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Tony Tones.
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 02:34 |
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:"You're proof of their love" is kind of a weird thing to say to a kid. For some reason I thought of Watchmen when I read that.
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 02:48 |
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:"You're proof of their love" is kind of a weird thing to say to a kid. It made me think that fire elementals can only reproduce via mutual love. I mean, tons of humans are born to parents who hate each other. Also there was the time someone said to Annie, "When you have a child" and Tom's note below the comic was "when."
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 03:02 |
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Wittgen posted:It made me think that fire elementals can only reproduce via mutual love. I mean, tons of humans are born to parents who hate each other. His note was "When?" which is a significant difference
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 03:08 |
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Kikas posted:What's up next, Kat is the computer their parents built? You joke about this but I'm getting the wierd feeling that Anja's belief that children are "proof of a couple's love" might actually be setting this up. madjack fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Nov 4, 2017 |
# ? Nov 4, 2017 03:09 |
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Regy Rusty posted:His note was "When?" which is a significant difference Good point, but it doesn't significantly alter my point. The person who said when was Coyote right? He could know a lot.
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 03:24 |
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Wittgen posted:Good point, but it doesn't significantly alter my point. The person who said when was Coyote right? He could know a lot. Yeah. I just mean it wasn't like Tom was confirming it's a definite thing, but rather giving Annie's internal reaction.
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 03:25 |
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tony did a lot of things wrong imo mostly because he's a ludicrous fuckup of a human being, which i find extremely relatable
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 04:41 |
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Tollymain posted:tony did a lot of things wrong imo this, basically
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 05:10 |
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Fister Roboto posted:I think it's a little weird that Tony clams up the second another person enters the scene, no matter what. I don't think that's normal social anxiety. Tony takes it to an absurdly dysfunctional extreme, but fear of crowds is a pretty common real thing and often manifests in that kind of way, and "crowd" can be anything from a house party to "forced to make small talk with three people I don't know". The problem is it's like if Ysengrin's deal wasn't anything to do with Coyote or his terror of being weak it's just he has abnormally bad ADHD. That'd fit the dictionary definition of "an explanation", but it wouldn't really leave you satisfied the story was moving forward or wanting to know more about fuckin' Ysengrin, and how he got his tree body when he bought it at the store for $7.99. Potato Salad posted:It's a little weird to see so many people not look at this story at a higher level of abstraction, like from the perspective of the storyteller. I can't be the only one with high school level reading comprehension and capacity to analyze why a story is structured the way it is. this is a pretty pompous dig to follow a barely highschool level reading of events that entirely misses the point, guy A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Nov 4, 2017 |
# ? Nov 4, 2017 05:53 |
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Samuringa posted:For some reason I thought of Watchmen when I read that. Ugh, I hated that scene too. Both silk spectres had such weak storylines. Alan Moore has written a lot of things well in his life, but the female characters in Watchmen aren't one of them.
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 07:35 |
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madjack posted:You joke about this but I'm getting the wierd feeling that Anja's belief that children are "proof of a couple's love" might actually be setting this up. I buy this angle too.
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 13:55 |
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:this is a pretty pompous dig to follow a barely highschool level reading of events that entirely misses the point, guy yes, that singular, solitary point
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 15:18 |
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In my opinion, Tony is bad.
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 19:31 |
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SHISHKABOB posted:In my opinion, Tony is bad. But so am I, so in that respect, Tony is Good.
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 20:40 |
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SHISHKABOB posted:In my opinion, Tony is bad. Kerning Chameleon posted:But so am I, so in that respect, Tony is Good. Tony's power is actually the ability to perform a Face Turn for the duration of any scene in which he is alone with another character.
