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Darth TNT posted:This doesn't look very good. He's going to get all the way through narrating this epic, metaphysical life and death struggle to meet with the psychopomps and wrest an explanation from them at great personal cost, and then Donnie's going to say "You do know you could have just asked your daughter, right?" 
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Itzena posted:He's going to get all the way through narrating this epic, metaphysical life and death struggle to meet with the psychopomps and wrest an explanation from them at great personal cost, and then Donnie's going to say "You do know you could have just asked your daughter, right?" "Father, we need to talk." "No." "It's very important." "No. Get on with your homework, Antimony." "If I could just -" "No."
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Itzena posted:He's going to get all the way through narrating this epic, metaphysical life and death struggle to meet with the psychopomps and wrest an explanation from them at great personal cost, and then Donnie's going to say "You do know you could have just asked your daughter, right?" I don't think he knows. She only told Kat the story, didn't she?
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Aug 10, 2015 19:40
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Itzena posted:He's going to get all the way through narrating this epic, metaphysical life and death struggle to meet with the psychopomps and wrest an explanation from them at great personal cost, and then Donnie's going to say "You do know you could have just asked your daughter, right?"
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Aug 11, 2015 07:33
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Darth TNT posted:I don't think Donnie would be such a dick to do that, he's already feeling guilty. Though it would be funny. Don't think Donnie knows, but Annie does and shes listening in. Will be interesting to see her take on this. Don't think it's something she'd flat out tell him either, she doesn't know how to talk to Tony either really.
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Aug 11, 2015 07:57
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This arc ends with Annie setting up an elaborate meet cute between her dad and Ketrac.
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Aug 11, 2015 13:57
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This is gonna end with an "I did it all for her . And we'll all love Anthony Carver, the tosser.
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Splicer posted:This arc ends with Annie setting up an elaborate meet cute between her dad and Ketrac. And then the end up dating and eventually get married. Annie is confused and concerned about these results at first, but in time she learns to love her stepbug.
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Aug 11, 2015 21:26
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Now Anthony's motives and behaviour are being so adequately and comprehensively explained, Tom's going to have to come up with something REALLY spectacular to prevent him and Annie staging a heartfelt reconciliation and the comic coming to an end the next chapter.
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Aug 11, 2015 21:52
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"They were so happy, everyone just forgot about Jeanne. The End"
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Aug 11, 2015 22:01
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The Omega Device is the arrow and Tony worked out how to undo the damage. And everyone lived happily ever after. Except Jeanne, who grumped off into the ether.
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Blackheart posted:"They were so happy, everyone just forgot about Jeanne. The End" I'm pretty sure all the loose ends could be dealt with off screen and wrapped up in a page of expository dialogue from Annie.
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Aug 11, 2015 22:41
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Really you could condense the whole comic down to one page if you really wanted. "Annie went to a place. Stuff happened. A ghost died. Lessons were learned.The end."
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Aug 11, 2015 23:06
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Mazerunner posted:Really you could condense the whole comic down to one page if you really wanted. P.S. Smitty and Parley BAM
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maswastaken posted:The Omega Device is the arrow and Tony worked out how to undo the damage. And everyone lived happily ever after. Except Jeanne, who grumped off into the ether. It would be cool if that was the case and researching it is the court going "oh gently caress we shouldn't have listened to that goony gently caress Diego. We gotta fix this possibly world ending catastrophe. "
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EmmyOk posted:P.S. Smitty and Parley BAM P.P.S. and dogs; all shapes and sizes
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Coyote isn't a psychopomp but who knows he's a crazy guy! Also it seems weird that Anthony can be (or was) so totally ignorant about ether.
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So it's starting to look like he had no goddamn idea what he was doing when he comafied Annie.
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Did Anthony put Annie in a coma by trying to talk to Surma's nonexistent spirit? The potentially missing hand being obscured is also a darn tease.
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"Sooooo I miiiight have accidentally opened a doorway to hell. I thought it was the afterlife! Really!"
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It's obvious that both Surma and Annie know a lot more about all of this stuff than Anthony did, but I wonder about Anja. Did he not think to at least try asking her? She seems at least a little plugged into that world.
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I would say that the psychopomps conned Tony into doing some dirty work for them, but they don't really have huge motivation for meddling with the living. This is probably more of the classic "seek arcane knowledge, get wrecked" story. Aside from that though, holy poo poo, Tony was basically learning to dog paddle in white water rapids. "What is this thing you call, ee-thurr?" I'm impressed he only lost a hand. Grief will make you do some seriously stupid poo poo sometimes.
