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Post by preus on Sept 2, 2009 6:58:29 GMT
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Post by Yin on Sept 2, 2009 7:00:07 GMT
Defeat is admitted.
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Post by preus on Sept 2, 2009 7:01:03 GMT
Knew I'd get one sooner or later. You're still the champ, Yin. This one lucky break does nothing to diminish your multitudes of firsts.
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Post by Casey on Sept 2, 2009 7:02:12 GMT
Yeah they've been coming up like about 5 minutes till the hour, I first noticed it like a week ago.
Anyway, on topic. Why is Annie sort of awkward here? These are the same friends she went to the power station with. And they appear to be a lot more accepting of her showing her abilities than her mother's contemporaries were in her time. In fact there's nothing to say that blinker stones aren't relatively common in the GC universe. So what's her issue here?
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Post by Max on Sept 2, 2009 7:03:08 GMT
Man, I wonder how much control she has over those fires. I mean, I assume she lacked detailed understanding of the cows' sensory mechanisms, so she just had to think "flame that is undetectable to robocows."
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Post by edzepp on Sept 2, 2009 7:05:10 GMT
The backgrounds in the last 4 or so panels remind me of the cartoon Samurai Jack for some reason. I like it.
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Post by Casey on Sept 2, 2009 7:08:39 GMT
This is a question to Tom, hopefully he'll see this.
Is that John, wearing the GC ball cap? It looks like John's eyes, but I wanted to be sure since the character has a spoken line here.
Actually since we're on the subject of spoken lines, who is saying "Yeah, Thanks" at the bottom of the page? Inquiring directors want to know...
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Post by jimbobbowilly on Sept 2, 2009 7:10:10 GMT
Blonde girl gets a close up next to the so very blonde Winsbury. I'm thinking she's his sister.
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Post by eightyfour on Sept 2, 2009 7:10:39 GMT
Man, I wonder how much control she has over those fires. I mean, I assume she lacked detailed understanding of the cows' sensory mechanisms, so she just had to think "flame that is undetectable to robocows." That would be about it, I'd say. "It is like that because she wills it so." No understanding required. Annie is awkward indeed. Well, she never was a very social person, but "okay" and walking away like that? She sure has something on her mind. Side note: Now that she called her blinker stone, she won't be able to communicate with Rey anymore, for the duration of the trip. Unless, of course, she developes the ability to do so without "training wheels". |
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Post by Casey on Sept 2, 2009 7:14:20 GMT
eightyfour, if I were Annie, I would start practicing that ability right about now.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Sept 2, 2009 7:16:47 GMT
"Awkward Annie". Lovely. Anyway, on topic. Why is Annie sort of awkward here? These are the same friends she went to the power station with. Annie wasn't very talkative with the power station crowd either. After leaving Kat's dorm room, Annie wasn't shown speaking at all until Zimmy's arrival.
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Post by Casey on Sept 2, 2009 7:31:10 GMT
Hm, well Mezzaphor, in Power Station it could be divided into the time when they're travelling during which no-one is shown to be speaking, which doesn't necessarily mean that no-one was; the time when the other characters were being given some screen-time to establish their characters a little more since they haven't been seen in a while; and the time when the plot actually advanced, when Zimmy came onto the roof, wherein Annie has as many speaking lines as anyone else has had up to that point, and furthermore, not once but twice mediates between Zimmy/Gamma and the rest of the gang to make the whole evening run smoother.
So in short, I disagree with you about Annie not being talkative with the power station crowd; quite the opposite actually.
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Post by dj on Sept 2, 2009 7:33:30 GMT
Annie is awkward indeed. Well, she never was a very social person, but "okay" and walking away like that? She sure has something on her mind. Yeah, I'm thinking something like this or this or this. |
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Post by Casey on Sept 2, 2009 7:38:03 GMT
That's actually a good point dj (your first two links)... I don't recall that she ever reconciled with Willie, and considering his attitude was her very first experience with others at the school, she probably has a long memory about it.
