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Post by legion on Oct 5, 2012 8:19:13 GMT
At this rate our heads will explode in three-five pages.
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Post by GK Sierra on Oct 5, 2012 8:22:39 GMT
Good call Jones. Get 'em while they're fresh.
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Post by rafk on Oct 5, 2012 8:27:54 GMT
At this rate our heads will explode in three-five pages. But we just finished having all the brains cleaned out of the carpet after our heads exploded on "No... please..."!
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Post by Ashley Y on Oct 5, 2012 8:28:35 GMT
I would guess 70s, and that James is about my age (42). If he looks younger, James may also not age. You mean Jones? James is obviously a kid in this strip. No, I mean James was born around the same time I was.
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Post by blahzor on Oct 5, 2012 8:34:57 GMT
Year 7 would make James and Donny, what? About 13 yrs old? Jones still looks the same, hairstyle not withstanding. looks like she's just changed her hair based on the time, as she's clearly late 70's early 80's looking in this one
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Post by blahzor on Oct 5, 2012 8:52:00 GMT
For a Wandering Eye, she's been hanging around the Court a while... the court has grown pretty big for a by-product of a seed, she could have just being wandering around the city
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Post by zimmyzims on Oct 5, 2012 9:17:07 GMT
I was much more sympathetic about Jones before this scene. I wanted to see her as somewhat humane, but this gives me the creeps. And definitely explains Jimmy's kind of awkward reaction to Jones' kiss.
I don't know about you, but to me this raises the question of whether James is a victim of sexual and mental abuse? It looks like that, in a way, and it just adds to the recent revelations of the murky side of the world around Annie. I honestly thought this would have been just a triangle drama, but now it looks like another case of abuse. Reading these backwards shows how something unthinkable can become absolutely normal.
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Post by zimmyzims on Oct 5, 2012 9:19:56 GMT
>secondofnone:
But if she's simply something like 12 years older than others, then shouldn't she start to age a bit at least?
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Post by vollie on Oct 5, 2012 9:24:21 GMT
Wait, forgive me if somebody's brought up this theory before, but- is it possible that Jones is of a similar case to Annie? As in, the mother and daughter get their abilities passed down and look extremely alike. Then this could be the mother of the Jones we know.
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Post by foresterr on Oct 5, 2012 9:30:43 GMT
As to JJ calling Jones Jones, it would be indeed rather weird if she was his mom, but there are families with various arrangements Anyway, I don't know if that's it - just that if their relationship is non-romantic (or, more explicitly, non-sexual) would be an interesting (albeit minor) twist. As for the squick if she is quite empathically NOT his mom... Frankly, this is a comic with "elements of fantasy" in it. If Jones is an ugaging being (which for Eglamore would be very apparent), the whole age difference thing is not 1:1 with real life examples; her subjective age is somewhere between 20 and 30 and always will be there. If you are coming from the "abuse of position of authority" angle, maybe the previous page was the very first time Jones made her feelings, other than general sympathy, for James known (Jones? Not showing her feelings? I must be joking, right? ). He was very much an adult then, and I'm sure his poor fragile mind is fully intact
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Post by download on Oct 5, 2012 9:31:37 GMT
Ewwwww! I know age is just a number, but the squick factor is too much. Oh, I don't know. If Jones looks, say, twenty-five, and James first met her when he was half her apparent age, that would only make her twelve or thirteen years his senior. Not totally out of bounds. So maybe he had a crush on his teacher, then she went away for several years. When they got together again, he was an adult, and she was willing to see him in a romantic light. I doubt that's what happened, but it's possible. She may have been born/created at her current apparent age. Anyway, I can't see Jones being his mother. They would appear to have a relationship, and he doesn't call her "mum" I'm going with immortal/long lived being
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Post by legion on Oct 5, 2012 9:53:24 GMT
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Post by Alexandragon on Oct 5, 2012 9:57:12 GMT
So she is immortal?
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Post by grinningcat on Oct 5, 2012 10:52:48 GMT
Jones is James's imaginary friend. Somehow.
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 5, 2012 11:36:56 GMT
Jones still looks the same, hairstyle not withstanding. Further evidence of my crackpot theory, hehehe. This time hair of Jones looks like a handiwork of old good Bugsy. ;D This is how guys say hello. Aye. I don't know about you, but to me this raises the question of whether James is a victim of sexual and mental abuse? It looks like that, in a way, and it just adds to the recent revelations of the murky side of the world You archive-binged on Magick Chicks too much, right? Jones is James's imaginary friend. Somehow. ...and that's what Coyote meant! ;D
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Post by Rafael on Oct 5, 2012 12:10:52 GMT
I think I liked it better back when the mystery wasn't being solved. Seriously, my head hurts. On the other hand, Jones looks beautiful in those clothes.
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Post by Lightice on Oct 5, 2012 12:28:28 GMT
Hey! I guessed right! With that in mind, I'll make another prediction: Jones will be pushing baby-Eglamore in a carriage, in the next page.
Since Gunnerkrigg Court is more or less modern day, I'd guess the time period to be late 1970's.
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Post by wynne on Oct 5, 2012 12:36:40 GMT
Just joining in the general appreciation of that GIF and cartoon. "I love to singa..." As far as creepy Jones goes... I'm hoping there's an explanation for this that isn't too horrific. Maybe she sprang up clone-style, and is thus actually a lot younger than she looks? Like how on Young Justice, Superboy looks 16 but is actually 3?
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Post by csj on Oct 5, 2012 12:57:10 GMT
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Post by csj on Oct 5, 2012 13:19:37 GMT
Also; stars burn for a long time, depending on their size. Billions of years, even.
