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Tiny Myers posted:I think now that we're seeing what the glass cracking was all about. It's Kat's influence on the ether, causing it to break down around her, which is apparently causing reality itself to crack open (or something) perhaps due to the ether-heavy poo poo that's going on with Zimmy and Coyote, or perhaps because Kat's ascension is finally happening thus amplifying the power by several magnitudes (which explains why it's getting progressively worse in the last few strips). Either way something cool is happening yaaaaay All this reality cracking might be how Kat kills Zimmy.
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Splicer posted:Hey what's Lana up to. Or Shell and Aata. We should check in on them and Loup for a while. You know which fan favorite character hasn't been around in a while? Boxbot! Settle in for a full 5 chapters worth of high-quality Boxbot material! Coming Monday: Gunnerkrigg Court: The Boxbot Saga! quote:"Or"? I want a giant mecha vs kaiju Coyote fight.
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Thanks everyone for being the oil dipstick of Gunnerkriggs' goodness for the last year. I'll pop my head back in again after awhile. Actually follow-up question, is Gunnerkrigg ending soon? I do intend on finishing it, just not update after update finish.
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Donkringel posted:Actually follow-up question, is Gunnerkrigg ending soon? I do intend on finishing it, just not update after update finish. Everyone seems to think so but then things just keep gooooooing. So it's really impossible to say.
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Nov 22, 2023 17:13
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Everyone seems to think so but then things just keep gooooooing. So it's really impossible to say. I think it's just going to end really abruptly with a million things left unaddressed.
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Nov 22, 2023 17:36
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Gunnerkrigg Court is like Order of the Stick at this point where the plot only advances every few weeks, the difference being that Rich Burlew only updates once every few weeks, while Tom produces weeks worth of filler in between.
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CodfishCartographer posted:So aside from these last few pages this chapter was entirely filler, huh? I get the feeling that he had this image in his mind of Kat kramering into the scene in this form but probably not how to get there exactly. Like the star ocean sequence that was pretty striking was a thing he probably had also planned for a while. A lot of folks write that sort of way. So if those parts were rehearsed in his mind but not the steps up to them that were more rushed then it would explain it. I still find it hilarious that Annie killed a guy because she remembered a traumatic memory at a bad time. Unless it's to make up a reason for Kat to be mad at Annie or something, he could have literally chosen any other way for the first robot person to die.
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Tiny Myers posted:However if the next chapter cuts to normal-Kat once again in a generic room talking about how boring it is that she gets the short end of the Ether stick while everyone around her cowers in fear, I will riot "It's weird how Kat showing up made all the Zimmy/Coyote weirdness just stop, huh? It's great that Lana was found safe and sound though, Loup is so much calmer now" Kantesu posted:https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1049 I'm glad the "oh no I'm rereading the interesting bits" was immediately halted by Annie being "oh no surely he wouldn't" about Tony and remembering The Mind Cage is what's at the end of that particular plot beat
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One thing we can count on no matter what: it is always Annie’s fault, for being too emotional/too cold.
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It would’ve been more fun if we skipped this chapter—Lana got eaten and then Kat got summoned immediately in robot god form, completely confused as to what was going on
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As time goes on, I think the main problem with this comic is that Tom is fundamentally not interested in the same things his readers are. We all love the silly robots and the slice of life and the mysteries, but he's (now) more interested in telling stories about Tony's mind cage, Loup + Lana, and the robots becoming human. And unfortunately, he's writing plot checks he just can't cash, due to either not being good at writing some of these things (see: Tony) or just him honestly becoming disinterested in certain plotlines and themes, so he just cuts them off abruptly despite years of buildup (see: basically anything involving Kat that got set up as important and then casually handwaved away later, or the two Annies' resolution). The biggest one is the entire status quo change with Loup - it FELT like he was setting up the comic for a climax, but now it feels like it's settled into a long marathon of new plotlines and themes, very little of which involves any characters that seemed to be important before. Anyone seen Elgamore for a while? Andrew? Parley? Jones? Kat's parents? Hell, TONY? Renard's been around, but is basically a non-entity. Is there a good reason they're not here, or did Tom just lose interest in them? Anyway, that's my take on it. The comic has just gone on so long that what it was before is no longer what the author wants to create - but whatever he wants to make now is just not that compelling when we're expecting Gunnerkrigg to be, well, Gunnerkrigg.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:As time goes on, I think the main problem with this comic is that Tom is fundamentally not interested in the same things his readers are. We all love the silly robots and the slice of life and the mysteries, but he's (now) more interested in telling stories about Tony's mind cage, Loup + Lana, and the robots becoming human. And unfortunately, he's writing plot checks he just can't cash, due to either not being good at writing some of these things (see: Tony) or just him honestly becoming disinterested in certain plotlines and themes, so he just cuts them off abruptly despite years of buildup (see: basically anything involving Kat that got set up as important and then casually handwaved away later, or the two Annies' resolution). The biggest one is the entire status quo change with Loup - it FELT like he was setting up the comic for a climax, but now it feels like it's settled into a long marathon of new plotlines and themes, very little of which involves any characters that seemed to be important before. Anyone seen Elgamore for a while? Andrew? Parley? Jones? Kat's parents? Hell, TONY? Renard's been around, but is basically a non-entity. Is there a good reason they're not here, or did Tom just lose interest in them? Tom pushed onwards in a situation where other webcomic creators just put their old comic on hiatus or abandon it to work on the new ideas they have.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:As time goes on, I think the main problem with this comic is that Tom is fundamentally not interested in the same things his readers are. We all love the silly robots and the slice of life and the mysteries, but he's (now) more interested in telling stories about Tony's mind cage, Loup + Lana, and the robots becoming human. Honestly I think all of these things could be very very interesting, it's just Tom's not really executing them well. Tony could have been a somewhat sympathetic but still abusive character with nuance and depth, but he just isn't. The Loup + Lana thing could have been a great way to show how the forest and court have started intermingling in new ways similar to Kat and Annie's friendship, but it just wasn't. The robots becoming human could have been a great payoff to Kat's entire character arc so far, but it just hasn't been.
