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Post by Mr Pitchfork on Mar 8, 2010 17:50:54 GMT
Wow, Mr Pitchfork. That didn't take long. He stares. Oh God he stares.
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Post by Uncle Putte on Mar 8, 2010 17:58:38 GMT
Hm. The after-effects of Zimmitis seem to persist. I wonder how long 'til he starts to phase over too.
... assuming he isn't, already.
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Post by Ulysses on Mar 8, 2010 17:59:02 GMT
Jack's looking particularly crazy today.
My guess is he's been irritating some older students so much that they've chased him round the school. They probably started it though, picked a fight with him because he looks so crazy or something, and he was looking for Annie when it happened.
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Post by rebecca on Mar 8, 2010 18:07:37 GMT
I hope we see Reynardine soon. It's been about three chapters since he's made an appearance (I think since the start of the camping chapter), Reynardine appeared in the Bonus Pages to both Chapter Twenty-four and Chapter Twenty-six (the latter just last Wednesday). I've seen those. I really meant seeing Reynardine as an active part of the storyline (sleeping Reynardine doesn't count, either).
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Post by nikita on Mar 8, 2010 18:34:50 GMT
Anyone with parkour (or ninja) skills wouldn't have fallen. Besides, what, no one else here has ever jumped down a set of 5 stairs? Quoted for truth.
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Post by Ulysses on Mar 8, 2010 18:51:08 GMT
I jumped down, like, 12 steps once.
Mind you, I did fall over at the bottom, so maybe that doesn't count.
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Post by warrl on Mar 8, 2010 20:11:31 GMT
Parkour skills, it looks like. Anyone with parkour (or ninja) skills wouldn't have fallen. However, someone who has insufficient parkour (or ninja) skills... (Actually, slipping like that while wearing gym shoes - I think the Brits call them "pumps"- is a pretty good trick.) Mad skillz? No. Bad skillz (as in, he's not yet very good at them)? Yes, I think so.
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Post by evilanagram on Mar 8, 2010 20:24:21 GMT
I like Jack here. Very nonchalant. "What? Oh, I'm just chillin' out on the floor. It's really cool down here. Naw, I'm not running from nobody. Just thought I'd go for a jog all leisurely-like. What? Of course I jumped the stairs. Everyone jumps the stairs. Didn't you know that?"
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Post by Ulysses on Mar 8, 2010 20:31:07 GMT
(Actually, slipping like that while wearing gym shoes - I think the Brits call them "pumps"- is a pretty good trick.) They look like normal trainers to me. I always thought pumps were what I call plimsolls.
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Post by Mr Pitchfork on Mar 8, 2010 21:20:14 GMT
Let's call them "[adjective] shoes" and let's call the machines that move water "pumps", to avoid confusion.
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Post by four on Mar 8, 2010 22:06:19 GMT
How long until he finally goes off the deep end? It doesn't look like it'll be much longer. Positively crazed smile, only he lacks the excuse of being a mythological trickster.
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Post by swordfish on Mar 8, 2010 22:09:25 GMT
Ouch. Anyone who wasn't as loony as Jack would be in some pain right about now.
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Post by xanbcoo on Mar 8, 2010 22:11:26 GMT
I love Kat's long hair.
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Post by evilanagram on Mar 8, 2010 23:01:22 GMT
Ouch. Anyone who wasn't as loony as Jack would be in some pain right about now. Not really. Falling without hurting yourself is a talent that's easy to learn. You just have to know how to land and how to roll. Jack seems to have landed primarily on the side of his torso in a baseball slide, which isn't bad. He might have banged his hip or elbow, but otherwise it shouldn't hurt that much.
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Post by wynne on Mar 9, 2010 0:29:25 GMT
Agreed xanbcoo, Kat's new 'do is pretty cool!
Poor Jack looks a little worse for wear there. Just look at those bags under his eyes! (I bet he's just acting so chill to impress Annie)
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Post by fuzzyone on Mar 9, 2010 4:16:48 GMT
I also notice that his coat is looking about as crisp, clean and fresh as the average Court wall...
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Mar 9, 2010 4:31:21 GMT
Heh, why does it seem like all the side characters have sleeping problems?
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Post by Max on Mar 9, 2010 4:46:03 GMT
So it sounds like he was running from something. But then he says "Ah, there you are," as if he were looking for them. Interesting.
