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Post by bgb16999 on Feb 1, 2018 18:14:13 GMT
Also, is that the most violent page of the comic yet? We've seen Robot bodies being destroyed and sliced in half, but no living beings as far as I remember. Arguably, the page where Smitty was perforated could be considered more violent, since we know the fellow. That being said, he didn't die in the end, so it had less dire consequences than this page. What about Mort being bombed to death?
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Post by bgb16999 on Jan 21, 2018 6:32:11 GMT
Kat also isn't in: Not Very Scary Terror Castle of the Jupiter Moon Martians Spring Heeled, Part 2 Red Gets a Name Annie and the Fire Meetings and Re-Meetings A Big Day! Red's Friend Gets a Name Too, I Suppose Kat does appear in Annie and the Fire. Also, the back of Kat's head appears in Red's Friend Gets A Name Too I suppose. Otherwise, thanks, Kat is missing a lot more than I thought. Nitpick: I don't think I would call the page after "Ties" a bonus page--it's a treatise. Which is different, because a bonus page usually has something to do with the preceding chapter, but a treatise doesn't (and always has Kat and Annie featured prominently, of course). Another way to tell the difference (which I just noticed): bonus pages have the Antimony symbol at the bottom right, while treatises don't. Why it matters here: I think saying that Annie and Kat appear in the "Ties" bonus page implies that they are involved in the chapter somehow, whereas "Ties" is actually the only chapter where neither of them is involved at all. I was on the fence about whether to count the treatise page as a bonus page. I think you've presented a pretty good argument for not counting it as part of Ties. So, I changed it.
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Post by bgb16999 on Jan 20, 2018 0:09:17 GMT
I wanted to compile a list of all the chapters in which at least one of the two main characters are absent. But it's been awhile since I read through the entire archives instead of just parts of it, and I don't have a perfect memory, so this list is incomplete. I'd appreciate y'all's help filling in. Chapters in which Kat does not appear: 1: The Shadow and the Robot 4: Not Very Scary 22: Ties 23: Terror Castle of the Jupiter Moon Martians 26: The Old Dog's Tricks
28: Spring Heeled, Part 2 36: Red Gets a Name 39: The Great Secret
48: Tall Tales 54: Meetings and Re-Meetings 55: The Breakout 58: A Big Day 68: Neither 72: Perspective 79: Find Yourself 81: The Lake Water 90: Coyote Knew This Would Happen 93: Devil's Due
Chapters in which Kat appears only in the bonus page(s):40: The Stone75: She Gave Us An Ocean Chapters in which Annie does not appear:
22: Ties 56: New Data 75: She Gave Us An Ocean Chapters in which Annie appears only in the bonus page(s):
I don't think there were any.
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Post by bgb16999 on Jan 15, 2018 22:58:33 GMT
Coyote has transported Paz into the world of A Video Game, and now she is trapped there.
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Post by bgb16999 on Jan 15, 2018 2:16:05 GMT
I only realized after reading the old page threads that this guy is the same person as this guy (and this guy). Never occurred to me that Mort's "case worker" would be the same guy who brought him to the ROTD in the first place... Huh, I had completely missed that one too.
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Post by bgb16999 on Dec 24, 2017 5:05:46 GMT
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Post by bgb16999 on Dec 14, 2017 5:29:26 GMT
Annie is now possessed by Coyote, as part of a deal she made with him to try getting out of her deal with the psychopomps. Coyote finds the current situation amusing. There is no other possible explanation.
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Post by bgb16999 on Nov 22, 2017 17:06:53 GMT
Hmm, this page makes me curious if Reynard has Potterverse-elf-style powers. More specifically, if Kat tells Rey not to forget something, is he suddenly able to remember something that he wouldn't otherwise be able to remember? Is there anything else that he couldn't do before that he would be capable of doing if Kat explicitly told him to? Well, there was that instance where he learned that what Annie had told him was the truth by not being able to contradict it afterwards, since he can only tell the truth to his master/mistress. Huh, that is not how I had interpreted that scene, but now that you say it it does make sense. I had thought that Annie meant something like "search your feelings, you know it to be true." Then, when Reynard realized she was telling the truth (or at least suspected it), he wasn't able to yell "noooo! That's impossible!" because he knew it would be a lie.
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Post by bgb16999 on Nov 22, 2017 17:03:18 GMT
Coyote: THIS REALLY IS A BIG DAY!
Coyote: Today, daughter of the forest, Annie, will be confront her father! MAYBE!
