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Post by Druplesnubb on Jun 10, 2019 9:18:47 GMT
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Post by bedinsis on Jun 15, 2019 20:07:18 GMT
Chapter 54: Meetings and re-meetings. I agree with what Mr. Siddell says. Seeing another meeting rendered in the normal art style probably would be feeling like a repeat of the previous meeting. I never understood that the look Smitty gave Ysengrin after he destroyed Annie's blinkerstone was meant to be one of approval.
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Post by dramastix on Jun 22, 2019 15:54:44 GMT
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Post by tustin2121 on Jun 22, 2019 15:57:46 GMT
That hard trolling at the end, though. I think there could be a whole discussion thread speculating on that tease. |
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Post by Zox Tomana on Jun 22, 2019 17:03:45 GMT
Chapter 54: Meetings and re-meetings. I agree with what Mr. Siddell says. Seeing another meeting rendered in the normal art style probably would be feeling like a repeat of the previous meeting. I never understood that the look Smitty gave Ysengrin after he destroyed Annie's blinkerstone was meant to be one of approval. Yeah. I'd always read it more as an acknowledgement that things occurred, and that Smitty wasn't going to make a fuss or argue with results. |
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Post by Corvo on Jun 22, 2019 19:10:33 GMT
It'd be incredibly funny if it's not a complete troll though. A shocking and terrifying kind of funny, but still. |
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Post by mturtle7 on Jun 24, 2019 19:32:21 GMT
That hard trolling at the end, though. I think there could be a whole discussion thread speculating on that tease. Clarification for everyone who doesn't want to wait the full stretch of time for said hard trolling: at 8:58 in the video, Magnolia asks to see the pages for this week, and at 9:28, she declares that one of the pages is, "the one where Annie dies". It's magnificent. |
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Post by Runningflame on Jun 24, 2019 23:41:07 GMT
That hard trolling at the end, though. I think there could be a whole discussion thread speculating on that tease. Clarification for everyone who doesn't want to wait the full stretch of time for said hard trolling: at 8:58 in the video, Magnolia asks to see the pages for this week, and at 9:28, she declares that one of the pages is, "the one where Annie dies". It's magnificent. Aw, man! I ran out of patience, even at 2x speed, and skipped to near the end to see if there was anything interesting there. Of course they hid it in the middle instead! |
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Post by bedinsis on Jun 29, 2019 22:13:50 GMT
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Post by MarineMonarch on Jul 6, 2019 13:13:58 GMT
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Post by mturtle7 on Jul 7, 2019 23:52:00 GMT
I had never actually put it together before that all the guys who ever tried to ask Annie out were very explicitly relieved they didn't have to go through with it! When Magnolia pointed that out, I had to stop the video and just laugh my ass off for about 2 minutes straight. Still giggling over it now, actually...
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Post by bedinsis on Jul 8, 2019 8:44:28 GMT
I had never actually put it together before that all the guys who ever tried to ask Annie out were very explicitly relieved they didn't have to go through with it! When Magnolia pointed that out, I had to stop the video and just laugh my ass off for about 2 minutes straight. Still giggling over it now, actually... I also never put it together, though my reaction was more along the lines of "Huh, now that you mentioned it, yeah, that's true.". |
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 8, 2019 13:24:43 GMT
I had never actually put it together before that all the guys who ever tried to ask Annie out were very explicitly relieved they didn't have to go through with it! When Magnolia pointed that out, I had to stop the video and just laugh my ass off for about 2 minutes straight. Still giggling over it now, actually... But it's only two guys, right? Or am I forgetting anyone besides Jack and William? |
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Post by mturtle7 on Jul 8, 2019 23:33:25 GMT
I had never actually put it together before that all the guys who ever tried to ask Annie out were very explicitly relieved they didn't have to go through with it! When Magnolia pointed that out, I had to stop the video and just laugh my ass off for about 2 minutes straight. Still giggling over it now, actually... I also never put it together, though my reaction was more along the lines of "Huh, now that you mentioned it, yeah, that's true.". Well then I'm afraid your sense of humor is objectively wrong and there's nothing more I can do for you.
