qiam
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Post by qiam on Mar 2, 2012 17:25:34 GMT
I find it interesting that the girl descended from a fire elemental is having problems dealing with water. This isn't the first time she's had troubles with water...
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Post by foresterr on Mar 2, 2012 18:37:16 GMT
Donnie knows what he's doing. I agree. I wonder how this ad-hoc substitute parenting is going to turn out. Delivery notwithstanding I love this theory.
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Post by fish on Mar 2, 2012 18:40:47 GMT
I find it interesting that the girl descended from a fire elemental is having problems dealing with water. This isn't the first time she's had troubles with water... Yeah, it's like the glass of water is some sort of symbol.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 2, 2012 18:41:14 GMT
"- Okay, this did the trick, there's no signal from you anymore, only from my laptop. Now give a bottle to your teleporting friend and leave this toy where you find her. Here's a photo of the place you may want to visit... - ..! 8 [ x ]" I think what's going on there is that she was red in the face and crying the whole time, but didn't notice it until just then, making her deadpan up 'till that point Unreliable Narration. I doubt it. She blushes in the first panel. And for coming down from adrenaline-high all reactions starting from the blood not routing properly in her palms are pretty normal, but for being there would be strange. Of course, such things vary even among baseline humans, but in cherry decon she breaked down much the same way as now. I'm also really looking forward to more attention given to Donny, he's been in the sidelines a lot up until now. Even worse - cool and in the sidelines.
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qiam
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Post by qiam on Mar 2, 2012 19:33:07 GMT
I find it interesting that the girl descended from a fire elemental is having problems dealing with water. This isn't the first time she's had troubles with water... Yeah, it's like the glass of water is some sort of symbol. Yes, this was one of the times I was referring to. The others were her encounters with Annan Waters. This cup she's got now seems to be plastic rather than glass, but it's still ~symbolic~
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Necropaxx
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Post by Necropaxx on Mar 2, 2012 20:03:31 GMT
I like this page. Except for the fourth panel. Which really seems unfair, because I get what Tom was shooting for completely, and it is a ridiculously hard action to draw. But it seems too over-the-top to me. Agh, I'm sorry. I know he probably agonized over that panel.
The rest of the page is solid gold sequential art, though.
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Post by Aurelia Verity on Mar 2, 2012 21:22:46 GMT
i'm sorry but, is Anja still in the room? did she leave with Eglamore and Kat or is she just out of sight?
Also, i don't know what her father told her but poor Annie needs to go to her room and have a good cry. sometimes you feel better after.
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Necropaxx
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Post by Necropaxx on Mar 2, 2012 22:17:34 GMT
i'm sorry but, is Anja still in the room? did she leave with Eglamore and Kat or is she just out of sight? Also, i don't know what her father told her but poor Annie needs to go to her room and have a good cry. sometimes you feel better after. She pushed Kat and Eggers out the door and went out herself. Also yeah Annie needs to let it out.
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Post by Ender on Mar 3, 2012 1:00:27 GMT
So....was the whole comic a flashback leading up to this point?
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Post by Jay on Mar 3, 2012 1:19:58 GMT
I really love what Tom did in this page. He is just a really great storyteller. It's just really human and relatable. It takes a lot of observation and then effort to take something like that and put it into use in a story.
I can't be the only one, but has anyone ever just been frustrated and angry and terribly sad, but you put on a brave face? You think you're doing fine, you're doing great, even, and then suddenly some stupid trigger, like a word used or, say, a sudden kind gesture makes you think of something and before you even know it's happened and can clamp it down, it all just falls apart and then there's that face and ugly sobs and tears and snot, then it gets pretty hard to keep up the cool-guy attitude from then on.......... (Where was I going with this?)
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Post by legion on Mar 3, 2012 2:04:05 GMT
Yeah, this page is really great, like, even by Gunnerkrigg Court's standards it's a very powerful and moving page. This is a thing I like very much and I'd like to see more "genre" fiction do: having the setting fold back into the background, and focusing in more detailed fashion on the psychology and feelings of the characters (without it preventing actual action and cool stuff to occure too).
