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Post by Daedalus on Aug 12, 2016 7:00:36 GMT
No cliffhanger for the weekend? Shame on you, Tom! Haha. I'm still getting an ominous feeling. Either Kat didn't find what she thought she found, or Jeanne will break out of the illusion, or something else.
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Post by Gotolei on Aug 12, 2016 7:02:43 GMT
Can't do much hanging from cliffs when they're clearly at the way bottom of them.
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Post by Daedalus on Aug 12, 2016 7:05:30 GMT
(Also, on a minor note, I always thought that "synced" was spelled "synched". Some google-fu suggests that the "c" spelling is more common in computing contexts, so it makes sense for Kat to use it. I learn something new every day!)
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Post by Gulby on Aug 12, 2016 7:21:29 GMT
Oh goshgolly. Oh sweet mercy. Oh saint pink unicorn (may we be blessed by your sacred hooves). Oh candies. Please let them be safe after this Adventure.
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Post by haspen on Aug 12, 2016 7:23:20 GMT
[POPCORN_AND_EDGE-SEATING_INTENSIFIES]
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Post by arf on Aug 12, 2016 7:35:22 GMT
Cue some music. Something with lower registers.
'Jaws', or Pink Floyd's "Signs of Life" will do nicely.
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Post by speedwell on Aug 12, 2016 7:36:08 GMT
Ohh, they're putting it in a shielding box. Makes sense; I don't know what else I expected them to do with it. Snapping it asunder while holding it overhead in the manner of He-Man chanting "by the power of Greyskull" or something, I suppose  Also, I do not expect the Court to just meekly accept Annie back into class after this. Nor do I expect she would go meekly back to class after this. Oh, golly. |
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Post by Nepycros on Aug 12, 2016 7:56:03 GMT
Is this 'enclosure' meant to keep Jeanne out, or to keep that corpse contained, which is clearly still there after being shot with an arrow and buried at the bottom of a lake.
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Post by foresterr on Aug 12, 2016 8:19:31 GMT
Um. Kat just found the arrow, not fished it out and stuck it in the enclosure ENTIRELY OFF CAMERA? Right?
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Post by fish on Aug 12, 2016 8:49:46 GMT
Finally, the mystery around Annie's seating is solved! Um. Kat just found the arrow, not fished it out and stuck it in the enclosure ENTIRELY OFF CAMERA? Right? Nah, I think she just prepared everything, I still expect some etheric lifting from Annie. |
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Post by madragoran on Aug 12, 2016 9:25:58 GMT
Um. Kat just found the arrow, not fished it out and stuck it in the enclosure ENTIRELY OFF CAMERA? Right? Yeah. This looks like we are missing some steps in the story. I am very confused as to what is going on. Did they find the arrow? (seems so) what are they going to do now? (no idea). *drools on keyboard a bit* |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Aug 12, 2016 11:06:29 GMT
The wide Annan River is wide. Way back in Chapter 8, Tom couldn't depict the scale of the river and ravine. He pulled it off in Chapter 30, and he depicted it like a boss in today's page. I think the three pages show an interesting artistic evolution from what didn't work in Chapter 8, to scaling recognizable background objects down to show distance in Chapter 30, and finally to today's page that also decreases the detail of distant objects and "blurs" them to emphasis depth in the image. This comic is full of examples that could be useful in an Art class. |
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Post by todd on Aug 12, 2016 12:35:56 GMT
Also, I do not expect the Court to just meekly accept Annie back into class after this. Nor do I expect she would go meekly back to class after this. Oh, golly. Does the Court even know that Annie and the others are doing this? (And if they did, there'd be the question of what to do about the others, like Andrew and Parley. Give them the sack and leave theselves with no medium for future negotiations with Gilltie?) |
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Post by eightyfour on Aug 12, 2016 13:07:30 GMT
I don't buy it. This is too easy!
Something is going to go horribly wrong in the next couple of pages, isn't it? But then, this is Tom's writing. Agh!
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Post by ctso74 on Aug 12, 2016 14:03:32 GMT
Will Green Man's etheric presence be absent, a withered husk, or something more fierce than Jeanne? And who's about to lose a limb or worse? I don't buy it. This is too easy! Something is going to go horribly wrong in the next couple of pages, isn't it? But then, this is Tom's writing. Agh! The anticipation is as towering as the cliffs above them. Maybe, Tom thought we didn't need a cliffhanger for the weekend, because every comic seems like the precursor to something ambiguously terrible. Oddly Lovecraftian. Something inhumanly bad is close by. Sometimes seeming like a breath away. You don't know what it is or when it will arrive, but it's coming irregardless of you, and all you can do is wait and watch. Then again, the arrow could be made of candy and puppies, and Jeanne gives hugs to everybody. So... |
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Post by Aura on Aug 12, 2016 14:16:01 GMT
Everything aside, I'm impressed that Sir Green was able to swim that far! Look how tiny the boat looks!!
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Post by scottjm on Aug 12, 2016 14:34:33 GMT
Also, I do not expect the Court to just meekly accept Annie back into class after this. Nor do I expect she would go meekly back to class after this. Oh, golly. Does the Court even know that Annie and the others are doing this? (And if they did, there'd be the question of what to do about the others, like Andrew and Parley. Give them the sack and leave theselves with no medium for future negotiations with Gilltie?) I would expect them to first blame Annie as the instigator (though after her fall Ch 8, and encountering Jeanne in Ch 9 she has good reason to be) and try removing her more thoroughly. |
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Post by atteSmythe on Aug 12, 2016 15:51:53 GMT
I expect that they're going to retrieve the arrow and put it in the enclosure without incident.
