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Post by Yin on Jun 18, 2008 7:01:38 GMT
Wow.Someone said S for Seraph? Well done.
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Post by edzepp on Jun 18, 2008 7:03:07 GMT
Seraph One. Dang, that is fancy.
Yin: It was Iorem Ipsum, from the last thread. Good show, sir.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jun 18, 2008 7:15:56 GMT
Is that a rapier or some other kind of sword?
Looks like Robot's new body is going to be a step up from his first one.
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Post by lorem ipsum on Jun 18, 2008 7:17:20 GMT
Missus, me, but thank you. I've just made myself blurry off looking up alchemical properties of Mercury and Antimony while I was waiting for the site to update (who knew I'd gotten hooked on that two-hours-earlier?) but isn't S1 a site for sore eyes! Fa-a-a-ancy.
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Post by hel on Jun 18, 2008 7:47:25 GMT
Is that a rapier or some other kind of sword? It is indeed a rapier. Whether its supposed to be or not we can only assume ;D |
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Post by Ed130 on Jun 18, 2008 7:52:59 GMT
Apart from the head it looks very organic.
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Post by Goatmon on Jun 18, 2008 8:00:11 GMT
Ooooh.
Swanky.
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Post by edzepp on Jun 18, 2008 8:09:28 GMT
Missus, me, but thank you. I've just made myself blurry off looking up alchemical properties of Mercury and Antimony while I was waiting for the site to update (who knew I'd gotten hooked on that two-hours-earlier?) but isn't S1 a site for sore eyes! Fa-a-a-ancy. Well, this won't be the last time I get someone's gender wrong on the Internet.  Or in real life for that matter. I've had my share of awkward moments. |
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Post by Jabor on Jun 18, 2008 8:21:17 GMT
Huh, I remember Robot being stored in a box labelled "Spare #13".
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Post by Tenjen on Jun 18, 2008 10:32:35 GMT
he's the 13th spare of the model called Seraph. Spare would refer to his use and not model as such.
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Post by aijuan on Jun 18, 2008 12:51:21 GMT
Yin: It was Iorem Ipsum, from the last thread. Good show, sir. Um, it's quite obviously Lorem. |
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Post by eightyfour on Jun 18, 2008 12:58:41 GMT
Things not to do: Powering on an autonomous robotic body which is wielding a potentially deadly weapon. Especially when said robotic body can be assumed to house a sentient artificial intelligence. Am I painting black again? ;D |
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Post by Jabor on Jun 18, 2008 20:42:08 GMT
he's the 13th spare of the model called Seraph. Spare would refer to his use and not model as such. So how did Antimony figure out that he was number S13? Just a happy coincidence that "Seraph" and "Spare" both start with the same letter? |
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jun 18, 2008 21:26:02 GMT
See Annie's conversation with Admin-bot on page 212 and 213. |
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Post by todd on Jun 18, 2008 22:25:46 GMT
A thought I just had. Although it would seemingly make sense to transfer Robot's CPU to the S1 version, I wonder whether it would be wiser to leave him in that mouse-robot body. Remember, from the perspective of the robot community at Gunnerkrigg, Robot's a fugitive from the law. The school faculty can't have a much better opinion of him after the bridge incident in Chapter Seven. So it might be safer to have him stored in a small body that Annie and Kat can easily hide from everyone else - the S1 body can't be as easily concealed as the mouse-robot's body.
(Though we might not have as interesting a story if Annie and Kat were to take that approach.)
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Post by Jabor on Jun 18, 2008 23:38:58 GMT
Oh right. Adminbot recognizes the design as an S-Model.
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Post by cenit on Jun 19, 2008 1:00:35 GMT
Yeah, I don't think Robot can go around with that flashy body around the court, but it could be a break from being mice-bot... and he could hang around on "lab" for the mean time... cause I get the felling the girls, or at least Kat is going to spend a lot more time there from now on
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Post by yhbc on Jun 19, 2008 1:55:54 GMT
I joined this forum today just to say three things: 1. The following comment on today's strip is just too good to allow it to be lost in the aether: does that mean that because robot has no body he's...sans-seraph?
