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Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


finally a good loving page

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Warmachine
Jan 30, 2012



Donkringel posted:

Loup kills Kat, Annie kills Loup, robots ascend Kats deified corpse to godhood from their shared belief with help from Annie the Guide preventing anyone from taking Kat to the Aether.

Kat gets the Emperor of Mankind 40k treatment.

:hmmyes:

Primarch Antimony and the Coyote Heresy

Donkringel
Apr 22, 2008
Bad Loup! Stop being an egotistical incel.

Nettle Soup
Jan 30, 2010

Oh, and Jones was there too.

He's bad at forgetting he's Loup.

Warmachine
Jan 30, 2012



Donkringel posted:

Bad Loup! Stop being an egotistical incel.

He can't. If he did, he'd cease to exist entirely.

Tiny Myers
Jul 29, 2021

say hello to my little friend


Thinking that this page will result in Loup rethinking some of his ideas.

More than that, very interesting to note that they're focusing entirely on her and not at all on him. Is that because they don't detect him to be a robot (he has an etheric presence, perhaps)? Or because of powers he's exerting to make sure they don't investigate too closely?

Or maybe Lana (had to go and look up her name lol) is just so magnetic that nobody cares about "Jerrek". :v:

I love Lana and I hope she becomes a fixture. She has a lot of charisma and her confidence and complete lack of self-consciousness is very endearing. Also she looks cool! She really did do a great job on her appearance.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

follow the white dove





TRP Post of the Month October 2021
What if Lana is also Coyote/Loup

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Tiny Myers posted:


I love Lana and I hope she becomes a fixture. She has a lot of charisma and her confidence and complete lack of self-consciousness is very endearing. Also she looks cool! She really did do a great job on her appearance.

Well now that you said it, she's going to die tragically before the end of the arc, probably off-screen.

Warmachine
Jan 30, 2012



There Bias Two posted:

Well now that you said it, she's going to die tragically before the end of the arc, probably off-screen.

She's gonna get Zimmy-snapped into the Kat Godmind.

edit: I'm officially abandoning my position that there will be any further development into the Zeta-Ex-Machina. Abandon hope and embrace nihilistic entropy.

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007
she seems deliberately reminiscent of surma. same hair, for one

A big flaming stink
Apr 26, 2010
Well this got real loving horny real quickly

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.
centuries of frustrated robot urges spilling forth

the implication that Zimmy is single-handedly holding off a crazed god is ... remarkable. The stakes being lowered to the protecting those that the Court intends to leave behind (for how long? This is just winding up a school at that point isn't it?) also feels like a deflation - a bit short on the "shadowy powers shaping the future of humanity or reality itself" stakes

ronya fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Feb 16, 2022

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
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See the rest of this arc on Patreon!

Kikas
Oct 30, 2012
No no no, all of you go to horny jail.

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

If this were any other story I'd assume she was about to murder them all.

Donkringel
Apr 22, 2008

There Bias Two posted:

If this were any other story I'd assume she was about to murder them all.

Alternatively an attempt not to be murdered by these three dudes who have now begun touching her in an alleyway.

But then again she hasn't had an upbringing where she is socially conditioned to be afraid of that.

Unless she is boxbot.

Siegkrow
Oct 11, 2013

Arguing about Lore for 5 years and counting



This page could end with this gif and I would not be at all surprised.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
Honestly as a trans woman thia whole situation just feeling incredibly lovely and not really in a these elves are bad way in a 'why the gently caress are you writing this Tom' kinda way

A big flaming stink
Apr 26, 2010
Like it's kind of absurd the degree to which this seems like a lead in for a Brazzers joke

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Rumda posted:

Honestly as a trans woman thia whole situation just feeling incredibly lovely and not really in a these elves are bad way in a 'why the gently caress are you writing this Tom' kinda way

I can see how a character who has obtained a new body only to be told "you're not real, right?" could feel really lovely from that perspective.

Bleck
Jan 7, 2014

No matter how one loves, there are always different aims. Love can take a great many forms, whatever the era.
uuuuuuuuuuugh

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

There Bias Two posted:

I can see how a character who has obtained a new body only to be told "you're not real, right?" could feel really lovely from that perspective.

And in a story written by a cis man having her prove her realness by how attractive she is.

Patware
Jan 3, 2005

tom has learned the david cage style of narratives about racism

"What if I had a PoC touch a white girl's hair. I'm saying something"

This page is bad from *several* angles

Rand Brittain
Mar 25, 2013

"Go on until you're stopped."
I assume that part of the joke is also "my realness attribute is being scrutinized by a bunch of elves, of all people."