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Crimson Harvest posted:Coyote isn't a psychopomp but who knows he's a crazy guy! not everyone is buddy buddy with spirits and chaos gods, annie's been in this weird world since she was a small child and learned from the masters but in this setting that is very rare.
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So uh, were the bone fingers from "Divine" an antenna made from Tony's hand? And he wanted (or was misled) to talk to the fire spirit in Annie, since it's a remnant of Surma? Answerable question: Do we know those creatures are definitely psychopomps? Absolute Lithops fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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The entire comic has been an elaborate prank by the psychopomps, and in the finale Jeanne will pull off her mask to reveal Ashton Kutcher.
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Aug 12, 2015 09:08
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Tony's face in the first panel  .
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I feel this is a major cop out. You can't talk with a receptionist, mention you want to talk with your daughter, then wait for your daughter to be tracked, having Jones confirm she's there, and then deliver an encrypted message to said daughter, all the while delirious and talking through a cave and not understanding he was talking over the phone all along  While I think Tom usually has things really well planned, this one here feels like it was winged after scrapping whatever idea he had during Divine. Either that or Mr Best Father Carver is lying to his oldest friend and that I can't imagine. Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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holy gently caress anthony you goddamn stupid rear end in a top hat  i guess he doesn't want to talk to annie about where he's been because he thinks she won't believe it (the girl who he at the very least knows is medium for the forest, a place of magical creatures and other such bullshit)
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Absolute Lithops posted:
It seems possible, we know they can reveal themselves to people if they choose too. But for them to mislead Anthony like this and trick him into doing something that could have hurt or even killed Annie, that's pretty messed up for them.Unless its some psychopomps from another land and they were just answering the question academically and didn't even know about Annie. Could be Coyote though, he would do it just for a lark. Or hell, could even be the court. We know Tony said they had been keeping tabs on him, and this would be a convenient way to remove Annie from the picture. If Tony is drugged or in some kind of altered state he may not be seeing things as they actually are. The court might have done this in retribution for her choosing to become the medium for the forest. I wouldn't put it past them to kill a child if it suited their purposes (and also keep up appearances) based on their portrayal so far.
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It looks like Coyote's conning Anthony there. In any case, we've seen with Mort that the dead do not in fact continue to exist after passing, so whatever those things were they were lying to Tony.
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that thing has hooves, i don't think it's coyote i think what happened is anthony was selectively listening to the psychopomps: it's not hard for "the dead go into the ether" to be misinterpreted, especially when you're pretty hosed up the way he looks to be
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MikeJF posted:So it's starting to look like he had no goddamn idea what he was doing when he comafied Annie. Yeah, everyone's always assumed it was a cold, carefully planned operation on Tony's part. We now know he was in a loving fever dream throughout the whole business. Heaven knows how he perceived Zimmy's attack on him.
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Saoshyant posted:I feel this is a major cop out. You can't talk with a receptionist, mention you want to talk with your daughter, then wait for your daughter to be tracked, having Jones confirm she's there, and then deliver an encrypted message to said daughter, all the while delirious and talking through a cave and not understanding he was talking over the phone all along It's possible Anthony just "recorded" the message and the psychopomps (pseudopomps? psychoesques?) started phoning random numbers until they found one that worked. He said he "couldn't reply" when Annie started talking which seems like an odd thing to say if he was delivering it in real time. So uh, I wonder how Annie's gonna feel about all this. Cause this is some pretty hosed up poo poo.
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Acne Rain posted:I still hate him Oh, he's still a horrible father who totally screwed up her entire life in a way that could potentially damage her development permanently and drove her into an emotional breakdown within an hour of his return.
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JuniperCake posted:Or hell, could even be the court. We know Tony said they had been keeping tabs on him, and this would be a convenient way to remove Annie from the picture. If Tony is drugged or in some kind of altered state he may not be seeing things as they actually are. The court might have done this in retribution for her choosing to become the medium for the forest. I wouldn't put it past them to kill a child if it suited their purposes (and also keep up appearances) based on their portrayal so far. Ah, the Omega Device is a TARDIS I see. But yeah, Divine happened before Annie became the Forest Medium, so the Court would have to be time travelers for the coma in Divine to be because they are punishing her for that.
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