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Post by todd on Apr 22, 2015 12:45:07 GMT
I wonder if the radio will be a way to give Annie some tangential role in the story.
As I've mentioned in the past couple of weeks, the current developments in the comic (which look as if they aren't going to be reversed any time soon - certainly not by the end of the chapter) will make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for Annie to play an active part as protagonist. Her father's new rules and restrictions provide an obvious barrier (Anthony hasn't explicitly forbidden her to continue investigating the weird-goings on in the Court as he had forbidden her from visiting the forest, but I suspect that's only because her visits to the forest are public knowledge and her snooping about the Court isn't; in any case, the indication that she's going to spend all her time studying as part of the repeat of Year 9 would remove the opportunity for that); furthermore, Annie's clearly no longer in the right mental or emotional condition to take an active role.
But it would be difficult for the story to completely drop her, so the radio (as long as Anthony doesn't find and confiscate it) may be a way to give Annie a bit of something to do in succeeding chapters, if only a small role. I still suspect that the shift will be moving to Kat now over the next several chapters of the comic; she doesn't have similar restrictions on her and still has initiative. She can report discoveries to Annie - maybe in little scenes at the end of upcoming chapters - until Annie's situation changes.
Obviously some threads will most likely be placed on hold for a while (such as the search for a way to free Jeanne), but others (like the robot project) can continue.
(And maybe part of Tom's reason for this development is to, by rendering Annie out of action for a while, have more room to explore the supporting characters.)
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Post by phyzome on Apr 22, 2015 13:01:15 GMT
I hope that's an etheric radio, because I don't think it will work all that well through the water covering last year's dorms.
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Post by hajo on Apr 22, 2015 13:16:10 GMT
I wonder if the radio will be a way to give Annie some tangential role in the story. I think it will give Reynard a chance to act. He was forbidden to speak, but with that radio, he could send text
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Post by freeman on Apr 22, 2015 13:18:49 GMT
So, that would be a 2 meter band FM tranceiver with APRS over AX.25 on trusty Bell 202 physical layer?
Pretty ubiquitous setup for disaster communiation, you know.
I bet one doesn't even need to get a license for those in GC.
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Post by elebenty on Apr 22, 2015 13:29:09 GMT
I think it will give Reynard a chance to act. He was forbidden to speak, but with that radio, he could send text THIS!! You are a genius. Thank you for the ray (Rey?!) of hope.
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Post by furubafan3 on Apr 22, 2015 14:19:21 GMT
As anxious as I am over Renard's fate, I feel like forcing Annie to release him from plushie form would escalate emotional turmoil and would cause more harm then good. I'm sure Renard is really upset and having a fierce encounter with Annie right now could make Annie more vulnerable then she already is and cause more harm then good.
Beating Anthony at this own game, cold calculated manipulation might be the way to go.
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Post by Refugee on Apr 22, 2015 14:32:03 GMT
Kat's swallowing of her own outrage, at Anthony and Antimony both, because Annie needs her so badly right now, is a mighty act of loving friendship. For all the revenge fantasies that have been floated, for all its lack of drama, this is courage, true grace under fire. I hope that's an etheric radio, because I don't think it will work all that well through the water covering last year's dorms. Annie will have a room "near" the aquatic dorms, not in them. I wonder if she'll visit with Linds and Bud. I love Kat closing her eyes as she says "all the way back there". Compare last frame here. I think more than distance is involved. This represents a huge loss of status for Annie, and that at least she does deserve. (We've seen before, with Parley's classmates, that there is a fairly rigid social hierarchy bases on class standing.) It's an inconvenience, but it's not a bed of dirty straw in her Father's basement, either. She will have her own space, which her 9th year classmates may well envy.
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Post by guitarminotaur on Apr 22, 2015 14:46:36 GMT
There's just one thing about this that makes me angry at Kat. Or rather, I'm unsure whether to be angry at Kat, Annie, both or neither.
Who's speaking out for Renard here?
A mighty act of friendship for Annie, but it leaves another friend isolated, and it also feels like a premature capitulation. I don't like it one bit.
