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

Begemot posted:

"Annie... we were supposed to return that boat...."

Good point. How the hell will they get back if Smitty's dead and teleporting is no longer feasible?

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

BobTheJanitor posted:

I know right, discussing a comic in the thread about the comic. Nerds!

But for real it's not so much about the pacing as the tonal dissonance here. The story has totally earned the right to stretch out this scene as long as it wants, because our heroes have been working towards this goal for years. The problem, again, is that it's undercut by us not being sure of the status of Smitty (or poor forgotten Robot, for that matter).

Yeah it's kinda like "awww this moment is so sweet and great," but in the background one friend was just slashed to shreds and the other was stabbed through the chest. It's as though Annie is in a trance, or at least isn't reflecting the readers' immediate priorities.

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

Scholtz posted:

are they gonna fill the wound with the arrow

Maybe they'll shove the arrow in and break the end off so that Smitty has an Iron Man style glowing power ring on his chest. Except this one locks his soul into his technically dead body instead of being an electromagnet.

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

Cat Mattress posted:

Annie, this is a terrible idea and it's going to have worse consequences than removing the guardian of the ravine.

The idea of a fairy naming another fairy will trigger thoughts of self-determination and an eventual uprising.

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


The only acceptable Coyote toy is one that is malleable like Stretch Armstrong.

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


This is pretty much E/N in illustrated form.

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

cant cook creole bream posted:

I'd imagine a sword which hits you through the eye and comes out the other side would be an instant death.

I'm not sure about this. It would be incredibly traumatic, but I think having a thin sword going through the top of your brain would be unlikely to kill you immediately if the brain stem was left untouched. Famously, Phineas Gage survived impalement from a tamping iron, so I would expect that something even thinner would be less lethal as well. The reason why headshots are so deadly is because they tend to leave a wide cone of damage and sometimes ricochet around the skull after entry.

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

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

I adore fairies, especially when they're depicted as dark and creepy, so Unseelie Court sounds like something I would have loved.

But then I also love Gunnerkrigg Court exactly the way it is, I guess everything worked out for the best!

How are the GC fairies not dark and creepy? They're pretty alien in their thoughts and emotions.

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

This comic keeps getting darker and darker.

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

Everyone in this comic is Coyote.

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

No I'm Spartacus

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

Slime posted:

Coyote was the dead elfguy (dead goose) and also the annan waters (the lake) and also the arrow/device (the bush), and he himself only just realized it.

You were right.

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

I'm​ having a hard time believing that all of them are really that naive.

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

SHISHKABOB posted:

I was freaking myself out, thinking that the bridge had magically grown insanely huge, and they were like "something's off... but i cant quite put my finger on it"

But no it's always looked like that, phew http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=478 http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1821

The Court has always struck me as odd because it seems to be built to handle an entire city's worth of people, yet it is sparsely populated. Did there used to be more people around?

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

ArgumentatumE.C.T. posted:

You know, more and more often the flat color faces where their features are just shifting around the cookie-cutter pointy-ended oval are throwing me off. It feels like everything else has more depth to it nowadays, and the Boring World faces are lagging behind.

It would be a huge amount of additional work to add more facial details.

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

A blank version of that last panel with the flipbook could probably lead to many fantastic AVs.

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

I love how Annie's face appears to show a completely different emotion depending on what's on the sketch pad.

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

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You even edited the tiniest one. Bravo.

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

I remember briefly seeing this woman in a previous chapter. Does anyone remember what her specific role is?

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

Mimesweeper posted:

I mean he totally seems that way on the internet but c'mon, there has to be more of a story here. Details!

I bet they had a fling in the sand.

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

Scholtz posted:

Is the goose in pain or is it laughing

It looks like its eyeball may be popping out, so I think Coyote ate her.

Also, this is the most unsettling panel in the comic so far. We haven't seen Coyote look so bloodthirsty before.


Calling it now, Red is actually Coyote.

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

Hremsfeld posted:

"But how can Coyote eat her if she is Coyote? :unsmigghh: " - Coyote

Maybe she wasn't until he ate her.

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

maswastaken posted:

I... don't think that's what the new body is for.

Kat knows this. Her face speaks volumes.

"I didn't include any of that functionality..."

"That's naaaasty."

"Could I though...?"

"Do I want USB-C or should I make it proprietary?..."

There Bias Two fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Jun 12, 2017

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

SHISHKABOB posted:

OH MY GOD THESE ROBOTS loving!!!

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

It could also be a well rehearsed cover story to motivate her to hand it over.

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

FronzelNeekburm posted:

Ten-page countdown to this being a sting operation.

They're going to distract her with this and nab the arrow.

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

Capfalcon posted:


Don't date robots!

Do darker skinned people ever blush that much? It looks more like she has a horrible skin disease.

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

Kikas posted:

So, all robots are goons?

All goons are robots.




Beep boop.

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

Lurdiak posted:

Um, also a thing that happens fairly often in real life.

Please provide evidence to support your claim. :colbert:

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

Lurdiak posted:

Almost every couple in my family.

It doesn't count if you marry your cousin, you know.

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

Potato Salad posted:

Hold on, are they shopping around for a synth-muscle body, or are they looking for a full transfer of consciousness into a biological brain, too?

Robot's "transfer of consciousness" was just plopping his head onto a new body. As a matter of fact, unless I'm mistaken, Robot is a little cpu that can fit inside a toy mouse.

I think that's Kat's next step after the synthetic body.

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

EmmyOk posted:

Hi Guys just popping in to check the status of the beans!lmk

They are tepid.

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

"Kat! I...I can't believe you. How could you do this...?



...To your hair!"

Demiurge4 posted:

It is. Two days passed and Annie is just stopping by to visit.

I think it's been awhile longer than two days.

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


Yeah, I don't buy that as literally two days simply because of the hairstyle changes. I'm sure we'll find out soon.

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

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Last night I was on the phone with tech support and the guy said "Cool beans!" I wonder if he was a fan.

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

Synthbuttrange posted:

the last 4 panels literally show two nights going by :v:

Yeah, I have eyes, I can see this, but I don't think he meant specifically two nights. It was just a way of drawing the passage of time.

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

a bloody icon posted:

a dramatic change in hairstyle, like both annie and kat have experienced, is a well-established narrative device to communicate the passage of a significant amount of time to the reader

Thanks!

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

Fecha posted:

Haircuts take like half an hour guys

It looks like Annie's hair grew a couple inches, so...

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

What are the odds that Annie's never heard her father laugh until now?

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

Synthbuttrange posted:

Annie it's time we had the talk.
Dad I already know about the birds and the bees.
What no I mean would you download your brain into a robot body?

Her dad's gonna feel real silly when she mentions that she doesn't really want kids anyway.

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