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Mazerunner posted:my guess is that smitty's fine but everyone else died, suddenly we should be so lucky
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I'm gonna make two wacky predictions, as is my right: One: The Tic-tocs don't originate from Diego, or Kat with weird roboreligious time bending shenanigans somehow... they originate from Smitty after Kat fixes him up with cyborg parts and that interacts weirdly with his fate-influincing power. Two: On the next page, Smitty is fine, and nobody remembers him being hurt. But Blue is nowhere to be found and nobody comments on that. She's taken his place! Why? A mystery for a later chapter. This is fun.
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i fell into a gunnerkrigg hole and this page seems like it might suddenly be relevant http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1475
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Coyote, the cause and solution to all of life's problems.
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antimony's dad is a surgeon. the gang can't risk submitting smitty to the court hospitals after an extremely illegal mission like this, so they're going to get mr. carver's help on the down low
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Yeah but you go in for surgery with him you might come out with no leg but good wifi reception.
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Venuz Patrol posted:antimony's dad is a surgeon. the gang can't risk submitting smitty to the court hospitals after an extremely illegal mission like this, so they're going to get mr. carver's help on the down low he's a surgeon with one hand. His non-dominant one.
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We'll never know because the next ten month's worth of pages will be a very slowly widening view of Annie watching the light diminish down the river. By the time we get back to the other story, we won't remember who this Smitty guy was. No, but seriously I enjoy the artistry Tom employs in letting his 'camera' linger on an important scene. I feel that the narrative force is slightly undercut by the knowledge that another character is bleeding out ten feet away.
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BobTheJanitor posted:We'll never know because the next ten month's worth of pages will be a very slowly widening view of Annie watching the light diminish down the river. By the time we get back to the other story, we won't remember who this Smitty guy was. Then again, there have been like 50 chapters of buildup to this moment for Jeanne. If the focus would have been on Smitty it also would have been awkward.
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Here Lies Smitty 'It Was Awkward' RIP
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Two options; 1. Parley either teleports of superjumps Smitty to safety. Everybody else stands around wondering how the hell they'll all get back. 2. Annie turns around and Smitty's standing there unharmed with a kind of "Well, what can ya do?" look on his face, while everybody else is sobbing around a body a little ways off.
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George looks into the ether by touching Annie's shoulder again to see Smitty, they exchange just a few witticisms before cracking and bitter tears are shed, detention for everyone. Smitty goes to uberheaven only 1/100000000 humans get to enter, Smitty is perfectly fine with this situation. Tom and Tea are still looking for that god drat cheeto.
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If there'd been an off-screen 'bip' noise effect when we cut back to Annie from those two, none of the problems would apply. But I guess we'll see where Tom is taking it.
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I hope Friday's page explains what happened to Jeanne and the elf dude, I'm very confused. Actually another week of pages might be necessary to clear it up.
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Yes, please, I'm dying for more discussion of the comic's pacing (which is fine by the way).
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Mischalaniouse posted:Yes, please, I'm dying for more discussion of the comic's pacing (which is fine by the way). I know right, discussing a comic in the thread about the comic. Nerds! But for real it's not so much about the pacing as the tonal dissonance here. The story has totally earned the right to stretch out this scene as long as it wants, because our heroes have been working towards this goal for years. The problem, again, is that it's undercut by us not being sure of the status of Smitty (or poor forgotten Robot, for that matter).
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And then Coyote ate them all! Ha ha!
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BobTheJanitor posted:I know right, discussing a comic in the thread about the comic. Nerds! Whatever happened to Robot, it was worth it.
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BobTheJanitor posted:I know right, discussing a comic in the thread about the comic. Nerds! Yeah it's kinda like "awww this moment is so sweet and great," but in the background one friend was just slashed to shreds and the other was stabbed through the chest. It's as though Annie is in a trance, or at least isn't reflecting the readers' immediate priorities.
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Annie in that last panel: clearly the face of someone who is totally happy with everything that just happened.
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I wonder what the repercussions of what Annie's done here are going to be. I found today's strip oddly chilling considering both what's just happened and the possible outcomes. Well that and the fact Smitty's probably lying dead in the background.
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Smitty no! Why couldn't it have been Box Bot instead...
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I had a dream where the comic just ended after this chapter. Not a good dream, I guess, but funny.
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idonotlikepeas posted:Annie in that last panel: clearly the face of someone who is totally happy with everything that just happened. Yeah, that's pretty clearly a "I don't know what emotional response I should have right now" face. Who knows what comes next.
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I think Annie's dissociating. That's completely understandable given everything that happened in the past three minutes or so. Annie just saw her friend appear as a monster. She was approached by an elf zombie who gave her something that belonged to her and that might have been her mom's. She's probably aware that Smitty is hurt but probably not how badly he's hurt. She also knows that the two people she helped escape are having their memories and sense-of-self dissolved into the ether. This is all stuff that she wouldn't have trained for or gotten much guidance about. That is all a lot to process in a short period of time.
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Now Ysengrin can launch his amphibious assault on the Court.
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BobTheJanitor posted:I know right, discussing a comic in the thread about the comic. Nerds! Yeah I don't understand why pacing isn't a legitimate nitpick here. When we talk about pacing we're not literally talking about how fast each update comes out but rather how different parts of the story are being framed at this junction. Something has just felt off about the presentation about this part of the chapter. Part of it is indeed pacing but part of it is the lack of emoting on the part of Annie as well as the ghosts. This is ostensibly the emotional climax of the chapter if not the entire comic and everything about it has been incredibly flat ever since Elf Zombie emerged from the river. It's just not what I would expect from the story I guess.
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I think it's mostly because it's done to death. People go "it's not good pacing for a web serial" then other people go "it's written for print it works fine on rereading" and nobody is wrong - it is paced for print and works fine in print or when being reread but it's slow sometimes during scenes like this where there is tension without resolution for weeks. In print it would be tension without resolution for a few minutes at most and that is fine and in fact helps build tension. So we avoid pacing discussion because we're just gonna come to that conclusion for the hundredth time.
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Paramemetic posted:Especially Stone that chapter was just terrific
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After Smitty's been teleported to hospital they'll find out the wound has exposed a malignant tumour which Jeanne's sword has perfectly dissected. Lucky!
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Paramemetic posted:Except Stone that chapter was just terrible i bet you disliked See Ya! too
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