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Post by archmagarche on Apr 11, 2018 7:03:38 GMT
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Post by madjack on Apr 11, 2018 7:05:16 GMT
This is the 'not everyone will be getting out of this alive' page.
Edit: Panel 2 is prime avatar material.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Apr 11, 2018 7:10:22 GMT
No school tomorrow!  |
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Post by Sky Schemer on Apr 11, 2018 7:24:10 GMT
I suppose this would be one way to end the comic abruptly.
"Rocks fall, everybody dies."
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Post by preus on Apr 11, 2018 7:27:26 GMT
I can't wait to see what the Court's response is. Even apart from whatever's going on with the robots, I have to assume they have a contingency plan. Whether or not it will be effective... eh? But I'm still excited to see it.
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Post by turniptree on Apr 11, 2018 7:41:18 GMT
Dude could use a Snickers bar.
But seriously, this keeps escalating. I'm on pins and needles.
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Apr 11, 2018 7:41:39 GMT
This is the 'not everyone will be getting out of this alive' page. They won't get out alive, but maybe they'll... get better? |
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Post by arf on Apr 11, 2018 7:53:11 GMT
Ysengrin's shining fist looks remarkably human.
...hmmm.
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Post by quark on Apr 11, 2018 7:56:15 GMT
So.. I'm still hoping this is all a dream? And coyote watches Y and is laughing and laughing? Because that's some end-of-everything stuff here. Please let this not be the end of everything.
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Post by kayback on Apr 11, 2018 8:18:57 GMT
So.. I'm still hoping this is all a dream? And coyote watches Y and is laughing and laughing? Because that's some end-of-everything stuff here. Please let this not be the end of everything. Yeah while I am usually very wrong when it comes to speculation about GK, this is reading like a vision Coyote is having over Ys response to getting his power. |
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Post by gpvos on Apr 11, 2018 8:36:04 GMT
Panel 2 is prime avatar material. It looks like he has a bit of inner conflict about this. |
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Post by madjack on Apr 11, 2018 8:36:17 GMT
This is the 'not everyone will be getting out of this alive' page. They won't get out alive, but maybe they'll... get better?I don't expect it will, but I hope GC really doesn't go down this road. Edit: Panel 2 is prime avatar material. It looks like he has a bit of inner conflict about this. Maybe? I read it as a simplistic joy over the destruction he can unleash now. |
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Apr 11, 2018 8:37:34 GMT
Everyone, lend me your STRENGTH! ETHER SPIRIT BOMB!!!!
Seriously, Y's powered up, someone is going to have to Super Saiyan his ass down to size!
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Post by gpvos on Apr 11, 2018 8:44:30 GMT
It looks like he has a bit of inner conflict about this. Maybe? I read it as a simplistic joy over the destruction he can unleash now. That's the other option, yes; maybe more likely seeing as he is in "drunk with power" mode. I find his expression hard to read. |
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Post by machiavelli33 on Apr 11, 2018 10:00:34 GMT
...well, there's certainly no question that Coyote was capable of forming the Annan Waters Canyon back in the day, that's for sure.
From the looks of it, he was being extremely delicate and precise when he did so, too.
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Post by pyradonis on Apr 11, 2018 10:03:52 GMT
Uh oh. Time to duck.
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Apr 11, 2018 10:12:30 GMT
Ha, that reminds me of a story! Did you know I was a duck once? |
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Post by saardvark on Apr 11, 2018 11:42:06 GMT
Im hoping Annie, feeling the seismic results of Ysote's iCourt swiping, will run out, in a moment of panicked clarity suddenly realize she has the power in her to make the Court parley signal herself (without a blinker stone), and toss it up in the Ys face (a) suggesting immediate negotiations, and (b) reminding him that SHE is there, hopefully snapping him out of his power-crazed state....
