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Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.
To be fair, I think it tripped me up when I read it, too. I don't immediately pick up on the flashbacks in this comic.

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Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

IUG posted:

I'm re-reading the second book, and I found a page that I don't really understand. It seems like it's out of place, except it's that way on the website too.

http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=435

This is right after they discover Diego's shrine, and right before the flashback to their mother's questioning the robots too. I just don't know why this one scene is there, dealing with the classroom, when the surrounding pages are about the bots.

Wasn't it this page that had been replaced for a while with a heavily edited version full of "this is a flashback" captions?

Diet Conan Doyle
Jan 15, 2010

Watch as I pluck the moon from the very sky!

Cat Mattress posted:

Wasn't it this page that had been replaced for a while with a heavily edited version full of "this is a flashback" captions?

Yep

Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011

http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=396
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=403
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=414
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=435

Series of one-page flashbacks throughout the chapter, but there's a fairly long sequence between the third and fourth (where Robot plays out that fight in Diego's shrine) so it's easy to forget about them.

S1 is a chapter where a lot of Gunnerkrigg's plot arcs really kick off and it's cementing a close to the first section of the story where Annie is introduced to the court, by looking at how close and important their friendship has become.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

The OTHER shore?! What the gently caress

when did rivers have two shores

Demiurge4
Aug 10, 2011

Oh man I hope we get Ysengrin's point og view here.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

Demiurge4 posted:

Oh man I hope we get Ysengrin's point of view here.

He realizes what they are about to do quite quickly. Afterwards he notifies his sleeper agents and readies the invasion force.

UndyingShadow
May 15, 2006
You're looking ESPECIALLY shadowy this evening, Sir
I guess we're done waiting for the other SHORE to drop. Right? Am I right?

I'll be here all week.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I wouldnt bank on it

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Here comes a flood of uninspired river puns. Like, "water you doing?" ahaha it's a classic.

Beepity Boop
Nov 21, 2012

yay

Babbling on with increasingly-bad puns is a wonderful pastime, and I will brook no attempts to tell me otherwise.

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


its a wash

Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011

Cat Mattress posted:

Here comes a flood of uninspired river puns. Like, "water you doing?" ahaha it's a classic.

You just have to let these things run their course.

Otherkinsey Scale
Jul 17, 2012

Just a little bit of sunshine!

Demiurge4 posted:

Oh man I hope we get Ysengrin's point og view here.

I'm thinking about this situation and honestly a sudden POV shift would be The Worst Thing.

From a serial reader perspective (which admittedly is the more important one in my opinion) it could work. But from the I-need-to-know-now-now-now perspective? Worst thing.

Worthleast
Nov 25, 2012

Possibly the only speedboat jumps I've planned

Enter Coyote's tooth.

Still attached to Coyote.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather
Aww. No sudden 3 month time skip without any explanation. :(

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Thats not a nice thing to say about your best friend

FronzelNeekburm
Jun 1, 2001

STOP, MORTTIME

Synthbuttrange posted:

Thats not a nice thing to say about your best friend

I'm not sure she likes Ketrak that much.

Iceclaw
Nov 4, 2009

Fa la lanky down dilly, motherfuckers.
hi kat

youcallthatatwist
Sep 22, 2013
Oh no.

Is Annie going to unknowingly attack Kat?

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

cant cook creole bream posted:

Aww. No sudden 3 month time skip without any explanation. :(

3 months? I expected 30 years, and following now the adventures of the cast's children.

Parts Kit
Jun 9, 2006

durr
i have a hole in my head
durr
'Grats Annie, you pissed off The Lady of Pain.

Capfalcon
Apr 6, 2012

No Boots on the Ground,
Puny Mortals!

Parts Kit posted:

'Grats Annie, you pissed off The Lady of Pain.

We'll, she's already been mazed.

Shangri-Law School
Feb 19, 2013

So ethereal projections can sweat. Good to know.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Shangri-Law School posted:

So ethereal projections can sweat. Good to know.

Everything can sweat.

Otherkinsey Scale
Jul 17, 2012

Just a little bit of sunshine!

Parts Kit posted:

'Grats Annie, you pissed off The Lady of Pain.

She gave the robots flesh just so she could flay them for worshipping her.

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Otherkinsey Scale posted:

She gave the robots flesh just so she could flay them for worshipping her.

I'm surprised anyone even remembers planescape, let along the intentionally enigmatic Queen of Bladesz

Otherkinsey Scale posted:

She gave the robots flesh just so she could flay them for worshipping her.

Lady of Pain is best girl and I shall not hear anymore of this heresy.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


I already made a Planescape joke last chapter. :mad:

Lurdiak posted:

I dunno, Annie DID piss off the lady of pain, so it might be more like this.


amishjosh
Jul 16, 2004
Yeah

Lurdiak posted:

Everything can sweat.



that's just condensation

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

His blushing is an internal short circuit causing his plating to get red hot

Brightman
Feb 24, 2005

I've seen fun you people wouldn't believe.
Tiki torches on fire off the summit of Kilauea.
I watched disco balls glitter in the dark near the Brandenburg Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like crowds in rain.

Time to sleep.

amishjosh posted:

that's just condensation

I had just assumed the sweat drops were compulsively drawn on "off camera".

Dr Subterfuge
Aug 31, 2005

TIME TO ROC N' ROLL
Robot's sweat is real just like people's eyes literally pop out of their head when they are surprised

amishjosh
Jul 16, 2004
Yeah

Brightman posted:

I had just assumed the sweat drops were compulsively drawn on "off camera".

hrm, good point, robot probably keeps a dry erase marker in his hoodies

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

oh its just kat phew

Otherkinsey Scale
Jul 17, 2012

Just a little bit of sunshine!
I thought it was Eglamore.

Beepity Boop
Nov 21, 2012

yay

Don't listen, Annie! Coyote's trying to trick you again! :ohdear:

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


Kat is a gundam :staredog:

A lot of Kat's The Maker's appearance parallels panels from Anthony Carver's sacrificial antenna. In particular, the eyebrow / antennae look like scalpels and other surgical tools all pressed together -- and of course the needle mohawk hardly needs to be pointed out. What isn't sourced from medical tools, like The Maker's neck muscles, still look like the elongated and twisting bones and flesh from Carver's antenna. Could just be the artist's art style replicating the same approach to spoopy ether artwork, could be something more. My head cannon atm is that The Maker uses the same approach to building / manipulating ether poo poo that Carver was only barely able to dip into with his extremely-limited level of understanding when Coyote showed him how to make an etheric antenna with his arm.



Also, The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Batman's Shameful Secret >Gundamkrigg Wing Thread

Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Nov 18, 2016

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


And on scrolling back a few pages, more on "Holy poo poo Tom's artwork is :siren: improved :siren:"



Look at the rendering of the fire around her feet. The light cast on her legs and in reflection off the arm of the water dude. Look at it.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

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MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




I love the way Tom is using three distinct art styles clashing to show how things aren't meant to fit here.

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