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Post by Refugee on Oct 27, 2010 20:01:23 GMT
Two Three things:
Surma goes barefoot in the forest. That implies she rarely wears shoes, and has developed lovely thick calluses.
Surma goes to the forest fairly casually and without escort. Rey is not surprised to see her there, and she knew where she was likely to find him.
Surma is not at all dismayed by Renardine's forwardness, judging by her expression in panel six.
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Post by Rex on Oct 27, 2010 20:22:54 GMT
Well, we knew the first one from what Coyote told Annie about Surma rolling around laughing with twigs in her hair and dirt on her bare feet.
Gotta love how these pages with Surma make it clear how different Annie is from her mother. I can see why she'd bristle at the constant comparisons (that and it probably makes her feel less-than).
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Post by Casey on Oct 27, 2010 20:38:52 GMT
Surma does have a different personality from Annie, that is true. On the other hand, Annie is a different age from any of the times we've seen Surma, and Surma also (as far as we know) did not have the kind of tragic childhood that Annie had.
I point this out because several people have told Annie how much like her mother she is, and I have to wonder if those events hadn't happened to her, if she wouldn't be a lot more like her mother. We have actually seen Annie act a lot like her mother on several occasions, it's just that they're rare enough that people tend to forget them (getting mad at Mort in Blinking, needling Smitty about Parley in JMM, running off with Coyote and then brushing off his mock advances in The Old Dog's Tricks, just to name three off the top of my head).
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Post by dismalscientist on Oct 27, 2010 20:54:50 GMT
Surma does have a different personality from Annie, that is true. On the other hand, Annie is a different age from any of the times we've seen Surma, and Surma also (as far as we know) did not have the kind of tragic childhood that Annie had. The implication always seemed to me that Annie has somewhat more of her father's taciturn flatness than her mother's fieriness (although she has both in some proportion). How old were the parents supposed to be in Ties, anyway? I'm rather terrible at judging these things.
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Post by evilanagram on Oct 27, 2010 21:03:53 GMT
I thought they were about the same age in Ties as Annie is now, but Casey raises a good point. There are several times when Surma's behavior and facial expressions in Ties echo Annie's, and Surma even has a very similar expression on her face in panel six compared to Annie's when she brushes off Coyote.
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Post by Midnight Meadows on Oct 27, 2010 21:13:41 GMT
Surma time! SURMA TIME!
Oh boy, I love when it's Surma time.
Maybe even our favorite Trickster will show up?
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Post by evilanagram on Oct 27, 2010 21:41:19 GMT
You mean your favorite trickster. No doubt some people prefer Reynardine.
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Post by Casey on Oct 27, 2010 21:56:43 GMT
Oooo, Battle of the Trickster Worshippers!
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Post by Hyru Wachai on Oct 27, 2010 23:52:14 GMT
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Post by warrl on Oct 28, 2010 0:15:52 GMT
There is no white in Rey's eyes and it makes him look creepy. If you look closely, you'll note that the whites of his eyes are orange. An odd stylistic choice. Having visible white portions of our eyes is actually fairly unusual among land animals. Speculation is that it's a communication device - it means that I can tell where YOU are looking at a much larger distance than I can tell where, say, a deer is looking. Foxes, in particular, do not have "whites of their eyes" in white. i1.treknature.com/photos/2907/red-fox-eyes.jpg
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Post by q3 on Oct 28, 2010 4:23:10 GMT
He first introduces himself to Annie as Reynardine... after having been reminded of Surma, of course.
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Post by wlerin on Oct 28, 2010 4:58:41 GMT
"THIS is TOO COOL!" : quoted from Syndrome! I will gladly accept well deserved teasing BUT guess what I just figured out..... you can download a wiki page in pdf format.... You can open a pdf document into Adobe Reader.... Adobe reader will READ it out loud to you! I can listen to it while I'm working! ....less cool edit: Ooooo Stephen Hawking is reading it to me! ....even less cool edit: Its Stephen Hawking, doing ventriloquism using a wet Spongebob Squarepants dummy.... so... yeah... not gonna work... Oh and Adobe reader just crashed... so much for modern conveniences. Or, alternatively... use Text-to-Voice
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Post by jayne on Oct 28, 2010 17:12:29 GMT
"THIS is TOO COOL!" : quoted from Syndrome! I will gladly accept well deserved teasing BUT guess what I just figured out..... you can download a wiki page in pdf format.... You can open a pdf document into Adobe Reader.... Adobe reader will READ it out loud to you! I can listen to it while I'm working! ....less cool edit: Ooooo Stephen Hawking is reading it to me! ....even less cool edit: Its Stephen Hawking, doing ventriloquism using a wet Spongebob Squarepants dummy.... so... yeah... not gonna work... Oh and Adobe reader just crashed... so much for modern conveniences. Or, alternatively... use Text-to-VoiceThank you! She has a much better voice. I'll have to play with that a while.
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Post by zylonbane on Oct 28, 2010 17:49:53 GMT
If you read many tech support horror story sites like DailyWTF or Shark Tank, there's definitely an ironic trend toward engineers being terrible with computers. Y'know, those people who print their emails out, then scan them, then turn the scan into a PDF, then run OCR on the PDF to get the original text back.
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Post by jayne on Oct 28, 2010 18:03:59 GMT
If you read many tech support horror story sites like DailyWTF or Shark Tank, there's definitely an ironic trend toward engineers being terrible with computers. Y'know, those people who print their emails out, then scan them, then turn the scan into a PDF, then run OCR on the PDF to get the original text back. Those are engineers? Sounds like management to me!
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Post by bookworm on Oct 28, 2010 20:21:37 GMT
Reynardine reminds me a lot of Coyote here, especially with the looking-up-skirt part ;D Maybe Surma needs to administer some spankies...
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Post by digikitty on Oct 28, 2010 20:43:39 GMT
Reynardine probably wouldn't mind
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Post by athaclena on Oct 29, 2010 0:01:32 GMT
When Annie was first shown the picture that was being taken at the beginning of Ties she was told that they were a bit older than her and Kat are now.
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Post by Casey on Oct 29, 2010 3:11:25 GMT
When Annie was first shown the picture that was being taken at the beginning of Ties she was told that they were a bit older than her and Kat are now. That's true. What's your comment in reference to though?
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Post by notacat on Oct 29, 2010 6:11:44 GMT
If you read many tech support horror story sites like DailyWTF or Shark Tank, there's definitely an ironic trend toward engineers being terrible with computers. Y'know, those people who print their emails out, then scan them, then turn the scan into a PDF, then run OCR on the PDF to get the original text back. Those are engineers? Sounds like management to me! [glow=red,2,300]Oh, please![/glow] Point me to one of those steps that management could manage without a nerd holding their hand ;D
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Post by jayne on Oct 29, 2010 14:22:25 GMT
Those are engineers? Sounds like management to me! [glow=red,2,300]Oh, please![/glow] Point me to one of those steps that management could manage without a nerd holding their hand ;D They were probably trying to play farmville and ended up doing all that by accident.. "I was harvesting some corn... and the printer just went off..."
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