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Post by Snes on Mar 19, 2010 6:58:12 GMT
[697]Tom's comments always provide such amazing insight into his work, don't you think?
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Post by Mr Pitchfork on Mar 19, 2010 7:02:37 GMT
I like Reynardine.
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Post by mudmaniac on Mar 19, 2010 7:22:16 GMT
Sometimes I wish I had the willpower to stay away from this site for at least a few weeks, so that i would be spared having to wait for the next exciting episode to be revealed.
For some reason that building always reminds me of a map in Battlefield 2142.
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Post by legion on Mar 19, 2010 7:25:29 GMT
Reynardine = nice guy ? Also, scenery porn!
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Post by edzepp on Mar 19, 2010 7:44:24 GMT
Taking into consideration the various ways Tom has drawn her over the years, It think panel 5 Annie is my favorite version yet. She just looks lovely.
Yeah, I'm a sucker for ponytails. Point still stands though.
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Post by jimbobbowilly on Mar 19, 2010 8:21:09 GMT
Single bound?
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Post by legion on Mar 19, 2010 10:11:08 GMT
Though, I hope this page is not a foreshadowing of Kat passing to the Dark Side D:
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Post by Per on Mar 19, 2010 10:49:32 GMT
Maybe if Annie looked at etheric Kat she'd see little robots crawling over her.
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Post by optern on Mar 19, 2010 11:24:38 GMT
I always assumed Annie would be the one to turn from the Court. It would be much more interesting to me if it were Kat.
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Post by Tipsy Clurichaun on Mar 19, 2010 11:40:41 GMT
Kat becoming cynical is a terrifying prospect, I hope Renardine is right.
Speaking of Renardine: this would be an opportunity for Annie to tell him about Coyote's standing invitation. Unless of course she's decided he'd rather not know.
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Post by todd on Mar 19, 2010 12:19:06 GMT
If Kat does stay that way for a long time, I suspect that the tone of the webcomic will become much more somber; many of the lighter moments are Kat pursuing the interests of a regular middle school-aged child. (Of course, the mere revelation of the dark secret behind Gunnerkrigg's founding would have done a lot to change the mood, even without the consequences to Kat's characterization.)
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Post by Afalstein on Mar 19, 2010 13:09:07 GMT
Interesting. So it was the Jeanne thing.
This will probably result in an argument between Annie and Kat later, probably during some period where Kat shows blatant uncaring toward someone at the court. Reynardine's comment implies that Kat will probably become rather dark, but eventually will pull through.
I think... that may be the first positive thing Reynardine's said to Annie about Kat.
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Post by linnabean on Mar 19, 2010 13:19:54 GMT
I love Reynardine.
I think its normal for Kat to go trough a period of bitterness, but, like Reynardine said, she will pull through it, especially if she and Annie talk about it. I think it would be good for the two girls to talk about what they saw of the court's founding, since they are both having problems (and who wouldn't!?) facing it.
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Post by emjoseph on Mar 19, 2010 15:17:14 GMT
This will probably result in an argument between Annie and Kat later, probably during some period where Kat shows blatant uncaring toward someone at the court. Reynardine's comment implies that Kat will probably become rather dark, but eventually will pull through. I think... that may be the first positive thing Reynardine's said to Annie about Kat. I don't think that it will quite cause an argument between the two; after all, Annie was quite shaken as well, and needed to get away from the Court. Since Kat doesn't really have that option, and has the added disadvantage of living in the Court her whole life, she needed to deal with it in her own manner. As for Rey and Kat, I've always thought that he was rather fond of her! Just look at their exchange in the old lab. Did I miss something between the two? (entirely possible, I've never been all that good at literary analysis and looking behind the obvious)
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Post by Nakanja on Mar 19, 2010 15:29:43 GMT
I'm guessing the situation left Kat wanting to do this but everyone involved is dead and gone, except for Jeanne who's dead but trapped in the ravine, and there's nothing Kat can do about it for now. I think what would make her happier is once she and Annie have a plan to help Jeanne somehow.
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Post by haggidubious on Mar 19, 2010 15:33:46 GMT
That wolf is a good guy, and I too hope he's right...but it's impossible to deny that a bitter, destructive Kat would be fascinating and terrible.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 19, 2010 17:45:51 GMT
Maybe if Annie looked at etheric Kat she'd see little robots crawling over her. What type of robots it would be? (i know, i know, cheap... but still funny) Kat becoming cynical is a terrifying prospect, I hope Renardine is right. There's a reason that genre is called cyber punk. Also, one doesn't exclude another. Speaking of Renardine: this would be an opportunity for Annie to tell him about Coyote's standing invitation. Unless of course she's decided he'd rather not know. Unless she told him already.
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Post by avurai on Mar 19, 2010 18:54:57 GMT
Tom revealed on his formspring page that Annie already brought it up. Off screen. Which is quite disappointing.
