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Annie used to have a football for a head, but at least it was consistently a football.
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I genuinely did not mind the football head era, that style had its charm.
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Jun 16, 2023 18:33
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there was this period where the shapes were all what they are now but tom was still doing sketchy stuff and using wild perspectives for effect like he was never really able to draw well-blocked action but instead he'd just have an extremely angular eglamore swinging his sword in a mile-wide arc and that was evocative and good there's an alternate timeline where tom watched one more genndy tartakovsky product and became incredible
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Jun 16, 2023 18:54
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isasphere posted:I genuinely did not mind the football head era, that style had its charm. Yeah this. It was stylized, but a consistent, recognizable style. Everything looks so generic and flat now, and the faces have lost all their character.
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Jun 16, 2023 19:18
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isasphere posted:I genuinely did not mind the football head era, that style had its charm. Esme posted:Yeah this. It was stylized, but a consistent, recognizable style. Everything looks so generic and flat now, and the faces have lost all their character. I'm not saying that the early art style was bad, just that Annie had an odd design, but it was consistently odd. Her design remained consistent from page to page, let alone panel to panel. Now she's going wildly off-model from panel to panel, let alone page to page.
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Jun 16, 2023 19:51
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So this is leading to a love triangle between Lana Annie and Jerrick? Is that where this is going? And Ysengrim is being implied to have been her crush here? I don't like this. I don't like any of this. JuniperCake fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jun 16, 2023 |
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Jun 16, 2023 20:18
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It's leading to absolutely nothing, just like always
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Jun 16, 2023 20:20
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this comic is going to end and i'm going to have to find a mental pin to put in somewhere and be like "gosh that was a good comic, shame it ended right here and never finished, it had so much potential and unanswered interesting questions"
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Jun 16, 2023 20:26
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Gunnerkrigg Court? That comic ended four years ago... on this very night! *THUNDERCLAP*
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Jun 16, 2023 20:48
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:this comic is going to end and i'm going to have to find a mental pin to put in somewhere and be like "gosh that was a good comic, shame it ended right here and never finished, it had so much potential and unanswered interesting questions" I re-read from Get Lost onward recently and while the quality does noticeably slip after the two Annies merge at the end of Find Yourself, it isn't until Reconfiguration and the "I can't believe we really... k-k-kissed!" panel that I drop what little patience I have left and refuse to press the right arrow again. Just all interest is gone. It's so monumentally tone deaf after what happened to Reynard. These characters suck and I don't want to see them happy.
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Jun 16, 2023 20:54
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isasphere posted:Oh my god, please don't tell me that Annie's secret "can't say it out loud even to the other me" crush was Ysengrin. This is exactly where my mind went, too. You know, Ysengrin, the character who was very clearly meant to be read as a father figure and stepped in to praise her when she was upset over her dad, who is as old as her other two father figures, Renard and Coyote, who... I suppose... have both... flirted or made inappropriate jokes with her...  Not that teen girls have never had crushes on men much older than them - lord knows I did - but the way the comic is handling everything with it and Jerrek is just... weird! Weird and uncomfortable! Maybe all the weirdness with Renard creeping on extremely young teen girls that I kind of waved away as "well, that aged poorly" because the rest of the comic was so good was, in fact, an overlooked red flag
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Jun 16, 2023 21:32
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Tiny Myers posted:an overlooked red flag Yeah it feels more and more likely that this was the case. Kinda sucks when updates are not only doing the current comic no favors but are also retroactively making past parts of the comic worse as well.
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Jun 16, 2023 21:49
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:this comic is going to end and i'm going to have to find a mental pin to put in somewhere and be like "gosh that was a good comic, shame it ended right here and never finished, it had so much potential and unanswered interesting questions" imo just stop around the time they finally defeat Jeanne. There's not really any clear conclusion afterwards.
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CodfishCartographer posted:imo just stop around the time they finally defeat Jeanne. There's not really any clear conclusion afterwards. Read Red's rant, then just walk out the door with her and never look back.
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Jun 17, 2023 00:39
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Well the comic nearing the end means there must be some romantic conclusion too* and I'm just  at the prospect of it unfolding at the pacing we've become used to.*not really but there's been a growing focus on it
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Cavelcade posted:Read Red's rant, then just walk out the door with her and never look back. On its own, it could've been fine to show "okay, here's lasting consequences beyond just the nebulous threat of the psychopomps, here's creating a distinct sense of discomfort in the reader over what happened, making the future feel uncertain and dangerous". But instead of letting Annie or the reader sit with that literally at all, you just immediately follow it up with a chapter of Kat refuting every single point and reassuring her that she did absolutely nothing wrong and doesn't need to worry about anything ever. The end result is just... you binned a popular and interesting character (and her girlfriend) for no reason because I guess you didn't need her anymore, and you have a chapter that's really uncomfortable to read yet serves no actual narrative purpose. Like, I guess you could argue maybe some readers might have some lasting concerns about the dangers Annie put the others in and if it was manipulative to do so, but they were all problems pretty much solved by common sense (they all agreed to it, it's a loving YA story, etc) and the sort of thing you kind of tune out with a YA protagonist anyway. It's not wrong to want to address those concerns, or even to cut through the YA sense of disbelief about the protagonist endangering people for their quest especially when Gunnerkrigg has played with subverting those elements before, but why the gently caress would you handle it in the most comically strawman method of "here is the hotheaded rude character one-sidedly venting the audience's concerns, and now here is the chapter where the smart and logical character looks at the camera and says all of them are dumb and wrong  "?I guess I might be a little extra irritated because it almost feels like the discomfort was the point, like he wanted to hit the audience with that "wham" moment of Red saying to never talk to them again. Which would be fine if it had a point narratively, but as it is, it feels like it happened just because the author thinks it's fun to elicit that reaction. I don't like being made to feel uncomfortable for no good reason - it feels like a betrayal of the trust between the writer and the audience. Andrew Hussie-rear end poo poo.
