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Post by lovecraft1024 on Oct 2, 2010 0:33:09 GMT
I think she has misses three times. Look at the previous comic. Or perhaps you are counting differently than me.
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Post by chionophile on Oct 2, 2010 2:09:57 GMT
It looks to me like the strikes in 780 and 781 are the same one. One strike, not two or three. I find it unlikely that the two of them could dodge many attacks from Jeanne. Parley by herself maybe, but not if she has to protect Annie too.
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Post by blinkerstoned on Oct 2, 2010 2:57:57 GMT
Hm,since this didn't get much attention I guess I'll just repost it here.
It's a...video,set to the song Annan Waters by Kate Rusby.The video is,of course,related to the Annan Waters.
Enjoy!
Edit:I don't know how the hell the Flyff advert appeared -.-
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Post by christopher on Oct 2, 2010 3:17:18 GMT
Actually, a Rapier is a long bladed weapon, mostly for unarmoured dueling, which includes dirty tactics.
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Post by percival on Oct 2, 2010 3:57:58 GMT
All right, I'll admit it, I'm actively worried about Parley. Here's hoping Antimony can get them both blinked out of there before she's run through.
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Post by paxjax123 on Oct 2, 2010 4:37:17 GMT
I just noticed the whiteness in the corner. Is that Parley and Annie crossing back? Anyone else notice the background color changing from black to white as Annie reaches for the stone? I suspect that means a transition in scene is coming up next. dang it |
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Post by n3m0 on Oct 2, 2010 5:08:19 GMT
It's funny how people keep saying that Jeanne's over extended and off balance when she's a ghost and could probably fight while suspended upside down in the air. I just felt the panels so far conveyed a sense of movement and momentum. You're right, the ether doesn't follow the real world's rules. However, if Jeanne could move however she'd like, she wouldn't have missed twice, nor had the blinker kicked away when she overextended. Nor would Parley's training help, unless motion in the ether were some analogue of motion in the physical realm. Perhaps Jeanne moves that way because she wants to? I mean, if the blinker stone can have selective properties applied to it because the user wills it so (or whatever it was Rey said about it when explaining it to Kat), then this could be similar. --------------------------- I wonder if Jeanne is testing them. Why tell your story if you are going to just kill them? In the past Jeanne seemed rather sedate, floaty, for lack of a better word, and disinterested. Someone in one of the earlier threads mentioned that when Jeanne flicked her blade across Annie's cheek the first time they met that it was like poking a bug before deciding whether to squash it and I think this was a good way to explain how she acted before. However, now she is actively expressing emotion, talking, and stabbing. While Jeanne has probably had a rather lonely existence up until now, its likely that she didn't care about anything until being reminded of what she lost when she saw Parley's gleaming heart. The question then is, what did she intend to do with Annie before Parley showed up? We probably won't find out but the answer would be interesting for understanding her motives. I'm curious how Jeanne managed to communicate her story to the girls without televising her motives and intentions if she intended to kill Annie from the start. If seeing Parley's gleaming heart made her change her mind (she dropped her sword), then what purpose would attacking them serve now unless she is trying to push them away or test them? If the girls get away on Monday then I expect Annie and Parley might ask themselves the question if Jeanne let them get away. |
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Post by King Mir on Oct 2, 2010 6:07:28 GMT
As someone who has some limited fencing experience, I disagree. ... OTOH, that rapier (if I'm not mistaken) Jeanne is holding there does have a cutting edge, she doesn't need the point to at least hurt Parley (correct me, if I'm wrong, but Rapiers allow at least for some of the more dirty close quarters techniques that come along with swords). Hell, even bringing down the weapons hilt on the back of Parleys head could do her enough harm and that's not accounting for Jeanne being a ghost, which most likely isn't bound to laws of physics or limits of anatomy. Yes, Jeane could do damage with the edge, but not from that position. |
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Post by Casey on Oct 2, 2010 6:53:05 GMT
There's a lot of Armchair D'Artagnans on the internet, to be sure, and I've held my tongue, but SCA rapier combat is like my main, primary life pursuit, so I speak with a reasonable amount of authority on the subject when I say the following: IT'S A COMIC. Enjoy it and try not to overthink everything. Have a good day!  |
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Post by tyler on Oct 2, 2010 15:08:44 GMT
I actually wonder, and I try not to do much speculation anymore because there's like a wall of it so large it doesn't even stay in it's own thread anymore, but:
What are the chances that Jones took an interest in Parley as a medium for her sword skills as much as anything else with this sort of situation (perhaps this exact situation) in mind?
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 2, 2010 15:31:37 GMT
Well, from Annie's earlier, abortive conversation with Jones regarding Jeanne, it seems to be implied that Jones doesn't know much about Jeanne, seeing as she was erased from the Court's official records.
