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Post by Max on May 17, 2010 7:07:19 GMT
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Post by legion on May 17, 2010 7:11:09 GMT
*pretends he did not see the wrong page being online for a couple of minutes*
Nice move, Jones (though she will probably call back Annie on it later).
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Post by Snes on May 17, 2010 7:12:31 GMT
I guess public retribution is averted. But I'm sure Jones will have some choice words for our girl in private.
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Post by jon77 on May 17, 2010 7:12:32 GMT
No repeat for me.
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Post by Nicer Atom on May 17, 2010 7:12:35 GMT
How can someone who's so good at tricking adults be so useless at playing along?
Yeah, that repeat was odd.
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Post by Ignotus Somnium on May 17, 2010 7:14:48 GMT
Very smooth, Jones.
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Post by thelizard on May 17, 2010 7:14:48 GMT
Um, Jones? Could you maybe explain the whole Jack thing? Or the whole crushing-solid-concrete-with-bare-hands thing?
I get the feeling Jones is not the explaining type.
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Post by GK Sierra on May 17, 2010 7:15:55 GMT
Apparently the authorities have been looking for Jack for a while. Interesting.
Watch, Jones is about to lay it all out to Annie in a cold monotone.
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Post by hal9000 on May 17, 2010 7:16:45 GMT
Well that was anticlimactic.
Oh well, I guess we'll get some more exposition on Jack's recent activities now or something similar.
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Post by amanmademonster on May 17, 2010 7:17:24 GMT
Here I thought he was getting lazy and just doing a 'flashback' and that Annie was somehow supposed to magically get Reynard back to his body because Jones would be all 'pff I aint helping you biatch' but that wouldn't be a very Jones-y thing to do now would it?
Also, Reynard got all fixed last page so everything I said makes NO sense whatsoever but this is what happens when I stay up until 3 in the morning just to read GK
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Post by eightyfour on May 17, 2010 7:18:44 GMT
How can someone who's so good at tricking adults be so useless at playing along? Well, Annie is awesome with these kind of things when she has the time to plan them, but she is rubbish at improvising. I'm wondering though if Jones maybe really did plan this. Maybe she was aware of Annies and Jacks earlier connection and was expecting him to contact her. She would of course leave Annie in the dark because knowledge of being the bait could ruin it - also I'd have doubts Annie would've played along. |
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Post by guyy on May 17, 2010 7:21:01 GMT
That last panel rivals ol' Kingbot in bizarre hilariousness. But...what did they get out of finding Jack? They haven't exactly captured him, or anything; he just flew out the window with his spidery telekinesis. Or does the Court have other psychic flying people chasing him? |
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Post by hal9000 on May 17, 2010 7:24:36 GMT
How can someone who's so good at tricking adults be so useless at playing along? Well, Annie is awesome with these kind of things when she has the time to plan them, but she is rubbish at improvising. I'm wondering though if Jones maybe really did plan this. Maybe she was aware of Annies and Jacks earlier connection and was expecting him to contact her. She would of course leave Annie in the dark because knowledge of being the bait could ruin it - also I'd have doubts Annie would've played along. Maybe Jack wasn't just being paranoid about the court tracking students.  |
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Post by Mr Pitchfork on May 17, 2010 7:49:20 GMT
Last panel, so cool, so, so, ahahahahaha
real cool there annie
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Post by Charlotte on May 17, 2010 8:38:20 GMT
It may be anticlimax, though I note there is no ownership symbol on Ren's head. I'll think that Ren was freed when Jack took Annie's possession away and has returned to the wolf toy because that's where he wants to be and will conceal from her the fact that he is camping in her sock drawer when he no longer needs to. (Yet again more evidence that it was the toy that was his original target, if we needed more evidence.) Until such time as Tom crushes my hopes and dreams once more, at any rate :-). And much as I'd like to tell Annie to dump Jack, he's not worth it, I look at www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=717 and see them both looking back at each other and the look is two hurt and angry people, frustrated at not understanding why the other is behaving the way they do, but still caring. |
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Post by nimue on May 17, 2010 8:51:09 GMT
Wow, a page that doesn't raise unbearable curiosity! Still, if everyone is inside the building and jack's away, what is the point in spotting him?
