[236] Story Discussion – The boy is insane

I can't say that I blame Annie for responding the way that she does. I'd never even heard of those two musical groups that Kat was talking about before now, either.

The way that her eyebrows are positioned makes her seem just a little annoyed; is she, deep down, feeling upset about the way that Kat's been focusing her attention on the new boy like that? Maybe.

I can definitely smell trouble in the works. The big question is, is this:

1. Annie feeling upset as her best friend ignores her (unintentionally) to spend more time with Alistair, or:

2. Alistair's got some nefarious scheme involving Kat, and is handling the situation to lead her further away from Annie so that Annie might not be able to come to the rescue when Aly springs his trap?

Or maybe a combination of the two. We'll have to see.

I like the touch of Kat's hair being all messed up after she removed her jumper.

D'oh. In all the excitement I completely forgot the court is a boarding school. Obviously seperated sleeping areas for boys and girls too, so Annie and Kat at least have some time to talk without Alistair there. In fact, we've never heard anything about whether Aly even sleeps there; he may be just there for classes.
Good call from the people that noticed that Annie being out of the conversation is at least partially the result of her being out of touch with pop culture.

Annie seems quite perceptive here, considering that she isn't the romantic type herself. I think Surma and Anthony taught her a little about understanding and predicting people.

Nah, her head is also smaller and her shoulders, well, exist now. It's just slight changes in style from Tom, I think; compare with the first chapter to really see the differences. Of course, she's probably grown a little in the time she's been there (how long, don't know, but less than a year) but with comic book characters it's a bit hard to tell.




Is that supposed to be Surma and Anthony, or am I totally missing something?

I share Annie's near-cluelessness about pop culture, at least as far as music goes: I'd never even heard of the music that Kat mentioned in today's page!

The Kat-Alistair business and Annie's feeling left out of things reminded me recently of something that C. S. Lewis once wrote: "People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them, and if you're there you can hardly help feeling that you're out of it."

I don't think that we're likely to see this scene in the chapter at all, but I find it tempting to imagine:

Alistair saying to Kat, "No, I don't have any twin brothers or other male relatives my age who are into world mythology and paranormal investigations and like mature-beyond-their-years redheads. Why do you ask?"

Neither have I, but I think Annie's a bit worse off... she might not even realise Kat's talking about bands and albums.

I certainly didn't. I assumed they were talking about books. >_>;

I don't know what any of you people are talking about.

But great artwork on this page!

Edit: This page, that is:
www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=236