...but then nothing will happen. The arrow will be successfully isolated, but that's when they learn that it's not exactly what's keeping Jeanne down there.
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Post by bedinsis on Aug 12, 2016 16:38:44 GMT
The wide Annan River is wide. Way back in Chapter 8, Tom couldn't depict the scale of the river and ravine. He pulled it off in Chapter 30, and he depicted it like a boss in today's page. I think the three pages show an interesting artistic evolution from what didn't work in Chapter 8, to scaling recognizable background objects down to show distance in Chapter 30, and finally to today's page that also decreases the detail of distant objects and "blurs" them to emphasis depth in the image. This comic is full of examples that could be useful in an Art class. I now wonder how wide the river is supposed to be. I tried finding pictures of the bridge but it is never shown in its whole, or it is at an awkward angle. In this page we see that at least 15 lamps fit along one side without covering the entire bridge. In this page (made before Mr. Siddell got the hang* of perspectives) it looks like there are at least 50 lamps along one side, but probably more. That could however be a case of it being more important to depict how long the bridge feel than how long it is. In this page it looks like the distance between two lamps is roughly 5 Parleys. I measured my own shoulder width and got 50 centimetres; I am not a broad shouldered person. So with some low ball estimates: 50 lamps times 5 Parley shoulder-widths times 50 centimetres nets a river that is at least 125 metres wide. Looking at pictures of London Bridge(265 metres wide) makes that seem unreasonable; it must be a lot wider. ...I just reread the first chapter which provides a nice map. (Darn it, it's annoying when you find better sources after you've done most of the research.) Anyway: does half a kilometre sound like a reasonable width from that map? Annie at the start of the comic called the distance a considerable length; half a kilometre might not fit that description. *at least in terms of rivers; I imagine it is easier to draw bridges in perspective than rivers. |
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Aug 12, 2016 17:53:47 GMT
We sure are getting a whole lot of "Yep, Kat can totally do this!" in these last couple pages. I'm worried a miscalculation of some sort is around the corner.
Orr..everything goes off without a hitch!
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Post by warrl on Aug 12, 2016 20:12:02 GMT
The bridge probably goes across a relatively narrow point in the canyon. It could be wider elsewhere.
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Aug 12, 2016 21:23:20 GMT
Since this is Gunnerkrigg Court, the ravine could have straight sides and still be wider at the bottom than it is at the top. Maybe everything shrinks as it gets to the bottom of the ravine and the middle of the river. Annie, Kat, and the raft are shrinking as they get further from the river bank. The Green Guy and the Green Arrow also shrank, so Annie and Kat may not notice anything.
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Post by TBeholder on Aug 12, 2016 21:35:22 GMT
Of course, whether this container is the right size depends on what have happened to the body of an elf killed with use of unique tech-sorcery. That may turn out to be petrified, for example, or sunk all the way down to the bedrock.
We don't know anything about that, and Annie probably doesn't know much either.
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Post by todd on Aug 13, 2016 0:22:14 GMT
We sure are getting a whole lot of "Yep, Kat can totally do this!" in these last couple pages. I'm worried a miscalculation of some sort is around the corner. Orr..everything goes off without a hitch! Given how "Residential" and "The Torn Sea" went, I wouldn't advise ruling the latter out. |
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Post by Eisenblume on Aug 13, 2016 3:17:36 GMT
Uuuuh, this makes my stomach hurt. Something is going to go wrooooong...
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Post by Zox Tomana on Aug 14, 2016 0:00:11 GMT
Of course, whether this container is the right size depends on what have happened to the body of an elf killed with use of unique tech-sorcery. That may turn out to be petrified, for example, or sunk all the way down to the bedrock. We don't know anything about that, and Annie probably doesn't know much either. Pretty sure the container is for the arrow only, and the syncing is meant to sync the signal Kat has picked up with some kind of jammer or negator built into the casing so that, on placing the arrow into the containment unit, whatever signal the arrow puts out to influence Jeanne and the RotD and whomever else the arrow affected. So the body shouldn't matter unless the arrow is fused to it or somehow other way permanently stuck into it. |
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Post by killjore on Aug 14, 2016 19:40:38 GMT
Is anyone else afraid they are about to discover the body of the Green Forest Dude? I dont think the arrow is just going to be alone down there :-(
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Post by madragoran on Aug 15, 2016 6:42:50 GMT
Is anyone else afraid they are about to discover the body of the Green Forest Dude? I dont think the arrow is just going to be alone down there :-( Yeah. His bones if they are lucky. If not maybe his vengeful spirit as well. A Green Guy and a Green Arrow walk into a bar.... then Jeanne arrives and makes a huge mess of things. |
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Post by warrl on Aug 15, 2016 18:23:06 GMT
Is anyone else afraid they are about to discover the body of the Green Forest Dude? I dont think the arrow is just going to be alone down there :-( The body, quite unlikely. It would require that the arrow prevent physical decay. Jeanne said that her body was "discarded over time". The skeleton, disassembled, rather more likely. But still, the decaying body would bloat, which would cause it to tend to float - and then it would float downstream. It would be somewhat surprising if the arrow managed to pin it to the riverbed. So I think the most likely option is that there's just the arrow. In real-world terms, that is. In story-telling terms, a body or skeleton is almost required. |
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