[1620] Making Progress

[Gotolei]

Farewell, Puppy Renard. We hardly knew ye.

[KMar]

So she's retraining herself to use ether? Re-connecting with the fire elemental? Both? Neither?

[Chancellor]

Yiss, he isn't angry/resentful about the last year's worth of updates. That's a relief.

[Gotolei]

We've only seem Rey in the ether like two or three times before now, but he's doing the same border-breaking stuff that Coyote does, while he wasn't before.
Of course this is probably just art evolution at work but it's a nice detail anyways.

[zirka]

Oh, I missed this so much! Just those two talking normally. This page takes off a strain I've been feeling ever since Anthony showed up. There was a thought in my mind that their relationship would never be the same, but this seems good. Not that I quite understand what their relationship IS, but this is good. Although Annie probably should have honest talk with her real father as well, at some point. But not at the expense of all her other paternal-type relationships.
I want to cuddle glowing orange Rey more than usual.

[ctso74]

Which would be worse, messing up in the Forest, in front of her father, or in her new class? Though, I guess the class isn't so new anymore.

[madragoran]

She looks natural and calm. And Rey is beautiful.

This I like.

[fish]

Jan 18, 2016 8:04:00 GMT KMar said:

So she's retraining herself to use ether? Re-connecting with the fire elemental? Both? Neither?

Probably training to enter the ether without her blinker stone. And to control her anger without the luxury of emotional quarantine.

[calpal]

"I slipped up a little... instructions were unclear, I summoned C'thulhu."

[Jelly Jellybean]

Jan 18, 2016 8:20:17 GMT Gotolei said:

We've only seem Rey in the ether like two or three times before now, but he's doing the same border-breaking stuff that Coyote does, while he wasn't before.
Of course this is probably just art evolution at work but it's a nice detail anyways.

Zimmy's vision of Kat / the Mecha-Angel is also breaking the normal page border!  She touches the red borders at the top and bottom of the page. And if you copy the image file and open it by itself, you can see that there are no black borders.

Paz's vision of the Mecha-Angel is not breaking the border of the page.  It is contained within each panel borders.  Maybe because Paz saw a manifestation of the Mecha-Angel in the real world while Zimmy sees beyond the real world.

EDIT:  The first time the page borders are broken (excluding chapter pages/covers) is in chapter 26 when Annie first sees Coyote and Ysengrin through the ether.  Coyote, Ysengrin, and Annie are all drawn with no borders.  Their etheric presence continues to break the borders on the following pages.  So breaking the borders is not a mark of divinity, unless Tom tightened its meaning as he drew more of the comic.

[Daedalus]

You know, Tom's art style is amazing, but any time he draws a fox recently, the proportions look...off. Something to do with the snout not being long enough in relation to the head. That jumped out at me on this page and on the Book 5 cover – compare them to this page here (one of my favorite pieces of art in the comic) for reference.

[jda]

Jan 18, 2016 17:06:18 GMT Daedalus said:

You know, Tom's art style is amazing, but any time he draws a fox recently, the proportions look...off. Something to do with the snout not being long enough in relation to the head. That jumped out at me on this page and on the Book 5 cover – compare them to this page here (one of my favorite pieces of art in the comic) for reference.

Of course, dude. Reynandin is antropormorphizing, in the end it will be like this.



The Fox and the Little Princess.

[Jelly Jellybean]

Jan 18, 2016 18:56:19 GMT jda said:

Jan 18, 2016 17:06:18 GMT Daedalus said:

You know, Tom's art style is amazing, but any time he draws a fox recently, the proportions look...off. Something to do with the snout not being long enough in relation to the head. That jumped out at me on this page and on the Book 5 cover – compare them to this page here (one of my favorite pieces of art in the comic) for reference.

Of course, dude. Reynandin is antropormorphizing, in the end it will be like this.

SPOILER: Click to show

The Fox and the Little Princess.

Renard and Kat? What about Annie?

[nero]

Oh its great to see the ether side of Renard again. Maybe it won't be so long till he can go back to his original body.

[storyteller]

So, does Anne know about the cut on her cheek? I've been assuming not, as near the beginning of the story Zimmy is stymied from mentioning it, and how Coyote dances around the subject later. On the other hand, Renard is seeing it, and considering how permanent that scar/cut is I would think that he has mentioned it at some point.

[Jelly Jellybean]

Jan 19, 2016 0:57:18 GMT storyteller said:

So, does Anne know about the cut on her cheek? I've been assuming not, as near the beginning of the story Zimmy is stymied from mentioning it, and how Coyote dances around the subject later. On the other hand, Renard is seeing it, and considering how permanent that scar/cut is I would think that he has mentioned it at some point.

Yes.  Annie knew Jeanne had cut her, but she didn't understand why she didn't have the cut when she woke up and it appears she just thought it was a dream.  The scar was visible the first time Annie saw Renard through the ether, but it appears that Renard didn't say anything because later when Coyote pointed it out, Annie thought Coyote might be trying to trick her.  From that point Annie appears to have figured it out, maybe by talking to Renard.  An etheric mirrors would have been handy, but would you trust an etheric mirror to show you the truth?

[l33tninja]

Jan 18, 2016 16:24:31 GMT Jelly Jellybean said:

Jan 18, 2016 8:20:17 GMT Gotolei said:

We've only seem Rey in the ether like two or three times before now, but he's doing the same border-breaking stuff that Coyote does, while he wasn't before.
Of course this is probably just art evolution at work but it's a nice detail anyways.

Zimmy's vision of Kat / the Mecha-Angel is also breaking the normal page border!  She touches the red borders at the top and bottom of the page. And if you copy the image file and open it by itself, you can see that there are no black borders.

Paz's vision of the Mecha-Angel is not breaking the border of the page.  It is contained within each panel borders.  Maybe because Paz saw a manifestation of the Mecha-Angel in the real world while Zimmy sees beyond the real world.

EDIT:  The first time the page borders are broken (excluding chapter pages/covers) is in chapter 26 when Annie first sees Coyote and Ysengrin through the ether.  Coyote, Ysengrin, and Annie are all drawn with no borders.  Their etheric presence continues to break the borders on the following pages.  So breaking the borders is not a mark of divinity, unless Tom tightened its meaning as he drew more of the comic.

I think Tom mentions this in one of the youtube commentaries (going off my memory here . . . ) but I believe that he represents all things in the ether with less "border definition" and not just Coyote. In fact, Coyote is ALWAYS shown to be less than physically bound since Coyote exists simultaneously in the physical world and in the ether.

[mashivan]

I just realized what was so off about this page. Normally in the ether, most of the background is taken up by Annie's hair or other flowy etheric stuff. Now it's just, nothing.

[OGRuddawg]

Jan 18, 2016 17:06:18 GMT Daedalus said:

You know, Tom's art style is amazing, but any time he draws a fox recently, the proportions look...off. Something to do with the snout not being long enough in relation to the head. That jumped out at me on this page and on the Book 5 cover – compare them to this page here (one of my favorite pieces of art in the comic) for reference.

Yeah the Book 5 Renard fox image definitely looks off to me, but I think the current Renard images are more fox-like, if a little awkward at times. Maybe Annie's mental state distorts what she sees.