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Post by Yin on Dec 19, 2007 6:03:20 GMT
Hmm.One's Welsh and the other's one of those Black Dogs/Grims/Black Shucks (Wiki'ed it- the name's Manx). Who called it? EDIT: From Wikipedia: To be honest, I hadn't realised it was a woman at first :#
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Post by popo on Dec 19, 2007 6:06:56 GMT
Man, you just beat me, I even had the wikipedia article and everything.
I didnt even realize that there was a face under the hood at first.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Dec 19, 2007 7:50:37 GMT
So, do the two Guides have conflicting claims on a soul, and they just need someone to mediate between them? Are these two even guides?
There is something beautiful and sad about those last three panels.
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Post by Ed130 on Dec 19, 2007 10:59:59 GMT
So, do the two Guides have conflicting claims on a soul, and they just need someone to mediate between them? Maybe its a soul of someone of mixed parentage or could it be a good and evil thing? |
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Post by todd on Dec 19, 2007 11:45:36 GMT
I'm looking forward to finding out just how a small child (I believe Annie's supposed to be around 5 or 6 at the time) can arbitrate a dispute between two mythical beings.
Thanks for the information on Mallt-y-Nos, Yin. I knew about the Moddey Dhoo (there's an entry on it in my copy of Katharine Briggs' "An Encyclopedia of Fairies"), but not her.
Annie's comment "Oooh, a doggie", is delightful. Not the slightest trace of fear towards the black dog with fiery eyes. (And this is hardly surprising, since she's growing up with mythological beings for friends - if you live alongside the abnormal at such an early age, it seems normal to you. No wonder she'll respond to the Minotaur at age 11 by politely introducing herself.)
I noticed the absent of any comment from Tom below the comic, and think it might be just as well. Too often, the comments tend towards a flippancy which punctures the mood of the instalment or distracts the readers from the story development and characterization to focus on Tom's remark (the joke about the two student extras not being Alistair, Anthony in disguise, etc., while being a good take-off on some readers' tendency to pay more attention to the background details than the foreground, probably had the disadvantage of distracting even more people from Kat seeing Ketrak than if it had not been there at all).
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Post by popo on Dec 19, 2007 16:53:54 GMT
(Blatantly stolen from wikipedia's article) Since Surma sees it clearly, and Annie is obviously still half-asleep, I wonder if it was the dog that killed Surma. Then again, she did die 5-6 years later, and Tom probably isn't following the same story on it. Still, I thought it was interesting. EDIT: I wonder if Tom not having a comment was a comment on Surma not saying anything in the last panel. Or something like that. |
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Post by cenit on Dec 20, 2007 2:47:14 GMT
Uhmm, does she really has to stop a dispute? didn't the guides said they just need to have annie around and "everything will sort out" [or something like that]
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Post by venndiagram on Dec 20, 2007 19:48:11 GMT
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