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SHISHKABOB posted:yes like a loving cosmic horror monstrosity trying to take over his brain That's not true he's not 100 percent not good. The one good thing you can say about him is at least he's not BoxBot.
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Have Jack and Boxbot ever been seen in a room together? makes u think
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Aug 19, 2014 00:41
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If I had zero past knowledge of Jack, just this story arc so far, I would peg him as "Douche you must overcome/drown as he tries to do something dastardly." Since this comic toys with our expectations Jack will be shown as an exemplary character now. Just need to wait...
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Aug 19, 2014 01:08
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Right now, he's the only sane person on the boat, albeit not a particularly rational one. It's a girl whose grip on her reality-warping 'abilities' are reliant on an insomniac who looks like she's not too far from blacking out and on being under as little stress as possible. On a boat. Not at the dock.
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Aug 19, 2014 02:10
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Gamma and Zimmerman don't mind him, I'm sure. They are already shipping him and Annie.
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Aug 19, 2014 02:10
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Jack isnt the worst yet. He could still pop his collar.
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SynthOrange posted:Jack isnt the worst yet. He could still pop his collar. Nah, even then there are still ways to become worse 
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It's kinda understandable that Jack would be freaked out by what Zimmy's powers can do more than anyone else, given how she hosed up his entire life for like a year by accident. But on the other hand, that chin-scruff, that shirt, that girlfriend, that attitude. Doooooooooooooooooooouche.
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Aug 19, 2014 05:49
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Awww, poor Gamma. She's just so happy to be on a boat with friends, but Jack's right it's really not safe for her and Zimmy to be there.
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Aug 19, 2014 05:57
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I'm still not entirely sure what's wrong with the shirt, is this some American thing? The chin-scruff's kinda understandable as well, every kid who can grow a little bum-fluff tries to get away with it and fails. (God knows I tried  )
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Aug 19, 2014 06:34
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Actually, this shirt's fine, it was more the earlier polo shirt on the dock that was groanworthy.
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Aug 19, 2014 06:48
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Goons react negatively to any form of public self-expression. Jack's an rear end but his facefur is fine.
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Aug 19, 2014 06:53
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pksage posted:I forget -- does ether exist in all water, just kind of hanging out, or is it collected and dispersed as part of evaporation/precipitation specifically? If it's the former, you'd think Zimmy could just take a shower and be fine. Showers indeed don't work. It had to do with ether in the air being brought down by the rain, which made me wonder if that all ends up in the ocean.
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Aug 19, 2014 07:26
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I'd imagine it's cause rain is rain and a shower is a friggin shower. The ether is in rain water but not in shower water. (magic)
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Darth TNT posted:Showers indeed don't work. It had to do with ether in the air being brought down by the rain, which made me wonder if that all ends up in the ocean. Fluoride in the tap water 
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Smoky Bandana posted:I'm still not entirely sure what's wrong with the shirt, is this some American thing? He looks vaguely like a young college age frat kid. Goons are rushing to denounce the hated dudebro look alike and are seriously running this poo poo into the ground in the process.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Awww, poor Gamma. She's just so happy to be on a boat with friends, but Jack's right it's really not face for her and Zimmy to be there. Yeah, you can tell it was Gamma that really wanted to get out and socialize with other people that weren't just Zimmy (not to mention with some boyzzz, as is made apparent). Whether or not Jack, Zimmy, or some weird combination of the two wind up making the cruise into some sort of Lovecraftian nightmare seems to pretty much be the question right now..
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Aug 19, 2014 08:03
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I hope Zimmy barfs all over the place.
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SynthOrange posted:I hope Zimmy barfs all over the place. She's gonna barf cockroaches and spiders and centipedes that will go on to devour everyone in the ballroom.
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Aug 19, 2014 08:16
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maybe since annie has a similar, if not as powerful, effect on zimmy she'll go hang out with her while gamma goes and gets her dance on and we'll get some weirdness that's not necessarily bad along the lines of Divine again.
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Chard posted:Goons react negatively to any form of public self-expression. Jack's an rear end but his facefur is fine. You've got it backwards. Jack's OK but his facefur is terrible.
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 Posted by Tom a couple of hours ago on his tumblr thingy.
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I was gonna say "wtf why a Chocobo?" but I was forgetting the green speed boost bird. Samus how do you even fit all that hair in the helmet!
