thor
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Post by thor on Jan 31, 2011 10:06:03 GMT
So, without any toiletries or alternate clothing, Antimony is going to be really grubby and smelly by the end of the summer.
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deram
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I am a god who's made himself forget that he's god...
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Post by deram on Jan 31, 2011 10:11:17 GMT
So, without any toiletries or alternate clothing, Antimony is going to be really grubby and smelly by the end of the summer. Bah! builds character!
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Post by nikita on Jan 31, 2011 10:19:06 GMT
I bet Coyote could create any object Annie could ever wish for.
Also: Nooooooooooooooooo! (*MGS game over sound*) Also: Donated a bit of money.
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Saru
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Post by Saru on Jan 31, 2011 10:55:20 GMT
Goddammit Tom, I'm totally broke right now. But once I have money again, I'm going to donate. Your comic has given me so much over the years and right now I can't even give anything back. Bleh, sorry. :<
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Post by fjodor on Jan 31, 2011 11:19:21 GMT
I would not be surprised if the story splits into two separate story lines as of now. Even more sophistication in an already sophisticated story!
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Post by edzepp on Jan 31, 2011 11:40:20 GMT
I just realized that the page before this was essentially a cliffhanger for a cliffhanger.
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spheney
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Some say he stole Renard's body and lost it to coyote in a poker game, we know he's called the stig
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Post by spheney on Jan 31, 2011 12:14:16 GMT
called it.
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Post by xanbcoo on Jan 31, 2011 12:22:30 GMT
The bonus page reveals it is Coyote shining a flashlight in Annie's eyes.
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Post by zylonbane on Jan 31, 2011 12:57:26 GMT
So, without any toiletries or alternate clothing, Antimony is going to be really grubby and smelly by the end of the summer. From the looks of things, she's already going feral.
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CGAdam
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Post by CGAdam on Jan 31, 2011 13:20:32 GMT
Can I support the comic with the purchase of movie poster-sized version of this page?
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Post by paxjax123 on Jan 31, 2011 13:28:28 GMT
Wow... I don't know about you other doods, but I feel this was a perfect place to end the chapter.
Although, I imagine Tom is lurking the forums, laughing at us.
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Post by NinjaKid on Jan 31, 2011 14:24:17 GMT
Wait, now that the chapter is over and Tom is taking a 2 week break, will there be more guest comics? Or even better, City Face??
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Post by aaroncampbell on Jan 31, 2011 14:43:04 GMT
I like how even the leaves of the vines over Annie's head are reflecting her hair color a bit. What a beautiful page! Also, I can't wait to see the next treatise! :-D I missed the live streaming of its creation, so except for the little thumbnail Tom posted here.::in Dash's voice from the Incredibles:: This is the greatest comic ever!!!
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Post by blahzor on Jan 31, 2011 16:01:51 GMT
called that one. i wonder how much story is still left. i'm hoping that it ends with Annie ruling the world so around 2021
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Post by blahzor on Jan 31, 2011 16:05:58 GMT
The bonus page reveals it is Coyote shining a flashlight in Annie's eyes. along with Coyote with a 1/1 scale wood model of the Court
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Post by brettjb on Jan 31, 2011 16:37:19 GMT
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Post by Max on Jan 31, 2011 17:21:12 GMT
Donated $20. Perhaps not the smartest idea fiscally, but I am still glad I did it. To those who want to support Tom by buying stuff, keep in mind that he doesn't make any money off the books (unless you buy them in person from a UK convention), but he does make money off stuff purchased at his Topatoco store. However, I have found books to be a useful aid in getting new readers interested in the books.
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Post by hargharg on Jan 31, 2011 17:59:49 GMT
This made me cry. Beautiful page. Time to re-read the comic. : )
ed: But only after the treatise! (There will be the 4th on Wednesday, right?)
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Post by Ulysses on Jan 31, 2011 18:08:38 GMT
To those who want to support Tom by buying stuff, keep in mind that he doesn't make any money off the books (unless you buy them in person from a UK convention), I don't understand why he doesn't get money from his own creation. What's that all about? I have donated some currency as you definitely deserve it. And this was a beautiful page to end the chapter on, very print-worthy.
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Post by jayne on Jan 31, 2011 18:38:13 GMT
*note: the following is based on rumor and may be utterly incorrect*
Publishing costs eat up any profit. A lot of comics go to self publication (so I hear) but that's a full time job and Tom already has a full time job.
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Post by NinjaKid on Jan 31, 2011 19:34:00 GMT
This made me cry. Beautiful page. Time to re-read the comic. : ) ed: But only after the treatise! (There will be the 4th on Wednesday, right?) Yeah, the 4th is on Wednesday.