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Post by todd on Apr 11, 2018 12:43:21 GMT
So.. I'm still hoping this is all a dream? And coyote watches Y and is laughing and laughing? Because that's some end-of-everything stuff here. Please let this not be the end of everything. Yeah while I am usually very wrong when it comes to speculation about GK, this is reading like a vision Coyote is having over Ys response to getting his power. If this is just a fantasy sequence, Tom's going to have to handle the revelation that that's what it is carefully, to avoid alienating a lot of his readers with "It was all just a dream!" Especially given how far into it he's already gotten and all the big changes actually made - which would be all the more likely to give such a moment a definite anticlimax feeling. And it wouldn't explain the inclusion, so far, of many characters whom Ysengrin has never met, such as Kat and Paz. (Even if this is a dream visited upon Ysengrin by Coyote, their appearances would mean nothing to Ysengrin.) If this is taking place all in Ysengrin's imagination, though, it most likely means that there won't be an actual clash between the Court and the Wood on this scale in the comic; it wouldn't feel as impressive the second time around, even if it was "for real" this time. (Of course, given that Tom hasn't shown much enthusiasm for violent external conflict, that might not be such a surprise. In fact, if this does turn out to be "just a dream", the ideal Bonus Page would be Tea reminding the readers that this isn't That Kind of Story, and even delivering another mild rebuke to them for their hungering for such scenes, along the lines of the Bonus Page on swords in Chapter Seventeen.) |
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Post by todd on Apr 11, 2018 12:48:31 GMT
This is the 'not everyone will be getting out of this alive' page. . While Tom doesn't strike me as likely to dish out mass casualties in a gratuitous fashion, it's tempting to imagine him using it as a way to pare down the cast. I've noticed many comments on "When is such-and-such-a-character returning?" here, that happen so often it might suggest that the cast size has become too large for soneone to keep track of, and maybe some deaths could shrink down the size of the cast to a more manageable level. (Alternately, in the aftermath of the attack, many of the students get transferred by their concerned parents to safer schools, well away from Gilltie Wood, producing the same result without as much bloodshed.) |
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Post by jda on Apr 11, 2018 12:57:33 GMT
I suppose this would be one way to end the comic abruptly. "Rocks fall, everybody dies." Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality? |
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Post by jda on Apr 11, 2018 12:59:30 GMT
Falcon ....!
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Post by jda on Apr 11, 2018 13:05:17 GMT
Im hoping Annie, feeling the seismic results of Ysote's iCourt swiping, will run out, in a moment of panicked clarity suddenly realize she has the power in her to make the Court parley signal herself (without a blinker stone), and toss it up in the Ys face (a) suggesting immediate negotiations, and (b) reminding him that SHE is there, hopefully snapping him out of his power-crazed state.... Either this, or Jones having a badass moment catching Ys punch in her hand "sorry for interrupting you, I hope we may talk about this before you continue" |
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Post by madjack on Apr 11, 2018 13:05:35 GMT
(Alternately, in the aftermath of the attack, many of the students get transferred by their concerned parents to safer schools, well away from Gilltie Wood, producing the same result without as much bloodshed.) I think this is almost a given: Any students who have other options than to live at the Court will be sent elsewhere, unless their skills are absolutely indispensable. Since Tom loves dropping them when there's something relevant to compare/contrast to, the chapter retrospective for 45 being next up leads me to think that Kat and Paz will end up being separated because of this. It's also not beyond Annie and Kat being separated if the business with Jeanne is made public in the aftermath, either by her being banished from the Court or Ysengrin demanding her presence in the Forest or else. I wouldn't put money on it, but also getting the feeling we may see a time skip at some point. Edit: Im hoping Annie, feeling the seismic results of Ysote's iCourt swiping, will run out, in a moment of panicked clarity suddenly realize she has the power in her to make the Court parley signal herself (without a blinker stone), and toss it up in the Ys face (a) suggesting immediate negotiations, and (b) reminding him that SHE is there, hopefully snapping him out of his power-crazed state.... Either this, or Jones having a badass moment catching Ys punch in her hand "sorry for interrupting you, I hope we may talk about this before you continue" I'm picturing the next page as a rock flying out of the middle of the Court and smacking Ys senseless, and then cut to Jones picking up another one... |
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Post by Mitth'raw'nuruodo on Apr 11, 2018 13:12:50 GMT
I think I see Coyote's plan. Allow Ysengrin to destroy/ravage the Court, then take the power back and offer him as a sacrificial lamb. For what end, I do not know, but this is the best guess at the moment.