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Jun 17, 2023 01:38
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I think Tom really does like cheap drama, which seems to be why he often presents things in a one-sided way to just make stuff as uncomfortable as possible. Then right after he'll undercut that whole plot or sequence. As if to say oh you shouldn't have been bothered by all that or everything's okay see? That's how he handled the entire Tony arc as well as stuff like Red's departure, Paz flipping out at Annie, Lana being attacked by Loup, etc etc. It's so needless and it really messes with the tone of the comic.
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Jun 17, 2023 03:22
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drat, he did say in the youtube retrospective for the tree that the audience reaction to Tony, where he basically came across as a villain, was what he expected, and then he spent the next chapters building up that only to turn it all around as "Tony is the real victim here, actually".
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Jun 17, 2023 03:34
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my god this is so stupid
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Jun 17, 2023 08:26
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isasphere posted:drat, he did say in the youtube retrospective for the tree that the audience reaction to Tony, where he basically came across as a villain, was what he expected, and then he spent the next chapters building up that only to turn it all around as "Tony is the real victim here, actually".
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JuniperCake posted:I think Tom really does like cheap drama, which seems to be why he often presents things in a one-sided way to just make stuff as uncomfortable as possible. i would argue that that IS the tone of the comic
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Jun 17, 2023 10:06
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isasphere posted:drat, he did say in the youtube retrospective for the tree that the audience reaction to Tony, where he basically came across as a villain, was what he expected, and then he spent the next chapters building up that only to turn it all around as "Tony is the real victim here, actually". I also think an author can expect people to see Tony as a villain even if you intend that to be subverted later.
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Jun 17, 2023 10:42
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Me hoping to gently caress Wednesday page doesn't confirm love triangle.
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Jun 19, 2023 08:01
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Loup's death throes warp reality. Annie gasps for air, pinned to the ground by her football head. Finally, they save the universe by putting it safe into Tony's mindcage. Jones nods, and crumbles to sand.
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Jun 19, 2023 12:24
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Lunar Suite posted:Loup's death throes warp reality. Annie gasps for air, pinned to the ground by her football head. Finally, they save the universe by putting it safe into Tony's mindcage. Jones nods, and crumbles to sand. Just that one parody comic of Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin is on medication, but with Annie and Reynard instead.
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Jun 19, 2023 12:47
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just quit Tom your heart is somewhere else. go pursue whatever that is. you're an amazing artist and profoundly engaging author. this is painful to watch.
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Gunnerkrigg Court needs to die so that Gunnerkrigg Court Go! can be born
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Gunnerkrigg Court II: Electric Boogaloup
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Jun 19, 2023 16:56
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Neo-Gunnerkrigg: Court Is In Session
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Jun 19, 2023 16:58
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Gunnerkrigg Court But In The Sense Of A Basketball Court Shut Up And Jam Gaiden
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wet fart noise
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"You think you can stop Loup? Hah! I killed Loup 35 pages ago!" *turns into Coyote*
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Jun 19, 2023 18:05
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Gunnerkrigg Shippuden
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Captain Oblivious posted:I can’t wait for this comic’s last rattling gasp.
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Jun 19, 2023 22:34
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Jerrek pulls off his face like a mask, revealing a psychopomp and reveals that the entire comic after this page was Annie's dying dream as she lay broken and bleeding out after she fell off the bridge. The psychopomp escorts her spirit to the afterlife as her friends cry over her body. The end. No moral.
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Randalor posted:Jerrek pulls off his face like a mask, revealing a psychopomp and reveals that the entire comic after this page was Annie's dying dream as she lay broken and bleeding out after she fell off the bridge. The psychopomp escorts her spirit to the afterlife as her friends cry over her body. The end. No moral. If the other option is a continuing romantic farce with a transformed formed father figure into a bad boy teenager, gently caress it, I’ll take the “all a dying dream” option. Slap a rosebud down and call it a day.
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Jun 20, 2023 04:18
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Plot... I'm sorry things didn't work out between us.
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Randalor posted:Jerrek pulls off his face like a mask, revealing a psychopomp and reveals that the entire comic after this page was Annie's dying dream as she lay broken and bleeding out after she fell off the bridge. The psychopomp escorts her spirit to the afterlife as her friends cry over her body. The end. No moral. Man, I know we talk about the awful writing a lot, but looking back it also stands out to me how much better the art was once upon a time. Less refined, as you'd expect of someone with years fewer practice, but the posing, scene-setting, and panel work are all better. Really adds weight to the argument that Tom is just creatively wrung dry on the project.
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God, I just realized the last page of that chapter still defines the core arc of GC to me, somewhere in the back of my mind.
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Oh thank god.
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