Post by Babble-jargon Bill on Mar 25, 2009 22:01:01 GMT
I never thought about Not-Jones being Parley's mom. Does that mean that she is a mediator-in-training as well, or is George being trained as one only due to her dad being a psychic? Maybe she has a boy's name too. That would be a pretty funny family tradition, could even be the reason Mr. Parley got the gender on the birth certificate wrong.
My Mom and my Dad are not what they seem/their dull appearance is part of their scheme/I know of their plan. I know their techniques/My parents are outer space alien freaks! -Calvin and Hobbes
well my theory is out the window.( I was gonna say she is related to gamma in some way) now im starting to think she is just a character with no big role in the story
Also, Anja's wearing a long skirt with her uniform. I wonder why? Does it have some kind of cultural/religious significance to her? Or, you know, she could just like long skirts and it was an option.
edited for grammar.
Last Edit: Mar 25, 2009 22:48:49 GMT by clementine
Insecurity is a turn-off to most people. I wonder if it has something to with Surma suddenly changing to Anthony from Eglamore?
That will come much later. In this flashback, Surma and friends must be about the age Annie and Kat are now, and I doubt there was any serious dating going on at the time. But Anja obviously had a crush on Donald and vice-versa, and it looks like they had rounded up the others only as an excuse for a photo of those two together. When the group of six dissolved after the photo had been taken, they broke up into three subgroups: the three girls, Donald and James, and Anthony. So far there is no evidence for Surma and James being in a romantic relationship just yet.
But in the flashback at the end of chapter 18, when Anja and Surma where in their late teens, according to Tom, it was Jim (i.e. James Eglamore) Surma and Donald were missing, not Anthony. So a couple of years after the current flashback, Surma and James were (still) an item.
The way Surma's drawn, with a slightly angular face, like earlier!Annie, makes me think this page has been probably drawn long ago.
Actually, when Tom draws Annie in Young-Annie flashbacks, he'll intentionally exaggerate the angle of her face slightly as a callback to the earlier form of the comic's art style. It's use here is for the same purpose, so I doubt he's been saving this chapter up or something.
Rule 12: A soft answer turneth away wrath. ..Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. - Schlock Mercenary
Post by inhumandecency on Mar 26, 2009 17:12:12 GMT
The third girl is Jeanne!
(Gunnerkrigg had a very active SCA back then.)
(Also, Eglamore was actually in training to be an etheric scientist until the absolutely disgraceful "robe and wizard hat" incident, which led to the rift with Surma and to his respeccing as a dragon slayer.)
I think that many of the people who persist in arguing that the Mystery Girl is either Gamma's mother or a younger Jones, in spite of Tom's statements, ignore those statements because they're not made directly in the comic. Some people nowadays believe that what the author says about his work doesn't count - that only what appears in the work itself counts. In their eyes, Tom's statements are no more valid than those made by the readers. (I do not adhere to this philosophy, I might add.)
I think it's more to the fact that they either haven't bothered reading a few pages back in threads before they post, or they think Tom is trying to be tricky and throw us off, or he's just being sarcastic. His sarcasm shows through in some of the individual comic notations; I'd say they simply don't think he's being serious. Although I do think your point, todd, is both true and valid.
Post by Babble-jargon Bill on Mar 27, 2009 0:42:07 GMT
I've been thinking a lot about Anthony. Out of all the characters in the story so far, he is the one that I am the most interested in learning more about (though I suppose that goes for most of us too). Seeing him as a kid should provide some insight into what he was like while working at Good Hope. I imagine he acts much like Antimony does now; calm, reserved, but open when with people he trusts. Sometime in the chapter we might even see him working as a doctor. Just because we are seeing the characters as kids right now doesn't mean it will stay that way for the whole chapter.
My Mom and my Dad are not what they seem/their dull appearance is part of their scheme/I know of their plan. I know their techniques/My parents are outer space alien freaks! -Calvin and Hobbes
What about Gamma? Doesn't this "Not-Jones" girl (as she has apparently been dubbed) look kinda like Gamma?
*ten facepalms*
The next person who brings this up, and anyone subsequently, should be automatically banned.
Unless of course you're trolling.... But that still merits a ban.
Come off it man. Not everyone reads every single post on this forum. Sorry if I missed that part. If you'd like I can just as well not read these forums and/or post here... But regardless of what you feel I probably still will. I could care less if I repeat something someone else says. I'm still not going to go out of my way to read every last post on this forum to make sure I don't... That's just ridiculous.
I think it's lame that you are so upset that multiple people should bring up something multiple times, and that doing so should merit a ban from the forums. And I was in no way attempting to troll. I hate when people do that. I just haven't read most of the posts on these forums and didn't realize people would get so touchy about something so insubstantial...
In MM's defense, the fact that Not-Jones isn't related to Gamma was also spelled out in the note below this page. So the annoyance is at least partially because of the assumption that anyone proposing that theory hasn't been paying attention, otherwise they would have seen that note.
But calling for bans is a bit harsh, and I hope MM was joking about that.
What good is melody? What good is music, if it ain't possessing something sweet? | The Word of Tom
Fair enough. But to be honest I tend to skip those notes most of the time as well. I'm not sure why I really visit this forum all that much. I'm far more interested in just reading the comic than seeing what everyone has to say about it... but occasionally I like to visit here and see what all the buzz is and even less frequently will I throw in my opinion. That my opinion matches so many others just means that I'm not very original I guess. I sincerely apologize for bothering anyone by that...