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Post by avurai on Mar 19, 2010 18:59:08 GMT
I think the old Kat is still in there and I bet that even before she returns to her old self (if she does) her lighthearted sense of humor will resurface a bit every so often. Just in a less cheery way.
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Post by Mishmash on Mar 19, 2010 18:59:21 GMT
I love the friendship between Annie and Reynardine. Their interaction is once again written beautifully on this page.
Drawing those buildings must have taken forever, I am impressed!
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Post by strangethoughts on Mar 19, 2010 19:22:50 GMT
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Post by linnabean on Mar 19, 2010 20:36:24 GMT
How fun would it be to ride on the back of a huge wolf. so cool!
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Post by penguinfactory on Mar 19, 2010 20:36:47 GMT
This could just be a temporary thing, but I've always had anasty feeling some sort of wedge was eventually going to be driven between Kat and Annie, possibly by one of them undergoing a negative personality change. I'm not saying we're seeing the start of that here, but if we are (and I think Tom has proven at this point that he never brings something up if he isn't going somewhere with it) I never expected Kat to be the one to take a turn to the dark side. Man, if that actually happens its going to be an emotional punch in the gut
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Post by linnabean on Mar 19, 2010 20:38:35 GMT
that.... would be so sad. Kat and Annie balance each other so well! Man, if that actually happens its going to be an emotional punch in the gut truer words have never been spoken.
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Post by todd on Mar 19, 2010 22:22:40 GMT
I think that someone (most likely Annie) should point out to Kat that while Jeanne's sacrifice was wrong, the people responsible for it - the Founders - are no longer living in the Court, and that since they did not pass down the knowledge of what they had done to their successors (indeed, taking the drastic step of erasing all mention of Jeanne from the Court's records), the current faculty and administration know nothing about Jeanne's murder, and certainly had no part in it. (And there might be the dubious comfort that Diego, at least, was troubled by the deed in his conscience for the rest of his life - not enough to repent of it, but enough to be frantically engaged in self-justification on his deathbed. We don't know whether the other Founders, such as Sir Young, were similarly troubled - of course, they didn't have the personal motives in choosing Jeanne that Diego did.) And I don't think that the current faculty would stoop to such depths.
Let's hope that we don't get a scene like this one between Annie and Kat:
ANNIE: But the people responsible for Jeanne's death have been dead for years now.
KAT: Then their descendants shall pay! I will have blood for blood!
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 20, 2010 3:50:32 GMT
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Post by avurai on Mar 20, 2010 7:23:20 GMT
I don’t think the fact that it happened many years ago will be of any consolation. The fact that she lives in a place where something that awful was done, will haunt her forever. The fact that there are ghosts everywhere makes it even worse.
The fact that an organization would be willing to murder a young woman in cold blood has probably changed her view of humanity. The fact that a man would support the sentencing of the person whom he was once pining for, to death, for has probably shattered her view of love. Her mindset, her school, her home have all been violated and poisoned. This’ll probably be her hour of weeping and curling up in a ball, petrified, rather than an hour of crying.
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Post by TBeholder on Mar 20, 2010 9:59:32 GMT
Let's hope that we don't get a scene like this one between Annie and Kat: ANNIE: But the people responsible for Jeanne's death have been dead for years now. KAT: Then their descendants shall pay! I will have blood for blood! Well, Kat is hereditary Court-ie herself. Which probably doesn't rise her mood in the current situation. Speaking of crazy dialogs - Reynardine: Really, must we deal with the little creep? Annie: I noticed Kat was about to hit on Jack before he became like that! Let's save him for Kat! Reynardine: <sighhhh> I never expected Kat to be the one to take a turn to the dark side. Man, if that actually happens its going to be an emotional punch in the gut Yeah, before this we wouldn't think Kat can just bring down a site with comments about her she doesn't like. ;D
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Post by todd on Mar 20, 2010 10:42:13 GMT
For that matter, the revelation that the Court established its safety from Gillitie Wood by Jeanne's murder raises another uneasy possibility. Throughout legend, whenever a city or kingdom owes its foundation to some dark act (the Norse gods cheating the giant who built the walls of Asgard of his pay, King Arthur's birth brought about by Uther Pendragon's lustful pursuit of Igraine, etc.), that city comes to a bad end. Could Jeanne's murder, while providing an immediate protection for the Court from the inhabitants of the Wood, ultimately ensure a cataclysmic downfall for it on the scale of Ragnarok or Camlann? (Unless, that is, Annie is able to use her medium talents to secure a lasting peace between Gunnerkrigg and Gillitie - with a tone, perhaps, of "If the Founders had taken this route, they wouldn't have thought they needed to protect themselves by killing Jeanne.")
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Post by La Goon on Mar 20, 2010 11:32:14 GMT
I noticed that Reynardine sometimes ends sentences with "yes?" where "right?" would be more typical for most people. Is this considered to be an old-fashioned/archaic use of words, or is it more of a "foreigner speaking English" trait?
Edit: Just made my question a bit more clear
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