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Post by Daedalus on Aug 17, 2016 7:00:19 GMT
GOD DAMN IT TOMI don't even care if you kill Annie anymore. Just get it over with!  No but seriously no one can manufacture stressful webcomic pages like Mr. Siddell.
It's a testament to the strength of his writing. A very aggravating testament.
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Post by haspen on Aug 17, 2016 7:01:56 GMT
Well at least we know that the glowy arrow thing is still there after all.
I don't like the sickly green glowy things to be honest. What if it is ethero-active and thus dangerous??
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Post by mangotango on Aug 17, 2016 7:07:06 GMT
Well then!! Annie's expression says a whole lot of things.
Due to experience, what Tom is gonna draw in the next page is probably going to be awesome. Or creepy.
My bets are on creepily awesome, though! I haven't been this excited for the next page to come out since this Monday! ;D
EDIT:: fixed my grammar, cause it's 3 AM on a weekday and I was actually planning to sleep pretty early tonight. Oh, Gunnerkrigg, what have you done to my sleep schedule...
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Post by OGRuddawg on Aug 17, 2016 7:07:16 GMT
I've been in freakout/fan boy mode basically since this chapter started. This page isn't helping!
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Post by speedwell on Aug 17, 2016 7:09:39 GMT
We're primed to think "green magic glow is BAD" by the Harry Potter films, aren't we? heh... It works though. It works.
Just... for the sake of my nerves, I hope the next panel doesn't show a green man transfixed to the bottom of the river by the hateful arrow.
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Post by Gulby on Aug 17, 2016 7:14:20 GMT
Daedalus must have read my mind at the exact moment when I saw today's page. Because the title of the thread is word for word what I had in mind. Yes, I think in english even though I'm french when I'm plunged into the Gunnerverse.
Édit : if someone would be kind enough to tell me what's wrong grammaticaly with my first sentence, it would be awesome.
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Post by Daedalus on Aug 17, 2016 7:17:01 GMT
I've been in freakout/fan boy mode basically since this chapter started. This page isn't helping! You and me both, brother. What if it is ethero-active and thus dangerous?? Yes. Due to experience, what Tom drew in the next panel is probably going to be awesome. Or creepy. My bets are on creepily awesome, though! I haven't been this excited for the next page to come out since this Monday! ;D I'm eagerly anticipating this Friday's comic. It's gonna be awesome. I was just hoping we would get the big reveal tonight, haha. Just... for the sake of my nerves, I hope the next panel doesn't show a green man transfixed to the bottom of the river by the hateful arrow. We both know that's probably the most likely result, haha. ...Which means that, by Gunnerkrigg rules, it will prove to be something completely different!  Daedalus must have read my mind Curses, I did not yet intend to reveal the Etheric Mental Synchrotron! Forget you saw anything! *whooshes cloak and disappears* |
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Post by foresterr on Aug 17, 2016 7:18:43 GMT
Hmm, we never had a glimpse at the arrow in the ether before, did we? To be doing what it's doing, it has to be a bloody complicated construct, and judging by what happened to the tictoc, those have a tendency to... metastasize. I don't know what to expect, except it's probably not what I'm expecting and only remotely looking like an arrow pierced skeleton. EDIT: actually, I do expect one thing. A full page spread on Friday. Pleasepleaseplease  |
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Post by mangotango on Aug 17, 2016 7:21:31 GMT
I've been in freakout/fan boy mode basically since this chapter started. This page isn't helping! Same here! I've been hooked since the title page. |
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Post by Daedalus on Aug 17, 2016 7:24:59 GMT
It has to be a bloody complicated construct, and judging by what happened to the tictoc, those have a tendency to... metastasize. It is the greatest creation of the ancient genius who first built the robots, and into it he poured his despair and jealousy. I expect Friday's panel to be nothing less than extraordinary. Also, "metastasize" is an astonishingly fitting word, considering THIS. I do expect one thing. A full page spread on Friday. Pleasepleaseplease |
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Post by Gulby on Aug 17, 2016 7:28:14 GMT
My husband thinks we will discover a beautiful and awesome and baroque green etheric altar of some sort. And I wonder if there is left a forest elemental, Soul of the green Man, trapped in some sort of etheric cage, in the form of Brave's will-o-wisp.
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Post by Trillium on Aug 17, 2016 7:33:20 GMT
I can see thought bubbles going, "Hmmm," What the..." and "Oh my Go..."
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Post by Earin on Aug 17, 2016 7:41:18 GMT
Next chapter: Annie gets an etheric infection, from swimming in dirty river water with an open wound.
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Post by CoyoteReborn on Aug 17, 2016 7:59:21 GMT
I don't even care if you kill Annie anymore.
Because she makes Me happy. I like being happy.
I like My Fire-Head Girl.
