[514]Ooh! You're a natural!

I can't help but feel that there was some time in Gunnerkrigg Court where it was inferred that someone saw something using a blinker stone, or am I imagining it?

I wonder if the Blinker stone is a natural, etheric device, or that it is the result of Court technology.

The cut is getting brighter. Why is the cut getting brighter?

Coyote would probably be aware of it and have the blinker stone moved somewhere where it would communicate no usable information (though, knowing him, a lot of potentially embarrassing information from the point of view of the people who put the blinker stone there).

Except the cut only appeared while she was seeing the etheric plane. The last time we saw the cut was in Zimmy's mind, where reality itself is kind of twisted around (Zimmy also saw the cut once in the real-world, when Gamma was asleep and she started seeing things wrong, and realized the cut was something that occured in the past)

It seems to have some spiritual significance, like perhaps the attack on Annie's face left some kind of scar on her spirit that only shows under extraordinary circumstances.

Or maybe Tom just likes the idea of her carrying the mark on her face from time to time and has no real other reason for it.

Someone suggested once on the comments page that the cut stems in part from Annie not having helped Jeanne out (something that we know, from the end of Chapter Sixteen, she feels guilty about). Annie isn't conscious of the cut itself, but her self-reproach might be ensuring that it appears in etheric situations. I won't even try to guess, though, whether the cut will disappear if Annie does solve Jeanne's problem and help her move on.

(Though Tom's already said that Annie doesn't know about the cut, the evidence in the webcomic on its own would argue that. Annie didn't see herself in the mirror on either occasion that the cut appeared in the past - Chapter Eleven and Chapter Nineteen. Zimmy didn't mention it to her, either - not surprising, since her attitude would probably be "if it's not happening to me or Gamma, I don't care." So Annie would have no way of knowing about it.)

Isn't that what I said?

The question was why is it growing brighter, though. I simply wondered why the cut may have been growing worse each time we saw it in this chapter, and came up with the hypothesis that somehow Annie's etherial self (her spirit, if you will) had been injured, and that injury was growing worse each time she aggrevated it by using her spirit's power. This is not an unheard of concept. Thus, even though her real body will never show a mark, every time she pushes herself supernaturally she hurts her spirit a bit more, until the wound eventually threatens her spirit's existence.

It's just a theory, but we don't really know what Jeanne's ghost IS. She crossed the Annan waters to attack Annie, which shouldn't have been possible. I'm not going to rule anything out at this point.

As if anyone for a moment would have guessed that Annie's wouldn't have natural ability.

I love how the large "panel" has no boundary and the hair flows from one Annie's head to the other.

I see it as more of a mark. Maybe Jeanne got brought across by Annie's attention in her--the kid does have an "attractive" quality to etheric beings--and wanted to mark Annie so she recognized her should they meet again. For all we know, she did that in her human life as well to worthy individuals so they could be found again, by her or her friends.

I'm just wondering, cause it seems almost like a symbol, an indicator to others of the spirit world. Mort's pretty young, so he wouldn't know about the significance of it. But others...I dunno. It's just an idea.

Well she's fumbling it in the second-to-last frame. That might mess up the "Blink" effect. "Blink" might be what happens when the stone comes in contact with your hand after you pull it up from wherever you left it.

pfft, I'm Sure Eglamore could throw it with his bare hands. ;D

Bee-yotiful art BTW, I love how the hair of the two aether antimony flow into each other.

The cut, the cutr is obviously spiritual in nature, until now we have seen it only in realtion to some kind of "spirit world" like Zimmy's world and now this. mmmh... was there other instances?

Very nice!

I was going to liken what she's doing more to Remote Viewing, but now that I think about it, Astral Projection is probably a better description of what she's doing, though it is like Remote Viewing on that you can do it on the fly as opposed to having to get into a meditative state first Astral Projection.

Forget all the technical bits, this webcomic is COOL!

I wonder if she'll learn how to do this with other things then just the Blinker Stone.

anyone notice that ALL the color is from the forest? while the court is a monotone grey. also, notice how mrs. donlan was all grey on the last page. the only things with color are annie's body and the stone, the clothes also a mute grey. i think anything... artificial, comes up grey.

Are you sure about that? I mean, they can create artificial rain:
www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=458