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Post by Refugee on Apr 22, 2015 15:41:06 GMT
There's just one thing about this that makes me angry at Kat. Or rather, I'm unsure whether to be angry at Kat, Annie, both or neither. Who's speaking out for Renard here? A mighty act of friendship for Annie, but it leaves another friend isolated, and it also feels like a premature capitulation. I don't like it one bit. Patience. Kat hasn't left yet. The robot porters haven't yet come for Annie's stuff yet. Anthony has yet to show up. Immediately, Kat's job is to get inside Annie's defenses, to show Annie that she is not alone, that she still has her very good friend on her side. Attacking her on Renard's account will not help. Patience.
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Post by guitarminotaur on Apr 22, 2015 16:16:26 GMT
There's just one thing about this that makes me angry at Kat. Or rather, I'm unsure whether to be angry at Kat, Annie, both or neither. Who's speaking out for Renard here? A mighty act of friendship for Annie, but it leaves another friend isolated, and it also feels like a premature capitulation. I don't like it one bit. Patience. Kat hasn't left yet. The robot porters haven't yet come for Annie's stuff yet. Anthony has yet to show up. Immediately, Kat's job is to get inside Annie's defenses, to show Annie that she is not alone, that she still has her very good friend on her side. Attacking her on Renard's account will not help. Patience. I hope you're right. If more protagonists had friends like Kat there'd be less bad endings.
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Post by juxander on Apr 22, 2015 16:37:20 GMT
This chapter has been sad, stressful, depressing, and has punished optimism at every turn, but the first panel from today's page is to me the worst in the entire comic's history. Annie's betrayal of Reynard is already complete. She has turned her back on a loyal friend, companion, and confidant to pitifully try to curry impossible favor with the man who abandoned her immediately upon her mother's death. In addition to giving Rey away like a thing, she actively and totally devalued him when he tried to respond; "he was making a fuss". That's something you say about a tired toddler, not your friend of four years who you are handing over into unending slavery to your emotionless monster of a "father". She is turning into Anthony, physically and psychologically; cauterizing the parts of herself that feel.
My hope was in Kat who still has some perspective, is not crushed under Anthony's thumb, and is also Reynard's friend, because you don't DO this to your friend, and you don't allow others to do this to your friend. "Okay. We'll deal with it," she says. Right. We'll just move forward as if any part of this is okay. All the things Annie does to play perfect daughter to an unpleasable sociopath are her choices to make, but that does not include decisions she makes for others. I don't know what I was expecting from today's comic, but it wasn't Kat being complicit in Annie's treachery. I don't feel like I have anyone left to root for in this story.
I've been reading Gunnerkrigg since 2008-ish, but this morning I felt like maybe it was time to stop.
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Post by polioman on Apr 22, 2015 16:47:25 GMT
This chapter has been sad, stressful, depressing, and has punished optimism at every turn, but the first panel from today's page is to me the worst in the entire comic's history. Annie's betrayal of Reynard is already complete. She has turned her back on a loyal friend, companion, and confidant to pitifully try to curry impossible favor with the man who abandoned her immediately upon her mother's death. In addition to giving Rey away like a thing, she actively and totally devalued him when he tried to respond; "he was making a fuss". That's something you say about a tired toddler, not your friend of four years who you are handing over into unending slavery to your emotionless monster of a "father". She is turning into Anthony, physically and psychologically; cauterizing the parts of herself that feel. My hope was in Kat who still has some perspective, is not crushed under Anthony's thumb, and is also Reynard's friend, because you don't DO this to your friend, and you don't allow others to do this to your friend. "Okay. We'll deal with it," she says. Right. We'll just move forward as if any part of this is okay. All the things Annie does to play perfect daughter to an unpleasable sociopath are her choices to make, but that does not include decisions she makes for others. I don't know what I was expecting from today's comic, but it wasn't Kat being complicit in Annie's treachery. I don't feel like I have anyone left to root for in this story. I've been reading Gunnerkrigg since 2008-ish, but this morning I felt like maybe it was time to stop. I hate to say it, but I sort of agree. Regardless of Renard, Kat shouldn't be so accepting of this. Tom hasn't let us down yet, though, so I'm going to cling to the hope that there's a twist to this in the coming pages.
