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Welcome to Gunnmkrigg Court.
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Nov 21, 2011 22:11
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Wait until Paz finds out she has to sacrifice a thousand robots a day to keep Kat alive on the Robot Throne.
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Mar 6, 2023 08:49
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ALL I WANNA DO IS SEE YOU TURN INTO A GIANT ANNIE (A GIANT ANNIE)
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Mar 6, 2023 11:18
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catapede posted:It's a bit odd next to Annie, who's being drawn in an overly-animated fashion. Honestly, it feels like Annie is reacting to a completely different conversation than what's being had and it's REALLY jarring.
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Mar 15, 2023 21:45
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>go West >It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Loup.
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Mar 25, 2023 02:20
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Pants Donkey posted:Chapter 89: Loup Goes to the Fireworks Factory Paz died on the way back to her home
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Apr 14, 2023 23:23
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And that honestly is a lovely and heartbreaking panel, although it's severely undercut by Tom's comment text being a chipper "Goodbye, Paz!"
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Apr 14, 2023 23:25
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Skippy McPants posted:The only way for people to make friends with Tony is off-screen because nothing he can show us will balance out how he treats his daughter. I think this was a huge breaking point in the comic for me as well, especially with somebody who's *had* an emotionally abusive father. Just, saying "everything's cool and solved now, don't look behind the curtain at everything I've set up throughout the whole comic!" is loving buckwild to expect your readers to buy. I haven't kept up with things regularly since the Two Annies/Tony's Bizarre Redemption "Arc" catastrophe.
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Apr 18, 2023 22:09
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Tiny Myers posted:Annie's new most prominent character trait is being a doormat to anyone who feels like it or a mouthpiece for whatever the story currently requires. Jesus, you're not loving kidding. I feel like all of Annie's agency has been completely robbed over the last few years and it's infuriating.
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Apr 26, 2023 23:47
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Splicer posted:They're all staffed by instances of RACHEL GREEN I made the mistake of going forward a few pages from this, where Annie's father systematically humiliates her in front of the entire class and cuts her off from every single form of support, and it made me incandescently angry at Tom's handwaving away of his abusive behavior again. gently caress Tom for how he handled Tony's abuse of Annie.
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May 1, 2023 22:07
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Joe Slowboat posted:I mean I don’t think there needs to have been a big change - maybe he always intended for this to be the realization, and it’s close to the classic “adults are humans as well, for better and for worse” revelation of children’s media. But it’s calibrated to where Tony’s abusive parenting is just an example of this, rather than crossing a line. It's also weird for the focal point of empathy to switch from the kids to the adults when we see the adults less than ever and half of the younger characters have given up all agency in the story. It feels like the entire thing has become unmoored and is just drifting aimlessly.
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May 5, 2023 19:57
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So did Tom say anything about when he's going to start writing again himself instead of publishing somebody else's lovely fanfiction? [whispers from offstage] What? Oh.
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May 12, 2023 20:41
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GunnerJ posted:"Oups! All Loups!" New thread title just dropped.
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May 15, 2023 22:01
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Riot Bus posted:It definitely seems rare in this thread, but I felt the exact same way. Twin Annies was the beginning of me no longer having any idea who Annie was anymore. From the moment it was determined that both Annies were legitimate, her inner world became impossible to follow. And that was only made worse by the fact that it ended on some kind of conflict between them that was never made apparent to the reader. Oh thank gently caress, it's not just me.
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May 22, 2023 21:49
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Potato Salad posted:momentum stopping way That would require the current plot to have momentum, and it's currently trundling along on square wheels.
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May 22, 2023 21:54
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Annointed posted:We're in the final arc so probably can't make this final arc last a decade. This is a webcomic we're talking about, they practically invented making the final arc of a story last longer than the main story itself.
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May 23, 2023 21:08
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christmas boots posted:Loup is defeated, sent back in time, and his consciousness sealed in a robot that becomes known as Boxbot "Curiously, the only thing that went through the mind of Boxbot was, 'Oh no, not again'."
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May 30, 2023 03:54
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I didn't even want global conflict in this comic, I wanted cute Mort adventures in Better Hogwarts
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Jun 7, 2023 20:01
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Randalor posted:Hey, I'm just happy that we're actually being shown something for once rather than it just cutting to Kat saying "So my lab was full of flowers." To be fair, if the previous panel had been something incredibly climactic and compelling and it suddenly switched to "So my lab was full of flowers" I'd laugh my rear end off.
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Jun 13, 2023 23:50
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Note: Jerrek died on the way back to his home forest.
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Jun 21, 2023 21:41
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Randalor posted:Oh god, if Lana is a dead goose scenario, does this mean Ysengrin is going to burst out of her mouth now? Other Annie is going to burst out of Annie's mouth, Omega is going to burst out of Kat's mouth, and Boxbot is going to burst out of Robot's mouth.
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Jun 21, 2023 21:58
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Macaluso posted:I'm actually gonna be really disappointed if the next chapter isn't actually named "Coyote knew this would happen"
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Jun 23, 2023 18:57
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Bell_ posted:I'm surprised there isn't an end of chapter symbol. That would be the funniest loving thing this comic's ever done and I'm sad it didn't happen.
