then goes on to live the rest of his life and becomes a ghost after he dies in 2004 an old man, right?
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MikeJF posted:I assume because has has a fun adventure in London and then goes on to live the rest of his life and becomes a ghost after he dies in 2004 an old man, right? And then Betty marries somebody else and has a daughter at the tender young age of 75.
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Mar 7, 2014 14:46
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Mort never actually died. He accidentally opened a door to the ROTD while trick-or-treating, and they just assumed he was a real ghost. Later, some of the staff at the ROTD brought that belief with them into the ether, and Mort slowly turned into what he is today.
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Mar 7, 2014 14:49
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This is going to end with Mort Sad Times isn't it.
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Mar 7, 2014 14:59
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Maybe the bonus page will have these other kids on it. Honestly, Betty's life doesn't sound too bad. She found someone else to love and had children and grandchildren. Everyone has to die sometime; living long enough to do those things is worth something. These outfits are pretty good, too, although after the Jones chapter I would have expected that.
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Tea-san posted:Compositionally, I wanted Mort to be standing "in" London. The word, the city, and the area of the poster showing London for good measure. (the recent pages have been pretty and I hope you are feeling better  )
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Mar 7, 2014 15:52
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This comic has more clever clues to guess the time period this chapter's based on. We just have to make a list of wars and conflicts where the flippin' Jerrys were involved!
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Mar 7, 2014 16:14
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It's obviously the 30 Years War.
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No it's that war in 2040 where the UK goes to war with thousands of clones of some guy named Jerry.
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