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Post by htown on Apr 22, 2015 17:16:16 GMT
You know, even though a lot of people aren't happy with this change of pace, I'm appreciating the character development. Like jones said, seeing Annie angry helped her asses her character. Similarly, seeing characters confronted with new emotional challenges really helps to develop them. Kat, Annie. I'm actually realizing that Annie's quiet nature in the beginning of the comic was *not* just a by-product of Tom's growth as an artist. You know how Tom just decided he didn't like windbury to be that bully kid? And then he made him grow out if it? I thought the reason why Annie's personality changed is because he decided he didn't like it any more. But no, It's actually a completely intentional personality shift from Ch.1! It took her years to grow out of her subdued state, and now she's instantly regressed back to it. So another thing I'm interested in: we never really saw what happened inbetween her care- free days as a chilt to her first year at GC. How did her father treat her inbetween the time when her mom died and she went off to school?
I hope it's just like all the other times, and Annie will pull through it. And her dad won't be a complete monster. Division and false monsters are a big part if this conic. annie is being divided from her life, and her dad seems to be a monster, but i hope tom will be his usual self and show us that monsters arent as scarry as we thought, and division doesn't *have* to be...
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Post by pxc on Apr 22, 2015 17:17:06 GMT
This chapter has been sad, stressful, depressing, and has punished optimism at every turn, but the first panel from today's page is to me the worst in the entire comic's history. Annie's betrayal of Reynard is already complete. She has turned her back on a loyal friend, companion, and confidant to pitifully try to curry impossible favor with the man who abandoned her immediately upon her mother's death. In addition to giving Rey away like a thing, she actively and totally devalued him when he tried to respond; "he was making a fuss". That's something you say about a tired toddler, not your friend of four years who you are handing over into unending slavery to your emotionless monster of a "father". She is turning into Anthony, physically and psychologically; cauterizing the parts of herself that feel. My hope was in Kat who still has some perspective, is not crushed under Anthony's thumb, and is also Reynard's friend, because you don't DO this to your friend, and you don't allow others to do this to your friend. "Okay. We'll deal with it," she says. Right. We'll just move forward as if any part of this is okay. All the things Annie does to play perfect daughter to an unpleasable sociopath are her choices to make, but that does not include decisions she makes for others. I don't know what I was expecting from today's comic, but it wasn't Kat being complicit in Annie's treachery. I don't feel like I have anyone left to root for in this story. I've been reading Gunnerkrigg since 2008-ish, but this morning I felt like maybe it was time to stop. I hate to say it, but I sort of agree. Regardless of Renard, Kat shouldn't be so accepting of this. Tom hasn't let us down yet, though, so I'm going to cling to the hope that there's a twist to this in the coming pages. Kat hasn't left the room yet. If she does leave without doing something about Reynard, and her whole focus is just on Annie, I'll be very disappointed.
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Post by Refugee on Apr 22, 2015 17:20:02 GMT
It is not complete because Renard is still in her possession. My hope was in Kat who still has some perspective, is not crushed under Anthony's thumb, and is also Reynard's friend, because you don't DO this to your friend, and you don't allow others to do this to your friend. Kat is still all that. But she needs some steerage, enough draft to maneuver instead of getting stuck on a sandbar. Yelling at Annie will not do that. Attacking Anthony will not do that. Grabbing Reynard and running away would likely damage all three of them so badly that Annie would probably go back to Daddy as the least dangerous port in a hideous storm. (Annie's view, not mine.) Again I say, Patience. Give Kat a chance to do what she can. "Okay. We'll deal with it," she says. Right. We'll just move forward as if any part of this is okay. I see no evidence that Kat thinks any of this is OK. She has one friend in terrible pain, another at risk of enslavement or death, and she herself is almost overwhelmed. This is about breathing space, not a final solution. I've been reading Gunnerkrigg since 2008-ish, but this morning I felt like maybe it was time to stop. Have people forgotten that the basic principle of storytelling is, "Chase your protagonists up a tall tree, surround them by wolves, then throw rocks at them"? Raise your hand, everyone who thinks Annie is utterly crushed with no hope of recovery, to the point where she will unthinkingly sell her friend and guide to his worst enemy. Even Kat has given up on her. All they can do is huddle in the burning wreckage of Annie's life. The batteries in the walky-talky aren't just dead, they've leaked and corroded the circuitry beyond all repair. Soon, the girls, too, will become gray, lifeless puppets with less agency than Boxbot. When they finally die, in meaningless servitude to the dark forces of the Court, no one will care, nothing will come of it, and they will be forgotten. Wow. I can hardly wait. Nothing says powerful, innovative storytelling like utter despair. Very existential. Let us put on our black turtle necks, sit, each at our separate tables, starring fixedly at the stained tablecloth before us, drinking bitter, burned espresso and smoking Galois, while we contemplate the emptiness of art, striving, and our very lives. When the cafe guitarist finishes her grim battle with the minor-tuned low E string, don't bother snapping your fingers, and risk offending her by attempting to inject your bourgeois delusions of appreciation into the perfect void of her non-playing. Gah. I want to see stories about people who make terrible mistakes while beset by terrible enemies, and still seek out that glimmer of hope our dearest friends offer us in the deepest gloom. Breath. If you hurt, you know you're alive. Have a little faith.
