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Post by edzepp on Aug 15, 2008 7:03:25 GMT
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Post by eightyfour on Aug 15, 2008 7:08:57 GMT
That would be some kind of unauthorized party, I assume.
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Post by tetsamaru on Aug 15, 2008 7:10:01 GMT
Woo Hammer-time!! err i mean Party time!!!
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Post by edzepp on Aug 15, 2008 7:13:14 GMT
With Boys!
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Post by Klex on Aug 15, 2008 7:33:17 GMT
Suddenly, I wonder how the thai kids would react to this.
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Post by Tenjen on Aug 15, 2008 7:45:36 GMT
Oooo a sudden party!
i wonder what the party is for? and whose set it up? and whether all the clubs will be involved
and what it will have to do with the chapters title!
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Post by edzepp on Aug 15, 2008 7:51:59 GMT
Don't you know? Power Station is totally the hippest dance club in all the land. Except on Thursday nights when DJ Boxbot is playing his set. Then it's terrible.
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Post by popo on Aug 15, 2008 7:58:22 GMT
Suddenly, I wonder how the thai kids would react to this. only thing worse than cooties is cooties at night.
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Post by etcetera on Aug 15, 2008 9:27:00 GMT
Sneaking past a security system into a power station in the middle of the night in stylish trenchcoats. This is so AWESOME. We did things like that at the university, too. But without the trenchcoats. And without a party. I also like the new view of Gunnerkrigg Court. So far it looked like a city-sized complex, but now in the first panel it looks more like an actual city. And suddenly there are lots of antenna things on the roofs.
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Post by penguinfactory on Aug 15, 2008 9:46:31 GMT
Look's like something's going down I get the feeling this chapter will be big- even the title page looks ominous, and that combined with the girl's coats and the way the Court is drawn makes it seem as if the comic is moving into darker territory. On another note, I want a coat like that
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Post by Klex on Aug 15, 2008 10:03:39 GMT
About the size of the chapter - a week ago, Tom did an interview here, and said amongst other things that he nearly finished this chapter. Assuming he'll finish in a week, and with his advance, that make it 45 pages long. So, yeah, big.
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Post by todd on Aug 15, 2008 10:39:22 GMT
Is it my imagination, or do we see the school uniforms less often these days? (Tom might be looking for every opportunity to avoid them now - he described their colors as ugly in a recent interview.)
Something tells me that Annie's likely to be a wallflower at this party (even if nothing goes wrong - and something would almost have to, for there to be a story) - though by choice, since I still can't imagine her being that keen on boys. (She's probably going only to give her best friend moral support.)
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Post by philweasel on Aug 15, 2008 11:31:36 GMT
Wow, Annie is really working that trenchcoat. Kat not so much, but then she looks better in more casual clothing I think.
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Post by La Poire on Aug 15, 2008 11:50:06 GMT
You know I would invite both of them to any number of secret midnight meet-ups. Also, I really hope one of the boys will be good ol' Willie Winsbury. It seems kind of inevitable.
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Post by cenit on Aug 15, 2008 13:10:54 GMT
Uhmm, sneaking into the night, trenchcoats and all... this looks like fun : kids will be kids
Also, it's kind of cute how Kat got all blushing because "tehre will be boys"...
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Post by maxie on Aug 15, 2008 13:46:23 GMT
Don't you know? Power Station is totally the hippest dance club in all the land. Except on Thursday nights when DJ Boxbot is playing his set. Then it's terrible.
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Post by etcetera on Aug 15, 2008 14:13:06 GMT
Wait, are there "GC" logos on the shoulders of that trenchcoat? Sweet!
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Post by monkmunk on Aug 15, 2008 15:12:39 GMT
Hahaha! Lobster Johnson! Awesome-o!
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Post by Tenjen on Aug 15, 2008 17:30:38 GMT
nice catch there et cetera!