And while I agree he's being an ass I think we need to know more about him before being sure about who to blame.
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Post by maratanos on May 17, 2010 9:14:06 GMT
It may be anticlimax, though I note there is no ownership symbol on Ren's head. I'll think that Ren was freed when Jack took Annie's possession away and has returned to the wolf toy because that's where he wants to be and will conceal from her the fact that he is camping in her sock drawer when he no longer needs to. (Yet again more evidence that it was the toy that was his original target, if we needed more evidence.) Until such time as Tom crushes my hopes and dreams once more, at any rate :-). This assumption is extremely premature. The symbol, you will remember, has never shown up reliably in his toy form anyway (cf 695). Wait till he next turns into a wolf before you freak out. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on May 17, 2010 10:12:07 GMT
But I'm sure Jones will have some choice words for our girl in private. I'm thinking you're right. Check out Jones' facial expression in panel 2. By the way, since people have mentioned Reynard's symbol (mercury) let me ask: Wasn't it a little different in #721 than when we've seen it before? The cross bit below the moon (silver) crescent has different proportions almost like it's been inverted. I have no idea if that was just an artistic choice by the artist, the way Jack would draw the symbol, or if it actually means something. I looked around on some alchemy symbol sites but didn't find anything on what that particular change would mean, if anything. My completely uninformed guess is that if it's intentional it relates to mercury in bondage. |
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Post by todd on May 17, 2010 10:43:41 GMT
And much as I'd like to tell Annie to dump Jack, he's not worth it, I look at www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=717 and see them both looking back at each other and the look is two hurt and angry people, frustrated at not understanding why the other is behaving the way they do, but still caring. I still honestly don't see any romantic, semi-romantic, or potentially romantic chemistry between Annie and Jack. |
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Post by Tobu Ishi on May 17, 2010 11:40:58 GMT
And much as I'd like to tell Annie to dump Jack, he's not worth it, I look at www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=717 and see them both looking back at each other and the look is two hurt and angry people, frustrated at not understanding why the other is behaving the way they do, but still caring. I still honestly don't see any romantic, semi-romantic, or potentially romantic chemistry between Annie and Jack. Hey, now, hey, now. "Caring" isn't limited to a romantic context. It can be the caring of friendship or of a respectful acquaintance or a family member (though not the latter in this case), or even between benevolent strangers. Heck, I care about stray cats I see on the street. Care doesn't always automatically equate with love. ...unless you're thirteen years old and writing fanfiction, I suppose. ;D |
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Post by todd on May 17, 2010 11:58:20 GMT
True, but the inclusion of such words and phrases as "dump" and "he's not worth it" suggest that the author meant "caring" in a romantic way.
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Post by lovecraft1024 on May 17, 2010 12:51:09 GMT
I think Annie's look back at Jack in 717 was pure annoyance and anger. After all, he just did her a big favor (so he thought) that she never asked for nor wanted, and she wasn't going to leave Rey behind.
And don't forget, Jack is a dude with a spider on his head. I can't see them getting together until the spider is removed, and even then, he's got some attitude adjustments to make.
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Post by Casey on May 17, 2010 13:21:00 GMT
Hey, we shouldn't discourage the young people from seeing love and romance behind every glance and under every rock... That hopeless romanticism should still be alive in this world is one of the few things that gives me hope in our species. I'd rather a person imagine love where there absolutely, positively is none, than a person imagine apathy where love exists. It's spring, after all.
Anyway, what the hell was I thinking about? Oh, yeah... there was no actual plan to use Annie to find Jack, Jones is just giving her a huge 'out' to not get in trouble. Man, I wish I had a Jones to follow me around and get me out of stuff. The look that Jones shot her, I interpreted it as Jones' best attempt to say with her eyes "I'm about to lie to save you, please be clever enough to pick up on it and go along with it." And I think Annie did just that... at least as well as anyone in that situation might. I'm actually surprised that no one (myself included) thought about the old "we planned this all along" ploy to get Annie out of what seemed an unavoidable run-in with the po-po.
