Splicer posted:

I think that's the assumption we're supposed to be making, since it's been clear from the start that Mort takes his job way too seriously. And that will be backed up when the ROTD tell him it's OK, his job was super important but moving on when he wants to is more important and they'll manage somehow.

Final chapter page is the entire ROTD running around shrieking in panic desperately trying to work out how to cope with this actually rather catastrophic occurance.

Male Man posted:

I'm pretty sure this is just the regular ol' Gunnerkrigg library.

Donkringel posted:

There is a malfunctioning light in my house that randomly turns on. I always tell new people in my house it is due to a ghost named Mortimer. He has been helpful because he helps filter out crazy people who insist that I need to do something about said ghost. I never realized I was subconsciously naming it after Mort from Gunnerkrigg.

Well, I am keeping Mortimer the Ghost, the copying was unintentional, so there

maswastaken posted:

What are you going to do if some redhead tries to teach him to be more subtle?

Wittgen posted:

Jesus Christ Ankou. Kat is reacting appropriately.

itskage posted:

I'm just now, on page one thousand three hundred and thirty four, realizing that the dialog font uses no lower case letters. It doesn't even look like it's small caps.

Brightman posted:

It's actually kind of an odd font, most comics do that though, but if you look a few letters are lower-case for seemingly no reason. Like 'a', 'f', 'h', 't', etc.

Roger Tangerines posted:

http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=133

Wait. How can Mort be "new and inexperienced" in Annie's first year if he died and came to the Court in the 1940s?

Technogeek posted:

I assume that for psychopomps, "new and inexperienced" means "been on the job for less than a century or two".

Roger Tangerines posted:

Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, he could be 'new' in the sense that ghosts live forever so 60ish years is a pretty short timespan in the grand scheme of things, but you'd have expected him to pick some experience up in basically the lifetime of a human being.

seravid posted:

Roger Tangerines posted:

Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, he could be 'new' in the sense that ghosts live forever so 60ish years is a pretty short timespan in the grand scheme of things, but you'd have expected him to pick some experience up in basically the lifetime of a human being.

fatherdog posted:

Rita Repulsa posted:

I've been a little confused about the rtd perspective thing
namely how mort sees the halloween party in the flashback but seems to share annies perspective now.
I'm assuming its morts perception in the flashback because he doesn't act like dracula is anything other than what the reader sees.
It might have to do with how annie taught him her idea of what being scary means
Not sure then why Mort would then not think of Kat having a different perception than others if he's seen it happen himself ("How do you keep doing that!?"7 though.
Maybe I'm just being dense here

Cyphoderus posted:

This page raises another interesting point: death itself, as represented by the RoTD, is subjective; the ether guides aren't. Which maybe indicates the ether and death aren't as closely related as we thought.

A big flaming stink posted:

guys it was a cheap dracula because it worked in comic relief of the serious matter of a child getting shredded by shrapnel. no one is making you sperg about the metaphysical implications of every panel yknow

A big flaming stink posted:

guys it was a cheap dracula because it worked in comic relief of the serious matter of a child getting shredded by shrapnel. no one is making you sperg about the metaphysical implications of every panel yknow

neogeo0823 posted:

That is an awesome post/avatar combo.

Normally, I'd agree with you though, but Tom's pretty much proven that he really puts tons of thought into the composition of each panel, so there almost definitely is deeper meaning behind the RoTD guy looking exactly like that sort of vampire.

seravid posted:

You might want to reread the last chapter.

Tea-san posted:

About cliffhangers, weekends and chapter endings.

I don't plan any of that! Since I have a large buffer, there is no benefit for me to write my pages based on what day they might be live in two or three months in the future. When it comes to page planning, I only actively track two things:

1, Every chapter has to have an even number of pages including the title page. This is so each new chapter title will be on the right hand side page in a book two-page layout. So the bonus page will always be on the left, and a new chapter start on the right. I only did this out of personal choice.

2, Most importantly, I try to make each and every page worthwhile. If you take a look back at any random page in the archive and imagine they were uploaded on a Friday, I hope that it seems like a cliffhanger! It seems like every friday page was intentionally made into a mini cliffhanger but again, there is no benefit in me writing it that way since it all goes into an ongoing archive after that day passes. When I plan my pages I try to make sure there is some new information or a pushing forward of the plot and a reason to want to turn the page. Even if it's just a little decompression like the last couple of pages. If I look at a page plan/script and realise that there is nothing interesting happening, I have to scrap it and start again.

I hope that doing this makes the comic interesting to read, and when people claim I'm making cliffhanger fridays on purpose, I try to take it that they are just interested in seeing what happens next!

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.

Tea-san posted:

For someone in Ankou's line of work, meeting Jones is like meeting a celebrity. One who will never be caught. He's doing his best not to totally fangirl right now.

Also, he was not visible to her until he introduced himself.