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Post by saardvark on Apr 11, 2018 13:17:43 GMT
Im hoping Annie, feeling the seismic results of Ysote's iCourt swiping, will run out, in a moment of panicked clarity suddenly realize she has the power in her to make the Court parley signal herself (without a blinker stone), and toss it up in the Ys face (a) suggesting immediate negotiations, and (b) reminding him that SHE is there, hopefully snapping him out of his power-crazed state.... Either this, or Jones having a badass moment catching Ys punch in her hand "sorry for interrupting you, I hope we may talk about this before you continue" hmmm, but would that violate Jones' "non-intervention" in human affairs as an "observer only"? (Of course, she has bent this rule herself in the past...) (I like the image of Ys butting against the unmovable Jones-rock tho!) |
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Post by Zox Tomana on Apr 11, 2018 13:24:13 GMT
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Post by todd on Apr 11, 2018 13:31:26 GMT
It's also not beyond Annie and Kat being separated if the business with Jeanne is made public in the aftermath, either by her being banished from the Court or Ysengrin demanding her presence in the Forest or else. I don't know about that. Annie being sent away from the Court would automatically end the story (at a point when there's still a lot unresolved), unless Tom finds a way to get us to ignore the statement on the first page that this was about the events that took place during her time there. Also, I think the Court would have to be cautious about punishing Annie over freeing Jeanne. It would mean making what the Founders did to Jeanne public knowledge, producing a stain on the Court's history and reputation that would be difficult if not impossible to remove. Furthermore, they'd have to walk the narrow path of punishing Annie over it without making it look as if they were approving of or condoning what the Founders did to Jeanne and her lover. (They could always make it look as if it was for the school rules she'd broken in the course of it, and not going to them about the problem, but it would still be a serious challenge.) Not to mention that a banished Annie could be more trouble than an Annie in the Court, where they can keep an eye on her. |
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Post by Per on Apr 11, 2018 13:39:33 GMT
No school tomorrow! Anime levels have been registered to exceed the educational threshold. |
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Post by madjack on Apr 11, 2018 13:55:04 GMT
I don't know about that. Annie being sent away from the Court would automatically end the story (at a point when there's still a lot unresolved), unless Tom finds a way to get us to ignore the statement on the first page that this was about the events that took place during her time there. That was why I suspected there might be a time skip: The story would resume on her return. Agreed it's probably unlikely though. Also, I think the Court would have to be cautious about punishing Annie over freeing Jeanne. It would mean making what the Founders did to Jeanne public knowledge, producing a stain on the Court's history and reputation that would be difficult if not impossible to remove. Furthermore, they'd have to walk the narrow path of punishing Annie over it without making it look as if they were approving of or condoning what the Founders did to Jeanne and her lover. (They could always make it look as if it was for the school rules she'd broken in the course of it, and not going to them about the problem, but it would still be a serious challenge.) They'd use the same grounds that Jones did when she scolded Annie over running away in chapter 31: The reckless endangerment of everyone in the Court, over something that happened hundreds of years ago and the current leadership might not know anything at all about. Jones even asks for Annie to inform her when she's dug up the story. Not to mention that a banished Annie could be more trouble than an Annie in the Court, where they can keep an eye on her. This is true, although some of that was to keep Rey in check, and now that Ys has gone full superpowered I wonder whether they'll give controlling Rey the same priority. |
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