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Post by Gotolei on Sept 18, 2015 7:02:35 GMT
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Post by lordboxbot on Sept 18, 2015 7:03:10 GMT
OH SNAP.
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Post by Chancellor on Sept 18, 2015 7:03:35 GMT
We a tokusatsu kaiju film now, I guess.
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Post by Bandolute on Sept 18, 2015 7:04:02 GMT
Destruction of court property? That couldn't have gone over well...
I was hoping for more resolution on the Annie-sans-spirit front, but maybe there's still time for that to happen.
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Post by Fishy on Sept 18, 2015 7:04:39 GMT
... Oh.
Like, yeah it feels like it's being drawn from the mind of a child, but knowing he actually could do it, something about Coyote's narration gives this kind of an eerie, uncomfortable feeling.
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Post by temeritee on Sept 18, 2015 7:05:09 GMT
Uh oh. Hope there wasn't priceless research material in that building.
Also love the imagery of Tony as broken both physically with all his wounds but also broken emotionally with his mourning
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Post by sapientcoffee on Sept 18, 2015 7:05:20 GMT
We a tokusatsu kaiju film now, I guess. I like the art shift for that last panel. |
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Post by lemmingatk on Sept 18, 2015 7:08:57 GMT
It was probably a lamppost or something. Coyote likely doesn't distinguish between Court buildings and things the Court has built.
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Post by youwiththeface on Sept 18, 2015 7:10:46 GMT
And now we know why this was framed this way. I'm noting Anthony doesn't have a mark, like Jones and hair cut Annie.
Depending on what Coyote destroyed, if this doesn't made the Court realize how serious a problem he can make himself if he wants to, I'm not sure anything will.
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Post by diantris on Sept 18, 2015 7:10:46 GMT
Do you think he broke the building fire Annie was in, thus letting the elemental part out?
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Post by bedinsis on Sept 18, 2015 7:11:13 GMT
Of all the panels, the last one was the one that made me react.
He broke down a building when upset? Puts the rump smacking incident in perspective.
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Post by Sky Schemer on Sept 18, 2015 7:11:07 GMT
I am sure "little building" means no more than 30 or 40 stories, tops.
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Post by Bontage on Sept 18, 2015 7:12:56 GMT
Of all the panels, the last one was the one that made me react. He broke down a building when upset? Puts the rump smacking incident in perspective. So what you're saying is that we're in for the dreaded "Double Spankies"? |
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Post by edzepp on Sept 18, 2015 7:13:14 GMT
but where does the rubik's cube come in
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Post by gwydion on Sept 18, 2015 7:14:04 GMT
Um there seem to be two of these discussion threads up.
So to repeat myself from 4 minutes ago
Run from the newest Kaiju Great Coyote!
I like how Tony is a block
And thinking about child drawing coyote looking like that in reality.
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Post by justcurious on Sept 18, 2015 7:16:29 GMT
And of course they are using the Broken Man as a scapegoat. They didn't mention that they made him do it. Typical level of bravery from the Court.
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Post by darththulhu on Sept 18, 2015 7:16:34 GMT
We a tokusatsu kaiju film now, I guess. One building down. Five million, three hundred twenty thousand, six hundred sixty-five to go. Would be interesting if it was Tony's building, as that will get Renard involved. |
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Post by Dvandaemon on Sept 18, 2015 7:18:00 GMT
Annie doesn't have her cut because although this is heavily stylized this is still occurring in the realm of reality.
This complicates expelling Annie or in any way interfering with her relationships to the forest.
EDIT: I notice the buildings are stylized as rooted in the ground.
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Post by temeritee on Sept 18, 2015 7:22:35 GMT
EDIT: I notice the buildings are stylized as rooted in the ground. To me, the buildings almost look like nodes in a computer |
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Post by darththulhu on Sept 18, 2015 7:22:20 GMT
Do you think he broke the building fire Annie was in, thus letting the elemental part out? Probably not. The "white spirit-link line" connecting to The Fire is still moving across the page, and should be entering the building if it is Annie's Residence. Since I fully expect Coyote to stop flailing eventually and to follow the White Rabbit Line and to find Fire Spirit at some point, I hope that isn't already the building in question. |
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Post by keef on Sept 18, 2015 7:27:08 GMT
Broken, nameless, faceless. He means nothing to Coyote. Destruction of court property? That couldn't have gone over well... There's so much court for so few people, it won't matter. Probably a new one will grow in its place. |
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Post by quark on Sept 18, 2015 7:37:40 GMT
...Ooops. I love how Anthony is seen by Coyote. His whole right side is broken off, not just his hand; Coyote sees things way clearer than just the physical representation.
And I really don't want to know what a 'little' building is by Coyote's standards, but it's very interesting how little the court is involved in all this. They give in to his demands, they bring Anthony before him as the reason Annie can't visit the forest any more...
I've got a theory - the court didn't ask Anthony to do all this. They just said something like 'reign in your daughter, she's not following orders' - remember, 'Divine' was before Antimony got appointed Forest Medium, and she just came back from the forest and blew off detention. Running off to the forest could have brought serious harm to the Court (as Jones mentioned), which is probably why they sought outside help. They didn't want to mess up their relations with the Forest, they just trained their medium to improve them!
