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Post by Per on Oct 19, 2009 14:26:49 GMT
or kids exploring the awesomeness of the dorms How about a wordless page of kids being chased down darkened corridors but various scary plants? I guess there can't be any more trees or Marcia would have been able to get in that way, but there might be other nasty surprises. I just think it would be amusing if the Unspoken Hitchless Plan bought the kids some misery down the line.
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Post by nikita on Oct 19, 2009 15:12:12 GMT
I still don't know what the "problem" Tom thought everyone would have with this chapter was. But I guess that's a good thing. A few possibilities: 1. The situation turned out to be exactly what the children openly suspected it to be: the teachers "kidnapping" the children to make the camping trip more interesting, without any surprise twists. Probably. And there was a happy end for everything. Also, the central event, the kidnapping, turned out to be the least important event in the chapter. At least that's what I think. Bonus page: The tents are too small for Eglamore.
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Post by Casey on Oct 19, 2009 15:19:56 GMT
Since we're speculating, I'll throw my hat in the ring for the bonus page being a "thesis" on dryads, much like the "thesis" we saw on the Rogat Orjak after Ch 3.
It'll probably be something comical about the events of the chapter, but I thought I'd guess something different just to spread the betting pool out a little bit.
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Post by Rasselas on Oct 19, 2009 16:18:58 GMT
Bonus page: The tents are too small for Eglamore. Ahahahahaha ;D
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Post by Ulysses on Oct 19, 2009 16:27:42 GMT
Bonus page: The tents are too small for Eglamore. Yes, the only way for him to fit is with his head or feet out the door. Then it starts to rain. Meanwhile Marcia has conjured up a watertight tree-house for herself and Bob. Either that or, yes, an annotated description of dryads, similar to the one about fairies. Not sure about which bit was supposed to cause anxiety among the readers, but I'd be willing to go along with those who say it was Jack being quite so rude, and the inevitable side-taking that would follow.
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Post by Mishmash on Oct 19, 2009 19:52:11 GMT
Bob and Marcia in panel 3 brought a big grin to my face!
I have really enjoyed this chapter!
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Post by wynne on Oct 19, 2009 19:56:55 GMT
Marcia and Bob are so cute! (In an, "aww, they made an adorably funny face" way, not an "aww, what an adorable couple" way. Though they are an adorable couple.) Marcia, I take back every bad suspicion or thought I ever had about you! [EDIT: my Marcia/Bob love was ninjaed. Oh well.] Where did they get the ropes, though...? Everyone should carry rope. It's part of the standard adventuring gear. ;D I thought that was a knife. I mean, it's rule #9... Bonus page: Annie and Kat sitting in the middle of a huge living room with 58 deranged kids jumping on furniture and swinging on the chandelier around them. Annie says to Kat: "Remind me why we wanted to lock the grown-ups out of their own house?""
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Post by Ulysses on Oct 19, 2009 20:15:32 GMT
Another bonus page idea: Without the grownups there, all the kids want to do is throw a cheese and wine party, then discuss politics.
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Post by todd on Oct 19, 2009 22:15:39 GMT
At least the teachers will probably be able to light a fire; the cows will be too busy maintaining the laser grid around the house to be able to put the campfires out.
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Post by Snes on Oct 19, 2009 22:29:09 GMT
I failed to notice this at first read, but rereading #631 there's a tiny exclamation mark next to Annie in the second panel, indicating surprise. She doesn't seem to have expected Jack's contribution. No, when Tom includes things like that, they're usually well-defined. That looks just like another part of the sketchy outline of Bob's house.
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Post by sebastian on Oct 19, 2009 23:28:00 GMT
I love how Bob and Marcia seem more impressed by the kids than irritated. Eglamore of course is not amused. Also, I *would* predict that the bonus comic would be something with Winsbury and Janet reunited, but they've had a few features in this already. So general wild antics, probably. I'd like to see the Vegeta..er Winsbury/Janet thing, I picture them torn between the wish to make out ... the lost time they could not pass together and the attempt to feign reciprocate indifference(hostility in front of so many witnesses.
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Post by Casey on Oct 19, 2009 23:47:35 GMT
At least the teachers will probably be able to light a fire; the cows will be too busy maintaining the laser grid around the house to be able to put the campfires out. It would be funny if Jack programmed/convinced/asked just one of the laser cows to follow the adults around "blaz"ing their attempts at making fire.
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Post by katybee on Oct 20, 2009 2:16:42 GMT
Bonus page: The tents are too small for Eglamore. That page would win at everything forever.
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 20, 2009 4:22:09 GMT
I always knew Bob's as wise man as he seemed to be. ;D b) What the bonus page will be about (credit goes to Joiz), Carefully balancing the wishful thinking and observed trends, i expect one of these three variants (aside of already mentioned ones): 1) Bob and Marcia joking about (and/or feeding more country wisdom to) Eglamore; 2) something about Jack (maybe Jack and Kat talking). Of course, the very fact that i expect them... Also, i suspect Tom will leave out the Unspoken Plan scenes just to tease us. c) Whether or not Tom will reveal to us what the problem he predicted people would have with this chapter was, and whether or not it turned out to be the case? He knew that someone always do. The Bonus page. Or, even more puzzling to me: how did every single student in the house agree to go along with this plan? Wouldn't there be at least four or five people who would balk at taking over a professor's house? Wouldn't there be one or two who would have some sort of strong moral opposition to all of this? After the only fire they got was here only because Annie with her blinker stone happened to be in the group? And after the "mysteriously disappearances" game? No. Way. Where did they get the ropes, though...? It's a countryside house... And for Bob the barbarian habit of nailing things to the living trees would not be an option even if he didn't knew better.
