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Post by Gotolei on Oct 28, 2016 7:02:19 GMT
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brokshi
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Post by brokshi on Oct 28, 2016 7:03:33 GMT
That's Tom though. It looks like he and Tea have been having a rough time. I wonder if they've been burying or digging stuff up.
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Post by edzepp on Oct 28, 2016 7:10:21 GMT
The continuing adventures of whatever post-apocalyptic universe these two are stuck in.
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Post by fish on Oct 28, 2016 7:12:07 GMT
Looks like digging up to me.
This page makes me feel uneasy. Do you know that feeling when you realise you lost something important and you can't find it no matter how hard you search? It feels a bit like that, haha.
Tea is pretty as ever!
Also, those are some short shovels. Do shovels like that exist? I've only ever seen the long kind...
Edit: on the other hand, Tea looks like she might have been crying. Which would indicate burying or at least digging graves :/
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Post by saardvark on Oct 28, 2016 7:12:22 GMT
dang. digging graves in a desolate war zone. short shovels are trenching tools. looks bleak, bodes ill for the next chapter. what comes next??
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Post by shadow3 on Oct 28, 2016 7:15:16 GMT
Remember, remember the 14th of November.
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Post by Sky Schemer on Oct 28, 2016 7:15:47 GMT
The continuing adventures of whatever post-apocalyptic universe these two are stuck in. Maybe they're trapped in a Louis Sachar novel. |
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Post by edzepp on Oct 28, 2016 7:20:05 GMT
What interests me is that there seems to be some kind of actual story being told here. The last such page had them wandering the highways and scavenging through cars Mad Max style.
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Post by KMar on Oct 28, 2016 7:50:04 GMT
Is it going to be City Face? A cookie betting pool?
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 28, 2016 7:57:49 GMT
THOSE GRAVES BETTER NOT BE FOR OUR PROTAGONISTS, TOM
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Post by tiberius on Oct 28, 2016 8:20:38 GMT
One day, we will find out, that Annie's story, which she began in chapter one, is written down somewhere and after the world has gone "The Stand"-like is picked up by Bonnie and Clyde and read while they try to survive the post-apocalypse. What will the odds be that Robot and the gang might be responsible for the end of civilisation? Will they still say "It was worth it"?
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Post by foresterr on Oct 28, 2016 9:00:10 GMT
THOSE GRAVES BETTER NOT BE FOR OUR PROTAGONISTS, TOM Looking at their expressions, that's damn likely  Anybody else thinks this looks like an ecological disaster zone? I hope that's not foreshadowing of something that will happen to the Forest. |
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Oct 28, 2016 9:27:38 GMT
One day, we will find out, that Annie's story, which she began in chapter one, is written down somewhere and after the world has gone "The Stand"-like is picked up by Bonnie and Clyde and read while they try to survive the post-apocalypse. What will the odds be that Robot and the gang might be responsible for the end of civilisation? Will they still say "It was worth it"? It's totally gonna turn out that these interludes are taking place just after the end of the story. Tea has gone mad Deadpool-style and is recounting the story of civilization's doom to nobody, as she and Tom wander the wastelands, scavenging the old world's junk and looting burial grounds to survive. |
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Post by Trillium on Oct 28, 2016 10:21:25 GMT
This picture reminds me of the book Holes by Louis Sachar.
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Post by Per on Oct 28, 2016 10:25:05 GMT
WHERE DID I BURY THE SCRIPT FOR CHAPTER 60
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Post by philman on Oct 28, 2016 10:30:08 GMT
I do love the continuing deterioration of Tea's world from looking relatively normal to becoming more and more Fallout-ish with every update. Story so far (Not including Tea appearences in little in-joke comics) www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=294www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=559www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=833www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1167www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1453www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1742Tea and her mysterious companion whose face we never see start off as students at Gunnerkrigg Court peering through a telescope, maybe seeing something? We then meet them escaping a city in ruins, being bombarded by planes from above? Afterwards we see them in a field, somewhere, staring off at something smoking in the distance, a ruined city? Were they burning bodies? who knows. the action then shifts to a snow-filled landscape, some sort of ecological disaster? Or just winter? They are then next seen walking down a ruined highway a la Fallout, peering into burned out cars and goodness knows what else. Finally, in the newset update, they seem to be either burying or searching for something in a dead forest. Judging by the tears and despair in the body of the guy, I would say they are digging graves, lots of them. Post apocalyptic disaster Tea continues! |
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Post by arf on Oct 28, 2016 10:33:10 GMT
"I read the news today, oh boy.
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire..."
Folks, in case you missed it, Tom and Tea have been wandering through a post-apocalyptic wasteland for the past three book ends. This one looks a little more benign than the others.
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Oct 28, 2016 11:10:45 GMT
I used to think the holiday/break Tea pages were just based on whatever book / game / movie / TV show happened to catch Tom's fancy when he was planning the page. But I am beginning to buy into the theory that they link into a story And that is more optimistic than the pages symbolizing Tom's view of his circumstances at the time he drew the pages.