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Post by Alex on May 17, 2010 15:11:24 GMT
Jones is simultaneously saving Annie from official sanction and giving her a far more severe punishment: her disapproval. Annie won't get in trouble, but she knows Jones knows she messed up ("Well done, Antimony") and I feel like Annie's the type of person to find that more distressing.
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Post by Afalstein on May 17, 2010 15:25:34 GMT
There's been suggestions of a romantic thing starting out here. Jack giving Annie a note, the moonlit boat ride, the comment about "maybe they're tracking us through our clothes," the idea that Jack was trying to help Annie, even his statement "I'll carry you" suggests a romantic potential there.
However, I don't think it's going to happen. Unless Jack's being SERIOUSLY affected by that spider, he's already shown himself strongly distant from Annie and Kat. He killed the robot, he trapped Reynardine, he left them both behind to stall the guards (which seems to have backfired). Annie's face showed how strongly she was displeased with Jack, I think he's currently one of the full antagonists in this story now.
Of course, that could change once Annie hears what the Court's planning to do with him. If they've got some nasty way to "cure" or "isolate" Jack in mind, she might end up going rogue again to cure Jack in her own way.
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Post by TBeholder on May 17, 2010 16:09:42 GMT
Here I thought he was getting lazy and just doing a 'flashback' and that Annie was somehow supposed to magically get Reynard back to his body because Jones would be all 'pff I aint helping you biatch' but that wouldn't be a very Jones-y thing to do now would it? This remind me one tale from Hobbits' Games. ;D An elven magic user wants to remove Domination from some damsel who ran into the Angmarian but didn't want to play for the Dark side. Game masters decide - they both are here, so let them resolve it via the magic duel. - So it's in-game now? - asks Witch-King's player. - Of course. The next moment Nazgul turns to the elf and cuts him down. - But... we wanted a magical duel! - And i acted as my character was supposed to behave. - Figures... - sighs the deceased elf's player. I guess public retribution is averted. But I'm sure Jones will have some choice words for our girl in private. she owes Jones one for pulling her stern out of this. Anyway, very smooth defusing of a problem.  Jones is simultaneously saving Annie from official sanction and giving her a far more severe punishment: her disapproval. Looks like this. She matters, not yet another bothersome stranger. |
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Post by djublonskopf on May 17, 2010 16:53:17 GMT
Is the anti-Buddha (the tall, skinny, stressed-looking woman with the super-long neck) related to Jack somehow?
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Post by Mr Pitchfork on May 17, 2010 17:04:28 GMT
Hey, we shouldn't discourage the young people from seeing love and romance behind every glance and under every rock... That hopeless romanticism should still be alive in this world is one of the few things that gives me hope in our species. I'd rather a person imagine love where there absolutely, positively is none, than a person imagine apathy where love exists. It's spring, after all. No. Spring is the time where I want to peel my face off, not the time where I want to awwww at everything. Gooo awaaay. where did i put my potato peeler... |
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Post by beatfox on May 17, 2010 17:15:37 GMT
By the way, since people have mentioned Reynard's symbol (mercury) let me ask: Wasn't it a little different in #721 than when we've seen it before? The cross bit below the moon (silver) crescent has different proportions almost like it's been inverted. I have no idea if that was just an artistic choice by the artist, the way Jack would draw the symbol, or if it actually means something. I looked around on some alchemy symbol sites but didn't find anything on what that particular change would mean, if anything. My completely uninformed guess is that if it's intentional it relates to mercury in bondage. Mercury's not actually Rey's personal symbol but the symbol for the power to take bodies, as Tom recently clarified on his Formspring (which now seems to have vanished - did he finally tire of it?). And I'm pretty sure Tom just happened to draw it that way in that panel - if you look at it here, it's drawn with more standard proportions. Is the anti-Buddha (the tall, skinny, stressed-looking woman with the super-long neck) related to Jack somehow? That's Shell, and she doesn't have any relation to Jack as far as we know. |
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Post by Mishmash on May 17, 2010 18:26:27 GMT
Man no wonder Annie is stuttering away like that after the look Jones gave her in panel 2... especially right after making a handprint in solid concrete!
Panel 2 in general is really awesome, so stylish. The last panel is just hilarious.
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