|
Post by Deepbluediver on May 20, 2014 15:07:25 GMT
This thread is horrible*. I keep following the links to a page, then reading the next couple of pages, too, and before long I've reread the entire chapter. And then I come back to this thread, read the next post, and the process starts all over again. *your definition of "horrible" may differ from mine
|
|
|
Post by Eversist on May 20, 2014 20:23:54 GMT
This thread is horrible*. I keep following the links to a page, then reading the next couple of pages, too, and before long I've reread the entire chapter. And then I come back to this thread, read the next post, and the process starts all over again. *your definition of "horrible" may differ from mine Hah! Yeah, it's our own version of TV Tropes. And that is why Tom is awesome. More precisely, one of the many reasons. Are we just going by hair color? 'Cause I don't see it. Ogee is in one of the pigeon shorts, though.
|
|
|
Post by sidhekin on May 20, 2014 22:07:17 GMT
Are we just going by hair color? 'Cause I don't see it. If I'm seeing the same as the others ... There's a horizontal green bar (though it has moved below the eye) on the upper left fairy, and purple ovals on the lower middle. The hair style and colour are not exact matches, but close enough to be recognizable. And yes, they have about the same position on each page.
|
|
|
Post by Eversist on May 21, 2014 16:25:53 GMT
If I'm seeing the same as the others ... There's a horizontal green bar (though it has moved below the eye) on the upper left fairy, and purple ovals on the lower middle. The hair style and colour are not exact matches, but close enough to be recognizable. And yes, they have about the same position on each page. Ehhhhh... perhaps. I personally still hold some doubt that they are the same fairy until Tom states it's so. I just don't see enough of a resemblance other than hair color. And the one with a green bar... that looks like some manner of hair clip, and becoming human moved it to her forehead? Dunno about that. Not to mention the up-turned nose. I'm not saying that all fairies share the same obsession as Red with keeping their hair in the same style. They clearly don't, if Red's friend is anything to go by (and her hair color changed dramatically). The laziest of screencaps: Edit: Purple with Red's friend in an older chapter: Edit Edit: More pictures; hair colors seem to be truer to original in the ether?
|
|
|
Post by sidhekin on May 21, 2014 17:01:55 GMT
Err, that's the upper right fairy, with the vertical green bar. I was thinking of the upper left fairy, with the horizontal green bar. The flower maker in the ether: gunnerkrigg.com/?p=985Though I guess yours is a better match for hair colour ... it was hair style and bar orientation that led me to the other one.
|
|
|
Post by Eversist on May 21, 2014 21:30:35 GMT
Err, that's the upper right fairy, with the vertical green bar. Ah, my bad. In that case, I don't see it at all.
|
|
|
Post by katarinanavane on May 27, 2014 2:11:01 GMT
Mr. Thorn is not Odin or any other figure from the Norse pantheon. Edited for emphasis...are you sure he might not be just the tiniest bit related? (probably far fetched even for this comic, but couldn't resist pointing it out)
|
|
|
Post by warrl on May 27, 2014 6:55:05 GMT
Mr. Thorn is not Odin or any other figure from the Norse pantheon. Edited for emphasis...are you sure he might not be just the tiniest bit related? (probably far fetched even for this comic, but couldn't resist pointing it out) You can't really be sure of anything in this comic, unless it's expressly stated (and even that may be doubtful depending on just who is stating it). But we've absolutely no reason to think that Mr. Thorn is any more related to a deity than Parley, Jack, Andrew, Anja, Paz, Janet, Gamma, Zimmy, and Kat are. So unless practically-everyone in the court (except maybe Jones, Shadow2, and/or the fairies) is related to a deity, I seriously doubt that Mr. Thorn is.
|
|
|
Post by CoyoteReborn on May 29, 2014 20:34:03 GMT
...and even that may be doubtful depending on just who is stating it. (glare)
|
|
|
Post by Eversist on Jun 2, 2014 15:38:52 GMT
But we've absolutely no reason to think that Mr. Thorn is any more related to a deity... I know you're responding to someone else, but I feel the need to point out again that I originally meant the men communicated with each other, not were biologically related to each other ("related" has different meanings; in this case I meant the definition "connected in some way"). I even said "(meaning communicates with)" in my original post. We're basically having a discussion spawned out of a mis-reading. Not that I mind, just feel the need to point it out.
|
|
|
Post by arf on Jun 6, 2014 2:07:52 GMT
Having just gone through the farewelling of Mort in Chapter 47: See Ya!, I stumbled across this pageThe hairs on the back of my neck started rising even *before* I read the caption!
|
|
|
Post by Daedalus on Jul 9, 2014 22:30:35 GMT
Huh, just realized something. When translating, I realized that page 113 and 13 (both pre- and post-page-numbering-revision) pertain to robot S13. This wouldn't be important except for the recurrence of 113 in the comic. Hmmmm...
|
|
|
Post by philman on Jul 10, 2014 8:42:09 GMT
Huh, just realized something. When translating, I realized that page 113 and 13 (both pre- and post-page-numbering-revision) pertain to robot S13. This wouldn't be important except for the recurrence of 113 in the comic. Hmmmm... Pity that doesn't hold true for 1013 or 1113
|
|
|
Post by Daedalus on Jul 10, 2014 19:19:33 GMT
Huh, just realized something. When translating, I realized that page 113 and 13 (both pre- and post-page-numbering-revision) pertain to robot S13. This wouldn't be important except for the recurrence of 113 in the comic. Hmmmm... Pity that doesn't hold true for 1013 or 1113 Ehhh I hadn't gotten to that point in the translation yet. Obviously.
