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Post by TBeholder on Feb 13, 2010 0:42:03 GMT
>_o Ow, Coyote gets more and more dizzying with each page. Now here's something between his normal head and those stripes. It seems that i guessed right about the distorted view. Though whether it's purely geometrical or mixed with usual ethereal motion blur stretch is another question. Now let's have you guys start speculating on how this will turn into an important plot element later in the story. Don't chum the waters. (does a barrel roll and slightly opens the mouth) Her Herbalism skill is at 1. Takes a few tries to pick that flower Better Herbalism than Bear Lore! Either that, or it's magicked up so much it almost glows in the normal sight. What with it being a part of Rey's "sarcophagus"... Yeah, but those are all court plants. This chapter has made it clear that anything from the court, organic or not, appears gray in the ether. The stub probably doesn't count at all, but the last one is a dryad's terminal. My theory: in ether-sight everything is gray unless it contains magic active right now. Look: Anja, including her amulet (!) is gray, but a currently used blinker isn't; even Renard, except when he acts as a spirit. Tom said that she's Brynhildr and the old man is Odin. Whether or not Odin is Brynhildr's father depends on which version of the story one is following. ...and whether or not Odin taught her directly is a guess anyway. Though very plausible one.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 13, 2010 0:44:23 GMT
This is what I have been thinking about alot today. You guys have heard me before, praising Tom on his ability to design well-flowing pages without panels. What he does today, though, is mix the style of panel-less pages and panels together, which serves to communicate what's going on here SO WELL. So, whenever Annie enters the etherium, Tom draws the experience with no panels. This has been true since the first time Annie has done so. ( here and here!) Actions taking place in the physical world are bound in panels. So, today, when coyote asks annie to pick the flower, this flower is presented to us within a panel! Annie, outside of a panel and thus in the etherium, reaches into a panel ( into the physical world) to show us she cannot touch it. When she is in the etherium, she cannot interact with things in the physical world. This simple in-panel/out-of-panel interaction tells us so much! You're right. That is very cool. Further support of your idea: The colors on the flower and grass are flat, lacking whatever coloring technique Tom applied to make the Etherium look colored-pencil-ish. Regarding the passage of time, the visual language for conveying that has evolved over the course of the story. In chapter 4, [url= there is a series of silent scenery panels, shrinking before the scene cut, and a matching set of panels on the following page, after the scene cut. Sort of the comicbook equivalent of a fade to black and then a fade from black. Ch 5 and ch 6 use the shrinking panels to indicate passing time, without the fade from black on the pages after. And ch 11 arranges the shrinking panels vertically, so they fit in the space of a single normal panel. By ch 14, it's been compressed to the point that a solitary, dialogue-free scenery panel at the end of a page signals a new scene on the next page.
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Post by thor on Feb 13, 2010 5:01:49 GMT
And after the lessons on looking at gods and flower plucking, Coyote will teach Annie how to drive a stick, and if there's time after that, parallel parking.
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Post by judgedeadd on Feb 13, 2010 7:39:09 GMT
picking flowers with your BRAIN! Ewww. Messy.
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Post by tsthogua on Feb 13, 2010 9:40:55 GMT
cue the Vincent Schiavelli subway "Ghost" scene, heh.
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Post by TBeholder on Feb 13, 2010 14:28:01 GMT
And after the lessons on looking at gods and flower plucking, Coyote will Ah, yes. If a god tells you to go pick that flower... It's a Planescape joke, right?..
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Post by La Goon on Feb 13, 2010 17:18:57 GMT
Uh! I think I may have identified the flower. It looks like a Primrose. There's quite a bunch of folklore around Primroses. Broken heart, eh? That sounds somewhat familiar to GC... Primroses in folklore seams to mainly be connected to fairies. Maybe we'll see more of those in this chapter? Could this be what Coyote was reminded of (because of Annie's wound)? edit: I found two different pages with the same info - just the first one I found was the least well arranged - which confused me a bit and led me to edit this post a ton of times. I think I'm done now, though
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