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Post by Uncle Putte on Apr 14, 2009 9:41:14 GMT
Hm. I have to wonder what the other cloth-wrapped figure is, too - the one behind Mr. Bi- uh, Thorn in panel 2. Perhaps wholly irrelevant, but I'll have to wonder if Thorn is old-fashioned enough to go with plate mail for his dragonslaying duty. The figure's the right size for that, at least.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 14, 2009 11:48:15 GMT
On a slightly more serious note, I don't think it's Jones on the next door. Why would the kids be discussing Jones being in their picture if she were already a teacher? (Or whatever it is that she is, technically.) It would be more than a bit strange to have a picture of your tightly-knit group of school chums which also included a random instructor. I'd guess she's the same age as the rest of the cast here, so if she has an office already there's something very odd going on. We already knew that Surma et al knew Jones from the time when *they* were students. And we also already knew that Jones was never a student at Gunnerkrigg. Humans we have seen within the school itself that were not students or faculty/staff: none. In addition we know that Jones has a rather strange background, although we don't know what it is. Exactly. It's already apparent that there's something odd going on with Jones. If her name were on that door then we'd have a better idea of what.
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Post by drbubbles on Apr 14, 2009 14:51:38 GMT
I doubt it says anything other than "Mr. Thorn" on that door because otherwise the drawing in panel 1 makes no sense: we'd be overhearing speech behind a door that is either visible only as a sliver on the right, or is not visible at all, while the door with the panel's focus would have nothing to do with the situation thus far. If that nameplate really said Jones, I expect Tom would want us to know that, and it wouldn't be illegible.
It intrigues me that Jones has been mentioned in this chapter but has not yet been seen. When, or if, we do finally see her in this chapter, it would be most interesting if she had either exactly the same or a completely different appearance from Antimony's time. I would be most astonished, and perplexed, by Jones looking like a teenaged version of herself in Antimony's time: that is, by evidence that she is aging at a normal human rate.
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Post by mjh on Apr 14, 2009 15:04:56 GMT
I doubt it says anything other than "Mr. Thorn" on that door because otherwise the drawing in panel 1 makes no sense: we'd be overhearing speech behind a door that is either visible only as a sliver on the right, or is not visible at all, while the door with the panel's focus would have nothing to do with the situation thus far. If that nameplate really said Jones, I expect Tom would want us to know that, and it wouldn't be illegible. Compare panel one of the current page to panel one on page 161 ( www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=161): Mr. Thorn’s (and later Eglamore’s) office is to the left of that of Jones. The door with the illegible nameplate is that of Mr. Thorn/Eglamore; Jones’s office is the one to the right and its nameplate isn’t fully visible in panel one, so it might say “Ms. Jones”, as it does on page 161. Or it might not.
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Post by Tanya on Apr 14, 2009 15:49:54 GMT
I wonder if the candle we see in Eglamore's office is the same one from Mr. Thorn's time, and if so what is its meaning/use (candles are sometimes representatives of someone's soul, in different mythologies, for example).
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Post by warrl on Apr 14, 2009 18:33:01 GMT
If that nameplate really said Jones, I expect Tom would want us to know that, and it wouldn't be illegible. Tom is pretty good at revealing information when he wants it revealed. And keeping enough information concealed that he doesn't really care about, that we can't draw conclusions from his choosing not to reveal some. When he told us that Brinnie is a Valkyrie pretty much as soon as anyone guessed it, that - the guess being confirmed so quickly - was a bit of a surprise. (I wonder if she'll be back. Rather showy for a red herring... but then, a red herring has to be sufficiently conspicuous to attract attention.)
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Post by cappadocius on Apr 14, 2009 21:05:07 GMT
On another note, I wouldn't mind finding out who the medium was before Surma took the post.
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Post by todd on Apr 14, 2009 22:09:28 GMT
Brinnie might have been there purely to provide symmetry for the photograph - Surma, Anthony, Anja, Donald, and James all have to be in it, obviously, so you need one more girl for a balance of genders.
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Post by Casey on Apr 14, 2009 22:22:11 GMT
On another note, I wouldn't mind finding out who the medium was before Surma took the post. This explains SO MUCH! ;D
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Post by cenit on Apr 15, 2009 1:25:57 GMT
Why didn't Eglamore inherit the awesome beard like the rest of the stuff??
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Post by Chrome on Apr 15, 2009 2:01:40 GMT
Or maybe he tried to grow one, got frustrated when it wouldn't behave like Thorn's, then shaved everything off - his hair, his beard, the works. Would explain why he was so close-cut for most of GKC (besides Tom's art improving). Then later he might've gotten tired of maintaining his buzzcut, so started growing his hair out again. Just this time he won't try for Thorn's Unique Beard of Awesome.
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Post by mudmaniac on Apr 15, 2009 2:28:16 GMT
HAHAHAHA. That's a great idea. On another note, I wouldn't mind finding out who the medium was before Surma took the post. Actually, there hadn't been a medium since Surma left the post. Would it not be reasonable to assume that there wasn't one prior to Surma, at least for a good while? I post this in hopes of being shot down pleasantly surprised by sudden twists in Tom's plot writing.
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Post by Dentrala on Apr 16, 2009 1:08:40 GMT
There's a pretty good chance that Surma did have an instructor, though. She didn't just decide to be a medium on her own.
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