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Post by basser on Oct 31, 2012 8:24:51 GMT
Huh, I thought everything within eyeshot of the ice sheet should be dry steppe - at best. Any paleoclimatologists here? ;D Now I'm torn, I'm not sure if I want the Friday page to be the long-awaited Origins of Jones or pretty pics of her running with the dinosaurs Not a climatologist but I do live in Juneau, meaning I live within walking distance of a glacier/ice field, and nothing here seems to be a dry steppe. I think glacial soil is actually very fertile.
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Post by seaofalchemy on Oct 31, 2012 8:26:16 GMT
Now I'm torn, I'm not sure if I want the Friday page to be the long-awaited Origins of Jones or pretty pics of her running with the dinosaurs ;) I HOPE SO! :') [...] I think it'd be cool to see Jones in either the Cretaceous, Jurassic, or Triassic periods. You know, riding on a triceratops or fleeing from velociraptors. :p [...]
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Post by blackmantha on Oct 31, 2012 8:27:26 GMT
SO, perhaps someone with some moderate skill with real or virtual coloured pencils would care to fill in the gaps in today's comic? Sure, no problem.
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Post by smjjames on Oct 31, 2012 8:33:06 GMT
Well, this seems to shatter nearly all predictions.
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Post by skythorn on Oct 31, 2012 8:42:20 GMT
This is an epic chapter in every way shape and nature of the term. From the sidelines, being a forum newbie still, may I suggest that my conception of the mystery of Jones is still not yet ruled out. Also - how common is Jones - it's an everyman surname. That matches in with my non-theory theory perfectly - an observer that is hard to notice and that blends in with the universe. A bit like a Higgs Bosun, yet is essential to the reality we experience.
Extended predictive thinking: However, I think the act of viewing Jones fixes Jones into your worldview - if a race of animate turtles saw Jones, they would see and interact with a female turtle, a rather reserved & rather experienced turtle called Jones.
I'm thinking there are 4 more chapter pages, the last one kinda dark with a hint of light in the distance, with a 5th being Mort fun time part II or equivalent.
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Post by philman on Oct 31, 2012 8:42:54 GMT
Well coyote's comment that we were all obsessing over, that she was created from the mind of humans. Maybe that only holds true for Coyote, and Jones is something else that just illustrates the theory in a different way? Or perhaps, according to the same wiki page Tom linked to, humans evolved into their current form during this epoch, so perhaps this is the very furthest back we will go, the final evolution of humans, and the creation of Jones? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene#Humans_during_the_PleistoceneIf this is supposed to be pre-human then the only theories I can see holding up are the Mother Earth one or the initial-observier one.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2012 9:08:08 GMT
This is really nice, actually. With a little more touching up and re-arranging, that could easily be a beautiful wallpaper.
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Post by euendo on Oct 31, 2012 9:25:52 GMT
TOM, WHAT ARE YOU DOING. TOM...
PLEASE.
STAHP.
In all seriousness, I love how much development Jones is receiving. In all honesty, I'm giving up with theories and waiting. Someone like to direct me to something more maddeningly consuming than Gunnerkrigg as distraction until, say, a week from now (because this arc canNOT possibly run any longer please oh please)?
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Post by GK Sierra on Oct 31, 2012 9:34:02 GMT
SO, perhaps someone with some moderate skill with real or virtual coloured pencils would care to fill in the gaps in today's comic? Sure, no problem. I think the ice is strategically placed to cover up the fact that underneath she is completely smooth like a barbie doll.
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Post by disarticulatethis on Oct 31, 2012 9:41:24 GMT
My shot at Jones, just for the sake and fun of the speculation. She could actually be a fourth-wall-breaking character as in us, the readers, by observing the comic actually "created" her as an observer to anything and everything in the comic and its world history. Though she still probably knows much more than us Plus, that would have to make her more or less omnipresent, apart from omniscient, which as far as we know is not the case. Still a fun thought á la Grant Morisson. And in all seriousness, I really agree with the "no point speculating". Just sit back and enjoy, and as soon as the chapter ends, provided we get something resembling an answer, go crazy! ;D
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Post by wlerin on Oct 31, 2012 9:56:20 GMT
Hmm.
Is she looking down into the future Gillitie Wood?
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Post by alexh on Oct 31, 2012 10:44:07 GMT
My shot at Jones, just for the sake and fun of the speculation. She could actually be a fourth-wall-breaking character as in us, the readers, by observing the comic actually "created" her as an observer to anything and everything in the comic and its world history. Though she still probably knows much more than us Plus, that would have to make her more or less omnipresent, apart from omniscient, which as far as we know is not the case. Still a fun thought á la Grant Morisson. And in all seriousness, I really agree with the "no point speculating". Just sit back and enjoy, and as soon as the chapter ends, provided we get something resembling an answer, go crazy! ;D Huh, I wonder how one would go about writing a character that knew about only what the reader knew of the universe it's in, but be its own character? (not the reader themself)
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Post by lukaswhite on Oct 31, 2012 11:00:43 GMT
...Geez, Jones, what the heck?
New theory: Every time someone hopes for the next page to be actual information, Tom smirks villanously and adds 300 years to Jones' age.
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Post by dreadedwave on Oct 31, 2012 11:57:29 GMT
Beginning of chapter;
Antimony: What are you?
End of chapter;
Jones: Old.
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Post by unrequited on Oct 31, 2012 12:04:39 GMT
Perhaps she's going as far back as the beginnings of humanity?
