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Post by imaginaryfriend on Dec 19, 2018 8:05:08 GMT
This will not be awkward in the slightest. Nice scenery porn in the last panel, by the way. [edit]On closer inspection I can definitely see that everyone in the next to last panel who is not Forest!Annie is looking at Forest!Annie in silence.[/edit] |
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Post by jda on Dec 19, 2018 8:06:42 GMT
Her? They? E pluribus unum?
BTW, how does this harbor clicks into the Court being not on the Coast?
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Post by madjack on Dec 19, 2018 8:07:26 GMT
Yeah that... Actually looks like a really nice place. Not what we've really come to expect out of the Court.
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Post by arf on Dec 19, 2018 8:19:08 GMT
I don't think Annie would have been welcome at central admin even before "her".
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Post by arf on Dec 19, 2018 8:20:32 GMT
It's just occurred to me that Jones looks a bit like Jeanne in that blanket.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Dec 19, 2018 8:25:27 GMT
I don't think Annie would have been welcome at central admin even before "her". Agreed, except possibly in an interrogation room or a detention cell. On the plus side, the cell would have a bed and no copies of herself. If I were Forest!Annie I would seriously consider opting for the cell. But if Court!Annie has been staying with Anthony then her old room should be free. |
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Post by arkadi on Dec 19, 2018 8:35:01 GMT
That doesn't look like the Court in the last panel.
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Dec 19, 2018 9:00:20 GMT
Her? They? E pluribus unum? BTW, how does this harbor clicks into the Court being not on the Coast? It isn't on "the Coast", but it does contain a very big lake, with a very powerful Ether-emitter... |
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Post by madjack on Dec 19, 2018 9:04:44 GMT
Her? They? E pluribus unum? BTW, how does this harbor clicks into the Court being not on the Coast? It isn't on "the Coast", but it does contain a very big lake, with a very powerful Ether-emitter... The Court does have a coast, where do you think they keep the cruise ship? Also, the Flying Octopus jumping off the Gillitie cliffs into the ocean suggests they both share a seaside border. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Dec 19, 2018 9:06:20 GMT
That doesn't look like the Court in the last panel. We don't really get a great look at the waterfront for the lake in the comic, and what we see looks more like industrial zones and apartment buildings, but there are residential-looking buildings (single-family houses?) pictured on the title page of Ch. 28 that look similar to some of the houses in the last panel of today's comic. It took a while for it to register but the weirdest thing about that panel is all the PEOPLE. I wonder if the Court is deliberately being depicted a little differently because the nature of the relationship between Court!Annie and Anthony has been/is positive. |
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Post by madjack on Dec 19, 2018 9:09:12 GMT
That doesn't look like the Court in the last panel. It took a while for it to register but the weirdest thing about that panel is all the PEOPLE. I wonder if the Court is deliberately being depicted a little differently because the nature of the relationship between Court!Annie and Anthony has been/is positive. If everyone's been herded to the fartherest point from the forest for safety's sake, it'd make sense that the new residential areas are a fair bit more crowded than we're used to seeing? |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Dec 19, 2018 9:21:49 GMT
A reference to them travelling to "the coast" is here and the evac plan is mentioned on the previous page. It took a while for it to register but the weirdest thing about that panel is all the PEOPLE. I wonder if the Court is deliberately being depicted a little differently because the nature of the relationship between Court!Annie and Anthony has been/is positive. If everyone's been herded to the fartherest point from the forest for safety's sake, it'd make sense that the new residential areas are a fair bit more crowded than we're used to seeing? Yes, but they're loitering around. In plain sight. There's danger of a bystander saying hello as they pass by. Or starting a conversation. Even this far in wandering around the streets is probably not a great idea. Some people are probably idle because they can't do their jobs and can't be risked helping out in the dangerous areas, though, and after a few months surfing and netflix is probably getting old. |
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Post by madjack on Dec 19, 2018 9:29:05 GMT
Yes, but they're loitering around. In plain sight. There's danger of a bystander saying hello as they pass by. Or starting a conversation. They're Brits. Not a chance. |
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Post by Angry Individual on Dec 19, 2018 9:43:57 GMT
If it's revealed that Court!Annie is a fake then it's going to be really freaking awkward how they've been treating her.