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Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Mar 3, 2012 2:09:05 GMT
I.. I don't like this page. It's uncomfortably familiar for me. It just keeps making me thing Annie's on the verge of a potential emotional breakdown. It's not a sure thing, but I can't help noticing all the signs. I'm not talking a WOOSH FIRE type of thing. I mean a more typical break down. I can't be the only one, but has anyone ever just been frustrated and angry and terribly sad, but you put on a brave face? You think you're doing fine, you're doing great, even, and then suddenly some stupid trigger... That's why this whole thing is.. yeah. This exact process is one I know by heart. The most inane unrelated thing breaks your stride, and you have this brief moment where you halfway let it out. Then you think you've got it back in again, but it's too late. The momentum is already there and it just.. This page is physically painful for me to read. I hope Monday comes and my fears are revealed to be unfounded.
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Post by Georgie L on Mar 3, 2012 2:19:23 GMT
I'm also really looking forward to more attention given to Donny, he's been in the sidelines a lot up until now. I think they conciously chose to send in Donny, as If I remember rightly he was her Fathers' closest friend, and thus is most likely to know both how to deal with her father and how to deal with antimony when she starts acting like him. Also I have a wild Theory: Anthony Carver also had a "break-out of mask" period, but after long bouts of depression and seperation from friends due to his wifes 'illness' it came back with a vengeance, making him colder than he had ever been. I only have this theory because I think Donny seems to nice of a guy to not have at least tried to make Anthony a better person.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 3, 2012 5:36:16 GMT
Also, i don't know what her father told her but poor Annie needs to go to her room and have a good cry. sometimes you feel better after. It couldn't be Mr. Eglamore? but has anyone ever just been frustrated and angry and terribly sad, but you put on a brave face? It's not just "a brave face", it's a clear demonstration that senior Donlans are not her inner circle at the moment - though not quite clean whether it's "yet", or "anymore". I'm not talking a WOOSH FIRE type of thing. I mean a more typical break down. Ah, but how these are separable?
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Post by Stately Buff-Cookie on Mar 3, 2012 8:11:50 GMT
The bridge?
Annie was directing her anger at a convenient target. This.. doesn't seem like anger, and there isn't a convenient target to dump said anger at. The WOOSH FIRE was a deliberate act.. not just an accidental flare up.
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Post by atteSmythe on Mar 3, 2012 9:02:14 GMT
So....was the whole comic a flashback leading up to this point? Time will tell, but it sure appears that way at the moment! What a critical juncture...
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Post by eruedraith on Mar 4, 2012 13:49:23 GMT
Wow, Annie's something of a mess, isn't she? I'm rather liking how this is turning out, Tom!
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Post by handsofblue on Mar 4, 2012 17:32:46 GMT
You know I'm right! ETA KOORAM NAH SMECH! It's just a perfectly logical precaution for an explosive fire-child. Well don't say it! >> It only works on HER, Jayne.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 4, 2012 20:41:28 GMT
It only works on HER, Jayne. Und hy dun' vatch dose pokemoons. (remembering half a dozen threads back) or is it... [cityface] Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! I don't get this awesome reference and am super confused as to which way is up and which is down. [/cityface]
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Post by handsofblue on Mar 4, 2012 21:33:54 GMT
It only works on HER, Jayne. Und hy dun' vatch dose pokemoons. (remembering half a dozen threads back) or is it... [cityface] Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! I don't get this awesome reference and am super confused as to which way is up and which is down. [/cityface] Cityface is just that pigeon. pigeons do things with faeries and that's that. I'm pretty confused right meow too. with way is up and which way is brown. coat. :3 [shadow=red,left,300]it's from Serenity, a film by Joss Whedon[/shadow] [glow=red,2,300]it's a long, post-series episode to Firefly.[/glow] i'm made of meat and bricks and newspaper.
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