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Tiny Myers posted:oh good! i thought things were happening for a second. back to what actually matters
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Gunnerkrigg Court: i thought things were happening for a second.
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Jul 21, 2023 11:31
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Gunnerkrigg Court has actually managed to make Coyote suck so honestly who gaf what happens from here on out
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Jul 21, 2023 11:43
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GunnerJ posted:Gunnerkrigg Court has actually managed to make Coyote suck so honestly who gaf what happens from here on out I give a gently caress. I want this trash fire to fill the heavens with toxic smog. I want it to get bad Hilariously bad. Only then will my dread curse on webcomics be broken.
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Jul 21, 2023 11:51
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GunnerJ posted:Gunnerkrigg Court has actually managed to make Coyote suck so honestly who gaf what happens from here on out
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Jul 21, 2023 11:56
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GunnerJ posted:Gunnerkrigg Court has actually managed to make Coyote suck so honestly who gaf what happens from here on out I'm predicting a Dragonball Z fight between Loup and Coyote, with every other character in the comic going :o in the background. Annie will make at least one comment on Loup's skyrocketing power level.
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Jul 21, 2023 12:07
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Dammerung posted:I'm predicting a Dragonball Z fight between Loup and Coyote, with every other character in the comic going :o in the background. Annie will make at least one comment on Loup's skyrocketing power level. oh my god
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Jul 21, 2023 12:27
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Tiny Myers posted:oh good! i thought things were happening for a second. back to what actually matters I really thought today would show a bit more of Coyote/Zimmy. I'm not sure why I believed something interesting would happen. Dammerung posted:I'm predicting a Dragonball Z fight between Loup and Coyote, with every other character in the comic going :o in the background. Annie will make at least one comment on Loup's skyrocketing power level. Loooool
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Jul 21, 2023 12:58
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This page slowly shoves Annie out of the page with every frame and it really drives home how irrelevant she's become in her own comic.
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Jul 21, 2023 13:21
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coyote arming the anime grief bomb
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Jul 21, 2023 13:39
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I’d love to see Kat’s reaction to one of her new humans getting eaten by an ether god and how that interacts with her prior no-sell interpretation of magic, her budding technogod status, and her hostile relationship to the forest. It’s a shame she had to return to her home planet.
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Jul 21, 2023 13:57
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Captain Oblivious posted:I give a gently caress. I want this trash fire to fill the heavens with toxic smog. I want it to get bad ZEHAHAHAHAHAHA i was legit wondering if coyote was just gonna become a FULL mediocre anime villain mad about the idea of love i had a flash of him just going around to all the relationships we've seen form through the comic (hey remember when it has characters?) eating one of them and flying off
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Jul 21, 2023 14:06
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Aggretsuko had more expressive facial expressions than this
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Jul 21, 2023 14:34
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Whenever Annie is on the screen, all the other characters should push her away.
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Jul 21, 2023 14:59
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Have Zimmy or Gamma any reason to fight Loup except as a plot resolution device? They have had literally no interaction in over a decade of narrative prior. The A-plot resolution is through a misunderstanding? And where's the other demigod, you know, Renard, during the Coyote-whips-out-his-scouter scene? The end! No moral. (wait, Gunnerkrigg Court started eighteen years ago? God, what a way to end such a journey)
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Jul 21, 2023 15:48
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Cavelcade posted:Oh my God, I'm really supposed to care about his sadness. Nah, the next panel will be him turning around and angrily blaming Annie for this happening. He'll go Angry Anime Wolf and attack her and Renard will show up out of nowhere just in time to give her the tooth so she can kill him in self defense.
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Pants Donkey posted:Whenever Annie is on the screen, all the other characters should push her away. Whenever Annie's not on screen, everyone should be asking "Where's Loup?"
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Jul 21, 2023 16:31
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the only way this can ever be redeemed is if loup ends up getting yamcha'd. big smoking crater and all.
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Jul 21, 2023 16:41
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You know, even if I liked Jarrek and Lana, this would still suck and be dumb. There's never a good time for Women in Refrigerators. Like, when Cio got got in K6BD, people were pissed at Abaddon even if they were willing to give him some slack to play with. If one of the best webcomics running can't pull off the trope without friction, then what the hell chance does Tom have? Just don't do it.Niavmai posted:the only way this can ever be redeemed is if loup ends up getting yamcha'd. big smoking crater and all. This, on the other hand, is a good trope. I too hope Loup gets yamcha'd.
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Kill Six Billion Demons updated today and all I can think of is
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Patware posted:ZEHAHAHAHAHAHA ngl i would laugh really hard if, having been absent from the comic for like ten years or something, coyote just flies up to janet and winsbury and eats one of them randomly and then flies off
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:Kill Six Billion Demons updated today and all I can think of is Yeah same, that was my first thought.
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DontMockMySmock posted:ngl i would laugh really hard if, having been absent from the comic for like ten years or something, coyote just flies up to janet and winsbury and eats one of them randomly and then flies off Coyote just Thanos'ing the universe by chomping out romantic partners. And Yamcha'ing Loup at the end of it all, that's the most important part.