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

I just realized she's unzipping her jacket to give them a better look.

Man, this page is weird.

life_source
May 11, 2008

i got tired of looking at your edgy baby avatar that a 14-year old would be proud of
She's done it before. She doesn't care about people seeing her body. Possibly she even revels in it.

Patware
Jan 3, 2005

yep very normal to get groped a lil by a bunch of THE LOWER CLASS and respond with your trademark technique of stripping

life_source
May 11, 2008

i got tired of looking at your edgy baby avatar that a 14-year old would be proud of

Patware posted:

THE LOWER CLASS

Intensely hosed up that you think this.

maswastaken
Nov 12, 2011

Donkringel posted:

Unless she is boxbot.
If there were ever only one robot to fantasise extensively about their ideal self and revel in becoming it as much as this, it's definitely Boxbot.

Patware
Jan 3, 2005

life_source posted:

Intensely hosed up that you think this.

that i am identifying that tom has been applying british lower class stereotypes to the forest people since they came to the court? it's screamingly obvious

Joe Slowboat
Nov 9, 2016

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life_source posted:

Intensely hosed up that you think this.

The elves are refugees, speaking in a certain British dialect, showing up as a vague group of guys playing soccer in alleys.

The comic is absolutely framing them in a particular class position, which is being mocked by Patware here but which is absolutely present in their characterization and presentation. The idea that the forest dweller refugees are in some sense an uprooted, more traditional British group now stranded in an urban, international/deracinated Court context is absolutely present - frankly, there's a little class anxiety in the way Eglamore's new girlfriend behaves and relates to the core cast of kids of white-collar techno-sorcerers. It's not inherently bad to engage these signifiers, but it does make this scene more uncomfortable.

E: And like, I'm being really soft on Tom here - it's really blatant and definitely kinda weird that this framing was put into place, but I've more or less trusted that it was going to be handled pretty well, since 'kids of Court figures encounter kids from the magical working class, have some class anxiety' makes a lot of sense in terms of the characters and their world, their age, and their development. This bit though...

Patware
Jan 3, 2005

yeah in fullness my tone is due to a total lack of trust in tom here to be doing something meaningful here

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Yeah but that's a completely different situation, and was good, this page has soured that

life_source
May 11, 2008

i got tired of looking at your edgy baby avatar that a 14-year old would be proud of
I'm sorry. I keep forgetting that this comic is Incredibly British in ways that I am culturally ignorant about.

To pull this back a bit, Lana is still super jazzed about showing off her body to anyone and everyone. Her expressions on this page could be read as uncertain, but the last part is definitely her wanting to show off. The elves are likewise showing interest.

Except that Lana probably doesn't realize the extent of what she is presenting and the elves are reading it in the obvious way.

The next bit is probably going to be about what Loup does because of Lana's apparent naivety. Or maybe a Seraph since they still seem to be helicoptering weirdos.

Warmachine
Jan 30, 2012



I don't honestly think there's a comfortable way out of this corner Tom painted himself in.

Rand Brittain
Mar 25, 2013

"Go on until you're stopped."
Loup eats all the elf chavs (chalves?) in a sudden moment of emotion he's unable to comprehend.

Lana fails to be appropriately alarmed by this because she doesn't have sufficient context to understand that all boys can't do this if the need should strike.

Tiny Myers
Jul 29, 2021

say hello to my little friend


I definitely didn't read it as a porn intro, just incredibly uncomfortable at the possibility of sexual assault that a real scenario like this might lead to. I Really Truly hope that is not where this is going.

I wonder what Loup thinks of all this and if he's going to intervene.



Interesting detail of these lines on her hands. She has them in some of the pages in the chapter she's first introduced. I can't tell if they're meant to be exaggerated joints or cuts from working in the dirt. The robots seem to have exaggerated joints in general, see: Arthur, as a way to mark them as distinct from humans. There's a panel with Lana back in the prior chapter where her wrists look very defined.

A good question: Do robots bleed :thunk:

madjack
Dec 31, 2013
The 'realness' thing is probably justified, since they're probably trying not to end up as a wisp's lunch, imo.

The other parts a bit more problematic.

madjack fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Feb 16, 2022

CodfishCartographer
Feb 23, 2010

Gadus Maprocephalus

Pillbug

These feel very different because they come off as her doing it as a means of teasing / poking fun at someone who's obviously very naive and bashful, who maybe she has a crush on.

The current page is a bunch of strangers coming up and grabbing her without any consent and asking if she's "real"

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Donkringel
Apr 22, 2008
Goons: Is this porn or is this the beginning of sexual assault?

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