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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #210 on Apr 11, 2007, 7:13am »
Tom, is Sullivan's John going to become a more important character in the future?
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« Reply #211 on Apr 11, 2007, 10:12am »

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Any chance you could post some wips of a page being made at some point? Not for a tutorial or anything (unless you want to), I just always love to see the process of other artists.

I'll probably do something like this as soon as I get a chance.
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« Reply #212 on Apr 11, 2007, 10:13am »

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I hope all is well with you.

Question: If people seem to be getting too close to predicting actual events or plotlines in their speculations, are you going to feel compelled to change the storyline?

Thank you!

That's not been a problem so far.
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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #213 on Apr 11, 2007, 10:13am »

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Tom, is Sullivan's John going to become a more important character in the future?

Maybe. Maybe not!
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« Reply #214 on Apr 11, 2007, 9:57pm »
We know that you already knew when you began the webcomic that Annie's mother had recently died, and that when you were writing Chapter Three, you knew that Reynardine, once he possessed Annie's plush wolf doll, could shape-shift into an actual wolf big enough for Annie to ride upon (even though you had to wait until Chapter Twelve to show it).

Have there been any moments in the twelve chapters that you've already released that you genuinely didn't expect to write/draw until you actually did them, ones that took you by surprise?
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« Reply #215 on Apr 12, 2007, 10:03am »
Does GC have a headmaster?
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« Reply #216 on Apr 12, 2007, 4:51pm »

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We know that you already knew when you began the webcomic that Annie's mother had recently died, and that when you were writing Chapter Three, you knew that Reynardine, once he possessed Annie's plush wolf doll, could shape-shift into an actual wolf big enough for Annie to ride upon (even though you had to wait until Chapter Twelve to show it).

Have there been any moments in the twelve chapters that you've already released that you genuinely didn't expect to write/draw until you actually did them, ones that took you by surprise?

This is a good question. The answer is yes and no. Everything that I've drawn plot wise so far has been according to plan, but there have been some minor things that I've changed last minute when I realised something just wouldn't work. If I do make changes to the storyline they are usually things that won't happen for months, so they are just as planned as the rest.
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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #217 on Apr 12, 2007, 4:51pm »

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Does GC have a headmaster?

Yup, it does.
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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #218 on Apr 16, 2007, 8:29am »
Is the "very nice man" native to Gillitie Wood?
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« Reply #219 on Apr 17, 2007, 10:21pm »

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Is the "very nice man" native to Gillitie Wood?

Lips are sealed.
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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #220 on Apr 18, 2007, 11:18am »
Is Gillitie Wood pronounced:

Gill-it-ee?

Jill-it-ee?

Guh-lit-tee?

Help, it's been confounding me for far too long.
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« Reply #221 on Apr 18, 2007, 1:33pm »

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Is Gillitie Wood pronounced:

Gill-it-ee?

Jill-it-ee?

Guh-lit-tee?

Help, it's been confounding me for far too long.

Gill-it-ee would be the proper way to pronounce it.
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« Reply #222 on Apr 20, 2007, 7:18am »
On the subject of pronunciation (I feel a bit foolish for asking, but this has been bothering me for a long time), is it AN-ti-mo-ny or an-TI-mo-ny?

I suppose I could just call her "Annie"...
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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #223 on Apr 20, 2007, 7:39am »

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On the subject of pronunciation (I feel a bit foolish for asking, but this has been bothering me for a long time), is it AN-ti-mo-ny or an-TI-mo-ny?

I suppose I could just call her "Annie"...

It's pronounced with the same inflection as "alimony".
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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #224 on Apr 22, 2007, 11:20am »
Who is Tea? General avatar? Real-life girlfriend? Something else? I can't believe no-one has asked this already . . . please forgive me if you've already answered this somewhere.
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« Reply #225 on Apr 23, 2007, 7:19am »
Hello Tom! My question is:

How are you?

