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A.o.D. posted:Did I just imagine that? Yes, you unfortunately did. One Antimony was in the forest timestop for 3 months, so maybe you are thinking of that. EDIT: 6 months, sorry life_source fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Mar 12, 2021 |
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A.o.D. posted:I swear I read somewhere recently in the comic where it was explained that the two Annies were the same person just from different points in time. No, you're sorta right. It starts here. https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2160
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The next chapter "The Mind Cage" is all about arguing if one or both of the Anni died to create one Annie.
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Fire spirit Annie from several years ago: Hello Court Annie welcome to the mind cage, this is where Annie puts parts of herself she trims off like a bonsai tree even though they happen to have independent thoughts and personalities sometimes. One more and we can start a club!
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Did anyone make a "there are two wolves inside him" joke about Loup yet? I'm probably years late with that one.
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Loup just has a really nice 3D printer
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Pants Donkey posted:Loup just has a really nice 3D printer What if Coyote is a jeweller
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It's a dog eat dog world out there
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CJacobs posted:It's a dog eat dog world out there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk-R1-kabFs
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God I hope jones is about to point out someone died, because Kat being 100% cool with this poo poo is kind of pissing me off!
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This entire chapter is just going to be a parade of all the characters giving Annie Prime a big thumbs up, isn't it.  Edit: "Literally Everyone is Entirely Fine With This Situation" Strawberry Pyramid fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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Mar 15, 2021 10:40
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Look at that dorky new character, smoozing up to the established ones. I do kinda like that purple plus green end up in the middle at a blue and suddenly the outfit matches the hairclip and the eyes.
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I wonder if Kat's really OK with this situation or just happy that Annie's happy.
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Mar 15, 2021 10:57
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How many years since Jones' last appearance?
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Also, has Jones ever really interacted with Kat? Don't really remember any instances.
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cant cook creole bream posted:Also, has Jones ever really interacted with Kat? Don't really remember any instances. The only scenes they've shared (that I can remember) are the first time Jones comes to collect Annie for medium training, then a whole lot later after the whole re-entry thing.
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Hair is longer, and some early winter scarves/coats/sweaters on I think we've timeskipped past "initial fallout" Also Kat has caught Football Head Disease and I just cannot unsee it now
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Kennel posted:How many years since Jones' last appearance? A week or two, she's in at the very end of the zimmy extra comic. Edit: at least I assume that's her on page 26 and 27,which she may be about to mention if so CJacobs fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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Mar 15, 2021 13:33
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The Court is deeply concerned that you are happy, Antimony.
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It's been proportional to the overall suffering in the comic thus far so why stop using it as a barometer now?
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FronzelNeekburm posted:The Court is deeply concerned that you are happy, Antimony. Annie your father has died off screen. Some sort of narrative smokescreen I suspect.
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I don't really even understand what happened in the last chapter, to be honest. But we are back to the Singular Annie, then?
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By the way, speaking of Zim Grim, I have to wonder if Zimmy created Gamma and that's what the comic is meant to depicting near the end with the goop coming off of Zim Zam. I can't tell if it's meant to be obvious and I'm overthinking it though. Something about Zimmy's special quirk, whatever it is, separating the realm of waking and dreams into two worlds and two people or something like that. edit:   I'm not gonna lie I only think this because the goop coming off of Zimmy looks like Gamma's hair, but that could be for any reason including that it looks cool, it doesn't have to be some kinda greek myth thing where she sprung from Zimmy's grievous bleeding head wound CJacobs fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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ronya posted:Hair is longer, and some early winter scarves/coats/sweaters on Trying not to be one of the over-reacting 'the comic is terrible forever now' folks, but if we really have skipped past all the characters reacting to the Annie fusion that seems kind of bad. Even the most generous reading here at least implies Tom is intentionally trolling his audience. Which could still be fine. Maybe he's going to go back and explore all of this with Jones as the mouthpiece for everyone's complaints.
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CJacobs posted:By the way, speaking of Zim Grim, I have to wonder if Zimmy created Gamma and that's what the comic is meant to depicting near the end with the goop coming off of Zim Zam. I can't tell if it's meant to be obvious and I'm overthinking it though. Something about Zimmy's special quirk, whatever it is, separating the realm of waking and dreams into two worlds and two people or something like that. What is this from? edit: I had no idea there was a Zimmy comic up. I saw that cover image posted here but didn't think anything of it
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BobTheJanitor posted:Maybe he's going to go back and explore all of this with Jones as the mouthpiece for everyone's complaints. GUNNERKRIGG COURT Chapter 80: The Pebble
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BobTheJanitor posted:Trying not to be one of the over-reacting 'the comic is terrible forever now' folks, but if we really have skipped past all the characters reacting to the Annie fusion that seems kind of bad. Even the most generous reading here at least implies Tom is intentionally trolling his audience. Which could still be fine. Maybe he's going to go back and explore all of this with Jones as the mouthpiece for everyone's complaints. Seems less of an overreaction now doesn't it.