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Skippy McPants posted:You know, even if I liked Jarrek and Lana, this would still suck and be dumb. There's never a good time for Women in Refrigerators. Like, when Cio got got in K6BD, people were pissed at Abaddon even if they were willing to give him some slack to play with. If one of the best webcomics running can't pull off the trope without friction, then what the hell chance does Tom have? Just don't do it. At the very least, K6BD (spoilering cus this isn't the K6BD thread, but everyone should go read that comic anyways) gave Cio a shitton of spotlight and development - she was a real character with real depth and nuance. I still wish she hadn't died, but at the very least she got plenty of time to be a real person. Lana on the other hand pretty much existed ONLY for Loup's character development and nothing more. I'm still not convinced either Lana or Cio are really well and truly gone forever, though.
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The thing with K6BD Cio was she lived a life of incredible violence and was drawn right back into it by Allison. Her death was the direct result of her life choices and the overall themes of the story about how much violence kind of really loving sucks even if it lets you punch real good What's Lana done by comparison?? She fell "in love" with an unstable weirdo and was just friendly with the wrong person at the wrong time? Her entire narrative purpose is to be acted upon based on how that will make her bf feel.
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God this is just ... so stupid I think of everything Gunnerkrigg used to be, all the incredibly nuanced, lovingly-established foreshadowing and tone, and I just truly don't understand how it got here. Was this really what he envisioned as the ending back when he was writing beautifully-executed chapters like The Coward Heart? I understand it's his job and all and he recently got married and had a kid, but even if he's just phoning it in at this point, as a creative I would be so ashamed to have something I made wind up this way. It's so weird and sad. Man.
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Strep Vote posted:I feel gross and disappointed that yet another thing I thought was creative, complex, and full of intriguing contradictions was actually just British.
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So, where do we all agree the comic really ended?
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coolusername posted:So, where do we all agree the comic really ended? The final print volume ended with chapter 77, the one where they resolve the robot birds plot thread. Two chapters later the Annies are merged and then the one after that is The Mind Cage. That's probably a decently satisfying place to stop knowing what came after.
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Alternatively you could just stop after Red tells Annie to gently caress off forever
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Maldraedior posted:Alternatively you could just stop after Red tells Annie to gently caress off forever
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I mean, if someone is behind and catching up my advice is to stop reading at whichever page they’re currently on and go find something better to do.
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Maldraedior posted:Alternatively you could just stop after Red tells Annie to gently caress off forever
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Mr.Radar posted:The final print volume ended with chapter 77, the one where they resolve the robot birds plot thread. Two chapters later the Annies are merged and then the one after that is The Mind Cage. That's probably a decently satisfying place to stop knowing what came after. But really in retrospect 77 is the beginning of the end. It's the first unsatisfying speedrun wrapup of a longstanding arc to make way for everyone's new favourite main characters.
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Mr.Radar posted:The final print volume ended with chapter 77, the one where they resolve the robot birds plot thread. Two chapters later the Annies are merged and then the one after that is The Mind Cage. That's probably a decently satisfying place to stop knowing what came after. This is probably where the downfall got really bad, but stopping there leaves a lot of plot threads left dangling and isn't really anything close to a real conclusion. I think stopping sometime shortly after beating Jeanne is good cus then at least there's a somewhat satisfying end, even though many questions are left unanswered. But hey then you can use your imagination to fill in the blanks.
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the best time to stop reading gunnerkrigg court is immediately
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Maldraedior posted:Alternatively you could just stop after Red tells Annie to gently caress off forever This is basically my pretend ending. I felt the Jeanne arc had a good resolution. I really enjoyed the extra touch of Annie getting her hairclip back. I also think Red telling Annie to gently caress off could have opened her eyes to the fact that her actions have serious consequences (only to be immediately undone next chapter, as others have pointed out). Splicer posted:But really in retrospect 77 is the beginning of the end. It's the first unsatisfying speedrun wrapup of a longstanding arc to make way for everyone's new favourite main characters. I looked at an old conversation about Gunnerkrigg with a friend, and I posted a screenshot of chapters 76 - 80 (Down That Road to Mind Cage) as "where poo poo started majorly sucking" lol.
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The Jeanne stuff was the last time a plot thread was resolved in a satisfying way, so yeah that's where I'd tell people to stop reading. The Tic Toc resolution was the last straw for me, and where I stopped caring about GC in general. It retroactively made the comic less interesting. I remember that my first major sticking point was the lack of fallout to The Torn Sea. As far as we know no adults ever reacted to what happened on a school sanctioned trip, which seemed sustained only by accepting "kids on adventures without adult interference" as a genre convention that shouldn't be overthought, except the very next chapter (The Tree) deliberately disavowed that convention as part of making Tony's introduction feel sufficiently traumatic. It's part of a pattern I'll dub The Quantum Donlans: Annie has adults in her life other than her dad, if-and-only-if they're needed for a specific plot beat. (This was all pre-Jeanne-ending, but acceptable compared to what came later.)
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Ditocoaf posted:The Jeanne stuff was the last time a plot thread was resolved in a satisfying way, so yeah that's where I'd tell people to stop reading. yeah one of the things that i thought was really interesting about the donlans was they had a huge tony blindspot. they're responsible and caring but they did jack poo poo about the trauma tony was heaping on annie, and donald's attempt at "helping" her was nothing but trying to give her tony's side of the situation. at the time i thought it was really good subtle characterization about the donlans having real bad bias about how tony used to be, rather than how he is now. "oh that's tony he's just weird and has a tough time communicating, he means well!" when he was abusing his daughter. in retrospect that characterization may not have been intended by tom, lol
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