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Post by bgb16999 on Nov 17, 2017 19:35:24 GMT
Hmm, this page makes me curious if Reynard has Potterverse-elf-style powers. More specifically, if Kat tells Rey not to forget something, is he suddenly able to remember something that he wouldn't otherwise be able to remember? Is there anything else that he couldn't do before that he would be capable of doing if Kat explicitly told him to?
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Post by bgb16999 on Nov 17, 2017 15:52:26 GMT
I suddenly realized that I miss Renard. We haven't seen him since, like, chapter 57... It was 1.5 years ago. TOM more RENARD PLS I don’t think Reynard would be happy to see YOU, Anthony.
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Post by bgb16999 on Nov 4, 2017 3:24:32 GMT
So, I've been thinking...
I actually think this chapter works better if you think of the story as being filtered through Annie's mind. Even though it is Anja telling the story, we may be seeing Annie's understanding of Anja's story.
I'm thinking of myself at Annie's age. Back then, I didn't really have any conception of what romantic love was, beyond the rather poor depictions I had seen in fiction. At the end of the previous chapter, Annie was told that a seemingly inexplicable series of events (that her mother, a seemingly kind and decent person, literally died on account of someone who, as far as Annie has seen, is an irredeemable monster) can be explained by simply saying "they were in love."
In this chapter, Anja attempts to explain to Annie how Surma and Anthony fell in love. But romantic love isn't really something that can easily be explained second- or third-hand. So Annie hears the events that Anja describes, but she doesn't feel the connection between her parents that presumably occurred, and so we end up with what seems like an underwhelming backstory.
I don't know if that's what was intended, but for me, at least, it makes more sense if I suppose that what we just saw was all Annie's perception, not Anja's (or Surma's) unvarnished narrative.
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Post by bgb16999 on Aug 18, 2017 21:38:04 GMT
Surma being eeked out by bugs feels off to me. Shouldn’t she have gotten used to them in the forest?
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Post by bgb16999 on Jul 31, 2017 15:04:27 GMT
Is this the first we've heard of Anja's parents? I may need to reread Ties again.
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Post by bgb16999 on Jul 14, 2017 18:43:33 GMT
Annie: REYNARD! You have to explain to Kat how terrible a person my dad is! Kat: No, see, he's totally different when no one else is around. You have to believe me! Rey: I believe you, Kat. Annie: What? No, Rey, don't believe anything she says! Rey: I have to, didn't you hear? Annie: Gah, fine, let's go see Ysengrin.
ANNIE and KAT leave and enter the forest.
Ys: Annie is totally right, Anthony Carver is a terrible creature. Annie: See, Kat, I told you so.
COYOTE climbs out from under the stage.
Coyote: He he, I see Fire Head Girl is cocky today. Kat: Coyote, wouldn't it be more interesting if Anthony was actually completely different when Annie wasn't around? Coyote: Hmm, yes yes, it would be more entertaining. Hence, I pronounce that FIRE HEAD GIRL IS WRONG!
COYOTE vanishes into the trees. ANTHONY then enters from stage right.
Annie: What? Dad, you aren't supposed to be in the forest at all! Anthony: Well, I wasn't until today. But then I remembered, I AM ALSO COYOTE! Annie: Nooooooooooooo!
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Post by bgb16999 on Jul 8, 2017 22:25:55 GMT
The Shadow Men put me in mind of a different secret organization... (The Volunteer Fairy Detectives?) Oh my Coyote, I love you. Now it makes sense that Annie is surprised: that's not Anthony, it's an evil actor in disguise, and Annie can see right through the disguise but everyone else is fooled.
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Post by bgb16999 on Jul 7, 2017 20:08:07 GMT
I don't think Annie is surprised to see Anthony. If a bunch of time has passed, she should know they were working together. She might be surprised to hear Anthony laugh (if he hasn't done so in the months that were skipped). Or, she might be able to see Robot or whatever they are working on, and be impressed by the progress they've made since she last visited Kat's workshop. Or maybe she's just surprised by Kat's haircut. Unless the time skip has been a lot shorter than everyone seems to the no, I expect Annie already knew that Tony was helping Kat.
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Post by bgb16999 on Jul 7, 2017 13:10:06 GMT
"So since you're here, and you are now in on Kat's Super Secret Robot Plan, why don't you tell us about the Omega Device?" ...is what I'd probably say in Annie's place. Or, what I'd try to say, at least, I might not be able to get any words to come out at all.