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Post by Mezzaphor on Aug 15, 2008 21:23:09 GMT
That would be some kind of unauthorized party, I assume. What kind of unauthorized party requires someone to get the guests past a security system? Of course, that doesn't at all mean that isn't what's happening. Whatever the heck kind of party it is, Gunnerkrigg is the one place where it's most likely to happen.
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Post by La Poire on Aug 15, 2008 22:15:45 GMT
What kind of unauthorized party requires someone to get the guests past a security system? The best kind of party. Seeing as the title of the chapter is "Power Station", that's probably where they're going - and knowing the court, it'll probably look like it was designed by Tesla. They could have like a wicked rave! or something. Ps - might just be the change in art style, but Annie (et Kat) look way taller than they used to.
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Post by ronokki on Aug 15, 2008 22:46:14 GMT
I really like the 4th panel 'cause the room is not so neat, like a real room.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Aug 16, 2008 2:36:54 GMT
Ps - might just be the change in art style, but Annie (et Kat) look way taller than they used to. I'm not really seeing it. I suspect it's the coats making them look taller/skinnier than normal.
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Post by Klex on Aug 16, 2008 4:06:22 GMT
I highly suspect them to be really older. Look at the faces here and here, especially Kat panel 3 then 5...
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Post by Chrome on Aug 16, 2008 7:06:34 GMT
I noticed Kat's hair had grown out a bit.
This tends to make me think that some time--like a month or two--probably passed. They don't look all that much older, but they certainly didn't need heavy coats to get about in the last chapter. That makes me think time's just moved on towards winter with colder weather.
So far, the GKC trend seems to be showing events during a school year, then "breaking" for summer. I don't see why Tom would have any reason to break from it, unless he wanted to for artistic/storytelling purposes.
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Post by Count Casimir on Aug 16, 2008 8:19:55 GMT
I would buy a trenchcoat like that.
In other news, the hippest dance party in town apparently needs to be hacked into.
I'm looking forward to seeing who the classmates to be interacted with are! Willie, Janet, Sullivan, Paz, other new kids?
EDIT: Also; no discussion and/or speculation about Kat'n'Annie's previous sneak outs?
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Post by Mezzaphor on Aug 16, 2008 13:20:17 GMT
Ah, I hadn't noticed Kat's hair. Still, compare Kat's hair before and after the summer holiday. Her hair grew that much in just six weeks. (And that's assuming Kat didn't get any haircuts over the break. If she did, then that means her hair grows even faster.)
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Post by todd on Aug 16, 2008 22:19:14 GMT
Annie and Kat didn't seem that older to me. Part of it might come from the trenchcoats, or from Annie's hairstyle appearing different because of the angle at which she's drawn and the trenchcoat hiding part of it (as in the start of Chapter Seventeen, where the panel that apparently made her look older had her hair being pulled back temporarily by the sweater that she was donning). But I wonder if also many of the readers might be led to think that they're older because of the subject of the page.
Up until now, Annie and Kat's adventures generally reflected the conditions of childhood (exploring a big, mysterious place, missing your parents - even the Kat and Alistair romance was based on a childhood situation - what happens when you have to say good-bye to a friend because his parents are moving to another town). In this page, however, they're sneaking out after curfew to attend a party with a group of other kids, with the indication that they're not supposed to be doing this - and there'll be both girls and boys at the party. The concept of the secret, illegal party going on behind the grown-ups' back suggests adolescence rather than childhood, and that could be why many readers think that Annie and Kat look older.
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Post by yhbc on Aug 17, 2008 2:19:39 GMT
I think a lot of folks here quickly jumped onto the "party!" idea prematurely. Sneaking out of the dorms in trenchcoats (with or without members of the opposite sex involved) doesn't say "party!" to me, but I'll happily wait until Monday to find out if I'm right or wrong.
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Post by Count Casimir on Aug 17, 2008 4:52:51 GMT
yhbc jumped in to say the same thing I was about to say. I, at least, tend to sneak out not for parties but for crazy adventures. Anyway, as was said above, I can wait.
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