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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 10, 2012 7:01:43 GMT
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Post by blahzor on Aug 10, 2012 7:02:18 GMT
hmm so Jones is also The Great Spirit?
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Post by King Mir on Aug 10, 2012 7:05:30 GMT
Maybe Jones is a fallen star.
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galileo
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Post by galileo on Aug 10, 2012 7:07:18 GMT
MAYBE she's a constellation he created! Or maybe she's just something we haven't encountered yet. I kinda hope that's the case.
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Post by Belrisa on Aug 10, 2012 7:07:39 GMT
What, no trip to the village to see her friends?
*sigh*
You're no fun, Coyote. Such a taskmaster.
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 10, 2012 7:09:36 GMT
Maybe Jones is a fallen star. Maybe she's a crash-landed, body-snatching alien. |
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Post by arf on Aug 10, 2012 7:12:30 GMT
"The stars in the night sky, the prints on the moon"
What we have just received is the encrypted message. Jones is the key, which Ysengrin has given to Annie, but which Tom has not given to us!
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Post by djbrian on Aug 10, 2012 7:15:14 GMT
hmm so Jones is also The Great Spirit? The great spirit is indeed portrayed as an eye here and here. If not the great spirit itself, maybe Jones is some kind of agent on its behalf? Not taking sides directly, but operating on the spirit's agenda? Edit: As in, Jones is the Great Spirit's wandering eye. Hmm? (also, first post! been lurking awhile, and now I speak) |
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Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Aug 10, 2012 7:26:13 GMT
This is either going to be amazing or utterly disappointing in it's lack of real answers.
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Post by galileo on Aug 10, 2012 7:39:08 GMT
Well, according to a recent interview Tom gave (link is on a thread in this forum) the near future of the comic will be focused on Jones, so I'm hoping for revelations abound!
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Post by stephen on Aug 10, 2012 8:07:36 GMT
That's it. I'm taking this as confirmation that Jones is The Great Spirit.
Did anybody guess this before this page? If so, major props!
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Post by rafk on Aug 10, 2012 8:27:39 GMT
Cue start of next chapter, Annie walking out of Jones' office saying "That was very enlightening, thankyou Ms Jones. I especially liked the part about the stars."
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Post by Rex on Aug 10, 2012 8:32:51 GMT
I doubt Jones is the great spirit, from what Coyote is saying here it sounds like Jones is a fallen star. Stars could be said to be eyes in the sky watching over us, and a shooting star would be something that get's people's imaginations RACING. Suddenly the fallen star is a person, impartial, quiet, and observant.
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Post by Toloc on Aug 10, 2012 9:19:40 GMT
Jones is the Great Bird of the Galaxy. Calling it now. But seriously, could mean we're getting some exposition on Jones soon. Which will probably raise more questions than it answers... |
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Post by stephen on Aug 10, 2012 9:33:16 GMT
I seem to have forgot a story detail. When Annie says "Ysengrin told me about Jones", what is she referring to?
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Post by TBeholder on Aug 10, 2012 10:21:21 GMT
Cue start of next chapter, Annie walking out of Jones' office saying "That was very enlightening, thankyou Ms Jones. I especially liked the part about the stars." Obviously.  I seem to have forgot a story detail. When Annie says "Ysengrin told me about Jones", what is she referring to? That time when Ysengrin explained what Jones is to Annie. |
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Post by Lightice on Aug 10, 2012 10:43:59 GMT
That's it. I'm taking this as confirmation that Jones is The Great Spirit. I'm more inclined to think that she may be a part of the Great Spirit -- a wandering eye, if you will. Also, Coyote looks extra creepy in panel 5. Someone needs to write new dialogue there, in the vein of: "You like these? I got more in my van right over there..." |
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Post by Per on Aug 10, 2012 12:30:48 GMT
I seem to have forgot a story detail. When Annie says "Ysengrin told me about Jones", what is she referring to? It means Jones isn't stars... she's stairs. |
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Post by Rea on Aug 10, 2012 12:52:55 GMT
So, Wandering Eye is something that at first glance disproves Coyote's story but in truth proves it.
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Post by OrzBrain on Aug 10, 2012 13:37:15 GMT
So, Wandering Eye is something that at first glance disproves Coyote's story but in truth proves it. She is something which either predates or is apparently unrelated to the mind of man? Possibly something from the stars in the sky? |
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 10, 2012 13:40:07 GMT
That's it. I'm taking this as confirmation that Jones is The Great Spirit. Did anybody guess this before this page? If so, major props! Perhaps a messenger of balance or something similar? |
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Post by goldenknots on Aug 10, 2012 13:50:37 GMT
Suddenly the fallen star is a person, impartial, quiet, and observant. And, incidentally, rather heavy. :) |
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Post by q3 on Aug 10, 2012 14:15:18 GMT
Jones is a robot that became a god when it refused to help a tortoise in the desert.
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Post by aaroncampbell on Aug 10, 2012 14:52:14 GMT
I think Jones is just like Coyote -- but where Coyote is the explanations that Man came up with for natural events he couldn't explain, Jones is the myths that Man came up with for what happens to their ancestors (they're watching down from above; they become the stars in the sky, &c.) And she's super-dense because scientists also have figured out the nature of stars, so their beliefs as they die have inbued her with some of those properties as well. So she has some of the density of a neutron star physically, while having the calm, collected "wisdom" and impartiality of those who are departed from this realm of existance making up her personality. Also, I wonder what the significance is of the stars in Coyote's hand being the Pleiades? |
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Post by Miri on Aug 10, 2012 15:09:17 GMT
Look at Coyote, being all regal pointer-dog-like.
Jones is Odin's lost eye. She looks enough like Brinnie that my brain's lumped her in with the Norse contingent since then.
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 10, 2012 15:14:37 GMT
I'm interested to see what Jones looks like etherically.
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Post by ozuri on Aug 10, 2012 15:52:44 GMT
www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=489Is Jones Arcturus? For one, it resolves the issue of why Coyote calls her Wandering Eye (she's the eyeball he threw into the sky which now travels independently of him). Secondly, it supports the idea that when she's not eating, sleeping, or working, she observes (as a star in the sky, constantly watching). Thirdly, could explain why it's so hard for anyone to explain what she is (she's an eyeball which became a star which became a human-thing that now works at the Court). Fourthly, also explains why there was a need for that comment in that comic in the first place. Fifthly, also corroborates with the whole asking Jones about the stars in the night sky thing. Also created an account just to post my theory on this heh
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Post by quoodle on Aug 10, 2012 16:13:48 GMT
I doubt Jones is the great spirit, from what Coyote is saying here it sounds like Jones is a fallen star. Stars could be said to be eyes in the sky watching over us, and a shooting star would be something that get's people's imaginations RACING. Suddenly the fallen star is a person, impartial, quiet, and observant. If Jones is a star, she's a *WANDERING* Star - i.e. a Planet (from the origin of the word). Now which planet could she be? Of course stars have symbols associated with them... |
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Post by galileo on Aug 10, 2012 16:37:00 GMT
She's obviously the wandering eye....OF A POTATO!!! I feel like a potato eye would have a Jones-like personality. If that makes sense.
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Post by blahzor on Aug 10, 2012 17:39:51 GMT
Suddenly the fallen star is a person, impartial, quiet, and observant. And, incidentally, rather heavy. :) dense as in a lot of weight in a small amount of space. she could be the sun as it's eye shape and wanders across the sky and touches all parts of the planet. And is ALWAYS in the treatise |
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