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Post by guitarminotaur on Apr 22, 2015 17:23:30 GMT
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Refugee, write something.
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Post by jocobo on Apr 22, 2015 18:03:03 GMT
I have to say I am a bit dissapointed. I thought Our Robotic Lady, Glorious Katerina was about to finally lead the counter-ofensive here. I was hoping she would push. Annie does her best when she's pushed, when the stakes are down and there is no retreat. In this case, I don't think giving her room to avoid the situation is for the best. The longer she stays like this, the longer she has to bake up excuses for that man.
I highly doubt this current meek complacency will be challeneged until someone makes her temper flare.
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Post by Refugee on Apr 22, 2015 18:30:50 GMT
I have to say I am a bit dissapointed. I thought Our Robotic Lady, Glorious Katerina was about to finally lead the counter-ofensive here. I was hoping she would push. So, you want Kat to go Full Patton on Annie, eh? Slap her around a bit? Tell her what a useless coward she is? Court martial her for being lost and afraid? Tell a fourteen year old school girl with a jetting hole in her heart that she needs to grab her rifle, jump out of her trench, and running screaming across no mans land directly at the machine gun nest? Good plan, good plan. Looking forward to seeing how that goes. Let's give Annie a moment to breath, try to establish some sort of equilibrium, then talk out some options to betraying her friends and herself. It's a million to one chance, but it just might work.
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Post by Sadie on Apr 22, 2015 19:24:39 GMT
I won't lie and say that I wasn't initially disappointed to see a strategic deescalation in place of DAY BEING SAVED, but on review, I think this is more character-fitting and more realistic to these types of situations.
Specifically, situations where a teenager is confronted with a friend who's being mistreated by a parent and is behaving in a passive, permissive, emotionally repressed 'survival' mode. There's only so much Kat can do. Even if she got other adults involved, they're going to be stymied by the fact that 1) Anthony has ultimate authority over his daughter, 2) Annie isn't protesting the treatment, nor is she showing blatantly obvious signs of life endangering abuse (physical injury, suicidal statements, etc), which would give them justification to contest said authority. Taking a step-by-step problem-solving approach is probably the best bet for both of them.
A little tangential here, but this page started me thinking back to "The Realm of the Dead". Here's Annie and Mort being blown away by a dark, magical, mystical realm full of strange people, devices, and mysterious knowledge... while Kat just sees a cheesy fake horror show, which is exactly what it was. She's got a knack for seeing to the heart of things.
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Post by pxc on Apr 22, 2015 19:35:50 GMT
I have to say I am a bit dissapointed. I thought Our Robotic Lady, Glorious Katerina was about to finally lead the counter-ofensive here. I was hoping she would push. So, you want Kat to go Full Patton on Annie, eh? Slap her around a bit? Tell her what a useless coward she is? Court martial her for being lost and afraid? Tell a fourteen year old school girl with a jetting hole in her heart that she needs to grab her rifle, jump out of her trench, and running screaming across no mans land directly at the machine gun nest? Good plan, good plan. Looking forward to seeing how that goes. Let's give Annie a moment to breath, try to establish some sort of equilibrium, then talk out some options to betraying her friends and herself. It's a million to one chance, but it just might work. You are oversimplifying and misrepresenting the viewpoint you oppose. Continuing to push Annie to face her problems is not the same thing as what you just described. The breakdown has to happen. And delaying it significantly while Reynard is imprisoned isn't acceptable. I think Kat may have a plan for him though.