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Aug 19, 2014 20:58
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yeah thats a little dachora, a grown one is as big as she is
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Aug 19, 2014 21:15
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A reminder that Parley's got a vintage Metroid 2 poster in her bedroom.
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Chronojam posted:A reminder that Parley's got a vintage Metroid 2 poster in her bedroom. I thought it was Parley in some crazy Court Protector armor for a sec
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I still think it's Parley and a tic toc.
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That's a cassowary.
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maswastaken posted:I still think it's Parley and a tic toc. It is, but they're posing as Samus and a dachora.
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Apparently Annie doesn't dance unless you get her all hopped up on magic liquor first.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Apparently Annie doesn't dance unless you get her all hopped up on magic liquor first. Come to think of it, sneaking in some elf-booze and spiking the punch with it would be a very forest-medium thing to do.
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I've been keeping up with Gunnerkrigg since the beginning but I really, truly hope something actually happens soon. The last chapter and what we've seen of this one so far have been coma-inducing, except for the jolt of horrified shock at Jack's chin-parasite.
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Aug 20, 2014 15:48
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Apparently Annie doesn't dance unless you get her all hopped up on magic liquor first. It's ok, I'm the same way
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Oxxidation posted:I've been keeping up with Gunnerkrigg since the beginning but I really, truly hope something actually happens soon. The last chapter and what we've seen of this one so far have been coma-inducing, except for the jolt of horrified shock at Jack's chin-parasite. I think some of us see the last chapter as a "calm before the storm" (possibly literally), so you'll probably get your wish soon.
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These slow burning chapters are usually much more enjoyable when you go back and read them through as a complete collection of pages. When you're just getting one page of no text and scene-establishing art every couple days, it can be maddening. You could just wait a few weeks and read it all at once. Good luck with that, though.
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I'd like to request an avatar of Annie in the chair. I can't stop cracking up about it. "I'm so happy everyone else is having fun!"
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Oxxidation posted:I've been keeping up with Gunnerkrigg since the beginning but I really, truly hope something actually happens soon. The last chapter and what we've seen of this one so far have been coma-inducing, except for the jolt of horrified shock at Jack's chin-parasite. Don't be such a baby.
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Oxxidation posted:I've been keeping up with Gunnerkrigg since the beginning but I really, truly hope something actually happens soon. The last chapter and what we've seen of this one so far have been coma-inducing, except for the jolt of horrified shock at Jack's chin-parasite. Things are happening though? Maybe your expectations are in the wrong place I dunno. To me, Gunnerkrigg has always been a lot like Harry Potter in that yes there is an overarching plot but we do not, in fact, require Voldemort to be loving poo poo up for things to be considered to be "happening". The last chapter was ultimately about very little except "drat look at how far these kids have come, they're really growing into their roles". That IS stuff happening. These kinds of stories, characterization is things happening just as much as "Coyote being a nefarious dickhead to Ysengrin" is things happening. Or that's how I look at it. I hope that was mostly coherent 
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Flops posted:I'd like to request an avatar of Annie in the chair. I can't stop cracking up about it. "I'm so happy everyone else is having fun!" Does this work?  Edit: And flipped to aim it at posts:  Edit2: Just saw that the along with recent downtime to improve forum stability the avatar size limits have been increased to 100kb and 150x150...but I'm too lazy to redo that to net a bit more curtain and half of a dancing girl. This does mean however that someone can get an animated avatar depicting the best page of Gunnerkrigg. Brightman fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Aug 20, 2014 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:Things are happening though? Maybe your expectations are in the wrong place I dunno. To me, Gunnerkrigg has always been a lot like Harry Potter in that yes there is an overarching plot but we do not, in fact, require Voldemort to be loving poo poo up for things to be considered to be "happening". The last chapter was ultimately about very little except "drat look at how far these kids have come, they're really growing into their roles". That IS stuff happening. These kinds of stories, characterization is things happening just as much as "Coyote being a nefarious dickhead to Ysengrin" is things happening. 75% of the last chapter was a dick-toad recounting stuff we already knew. The art wasn't even that impressive! I'm expecting the pace to quicken a bit here if only because Zimmy is involved, but Gunnerkrigg is often derided for its glacial pace and it's only lately that I've started to agree.
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