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Post by Gotolei on Jan 27, 2014 8:00:33 GMT
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Post by lordofpotatoes on Jan 27, 2014 8:00:57 GMT
Yes, yes it was.
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Post by Angry Individual on Jan 27, 2014 8:03:35 GMT
I would have gotten lost, personally.
I'm absolutely terrible with mazes.
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 27, 2014 8:05:06 GMT
Why so many cliché Halloween things? First decorations, then haunted house mazes. Next thing we know, they'll be dressing up and asking for candy!
Or egging the Court. That could be fun.
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Post by Lightice on Jan 27, 2014 8:15:40 GMT
I would have gotten lost, personally. But it only has one, winding path. You get to your destination no matter what, unless you turn around. I wonder if the whole Realm of the Dead is just one long, narrow corridor, or if this is still just the entrance hall... |
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Post by CoyoteReborn on Jan 27, 2014 8:16:08 GMT
You know what else is weird? That there are so few comments on this thread.
(If it has only one pathway; would that make it a labyrinth?)
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Post by Señor Goose on Jan 27, 2014 8:21:33 GMT
Good call, Coyote.
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Post by Señor Goose on Jan 27, 2014 8:22:22 GMT
Hey, look at that next-to-last panel.
Mort is see-through!
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 27, 2014 8:30:25 GMT
Seconded. Hmmm, I don't remember Mort ever being see-through before... |
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Post by zimmyzims on Jan 27, 2014 8:39:09 GMT
The ROTD continues to look like a ghost train in an exceptionally cheap amusement park. Either this is the case, or then Annie is strangely excited with Halloween decoration toy bats and skulls in a Christmas calendar. I request explanation, and I expect to get a one. |
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Post by Chancellor on Jan 27, 2014 8:41:32 GMT
Maybe she never got to decorate for holiday much at the Hospital, and just has that kind of stuff fascinate her. Or more likely being of a higher etheric caliber, she sees (t)ROTD differently.
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Post by GK Sierra on Jan 27, 2014 9:05:47 GMT
If I were Annie I would ask Mort for a refund.
Then I would crush a bug and ask Ketrak to go get that Muut wossname to show us the real ROTD.
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Post by Toloc on Jan 27, 2014 10:05:19 GMT
You know what else is weird? That there are so few comments on this thread. (If it has only one pathway; would that make it a labyrinth?) Yup, the comic itself even gave that definition waaayy back. I like how the window decals are only on the inner walls. |
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Post by TBeholder on Jan 27, 2014 10:10:31 GMT
Why so many cliché Halloween things? First decorations, then haunted house mazes. Next thing we know, they'll be dressing up and asking for candy! Or egging the Court. That could be fun. The Court has its own proud tradition - to wang tomatoes. Also, why only the Court? The ROTD continues to look like a ghost train in an exceptionally cheap amusement park. Either this is the case, or then Annie is strangely excited with Halloween decoration toy bats and skulls in a Christmas calendar. I don't see why not both. Maybe she thinks it's adorable. How many times do you think Antimony was in "an exceptionally cheap amusement park"?.. I request explanation, and I expect to get a one. You know the drill, right?  |
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Post by arf on Jan 27, 2014 10:40:10 GMT
I like how the girls appear especially alarmed by whatever's on the walls facing away.