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Post by Vilthuril on Apr 22, 2015 19:36:44 GMT
One perhaps slightly if not much cheerier thought in regard to Reynardine: He is presumably immortal, or effectively so by human standards. As long as he can't actually be ordered to kill himself, then as Douglas Adams writes regarding Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, he's going to no matter what and for better (Anthony and the headmaster) or worse (Antimony, Surma), "just generally outliv[e] the hell out of everybody." In stories, every genie gets out of its bottle eventually, and again for better or worse Coyote and Jones would presumably still be there when Reynardine did. Of course, unlike perhaps Jones, who otherwise has gone through the same thing, in the meanwhile he'll be miserable and bored and worrying about Antimony... *sigh* Well, onward, and we'll see what Tom has for us next!
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Post by Refugee on Apr 22, 2015 19:50:53 GMT
You are oversimplifying and misrepresenting the viewpoint you oppose. Continuing to push Annie to face her problems is not the same thing as what you just described. The breakdown has to happen. And delaying it significantly while Reynard is imprisoned isn't acceptable. I think Kat may have a plan for him though. As long as Reynard is in Annie's possession, he is not imprisoned or enslaved. I have no problem with continuing to push Annie, even to the point of breakdown. I only have a problem with doing so without a complete understanding of her situation, which, as I have been saying for this entire chapter, we do not have. I am counseling against panic, and against hateful vengeance. I just want Kat to listen to Annie for a few minutes, and find out what her needs are now. There is a point at which intervention itself can become abuse, where the focus is on the outcome desired by the interveners, not on the person who is actually suffering. If Kat cannot listen to Annie for a few minutes, to come up with a plan she agrees with; if instead Kat just bullies Annie into rash action, she's not that much better than Anthony.
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Post by Sadie on Apr 22, 2015 21:47:25 GMT
Panel two keeps really bugging me. I can't tell if the way the line of her mouth is drawn is a mistake or on purpose as another reference to the "Divine" mask.
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Post by machival on Apr 22, 2015 21:54:18 GMT
Panel two keeps really bugging me. Yeah, That's been bugging the hell out of me too. None of the other lines are like that, so it's not some sort of artifact from a screwed up upload. I can't decide if it's meant to reflect the way her head is oriented (and failing at it) or if it's meant to be a single solid line but there was a fuck-up in the drawing process.
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Post by Fishy on Apr 22, 2015 22:48:21 GMT
... You know, I could get used to this look for Annie. It's really not that bad once she's calm and doesn't look dead tired. What HAS been bugging me though is the way Annie's mouth hasn't really been open at all on the last few pages. Kat's all expressive and yeah the comic style means that Annie's mouth never actually has to be open, but it's a little unsettling when looking at all the pages back to back. I'm sure if you photoshopped out all of Annie's speech bubbles it'd look like Kat was having a one-way conversation with a mute and not seem all that out of place. Well okay it'd be a bit out of place but mostly it'd be funny.
*Ahem* Story wise, I do think that something should be done about Renard still. If Annie really does go through with passing the control onto her father, I doubt there's any way of ever getting him back. How many etherically gifted/cursed friends do these two have? Certainly ONE of them could fake-steal a plushie for the time being. A few wouldn't even have an obligation to give him up.
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Post by juxander on Apr 22, 2015 22:59:47 GMT
Have people forgotten that the basic principle of storytelling is, "Chase your protagonists up a tall tree, surround them by wolves, then throw rocks at them"? Raise your hand, everyone who thinks Annie is utterly crushed with no hope of recovery, to the point where she will unthinkingly sell her friend and guide to his worst enemy. Even Kat has given up on her. All they can do is huddle in the burning wreckage of Annie's life. The batteries in the walky-talky aren't just dead, they've leaked and corroded the circuitry beyond all repair. Soon, the girls, too, will become gray, lifeless puppets with less agency than Boxbot. When they finally die, in meaningless servitude to the dark forces of the Court, no one will care, nothing will come of it, and they will be forgotten. Wow. I can hardly wait. Nothing says powerful, innovative storytelling like utter despair. Very existential. Let us put on our black turtle necks, sit, each at our separate tables, starring fixedly at the stained tablecloth before us, drinking bitter, burned espresso and smoking Galois, while we contemplate the emptiness of art, striving, and our very lives. When the cafe guitarist finishes her grim battle with the minor-tuned low E string, don't bother snapping your fingers, and risk offending her by attempting to inject your bourgeois delusions of appreciation into the perfect void of her non-playing. Gah. I want to see stories about people who make terrible mistakes while beset by terrible enemies, and still seek out that glimmer of hope our dearest friends offer us in the deepest gloom. Breath. If you hurt, you know you're alive. Have a little faith. I do not believe Mr Siddell intends to recreate La Bohème. What I do see is rather ham-handed storytelling with characters in service to a plot. Plot requires: things must be shaken up. Okay, Annie's dad returns, removes her from everything and is generally functions as a villain. Hm, we have to take away Annie's support network... okay, her dad forbids her to go to the forest and takes Reynard, so we'll make Annie agree to that and ignore all that years-of-friendship 'you will not take him' stuff. What if Reynard protests? Oh, we'll skip that scene and Annie will have ordered him to not speak / stay in his toy form. Wait, wouldn't Kat (and other people) object too? No, we'll make her worried for about a third of a page and Annie will say "I have to" and Kat will change the subject. Wait, wouldn't that kind of make them both terrible peop--YAY PLOT. I don't doubt for a moment that "the good guys" will win, I'm just not cheering for them anymore.