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Post by Tom Siddell on Sept 2, 2009 7:47:05 GMT
This is a question to Tom, hopefully he'll see this. Is that John, wearing the GC ball cap? It looks like John's eyes, but I wanted to be sure since the character has a spoken line here. Actually since we're on the subject of spoken lines, who is saying "Yeah, Thanks" at the bottom of the page? Inquiring directors want to know... It's John, yeah. The person saying "Yeah, thanks" is one of Annie's classmates. Blonde girl gets a close up next to the so very blonde Winsbury. I'm thinking she's his sister. I thought that might happen if I showed two blonde people in close proximity. |
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Post by jimbobbowilly on Sept 2, 2009 8:26:00 GMT
Blonde girl gets a close up next to the so very blonde Winsbury. I'm thinking she's his sister. I thought that might happen if I showed two blonde people in close proximity. Oh well. |
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Post by TBeholder on Sept 2, 2009 9:10:44 GMT
Aw, so now you're into metahumor too?  And they appear to be a lot more accepting of her showing her abilities than her mother's contemporaries were in her time. [grabbing the cap] Kidz thes' days -- anime an' games an' all dat. Not a gene-rash-un dat was troubled jest seein' a teleport, i tell ye. [hurling dat cap] Well, that was an opening, that's not a situation where anyone would balk even though she one-upped them. So what's her issue here? Okay. Man, I wonder how much control she has over those fires. I mean, I assume she lacked detailed understanding of the cows' sensory mechanisms, so she just had to think "flame that is undetectable to robocows." Why would she bother at all? After learning how to will a flame interacting with anything but her and her clothes she only has to extend the same principle to the cows. |
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Post by Nicer Atom on Sept 2, 2009 9:20:12 GMT
For her awkwardness here, my guess is that she's just not used to people being so nice to her. And the caption reminded me of something. As much as I love that song, it's always worried me that the actual lyrics may say something about Tom's Annie. |
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Post by jon77 on Sept 2, 2009 10:28:57 GMT
For her awkwardness here, my guess is that she's just not used to people being so nice to her. She's also marking herself out as different from everyone else in the group. Kat's mom was also hesitant about revealing special abilities, in chapter 22 ("Ties"). Maybe she's a bit nervous about seeing their reaction. |
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Post by jon77 on Sept 2, 2009 10:30:36 GMT
Did anyone else only see two panels in the bottom row (instead of three), and have trouble figuring out why there were two Annies in the last panel?  The black borders of the panels melt into the black background of the night... |
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Post by todd on Sept 2, 2009 11:05:40 GMT
Shouldn't we be judging the kind of interactions that Annie has with the other children in her class by what's shown in the comic on-screen, rather than saying "Well, she could be doing a lot of talking with them that just wasn't shown"? The former seems to me a far safer approach in examining what takes place in a story.
In "Power Station", the other children only invited Kat along, not Annie; Annie came because Kat invited her.
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Post by idonotlikepeas on Sept 2, 2009 11:41:34 GMT
Annie's always a bit awkward. Might be exacerbated this time because 1) people are saying nice things to her, which she isn't used to, 2) it's a large group of students and having that many people looking at her all at once is harder to deal with, and 3) she just had to give up her ability to talk to Rey to do that. Blonde girl gets a close up next to the so very blonde Winsbury. I'm thinking she's his sister. I thought that might happen if I showed two blonde people in close proximity. I just figured Brinnie got her hair dyed. And made herself younger. And had plastic surgery. It's the most plausible thing I can think of. |
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Post by judgedeadd on Sept 2, 2009 12:29:56 GMT
Side note: Now that she called her blinker stone, she won't be able to communicate with Rey anymore, for the duration of the trip. Unless, of course, she developes the ability to do so without "training wheels". Ah-HAH! My plot point detector is ringing! Later on, she'll run into something problematic that would be solved within seconds if she could just talk to Reynardine, but what's this! No easy solutions for you! |
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Post by Aris Katsaris on Sept 2, 2009 13:27:14 GMT
Annie has just messed up the (suggested by Todd) court's Darwinian eradication of the weak. Bad Annie -- the proper solution to the puzzle was to use your blinkerstone to cook and eat the flesh of your classmates.
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Post by raharl on Sept 2, 2009 13:45:43 GMT
"No heat source detected." I love how the cow is equally perplexed by the magical fire.
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Post by the bandit on Sept 2, 2009 14:27:22 GMT
How now, RoboCow?
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Post by Casey on Sept 2, 2009 16:06:10 GMT
Shouldn't we be judging the kind of interactions that Annie has with the other children in her class by what's shown in the comic on-screen, rather than saying "Well, she could be doing a lot of talking with them that just wasn't shown"? The former seems to me a far safer approach in examining what takes place in a story. My point in saying that was that the person I was responding to was saying that Annie was talking much less than the others, and I was showing how, in that section, EVERYONE was shown to not be talking, not just Annie, and that therefore that section of the chapter can't be used for that argument. Whether or not everyone was making small talk during the scenes, and it just wasn't shown for the sake of the art, while I think it makes sense, in this case it's irrelevant to the point, which as I said, was to demonstrate that Annie was not talking appreciably less than everyone else. Wow... speaking of judging by what's shown on-screen... where do people get these wild ideas?? Page 444, panel 5, balloon 2, words 7-9, say them out loud. |
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Post by nickgoodway on Sept 2, 2009 16:12:16 GMT
I think Tom said in his caption that only Kat was invited and Annie was tagging along.
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Post by Casey on Sept 2, 2009 16:19:24 GMT
Curses, foiled again by unseen caption tags!
I hate making an ass of myself...
And P.S.: Thanks for clearing that up for me nick. I would much rather be corrected than to walk around believing something that isn't true.
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Post by bisected8 on Sept 2, 2009 16:26:41 GMT
I just had a thought. Maybe Annie's going to use the stone to eavesdrop on her classmates to find out what they think of her?
Doing something useful and leaving is a good way to make sure a conversation starts about you and she managed to leave a means to hear the conversation at the same time.
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