[1124] Coyote says that they can

I think Coyote only told part of the truth.

Haha, Crossed Arms Jones is awesome.

Jones is pondering, I don't think she knows

The past stories seemed to imply pretty clearly that polytheistic religions were still strong and kicking in the gunnerverse.

The best evidence of that are the flashbacks at Good Hope's hospital, where we see psychopomps for many pre-christian or pre-islamic religions. In contrast, we have yet to see something even *ressembling* an incarnated mythical figure from abrahamic religions.

Back then, I had speculated that the robots were actually the closest thing this universe had to generic judeo-christian believers (more specifically a hodge-podge of gnostic Christianity and Yazidism). Though the appearance of a Knight Templar in Jones' history does seem to point out to the existence of regular Christianity in this universe.

Third panel: photo from Coyote and Reynard's university days.

In other words... Zimmy?

Have we been told if etheric beings created by human beliefs can ever be "uncreated" if people stop believeing in them (either stop caring or actively dispute them)? I can't recall right now.

Tom's been drawing Coyote a bit differently this week; the lines are a bit more angular. Think it means something?

Well what we have from the comic, or more specifically Jones, is that Coyote is no liar, and that's presented as a boundary in the story rather than just her opinion. The question here I think is not whether he's lying or not, but rather how we should interpret what he's saying, and how that conforms to the information we have.

Speaking of which, we have a new information today that I think helps solve this conundrum. I'm inclined to think not that Coyote is lying, but only that his theory doesn't apply to Jones. If she has no connection with the ether whatsoever, isn't it more reasonable to assume she's not a being like Coyote or Renard, but just something else? Something else not born from the human mind?

I can easily accept that Jones is separate from the ether. Though she apparently predates human minds I have trouble theorizing that a being like her was not created by, from, or with ether. According to my overlay theory Jones is like an oxbow lake.

Or anyone or anything, for that matter.

I think the problem some people are having here is that they can't separate "not lying" from "absolutely correct." Just because Coyote isn't lying doesn't mean he's right. It just means he thinks he is.

So Coyote could be not lying as far as his intent goes, but could still be completely wrong about this whole thing.

Now, I'm inclined to believe there's a hint of fact to it, but I don't think Coyote's theory is the whole story.

Am I the only one who thinks that that's the best drawing of Antimony in at least the past half-a-year? It seems like she's been making a lot of facial expressions that make her features slightly odd in the past few chapters. In fact, I've always preferred her middle style to her modern style; however, I think she looks just right in this panel. So cute!

...And just to be clear, my interest and enthusiasm for this comic series is not solely due to the extraordinarily high level of cuteness present in the protagonist(s)...But it certainly doesn't hurt. ;D



When Coyote is depicted/referred to, Tom tends to draw him in a more angular sort of mythical/runic style, rather than his smooth appearance when he is actually physically present (except for a few scenes like this one and this one; I always took these to be either from Coyote's perspective or just an artistic device to emphasize the fact that Antimony is involving herself with a mythical being).

Not that I think I have Jones 'figured out', but she makes me think of Wisdom, described here in the eighth chapter of Proverbs:

The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago.
Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth—when he had not yet made earth and fields, or the world’s first bits of soil.
When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master worker;
and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.

Okay, 'rejoicing' and 'delighting' in a non-emotional way. It goes on about why we should listen to Wisdom, and ends with this:

all who hate me love death.

It's not perfect, but I thought it was interesting.