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Kat was able to turn a boat into a sea creature inside Zimmy's world, had she some more time to finish.
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Lmao what the hell? That's it? Edit: That's all folks! 
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Mar 8, 2021 12:46
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Has Tom done anything that's causing this distrust in his storytelling? Usually when there's a kerfuffle in the thread, things turn out fine with some patience. Why is everyone acting like this is a climax instead of a setup?
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Mar 8, 2021 12:46
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Darth TNT posted:All's well that ends well. But will Tony now be less awkward or more awkward? One of his daughters just died, he's gonna go nuts, clearly.
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Mar 8, 2021 12:50
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Vonnie posted:One of his daughters just died, he's gonna go nuts, clearly.
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Mar 8, 2021 12:54
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Osmosisch posted:Has Tom done anything that's causing this distrust in his storytelling? Usually when there's a kerfuffle in the thread, things turn out fine with some patience. Why is everyone acting like this is a climax instead of a setup?
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Mar 8, 2021 13:01
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I suspect the next chapter may be Annie realizing that she misses her "sister" and the way things were, and that Courtnie and Fannie are two unique people after having lived apart for so long. I hope so, because if this is it, I don't like it. I very much doubt this is the end of the two Annies, given Zimmy's previous opinions.
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Mar 8, 2021 13:18
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Osmosisch posted:Has Tom done anything that's causing this distrust in his storytelling? Usually when there's a kerfuffle in the thread, things turn out fine with some patience. Why is everyone acting like this is a climax instead of a setup? Yes. This comic has been almost as much of a vacuous nothing as Questionable Content for a while now, goons are just now noticing. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 8, 2021 13:57
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Bad opinions, in this thread. The issue with the Annie's were pretty much over as soon as they started working together to get Tony to open up more. They had worked through their differences, and perhaps the splitting of Annie wasn't ever about Annie's relation to herself, but her relation to Tony. I'm fine with this. 🤷
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Mar 8, 2021 14:08
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Captain Oblivious posted:Yes. This comic has been almost as much of a vacuous nothing as Questionable Content for a while now, goons are just now noticing. And yet for some reason you're still reading it and decided to return to this thread again despite making an rear end out of yourself last time Captain Oblivious posted:Get this. I've got this idea, a nerdy gamer girl...who has the BIGGEST science brain. And she's like, bisexual, so everybody can fetishize her very big gamer brain. Science is cool right fellas? I too have read a book or two in my time. And she's like SO good at the sciencing that she's a GOD and doesn't even know it lol. Her greatest weakness? I would say that it's probably the awareness that she could solve so many of her friends problems with her very big brain (the biggest). It's tragic, really.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:11
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Nope don't like this at all.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:23
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Captain Oblivious posted:Yes. This comic has been almost as much of a vacuous nothing as Questionable Content for a while now, goons are just now noticing. speaking of questionable content...bazinga
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Mar 8, 2021 14:24
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This isn't the first time Tom's trolled his readership with an abrupt anticlimax but this is probably his most brazen attempt yet.Captain Oblivious posted:Yes. This comic has been almost as much of a vacuous nothing as Questionable Content for a while now, goons are just now noticing. Let's not say words we can't take back now.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:35
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YaketySass posted:This isn't the first time Tom's trolled his readership with an abrupt anticlimax but this is probably his most brazen attempt yet. I think The Breakout still holds the top spot for brazen
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Mar 8, 2021 14:38
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The Breakout was actually funny, so the brazenness is excused. This is just.... lame.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:42
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Having a character offer an explanation and then be told they don't need to give one when clearly they oughta, if only for our benefit, should be your hint that Tom's aware you may be frustrated by this chapter's events
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Mar 8, 2021 14:44
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Osmosisch posted:Has Tom done anything that's causing this distrust in his storytelling? Usually when there's a kerfuffle in the thread, things turn out fine with some patience. Why is everyone acting like this is a climax instead of a setup? I’m not hate reading the comic like that one weirdo. I find it refreshing that things never develop as I expect in GC, sometimes in the end to the benefit of the comic (e.g. Tony literally just appearing on panel one of a chapter one day, unannounced, after years of intrigue and mystery). Sometimes like this I feel less satisfied. I think beyond it feeling a bit convenient that this situation could be resolved offscreen with a Zim episode after a lot of dead ends and runarounds, as many are noting here it didn’t even feel framed as a problem anymore per se. As characters shrugged their shoulders and passed the buck on fixing the issue, we grew used to and happy with the new Annie sisterhood. There was no sense of danger in their existence or public mistrust in the Annies, and in fact their connection seemed to be overall a net positive to their own self loathing. I do have some hope that this isn’t the end of that idea.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:47
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Part of the problem is the anticlimaxes of the Tony era were rooted in his personality and role in the story being very different from what we expected, this is just magic Calvinball.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:50
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And as far as Kat's stuff it was very heavily foreshadowed that she was linked to them, this is just an asspull given Zimmy's powers have been shown to be mostly etheric and mental before now
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Mar 8, 2021 15:20
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imo there's 'confusing' inside the comic and 'confusing' outside the comic and it's an important distinction. Confusion inside the comic is fine because it comes in the form of characters and events setting up dominoes which will fall over later, but we don't have all the dominoes yet. Confusion outside the comic is more to do with structure and pacing potentially muddying whether or not you are intended to 'get it' at all, let alone affect your ability to grasp what you're being shown. This I think is meant to be the former, but in execution it has ended up more as the latter for some. Both can be done on purpose and to great and memorable effect, but intending to do one and ending up with the other makes things all fuzzy instead.