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Post by Morpheus on Oct 5, 2012 13:20:08 GMT
edit: just for clarity's sake: talking about the scene from this (click on the 'o' in It's Over) What the... what the fuck is this I mean, I like it, but what in nine circles of hell is it?
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Post by Thoth on Oct 5, 2012 13:29:36 GMT
I now have this really wacky theory that Jones is approximately the same age as Surma, James, and their friends, but that she always appears to be in her twenties or thirties.
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Post by zimmyzims on Oct 5, 2012 13:46:20 GMT
"You archive-binged on Magick Chicks too much, right? " I what on what?
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Post by wombat on Oct 5, 2012 14:02:53 GMT
Okay, I don't think Jones is actually JJ's /mom/ in the sense some people seem to be going to in having raised him since he was born/having given birth to him. For one, that would make this page incredibly weird: www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=540"I wish my mom could have been in the picture, though." "Eh, you know Surma can't stand your mom." However, it seems entirely possible that Jones was a maternal figure for him, which could happen from her meeting him for the first time when he was 10/11 and, if she didn't meet him at a younger age, and then being with him as he grew up, or could be due to a promise she made to someone. It still to me seems like Jones doesn't age; if she was "created," as would seem to tie into this idea, it's likely that she wouldn't have had a maternal figure in her own life, and therefore would have to be guessing to some extent about how to display maternal feelings, especially since expression of any feeling doesn't seem to come naturally to her. At the age that the characters are in the flashback in "Ties," a maternal nature in the Jones/JJ relationship might not be obvious as being that. Surma could view it as something potentially romantic or dislike that James seems overly attached to her and thus dislike her out of jealousy. Alternatively, a maternal relationship might be very apparent, and Surma might resent this due to her still grieving the loss of her own mother. Additionally, Jones on this page somewhat reminds me of Anja on this page: www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=416Finally, for those arguing against Jones/JJ maternal thing based on him calling her "Jones"...I know people who call their parents by their first names; it may seem odd to some, but it's certainly not unheard of. And that's for people who grew up with these parents for their whole lives; if Jones is a maternal figure, her relationship with JJ could have started at a time when he was old enough that calling her "mom" just would've been weird; in fact, if she was not his birth or adoptive (while he was very young) mother, that actually calling her "mom" is what I would think of as odd.
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Post by exdevlin on Oct 5, 2012 14:11:04 GMT
I get the feeling that Tom's sniggering over all the people whose brains just sploded.
So Jones has always looked this way. I wonder if she was responsible for training Surma to be a medium as well?
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Post by Georgie L on Oct 5, 2012 14:11:56 GMT
Evidence so far points to yes.
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Post by zimmyzims on Oct 5, 2012 14:34:12 GMT
Okay, I don't think Jones is actually JJ's /mom/ in the sense some people seem to be going to in having raised him since he was born/having given birth to him. For one, that would make this page incredibly weird: www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=540"I wish my mom could have been in the picture, though." "Eh, you know Surma can't stand your mom." Yes, thank you, precisely what I was saying, just didn't have reference to that page as I don't know how this forum works. Finally, for those arguing against Jones/JJ maternal thing based on him calling her "Jones"...I know people who call their parents by their first names; it may seem odd to some, but it's certainly not unheard of. And that's for people who grew up with these parents for their whole lives; if Jones is a maternal figure, her relationship with JJ could have started at a time when he was old enough that calling her "mom" just would've been weird; in fact, if she was not his birth or adoptive (while he was very young) mother, that actually calling her "mom" is what I would think of as odd. But Jones is her last name, right? I wouldn't force that argument though. If she's just a maternal figure, he has learned to call her Jones, it's like that. But the scene above seems bit awkward even if she was not a biological mom. Who is wishing his teacher who also acts like a mother to him would have been in the friend pic with him? And who answers "you know how Surma can't stand her" instead of "gee, dude, what's wrong with you? This was a friend pic, not a student/teacher pic - even if Jones is smoking hot".
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Post by wombat on Oct 5, 2012 15:01:44 GMT
Finally, for those arguing against Jones/JJ maternal thing based on him calling her "Jones"...I know people who call their parents by their first names; it may seem odd to some, but it's certainly not unheard of. And that's for people who grew up with these parents for their whole lives; if Jones is a maternal figure, her relationship with JJ could have started at a time when he was old enough that calling her "mom" just would've been weird; in fact, if she was not his birth or adoptive (while he was very young) mother, that actually calling her "mom" is what I would think of as odd. But Jones is her last name, right? I wouldn't force that argument though. If she's just a maternal figure, he has learned to call her Jones, it's like that. But the scene above seems bit awkward even if she was not a biological mom. Who is wishing his teacher who also acts like a mother to him would have been in the friend pic with him? And who answers "you know how Surma can't stand her" instead of "gee, dude, what's wrong with you? This was a friend pic, not a student/teacher pic - even if Jones is smoking hot". I think of "Jones" as just being her name; I don't think it's ever been indicated that she has a first name to go with "Jones"? In which case, it's not her last name. It's just her name. Again, their relationship might not be obvious as being maternal at that point; perhaps it seems more like a sister/brother relationship-- I do think a relationship like that could still be maternal, especially with the age difference. Also, we don't know that Jones was a teacher at this point, just that she was at the court. Additionally, I think it would be really odd for Donny to say what you suggested, especially if the reason they don't all hang out with her is that Surma can't stand her. Pictures don't seem all that common at the court-- I don't think it'd be that odd to have everyone you care about in one.
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Post by q3 on Oct 5, 2012 15:11:20 GMT
I'm sorry, but this comic has ruined my suspension of disbelief and I am quitting Gunnerkrigg forever. Glasses don't work like that.
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Post by davidm on Oct 5, 2012 15:37:06 GMT
"Does not age: check!"
Not clear yet if unlimited lifespan or lifespan of 500 years, etc.
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