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Rumda posted:Seems less of an overreaction now doesn't it. No
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BobTheJanitor posted:Trying not to be one of the over-reacting 'the comic is terrible forever now' folks, but if we really have skipped past all the characters reacting to the Annie fusion that seems kind of bad. Even the most generous reading here at least implies Tom is intentionally trolling his audience. Which could still be fine. Maybe he's going to go back and explore all of this with Jones as the mouthpiece for everyone's complaints. IMHO just having some characters going  isn't gonna cut it, a proper payoff should have the situation getting blatantly weirder soon. Dunno if Tom's gonna deliver.
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Yall like to bitch a lot about like three days worth of comics, from a strip that leaves plots to play out for years of real time. Go reread Stone and come back next week or something maybe, you'll be happier that way.
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There's precedent for brutally suppressing inner turmoil under a façade of cheerfulness, but I'm still holding out hope for a "psych, you were in dreamland for months" fakeout there are already other residents of the court who spend basically all their time in the ether. 'reality' is a bit of a slippery concept in GKC ronya fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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YaketySass posted:IMHO just having some characters going he will, but i hope he takes years to solve it because that makes people angrier for no apparent reason
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They should bring back the minotaur for all this. I miss him.
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It bothered me when not a single adult had a reaction to the entire-class-kidnapping incident of "the torn sea", as far as we were shown. But here I am, still reading and enjoying the comic years later. "skipping past the fallout to the point where you're not sure if there was any" is part of this comic's fundamental tone, not anything new.
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The comic is just not interested in showing a lot of that stuff because it's not really what it's about, it seems. The behind the scenes videos shed a lot of light on how Tom views action sequences in the comic, or viewed when they were filmed at least, and it's just not necessary to the kind of story being told most of the time. We don't need to see the Court's herculean and probably rather violent effort to hold back Loup's never-ending army of plant monsters and shadows while all this is going on, because to Antimony, her father disapproving of her wearing makeup even though she likes it and it reminds her of her mother is pretty much the same thing, because Annie is a teenager. We can just imagine the Court trying to defend the exclusion zone because a few guys wearing Court outfits shepherding rowdy kids and stompin bugs got shown in the background, we rarely need to see them actually doing it in focus because it wouldn't add anything to the comic's primary goal of CJacobs fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Mar 16, 2021 |
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There's a difference in not focusing on background details and not focusing on a major change happening to the main character, though. No one is complaining that we never get to find out the hopes and dreams of 'generic background court employee in an airtight suit' -- for obvious reasons. People are complaining that the main character got split into two individuals who had enough time apart to experience different things and grow into actual different people, and then got stuck back together off screen and we haven't seen any reaction to it yet. I'm still holding out judgment until we see where Tom is going with this, but I don't think it's really comparable to any other loose ends the story has had before. #bringbackbasil
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Writers are usually afraid of bringing Basil back too much, lest he become a pesto
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BobTheJanitor posted:There's a difference in not focusing on background details and not focusing on a major change happening to the main character, though. No one is complaining that we never get to find out the hopes and dreams of 'generic background court employee in an airtight suit' -- for obvious reasons. People are complaining that the main character got split into two individuals who had enough time apart to experience different things and grow into actual different people, and then got stuck back together off screen and we haven't seen any reaction to it yet. I'm still holding out judgment until we see where Tom is going with this, but I don't think it's really comparable to any other loose ends the story has had before. That's not really the same thing as jumping past the denouement, the two bolded sections are two different complaints. edit: Also there is no stuck 'back' together really, they were never something that was split apart in the first place CJacobs fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Ditocoaf posted:It bothered me when not a single adult had a reaction to the entire-class-kidnapping incident of "the torn sea", as far as we were shown. But here I am, still reading and enjoying the comic years later. "skipping past the fallout to the point where you're not sure if there was any" is part of this comic's fundamental tone, not anything new. There didn't seem to be any consequences from Jack Hyland's sojourn in Zimmingham the first time around, which the Court was fully aware about. "Well our school lost a kid for a few weeks but he's back now! We're cool, right? Let's get lunch." One could reasonably put down a lot to the established atmosphere of secrecy and putting-children-in-mortal-peril Subsequently (multiple years later in publication time!), it was revealed that that Juliette and Arthur had been keeping hijinx secret using their MIB powers - at that point, we find out that the incongruously successful scheming since Spring Heeled might not have been intentional on the Court's part, but instead some rogue agents doing their own thing All this is kind of background fluff, though - putting viewpoint characters in implausible levels of danger for storytelling reasons is qualitatively different from unceremoniously expelling them from the stage. I think we will be seeing some explanation. A timeskip combined with a tonal shift is how Tom prefers to bookend each mini-arc, after all (now that the whole boarding-school-esque conceit of adventures conveniently contained within each school year seems to have fallen by the wayside) ronya fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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