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Super Waffle posted:I don't see it 113 x 11 = 1243, that's a link to page 1243. Ugh, waste of the top of the page.
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I don't see any correlation with any of those pages at all. Tom said in this thread he doesn't know what day of the week his pages are going to appear on, so is it really likely that he would time out the comic for some numbering scheme? And again, I don't see what makes those pages you linked any special, or how they link together.
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IUG posted:I don't see any correlation with any of those pages at all. Tom said in this thread he doesn't know what day of the week his pages are going to appear on, so is it really likely that he would time out the comic for some numbering scheme? And again, I don't see what makes those pages you linked any special, or how they link together. They're multiples of 113, that's it. There's no significance to them. It's just a joke.
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Could it be a reference to this thing? e: Never mind. Quinn2win fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Mar 11, 2014 |
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Reformed Pissboy posted:I bet 113 is because tom's birthday is january 13, the coolest and best birth day, in this troper's opinion. Or it could be November 3rd, or because he's in the UK it could be March 11th...which is today! Happy (Maybe) Birthday Tom!
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Mar 11, 2014 22:42
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Happy birthday Tom
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Mar 11, 2014 23:05
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Tom's birthday is on the first of tricember.
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Brightman posted:Or it could be November 3rd, or because he's in the UK it could be March 11th...which is today! His birthday was yesterday http://gunnerkrigg.proboards.com/post/3373 Happy belated birthday Tom, thanks for the work, it's my favorite web comic.
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Mar 12, 2014 07:39
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Huh, I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that.
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Mar 12, 2014 08:01
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Mort was a good person even before he died. Also, Jones is looking pretty stunning in that last panel. I wonder how she gets her hair into different styles when it's totally invincible.
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Mar 12, 2014 08:02
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Her hair is just like real hair, just impossible to cut. It's been the same length throughout history.
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JONES HI I DID NOT EXPECT YOU HERE Aaaa, wow. It is yet another object lesson in that faith in Tom is mandatory.
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Mar 12, 2014 08:30
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cafel posted:Huh, I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that. Yeah. This just got a lot more interesting! Pardot posted:His birthday was yesterday http://gunnerkrigg.proboards.com/post/3373 Yeah this comic owns.
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Mar 12, 2014 08:40
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So if Morty gets killed trying to save Jones from harm, does that count as an ironic death?
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Mar 12, 2014 08:43
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Maybe Jones takes him to the Court and he dies there.
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Mar 12, 2014 08:54
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A bomb falls nearby, the ground cracks, Jones stumbles and falls on Mort. Chapter ends. 
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I was wondering if Jonsey was gonna show up after I re-read The Stone last week. The World War-related page of that chapter has Jones involved in an explosion at a filling factory, but it doesn't specify which World War it takes place in. The caption says that it takes place "several decades ago", which might imply that it's the Second World War, because the First took place from 1914-1918, and it seems more likely that the caption would read "a century ago" if that were the timeframe (we know that the comic takes place roughly in the present, right? The only specific "current" reference I can remember is Kat playing MGS4 when it came out). However, after some (admittedly brief) research I couldn't find any record of a disaster at a filling factory during the Second World War, so depending on how closely Tom sticks to historical accuracy where the "real world" is concerned, it could just as easily be the First. The point I'm coming to is that Jones might still be called Emma right now. Roger Tangerines fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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MikeJF posted:Maybe Jones takes him to the Court and he dies there. Perestroika posted:A bomb falls nearby, the ground cracks, Jones stumbles and falls on Mort. Chapter ends. Wyld Karde posted:So if Morty gets killed trying to save Jones from harm, does that count as an ironic death? Mort dies and spends ~X years floating around by Jones' side for many years invisible to the public until finally settling in the Court and moving away from her.
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I was actually wondering if we'd end up seeing Jones wandering around somewhere during this chapter. You boys and girls have gotta remember, Jones has been around England for a long time already. Though I have to admit that I wasn't thinking that we'd be seeing her this soon or that Mort would directly interact with her in any way. Edit: Welp. Missed Roger's post that said pretty much the same thing. I guess someone else was thinking along the same lines as me after all! Doctor_Blueninja fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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Mar 12, 2014 12:46
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You know for anyone interested in the Jones experience you could watch The Man From Earth. Basically the same premise of an immortal person except it's a guy and he's not actually indestructable.