Edit: Also pyradonis You're not actually missing anything, it's just that you're sense of humor is apparently just as objectively wrong as bedinsis'. It's fine... |
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Post by Runningflame on Jul 9, 2019 5:10:47 GMT
If we rephrase it to "guys who looked like they might ask her out but then turned out to be interested in someone else instead," we can include Kamlen.
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 9, 2019 8:16:47 GMT
I also never put it together, though my reaction was more along the lines of "Huh, now that you mentioned it, yeah, that's true.". Well then I'm afraid your sense of humor is objectively wrong and there's nothing more I can do for you.
Edit: Also pyradonis You're not actually missing anything, it's just that you're sense of humor is apparently just as objectively wrong as bedinsis '. It's fine... Humor? Ah, yes. One of your illogical human characteristics. |
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Post by Runningflame on Jul 13, 2019 22:09:28 GMT
Chapter 58: A Big Day!This chapter holds a special place for me: the comic was on page 1659 when I completed my initial read-through of the archive. Kinda odd that Tom excuses the decon crew because <snuffle>'s visit is "a new event that's never happened before," whereas the decon crew claims it's " standard procedure"...  Also interesting that he intentionally left it ambiguous whether the crew is humans or robots. I never thought about it before (though of course you folks did). Now that I look at it, the repetition of the phrase (and the weird dance or whatever it is) seem to point to robots; but on the other hand, I guess bureaucracy can be pretty inflexible and "robotic" too. Not a super exciting/tense chapter, but a fun, colorful one with lots of exposition about various things. I always like checking in with the jabronies, and I laugh every time at Bugsy's "I love some of these guys!"
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 14, 2019 23:03:08 GMT
Chapter 58: A Big Day!This chapter holds a special place for me: the comic was on page 1659 when I completed my initial read-through of the archive. Kinda odd that Tom excuses the decon crew because <snuffle>'s visit is "a new event that's never happened before," whereas the decon crew claims it's " standard procedure"... Also interesting that he intentionally left it ambiguous whether the crew is humans or robots. I never thought about it before (though of course you folks did). Now that I look at it, the repetition of the phrase (and the weird dance or whatever it is) seem to point to robots; but on the other hand, I guess bureaucracy can be pretty inflexible and "robotic" too. Not a super exciting/tense chapter, but a fun, colorful one with lots of exposition about various things. I always like checking in with the jabronies, and I laugh every time at Bugsy's "I love some of these guys!" If you program the robots so that this is their "standard procedure", then it is. Even when they use it for the first time.  |
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Post by todd on Jul 14, 2019 23:40:00 GMT
To me, the indication of the Court's distrust towards the forest-folk was more important than whether it was humans or robots inside those suits.
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Post by mturtle7 on Jul 18, 2019 0:19:37 GMT
Chapter 58: A Big Day!This chapter holds a special place for me: the comic was on page 1659 when I completed my initial read-through of the archive. Kinda odd that Tom excuses the decon crew because <snuffle>'s visit is "a new event that's never happened before," whereas the decon crew claims it's " standard procedure"... Also interesting that he intentionally left it ambiguous whether the crew is humans or robots. I never thought about it before (though of course you folks did). Now that I look at it, the repetition of the phrase (and the weird dance or whatever it is) seem to point to robots; but on the other hand, I guess bureaucracy can be pretty inflexible and "robotic" too. Not a super exciting/tense chapter, but a fun, colorful one with lots of exposition about various things. I always like checking in with the jabronies, and I laugh every time at Bugsy's "I love some of these guys!" More specifically, they say "standard decontamination procedure", which could mean they've used it for decontaminating other stuff, and are just now applying it to Snuffle. |
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Post by bedinsis on Jul 20, 2019 19:24:44 GMT
Chapter 59: Jeanne is upI personally never realized that it was Andrew's luck that saved Ayilu. The comments regarding Coyote's tooth was interesting.
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Post by dramastix on Jul 21, 2019 0:19:34 GMT
Proof that Coyote's gun has still to go off!!!