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Fecha posted:It would’ve been more fun if we skipped this chapter—Lana got eaten and then Kat got summoned immediately in robot god form, completely confused as to what was going on
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Wait, actually, yeah, doesn't that make this the second of them to experience death? Does that imply Lana isn't dead somehow?
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KaosMachina posted:Wait, actually, yeah, doesn't that make this the second of them to experience death? Does that imply Lana isn't dead somehow? we literally saw her alive inside some box as the ending of the last chapter
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ymgve posted:we literally saw her alive inside some box as the ending of the last chapter People pointed out that was supposed to be some memorial page thing because it matched up with some other panel with Loup and Lana together.
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I think the comic has been implying that Lana isn't dead, yes. But I've given it too much credit before. Who knows.
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Lana is goosewife, because that retroactively ups the ratio of total Loup screentime and we all love extra Loup. Calling it now.
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KaosMachina posted:Wait, actually, yeah, doesn't that make this the second of them to experience death? Does that imply Lana isn't dead somehow? mycatscrimes posted:I think the comic has been implying that Lana isn't dead, yes. But I've given it too much credit before. Who knows. Yeah, that's just text. Annie explicitly notes that she never saw Lana's ghost so she's probably still alive. https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2862
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I figured Lana wasn't dead because that would have actually mattered. She's a cast member now. I did enjoy the impending summoning of Kat causing cracks in this weird ether-space. I initially thought it was from Saslamel and Interpreter. Kat doesn't have access to Omega yet, right? That we know of? Cuz Zimmy is possibly with them right now. I hope we weren't just told that out of plot convenience. Lol what if machine goddess Kat is actually the original creator of the Omega device.
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Oxxidation posted:
Every time I see it I think 'does Tom know that in those mangas he likes, when the rival girl makes this face she's not supposed to be happy and lovable'
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Had a dream that there was some sort of half-joking fan theory that Homer Simpson was the perfect polar opposite of Zimmy in every single way and thus was going to be the reason she died because his very presence would cause her existence to shatter, and people kept posting lovely meme edits like this. Like he moved closer and once he occupied the same space the screen flooded like a bad flood fill
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Tiny Myers posted:Had a dream that there was some sort of half-joking fan theory that Homer Simpson was the perfect polar opposite of Zimmy in every single way and thus was going to be the reason she died because his very presence would cause her existence to shatter, and people kept posting lovely meme edits like this. Like he moved closer and once he occupied the same space the screen flooded like a bad flood fill Let's make it happen
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Oxxidation posted:
 \ YOU THINK YOU HAVE WON, SPIDERMAN! BUT YOU WILL RUE THE DAY YOU CROSSED THE BROCCOLI HOMUNCULUS!
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Splicer posted:\ I have the feeling Kat will have a much different view of "death" when it comes to the new humans than Annie / Saslamel do. Like I could easily see her going "Oh a stab wound like that'll be easy to patch up, here I'll have him fixed in a sec" or "Oh Baldy? Yeah I've got a backup of him, take him to the afterlife or whatever and I'll reboot him"
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The new chapter title immediately reminded me of the bit in Hogfather, where Death explains the consequences to Susan of what would happen if the sun didn't come up tomorrow.
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Tiny Myers posted:Had a dream that there was some sort of half-joking fan theory that Homer Simpson was the perfect polar opposite of Zimmy in every single way and thus was going to be the reason she died because his very presence would cause her existence to shatter, and people kept posting lovely meme edits like this. Like he moved closer and once he occupied the same space the screen flooded like a bad flood fill This really made my day and I think your subconscious mind is onto something. No TV and No Beer make Zimmy something something...
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