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« Reply #226 on Apr 23, 2007, 11:30am »

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Who is Tea? General avatar? Real-life girlfriend? Something else? I can't believe no-one has asked this already . . . please forgive me if you've already answered this somewhere.

She is nobody important.
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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #227 on Apr 23, 2007, 11:34am »

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Hello Tom! My question is:

How are you?

:)

I am okay, thank you.
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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #228 on Apr 23, 2007, 7:20pm »
Tom, is the entire tale being told by Annie after the eventual end of her story, or is each chapter narrated by the Annie that just experienced it?
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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #229 on Apr 23, 2007, 7:54pm »
yeochild : that's a damn good question. But if Annie was narrating from the end of the story it would mean that she has to survive everything (like Dee Dee Truitt in 'The Opposite of Sex'), which would be a bit of a tension breaker to say the least.
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« Reply #230 on Apr 23, 2007, 10:21pm »
Of course, we haven't seen that much narration from Annie for a while (I think that the last "caption-narration" was at the start of Chapter 8 - Annie narrating earlier events to Kat in the course of the story, which she does in Chapters 9 and 12, doesn't count). Chapter 1 and the start of Chapter 2 were the biggies for that. (Once she made a friend in the form of Kat, she no longer had as much need to speak directly to the reader, obviously.)
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« Reply #231 on Apr 23, 2007, 10:27pm »

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...if Annie was narrating from the end of the story it would mean that she has to survive everything...
Actually considering where Tom got the inspiration for the first page (or at least for Antimony's look, but the text on the first page is remarkably similar as well), I'd say that's not true at all. :D

I think a narrative structure leaves a lot of room for the writer anyway. There's no reason somebody couldn't tell the story after he/she died, and you don't even have to explain it.
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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #232 on Apr 24, 2007, 8:18am »
Carver is currently narrating the story, even if there are no obvious dialogue boxes. From what point she is narrating, however, remains to be seen.
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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #233 on Apr 27, 2007, 6:22pm »
We know that Annie has blue eyes, but what about Kat or the other students, like Aly and Winsbury?
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« Reply #234 on Apr 27, 2007, 10:28pm »

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Carver is currently narrating the story, even if there are no obvious dialogue boxes. From what point she is narrating, however, remains to be seen.


The "currently" part makes me wonder if, at some later point, Annie may stop narrating the story and even pass on the torch to another character who will replace her as the webcomic's protagonist, although I hope that that doesn't happen.

I might hasten to add that this is a comment rather than a question.
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« Reply #235 on May 1, 2007, 3:37am »
So Tom, how'd you get your own website?

That is, who's your host, what'd you do to find it, etc.?

I'm the guy who's trying to start my own webcomic, if you remember. Just trying to get off the ground, 'cause I know very little about hosting a personal site.


On an unrelated note, are you ever going to consider having guest comics?
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« Reply #236 on May 1, 2007, 6:34am »

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When exactly are our heroines' birthdays?

At some point during the year.
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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #237 on May 14, 2007, 6:18am »
Hey . . . is it a coincidence that Antimony's name and nature both seem to reflect the word 'antidote'?

If not, have you been wondering when one of us would pick up on that?
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« Reply #238 on May 15, 2007, 7:23pm »
I dunno, personally I think antimony is as far from an antidote as you can get, seeing as how it's toxic an' all.

But that raises a question for me, one that Tom probably won't answer clearly due to how it might provide insight into things we're not supposed to be thinking about yet. Regardless, Tom why did you name her Antimony in the first place? Not that I'm implying it's not a good name, I think it was a pretty inventive decision to name a character after a periodic element, and I think you're pretty observant for picking one that actually sounds like it could easily be a normal name.

But really, why? Is there some property of antimony that somewhat reflects a quality of Antimony?
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Re: Questions to Tom
« Reply #239 on May 15, 2007, 9:42pm »
As you've guessed, aoeniac, I won't be giving away anything but I can say that Annie's name wasn't chosen just because it sounds nice.
As for Carver acting like "antidote"... I don't quite see the connection.
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