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Post by Starrylight on Mar 4, 2011 21:25:58 GMT
I think it's also important that he "tried to" explain. Not "explained". Jones' nature must be pretty complicated, or mysterious (or both).
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Post by basser on Mar 4, 2011 21:33:24 GMT
"She's like this... big.. floating eyeball.. thing. And she uh, wanders. I guess. Let's talk about fish now."
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Post by zylonbane on Mar 4, 2011 21:53:32 GMT
What's the opposite of cookies? Oh yeah... STABBIES.
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Post by Max on Mar 4, 2011 23:26:52 GMT
I can't believe I didn't catch the parallels between Annie's line in the last panel of this page and the second panel of 308. "She should be here any moment!" vs. "She'll be here soon." Not sure if that means anything.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 5, 2011 0:48:29 GMT
Tom, now it's a shameless tease. ;D Also, this: So... not too mature. Or she enjoyed too much of faeries' company. Also: the second speech bubble comes from her hand. Let the wild guessing begin! Starting from simple "her hand was snapped on and put back with some side-effects". So, there dorms must be IN the lake next to the Factory? The only other large body of water we've seen is the river, and they certainly aren't in THAT. We know that the court has at least two sets of canals, which might connect multiple larger bodies of water. And there are some of them. The Court is huge... no, it's beyond huge - it's VAST. and I tend to state the odvious. Hey, a good wordmanteau! ;D Kat appears from the shadow to quickly deduce what that thing does. [...] Kat will want to discuss with Annie what happened and what implications there might be. You mean, Annie detached this dormitory pod from elevators and now they need to give it some means of propulsion without going outside (no one else arrived yet, so suits aren't supplied) and head for the shore? Yay for cute girls building water pulse-jets powered by magic fire! "I'm glad you were safe with her" ..can be read two ways at least... Not that they were mutually exclusive. Not the original elemental in a new body, at least that's certain. And would too conveniently explain why Surma couldn't stand her.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 5, 2011 1:08:42 GMT
I predict that, next week, Annie will off-handedly mention the other things she's learned over summer holiday: -exactly what the Tictocs are and who they're working for -where Anthony is and why he left -why Surma broke up with Eglamore and married Anthony -Coyote's "great secret" -exactly what Gunnerkrigg Court is What is Jones? Siddell don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more! :< Oh I don't know, why you're not there. I give you my guesses, but you don't care. Am I right? Am I wrong? Gimme a sign
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Post by Tierra Y Libertad on Mar 5, 2011 3:56:14 GMT
"Ysengrin explained what she is to me." What she IS TO Annnie? I'm not a native speaker of English, so I might be mistaken, but the only context of this phrasing I know of is when it comes to familial relations. Are Annie and Jones related?! A perfectly reasonable question, and an excellent observation. Comrades, this chapter is thus far not one for immediate exposition. We jumped from being left in the forest to her return to the Court. Why would we learn what Jones is right now? Perhaps Antimony will tell Kat. I forget whether Kat has really met Ms. Jones, but oh, well. Everything will be explained eventually. If it takes another five years or a decade, that is unimportant. We can be patient. If Mr Siddell explained everything all at once, it would be boring. This is a gift from him to us, and should be regarded as such. We do not deserve to have everything explained to us, or even to be given the comic. Mr Siddell is kind enough to do so, and readership is a privilege, not a right.
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Post by zylonbane on Mar 5, 2011 12:35:14 GMT
What a strange post.
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Post by paxjax123 on Mar 5, 2011 14:26:41 GMT
A strange post, but a correct post. We can't make Tom tell us everything and exactly when we want him to tell us. It's a privilege to read the comic, not a right.
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Post by zylonbane on Mar 5, 2011 14:59:41 GMT
It's neither, unless you water the term "privilege" down to the point of meaninglessness.
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Post by paxjax123 on Mar 5, 2011 17:23:03 GMT
It's neither, unless you water the term "privilege" down to the point of meaninglessness. Honestly, the point is, it doesn't matter if anyone wants an explanation to what Jones really is, or what happened in the forest. Tom will tell us when he tells us and there really isn't anything we can do about it. Enjoy the comic.
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Post by smjjames on Mar 5, 2011 18:48:20 GMT
Probably his one greatest weakness that he will never reveal. Really though, what are you referring to? I don't think I've seen him say anything about that.
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Post by Per on Mar 5, 2011 19:10:56 GMT
That he's a robot.
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Post by zylonbane on Mar 5, 2011 20:00:25 GMT
Honestly, the point is, it doesn't matter if anyone wants an explanation to what Jones really is, or what happened in the forest. Of course it matters. If nobody wanted an explanation, it would mean the story wasn't engaging peoples' interest. That would be bad.
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Post by paxjax123 on Mar 5, 2011 21:04:13 GMT
Honestly, the point is, it doesn't matter if anyone wants an explanation to what Jones really is, or what happened in the forest. Of course it matters. If nobody wanted an explanation, it would mean the story wasn't engaging peoples' interest. That would be bad. Obviously you read my first sentence and stopped. I said that people do want it, but it doesn't matter because it won't change anything. Tom is the author here, not us. He decides when the reveal is. And complaining about it isn't going to make it come any faster.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 5, 2011 22:06:40 GMT
The author is under no obligation to cater to the audience's whims, but the audience is under no obligation to continue reading if they don't like the direction a story is going. There needs to be give and take between the two parties: The author needs to tell a story people will want to read, and the audience needs to trust the author to tell the story in the way he/she thinks is right. But that's assuming the author wants an audience. Tom has said that he's mainly writing something that he'd like to read, though he's expressed happiness (and surprise) over people enjoying his stuff. Based on that, if the story Tom wants to tell ends up driving his entire readership away, I don't imagine he'd lose too much sleep over it. Probably his one greatest weakness that he will never reveal. Really though, what are you referring to? I don't think I've seen him say anything about that. To my knowledge, it's only been mentioned here.
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Post by Georgie L on Mar 6, 2011 15:13:33 GMT
You see I took that as Coyote taunting Ysengrin, I think there is no secret, but he wants Ysengrin to feel uneasy cause that how he rolls (Trickster God and all that).
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Post by smjjames on Mar 6, 2011 16:20:53 GMT
Yea, it sounded more like he was boasting, like if Annie becomes trusted enough, he'll tell her the greatest secrets behind his tricks, and a magician (or trickster for that matter) guards the secrets to their tricks carefully.
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Post by biggerj on Mar 7, 2011 3:36:29 GMT
I think I've figured out the significance of "I have no idea what this thing does." Annie has spent the summer as a mythical being, and the mythical beings of Gillitie Wood have no interest in understanding technology. They don't care how things work. And, as a 'myth for the summer', Annie, at least temporarily, doesn't care either. She doesn't know how that thing works and for once, she's okay with that.
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Post by davidm on Mar 7, 2011 7:33:19 GMT
Jones=Fairy Godmother
Bad girls who stay up past their bedtime don't like fairy godmothers, because their horses turn into mice and carriage turns into a pumpkin which makes for an awkward night out with your friends.
Everyone laughted at poor Surma, except Anthony... so she married him.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 7, 2011 11:43:14 GMT
Obviously you read my first sentence and stopped. I call it Karma. I think I've figured out the significance of "I have no idea what this thing does." Annie has spent the summer as a mythical being, and the mythical beings of Gillitie Wood have no interest in understanding technology. They don't care how things work. Yes, but specifically "what thes button does? <click>" is a bit... Annie, at least temporarily, doesn't care either. She doesn't know how that thing works and for once, she's okay with that. When she wasn't?
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