If it's revealed that Forest!Annie is a fake then it's going to be really freaking confusing on why Tom gave us important exposition on a fake version of Annie.
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Post by saardvark on Dec 19, 2018 11:14:28 GMT
To the extent GC maps onto the real world, it seems likely they've moved/evacuated from the main part of the Court, on the W side of the Annan near the bend in the river around Hoddom and Brydekirk, south to the sea (on the Solway Firth) just south of the town of Annan itself. Maybe...!
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Post by blackouthart on Dec 19, 2018 11:44:43 GMT
Yes, but they're loitering around. In plain sight. There's danger of a bystander saying hello as they pass by. Or starting a conversation. They're Brits. Not a chance. I have to admit I snorted at this. Truer words were never spoken, ma’amsir. |
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Post by pyradonis on Dec 19, 2018 12:17:14 GMT
They're Brits. Not a chance. I have to admit I snorted at this. Truer words were never spoken, ma’amsir. Ah, but the Court has recruited several students from all over Europe! |
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Post by zaferion on Dec 19, 2018 12:37:47 GMT
Aside from the actual villains of the comic, is there anyone Tom wants us to like less than Eglamore? He's always got some off-color remark or behaves awkwardly in every scene he's in. Today's Stupid Jimmy Comment™ makes me want to smack him across the face. Everyone else is evidently fine with Forest!Annie so chill tf out
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Post by todd on Dec 19, 2018 12:40:06 GMT
If it's revealed that Forest!Annie is a fake then it's going to be really freaking confusing on why Tom gave us important exposition on a fake version of Annie. Yes, that's the main obstacle to the notion that the long-haired version of Annie is a fake. Short of somehow magically transferring her memories of her conversation with Loup to the short-haired version of Annie, it would make that entire chapter seem a waste. |
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Post by foresterr on Dec 19, 2018 12:46:43 GMT
Aside from the actual villains of the comic, is there anyone Tom wants us to like less than Eglamore? He's always got some off-color remark or behaves awkwardly in every scene he's in. Today's Stupid Jimmy Comment™ makes me want to smack him across the face. Everyone else is evidently fine with Forest!Annie so chill tf out He's security specialist, after all. Probably still keeps expecting forest Annie to sprout branches at any moment. |
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Post by saardvark on Dec 19, 2018 13:13:31 GMT
Aside from the actual villains of the comic, is there anyone Tom wants us to like less than Eglamore? He's always got some off-color remark or behaves awkwardly in every scene he's in. Today's Stupid Jimmy Comment™ makes me want to smack him across the face. Everyone else is evidently fine with Forest!Annie so chill tf out He's security specialist, after all. Probably still keeps expecting forest Annie to sprout branches at any moment. ha! or drop seeds.... |
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Post by netherdan on Dec 19, 2018 13:48:45 GMT
To the extent GC maps onto the real world, it seems likely they've moved/evacuated from the main part of the Court, on the W side of the Annan near the bend in the river around Hoddom and Brydekirk, south to the sea (on the Solway Firth) just south of the town of Annan itself. Maybe...! If that was indeed the same river shouldn't it have dried up after Loup closed it back at the Court/Woods border? Also, it's nice seeing a real world parallel on where the Court would be. The sad part is that with Coyote not being there we have turned Gillitie mostly into farms by now... |
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Post by ctso74 on Dec 19, 2018 14:34:38 GMT
