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Post by turniptree on Jul 30, 2018 4:58:12 GMT
This has probably been discussed a hundred times, but on strip #1292, Tom wrote "See ya" at the bottom... I went through the thread about that page, nobody mentions it. It's about weed, hiveminds and Tom Bombadil. So not a hundred times. Can't remember if I noticed before, it is indeed scary, certainly if you combine it with arf 's remark earlier this week. The hard working folks at Proboards succeeded in changing your link with that of this page... again. Oooh yes, I should have mentioned that arf's post is what prompted me to look at the page and then I saw the "See ya" and freaked.
Kat is so precious and one of my favorites.
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Post by Druplesnubb on Jul 30, 2018 11:22:04 GMT
People would probably have noted the "See Ya" more if the chapter with that name had actually been released whe nthat page was made.
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Post by keef on Jul 30, 2018 18:29:04 GMT
People would probably have noted the "See Ya" more if the chapter with that name had actually been released whe nthat page was made. Damn, I should occasionally take two seconds to check things.
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Post by fia on Aug 9, 2018 18:56:36 GMT
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Post by pyradonis on Aug 10, 2018 12:53:27 GMT
He was admitted because of the awesome beard.
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Post by mturtle7 on Aug 11, 2018 4:30:00 GMT
He was admitted because of the awesome beard. He had Mr. Thorn's personal recommendation on account of that beard. They're old friends.
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Post by dramastix on Aug 13, 2018 1:02:41 GMT
I love how Tom introduced the idea of totems ages and ages ago. At the time it seemed only like a vehicle to talk about communication between the court and forest, and a means to get Annie back into the forest so Ysengrin could get her on the road to being put right. And then fast forward to this chapter, and we see Coyote and Ysengrin's totems and we know immediately what they imply. It's a reminder of just how well Tom has been pulling together the threads from different parts of the story; he knows where he's going and how he's going to get there even with the silly fairy plotlines.
Now I'm just eagerly awaiting Kat's ascension...
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Post by fia on Aug 17, 2018 20:25:23 GMT
Not so much on reread of the comic, as on reading more about alchemy: The phrase Ora Lege Lege Lege Relege Labora et Inuenies from the First Treatise might have come from a mystical text published in the 17th century called the Mutus Liber, a symbolic instruction manual for concocting a philosopher's stone. On the same page of the Mutus Liber with the phrase, there is a symbol much like the one in the Treatise, the same Sun and Moon symbology, and similar (but not identical) hand expressions on the two characters.
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Post by liminal on Aug 24, 2018 17:50:34 GMT
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Post by jda on Sept 12, 2018 7:25:22 GMT
I realized that this is the first time (in-comic) that Annie meets Fire: a little organic monster.
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Post by pyradonis on Sept 17, 2018 12:42:43 GMT
I just now realized that Diego's old things are stashed in a room seemingly accessible only through the robot-only area in the Court. I also noticed that the door seems pretty old, much older than, for example, the "boring door" connecting the robot-only area with the rest of the Court. Now I wonder if the modern robots built their realm around one or more of Diego's old rooms. Or around the room where his personal belongings were stored after his death. Might it even be this room?
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Post by OGRuddawg on Oct 1, 2018 0:53:30 GMT
On Zimmy's image of Robogod-Kat, there is a crack that runs down one side of her face. I wonder if that is indicative of some trauma, or a potential future trauma that really hurts Kat? I never noticed the crack and wondered if anyone has noticed and/or speculated about it.
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Post by keef on Oct 1, 2018 11:35:15 GMT
On Zimmy's image of Robogod-Kat, there is a crack that runs down one side of her face. I wonder if that is indicative of some trauma, or a potential future trauma that really hurts Kat? I never noticed the crack and wondered if anyone has noticed and/or speculated about it. A little search in the wild spec thread found this, and Daedalus ' Roboreligion thread has some more (the search function on this board is not as crappy as it used to be). In the original thread several people mentioned the crack, but there was not much theorizing. All in all not much. Whatever way you look at it, it can't be positive for Kat.