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Post by johnwwells on Mar 9, 2010 5:26:56 GMT
It's possible that those bandages are from biting his nails down to the quick, in which case he's a lot more frightened than he pretends to be. Come to think of it, his blase response to Reynardine's wolf snarl (after his initial shock), could be because Rey was surprising, but not nearly as frightening as the things his new condition has shown to him.
Are his eyes getting more hollowed out with time? Is he going to turn into a second Zimmy?
There's also the possibility, of course, that this reckless behavior, possible self-injury, callousness, manipulativeness, and ability to switch emotional states on a dime means that he's turning into a psychopath - but that doesn't seem to be Zimmy's state.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 9, 2010 15:33:45 GMT
Here's yet another prancing lad. Spooky boys are all yours, girl! Parkour skills, it looks like. I almost envision a mad racing scene with Jack and S13. He's been practicing hurting people's feelings for ages now. More like "creeping people out". Because if it was teachers, surely Eglamore would be one of them The Court is big. Yeah, looks fine. Especially if there will be high-detailed panel anytime soon.
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Post by La Goon on Mar 9, 2010 16:24:43 GMT
Those bandages on Jack's fingers suddenly reminded me of a comic by Jacques Tardi. I'm not sure which one - it's been a couple of years since I read it.
Anyways - it features a police chief (or whatever the equivalent in France is) who has a cigar cutter in form of a miniature guillotine on his office desk. He also seams to have a tendency to cut his own fingers on it when he's under stress. It's not really clear whether this is purposeful self mutilation or his nerves causes him to be extremely clumsy, but in any case this causes him to get more and more bandages on his fingers during the course of the story, until at the end he has all his fingers and both thumbs bandaged ;D
I know it's rather off topic. I just thought I would share.
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Post by supasasson on Mar 9, 2010 20:01:36 GMT
I <3 Jack. My favourite character right this moment. I have to second that. He is creepy in the most wonderful way possible.
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Post by supasasson on Mar 9, 2010 20:20:48 GMT
Also, about all the business with the spiders, I don't know if some one pointed this out already, but on this page: www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=465 in panel 3 you see a spider hanging over a figure peeking out of the window behind kat. Jack, perhaps?
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 9, 2010 21:24:59 GMT
Poor Jack looks a little worse for wear there. Just look at those bags under his eyes! (I bet he's just acting so chill to impress Annie) Else he's just too nutty at this point to bother with showing discomfort. He seems like the type to become the raving madman. Perhaps Coyote will take him in to show him how to do crazy right.
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Post by Snes on Mar 9, 2010 23:40:44 GMT
Also, about all the business with the spiders, I don't know if some one pointed this out already, but on this page: www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=465 in panel 3 you see a spider hanging over a figure peeking out of the window behind kat. Jack, perhaps? I don't think Jack is a spider, even in Zimmingham. But spiders have always been an aspect of the weirdness Zimmy causes.
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Post by Ulysses on Mar 10, 2010 0:41:52 GMT
Those bandages on Jack's fingers suddenly reminded me of a comic by Jacques Tardi. I'm not sure which one - it's been a couple of years since I read it. They remind me of Spy Kids (bad Ulysses, terrible film, naughty to remember). But that was because he had warts from stressing or something. Who knows why Jack's got them. They could be in remembrance, like Chris Martin's plasters (bandaids)
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 10, 2010 1:54:05 GMT
The bandages on the fingers made me think of District 9, where Wikus wore bandages to hide that he was losing fingernails--the first symptom of his transformation. So Jack's turning into a spider!
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Post by Mr Pitchfork on Mar 10, 2010 7:46:40 GMT
The bandages are on odd places on his fingers, though. Not just covering his fingernails. Perhaps they're burns or cuts, perhaps he's been gnawing at his fingers, perhaps they're decoration. They strike me as burns, initially.
He could be absentmindedly toying with potentially dangerous things in chronic, calm fits of terror. Pens, stones, fire, knives...
EDIT: They could just be decoration. Right now Jack's pretty stylin'.
EDIT2: In what house do they have paper cut-outs for students?
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 10, 2010 8:04:48 GMT
EDIT2: In what house do they have paper cut-outs for students? Folio House.
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Post by Mr Pitchfork on Mar 10, 2010 8:30:46 GMT
Those guys are such jerks that they didn't even get mentioned by Tom.
They're also such jerks that the universe only shows their entirety if it absolutely has to (Annie and Kat overlap them slightly except when the drawings of people on them begin).
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