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Post by jayne on Oct 2, 2010 16:53:30 GMT
As I understand it, the students are all somewhat exceptional (or they wouldn't be here) and Jones seems to promote any exceptional activity because almost anything can be put to good use at the court. She wasn't sure what would happen if Annie became angry or when Smitty gave Parley a flower, but she wanted to assess the situation to see what would happen. If Kat's parents hadn't have supplied her with a robot lab, I wonder if Jones would have done something similar. |
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Post by camouflage on Oct 2, 2010 19:25:18 GMT
Aside from Jeannes possibilities concernign the sword...
What happens, if she just graps and holds on to Parley?
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Post by legion on Oct 2, 2010 19:40:11 GMT
Surprise hug!
Must resist urge to make lesbian related joke.
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Post by sgr on Oct 2, 2010 21:04:12 GMT
It looks to me like the lower left corner is a black rectangle, almost as if something's been covered up. Any ideas?
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Post by Casey on Oct 2, 2010 23:34:54 GMT
It looks to me like the lower left corner is a black rectangle, almost as if something's been covered up. Any ideas? You've a very good eye there, I didn't notice it. But when you pointed it out, I noticed the right edge has the same kind of effect as well. I think it's the lower right hand corner that is meant to appear as if it is jutting out... evidence probably that Annie is indeed returning to reality as indicated by the white light. |
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 3, 2010 1:09:30 GMT
Sort of equivalent to "Ah, a deft maneuver." , for those who may not have the entire comic memorized yet. This seems... highly coincidental.  BUT DOES TOM KNOW ALL THIS? Given his uncanny ability to twist anything to the hell and back at will, it's hardly relevant.  But remember that this is a comic read by children, and Tom has designed this comic for all audiences, so I don't believe any of the characters will die or be seriously injured for a long term period, although some cuts and bruises will probably insue. Where "for all audiences" doesn't equal "disney crapsaccharine". I'd thought some of previous scenes already demonstrated this... Possibly she'll become the boy her father predicted all those years ago. Jeanne's left knee is in the perfect position for a crotchshot, something every respectable lady is well trained in. I will not say. Anything.  I like the older sister vibe Parley has been giving towards Annie throughout this chapter. Yeah. I wonder if Annie i going to propose Parley to join this case and start from go and see a little clockwork cinema seance together. After they both recover from this one, of course. Nope, I mean this thing right here. It's just a fold of her sleeve. The cloth is flexible, and all that. Or her memory of the cloth, whatever. I think it is meant to show the motion her arm took as it was being kicked. because the sleeve moved up and stopped, but the lower part continued a bit. It's funny how people keep saying that Jeanne's over extended and off balance when she's a ghost and could probably fight while suspended upside down in the air. Yes. But she does it close to the way she did it while still alive and quite corporeal, so she seems to obey at least habits if not physics. Hmm, this may mean that being a warrior with good sense of dynamics in life severely cripples her as a ghost. While girls didn't notice they move in a wrong (for a corporeal body) way, just want to dodge. And that's why they weren't turned into cloud of etheric salad yet. It gives me great hope that Jeanne was able to recognize Parley's 'fine strike' That's a little of her true self shining through instead of blind rage. I wonder if Jeanne is testing them. ... The question then is, what did she intend to do with Annie before Parley showed up? We probably won't find out but the answer would be interesting for understanding her motives. Maybe a known and almost comfortable activity on its own returned her from flip-out somewhere closer to what she was in life?.. I've held my tongue, but SCA rapier combat is like my main, primary life pursuit, so I speak with a reasonable amount of authority on the subject when I say the following: IT'S A COMIC. Enjoy it and try not to overthink everything. I understand that English speakers don't have the luxury of jumping right into web-comics, so i've held my tongue. But as a space warfare theorist QuakeC programmer member of on-line mental first aid club ... nevermind... I should note that this being a comic doesn't somehow automatically mean the action happens in Blackhawk style schizo-verse. |
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Post by haggidubious on Oct 3, 2010 2:03:24 GMT
There's a lot of Armchair D'Artagnans on the internet, to be sure, and I've held my tongue, but SCA rapier combat is like my main, primary life pursuit, so I speak with a reasonable amount of authority on the subject when I say the following: IT'S A COMIC. Enjoy it and try not to overthink everything. Have a good day! Ah! Thank you...I guess that's the thing about seeing something that takes tenths of seconds in comic form...it allows OCD instant replay and blow by blow calls which are ultimately irrelavant, as I'm sure Jones would say. |
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Post by zesty on Oct 3, 2010 2:57:59 GMT
Registered to say this. Is it me, or does it seem like Parley has tremendous power in the etherium? I remember Coyote saying something about the cut on Annie's cheek being caused by something of great power, Jeanne. And Parley seems to be winning at the moment.