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Post by Sadie on Apr 23, 2015 0:03:09 GMT
I do not believe Mr Siddell intends to recreate La Bohème. What I do see is rather ham-handed storytelling with characters in service to a plot. Plot requires: things must be shaken up. Okay, Annie's dad returns, removes her from everything and is generally functions as a villain. Hm, we have to take away Annie's support network... okay, her dad forbids her to go to the forest and takes Reynard, so we'll make Annie agree to that and ignore all that years-of-friendship 'you will not take him' stuff. What if Reynard protests? Oh, we'll skip that scene and Annie will have ordered him to not speak / stay in his toy form. Wait, wouldn't Kat (and other people) object too? No, we'll make her worried for about a third of a page and Annie will say "I have to" and Kat will change the subject. Wait, wouldn't that kind of make them both terrible peop--YAY PLOT. I don't doubt for a moment that "the good guys" will win, I'm just not cheering for them anymore. Well, she didn't say "I have to" after which Kat completely changed the subject with the goal of ignoring Renard entirely, it's more like Annie repeated "I have to... I have to..." while maintaining a stone-faced expression despite, only seconds before, showing signs of full emotional collapse, after which Kat said "Okay. We'll deal with it. One step at a time." I'm going with the reading that the "it" they're dealing with "one step at a time" includes Renard's situation. Having said that, yes, it would've been a lot more reassuring* if everything she said immediately after that had to do with Renard. But it seems she is, in this moment, prioritizing research (finding out where Annie is going) and maintaining future communication (remembering and retrieving the walkie-talkie). *especially in the case of judging Kat and Annie's characters based on their treatment of others. I get it if you aren't enjoying this storyline and if the way Kat and Annie are being presented casts them in a bad light for you. I totally respect that. I disagree with it being ham-handed storytelling.
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Post by Sadie on Apr 23, 2015 0:10:32 GMT
Panel two keeps really bugging me. Yeah, That's been bugging the hell out of me too. None of the other lines are like that, so it's not some sort of artifact from a screwed up upload. I can't decide if it's meant to reflect the way her head is oriented (and failing at it) or if it's meant to be a single solid line but there was a fuck-up in the drawing process. I've noticed that in 3/4th views, Tom will often leave a gap between the far-corner of Annie's mouth and the rest of it. But in this case, it looks like the right side of her mouth is slightly smiling while the left is frowning. Super jarring.
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Post by todd on Apr 23, 2015 0:13:31 GMT
I'm actually realizing that Annie's quiet nature in the beginning of the comic was *not* just a by-product of Tom's growth as an artist. You know how Tom just decided he didn't like windbury to be that bully kid? And then he made him grow out if it? I thought the reason why Annie's personality changed is because he decided he didn't like it any more. But no, It's actually a completely intentional personality shift from Ch.1! It took her years to grow out of her subdued state, and now she's instantly regressed back to it. Not quite. In Chapter One, Annie took the initiative to investigate that extra shadow, communicate with it, find out what it wanted, and come up with a way to help it get home. I don't think she'd be capable of such actions now.
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Post by peachpie on Apr 23, 2015 0:38:45 GMT
Just a little side thing, but the closeup of Annie's hair in panel two breaks my heart that much further. I have the exact same sharp/ragged edge and shape to my hair - that's not a professional cut, that hair was pulled into a tight ponytail at the base of the neck and hacked off by a wrong-handed amateur. Mine was voluntary and for fun but... Anthony sheared her!
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