|
|
|
Post by Brother_Spartacus on Jul 23, 2014 18:36:18 GMT
I kind of think John looks like Annie's dad. I wonder if Annie and John would ever date? That would be a... Freudian Ship! *bows*
|
|
|
Post by abculatter2 on Jul 25, 2014 16:13:41 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Brother_Spartacus on Jul 26, 2014 0:17:43 GMT
Maybe Brinnie was Alistair's mother, returning to the forest after a midlife crisis?
|
|
|
Post by Daedalus on Jul 26, 2014 20:09:42 GMT
Maybe Brinnie was Alistair's mother, returning to the forest after a midlife crisis? At least in the original mythology, Brynhildr had a daughter but no son. We know she's not (probably) the Brynhildr from the Ring Cycle, because that Brynhildr is dead.
|
|
|
Post by Daedalus on Jul 31, 2014 0:55:01 GMT
Does anyone know what Rey's saying at the bottom of page 164? The second word is 'girl' but I can't make out the first. 'Imbicile' looks close, but I'm not sure...
|
|
|
Post by fwip on Jul 31, 2014 1:02:41 GMT
Imbecilic. (I thought it was imbecilic c***, but I guess I just have a dirty mind :/) Source: I typed out 'imbecilic girl' and covered up the bottom.
|
|
|
Post by Daedalus on Jul 31, 2014 1:25:14 GMT
(I thought it was imbecilic c***, but I guess I just have a dirty mind :/) No cross bar on the t. And thx haha - I forgot 'imbecilic' was even a word.
|
|
|
Post by Ophel on Aug 2, 2014 12:37:41 GMT
Not exactly cool but I can't help but notice that there is not much of the humor here as much in the comic anymore. Well, at least written like that. This particular one is quite charming and corny. Edit: Nine years ago, huh? Heh, a lot happened since then. *becomes nostalgic* <_< ... Dangit. Again.
|
|
|
Post by GK Sierra on Aug 2, 2014 16:06:19 GMT
|
|
lit
Full Member
Posts: 201
|
Post by lit on Aug 2, 2014 17:56:15 GMT
Not exactly cool but I can't help but notice that there is not much of the humor here as much in the comic anymore. Well, at least written like that. This particular one is quite charming and corny. Edit: Nine years ago, huh? Heh, a lot happened since then. *becomes nostalgic* <_< ... Dangit. Again. You sort of get an echo of it in this chapter but yeah, that sort of very conscious ever-present narration in the first few chapters seems to peter out as more characters are introduced, and the story is carried more through the dialogue and the images.
|
|
|
Post by Jelly Jellybean on Aug 2, 2014 18:00:31 GMT
Beckie Ground, and I never understood why Janet was so hostile to her in this page. Petty as it seems, maybe Janet was hostile because Beckie tried being in front of her. From the Word of Tom: gunnerkrigg.wikia.com/wiki/Word_of_Tom:_Other_students "Did Janet ever have the same sort of problems Kat did making friends?" - "Kind of, but she dealt with them differently." Kat was nice and didn't make friends. gunnerkrigg.com/?p=396
Maybe Janet's belligerence earned her some QN friends and fear/respect from QS students.
|
|
|
Post by bedinsis on Aug 2, 2014 20:42:57 GMT
I can't believe I didn't realize until now(someone else probably already has):
Anja Donlan's symbol is an eye with a line on it, crossing it out.
And she is the character that always has her eyes closed!
|
|
|
Post by keef on Aug 2, 2014 21:21:09 GMT
I can't believe I didn't realize until now(someone else probably already has): Anja Donlan's symbol is an eye with a line on it, crossing it out. And she is the character that always has her eyes closed! Good point. Of course it might well be like this because Renard can enter anything with eyes. Tom's formspring, about her eyes, and about the symbol.
|
|
|
Post by GK Sierra on Aug 6, 2014 16:35:52 GMT
I just noticed that it is explicitly stated twice that there are no rats in the court, once after Zimmy gets rained on for the first time, and once in Divine, when Kat says it to Zimmy.
I don't know why that would be significant, but it was apparently worth the panel space to mention it twice.
|
|
|
Post by Jelly Jellybean on Aug 6, 2014 22:53:15 GMT
I just noticed that it is explicitly stated twice that there are no rats in the court, once after Zimmy gets rained on for the first time, and once in Divine, when Kat says it to Zimmy. I don't know why that would be significant, but it was apparently worth the panel space to mention it twice. Haven't seen any dogs or cats either. And Paz was so disappointed when she realized the cows in Young's Park were robotic. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=602The only mice seen to date were for experimentation. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=752But there are birds and spiders, plenty of spiders. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=746 www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=198And we saw a spider catch a fly, so flies too. www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=332I assume that most animals were purged from the Court along with the trees and anything else that the forest people might control. I suppose the Court couldn't keep the birds completely out or completely exterminate the insects.
|
|
|
Post by warrl on Aug 6, 2014 23:12:40 GMT
And Annie apparently had no trouble finding an ant to kill, in order to bring Ketrak so he(?) could pass a message to Muut.
|
|