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Post by mturtle7 on Oct 1, 2018 20:56:59 GMT
On Zimmy's image of Robogod-Kat, there is a crack that runs down one side of her face. I wonder if that is indicative of some trauma, or a potential future trauma that really hurts Kat? I never noticed the crack and wondered if anyone has noticed and/or speculated about it. A little search in the wild spec thread found this, and Daedalus ' Roboreligion thread has some more (the search function on this board is not as crappy as it used to be). In the original thread several people mentioned the crack, but there was not much theorizing. All in all not much. Whatever way you look at it, it can't be positive for Kat.
Actually, just before that famous splash page, there's another artificial face that gets cracked, but it's actually a very positive event. One can't rule out the idea that something similar is actually happening to Kat in Zimmy's vision.
Wait, actually, something similar IS happening to Kat throughout that chapter. There was that whole implications that Zimmy was helping her accept the fact that she likes girls! The crack might even just be reflecting that...or maybe, if we assume the vision is a vision of the future, it could just be Zimmy's powers picking up on the theme of self-realization and finding yet another event like that in the future!
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Post by Eversist on Nov 9, 2018 10:15:12 GMT
www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=844Just noticed that this is the first page that has the simplified GC logotype. This was noticed in the original discussion thread.
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Post by Runningflame on Nov 14, 2018 21:16:48 GMT
If Eugene Gould was psychic, why did he lose in a poker match in Kursk? Couldn't he tell how the cards were going to come up? (Although, I suppose just because the psychic challenge is named for him, doesn't mean he was psychic; perhaps he was just interested in finding people who were, and put up [some of] the money for the prize.) Second thing noticed on that first-linked page: Parley Sr. "officially" completed the challenge? Why is "officially" in scare quotes? Did he win on a technicality? And are there other people who "unofficially" completed the challenge?
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Post by pyradonis on Nov 14, 2018 22:57:25 GMT
If Eugene Gould was psychic, why did he lose in a poker match in Kursk? Couldn't he tell how the cards were going to come up? (Although, I suppose just because the psychic challenge is named for him, doesn't mean he was psychic; perhaps he was just interested in finding people who were, and put up [some of] the money for the prize.) Second thing noticed on that first-linked page: Parley Sr. "officially" completed the challenge? Why is "officially" in scare quotes? Did he win on a technicality? And are there other people who "unofficially" completed the challenge? I assume Gould is a scientific skeptic instead, and his test is the Gunnerverse version of the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge.
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Post by mturtle7 on Nov 15, 2018 3:52:59 GMT
If Eugene Gould was psychic, why did he lose in a poker match in Kursk? Couldn't he tell how the cards were going to come up? (Although, I suppose just because the psychic challenge is named for him, doesn't mean he was psychic; perhaps he was just interested in finding people who were, and put up [some of] the money for the prize.) Second thing noticed on that first-linked page: Parley Sr. "officially" completed the challenge? Why is "officially" in scare quotes? Did he win on a technicality? And are there other people who "unofficially" completed the challenge? Actually, considering the frequency of magic-users/paranormals in the GC universe, one might have expected many more real psychics to try the E.G. Psychic Challenge. Unless, of course, a lot of real psychics did try, but they all lost due to technicalities and/or foul play, and it took a really clever methodical psychic like Parley, Sr. in order to finally put them out of business.
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Post by jda on Dec 3, 2018 7:19:32 GMT
also: DISEASES OF DA EYE (A lemon, a nail stuck into, 3 irises, reptilian eye, no white) and DON'T PUT SALT IN YOUR EYES (seriously)
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Post by Runningflame on Dec 3, 2018 20:14:00 GMT
also: DISEASES OF DA EYE (A lemon, a nail stuck into, 3 irises, reptilian eye, no white) and DON'T PUT SALT IN YOUR EYES (seriously) My favorite of the guest comics. And I just discovered that the original page thread has "answer keys" from the guest artist herself, including all of the too-small-to-read text on the poster!