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Post by Per on Oct 28, 2016 12:05:10 GMT
Flaky Pastry does alternating side plots on pages divisible by 100, so 200-400-600 follow the adventures of a set of dark counterparts to the main characters, and 300-500 have featured a few other background characters. Since the comic is weekly, this means 2 years between special episodes, and 4 years between the continuation of any one side plot. I don't actually recommend any other webcomedian do this...
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Post by Nepycros on Oct 28, 2016 13:51:28 GMT
If Gunnerkrigg was ever discovered by the outside world, it would almost certainly be put under political pressure by other sovereign states interested in their research. If we take the first page with Tom and Tea to be them as merely students working on classroom projects for the Court like any normal students, then the second page is even more bizarre. If they're escaping the Court during some sort of invasion, then the next page offers a look into their new lives; ragged clothes, shadows under their eyes, and a total inability to return to where they came from.
The snow page looks like simple winter survival.
The next page is severe. Bandaids on her face, a sheathed knife, a broken compass, and all sorts of apocalyptic tropes (wasteland, dead cars). If the Court's secrets were unlocked, then Etheric wars wouldn't be out of possibility.
Lastly... this one. Tea's eyes look tear-streaked. I think they are burying corpses. If they were simply looking for something, there would be a chance that they'd have to pull up the dirt near trees; instead, they focus their efforts on the clearing, where there's a lot of empty space.
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Post by fia on Oct 28, 2016 13:56:38 GMT
The continuing adventures of whatever post-apocalyptic universe these two are stuck in. Maybe they're trapped in a Louis Sachar novel. I also totally thought of "Holes" by Sachar. Maybe they're plot holes?  .... hahahaha, j.k., Tom, we love you. |
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Post by ctso74 on Oct 28, 2016 14:50:06 GMT
The setup for post-apocalyptic Whac-A-Mole is exhausting, but totally worth it, when you get to hit someone with a shovel.
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Post by csj on Oct 28, 2016 16:14:13 GMT
This picture reminds me of the book Holes by Louis Sachar. If only, if only (uk remembrance day is on the 11th so I suspect it's actually referring to that) |
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Post by dingo on Oct 28, 2016 16:41:36 GMT
Totally buying into the contiguous, apocalyptic reading of the Tea story so far. It's like they saw oncoming danger, escaped to the countryside, weathered nuclear winter, made their way back, then started paying their respects.
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Post by krabmeat on Oct 28, 2016 17:09:15 GMT
What will the odds be that Robot and the gang might be responsible for the end of civilisation? Will they still say "It was worth it"? LOVE made them act in this strange way! |
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Post by Sky Schemer on Oct 28, 2016 17:54:51 GMT
This picture reminds me of the book Holes by Louis Sachar. Great minds think alike. |
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Post by todd on Oct 29, 2016 0:22:27 GMT
If Gunnerkrigg was ever discovered by the outside world, it would almost certainly be put under political pressure by other sovereign states interested in their research. If we take the first page with Tom and Tea to be them as merely students working on classroom projects for the Court like any normal students, then the second page is even more bizarre. If they're escaping the Court during some sort of invasion, then the next page offers a look into their new lives; ragged clothes, shadows under their eyes, and a total inability to return to where they came from. There've been a couple of hints that the British government was aware of the Court and working with it in secret. Of course, if the Court became public knowledge (as opposed to something that only a few people in Westminster and Whitehall know about), including its darker aspects, it's possible that the British government might decide to officially disown it and move against it to avoid being associated with it in public perception. |
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Post by elise on Oct 29, 2016 0:30:26 GMT
If Gunnerkrigg was ever discovered by the outside world, it would almost certainly be put under political pressure by other sovereign states interested in their research. If we take the first page with Tom and Tea to be them as merely students working on classroom projects for the Court like any normal students, then the second page is even more bizarre. If they're escaping the Court during some sort of invasion, then the next page offers a look into their new lives; ragged clothes, shadows under their eyes, and a total inability to return to where they came from. There've been a couple of hints that the British government was aware of the Court and working with it in secret. Of course, if the Court became public knowledge (as opposed to something that only a few people in Westminster and Whitehall know about), including its darker aspects, it's possible that the British government might decide to officially disown it and move against it to avoid being associated with it in public perception. Could you please elaborate on the hints? |
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Post by gary on Oct 29, 2016 1:14:48 GMT
There've been a couple of hints that the British government was aware of the Court and working with it in secret. Of course, if the Court became public knowledge (as opposed to something that only a few people in Westminster and Whitehall know about), including its darker aspects, it's possible that the British government might decide to officially disown it and move against it to avoid being associated with it in public perception. Could you please elaborate on the hints? Last panel of this page. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1331 |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Oct 29, 2016 13:01:55 GMT
That also lead to some speculation that the Court may find out about strange cases through Government contacts. Zimmy ran away from some school in Birmingham and it isn't too far fetched to think that someone (other than the Court Agents in the linked page) may have contacted the Court to make the problem go away. |
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.... hahahaha, j.k., Tom, we love you.