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Jun 29, 2023 21:29
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Cavelcade posted:It zooms out to a bigger Coyote saying "I knew this would happen." If you want a picture of the future, imagine Coyote saying "I knew this would happen", forever.
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Jul 7, 2023 21:24
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Jerrek = the Obama administration boxbot = boxbot
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Jul 8, 2023 21:54
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coolusername posted:Stale, tired and overused: fridging a woman. Gunnerkrigg Court: Fridging the Fridge Woman
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Jul 14, 2023 18:38
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Randalor posted:"Oh no, Coyote ate Lana! I guess this is why we back up their memories and brainscans each night, good thing Kat thought of that before we knew if this process was perfected and kept it up as good practice!" "What the hell, who overwrote Lana's backup with circuit diagram porn?!" [Boxbot slowly backs out of the room]
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Jul 14, 2023 22:04
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The End! No moral.
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Jul 15, 2023 04:13
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Skippy McPants posted:Where is the whimsy? Where is the menace? This! It's so odd that Coyote's return started off with him seeming to be in prime Coyote form, but as soon as Jerrek/Loup comes back into frame, he goes entirely flat. It's like Jerrek emits an anti-interesting field.
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Jul 17, 2023 23:15
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It's fridges all the way down.
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Jul 20, 2023 00:20
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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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Jul 21, 2023 20:53
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This is all I could think of when I read today's update:
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Jul 24, 2023 22:52
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Riot Bus posted:I've gotten the impression that, as the comic has gone on, Tom has been trying to make his style more loose/expressive. Some artstyles can carry a lot of energy by looking a bit unrefined. However, this has also resulted in a lot of weird expressions/faces. I can appreciate the effort but I can attest to it being difficult if that's not your natural inclination as an artist. Personally, I miss this strip having actual backgrounds. Look at how flat and boring they are on this page, nothing but gradients and vague building outlines. Remember when Gunnerkrigg Court and the Forest used to feel like places instead of "I guess some teenage drama is happening in this vague space here"?
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Jul 26, 2023 21:10
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Also, Annie refusing to have any agency and simply Sideline Character-ing "don't do it!" is just... so flat and frustrating after all this time. At this point, Tom may as well Yamcha her.
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Jul 26, 2023 21:12
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GunnerJ posted:Same. Gotta appreciate the little things. Honestly, I really enjoyed Coyote's expression paired with the "Oh boy! Oh no!" caption.
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Jul 28, 2023 21:55
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Tiny Myers posted:Emptyquote! I read it for a time in the early 2000s because I thought Being A Snarky rear end in a top hat was a personality trait, but I ultimately got bored with its miserablism and its inability to do anything interesting with its characters. I put it down when Davan decided to stay in the lovely life he had at home instead of moving away with his girlfriend at the time, and that was a perfect metaphor for the comic itself: Wallowing in its self-superior misery instead of doing anything different or interesting. It looks like some things have changed but the characters are ultimately the same. Randy Milholland is apparently a really nice guy who's supportive of other creators, and that's great! But there's just nothing that draws me into picking up S*P again. Also I really cannot understand how some of these comics like S*P and Sluggy can keep the exact same art and writing styles for 20 years, it's like they're frozen in time forever. The one comic I hope goes on forever and ever is Jerkcity, which is apparently now Bonequest since a Jamaican restaurant bought up their old domain name.
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Aug 2, 2023 18:36
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What in the actual gently caress is that expression.  /e: There is no Lana, only Zuul. RocketMermaid fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Aug 9, 2023 |
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Aug 9, 2023 10:11
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Cavatica posted:katamari damannie "Katamari Coyote" was right there, c'mon.
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Aug 10, 2023 00:03
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Tiny Myers posted:this one is a clear example of fridging due to the fact that it is a female character who has barely existed outside of being a girlfriend. Like somebody mentioned a few updates ago, Loup flashing back through what Lana meant to him was... her smiling in a void in a few different poses. She hasn't done anything in the comic and is barely a character at all outside of her being attached to Loup - what does he even have to remember about her? It feels very explicitly like Lana only existed for Loup's development, from the gross saving-her-from-immigrant-assault to the out-of-loving-nowhere love confession to Coyote fridging her. And this splash page feels like it's shoving her complete emptiness as a character directly at us: Look at this technically proficient but utterly empty drawing of a non-character with an equally empty expression. I think part of what's making us react so viscerally to it, as opposed to any of the other splash pages of other characters Tom's done, is that there's no there there.
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Aug 10, 2023 01:27
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Fecha posted:It's wild to me that my reading of this comic has drifted so far that I'm not confident that this is intentionally creepy CodfishCartographer posted:It's ✨kawaii✨ Avatar idea: That image with " i̸̟͚̔̏͒͊͌t̴͔̭̤̀'̵̨̲̼̦͙̍͛s̴͎̊ ̸̝̣̒͐̑k̷̢͓̻͓̟͐̋̽̇ă̶̢̖̦̖͕͘ẅ̴̩̖̱͕́ā̷̹̮̩̲̀i̶̦͕̗̍͐͑į̸̥̼̾̐" as the text.
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Aug 10, 2023 20:27
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