Onomah, 18.06.2008, 12:53am # 2. I continue to be very impressed by the strip's incredible continuity and the slow reveal of character and history - after 409 strips, it looks like we're finally going to see why Antimony couldn't find Robot's right arm when she first put him together. 3. I love the strip, and am obviously completely hooked on it now. Thanks. |
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Post by Yin on Jun 19, 2008 4:01:33 GMT
2. I continue to be very impressed by the strip's incredible continuity and the slow reveal of character and history - after 409 strips, it looks like we're finally going to see why Antimony couldn't find Robot's right arm when she first put him together. Hey, I'd totally forgotten about that! Here the arm with the sword is the right arm. Now we have a reason why the right arm was missing then: because it had a sword attached and swords left where anyone could get them poses a ton of potential problems. |
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Post by lorem ipsum on Jun 19, 2008 5:14:09 GMT
I joined this forum today just to say three things: 1. The following comment on today's strip is just too good to allow it to be lost in the aether: does that mean that because robot has no body he's...sans-seraph?
Onomah, 18.06.2008, 12:53am # Yes! That gave me a good laugh when I saw it. Good point about the arm, too! I wonder if these Seraphs have anything to do with fire (given the chapter plate, and that red hilt on the sword...) |
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Post by popo on Jun 19, 2008 5:25:30 GMT
Robot is the one who actually burned down Martin's house
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jun 19, 2008 11:34:42 GMT
2. I continue to be very impressed by the strip's incredible continuity and the slow reveal of character and history - after 409 strips, it looks like we're finally going to see why Antimony couldn't find Robot's right arm when she first put him together. Hey, I'd totally forgotten about that! Here the arm with the sword is the right arm. Now we have a reason why the right arm was missing then: because it had a sword attached and swords left where anyone could get them poses a ton of potential problems. Didn't robot have claw arms? How would he hold a sword? |
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Post by lorem ipsum on Jun 19, 2008 12:45:25 GMT
Mezzaphor, I bet you'll know: Did we already discuss what happened to Robot's Wings? I noticed in the pages you linked that S13 had smaller wings than the other S models, so I went looking for a later picture to see if that stayed true... and poof -- its wings are gone! Looks like they broke off here... but why? And where did they go? Edit: fixed broken links. |
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jun 19, 2008 21:33:36 GMT
For discussion, I don't know. The closest I know of is the thread for page 225 (the second page you linked to). As for the wings themselves, my first guess is that it's Ysengrin's doing. Keeping in mind that stylized wings are a recurring motif in the comic (besides the S Models, there's Gunnerkrigg's floaty sky thing and the lockpicks on this page), I half suspect that the wings are some kind of symbol of power which would have protected Robot from being possessed if Ysengrin hadn't removed them. |
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Post by lorem ipsum on Jun 20, 2008 4:21:22 GMT
I half suspect that the wings are some kind of symbol of power which would have protected Robot from being possessed if Ysengrin hadn't removed them. Hm... if they've got any powers, though, I wonder where they went? The court have an arm growing in the garden... I wonder if the forest have two wings affixed to... something? |
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Post by octodexy on Jun 20, 2008 21:46:42 GMT
I half suspect that the wings are some kind of symbol of power which would have protected Robot from being possessed if Ysengrin hadn't removed them. Hm... if they've got any powers, though, I wonder where they went? The court have an arm growing in the garden... I wonder if the forest have two wings affixed to... something? It has been suggested that if an "angel" gets their wings cut off, they become mortal/human, thus they are susceptible to the same things as humans; illness, sin, death, etc. This of course is not theologically supported, and has only been alluded to in other stories and songs. It may have been that while robot had one arm, he had to give something up to receive his new arm, e.g. wings. I don't know though, I couldn't think of how they'd come off in the first place. |
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Post by armonis on Jun 21, 2008 0:53:18 GMT
Well, he has them here, but not here, so it would appear that he lost them after getting his new, tasty arm. You can see the wing on the ground, but I would venture to say that they aren't of any value to anyone buy himself, as they are still there when the seed starts to grow. They would seem to be rather symbolic, so losing them may explain what happened. Or maybe it was just a sign of the corruption, spread by the seed, which allowed the shadowman in. As far as the wings coming out, you can see where they exited here. If I had to take a guess, they almost looked like they were ripped out. |
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Post by AluK on Jun 21, 2008 1:11:40 GMT
We discussed about wings here. |
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Post by lorem ipsum on Jun 21, 2008 23:27:51 GMT
Ta, AluK -- it's a little easier to ask directions than it is to navigate the archives!
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