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Post by TBeholder on Jan 13, 2014 14:44:02 GMT
Thank you Mort. For clarification. Ahh, the English and their need to give everything a department or bureau. To keep with this theme-of-the-day - "From the moment the invaders arrived, seen rice paper, gemstone stamps and heard prayers to Celestial Bureaucracy, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all Chinese weapons and devices had failed..." Decontamination is everyone's responsibility! |
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Post by fwip on Jan 13, 2014 15:11:48 GMT
I think that Annie is laughing and giving a 'you're kidding me, right?" stare. To me, it doesn't look weird at all.
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Post by aaroncampbell on Jan 13, 2014 15:49:20 GMT
I think it was said that Moort was quite young. What "young" means in ghost terms is anyone's guess. Still, the thought alone... daaamn. Wild wild speculation here, but... Green guy = forest spirit, right ? The life expectancy for a tree comes from a hundred year to millenaries for some species, so... Young, hey...  Could be 100 years old and looking 20, and a "recent" death some 80~100 years ago... *excited* While anything's possible........the fact that Tom brought Mort in so suddenly after images of the arrow and discussion of the whole situation smacks to me of crimson kipper. I doubt Mort's origins will be given away quite so easily. Now it may be that he was a contemporary of Jeanne's; perhaps it took Diego more than one revision to refine the etheric technology in the arrow, and Mort was one of the test subjects? That would make this page even darker than it already is, and explain why Mort is bound to that general location rather than the ravine. For that matter, it would explain a bit more the whole Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori engraving. |
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Post by Angry Individual on Jan 13, 2014 16:00:42 GMT
I feel like Mort just happened to die in an accident rather than being a sacrificial lamb toward the Court's plans.
Of course, I feel like this will be turned upside down and I'll feel silly later for thinking such mundane thoughts.
Also, one thing I find interesting is that Mort isn't really sure if the ROTD really gave him his job or not. Perhaps it is the court who's forcing him to stay there against his knowledge, or if there's some higher power working it so Mort is stuck there as a "job".
If it was a true job, I wonder what Mort would be paid with?
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Post by warrl on Jan 13, 2014 16:04:30 GMT
I wonder if they pronounce ROTD as "Arr Oh Tee Dee" or as "rotted". Well, for a couple years in my younger days I was involved with an organization known as "afrot-see". Is it just me or does Annie have a disturbing tendency to this unexplainable excitement only in situations related to death, blood, fight and killing? It's as if, from the moment she here's the "Realm of the Dead" she was extremely excited to go and put some people there. I don't know about "go and put some people there" but really, since she was about four years old, when someone was dying she got to meet really interesting-looking people who would take time to talk to her and teach her things. She got to walk with them and occasionally do things with or for them. Naturally she's excited. Also, she may not be aware of tropes per se, but she knows her place in them. |
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Post by eyemyself on Jan 13, 2014 16:36:27 GMT
While the idea of Mort being green dude is intriguing his personality seems a bit juvenile to have attracted and held the interest of Jeanne. Also, cannon references describe the pair as deeply, deeply in love and nothing in the text indicates Mort has loved and lost.
I find the idea that Mort might have been an early test-subject of Diego's more plausible. Most plausible, I think, is that something unexpected and interesting will happen.
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Post by Ophel on Jan 13, 2014 16:43:54 GMT
I think that Annie is laughing and giving a 'you're kidding me, right?" stare. To me, it doesn't look weird at all. Maybe her nightmare fetishistic tendencies are beginning to develop? Or surface? |
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Post by eyemyself on Jan 13, 2014 16:49:08 GMT
I think that Annie is laughing and giving a 'you're kidding me, right?" stare. To me, it doesn't look weird at all. Maybe her nightmare fetishistic tendencies are beginning to develop? Or surface? Or maybe she has a warped sense of humor. |
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Post by keef on Jan 13, 2014 20:02:35 GMT
Maybe Mort IS the green guy ? And doesn't exactly remember the circumstances of his death ?... , nice thought. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Jan 13, 2014 20:06:12 GMT
So Tom's saying we're never going to find out what originally killed Mort?
I am somewhat disappointed.
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Post by keef on Jan 13, 2014 20:13:50 GMT
So Tom's saying we're never going to find out what originally killed Mort? I am somewhat disappointed. |
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Post by Intelligence on Jan 13, 2014 20:46:46 GMT
I'm wondering, what other "jobs" would be available for ghosts?
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Post by Purgatorius on Jan 13, 2014 20:59:28 GMT
If this page was ever translated to swedish:
From panel 3
Annie: "Vem gav dig ditt jobb?"
Mort: "Killarna på DR, antar jag..."
Annie: "DR?"
Mort: "Det står för... De Dödas Rike!"
Kat: "Borde det inte vara 'DDR' i så fall?"
