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Post by haspen on Jul 7, 2014 7:01:32 GMT
www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1376I think Annie knows what's the requirement is... EDIT: Upon further look, Smitty's face is either that of bewilderment or... he knows as well?
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Post by Gotolei on Jul 7, 2014 7:04:41 GMT
That second-to-last panel.. you'd think Smitty's never seen a fanged pink blob monster before or something.
Edit: ....or a rabbit. why do i never read the comment
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Interesting touch how the lighting kinda mimics the vertical line across the face that Annie has in elemental form.
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Post by Daedalus on Jul 7, 2014 7:10:33 GMT
I started a thread, but gave it up upon realizing I was browsing on mobile and I don't know my html well enough to make the link... And the note about lighting is interesting indeed. I wonder if that'll be an artistic motif in the future...(though, by that logic, Smitty is half elemental too). Can there be a luck elemental? |
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Post by arf on Jul 7, 2014 7:14:28 GMT
www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1376I think Annie knows what's the requirement is... EDIT: Upon further look, Smitty's face is either that of bewilderment or... he knows as well? I think he's been briefed. (not... fluffy bunnies! ... and so soon after Mort!) The question is: has Ys briefed Annie on the standard despatch technique? (it may be something other than being squished under a rock, as Red thought) |
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Post by fwip on Jul 7, 2014 7:16:17 GMT
www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1376I think Annie knows what's the requirement is... EDIT: Upon further look, Smitty's face is either that of bewilderment or... he knows as well? Fourth post is a discussion thread starter... not bad, but you'll never top the guy who started the 'How do we feel about Kat being (possibly) gay' thread (a 30+ page drama soaked discussion) on his first post. |
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Post by warrl on Jul 7, 2014 7:19:49 GMT
Edit: ....or a rabbit. why do i never read the comment Well, he's still never seen a real rabbit that close. As opposed to a real horned hare. (The horned hare, a relative of the American jackalope, jackalope, is documented in Europe at least as far back as 1551.) |
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Post by haspen on Jul 7, 2014 7:32:27 GMT
Fourth post is a discussion thread starter... not bad, but you'll never top the guy who started the 'How do we feel about Kat being (possibly) gay' thread (a 30+ page drama soaked discussion) on his first post. Actually, I always wanted to make comic thread at least once, but often I was too late or not able to do internet stuff so early. Only today a set of coincidences had me browsing GC at 8:59am, thus allowing me to grab the new comic and make a thread  |
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Post by Rasselas on Jul 7, 2014 7:52:45 GMT
And the note about lighting is interesting indeed. I wonder if that'll be an artistic motif in the future...(though, by that logic, Smitty is half elemental too). Can there be a luck elemental? Luck isn't an element, like earth, fire, water, air, etc. There could be a luck creature of some sort, but not an elemental. |
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Post by hypixion on Jul 7, 2014 8:23:29 GMT
I started a thread, but gave it up upon realizing I was browsing on mobile and I don't know my html well enough to make the link... And the note about lighting is interesting indeed. I wonder if that'll be an artistic motif in the future...(though, by that logic, Smitty is half elemental too). Can there be a luck elemental? order =/= luck Smitty creates order where there is none, what the right order is isn't going to be in his favor all the time. Is what I think. |
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Post by ctso74 on Jul 7, 2014 13:28:02 GMT
I'm really wondering, if the Transfer By Death method, may stem from Ysengrin's attitude towards humans and the court. If Annie's position allows her to change it, she might. What would be a more practical purpose for it? Immigration control?
I don't know why, but I just imagined a achewater-infused Parley sweatily running up, picking up the rabbit, yelling "Let's get this human train started!", loudly snapping its neck, much to everyone's horror.
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Post by The Anarch on Jul 7, 2014 16:54:38 GMT
You'd think Annie would have remembered that names can be a sensitive subject for fairies.
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Post by warrl on Jul 7, 2014 17:38:33 GMT
It appears she does remember. She didn't ask the fairy to tell her its name; she merely asked if it has one.
I would imagine that, normally, a fairy who has a name would be rather proud of it and would want others to use it. So asking if the fairy has a name is a way of extending that honor where appropriate without appearing to degrade the nameless fairies.
(But then there's the question of why THIS fairy keeps its name a secret. Perhaps the name itself is embarrassing; perhaps having a name has social implications among fairies and this particular fairy doesn't want those implications applied to it. Perhaps... something else I haven't thought of.)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 17:48:18 GMT
order =/= luck Smitty creates order where there is none, what the right order is isn't going to be in his favor all the time. Is what I think. Being lucky is all about getting your shit in good order, maximizing your chances. There's bound to be a correlation here. To compare, the unluckiest character bar none in this comic, Ysengrin, can't get his life sorted out. He's malnourished, short on breath, entangled in conflicting mindsets (honour against his lust for violence, profound admiration for individual strength against his devotion to Coyote, hatred for humans against friendship with Antimony...), and prone to snapping because the body he admires, maybe even depends on at this point, constricts the freedom of his own. The right order must be the way things are supposed to be. If not, nothing is. |
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Post by Daedalus on Jul 7, 2014 19:22:18 GMT
And the note about lighting is interesting indeed. I wonder if that'll be an artistic motif in the future...(though, by that logic, Smitty is half elemental too). Can there be a luck elemental? Luck isn't an element, like earth, fire, water, air, etc. There could be a luck creature of some sort, but not an elemental. Well, Magic has Time Elementals, and the Order of the Stick has Chlorine Elementals, so we can fudge it. |
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Post by eyemyself on Jul 7, 2014 21:53:44 GMT
Nah, Smitty's an ancestor of Teela Brown from the Ring World universe. His family is already part of a Puppeteer breeding program.
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Post by jda on Jul 8, 2014 0:34:08 GMT
(Perhaps the name itself is embarrassing; ) Maybe... maybe someone just called her NastyFace, or CrushedWings, Or RabbitLover... and that stuck. |
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Post by King Mir on Jul 8, 2014 2:50:49 GMT
(Perhaps the name itself is embarrassing; ) Maybe... maybe someone just called her NastyFace, or CrushedWings, Or RabbitLover... and that stuck. It couldn't have been an insult. They specifically use insults to avoid that sort of thing.But maybe it's on the other end. Maybe someone named her something embarrassingly cute. |
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Post by Daedalus on Jul 8, 2014 2:52:50 GMT
Or maybe she's named Cthulu and doesn't want to be presumptuous.
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Post by The Anarch on Jul 8, 2014 4:32:11 GMT
Her name is Beetlejuice, and she doesn't want people saying it too often. Nah, Smitty's an ancestor of Teela Brown from the Ring World universe. His family is already part of a Puppeteer breeding program. Let's just hope there isn't any tree-of-life growing out in the forest. |
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Post by TBeholder on Jul 8, 2014 9:11:41 GMT
(But then there's the question of why THIS fairy keeps its name a secret. Perhaps the name itself is embarrassing; perhaps having a name has social implications among fairies and this particular fairy doesn't want those implications applied to it. You remember how they get those names, right?  |
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Post by chrisjenl on Jul 8, 2014 13:24:01 GMT
(But then there's the question of why THIS fairy keeps its name a secret. Perhaps the name itself is embarrassing; perhaps having a name has social implications among fairies and this particular fairy doesn't want those implications applied to it. Perhaps... something else I haven't thought of.) Maybe it gift power on a fairy? When you now her name??? |
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