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Post by smjjames on Jul 1, 2011 7:00:35 GMT
Faraway MorningThat looks like some kind of robotic insect in that pic, much more crude than Sky Watcher and lacks the green eyes typical of court robots. Or it could be some other wierd object since we're seeing the back of the other two wingplates or whatever they are. Edit: Oh yea, you can see circuitry lines on the underside of the rightmost one.
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Post by Max on Jul 1, 2011 7:02:02 GMT
Three for the price of free!
also, well played, smjjames
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Post by smjjames on Jul 1, 2011 7:20:34 GMT
also, well played, smjjames Thanks, I guess, heh. Anyways, this is certainly one of Toms more mysterious chapter openers. He always includes the chapter openers in the chapter some way or another, sometimes symbolically like with chapter 32. |
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Post by ryos on Jul 1, 2011 7:50:16 GMT
I'm putting in my guess for that mystery bug thing being the seed bismuth. (If you're gonna guess on so little information, you might as well guess big.)
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Post by jasmijn on Jul 1, 2011 10:14:10 GMT
Chapter 32? Or chapter 31? My guess: it's a robot Kat will make based on what she learned from reviving Frank.  |
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Post by Goatmon on Jul 1, 2011 11:13:16 GMT
Can we at least get past the cover page before people start with the speculation?  |
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Post by rainofsteel on Jul 1, 2011 12:12:51 GMT
Will it be a connection to whoever (or whatever) made the mechanical birds?
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Post by crater on Jul 1, 2011 13:39:39 GMT
it looks like a cursed tea-pot to me.
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Post by coreshadow on Jul 1, 2011 15:45:34 GMT
not sure why, but the totem-esque appearence kinda makes me think this one will involve the psychopomps..
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Post by Per on Jul 1, 2011 16:10:52 GMT
"Faraway Morning" sounds like a song title from a JRPG soundtrack. So there will probably be cursed teapots.
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Post by americonedream on Jul 1, 2011 17:06:03 GMT
It looks like a robotic cicada, those are summer bugs so maybe the short stories all take place at various parts of the court in the summer. Maybe the faraway morning is the day everyone goes back to classes and the stories are about everyone preparing for another rockin' school year?
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Post by nero on Jul 1, 2011 17:24:24 GMT
I keep thinking its a rocket but the head looks like an insect. I think that in this chapter they have to start school but a series of events keeps Kat and/or Annie from getting to class.
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Post by notacat on Jul 1, 2011 22:33:23 GMT
Can we at least get past the cover page before people start with the speculation? Nope  |
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jul 1, 2011 22:40:47 GMT
That thing looks like a robot beetle to me. Its forewings look like elytra (i.e. hardened to serve as protection) and its hindwings look membranous.
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Post by basser on Jul 2, 2011 0:44:26 GMT
It's Ironman as a beetle. Ironbug.
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Post by warrl on Jul 2, 2011 2:28:08 GMT
Can we at least get past the cover page before people start with the speculation? Don't be silly. This is an internet discussion board.  I think the thing is Gunnerkrigg Court's version of a Dalek. |
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Post by percival on Jul 2, 2011 13:10:58 GMT
I keep thinking its a rocket but the head looks like an insect. I think that in this chapter they have to start school but a series of events keeps Kat and/or Annie from getting to class. , but yeah "bug" was the first thing I thought too. |
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Post by nero on Jul 2, 2011 17:07:33 GMT
I keep thinking its a rocket but the head looks like an insect. I think that in this chapter they have to start school but a series of events keeps Kat and/or Annie from getting to class. , but yeah "bug" was the first thing I thought too. I can't believe I missed that rocket, but I wonder why the Court would have them at all. |
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Post by Aurelia Verity on Jul 2, 2011 17:18:25 GMT
Can we at least get past the cover page before people start with the speculation? Don't be silly. This is an internet discussion board. I think the thing is Gunnerkrigg Court's version of a Dalek. Silly speculation is one of the best parts of the new chapter pages Also the bug is very clearly Annie's father He obviously took on the form of a robot bug to keep an eye on his daughter. |
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Post by crater on Jul 2, 2011 17:32:43 GMT
yeah what ever happened Annie's dad!? Didn't at the begging of the comic Annie narrated that it would be 2 years before she would next see her father? Isn't this her second year?
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jul 2, 2011 17:38:54 GMT
That was at the end of Annie's first year. Which means, at the earliest, Annie will hear from her father at the end of her third year.
Right now we're at the start of the third year.
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Post by crater on Jul 3, 2011 0:16:49 GMT
Ah! so the fated meeting is semi close at hand. Only a year or two of IRL time to go before we get to see Annie's fireball! *crosses fingers*
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Post by Polly Plummer on Jul 3, 2011 14:18:08 GMT
Annie's father is Ironman?! I mean, Ironbug?
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Post by smjjames on Jul 3, 2011 18:56:40 GMT
I can't believe I missed that rocket, but I wonder why the Court would have them at all. They could be carrying science equipment to study the atmosphere, or carrying sattelites. Possibly even manned craft. Anyways, yea I think I missed that rocket as well. It's also kind of hard to tell whether the second pair are coming out from the red elytra or are actually on the other side of the. ironbug, as everybody seems to have decided to call it. The head certainly looks like that of a cicada, but I don't think cicadas have elytra. |
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jul 3, 2011 23:12:32 GMT
No, cicadas don't. Only beetles have elytra.
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Post by legion on Jul 4, 2011 10:06:10 GMT
Well, the lesser-known treehoppers, which are distant cousins of cicadas, have an enlarged pronotum (which apparently was created through natural genetic recycling of the material once used for a third pair of wings—this is kind of wicked) or helmet, which on some of them does look like elytra. www.insectsofwestvirginia.net/h/membracidae.html |
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jul 4, 2011 14:57:53 GMT
True, but an enlarged pronotum is stationary--it doesn't fold open like we can see the forewings of this bug doing.
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