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Demiurge4 posted:You know for anyone interested in the Jones experience you could watch The Man From Earth. Basically the same premise of an immortal person except it's a guy and he's not actually indestructable. Huh, weird. I really like that movie and never connected it with Jones before. I might give it a rewatch for some perspective on the influences Jones might have had on the non-etheric world during her tenure (although, to be fair, John Oldman was less strict than Jones about non-interference, to say the least).
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So no one else is going to guess what is in her hand? I don't know if it was something she shown to be given during one of those flashback sequences.
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IUG posted:So no one else is going to guess what is in her hand? I don't know if it was something she shown to be given during one of those flashback sequences. Nothing is in her hand, her fingers are just in shadow.
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I think we're about to get a look into Jones' emotional state. She is probably going to be there when Mort dies and may feel some responsibility for the fact, which shows that she's probably what has kept Mort in the world for this long. Remember she introduces Annie to Mort early in the comic (even though Annie's already met him) so they clearly have some kind of long standing relationship. I don't think Jones is completely without feelings.
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Demiurge4 posted:You know for anyone interested in the Jones experience you could watch The Man From Earth. Basically the same premise of an immortal person except it's a guy and he's not actually indestructable.
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Yeah, I doubt this is a coincidental cameo. I could see a bomb hitting them right now, causing Mort to get stuck to Jones in one way or another. Not just literally, either 
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Pardot posted:His birthday was yesterday http://gunnerkrigg.proboards.com/post/3373 That link doesn't work, or rather I get taken to a page on the gunnerkrigg forum saying, "Oops, there was an error," and no post. Was I right and you were being literal about it being yesterday when you posted or is his birthday on the tenth and 113 is whatever?
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Pththya-lyi posted:Nothing is in her hand, her fingers are just in shadow. Can we be sure that's not Jimmy Jims down there?
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pik_d posted:Can we be sure that's not Jimmy Jims down there? Or is that coyote?
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Pththya-lyi posted:Nothing is in her hand, her fingers are just in Shadow. Poor little guy...
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Happy belated birthday Tom!
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Wyld Karde posted:So if Morty gets killed trying to save Jones from harm, does that count as an ironic death?
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We have previously seen Mort-Jones interaction - 387 and following pages. I didn't notice before that she calls him Mortimer (in comics 391 and 392).
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On that topic, in 389 she asks Annie, "You know this boy?" which is an interesting way to phrase it. Not inaccurate, but in hindsight it shows that Jones thinks of him as a kid, which, as we are know seeing, is apparently what she knew him as.
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Roland Jones posted:On that topic, in 389 she asks Annie, "You know this boy?" which is an interesting way to phrase it. Not inaccurate, but in hindsight it shows that Jones thinks of him as a kid, which, as we are know seeing, is apparently what she knew him as.
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I was about to say, "We don't analyze GC THAT intensely." But then I thought about it some more... Yeah we kind of do Fake edit: Oh wait 
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JT Jag posted:Yeah, in retrospect we should have known that Mort wasn't the Artilleryman just based on this one line. Hey! He could still totally be the Artilleryman! You just have to assume that Tom is going to show us that Mort is some sort of bizarre, reverse-ageing entity that's suffering from amnesia at the moment. It all makes sense if you look at it that way.
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Brightman posted:That link doesn't work, or rather I get taken to a page on the gunnerkrigg forum saying, "Oops, there was an error," and no post. Was I right and you were being literal about it being yesterday when you posted or is his birthday on the tenth and 113 is whatever? He must have deleted it, so I will not clarify what it was.
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Demiurge4 posted:You know for anyone interested in the Jones experience you could watch The Man From Earth. Basically the same premise of an immortal person except it's a guy and he's not actually indestructable. I looked this movie up on wikipedia then found it on youtube and skimmed through it real quick. The whole thing just takes place in the cabin and you never actually see him doing stuff in the past. It's all just a story being told. It looks like the movie was on a small budget though and if the budget was bigger that'd be a pretty sweet movie to see. Also can I use this somewhat related topic to bitch about how the trailers for The Fountain were misleading bullshit because they made the movie out to be this immortal love story that spans the ages until suddenly the wife starts dying mysteriously. The Fountain wasn't like that. It wasn't like that at all. I haven't been so let down by a movie in a while.
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Doctor_Blueninja posted:Hey! He could still totally be the Artilleryman! You just have to assume that Tom is going to show us that Mort is some sort of bizarre, reverse-ageing entity that's suffering from amnesia at the moment.
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