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Post by bgb16999 on Jul 6, 2017 23:43:04 GMT
For that matter, it could be Lindsey just as easily as Bud. Or both, for that matter.
I notice Reynard is absent from the poll, despite the fact that he obviously has some experience with moving between bodies. However, it would make absolutely no sense for Rey to have asked Julliette first, instead of just going straight to Kat, considering that Rey would need Kat's permission to get involved with anything big, even if it wasn't specifically her work that he wanted to get involved with. (That said, it's entirely possible Rey will end up helping Kat and whoever the mystery colleague is).
My bet is on Anthony as the single most likely person, with Kat's parents collectively as another contender. Brinnie is my wild card, just because we haven't seen her outside a flashback and I want to see her at some point.
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Post by bgb16999 on Jul 3, 2017 18:26:17 GMT
I'm guessing that it is a robot technician we already know: either Anthony, Donald, or Anja. The wording seems to suggest it's just one person, and it would seem weird for it to be just Donald or just Anja, without the other one at least knowing. I suppose it's possible that they've only told one of Kat's parents, who then told the other one. Or it could be Anthony. Going out further on a limb, it could also be someone who up until now has not been seen outside of flashbacks: Brinnie. Given her connection to the gods, she might have a better idea of how to create organic life than anyone else in the Court. But, then, she may also see less of an incentive to help Kat.
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Post by bgb16999 on May 26, 2017 16:53:16 GMT
Ah, I remember the days when seeing my family felt like that.
Maybe now we can learn more about the Omega Device. Heck, maybe we can have a repeat of the beginning of The Stone, where Annie starts by asking about the Omega Device.
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Post by bgb16999 on May 8, 2017 7:02:02 GMT
Dangit, I missed making the thread by a few seconds:P Ah well, still a good page. Red articulates what I'd been saying on various venues for awhile now, but that Annie wasn't able to say clearly when she was talking to Red.
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Post by bgb16999 on Apr 28, 2017 12:45:52 GMT
Finally, I hope Kat will be the one to remind Annie how wildly inaccurate Red's accusations were.
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Post by bgb16999 on Apr 7, 2017 13:07:13 GMT
A body made of wood? That would make Ysendrin A WITCH!! Does Ysendrin weigh the same as a duck?
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Post by bgb16999 on Mar 26, 2017 16:55:27 GMT
I just realized, this forum completely breaks my suspension of disbelief. I was looking for statistics on what fraction of the population of the world reads Gunnerkrigg Court, and, while it is difficult to pin down exactly, it is far less than 3% of the world's population. Yet, somehow, it seems like everyone on this forum reads Gunnerkrigg Court? How is that possible? It utterly shatters my suspension of disbelief that we could have a community in which more than 3% of people read Gunnerkrigg Court. To maintain my arbitrary standards for believability, no internet forum may be permitted to have more than 3% of users who have read Gunnerkrigg Court!
Of course, in the real world, people have some self-selection as to who they interact with. I have no interest in remaining friends with someone who can't or won't accept me for who I am. It's also true that MOGAI/LTBTQAIP+/Queer people are more likely to be accepting of other queer people. As a result, a "randomly selected" person in my social circle is more likely to be MOGAI/LTBTQAIP+/Queer than a randomly selected person in the global population of humans. That's not a coincidence--it's because humans have a tendency to self-segregate into groups they are more comfortable with.
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Post by bgb16999 on Feb 25, 2017 18:05:51 GMT
Haven't noticed any issues.
You might also want to try clearing your browser's cache.
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Post by bgb16999 on Feb 22, 2017 13:02:49 GMT
I agree with the OP, this could be worse! Can a fairy be unhappy with the name she's given? Is Ayilu gay for Red? Will there be more of Annie's chaste shrugging at romantic fools failing to sensibly discuss their feelings? Is Annie actually asexual or what? Will "love makes you act in strange ways" be invoked? So many questions! Annie seems aromantic asexual to me, at least.
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Post by bgb16999 on Feb 20, 2017 12:57:18 GMT
Maybe she's trying to get all her insults out before Blue gets a name and no longer has to be referred to with insults?
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Post by bgb16999 on Feb 15, 2017 13:05:25 GMT
Whelp, this page confirms something that wasn't obvious before: Faries can name each other. Hence, they didn't really need to ask Annie to name them.
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Post by bgb16999 on Feb 14, 2017 3:13:38 GMT
Her name will be Gary Oak.
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