Anthony just acted - it's very much in character for him to 'know' what to do, instead of asking for exactly what the court wants him to do, so he overshot by a million miles, there.
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Post by darththulhu on Sept 18, 2015 7:41:48 GMT
And now we know why this was framed this way. I'm noting Anthony doesn't have a mark, like Jones and hair cut Annie. Depending on what Coyote destroyed, if this doesn't made the Court realize how serious a problem he can make himself if he wants to, I'm not sure anything will. The Court Already Knows That Coyote made the Annan gap. Coyote silently threatens the death of anyone crossing into His Forest without His Leave to do so. The Court already knows all this, and has since the first founders. Thus: Jeanne. I've generally felt that Lumpmaster Llanwellyn's pose of infinite boredom is deliberately crafted as much as anything, as a deliberately-soulless safety measure: Don't give Coyote anything extra to react to. Don't provoke Coyote any extra with intemperate words or off-the-cuff reactions, only with deliberate choices (Not Choosing Antimony as medium, Holding Antimony Back, and so on). Coyote is quietly desperate for human validation of his greatness and human reactions to his power, so the Court deliberately refuses to give Coyote anything but bored disinterest and disapproving disappointment. To all of this, I wouldn't expect Llanwellyn to demonstrate more emotion than Jones: "You broke a building (and possibly harmed one of us, thus breaking your sworn word, you reckless animal)." Hide behind others. Hide behind rules. Hide behind the pose. But refuse to dignify Coyote as anything more than a wild beast, because that judgment is the only thing that actually stings him, over the decades. |
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Post by sapientcoffee on Sept 18, 2015 7:50:49 GMT
Sometimes I wonder if the Court "becoming god" means they want to destroy the ether, so that beings like Coyote can't just run rampant over humans.
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Post by youwiththeface on Sept 18, 2015 7:54:51 GMT
And now we know why this was framed this way. I'm noting Anthony doesn't have a mark, like Jones and hair cut Annie. Depending on what Coyote destroyed, if this doesn't made the Court realize how serious a problem he can make himself if he wants to, I'm not sure anything will. The Court Already Knows That Coyote made the Annan gap. Coyote silently threatens the death of anyone crossing into His Forest without His Leave to do so. The Court already knows all this, and has since the first founders. Thus: Jeanne. I've generally felt that Lumpmaster Llanwellyn's pose of infinite boredom is deliberately crafted as much as anything, as a deliberately-soulless safety measure: Don't give Coyote anything extra to react to. Don't provoke Coyote any extra with intemperate words or off-the-cuff reactions, only with deliberate choices (Not Choosing Antimony as medium, Holding Antimony Back, and so on). Coyote is quietly desperate for human validation of his greatness and human reactions to his power, so the Court deliberately refuses to give Coyote anything but bored disinterest and disapproving disappointment. To all of this, I wouldn't expect Llanwellyn to demonstrate more emotion than Jones: "You broke a building (and possibly harmed one of us, thus breaking your sworn word, you reckless animal)." Hide behind others. Hide behind rules. Hide behind the pose. But refuse to dignify Coyote as anything more than a wild beast, because that judgment is the only thing that actually stings him, over the decades. Then I'd say the court doesn't already know that. You don't poke a bear and you don't try to play power games with Coyote. While even taking into account the court's less than sterling moral record I can understand not wanting to bow and scrape before a god and wanting to have your own skin in the game, there's a difference between the push and pull of diplomacy and deliberately or ignorantly provoking a powerful force. That is generally not a good idea, especially if there aren't negative repercussions inherent for that powerful force in losing its shit and going crazy. |
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Post by darththulhu on Sept 18, 2015 7:59:49 GMT
Stylistically, I love the renderings of the phrase "Broken Man". The crack of negative space splitting across it is exactly like the physical wall-crack bisecting Annie's head back at the start of the Microsat 5 chapter.
Father and daughter share the same kind of spiritual brokenness.
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Post by tulicloure on Sept 18, 2015 8:03:37 GMT
That is generally not a good idea, especially if there aren't negative repercussions inherent for that powerful force in losing its shit and going crazy. Like giving the enemy faction a free justification to start a war? |
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Post by darththulhu on Sept 18, 2015 8:03:58 GMT
Sometimes I wonder if the Court "becoming god" means they want to destroy the ether, so that beings like Coyote can't just run rampant over humans. I'd imagine there's a diversity of opinions over the centuries. Some dream of fully harnessing the ether. Some dream of fully taming the ether. And some dream of fully abolishing it. Which one of those encompasses "the Omega Project" is an open question. |
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Post by Trillium on Sept 18, 2015 8:04:12 GMT
Annie doesn't have her cut because although this is heavily stylized this is still occurring in the realm of reality. This complicates expelling Annie or in any way interfering with her relationships to the forest. EDIT: I notice the buildings are stylized as rooted in the ground. The buildings are rooted because they grew from the seed Bismuth. Coyote is so unhappy. |
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Post by haspen on Sept 18, 2015 8:15:04 GMT
I for one hope that no one was inside the building when Coyote toppled it. That could get... messy. And make today's comic much, much worse D:
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