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Post by SpitefulFox on Oct 5, 2012 7:07:06 GMT
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Post by secondofnone on Oct 5, 2012 7:08:17 GMT
Year 7 would make James and Donny, what? About 13 yrs old? Jones still looks the same, hairstyle not withstanding.
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Post by Rex on Oct 5, 2012 7:08:39 GMT
Yeah, even her hair length is exactly the same. Makes you wonder how far back we're going to go.
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Post by ctso74 on Oct 5, 2012 7:08:54 GMT
Ewwwww! I know age is just a number, but the squick factor is too much.
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Post by maximkat on Oct 5, 2012 7:11:29 GMT
This is how guys say hello.
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Post by Ashley Y on Oct 5, 2012 7:14:18 GMT
Jones is James' mother.
1. They look similar.
2. Look at the previous comic "I will always be here for you James" especially the last panel.
3. Pretty much every interaction between the two of them Jones has taken a maternal role of some kind.
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Post by eightyfour on Oct 5, 2012 7:19:56 GMT
*finally strikes one of the big questions about Jones off the list* Does not age: check!  |
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Post by secondofnone on Oct 5, 2012 7:22:31 GMT
Ewwwww! I know age is just a number, but the squick factor is too much. Oh, I don't know. If Jones looks, say, twenty-five, and James first met her when he was half her apparent age, that would only make her twelve or thirteen years his senior. Not totally out of bounds. So maybe he had a crush on his teacher, then she went away for several years. When they got together again, he was an adult, and she was willing to see him in a romantic light. I doubt that's what happened, but it's possible. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Oct 5, 2012 7:23:06 GMT
*finally strikes one of the big questions about Jones off the list* Does not age: check! Now we only have several million left. |
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Post by mithrandir on Oct 5, 2012 7:26:16 GMT
For a Wandering Eye, she's been hanging around the Court a while...
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Post by Ashley Y on Oct 5, 2012 7:29:02 GMT
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Post by smjjames on Oct 5, 2012 7:30:31 GMT
Wuh, okay, this is a revelation in that she does not appear to age.
She definetly keeps up with the current style, and in this strip, it seems to be the 1960's?
Still, she does seem slightly younger, in a way.
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Post by maximkat on Oct 5, 2012 7:32:03 GMT
Wait, what year is the strip set in?
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Post by smjjames on Oct 5, 2012 7:33:32 GMT
Wait, what year is the strip set in? Somewhere between the 1950s and 1970s..... |
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Post by thor on Oct 5, 2012 7:33:36 GMT
Wait.
Jones is short. Go back and check out her height compared to others in the strip. She's a couple inches over five foot tall, at most.
Now if James and Donny are about to go into Year 7, they are maybe 11-12. So if they haven't hit their growth spurts yet, they should be at most about a half-foot shorter than Jones (assuming Jones has grown shorter in the last 25 years). Instead Donny is only up to her waist, making him about 2 1/2 feet tall.
Even in a story full of magic, sentient robots, living shadows, ghosts, and animal gods, that seems a little hard to believe.
(And Jones is dressed in a much younger style here. It's possible that she's actually a Year 12 student.)
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Post by Fhqwhgads on Oct 5, 2012 7:34:41 GMT
wow, Eglamore looks reeaally different
when you put a skirt on him.
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Post by foresterr on Oct 5, 2012 7:37:44 GMT
She's looking more like a fresh-faced teacher here, than the business-suited smooth operator we are used to ;D Not any younger though. That might be on a right trail. If it turns out JJ&J relationship is not romantic in nature, it would be quite a fine bit of misdirection on Tom's part. That, or we just have dirty minds  |
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Post by smjjames on Oct 5, 2012 7:40:02 GMT
She's looking more like a fresh-faced teacher here, than the business-suited smooth operator we are used to ;D Not any younger though. That might be on a right trail. If it turns out JJ&J relationship is not romantic in nature, it would be quite a fine bit of misdirection on Tom's part. That, or we just have dirty minds Except that he always calls her Jones, not mom..... |
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Post by Rymdljus on Oct 5, 2012 7:43:01 GMT
Oh my god, she is Eglamore's mom! My jaw dropped, fell off and rolled under my desk.
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Post by ctso74 on Oct 5, 2012 7:44:36 GMT
Jones is James' mother. 1. They look similar. 2. Look at the previous comic "I will always be here for you James" especially the last panel. 3. Pretty much every interaction between the two of them Jones has taken a maternal role of some kind. Due to age related awkwardness, I really hope so, but this one among others are more than a little ambiguous. Let's hope all will be made clear soon... Doubt it though. |
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Post by rafk on Oct 5, 2012 7:46:39 GMT
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Post by Ashley Y on Oct 5, 2012 7:47:24 GMT
Due to age related awkwardness, I really hope so, but this one among others are more than a little ambiguous. Let's hope all will be made clear soon... Doubt it though. TOTAL mother-son moment. I love this, because it all seems so obvious now. |
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Post by smjjames on Oct 5, 2012 7:48:16 GMT
Between this strip and the last, it seems to have gone back at least a decade, so, I dunno, first was modern era (early 2000's), then the early 90's, maybe the 80's, then we're in the 70's, now we're in the 60's.
If the trend is anything, the next comic will either be in the 1950s or 1940s.
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Post by smjjames on Oct 5, 2012 7:51:35 GMT
Jones is James' mother. 1. They look similar. 2. Look at the previous comic "I will always be here for you James" especially the last panel. 3. Pretty much every interaction between the two of them Jones has taken a maternal role of some kind. Due to age related awkwardness, I really hope so, but this one among others are more than a little ambiguous. Let's hope all will be made clear soon... Doubt it though. If not, she's a relative, and if she really is James mom, James is one hell of a mommas boy, LAUGHING ON LINE. |
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Post by Ashley Y on Oct 5, 2012 7:55:03 GMT
I would guess 70s, and that James is about my age (42). If he looks younger, James may also not age.
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Post by smjjames on Oct 5, 2012 7:58:14 GMT
I would guess 70s, and that James is about my age (42). If he looks younger, James may also not age. You mean Jones? James is obviously a kid in this strip. |
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Post by Rea on Oct 5, 2012 7:58:24 GMT
I thought she does look a big younger, but maybe not younger enough.
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Post by wheat on Oct 5, 2012 8:01:19 GMT
 edit: just for clarity's sake: talking about the scene from this (click on the 'o' in It's Over) |
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Post by rafk on Oct 5, 2012 8:12:50 GMT
If www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1097is maternal, they're still weird. In any event, Eggers calls her "Jones" everytime (and once "Jo", during the training scene when we see them together the first time) which I can't really reconcile with Jones being a mother figure to Eglamore. |
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Post by CGAdam on Oct 5, 2012 8:13:45 GMT
"Hello, Benjamin!"
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