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Post by jasmijn on Jan 31, 2011 19:38:12 GMT
Fuck. You. Tom.
(Wild speculation: Tom == Coyote)
(Also, beautiful page!)
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Post by warrl on Jan 31, 2011 20:14:37 GMT
On the upside, nothing in Tom's note suggests that he will be taking vacation (as i feared) Tom is an extremely professional artist, and actually has a significant buffer. Assuming he has kept that buffer where it was as of the last time I saw him report on it, somewhere in the vicinity of the next 40-50 pages are already done. However, that doesn't mean he won't insert an unrelated tangent just because he feels (or felt) like it. To those who want to support Tom by buying stuff, keep in mind that he doesn't make any money off the books (unless you buy them in person from a UK convention), I don't understand why he doesn't get money from his own creation. What's that all about? The way fiction publishing (not self-publishing or vanity press, but professional publishing) usually works, the author gets an advance on royalties at some specific time - very often when the book actually is printed, for non-well-established authors. (An author like John Grisham can type an idea for a book into an email over breakfast, and his agent will have the advance in hand before dinner - with a contractual commitment to deliver the manuscript by a specified date several months to a couple years in the future.) The publisher takes the risk that royalties earned will be less than the advance. Once royalties earned exceed the advance, the publisher should start sending further periodic checks. However quite a lot of books honestly never reach that point, and some publishers do some interesting accounting tricks to explain why they are doing a fourth printing while telling the author that the first printing hasn't sold out yet. (Such publishers acquire a reputation - among authors that interact with other authors. Which has a negative impact on their ability to persuade established authors to switch to them.) Still, even if an additional sale of a book isn't over the threshold to pay the author additional money, it does affect a publisher's willingness to pay a nice advance (or at all) for the next book by that author.
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Post by paxjax123 on Jan 31, 2011 23:01:24 GMT
Fuck. You. Tom. (Wild speculation: Tom == Coyote) (Also, beautiful page!) That's not nice.
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Post by jayne on Jan 31, 2011 23:29:39 GMT
That's some kind of internet comic thing... it roughly translates to "Your cliffhanger is torturous for making me wait to read more of your fabulous story"
I first saw it aimed at David Willis of "It's Walkie"
Edit: No,it was "Damn you, Willis" but it might have escalated.
Edit again: And I just found a "CURSE YOU PAUL!!" from Friday's Wapsi Square comic.
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Post by todd on Jan 31, 2011 23:30:07 GMT
The way fiction publishing (not self-publishing or vanity press, but professional publishing) usually works, the author gets an advance on royalties at some specific time - very often when the book actually is printed, for non-well-established authors. (An author like John Grisham can type an idea for a book into an email over breakfast, and his agent will have the advance in hand before dinner - with a contractual commitment to deliver the manuscript by a specified date several months to a couple years in the future.) The publisher takes the risk that royalties earned will be less than the advance. Once royalties earned exceed the advance, the publisher should start sending further periodic checks. However quite a lot of books honestly never reach that point, and some publishers do some interesting accounting tricks to explain why they are doing a fourth printing while telling the author that the first printing hasn't sold out yet. (Such publishers acquire a reputation - among authors that interact with other authors. Which has a negative impact on their ability to persuade established authors to switch to them.) Still, even if an additional sale of a book isn't over the threshold to pay the author additional money, it does affect a publisher's willingness to pay a nice advance (or at all) for the next book by that author. Thanks for the information. I've written a children's fantasy book that I'm hoping to get published, and while my motive is to get the story out there where other people can read it rather than money, I think that was a good thing to know.
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Post by Aris Katsaris on Feb 1, 2011 1:28:28 GMT
Donated $50.
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Post by Eversist on Feb 1, 2011 1:34:09 GMT
My boyfriend bought me the books for Christmas, but I almost didn't want him to get them for me since I knew that Tom wouldn't see any of the money. So my boyfriend donated the same amount that the books cost to Tom (also part of the gift), which was super-awesome of him.
I'm so tempted to buy two of the Court-symbol shirts... or should I wait for the Coyote one? Or the Forest symbol shirt!? I wish he would make that one.
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Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Feb 1, 2011 2:35:31 GMT
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Post by Tobu Ishi on Feb 1, 2011 4:34:42 GMT
Yikes, some harsh words are being tossed around. All in good fun, I hope, but dial it back a little, perhaps? This is a classic visual-storytelling technique, after all - showing the reaction instead of the wondrous thing. Your own imagination provides a more marvelous image of the scene she's observing than even Tom himself could put to "paper", and that's saying something.
Am I the only one reminded of the finale of Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
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