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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #450 on Dec 4, 2007, 4:45am »

Does Tom play any musical instruments?

(Also first post, woo).

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #451 on Dec 4, 2007, 7:27am »

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It is unknown at this point.

will it become known any time soon?

Not from the readers' point of view.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #452 on Dec 4, 2007, 7:28am »

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Does Tom play any musical instruments?

(Also first post, woo).

Sadly no. I recently picked up the guitar but the strange things I do with it are far from "playing" it.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #453 on Dec 5, 2007, 10:59pm »

Tom, I just noticed that Annie and Kat looks a little different now from how they did at the beginning of the comic. Is it just the normal evolution of your art or you are actually showing the natural growing up process that a 12-13 year would pass throught?

Because if it is the second, I'm certainly impressed by your attention to details.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #454 on Dec 5, 2007, 11:26pm »

A question about the Guides whom Annie was showing talking to in Chapter Nine, on the page that you linked to on the commentary for today's page. Two of them are easily recognizable as Hermes and the Grim Reaper. The other three are an ancient Egyptian figure, a two-faced figure with a Hindu look, and a snake-like being. Are they also "real" mythological figures (in the sense of being ones from books on mythology, rather than inventions of the webcomic)?

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #455 on Dec 6, 2007, 2:59pm »

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Both really. I wanted to draw them getting older, but the way I draw also changed as I worked on the comic. They will continue to grow up though.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #456 on Dec 6, 2007, 3:07pm »

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The ones people think are the Grim Reaper and Hermes are actually Ankou and Mercury (Hermese wasn't a psychopomp). The Egyptian is Neith, the Hindu is Agni and the horned guy is Veles. They are all actual myths.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #457 on Dec 6, 2007, 3:22pm »

Wasn't Mercury basically the Roman version of Hermes anyways?

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #458 on Dec 6, 2007, 3:30pm »

They shared many similar characteristics, yeah, but they arent the same.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #459 on Dec 6, 2007, 10:12pm »

I thought that Hermes was a psychopomp; he was portrayed taking the souls of the dead down to Hades. (He does it with the souls of Penelope's suitors, just slain by Odysseus, at the beginning of Book XXIV of the Odyssey.)

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #460 on Dec 6, 2007, 10:28pm »

Looks like you are right about that. In that case Hermese and Mercury are interchangeable on that page since I don't label them specifically.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #461 on Dec 6, 2007, 11:26pm »

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I like some anime and manga. The comics moreso. I think Battle Angel Alita is my all time favourite.

What else have you watched/read?

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #462 on Dec 7, 2007, 12:24pm »

Does Annie know which of the Guides will come for her when she dies?

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #463 on Dec 7, 2007, 5:54pm »

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Both really. I wanted to draw them getting older, but the way I draw also changed as I worked on the comic. They will continue to grow up though.

Well, for what I can say, you made a really good work at it, it is subtle but looking to previous chapters you can see they slowly changing. Annie is slightly different now from how she looked in "red return" and she was slightly different there from how she looked in "fangs", changes are small but definetly presents, like with real children growing up. Kudos.

Well, it is that, or I just imagining things.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #464 on Dec 11, 2007, 12:32am »

Okay, now i have one question. What is question whose you wishes asked from you?..

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #465 on Dec 11, 2007, 6:56am »

Do you mean, "What is the question you wish people asked you"?

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #466 on Dec 11, 2007, 8:02am »

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Does Annie know which of the Guides will come for her when she dies?

It's not been said.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #467 on Dec 11, 2007, 8:03am »

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I like some anime and manga. The comics moreso. I think Battle Angel Alita is my all time favourite.

What else have you watched/read?

What movies have you seen and what books have you read?

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #468 on Dec 11, 2007, 8:14am »

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Okay, now i have one question. What is question whose you wishes asked from you?..

Not sure. I prefer people to have their own questions.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #469 on Dec 11, 2007, 2:47pm »

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What else have you watched/read?

What movies have you seen and what books have you read?

The Matrix Trilogy, The 13th Floor and Paycheck for movies, For books, House of Leaves, Belgarath the Sorcerer, The Narnia Trilogy, everything by Douglas Adams, the Harry Potter trilogy(do not ask why), everything by Eoin colfer(don't ask) and The Historian. I don't realy know any of the english names for the rest of the books.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #470 on Dec 11, 2007, 5:23pm »

You've only seen five movies?

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #471 on Dec 11, 2007, 5:46pm »

There are only three Harry Potter and Narnia books? Uh oh.

Also, don't be sheepish about reading Harry Potter and Eoin Colfer! Young Adult books are the best.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #472 on Dec 12, 2007, 5:07am »

I don't watch movies. I don't watch TV anyway, so.. Those are the only movies I watched just to watch them. As for the books, I don't like how the HP books are written, and I thought I was just wasting time reading Colfer.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #473 on Dec 12, 2007, 1:11pm »

How do you pronounce Antimony's name? Emphasis on which syllable?

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #474 on Dec 12, 2007, 5:30pm »

An-Ti-Mo-Nee. Like alimony.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #475 on Dec 12, 2007, 7:58pm »

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There are only three Harry Potter and Narnia books? Uh oh.

Also, don't be sheepish about reading Harry Potter and Eoin Colfer! Young Adult books are the best.

There should only be 3 Harry Potter books. PoA was the best.

I've met Eoin Colfer, awesome guy who writes awesome books.

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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #476 on Dec 13, 2007, 1:26am »

Er, not to condescend, but aijuan, could you be under the impression that "trilogy" means "series"? If so, you should know that a trilogy is a series with three books in it, although sometimes writers such as Douglas Adams use the term "trilogy" for a longer series.

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