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Post by madragoran on Aug 17, 2016 8:20:00 GMT
All I wanna say is Daedalus you kinda nailed this post good, dude. Like a huge green arrow streaking through the air towards our hearts and minds pinning us to the muddy depths of the river for ever and ever. Or something like that. Glorious page. Glorious art. but Tom get on with it!!! |
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Post by arf on Aug 17, 2016 8:43:54 GMT
We're primed to think "green magic glow is BAD" by the Harry Potter films, aren't we? Before Harry Potter, there was the Illearth Stone (not to mention kryptonite.) This could just be another wisp. |
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Post by arf on Aug 17, 2016 8:50:22 GMT
No but seriously no one can manufacture stressful webcomic pages like Mr. Siddell.
It's a testament to the strength of his writing. A very aggravating testament. Actually, one of the things Tom has been working on recently has been to get the picture to tell the story. He's using far fewer words these days (First noticed this in 'Traveller') Freak Angels could get pretty intense, too. The classic case was when one character guarding another was debating with himself whether or not to kill his prisoner out of hand. Week ends with him pointing the gun and saying "Screw it." Next week has a single panel showing the gun up close, a spent cartridge being ejected. Caption reads "Skip Week" |
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Post by shadow3 on Aug 17, 2016 9:13:42 GMT
Now it's Annie's turn to go Super Saiyan. |
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Post by Chancellor on Aug 17, 2016 9:44:18 GMT
So which will it be, tormented rotting flesh locked in eternal limbo of decay or skeleton bound together by insidious and malignant forces of hideous will?
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Post by noone3 on Aug 17, 2016 10:23:41 GMT
And that is the feeling that people just buying the whole book will not even know about. |
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Post by matoyak on Aug 17, 2016 10:44:02 GMT
We're primed to think "green magic glow is BAD" by the Harry Potter films, aren't we? heh... It works though. It works. I think the association goes further than that. Bad radiation or acid in fiction has almost always been green, and often glows green. Animals also tend to associate certain forms of green and yellow with sickness (Bile, vomit, etc), which is likely where the artistic association with radiation and acid came from to begin with as well, come to think... |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Aug 17, 2016 11:13:48 GMT
We're primed to think "green magic glow is BAD" by the Harry Potter films, aren't we? heh... It works though. It works. I think the association goes further than that. Bad radiation or acid in fiction has almost always been green, and often glows green. Animals also tend to associate certain forms of green and yellow with sickness (Bile, vomit, etc), which is likely where the artistic association with radiation and acid came from to begin with as well, come to think... I blame Radium for the bad rap that glowing green now carries. |
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Post by tiberius on Aug 17, 2016 12:53:36 GMT
I don't think we will see anyone being killed anytime soon. Oh, how I look forward to the next two weeks or more full of suspension.
What will we see instead? I bet Tom timed it right, that a double page might be possible, even though I doubt we will see one at this stage.
Instead, I could think of something huge. Something which glows a lot in the ether and renders Annie tiny in the upper left corner of the next page. Maybe something like an etheric cage with Jeanne's friend being trapped within. His body in our world long dissolved, his etheric counterpart being alive and caged in forever.
For me, this would explain, why Jeanne can't go. She still is connected to him spritually - much like Andrew to George maybe - and thus bound to stay near him.
On a side note: I adore this page. It seems like forever when we first saw Annie in the ether and for me she looks stronger and more serious than ever. As if she is fully aware that her play time in the ether is over and aware how much weight her duty actually carries. Tension and danger aside, this is awesome!
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Post by csj on Aug 17, 2016 13:00:34 GMT
*glows viridianly*
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Post by csj on Aug 17, 2016 13:02:28 GMT
I think the association goes further than that. Bad radiation or acid in fiction has almost always been green, and often glows green. Animals also tend to associate certain forms of green and yellow with sickness (Bile, vomit, etc), which is likely where the artistic association with radiation and acid came from to begin with as well, come to think... I blame Radium for the bad rap that glowing green now carries. Uranium glass is pretty though. A nice, healthy glow xD |
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Post by kriskingle on Aug 17, 2016 13:32:27 GMT
Dang it Tom... Now I really want to know what's down there. Her expression is done so well that it gives me chills.
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Post by ctso74 on Aug 17, 2016 13:46:38 GMT
Well, I don't know what image will be stuck in my head all weekend, but I'm betting I'll find out on Friday. Or worse. Tom could cut to the surface.
I'm still going with Green Man etherically bound.
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Post by Deepbluediver on Aug 17, 2016 13:49:51 GMT
Dang it Tom... Now I really want to know what's down there. Her expression is done so well that it gives me chills. I'm sure that elf-boy is just sitting around having a tea party with all the fishes, and it isn't anything scary or creepy or messed up whatsoever. [/sarcasm] |
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Post by atteSmythe on Aug 17, 2016 14:18:51 GMT
Now, don't go looking too closely at that thing...
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Post by QuotePilgrim on Aug 17, 2016 14:48:52 GMT
He can’t kill Annie. I don’t mean I believe he won’t. I mean it’s essentially impossible for him to.
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