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Post by percival on Oct 3, 2010 4:18:21 GMT
Registered to say this. Is it me, or does it seem like Parley has tremendous power in the etherium? I remember Coyote saying something about the cut on Annie's cheek being caused by something of great power, Jeanne. And Parley seems to be winning at the moment. Maybe it has something to do with her gleaming heart? Either way, a powerful etheric presence would be expected of the court's next medium. |
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Post by percival on Oct 3, 2010 4:33:29 GMT
It looks to me like the lower left corner is a black rectangle, almost as if something's been covered up. Any ideas? You've a very good eye there, I didn't notice it. But when you pointed it out, I noticed the right edge has the same kind of effect as well. I think it's the lower right hand corner that is meant to appear as if it is jutting out... evidence probably that Annie is indeed returning to reality as indicated by the white light. Notice that Parley is not inside the part of the page that's jutting out. Now I'm even more concerned about her! |
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Post by tyler on Oct 3, 2010 4:33:29 GMT
While Jones claimed not to know much about Jeanne, that doesn't mean she was telling the truth.
Jones seems immanently practical. If it made things move the way she wanted them to if she witheld the truth, then I think she would.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 3, 2010 4:49:43 GMT
That's something I'm wondering myself. Much of the speculation on this board seems to take it for granted that Jones is trustworthy, but from the way she covered for Annie in "Spring Heeled, Part 2" we can see that Jones is very capable of lying when she needs to.
What assurance do we have that Jones' goals are in Annie's or the Court's best interest?
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Post by q3 on Oct 3, 2010 5:12:16 GMT
That's something I'm wondering myself. Much of the speculation on this board seems to take it for granted that Jones is trustworthy, but from the way she covered for Annie in "Spring Heeled, Part 2" we can see that Jones is very capable of lying when she needs to. What assurance do we have that Jones' goals are in Annie's or the Court's best interest? To be fair to Jones, she didn't necessarily lie - it's quite possible that she was using Annie to locate Jack, and no one said that Annie had to be aware of the plan. That said, we still have little idea of what her agenda is. Has it been speculated yet that Jones is what's left of Jeanne, apart from her anger and hate and her corpse? I can see Diego, in his darkening later years, using his talents to try to recreate Jeanne, but since he could only retrieve a small fragment of her spirit, all that he could make was a sort of golem. Even Jones could be ignorant of her true nature, since all of the records were destroyed. I kind of like that idea, even though it's rather implausible and I'm sure it's already been debunked... |
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Post by legion on Oct 3, 2010 6:31:51 GMT
Where "for all audiences" doesn't equal "disney crapsaccharine". I'd thought some of previous scenes already demonstrated this... Careful with that tvtropes lexicon; not that I am among those who mind its use here, but in tvtropes, "crapsaccharine" is about a setting that only looks nice and cute, but is actually dysfunctional and dark upon closer inspection (so generally the opposite of Disney). I should know it, I created this trope. |
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Post by tyler on Oct 3, 2010 16:48:25 GMT
I didn't necessarily mean to imply that Jones might be working against the Court, though.
I'm just thinking about what Annie's been dealing with, and it looks like being a medium for the Court is Serious Business. Jones may have said she didn't know much because she wanted Annie to do the work, to find out the information herself. It's a training thing, letting the student work for a thing rather than handing it to her.
I don't think Jones would have this particular scenario in mind, because it seems to have spiraled out of Annie's control and she's lucky Parley was there.
Well, as lucky as luck enters into it when Smitty shows up.
I'm just saying that Jones saying she doesn't know a thing is about as reliable as Coyote saying it. People in power don't have to tell you the truth.
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 3, 2010 17:32:47 GMT
Registered to say this. Is it me, or does it seem like Parley has tremendous power in the etherium? The first time she did anything was teleporting herself and four more people around... though admittedly with Smitty's help. I remember Coyote saying something about the cut on Annie's cheek being caused by something of great power, Jeanne. And Parley seems to be winning at the moment. She's not "winning" as in head-on confrontation, mostly dodging desperately. She succeed in a surprise attack, but probably couldn't do it twice. but in tvtropes, "crapsaccharine" is about a setting that only looks nice and cute, but is actually dysfunctional and dark upon closer inspection (so generally the opposite of Disney). I should know it, I created this trope. This still seems to be a perfect definition of the substance Zombie Mouse -Land is made of. But if you want darker and edgier "upon closer inspection" and don't see it there, look again in the context of "who and what publishes this?". Not that they're somehow outstanding in either regard, merely became archetypic to the point of umbrella term mostly by being the first, like Microsoft. ;D I'm just saying that Jones saying she doesn't know a thing is about as reliable as Coyote saying it. People in power don't have to tell you the truth. Or rather Jones saying anything. I wanted to compare them as well... in the context of her " Coyote is no liar. Therein lies the danger..." advice. |
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Post by xheralt on Oct 9, 2010 0:31:24 GMT
Parley knows kung fu!Nice page... This was a very good kick, fine enough to be officially added to the art of "Tai Kwon Leep". BOOT TO THE HAND. ;D |
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