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Post by The Anarch on Jun 2, 2017 7:02:10 GMT
From behind the walls.T̡̡̧̯̹̞̥̱͕̟̳̩͚̘̩͖̹̼̬́̕ͅH҉̵̢̛͚͉̯̣̘̟̹͇͝ͅE͏̷̷̡̗͈̙͚̠̫͉̦̖̺ͅÝ̷͏͏̛̮̻̤̠̮̩ ̶̯̘͚̠͈̳̫̱̭͕̙̬̝̥͜͞͠C̶̴̡̛̗̝͕̻̩͈̫̤͍͝ͅƠ̷̡̦̱͈̟͕͚͢M̸̶̡͔̯̲̹̲̬͉̥͇̹̳ͅÉ̛̛͙͇̘̼̣̹̼ͅ
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Post by keef on Jun 2, 2017 7:07:04 GMT
Not necessarily those Shadow Men.  |
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Post by Lizuka on Jun 2, 2017 7:07:05 GMT
Well, I feel like things are about to go very far south.
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Post by Per on Jun 2, 2017 7:08:50 GMT
"With these mighty eyebrows, the shadowman crew is unstoppable!"
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Post by ST13R on Jun 2, 2017 7:13:54 GMT
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...Looking forward to some answers. Which probably means there will just be more questions.
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Jun 2, 2017 7:17:47 GMT
This chapter:
"Kat you must help us fight this scourge of Shadow Men!"
"Oh noo! But where are they?"
turns on spotlight, everyone casts a shadow
"EVERYWHERE!" D: "My god we're already surrounded!"
"..."
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Post by philman on Jun 2, 2017 7:45:19 GMT
I get the feeling that we are starting to approach the ending of the major comic storyline. The final pieces are being manouvered into place (Jeanne is freed, the Court is unprotected against Coyote and the forest, Kat is being approached by the Court to help them with something, Several ominous comments in front of Robot about how things are totally not dangerous at all, Annie being coerced into her psychopomp role).
It just seems to me like all the remaining mysteries and plot threads are tied up with each other, and when one starts to fall so will everything else. I think that in the next few chapters we will reach some sort of showdown which will end the comic as we know it.
Although you'd have thought that if it was ending we'd have heard something from Tom, so maybe it will take longer than that.
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Post by youwiththeface on Jun 2, 2017 8:36:00 GMT
I get the feeling that we are starting to approach the ending of the major comic storyline. The final pieces are being manouvered into place (Jeanne is freed, the Court is unprotected against Coyote and the forest, Kat is being approached by the Court to help them with something, Several ominous comments in front of Robot about how things are totally not dangerous at all, Annie being coerced into her psychopomp role). It just seems to me like all the remaining mysteries and plot threads are tied up with each other, and when one starts to fall so will everything else. I think that in the next few chapters we will reach some sort of showdown which will end the comic as we know it. Although you'd have thought that if it was ending we'd have heard something from Tom, so maybe it will take longer than that. It looks more like we're gearing up for the climax more than the ending. And yes, the climax generally comes shortly before the ending, but the length of climaxes and the cool down after can vary depending on the story and its pacing. Not to mention, even if the story is setting up for the climax, there's no telling how long it'll take to do so. |
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Post by Druplesnubb on Jun 2, 2017 9:46:19 GMT
It seems that these guys are gonna question Kat about Shadow.
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jun 2, 2017 10:37:12 GMT
Maybe the secret security service calls themselves "The Shadow Men"...
And they want to recruit Shadow...
And everyone will be friends...
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Post by crater on Jun 2, 2017 11:08:14 GMT
They come to you in black suits in blue ties and with briefcases and tell you how things are run
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Post by krael on Jun 2, 2017 12:23:18 GMT
Not necessarily that Shadow Men. the secret court service are actually shadows in disguise; their eyes hidden in their insignias! |
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Post by faiiry on Jun 2, 2017 12:24:50 GMT
Coyote better be sending an army of shadow men to attack the Court or else I'm boycotting this chapter!