Mort: "De föredrar 'DR'"
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Post by Señor Goose on Jan 13, 2014 21:42:56 GMT
If this page was ever translated to swedish: From panel 3 Annie: "Vem gav dig ditt jobb?" Mort: "Killarna på DR, antar jag..." Annie: "DR?" Mort: "Det står för... De Dödas Rike!" Kat: "Borde det inte vara 'DDR' i så fall?" Mort: "De föredrar 'DR'" Such a fascinating language. |
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Post by warrl on Jan 13, 2014 22:01:43 GMT
If this page was ever translated to swedish: From panel 3 Annie: "Vem gav dig ditt jobb?" Mort: "Killarna på DR, antar jag..." Annie: "DR?" Mort: "Det står för... De Dödas Rike!" Kat: "Borde det inte vara 'DDR' i så fall?" Mort: "De föredrar 'DR'" Not speaking a word of Swedish, I'll attempt to re-transcribe that to English... Annie: They love and dig this job? Mort: Killing my pa's doctor, another jerk. Annie: Doctor? Mort: Death starts for... the father of Riker! Annie: Bored! That isn't very DDR {Dance Dance Revolution}. Is that all? Mort: Die, forehead doctor!  |
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Post by marveloustk on Jan 13, 2014 23:14:42 GMT
 Contender for worst first post ever? |
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Post by Señor Goose on Jan 13, 2014 23:26:29 GMT
If this page was ever translated to swedish: From panel 3 Annie: "Vem gav dig ditt jobb?" Mort: "Killarna på DR, antar jag..." Annie: "DR?" Mort: "Det står för... De Dödas Rike!" Kat: "Borde det inte vara 'DDR' i så fall?" Mort: "De föredrar 'DR'" Not speaking a word of Swedish, I'll attempt to re-transcribe that to English... Annie: They love and dig this job? Mort: Killing my pa's doctor, another jerk. Annie: Doctor? Mort: Death starts for... the father of Riker! Annie: Bored! That isn't very DDR {Dance Dance Revolution}. Is that all? Mort: Die, forehead doctor! Thank you warrl. |
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Post by nightwind on Jan 14, 2014 3:18:45 GMT
Contender for worst first post ever? No, the worst first post ever would have boxbot in it. Try again... wait. |
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Post by Covalent on Jan 14, 2014 5:48:47 GMT
Yeah, Mort's back! Kinda weird how they just jumped to Jeanne from the previous chapter, though. o.o
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Post by Gulby on Jan 14, 2014 9:25:12 GMT
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Post by crater on Jan 14, 2014 13:23:21 GMT
So Tom's saying we're never going to find out what originally killed Mort? I am somewhat disappointed. woah, thought I remembered Tom saying mort was that kid who burned himself to death but apparently that was just delusional headcannon? //////////////////////////////////// doesn't look like Margo is dying this chapter :\ better luck next chapter |
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Post by crater on Jan 14, 2014 13:33:29 GMT
also Morts job seems pretty straight forward:
step1:
scare people bad enough so that they remember him
2: scared people tell stories about him (multipule times in Paz's case)
3: stories told about mort ensure the continuation of the ether
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Post by Purgatorius on Jan 14, 2014 20:00:14 GMT
If this page was ever translated to swedish: From panel 3 Annie: "Vem gav dig ditt jobb?" Mort: "Killarna på DR, antar jag..." Annie: "DR?" Mort: "Det står för... De Dödas Rike!" Kat: "Borde det inte vara 'DDR' i så fall?" Mort: "De föredrar 'DR'" Such a fascinating language. Yeah, I mostly wanted to show that ROTD would prefer "DR" before "DDR", for some reason  |
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Post by GK Sierra on Jan 14, 2014 20:06:56 GMT
Most people think of Dance Dance Revolution, but to me DDR will always mean Deutsche Demokratische Republik.
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Post by smjjames on Jan 14, 2014 20:26:40 GMT
So Tom's saying we're never going to find out what originally killed Mort? I am somewhat disappointed. woah, thought I remembered Tom saying mort was that kid who burned himself to death but apparently that was just delusional headcannon? //////////////////////////////////// doesn't look like Margo is dying this chapter :\ better luck next chapter Mort is supposedly much older than that. I think there were hints of him having died during WWII? Or the first half of the 20th century anyway. Besides, that kid moved on. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Jan 14, 2014 20:49:54 GMT
woah, thought I remembered Tom saying mort was that kid who burned himself to death but apparently that was just delusional headcannon? //////////////////////////////////// doesn't look like Margo is dying this chapter :\ better luck next chapter Mort is supposedly much older than that. I think there were hints of him having died during WWII? Or the first half of the 20th century anyway. The poem on the wall by his little hangout area is from World War One. ( dulce et decorum est pro patria mori and etcetera) |
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Post by wynne on Jan 14, 2014 22:18:12 GMT
Mort is back and I am so happy!
That is all.
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Post by philman on Jan 14, 2014 23:29:00 GMT
Mort is supposedly much older than that. I think there were hints of him having died during WWII? Or the first half of the 20th century anyway. The poem on the wall by his little hangout area is from World War One. ( dulce et decorum est pro patria mori and etcetera) Actually that line is from a Roman poem written about 13 BC, but you are correct it was made most famous to the modern world by a poem about World War One, where it was used ironically after the rest of the poem described a horrific gas attack. The line was in use before that as a completely serious quote used to describe fighting for one's homeland. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Jan 14, 2014 23:29:21 GMT
Mort is back and I am so happy! That is all. Days since Jack was last in this comic: too many. 
It's been over six months, unless I'm mistaken.
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Post by Señor Goose on Jan 15, 2014 0:54:02 GMT
Most people think of Dance Dance Revolution, but to me DDR will always mean Deutsche Demokratische Republik. You and my friend should get together. You could talk about Europe until everyone within miles has fallen asleep. |
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Ahh, the English and their need to give everything a department or bureau. To keep with this theme-of-the-day - "From the moment the invaders arrived, seen rice paper, gemstone stamps and heard prayers to Celestial Bureaucracy, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all Chinese weapons and devices had failed..."
Could be 100 years old and looking 20, and a "recent" death some 80~100 years ago... *excited*