If it's revealed that Forest!Annie is a fake then it's going to be really freaking confusing on why Tom gave us important exposition on a fake version of Annie. Yes, that's the main obstacle to the notion that the long-haired version of Annie is a fake. Short of somehow magically transferring her memories of her conversation with Loup to the short-haired version of Annie, it would make that entire chapter seem a waste. There's the Deep Space Nine episode "Whispers", where it's told from the POV of an unknowing enemy duplicate. It's played for mystery and suspense, as the audience isn't in on it, but it's an interesting look into the "Other" being similar to ourselves. If done right, I wouldn't mind it here. Though, my current guess is they're both Annie, and court!Annie's flame is going out. It would be cleaner if they merged in the end, but if court!Annie dies, characters will probably mourn. If forest!Annie has to take court!Annie across to the Ether, it could be very interesting. Another type of examination of the "Other" being like us. Not a clean ending, but a messy one, leaving us thinking. |
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Post by DonDueed on Dec 19, 2018 14:36:37 GMT
It took a while for it to register but the weirdest thing about that panel is all the PEOPLE. I wonder if the Court is deliberately being depicted a little differently because the nature of the relationship between Court!Annie and Anthony has been/is positive. If everyone's been herded to the fartherest point from the forest for safety's sake, it'd make sense that the new residential areas are a fair bit more crowded than we're used to seeing? Well, I dunno. I count a grand total of seven people in that last panel (and no one other than "our gang" in the other panels). Not exactly bustling.
Besides, if this area is under the shield (which I presume it is), some of those "people" could be robots doing their shielding duty. I'll admit, though, that I don't see any of them in the typical posture of a shield robot. (Or, they could be non-shield greenheads.)
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Post by DonDueed on Dec 19, 2018 14:42:59 GMT
Off topic: got a notice from Amazon that my Book Five will be delivered on Jan. 2. Yay!
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Post by Igniz on Dec 19, 2018 14:52:34 GMT
If it's revealed that Court!Annie is a fake then it's going to be really freaking awkward how they've been treating her. If it's revealed that Forest!Annie is a fake then it's going to be really freaking confusing on why Tom gave us important exposition on a fake version of Annie.  Both are fake. The real one is in stasis, still at the forest. |
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Post by darlos9d on Dec 19, 2018 15:00:53 GMT
If it's revealed that Court!Annie is a fake then it's going to be really freaking awkward how they've been treating her. If it's revealed that Forest!Annie is a fake then it's going to be really freaking confusing on why Tom gave us important exposition on a fake version of Annie. To be real it wouldn't be the first time a chapter left me wondering what the heck the point was. |
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Post by saardvark on Dec 19, 2018 15:07:29 GMT
To the extent GC maps onto the real world, it seems likely they've moved/evacuated from the main part of the Court, on the W side of the Annan near the bend in the river around Hoddom and Brydekirk, south to the sea (on the Solway Firth) just south of the town of Annan itself. Maybe...! If that was indeed the same river shouldn't it have dried up after Loup closed it back at the Court/Woods border? Also, it's nice seeing a real world parallel on where the Court would be. The sad part is that with Coyote not being there we have turned Gillitie mostly into farms by now... I speculate that the Annan flows underground now, at least along part of its border with the Court. Basically Loup just pulled the clifftops together, letting the flow continue underneath. Otherwise, a lake would start forming as the upper Annan continued to flow into the area from N of the (former) gorge, and would provide a new barrier of sorts between Court and Forest. And yes, there is precious little forest left on the east side of the lower Annan these days.... mostly Scottish farmland now. |
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Post by Sky Schemer on Dec 19, 2018 15:41:58 GMT
If it's revealed that Court!Annie is a fake then it's going to be really freaking awkward how they've been treating her. If it's revealed that Forest!Annie is a fake then it's going to be really freaking confusing on why Tom gave us important exposition on a fake version of Annie. Both are fake. The real one is in stasis, still at the forest. There is no Annie. The whole comic has been fake. |
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Post by The Anarch on Dec 19, 2018 15:59:22 GMT
Jeez, Eggers is such a prude.
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