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Post by smjjames on Mar 26, 2014 7:06:11 GMT
www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1332Five minutes and no post, so I had to make one with my iPad. Couldn't be arsed to fiddle with HTML on here. I guess we now know where his bed sheet ghost look comes from.
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Post by GK Sierra on Mar 26, 2014 7:07:22 GMT
I bet it's irreversible too.
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Post by Thoth on Mar 26, 2014 7:10:40 GMT
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Post by GK Sierra on Mar 26, 2014 7:17:14 GMT
Hmm. I guess he just always finds himself coming back to the bedsheets form. They are a classic. Can't say that's the form I would assume every day if I had the choice but... to each his own. |
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Post by Eversist on Mar 26, 2014 7:23:24 GMT
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Post by Chancellor on Mar 26, 2014 7:48:18 GMT
Great to see young Morty taking these vents in stride. Such a chipper young lad.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 26, 2014 8:05:10 GMT
Of course "great choice". Notesferatu himself wouldn't look like this if he didn't respect the classics.  |
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Post by philman on Mar 26, 2014 8:37:23 GMT
Bedsheet ghost is obviously the perfect choice when the ROTD use plastic vampire fangs and rubber bats...
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Post by keef on Mar 26, 2014 9:31:26 GMT
So Jones initially came to the Court to visit Mort.
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Post by Ophel on Mar 26, 2014 9:43:35 GMT
Great to see young Morty taking these vents in stride. Such a chipper young lad. I agree. It's quite endearing that he has such pluck in him. And adorable! Edit: Ohey! 100 posts! 3 stars! Yeh!!  |
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Post by todd on Mar 26, 2014 10:37:32 GMT
I got the impression from the chapter that the "circus trio" was really Annie, not Mort (on the last page, we see Mort standing in front of the "circus trio" rippling away, indicating that it wasn't him, and the color scheme of the ringmaster - red, standing on a tan-and-green platform - matches Annie's - red hair, tan sweater and green skirt). Though I'm not sure whether he physically transformed her into the "circus trio" or whether it was more a projected illusion. (Just as we don't know whether, when he made the door disappear, he made it invisible or turned it into part of the wall.) |
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Post by freeformline on Mar 26, 2014 10:50:10 GMT
Interesting idea, todd. That would explain where Antimony was during the encounter.
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Post by biggerj on Mar 26, 2014 12:09:36 GMT
Here's my analysis of ROTD-vision:
Kat's and Recently-Dead Mort's versions of the ROTD have an important distinction. While Kat-vision is cheesy and fake-looking, Mort-vision is merely cheesy-looking, and that's just because it's completely stereotypical. When he thinks of the sort of stuff the ROTD covers - ghosts, the undead and all that jazz - he thinks of things like Dracula and Frankenstein, what with their iconic films having come out several years before the beginning of the war. Look closely at 'Notesferatu' (which is a beautifully horrible pun that I love) - he doesn't look fake at all; he merely fits the stereotype perfectly.
Kat expected a facade with a perfectly rational (by her standards) explanation. Mort expected genuine, real not-live ghosts and ghoulies.
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Post by ctso74 on Mar 26, 2014 13:34:20 GMT
An important job! Great Green Earth, Mort is going to haunt the crap out Hitler! Of course, with his choice of appearance, Hitler's just going to think he's KKK.
"No, you dolt! There's no point. The hood does not go up! Seriously, how can you run a country?"
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Post by Per on Mar 26, 2014 13:36:36 GMT
Typooooo!
"chose" -> "choose"
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Post by alpacalypse on Mar 26, 2014 13:54:15 GMT
Good to see Mort has such a sturdy head on him, or did. Anyways I know I wouldn't be able to handle becoming a ghost this easily, I mean we know he has at least two parents and two friends, what about leaving them behind? I guess he is very into doing his duty and helping out his country or whatever, just now as a ghost.
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Post by aaroncampbell on Mar 26, 2014 14:05:00 GMT
Hmm. I guess he just always finds himself coming back to the bedsheets form. They are a classic. Can't say that's the form I would assume every day if I had the choice but... to each his own. "Why do you wear a bedsheet? Were you burned by acid, or something like that?" "No, it's just that they're terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future!" |
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Post by The Anarch on Mar 26, 2014 15:24:04 GMT
Hmm. I guess he just always finds himself coming back to the bedsheets form. They are a classic. Can't say that's the form I would assume every day if I had the choice but... to each his own. "Why do you wear a bedsheet? Were you burned by acid, or something like that?" "No, it's just that they're terribly comfortable. I think everyone will be wearing them in the future!" "Aren't you scared?" "I'm not scared of sheets. Are you gross under there? Are you Night of the Living Dead under there? Like all bloody veins and pus?" |
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Post by csj on Mar 27, 2014 4:51:26 GMT
I wonder if there are lollies in his crypt
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Post by noone3 on Mar 27, 2014 18:09:08 GMT
I mean we know he has at least two parents and two friends, what about leaving them behind? I think Pratchett had a good explanation of this. For most human feelings you need your glands. From fright, through love to longing, most of them are influenced heavily with human chemistry, and since you've left your glands behind, together with your mortal coil there is only the (more or less) reasonable part of you left. Mort can afford to take it cool. |
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Mar 27, 2014 20:36:52 GMT
I see Mort's host was a fan of Bella Lugosi. Not that there were many choices in the way of vampires back then
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Post by Per on Mar 27, 2014 20:47:22 GMT
I see Mort's host was a fan of Bella Lugosi. Not that there were many choices in the way of vampires back then Typooooo! "Bella" -> "Bela" |
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Post by Shire on Mar 27, 2014 20:56:32 GMT
I see Mort's host was a fan of Bella Lugosi. Not that there were many choices in the way of vampires back then Typooooo! "Bella" -> "Bela" Nah, Bella Lugosi was Bela's sister. Their parents were poor, you see, and couldn't afford a brand new name for their daughter, so they had to make to with adding an extra "l" and calling it a day. |
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Apr 4, 2014 10:02:45 GMT
I see Mort's host was a fan of Bella Lugosi. Not that there were many choices in the way of vampires back then Typooooo! "Bella" -> "Bela" Ya add one stinkin 'L' too many... |
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