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Post by edzepp on Jan 21, 2009 8:03:09 GMT
Woah.Jaw dropping. Truly jaw dropping. Of course, Kat has the science angle covered.
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Post by Jonny Rocks Hard on Jan 21, 2009 8:04:58 GMT
the art in this page is fantastic
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Post by fjodor on Jan 21, 2009 8:07:21 GMT
Annies scar reappears!
And panel 3 is just amazing!
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Post by edzepp on Jan 21, 2009 8:07:37 GMT
What does Tom use to draw this again? Illustrator? Just that? Am I remembering correctly?
If so, even more woah.
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fcd
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Post by fcd on Jan 21, 2009 8:12:29 GMT
Yep, Kat is still trying her best to be a Flat Earth Atheist. Even though her mum and dad both know real magic. Shine on, you crazy diamond.
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ecomono
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Post by ecomono on Jan 21, 2009 8:16:28 GMT
Wait.
That's still not healed?
What the kaleidoscope did Jeanne do to her?
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vryko
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Post by vryko on Jan 21, 2009 8:23:31 GMT
So, the cut was there when Jeanne cut her, when she was in Zimmy's mind world, and now, when she's in her mind touching a blinker stone. Does the cut only exist in her mind? or in some kind of mind worlds?
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Jan 21, 2009 8:35:59 GMT
haha, the cut is IN HER MIND!
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Post by penguinfactory on Jan 21, 2009 8:55:31 GMT
Woah baby. That's one hell of an art shift right there. Tom's skillz are improving at an enormous rate. They might even be OVER 90- no sorry, I can't do that.
And yes, Magic Sword Scar is popping up all over the place, so it pretty much has to be a Checkhov's gun of some kind.
I can't remember, is Annie actually aware that that's still there? Zimmy is the only one who saw it, and she didn't tell her about it, did she?
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tetsamaru
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Post by tetsamaru on Jan 21, 2009 9:13:19 GMT
Hmm, so you have to know where it is? So i guess if you lose it, your outa luck.
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Post by eightyfour on Jan 21, 2009 9:43:18 GMT
The english language is inadequate to describe the awesomeness that is this page. Seriously, words fail me.
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Post by mudmaniac on Jan 21, 2009 9:54:15 GMT
The english language is inadequate to describe the awesomeness that is this page. Seriously, words fail me. Thats about the best i can imagine to describe this page. so i'm just gonna quote you. tho, i wonder if Anja can shed some light on the scar.
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Dominic
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Post by Dominic on Jan 21, 2009 10:10:46 GMT
I can only second the loss for words everyone else has encountered. Awesome.
And yeah, the scar is throwing more questions into the ring.
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Post by Rasselas on Jan 21, 2009 10:38:42 GMT
Hmm, so you have to know where it is? So i guess if you lose it, your outa luck. Hmmmm. Not sure here, but I think you imagine the blinker stone, and then the surroundings slowly reveal themselves. I'd wager it's like trying to remember where you left something, and then the whereabouts pop into your mind. Anja said: "You know it's in my hand, so it should be easy," probably meaning that it would be harder, but not impossible, to retrieve it if you don't know where it is. That's how I see it, otherwise it would be futile to even try to learn this exercise. I envy Tom's art so much, I'm green in the face.
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picaro
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Post by picaro on Jan 21, 2009 10:51:12 GMT
Being struck by a ghostly weapon is likely to leave evidence in a different way to a physical cut.
I foresee hide and seek blinkerstone soon
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Trism
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Post by Trism on Jan 21, 2009 12:10:22 GMT
The ghost was a spirit or a soul, and so was its weapon, so its highly likely that annie's spirit/soul/ghost got cut which is why it rarely turns up except in spiritual situations.
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Post by wanderer on Jan 21, 2009 12:48:05 GMT
If Kat just thinks a bit, she should be happy to admit that magic exists. It's a way of manipulating some form of energy that scientific instruments can't measure yet. Which means she gets to have the challenge of figuring out how to measure it. A new and exciting chance.
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Post by cenit on Jan 21, 2009 12:57:07 GMT
gosh golly that must the very best pannel Tom has drawn so far... it's so cool
...and also, wasn't the scar on the other side of her face, or am I going crazy here?
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Trism
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Post by Trism on Jan 21, 2009 13:00:13 GMT
gosh golly that must the very best pannel Tom has drawn so far... it's so cool ...and also, wasn't the scar on the other side of her face, or am I going crazy here? I'm fairly sure it was always there. www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=143
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Post by wanderer on Jan 21, 2009 13:18:20 GMT
Oh, and I almost forgot my initial reaction. Holy mother of awesomeness! The shading! The depth! The HAIR!
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Post by todd on Jan 21, 2009 13:40:42 GMT
The "etheric world" portraits of Annie make her look a bit like Thorn in "Bone".
To be fair to Kat, she hasn't been introduced to the etheric world for long (I doubt that she knew about her mother being a sorceress before Chapter Seven) - though her continued scepticism might seem strange in light of her best friend's nature, not to mention her boy-friend changing into a bird through an etheric process. But it takes a while to overturn old thought-patterns. (And it adds some extra liveliness into the story.)
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Post by Per on Jan 21, 2009 14:09:19 GMT
Thoughts:
1. The scar has always popped up when Annie is in a dreamy/otherworldly state, so it's not really a new mystery, but it is a mystery. It probably means the cutting itself didn't happen on an entirely real level, which doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't dangerous, though I like to speculate Jeanne wasn't just going berserk on her.
2. Etheric Annie has a lot of hair.
3. Thorn? I don't really see it (the mouth?), but it's an interesting idea.
4. "Transferance".
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Tanya
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Post by Tanya on Jan 21, 2009 16:24:04 GMT
your art is simply amazing, Tom.
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Post by Fhqwhgads on Jan 21, 2009 16:59:00 GMT
That's a helluva job on the art right there.
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Post by theoldwolf on Jan 21, 2009 17:08:11 GMT
This is the most stunning sequence I have ever seen drawn in Gunnerkrigg Court. Absolutely breathtaking artwork.
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Post by UbiquitousDragon on Jan 21, 2009 17:29:34 GMT
Thoughts: 1. The scar has always popped up when Annie is in a dreamy/otherworldly state, so it's not really a new mystery, but it is a mystery. It probably means the cutting itself didn't happen on an entirely real level, which doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't dangerous, though I like to speculate Jeanne wasn't just going berserk on her. 2. Etheric Annie has a lot of hair. 3. Thorn? I don't really see it (the mouth?), but it's an interesting idea. 4. "Transferance". I do think that it's a spiritual or etheric (since it's only relatively recently that we've been introduced to that concept) wound.
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Post by rayofash on Jan 21, 2009 21:06:36 GMT
Some kind of matter transference?
You don't say Kat, you don't say.
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Post by Miri on Jan 21, 2009 23:14:28 GMT
This is the most stunning sequence I have ever seen drawn in Gunnerkrigg Court. Absolutely breathtaking artwork. Can't add much to this, really. Gorgeous-beautiful-stunning-everything everyone has already said. Also, there's something very Avatar about the greyscale imaging on Anja, though I highly doubt that was intentional or even subconscious.
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Post by sebastian on Jan 22, 2009 0:02:50 GMT
Yep, Kat is still trying her best to be a Flat Earth Atheist. Even though her mum and dad both know real magic. Shine on, you crazy diamond. "any sufficiently analized magic is indistinguishable from science" every good mad scientist know that. ;D And whoa! indeed, breathtaking art today, Tom, congratulations.
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ecomono
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Post by ecomono on Jan 22, 2009 0:32:50 GMT
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