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Post by agasa on Oct 31, 2012 12:48:28 GMT
To all the people who want a comic with more action: stop being babies and enjoy the view. If unable, Doctor McNinja has been made for you. It's another wonderful comic that i love. EDIT: Comic 1111? What a number. Congratulations, Jones. I mean Tom. Tom Jones. Tommy Lee Jones! She's his daughter, and a time traveler, and every bit as tough as him. Mistery solved.
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Post by Freederick on Oct 31, 2012 13:04:08 GMT
. . . or pretty pics of her running with the dinosaurs. Yeah, fanservice! And without that pesky blizzard!
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Post by Mitth'raw'nuruodo on Oct 31, 2012 13:39:06 GMT
Well, this seems to shatter nearly all predictions. It has been suggested, and seems likely to me, that Tom is following a literary amount of time. So decades, centuries, millennia. The issue is that we have now left the ordinal named times of tracing history. We can enter, "epochs", which is a term meaning "an age", but the actual time is undefined, or "aeons", which means "forever", but we have reached the end of the english language's ordinal names for time. So unless Tom wants to transition to numbers, we are nearly there.
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Post by smjjames on Oct 31, 2012 13:45:22 GMT
Perhaps she's going as far back as the beginnings of humanity? How would you define the beginnings of humanity though? The beginnings of our species? The beginnings of our genus Homo? The point where we split from the chimpanzee line?
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Post by smjjames on Oct 31, 2012 13:53:46 GMT
Well, this seems to shatter nearly all predictions. It has been suggested, and seems likely to me, that Tom is following a literary amount of time. So decades, centuries, millennia. The issue is that we have now left the ordinal named times of tracing history. We can enter, "epochs", which is a term meaning "an age", but the actual time is undefined, or "aeons", which means "forever", but we have reached the end of the english language's ordinal names for time. So unless Tom wants to transition to numbers, we are nearly there. I was talking about predictions of jones origins. Still though, she could very well be far back enough in the plestiocine that our species, homo sapiens, either hasn't evolved yet or left africa, so, one has to wonder just how or who or even what created jones.
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Post by Gauldoth Half-Dead on Oct 31, 2012 13:56:48 GMT
Registered to comment, curiosity is getting the better of me. So hi, I guess. :3 With all those theories crushed, we have very few possibilities left. I'm gonna place my bet on either of the following; Jones is a perfect illustration of Coyote's great secret, right? How about this. Man looked at the moving stars of the night sky, and they saw wandering eyes in them. Bam, name solved, mystery solved. Maybe. But judging by the title of the chapter, The Stone, she could be a personification of stone, which is...more likely. Especially now that I reread the previous chapter and THIS caught my eye. The Curse of Man causes them to see the shape of a woman when it is but a stone, remember? Venus of Willendorf-style statuettes should've existed even before the current page's time, so that could be a solution. Maybe. ...Though I really want to believe that she's the Emperor of Mankind in disguise and is preparing the Court for an imminent invasion of xenos filth, in which case BURN THE HERETIC KILL THE MUTANT PURGE THE UNCLEAN
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Post by Trism on Oct 31, 2012 14:54:26 GMT
About the lines on her belly: SHOULD Jones have a belly button?
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Post by smjjames on Oct 31, 2012 15:15:36 GMT
Hmm. Is she looking down into the future Gillitie Wood? If by Gillitie Wood, you mean untamed, untouched, pristine wilderness, then yes she is looking at it hundreds of thousands years ago since it's long before humans were present.
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Post by maximkat on Oct 31, 2012 16:43:08 GMT
What's that? The V-looking thing. I may be over-thinking that it might be something significant, but I cannot unsee it! It's bugging me, hehe. Maybe it's nothing and just the contour of her ab. That would be a hole for the winding key I wonder if we ever reach the point when it's just Jones floating in the primordial cloud.
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Post by honorguard on Oct 31, 2012 16:55:57 GMT
I always figured her for a cradle robber when it came to Eglamore, but this? Yikes. After today's page the first thing that popped into my head was a line from Apocalypse in the 90's X-Men cartoon: "I am as far beyond mutants as they are beyond you! I am eternal!". Then it dawned on me that Jones' ageless physical appearance, immense strength, superhuman durability and predating human beings are all hallmarks of beings known as Eternals in the Marvel Comics universe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternals_(comics)I know Tom said she's a being totally of his own creation but the similarities are almost...Uncanny.
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Post by quoodle on Oct 31, 2012 17:21:28 GMT
Ok, more observations of "what" Jones is....
See panel 3 - ice crystals in her eyes - Ice on her skin.
Not only is she not affected by the cold, she doesn't affect the cold (it doesn't melt). Does she generate her own heat? It may seem a strange question, but is she warm-blooded?
She looks human - mammalian - but has some features not akin to mankind: Extreme strength, density, mass. Ok, "The stone" - but what else does that mean besides extreme age?
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Post by myzelf on Oct 31, 2012 18:14:22 GMT
Looks like the liquid on her eyes is frozen. That's gotta hurt.
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Post by grahamf on Oct 31, 2012 18:24:38 GMT
(loads today's page) Uploaded with ImageShack.usThat being said, according to the Wikipedia page Tom linked to there are still humans. I'm still sticking to my opinion that Jones is the Seed Bismuth/cradle of civilization.
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Post by Khârn on Oct 31, 2012 18:53:06 GMT
(loads today's page) I just STARTED READING, and I totally AGREE. Literally I caught up two DAYS AGO.Looks like the liquid on her eyes is frozen. That's gotta hurt. She's not human. She doesn't EVEN HAVE EYES!
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Post by kaerulynn on Oct 31, 2012 18:59:02 GMT
At this point it looks like Tom's going to the beginning of the universe and further if he can. Oh boy!
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