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Post by Runningflame on Jul 22, 2019 3:42:11 GMT
I was surprised to hear Tom say that he's always unsure how pages like 1719 will be received, since there's not a lot of action in them. I thought that page was plenty intriguing and suspenseful, myself. We've already seen that Jeanne is yanked out of the illusion partway when Annie touches the arrow (big problem); we've just seen that Jeanne is fighting Robot and winning (escalating problem); we now see that Annie is being sucked into the arrow (BIG problem). The plan is crumbling piece by piece. There are weird finger/bone/scalpel/pocketknife shapes to speculate about. The eerie green lighting is fantastic. What's not to like? Also, something the video didn't address: Why Renard wasn't part of this plan. Which was something we wondered about at the time, as I recall, yet I don't think it was ever addressed in-comic. |
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Post by Druplesnubb on Jul 22, 2019 7:05:27 GMT
What would Renard do, exactly?
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Post by Eversist on Jul 22, 2019 7:39:56 GMT
Have we heard Tom refer to it as "Kat's etheric form" before? I liked that tidbit.
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Post by todd on Jul 22, 2019 12:40:29 GMT
What would Renard do, exactly? It would certainly have meant one more character for Tom to keep track of, and I agree it's difficult to think of a function for him. I suspect, though, that the concern was more over the lack of an in-story reason to explain his absence. (We got a similar response with Andrew's absence in the current chapter.) |
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Post by pyradonis on Jul 22, 2019 21:35:46 GMT
I was surprised to hear Tom say that he's always unsure how pages like 1719 will be received, since there's not a lot of action in them. I thought that page was plenty intriguing and suspenseful, myself. We've already seen that Jeanne is yanked out of the illusion partway when Annie touches the arrow (big problem); we've just seen that Jeanne is fighting Robot and winning (escalating problem); we now see that Annie is being sucked into the arrow (BIG problem). The plan is crumbling piece by piece. There are weird finger/bone/scalpel/pocketknife shapes to speculate about. The eerie green lighting is fantastic. What's not to like? Also, something the video didn't address: Why Renard wasn't part of this plan. Which was something we wondered about at the time, as I recall, yet I don't think it was ever addressed in-comic. Yes, I also liked this page. It was artful and intrigueing. And yes, I am still waiting for an explanation for that.
What would Renard do, exactly? 1. In "Quicksilver" and "Torn Sea", he proved to be a capable fighter against supernatural beings, and the only one able to breach the Seraph's seal on Annie. 2. He has lived for hundreds of years and surely knows more about etheric beings than everyone else present in the Ravine.
3. Do you think Renard would have let Annie go into mortal danger without him? He would have insisted on coming to look after her.
The fact that he was not there, and was never shown addressing the whole thing, almost led one to believe he did not even know about the plan. And we still do not know anything about his opinion, or the in-story reason for his absence.
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Post by Per on Jul 22, 2019 23:51:36 GMT
Robot was there seemingly attacking Jeanne just to guarantee she'd break out of the illusion, and Red was there just for kicks.
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Post by blackmantha on Jul 23, 2019 15:19:02 GMT
Robot was there seemingly attacking Jeanne just to guarantee she'd break out of the illusion, and Red was there just for kicks. I think attacking Jeanne was to keep her focused on something inside the illusion, instead of what's happening out in the water. It worked too, even after the illusion broke, Jeanne remained on the shore. I guess they took Robot rather than Rey because he's easier to put back together, but that doesn't really explain why he didn't come anyway. |
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Post by mturtle7 on Jul 24, 2019 5:10:29 GMT
I really love the details about how Tom was specifically trying to emulate a bad watercolor painting with the illusion sequences, and also deliberately didn't use a 3d modeler for (most of) the Arrow Maze.
I was also pleasantly surprised to hear about Tom's connection to that book Blue has. If he was trying to incorporate that smoothly into the story, he did it amazingly well!
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Also interesting that he intentionally left it ambiguous whether the crew is humans or robots. I never thought about it before (though 