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# ? Nov 4, 2017 20:47 |
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I really want to know what happened to Tony's parents.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 03:37 |
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SHISHKABOB posted:I really want to know what happened to Tony's parents. Gunnerkrigg is so great at introducing new mysteries as it mostly clears up old ones.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 03:45 |
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SHISHKABOB posted:I really want to know what happened to Tony's parents. Same thing that happened to Paz's probably. They got paid to send him to school at the court.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 04:11 |
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Galvanik posted:Same thing that happened to Paz's probably. They got paid to send him to school at the court. Idk about that, he's extremely cagey about it when she asked him. Like totally ignores the question, basically. Which was just "how are your parents". http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1881
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 07:26 |
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Tony's mom was a water elemental and his dad was from Afghanistan, so that's why he's always such a wet blanket.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 07:50 |
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Scholtz posted:Tony's mom was a water elemental and his dad was from Afghanistan, so that's why he's always such a wet blanket.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 11:46 |
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It does seem odd that all 3 of Annie's theoretical grandparents have been completely absent from the story.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 13:29 |
Todd McFarlane presents: Medieval Antimony.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 15:52 |
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Regy Rusty posted:It does seem odd that all 3 of Annie's theoretical grandparents have been completely absent from the story. It's cause they're dead!
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 19:05 |
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SHISHKABOB posted:It's cause they're dead! Yeah that's likely! I just mean I wonder if there's a reason for it.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 19:13 |
Lurdiak posted:Todd McFarlane presents: Medieval Antimony. Glurghkh. I didn't know so few words could make me so upset.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 19:27 |
Regy Rusty posted:Yeah that's likely! I just mean I wonder if there's a reason for it. The less named characters the better. No point in introducing people just for the sake of it.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 19:56 |
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Tony is a paranoid android and that's why he has no parents and gets along with Kat.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 21:24 |
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Buschmaki posted:Tony is a paranoid android and that's why he has no parents and gets along with Kat. Life. Don't talk to him about life.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 22:12 |
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Nettle Soup posted:The less named characters the better. No point in introducing people just for the sake of it. Oh cmon, they're gonna tell us what happened to Tony's family at some point. And I'm 100% sure it was really awful.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 22:16 |
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Tony met his his parents shortly after he was born. Both of them, at the same time. He's never been able to unwind around them since.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 22:26 |
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The Stone, Part II - The exact same chapter but shifted a bit to the left, showing Tony was also there the entire time. There are occasional missing panels after alcohol is invented though.
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# ? Nov 5, 2017 22:34 |
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Samuringa posted:The Stone, Part II - The exact same chapter but shifted a bit to the left, showing Tony was also there the entire time. There are occasional missing panels after alcohol is invented though. EmmyOk posted:"Steadman buddy, let sleeping dogs lay"
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 00:15 |
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Those must have been some really great jokes.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 14:23 |
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Fangz posted:Those must have been some really great jokes. "Katarina, this work is wonderful. I really have to hand it to you "
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 14:26 |
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For all Kat talked up about hating Tony, she never experienced any firsthand events that would make somebody feel actual you-feel-it-in-your-gut hate at a person. And if that person shows up and starts being personable, you can find yourself actually revising your opinion of that person! It's a thing bad people do to take advantage of others, yes, but that requires a level of social-fu that we know Tony Simply Does Not Have. It's not really surprising Kat turned around on him, he's a legit guy to hang around on when he's not being super awkward, and Kat has zero idea of his worse transgressions either. I'm pretty sure whatever Annie said about it was heavily glossed over because she was never particularly willing to shittalk her dad.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 15:13 |
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I like how expressive Anja is in this page. Visually her eyes are kind of like a second set of eyebrows, but instead of being creepy it works.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 15:50 |
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The other thing about Kat is that she's super passionate about science, to the degree where sometimes it's kind of a blind spot for her. When she has someone to geek out with, it'll warm her up to them faster than anything else. I'm sure at first she caught herself thinking "wait, I hate this guy", but Tony as far as we know is a talented researcher, so she probably got caught up in the excitement of working with him.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 16:32 |
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"I know better than to get involved in Anthony's affairs." Yeah, we saw how that worked out with Surma.
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# ? Nov 6, 2017 19:53 |