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Post by judgedeadd on Oct 20, 2009 5:58:10 GMT
As far as I know, the bonus pages are typically lighter in tone than the rest of the comic, so I doubt it'll be about Jack.
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Post by Aris Katsaris on Oct 20, 2009 8:16:20 GMT
No, when Tom includes things like that, they're usually well-defined. That looks just like another part of the sketchy outline of Bob's house. You're right - I've gone back over the archives, and though there've been more than one exclamation marks, they're all strong emphasized and within speech bubbles. Question marks have not required bubbles but they're also well emphasized. As you say - probably just part of the house.
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Post by theoldwolf on Oct 20, 2009 11:09:51 GMT
Whatever happens, however it's drawn, wherever it's published, this strip has me as a reader forever, worlds without end, amen.
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Post by Mylian on Oct 20, 2009 14:05:50 GMT
Bob and Marcia in panel 3 brought a big grin to my face! I have really enjoyed this chapter! Love that panel. They look more impressed than anything else.
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Post by rhoffman12 on Oct 20, 2009 18:20:16 GMT
As far as Tom's comment that "this is the chapter people are going to have a problem with" (or something to that effect), are we absolutely sure he was talking about *this* chapter?
(Twitter is having a fail-whale attack at the moment, so I can't verify this straight away) Was that tweet posted on a weekend? Tom has said on many occasions that he works about three months ahead, which in comic-time comes to about a chapter.
I ask because I feel like we have to be getting close to the end of the GC school year, and therefore (I would assume?) the end of the second book, so it might be super-exciting-but-also-dramatic-cliff-hanger-time.
This would also make sense to me in the context of Tom's more recent tweet "I am very excited by the chapter I am currently working on.", which could possibly be him working on the resolution to all the trouble an consternation he is going to cause us!
That would be my guess, at least. I don't think there was anything objectionable enough in this chapter to explain his comment.
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Post by Ulysses on Oct 20, 2009 18:42:49 GMT
He confirmed that he was definitely talking about this chapter just finished and not the one he was drawing which we will see in 3 months time.
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Post by garlicgreens on Oct 20, 2009 18:44:45 GMT
Oh, the chapter people are gonna have a problem with is the current one. Starts properly tomorrow!11:36 AM Aug 2nd from twidroid
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Post by Casey on Oct 20, 2009 19:02:59 GMT
Well I liked the chapter. I think most people did, from the sounds of things. No one that I've heard, so far, has had a problem with the chapter. (Though to be honest I haven't read the on-page comments from Monday yet.)
A few people had disagreements about each other's interpretations of the content of the chapter, but I don't think anyone greatly disliked or had a problem with the chapter itself. I thought it was pretty, well drawn, dramatic, and surprising. *shrug*
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Post by rhoffman12 on Oct 20, 2009 19:22:04 GMT
He confirmed that he was definitely talking about this chapter just finished and not the one he was drawing which we will see in 3 months time. Thanks, guess I missed that. Or forgot, I suppose it's been a little while. Yeah, there was some intense discussion, but I don't think there were any real problems with this chapter. I guess he just underestimated how grown up and mature the internet can be, engaging in lively but civil discourse concerning topics of mutual interest. ;D EDIT: That or he was trolling all the people in the forums, letting us talk about it for a few months and wonder what we were missing.
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Post by Casey on Oct 20, 2009 19:28:06 GMT
Ah... well... just to check, I decided to look at the on-page comments. I think people tend to post things there that they wouldn't post here, since it's non-permanent and more anonymous.
There were some comments speaking negatively of the whole chapter. I had planned to post them here, but then I thought, why perpetuate negative opinions?
I don't regularly read the on-page comments so I didn't realize that they tend to be more negative there than we are here.
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Post by todd on Oct 20, 2009 22:23:14 GMT
I noticed them as well; the general negative opinion seemed to be that it was all just a teachers vs. students game (i.e., the kidnapped children were never in any real danger; it was all just a prank of the teachers) and wasn't developing the main plot (not entirely true; the Jack thread received some development, and we found out about what the Court does to the trees from the Wood, such as Robot's former arm).
I commented (though my remark hasn't shown up yet, and probably won't since the new page goes up tomorrow) that a lot of the most popular moments in the strip (the spacemonauts, City Face, Kat's enthusiasm for video games and other elements of pop culture, the Sullivan's John/Margo romance, Boxbot and Robox, etc.) didn't have much to do with the main plot either (at least, not so far as we know), though I don't know how significant that is.
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Post by spoonvonstup on Oct 20, 2009 23:08:24 GMT
(Twitter is having a fail-whale attack at the moment, so I can't verify this straight away) Was that tweet posted on a weekend? Tom has said on many occasions that he works about three months ahead, which in comic-time comes to about a chapter. I know that the answer is probably no, but are any of these GKC-relevant twitter-gems logged/noted anywhere else? I am behind the Great Firewall of China for a year or so, which of course means: no twitter.
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Post by wynne on Oct 21, 2009 1:38:45 GMT
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Post by zylar on Oct 21, 2009 4:48:28 GMT
I was really hoping that the adults dig their way past the laser cows. I duuno, it just seems like the perfect way in, better than throwing a small tree through the grid. :I
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Post by Casey on Oct 21, 2009 5:40:47 GMT
Wynne, I appreciate anyone who appreciates Tom Lehrer!
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Post by tyler on Oct 21, 2009 7:59:51 GMT
People get caught up in the major plot arcs, and that's what keeps them invested in the story.
It's like X-Files. Some of my friends would get upset, particularly later in the series, if an episode didn't address the Conspiracy and was a side-story.
Me, I like them all. Personally, it's nice to have one-shots that are largely unconnected to the overall arc. That way I can enjoy them out of sequence later or show them to people without worrying about backstory.
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