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Post by Nepycros on May 5, 2014 7:03:14 GMT
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Post by sapientcoffee on May 5, 2014 7:04:14 GMT
"And the world will continue to spin." (That boy will ensure it)
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Post by Chancellor on May 5, 2014 7:06:02 GMT
I'm speaking in sadness!
(Whomp!)
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Post by csj on May 5, 2014 7:06:06 GMT
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Post by Nepycros on May 5, 2014 7:06:15 GMT
"And the world will continue to spin." (That boy will ensure it) Yet I have to wonder if the world would spin faster or slower with his absence from the ether for 60+ years... |
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Post by sapientcoffee on May 5, 2014 7:10:16 GMT
I imagine it's the accumulation that's important, and one ghost here or there doesn't make a difference.
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Post by Nepycros on May 5, 2014 7:11:51 GMT
I imagine it's the accumulation that's important, and one ghost here or there doesn't make a difference. Still makes me wonder why the psychopomps are so adamant about meeting their monthly quota of souls. Remember, Jones made Ankou back down through seniority. |
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Post by sapientcoffee on May 5, 2014 7:13:01 GMT
That's not at all how I read the scene, and I don't really wanna get into a debate about it, so I'm out.
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Post by Nepycros on May 5, 2014 7:15:40 GMT
That's not at all how I read the scene, and I don't really wanna get into a debate about it, so I'm out. I, uh... I don't see how you can read differently. Ankou wanted to get Mort and take him into the ether, but Jones stepped in. The vampire settled the dispute in Jones' favor. There's no debate POSSIBLE given the context and visual representation. So... Now it comes back to how crucial it is to get at every last spare soul, or sorting out who gets to chill at the RotD for a few years. |
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Post by smjjames on May 5, 2014 7:24:29 GMT
I imagine it's the accumulation that's important, and one ghost here or there doesn't make a difference. Still makes me wonder why the psychopomps are so adamant about meeting their monthly quota of souls. Remember, Jones made Ankou back down through seniority. Where does it say about their quota? Maybe it's how they get paid or something. Though if that were true, it would make Ketrak obscenely rich, unless his quota is massive enough to count as equal wages with everybody else. |
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Post by Rasselas on May 5, 2014 7:31:45 GMT
They just have an affinity for it, something that makes them need to do the job. No quotas, that sounds silly. Good lord that was a gorgeous page. Avatar-sized:   |
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Post by jasmijn on May 5, 2014 7:46:30 GMT
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Post by keef on May 5, 2014 8:14:59 GMT
No comment from Tom? That's unusual.
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Post by Rasselas on May 5, 2014 8:48:56 GMT
Maybe when the pages stop being about dead people. (but yes, good catch)
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Post by foresterr on May 5, 2014 9:09:29 GMT
No comment from Tom? That's unusual. Tom often does not comment if the current comic is real serious stuff. At least, that's my benchmark for which comics he himself considers above his usual ribbing in the comments  |
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Post by fish on May 5, 2014 9:12:43 GMT
No comment from Tom? That's unusual. It's not that unusual. You won't find Tom's silly comments on pages dealing with death in a serious manner: p343, p530, p1214Also, now I'm crying as well. T_T edit: dammit, ninja'd by foresterr. |
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Post by eyemyself on May 5, 2014 10:18:33 GMT
D'awwww, Mort.
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Post by cu on May 5, 2014 13:01:27 GMT
Don't get any funny ideas, mister, you are still just a ghost. Aren't you? |
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Post by keef on May 5, 2014 13:05:22 GMT
No comment from Tom? That's unusual. Tom often does not comment if the current comic is real serious stuff. At least, that's my benchmark for which comics he himself considers above his usual ribbing in the comments It's not that unusual. You won't find Tom's silly comments on pages dealing with death in a serious manner: p343, p530, p1214Oh! I never noticed that, thank you. |
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Post by Daedalus on May 5, 2014 13:30:14 GMT
All the feels.
ALL OF THEM.
Also, wrong thread title chosen!
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Post by fwip on May 5, 2014 13:51:07 GMT
I'm fairly certain that there will be another page about the actual transportation into the ether, so I'm going to reserve judgement except to say that Annie looks badass.
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yarksie
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Post by yarksie on May 5, 2014 14:44:23 GMT
I swear I'm not crying. really. just have some feels in my eye.
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Post by thedoomblahsong on May 5, 2014 14:52:15 GMT
I KNEW what that was before I clicked it. Love this song. |
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Post by requiemarc on May 5, 2014 15:14:47 GMT
Alright, I'm just going to come right out and say what I've been thinking. Besides my souls crushing feels for Mort right now, I'm convinced Annie is wearing one hell of a mask. After all this is said and done I think she's going to break down hard (not psychologically of course, I mean grieving). She's losing a very good friend of hers and being a guide has never been something she's comfortable with, understanding, but not all that comfortable. Overall I just feel the way she's acting in front of Mort is deliberately for his sake and not very reflective of what she's actually feeling right now, at least not completely.
Of course I could just completely and utterly wrong about my characterization of Annie, which I have a creeping suspicion that I am.
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Post by sidhekin on May 5, 2014 16:52:12 GMT
Annie grew up (well, started growing up) in a hospital. Doctors and nurses have work to do at the hospital, and lives to live elsewhere, when work is done. The only people who had time for her, were the patients. Her mother was not the only one of them who died. (And those who didn't die, probably left eventually anyway.)
But of course, it has been years. Annie has made real friends, what she hadn't at Good Hope. And this is one of them.
So it's kind of a defining moment for her, story-wise as well.
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Post by stef1987 on May 5, 2014 17:21:08 GMT
Her face looks weird;
it's too small compared to her head.
it seems to me like the mistake Tom made was placing her eyes in the middle of the head, that's only correct when looking horizontally at a head, but in this scene we're looking up, so her eyes should be higher.
I hope Tom will fix this.
yeah, I dunno why, but I can't seem to care much about Mort's departure. :s
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Post by unrequited on May 5, 2014 18:23:01 GMT
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Post by Intelligence on May 5, 2014 19:40:42 GMT
Mort! There may still be time to head back! Don't let either one of your 'friends' MURDER you!
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Post by Angry Individual on May 5, 2014 20:39:00 GMT
That blush, though.
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Post by ctso74 on May 5, 2014 22:45:27 GMT
I'm still waiting for the memory loss, that Annie mentioned. Do spirits become drunk on the Ether, or is it more about them becoming diluted? Like a rain drop in a river, forgetting it was once a drop.
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