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Post by DonDueed on Dec 9, 2018 15:14:20 GMT
Hi all, first time poster here. I've been reading GKC for a while now and I think it's an amazing work of SF/fantasy... but I don't have to tell you guys that, do I? Now, my contribution to "cool things": in Chapter 49 (The Torn Sea), on this page and the next, the ship's robots drop into Zimmyngham on webs, looking a lot like... white spiders. I'm not sure if this was an intentional callback, but either way it's pretty spooky. Off topic, I hope the sold-out softcover volumes get restocked soon so I can complete my collection.
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Post by Per on Dec 9, 2018 18:23:25 GMT
Hello! Now, my contribution to "cool things": in Chapter 49 (The Torn Sea), on this page and the next, the ship's robots drop into Zimmyngham on webs, looking a lot like... white spiders. I'm not sure if this was an intentional callback, but either way it's pretty spooky. It may reflect those robots being networked as noted here.
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Post by Druplesnubb on Dec 10, 2018 11:18:21 GMT
Yes, the robots are just extensions of the ship, which in Zimmingham is shown by them being literal string puppets connected to the ship.
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Post by mturtle7 on Dec 10, 2018 21:18:28 GMT
Hi all, first time poster here. I've been reading GKC for a while now and I think it's an amazing work of SF/fantasy... but I don't have to tell you guys that, do I? Now, my contribution to "cool things": in Chapter 49 (The Torn Sea), on this page and the next, the ship's robots drop into Zimmyngham on webs, looking a lot like... white spiders. I'm not sure if this was an intentional callback, but either way it's pretty spooky. Off topic, I hope the sold-out softcover volumes get restocked soon so I can complete my collection.
I've often thought that spiders and insects are a really recurring theme in Zimmy's psyche, so this makes perfect sense to me!
Also, welcome to the forums!
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Post by jda on Dec 11, 2018 20:23:46 GMT
Just like Annie's mind spent a few hours in the ether but her hair grew for six months, unnoticed for me until now, this was the first example of time skipping for the minds/time slowing for the body: "it felt like an instant, but my internal chronometer said several months had passed"
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Post by Runningflame on Dec 28, 2018 19:32:03 GMT
The moon appears twice in the first panel of this page: first as a heavily stylized crescent, and then, as Annie wakes up, a more realistic (portion of a) circle with craters seen through the window.
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Post by jda on Jan 12, 2019 6:15:47 GMT
On Divine, www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1030, first panel says that Zimmy didn't expect Kat to be aware of her presence. It happened because of Kat's ability to see through "dimensions" illusion, smoke & mirrors b*s*t
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Post by saardvark on Jan 12, 2019 12:57:03 GMT
On Divine, www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1030, first panel says that Zimmy didn't expect Kat to be aware of her presence. It happened because of Kat's ability to see through "dimensions" illusion, smoke & mirrors b*s*t hmm, not so clear. The "huh" might be puzzlement at Annie's state (hence Zimm's follow-up question) rather than her surprise at Kat seeing her. Is there evidence that Zimm can "cloak" herself? "Cloak" Gamma as well? I don't recall any, (tho could well be forgetting!)
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Post by jda on Jan 14, 2019 8:12:14 GMT
On Divine, www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1030, first panel says that Zimmy didn't expect Kat to be aware of her presence. It happened because of Kat's ability to see through "dimensions" illusion, smoke & mirrors b*s*t hmm, not so clear. The "huh" might be puzzlement at Annie's state (hence Zimm's follow-up question) rather than her surprise at Kat seeing her. Is there evidence that Zimm can "cloak" herself? "Cloak" Gamma as well? I don't recall any, (tho could well be forgetting!) I mean, that'd explain to me why everyone is frozen and Kat is not
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Post by saardvark on Jan 14, 2019 8:33:47 GMT
hmm, not so clear. The "huh" might be puzzlement at Annie's state (hence Zimm's follow-up question) rather than her surprise at Kat seeing her. Is there evidence that Zimm can "cloak" herself? "Cloak" Gamma as well? I don't recall any, (tho could well be forgetting!) I mean, that'd explain to me why everyone is frozen and Kat is not aaah, OK! That I'll buy....
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