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Post by kralex on Jan 27, 2014 10:40:12 GMT
Now all that's missing is this guy.  |
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Post by Gotolei on Jan 27, 2014 11:54:37 GMT
At this point I'm 99% sure the discolorations are just a spooky-looking purple-to-green gradient applied to the panels. I'm looking at the color of the top of the walls, and Annie's hair at different parts of the labyrinth where it's unusually vivid near the top, and brownish near the bottom. Yay, random pointless observations  Anyway I'm kinda hoping for this guy to be like the zombie from wreck-it ralph. Would fit in pretty well. |
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Post by zimmyzims on Jan 27, 2014 12:33:21 GMT
The ROTD continues to look like a ghost train in an exceptionally cheap amusement park. Either this is the case, or then Annie is strangely excited with Halloween decoration toy bats and skulls in a Christmas calendar. I don't see why not both. Maybe she thinks it's adorable. How many times do you think Antimony was in "an exceptionally cheap amusement park"?.. Well, to be accurate, I never said she couldn't be both, only that if it is not the case that she is strangely excited by the crap that Kat is seeing, then the case must be that she is seeing it differently than Kat. That cheap Halloween decoration actually is exciting and new to her is the obvious possibility to which I refer for the precise reason that she grew up in a hospital an is kind of an oddball. If she, on the other hand, sees this differently, then we are not given any idea about how she might like Halloween toys. I request explanation, and I expect to get a one. You know the drill, right? Actually, I am not sure what you mean here. "The drill" about what? Or where? You completely lost me here. Edit: I've got a new theory about this!!!  The representation of the ROTD depends on the ghost who "summons" it, so to say, and Mort being mighty weak and juvenile haunter, this is what the realm of the dead looks with him. So, if the master boogeyman brought them there, they would actually be frightened. About Annie's fascination with what she sees, she is just being polite, as she knows how to communicate with ghosts. Support to this: Mort seems to be seriously searching in the labyrinth that is not actually even a labyrinth, showing that this is his immature conception of these horror scenes. Mort appears to me to have died at less than 5 years of age, actually. I know there's the theory he was a soldier, but he seems way too childish to that. I think he might have been a young wartime victim of Spanish Flu. |
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Post by cu on Jan 27, 2014 13:04:21 GMT
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Post by zimmyhoo on Jan 27, 2014 13:13:01 GMT
I wonder what's going on there near the bottom that could possibly have Annie looking so disconcerted.
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Post by smjjames on Jan 27, 2014 14:09:04 GMT
Hey, look at that next-to-last panel. Mort is see-through! He is also see-through in various points on the first panel. |
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Post by Intelligence on Jan 27, 2014 14:33:50 GMT
Anyway I'm kinda hoping for this guy to be like the zombie from wreck-it ralph. Would fit in pretty well. And would be much less creepy. |
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Post by ctso74 on Jan 27, 2014 14:35:50 GMT
Next thing we know, they'll be dressing up and asking for candy! Or egging the Court. That could be fun. I imagine, the headmaster yelling at them, to get off us lawn. Of course, he's wearing a nighttime beauty mask. The representation of the ROTD depends on the ghost who "summons" it, so to say, and Mort being mighty weak and juvenile haunter, this is what the realm of the dead looks with him. So, if the master boogeyman brought them there, they would actually be frightened. I rather like that idea. |
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 27, 2014 15:04:10 GMT
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Post by aaroncampbell on Jan 27, 2014 15:23:26 GMT
I wonder if Mort was being literal in the third panel here, and everyone in the RoTD is named Guy? (Or at least multiple people.) He seems to be addressing the guy in the last panel of today's comic by name, unless he's being un-Mort-ishly rude. Unfortunately Ales and Wenches has no differentiation between majuscules and miniscules, so we can't tell if he's saying "Hi, Guy. We're looking for information on ghosts!" or, "Hi, guy. We're looking for information on ghosts!" But I think if he were to say something like the latter, he'd use "mate" instead, because that is how guys say hello. (but how does a guy say hello to a Guy? Now I'm getting myself confused...) |
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Post by thedoctor on Jan 27, 2014 15:50:10 GMT
Anyway I'm kinda hoping for this guy to be like the zombie from wreck-it ralph. Would fit in pretty well. And would be much less creepy. Which would be oddly appropriate for this location. Also, I am in favor of the idea that a person's perception of this place stems from the guide that takes them there. Also, I agree that Mort seems too childish to have been a soldier; then again, he might just have lost his memory... |
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Post by thedoctor on Jan 27, 2014 15:52:12 GMT
Hey look; this guy is actually three-dimensional!
edit: which, now that I think about it, looks even weirder than before...
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Post by Angry Individual on Jan 27, 2014 16:04:46 GMT
I would have gotten lost, personally. But it only has one, winding path. You get to your destination no matter what, unless you turn around. I wonder if the whole Realm of the Dead is just one long, narrow corridor, or if this is still just the entrance hall... I think you're doubting my abilities to get lost. |
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Post by Señor Goose on Jan 27, 2014 20:38:00 GMT
But it only has one, winding path. You get to your destination no matter what, unless you turn around. I wonder if the whole Realm of the Dead is just one long, narrow corridor, or if this is still just the entrance hall... I think you're doubting my abilities to get lost.  |
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Post by Steam Engine on Jan 27, 2014 21:19:17 GMT
“We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that.”
Svidrigailov, Crime and Punishment.
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