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Post by Yin on Sept 12, 2008 6:56:24 GMT
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Post by etcetera on Sept 12, 2008 7:20:42 GMT
What the ... ?? Looks like ... a weather control experiment? But it's supposed to be a power plant. What kind of experiments can be done in a power plant anyways?
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Post by mudmaniac on Sept 12, 2008 7:23:29 GMT
"Voooooooooo" is never a good sound.
Wonder if Z goes into anaphylactic shock next.
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Post by Vanessa on Sept 12, 2008 7:58:31 GMT
Who said it was a power plant?
I love the last panel!
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Post by etcetera on Sept 12, 2008 8:11:02 GMT
The title of the chapter said it's a ... "Power Station", sorry.
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Post by gaia on Sept 12, 2008 8:32:35 GMT
It's a power station that's experimenting with drawing power from clouds.
Gamma doesn't seem too upset with Zimmy: she's still got her hand on her shoulder.
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Post by mudmaniac on Sept 12, 2008 9:53:33 GMT
The way i see it, Gamma just aint that dumb to take Z's translations as the truth. Tho, she has no other means of conversation besides Z. Despite knowing that Zimmy is lying, Gamma still considers her a friend.
I wait for monday's comic to completely blow my assumptions outta the water.
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Post by agasa on Sept 12, 2008 10:55:02 GMT
The huge torus and its underlying structure, seen in panel 4 and 5, seems a giant version of a Tesla Coil Toroid:  . The Tesla Coil is a device used to obtain a large voltage (and proportionally low amperage) from a power source, and make sparks, or in other cases, other stuff. It's used to light up high power gas discharge lamps. They're probably discharging lighting it in the atmosphere for some reason, or more probably they're drawing power from the storms and using it in the coil for obtaining some really otherworldly voltage, normally unheard of. |
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Post by starburst98 on Sept 12, 2008 12:32:50 GMT
tesla was the original mad scientist. which makes he awesome. what he was trying to do with the tesla coil was power the whole planet with an enourmous one.
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Post by La Poire on Sept 12, 2008 13:16:26 GMT
The huge torus and its underlying structure, seen in panel 4 and 5, seems a giant version of a Tesla Coil Toroid: . The Tesla Coil is a device used to obtain a large voltage (and proportionally low amperage) from a power source, and make sparks, or in other cases, other stuff. It's used to light up high power gas discharge lamps. I'm currently in the process of consructing a coil of about that size and goddamn if that picture didn't make me even more eager til it's done. Also, "Voooooooooo" is never a good sound. Vooooooooo is the BEST sound Edit: except when it's the sound of something being pointed at you |
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Post by Midnight Meadows on Sept 12, 2008 14:51:05 GMT
In before the entire island out there does something similar to the end of the most recent season of LOST.
I'm calling it now.
(Actually it wouldn't really make much sense if it did that....unless it was a temporary thing)
(Sorry for cryptic speech, trying not to spoil anyone who hasn't seen it)
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Post by cenit on Sept 12, 2008 15:25:41 GMT
guess I'll have to wait till Monday for Z bugs to show up...
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Post by starburst98 on Sept 12, 2008 16:50:26 GMT
i bet the strings going between zimmy and gamma are going to shatter and zimmy is going to grab her head and screem, and monsters just start crawling out of the shadows, everyone freaks the hell out except for annie, who does something kick-ass and saves the day.
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Post by Per on Sept 12, 2008 16:58:24 GMT
I think the Court is in somebody's clouds, tapping their etheric energy.
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Post by starburst98 on Sept 12, 2008 17:36:03 GMT
ooooo,wait. what if it's messing with her by making her tired? she never felt tired before so she dosn't know what it is. so next comic she faints and takes a nap. the black in her eyes recedes and has a plesant dream. bet none of you would have seen that one coming.
