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There Bias Two posted:But also, why? It's mostly empty space. Can't they do all their science stuff basically anywhere?  I assume the seed bismuth must be central to whatever the ultimate goal of the court is, but they’re both incredibly vague and unknown at the moment.
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IUG posted:And pages later we see the city as just rocks. The humans weren’t even there yet.
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Snake Maze posted:
That's what I was thinking. The court grows itself, the humans don't build it. If they're going to build a new court, one they can control completely, they'll need to create their own seed bismuth, which must require a lot of etheric energy. But they want to be able to control that ether, without etheric beings manipulating it, potentially against their goals, so they can't have non-humans who could (intentionally or not) interfere with their aims. Aata using his powers would be bad because it would draw on the ether in a way the court can't control, so the only way he can stay in the court is by not using his powers. They're trying to create a new seed bismuth and lock down the ether for themselves. Now to see where the clearly etheric-influencing humans figure into this.
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Nov 15, 2021 17:43
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So the court needs a power source, maybe they made a deal with Zimmy? Maybe Annie didn't get merged?
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Nov 15, 2021 18:03
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That's why they were keeping Reynard around I suppose.
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Nov 15, 2021 18:05
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I'm an outlier and I hope we get more Shadowmen and Adults and Shell.
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Nov 15, 2021 19:17
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Donkringel posted:What They were also available as physical comics when they first came out. They're nice, much larger than any other comic book issues I've purchased (so much so that they're larger than any comic book protector I've found), and Coyote's was one of my favorites. Traveller will rip out your heart. Also, I took the ants to be pre-historic man, not modern day man. Somewhere between cavemen and dark ages. And whatever the Seed Bismuth was at this point, it sure wasn't the city that humans inhabit today. And the point stands that Coyote wasn't interested in the "ants" until he saw how Rey was.
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IUG posted:They were also available as physical comics when they first came out. They're nice, much larger than any other comic book issues I've purchased (so much so that they're larger than any comic book protector I've found), and Coyote's was one of my favorites. Traveller will rip out your heart. The dividing part happened when the Court existed. See here: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=650 Which would correlate here: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/extracomics/comic.php?c=Coyote&p=31 So it was long enough to happen in Jeanne's lifetime, but that's an unknown amount of time, and likely before Jones joined the Court.
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IUG posted:They were also available as physical comics when they first came out. They're nice, much larger than any other comic book issues I've purchased (so much so that they're larger than any comic book protector I've found), and Coyote's was one of my favorites. Traveller will rip out your heart. Nah you've definitely forgotten some details from the comic itself. The formation of the court happened sometime in the 1700s-1800s and pre-dates Coyote's arrival.
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Regy Rusty posted:Nah you've definitely forgotten some details from the comic itself. The formation of the court happened sometime in the 1700s-1800s and pre-dates Coyote's arrival. It's entirely possible within this setting that Coyote was also there before he arrived.
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In addition to what Cavatica posted here are some other refreshers: Jones tells Annie the story of the court's founding: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=371 Coyote tells Annie an abbreviated version of the Coyote extra comic, with the second page containing his description of creating the Annan waters to solve the conflict between the two sides: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=488 https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=489 And we've even seen remnants of the Court's buildings that grew from the Seed Bismuth still on the far side of the river: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1241 Very much not prehistoric. Note also that the termite mound from the Coyote extra comic has bismuth crystals in it. It's very much intended to be the Court full grown and thriving now that Coyote has cut them off from the forest.
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I guess at least the extra comic lets us know who will be waiting on the other side of the ocean: https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/extracomics/comic.php?c=Coyote&p=5 It's Coyote!
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Yeah sorry, I guess I misremembered some details and had the Coyote comic more fresh in mind. But I got someone else to read all the bonus comics for the first time, so there’s that at least.
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Nov 16, 2021 03:19
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Oh snap, the move across the ocean was orchestrated by Paz!
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Nov 16, 2021 03:25
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If the comic ends with the court moved, everyone breathing a sigh of relief to have left the forest, and then Coyote with a groucho marx mustache saying “hi new neighbour” I will forgive everything.
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coolusername posted:If the comic ends with the court moved, everyone breathing a sigh of relief to have left the forest, and then Coyote with a groucho marx mustache saying “hi new neighbour” I will forgive everything.
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This is assault
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Nov 16, 2021 15:17
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Oh look! It's Zim Zams! Hi Zim Zams!
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Nov 17, 2021 14:47
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She seems to be doing...... well
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Regy Rusty posted:She seems to be doing...... well  Yes, I see. 
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Nov 17, 2021 17:10
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I get the feeling Zimmy
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Nov 17, 2021 17:29
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I wonder what the fairies are seeing. also: hell.., same
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Love this page. Both fairies and Zimmy have such a strong vibe. Seeing those moods bounce off each other is great.
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Nov 17, 2021 18:38
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Yup, that just about sums up the human condition. Nicely done Zimmy!
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What the hell.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrErig6oBno
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After how much we remember that chapter for being a bit of a damp squib I'd forgotten the first half of it with Anya and Brinnie was actually pretty fun. I think in the end there's not really anything wrong with the chapter in isolation, it had just been too long since the tic-tocs had ever been relevant. There wasn't any emotional weight left in the mystery so bringing them up again just to answer that question wasn't very satisfying. Probably didn't help that Kat's emotional arc through this period had been pretty poorly communicated for big a part it played.
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My problem with that chapter is there were all kinds of cool theories about how the tic tocs worked and what actually happened didn't measure up to that for me. The way it was resolved didn't feel particularly earned, and the resolution didn't feel like it had a payoff.
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Yeah, other characters were acting like Kat had accomplished something rather than just having the answer handed to her without ever actually gaining any power over time herself.
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The TicToc thing may not be over. The Robots have legends of it stretching back much further than she went in that chapter. I could see Kat reverse engineering time travel from the readings she took and using it in a time of need. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Nov 22, 2021 |
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MikeJF posted:The TikTok thing may not be over. The Robots have legends of it stretching back much further than she went in that chapter. The thig that makes the Tic Tocs feel "over" is that Tom specifically showed in that chapter that every single previous depiction of Tic Tocs in the comic was accounted for. No incidental background appearances were glossed over, no appearances were added here that weren't previously depicted -- the chapter went through an efficient-and-thorough tour of their entire catalogue of cameos.
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Ditocoaf posted:The thig that makes the Tic Tocs feel "over" is that Tom specifically showed in that chapter that every single previous depiction of Tic Tocs in the comic was accounted for. No incidental background appearances were glossed over, no appearances were added here that weren't previously depicted -- the chapter went through an efficient-and-thorough tour of their entire catalogue of cameos.
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Splicer posted:Yup, exactly. It was the start of cool stuff being wrapped up real pat in a nice bow in ways that make no sense and removes what made it cool. The tictocs as one single bird Kat made that exists simultaneously in multiple points in the time stream? Coolcool. All of those times being within the past 20 years coming to like 10 tictoc sightings total? Which clashes pretty hard with previous hard fact statements within the comic? And the whole "it grew into a weird thing" being completely unaddressed? What the christ Tom, that's 90s marvel/dc level writing. even if kat was responsible for the tictocs appearances, the fact that she had literally nothing to do with the time travel part is just ridiculous. like this was a literal deus ex machina.
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Squidward?!
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I see Tom somehow found an image of me in the morning.
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Nov 22, 2021 09:48
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"It's this guy!" Who the hell is that?
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This guy.
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Its the dover demon!
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There Bias Two posted:"It's this guy!" Man Eglamore has really let himself go
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Fecha posted:Squidward?! Now with X-Ray vision!
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