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Mar 8, 2021 15:34
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Their weird obsession with hating the comic aside, I have noticed being less invested in the story for a while. Everything built up to Loup and his upending of the status quo in the comic, and now it feels like it has been spinning its wheels for some time. We’ll have to see how Annie Fusion plays out.
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Mar 8, 2021 15:43
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Fusion Annie aka. Funnie
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Mar 8, 2021 16:26
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Osmosisch posted:Has Tom done anything that's causing this distrust in his storytelling? Usually when there's a kerfuffle in the thread, things turn out fine with some patience. Why is everyone acting like this is a climax instead of a setup? Honestly my distrust has been growing for a couple years now? Stuff just... keeps happening, for no particular reason, and then stops happening, at least in a way visible to the reader, at odd times for odd reasons, and I'm not sure what if anything any of it is supposed to mean or if its building towards something and I'm not really enjoying it on its own merit. I think this might be the point where I realize I haven't actually been enjoying this comic overall for a while and have just been cruising on autopilot waiting for things to improve again, and just... stop reading.
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Mar 8, 2021 16:48
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Also, there was no rain this time.
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Mar 8, 2021 16:54
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honestly outside of the main A plot this is pretty much the normal amount of fanfare for how plot lines get resolved in GC. the difference in opinion is whether the twin Annies were an A or B plot
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Mar 8, 2021 16:58
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Maybe the point is that they fused so they can go talk to her dad, and that's why she's moving with such purpose.
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Mar 8, 2021 17:00
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like all of the webcomics I read, I read this one more out of habit than interest in where the story is going I liked the two Annies, though, and felt like it gave an otherwise uninteresting character some depth by having her work out her issues with literally herself. I've been dreading the two becoming one again for some time and lol if this is how the author does it
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Mar 8, 2021 17:02
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laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
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Mar 8, 2021 17:08
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I rarely see people react like this to non-web comics.
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Mar 8, 2021 17:28
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Lurdiak posted:I rarely see people react like this to non-web comics. I don't think you're reading the right threads, then. Go over to the X-Books thread to about this time last year and see the reactions to the Fallen Angels book.
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Mar 8, 2021 17:42
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jng2058 posted:I don't think you're reading the right threads, then. Go over to the X-Books thread to about this time last year and see the reactions to the Fallen Angels book. Eurgh I had almost managed to forget that book
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dragon enthusiast posted:honestly outside of the main A plot this is pretty much the normal amount of fanfare for how plot lines get resolved in GC. the difference in opinion is whether the twin Annies were an A or B plot One was plot A, the other was plot 1.
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Osmosisch posted:Has Tom done anything that's causing this distrust in his storytelling? Usually when there's a kerfuffle in the thread, things turn out fine with some patience. Why is everyone acting like this is a climax instead of a setup? Yeah, lots of times. Most recently that I remember was the Norn chapter that this thread in particular was rightfully harsh on, but there are a bunch of times where the plot for a chapter has just resolved without a lot of conflict or explanation for the readers, or characters just not asking questions or various other ways they've been unsatisfying. I can speak at length at how bad the Hedy chapter was from a storytelling perspective because that was particularly bad and caused me to turn a more critical eye towards the storytelling. For as long as this comic is, there are good chapters and bad ones, and at this point there's enough bad that you can't really just assume blankly on faith that any given plot is going to be well written.
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Mar 8, 2021 19:00
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I hope this Annie belongs to this universe
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Mar 8, 2021 19:43
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GlyphGryph posted:Honestly my distrust has been growing for a couple years now? Stuff just... keeps happening, for no particular reason, and then stops happening, at least in a way visible to the reader, at odd times for odd reasons, and I'm not sure what if anything any of it is supposed to mean or if its building towards something and I'm not really enjoying it on its own merit. i've had that impression since Jeanne, whose freedom seemed to be the last goal this story had with any buildup or investment. Loup was the next major driver of the plot, sure, but half his purpose in the comic seemed to revolve around justifying himself as such i keep up with GC because a page takes me all of thirty seconds to skim, but that's not really high praise
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Mar 8, 2021 19:44
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This seems like a development that will be more satisfying to archive readers.
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Mar 8, 2021 20:24
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Captain Oblivious posted:Yes. This comic has been almost as much of a vacuous nothing as Questionable Content for a while now, goons are just now noticing.  what a fuckin' hill to keep dying on Anyways, Gunnerkrigg has always just been a comic that happens to be on the web for me. I'm not looking to be regularly satisfied by each and every page. Sometimes I get bored and fall off, and that's ok, because then when I eventually come back to it, I've got a backlog!
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Mar 8, 2021 21:23
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Fusion Annie gets back home, finds 3 more Annies there.
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Mar 8, 2021 21:48
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Actually, everyone who isn't Zimmy, Gamma, or an Elf (Or otherwise etheric like Renard) is Annie now. Whoops!
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(am I supposed to be as lost as everyone else or did I miss a clear reason why Annie is fused now. I know the comic sometimes punts answers down the road, I'm just curious if I missed a reason this time)
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