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Post by Vanessa on Sept 12, 2008 18:26:52 GMT
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Post by Chrome on Sept 12, 2008 22:35:56 GMT
I always figured Zimmy to be a more cranked-up version of Wednesday Addams anyways--she's got her poles reversed to a level even more intense than goth or disturbingly quiet. More like outright psycho. But given what she does to keep Gamma, there's obviously a vulnerable, more human side to her.
As for the power station, yeah it does look like a weather/water experiment. That's got to affect Zimmy on a couple of levels. Notice how a storm calms her down? This thing, drawing from a storm, or drawing from water...yeah. No wonder it's messing with her head.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Sept 12, 2008 22:52:06 GMT
An experiment in weather manipulation, perhaps?
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Post by Tenjen on Sept 13, 2008 6:40:41 GMT
nah, it just seems to be powering up. if its weather manipulation, it wouldnt be sucking in water vapor [or whatever that is] around a tower.
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Post by chowder on Sept 13, 2008 9:12:58 GMT
I vote something explodes. Wonder if Z goes into anaphylactic shock next. I'm pretty sure anaphylaxis is actually triggered by severe allergies, like what I imagine would happen if someone gave me cephalexin... |
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Post by lorem ipsum on Sept 14, 2008 2:54:57 GMT
I've just noticed the station looks a bit like a broadcast station. Zimmy's compared her... problems to a radio/tv (static, tuning, etc.). And if waves are waves are waves, it's possible that what she picks up (brain waves) could be seriously picket-fencing when stronger signals (radio/aethericwaves from or to a giant island station) come into play.
(There's also some possibility that that's why she dislikes the TicTocs so much -- they appear to be miniature broadcast stations -- shortwave radios if you will. In the Tic-Tok thread someone has pointed out how when rooted, they grow a miniature antenna and satellite. There's even some possibility that Zimmy's visions two years ago are things that a Tik-Tok or court surveillance system could have been broadcasting, given the familiar appearances of some of it... But if she cannot stand to have their "eyes" on her, it may be that the feedback signal just drives her a little nuts. Imagine that sound you get when you hold a mic too close to a speaker, or the infinity loop you get when you point a video camera at the output screen.)
My love of all things send and receive may be (read:probably is) making me think too much.
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Post by Count Casimir on Sept 14, 2008 4:40:35 GMT
I'd like to point out that the sound is in fact "VooooooooooZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ" which is even more ominous.
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Post by etcetera on Sept 14, 2008 11:50:13 GMT
The sound effect in the last panel could also be "NNNNNNNNN". But I doubt it.
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Post by exdevlin on Sept 14, 2008 21:38:35 GMT
I had a theory about the way the station is creating rainclouds/stormclouds and how it relates to Zimmy's NEED for that last storm to break out. Maybe when the storm breaks, the station ceases emission of waves for a while, hence giving Zimmy mental comfort?
I hate how this leaves me hanging for the weekend..
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Post by CoyoteKing on Sept 15, 2008 4:20:05 GMT
The way i see it, Gamma just aint that dumb to take Z's translations as the truth. Tho, she has no other means of conversation besides Z. Despite knowing that Zimmy is lying, Gamma still considers her a friend. I wait for monday's comic to completely blow my assumptions outta the water. I kinda doubt Zimmy is out and out lying to her, she just has a fairly pessimistic/cynical/fatalistic/dark/negative/etc outlook on, well, everything. |
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Post by mudmaniac on Sept 15, 2008 5:28:04 GMT
I vote something explodes. I'm pretty sure anaphylaxis is actually triggered by severe allergies, like what I imagine would happen if someone gave me cephalexin... I second that exploding motion. I dunno. figured maybe zimmy's allergic to etheric radio broadcasts? |
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Post by Mezzaphor on Sept 15, 2008 7:17:45 GMT
I kinda doubt Zimmy is out and out lying to her, she just has a fairly pessimistic/cynical/fatalistic/dark/negative/etc outlook on, well, everything. Tom edited the commentary below [455] to say outright that Zimmy is lying. It doesn't get any clearer than that. |
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