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Post by ariestinak on Jun 2, 2017 12:34:49 GMT
I get the feeling that we are starting to approach the ending of the major comic storyline. The final pieces are being manouvered into place (Jeanne is freed, the Court is unprotected against Coyote and the forest, Kat is being approached by the Court to help them with something, Several ominous comments in front of Robot about how things are totally not dangerous at all, Annie being coerced into her psychopomp role). It just seems to me like all the remaining mysteries and plot threads are tied up with each other, and when one starts to fall so will everything else. I think that in the next few chapters we will reach some sort of showdown which will end the comic as we know it. Although you'd have thought that if it was ending we'd have heard something from Tom, so maybe it will take longer than that. It looks more like we're gearing up for the climax more than the ending. And yes, the climax generally comes shortly before the ending, but the length of climaxes and the cool down after can vary depending on the story and its pacing. Not to mention, even if the story is setting up for the climax, there's no telling how long it'll take to do so. There is no reason for a story to have only "one" climax. I don't feel that we are close to the ending of the story. I agree that this looks like the prequel to a climax but not necessarily the big one before the ending. |
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Post by todd on Jun 2, 2017 12:42:08 GMT
If Tom's going to have the Shadow-men invade the Court, I hope he'll do it in a way that won't leave the readers with the impression thereby that the Founders were entirely right to impose such torment and servitude upon Jeanne and the green man, and that Annie and Co. should have left them in that torment and servitude.
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Post by ctso74 on Jun 2, 2017 13:30:08 GMT
I doubt Coyote is in direct control of the Shadow Men. I'm starting to wonder about the end of the last Jeanne chapter, when Coyote sniffed the air and smiled. Perhaps, it had nothing to do with any complex machinations towards the Court. Maybe, it was more of a general underlying desire for entertaining chaos. The Court thinks he's scheming, but Coyote just wants to have fun. * insert Cyndi Lauper song here *
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Post by kefka on Jun 2, 2017 14:48:51 GMT
That's not a face, it's a Court symbol (Seen here and here, and Kat had it in one of the treatises.) Juliette knows about Shadow, so this chapter is probably about the Court doing something to him. |
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Post by jda on Jun 2, 2017 15:44:24 GMT
Will Shadow suddenly remember s/he is Coyote, too?
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Post by pyradonis on Jun 2, 2017 16:12:51 GMT
Oh...now I get it. Coyote's Shadow Men, and the shadowy surveillance forces inside the Court, combined in the picture with shadow silhouettes having the insignia as eyes. Clever (the author, not me, who didn't even figure it out after reading the discussion thread at first).
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Post by Runningflame on Jun 2, 2017 20:11:23 GMT
[rubs hands] Here We Go! This should be good.
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Post by clover on Jun 2, 2017 23:17:54 GMT
[breaks down door, runs into thread]
Everybody! Look very carefully at this page! There is a symbol on the shadows which you have doubtlessly never noticed before, which I believe might be present earlier in the comic!
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Post by nightwind on Jun 3, 2017 3:41:46 GMT
*hides under blanket, whispers* They're coming. The shadows are coming... imma hide.
*and was never heard from again*
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Post by mturtle7 on Jun 3, 2017 4:23:30 GMT
Not necessarily that Shadow Men. the secret court service are actually shadows in disguise; their eyes hidden in their insignias! Heh heh. Hahahaha. AHAHAHAHAHA! AT LAST! FINALLY my first Wildspec is PROVEN INCONTROVERTIBLY!! Yesssss... In all seriousness, though, I'm really looking forward to some better exposition about the other Shadow/Glass-Eyed Men. I remember putting together that Wildspec mainly out of frustration for the total lack of information we have on all but one of them (and we still don't even know what his past was like), and while we certainly won't get all the answers in this chapter, I hope we'll at least be able to ask some better questions. |
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Post by Zox Tomana on Jun 3, 2017 19:14:30 GMT
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Post by warrl on Jun 4, 2017 0:00:02 GMT
It looks more like we're gearing up for the climax more than the ending. And yes, the climax generally comes shortly before the ending, but the length of climaxes and the cool down after can vary depending on the story and its pacing. Not to mention, even if the story is setting up for the climax, there's no telling how long it'll take to do so. Make that *a* climax, and I'll agree. There can be more than one. |
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Post by pyradonis on Jun 4, 2017 16:38:40 GMT
"Beware SHADows Beware places where the night LIVEs. They wait There is no Natural Darknesss Only ShaDOWS" From Planescape Torment, in case anyone was wondering. |
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Post by puntosmx on Jun 6, 2017 2:26:47 GMT
Stop the press! We have forgotten about the most important emmber of the Shadow Men. Jeanne. |
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Post by The Anarch on Jun 6, 2017 19:44:32 GMT
Stop the press! We have forgotten about the most important emmber of the Shadow Men. Jeanne. "We would like to inquire into what - if any - role you may have had in the removal from this plane of existence of one of our members." |
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