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Post by sidhekin on Dec 11, 2014 8:25:23 GMT
The lives of cautious and non-adventurous people tend to be rather boring. Which is why, I agree, it's great Kat and Annie are not cut from the same cloth as I am! Preach it, sister! |
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Post by Rasselas on Dec 11, 2014 13:04:34 GMT
Hah! I'd be a total square, then! I tend to discuss all possible outcomes of a future action (with other people or just with myself) before I dive headfirst into anything! Going down some unknown stairs into inky blackness would not be my first instinct, hahaha. (I'm not the adventuring kind) Your "sleeping with sheep and goats, lost on an island" story sounds awesome though! The lives of cautious and non-adventurous people tend to be rather boring. Which is why, I agree, it's great Kat and Annie are not cut from the same cloth as I am! Aw, man.  But it's refreshing to know there are different kinds of people, too. Although I have to say, I do apply caution where it is warranted. I grew up in a war zone, and as kids we used to go roaming everywhere on our shitty bikes. One time, we came upon a freshly dug ditch which was obviously a military position of some kind. It had a tarp cover and spots for shooting out of it. I stopped the other kids, because it could've been booby-trapped with mines, and we skedadled. But when we got to an old WW2 bunker, we explored that despite not having flashlights. So yes! Fresh military position? NO THANKS. Old bunker? Yiss. |
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Post by panecillo on Dec 11, 2014 13:36:39 GMT
I think is time for the comic to develop a concrete story arc, there are many posibilities and this episodic chapters are starting to feel spent.
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Dec 11, 2014 13:57:20 GMT
I think is time for the comic to develop a concrete story arc, there are many posibilities and this episodic chapters are starting to feel spent. Welcome to web comics. You may have a more enjoyable experience reading web comics that have finished publishing their pages/stories so you can bing read to your heart's content. There is a thread in this forum where forum goers are listing other web comics they are reading and some of them have notes if the comic is complete. EDIT: If you were being sarcastic, then 1) it was too subtle for a plebian like me, and 2) that's pretty funny. |
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Post by fish on Dec 11, 2014 14:32:37 GMT
Hah! I'd be a total square, then! I tend to discuss all possible outcomes of a future action (with other people or just with myself) before I dive headfirst into anything! Going down some unknown stairs into inky blackness would not be my first instinct, hahaha. (I'm not the adventuring kind) Your "sleeping with sheep and goats, lost on an island" story sounds awesome though! The lives of cautious and non-adventurous people tend to be rather boring. Which is why, I agree, it's great Kat and Annie are not cut from the same cloth as I am! Aw, man. But it's refreshing to know there are different kinds of people, too. Although I have to say, I do apply caution where it is warranted. I grew up in a war zone, and as kids we used to go roaming everywhere on our shitty bikes. One time, we came upon a freshly dug ditch which was obviously a military position of some kind. It had a tarp cover and spots for shooting out of it. I stopped the other kids, because it could've been booby-trapped with mines, and we skedadled. But when we got to an old WW2 bunker, we explored that despite not having flashlights. So yes! Fresh military position? NO THANKS. Old bunker? Yiss. Oh no! A wild childhood memory appears! I grew up in a poor village in the crumbling Soviet Union. I remember I did enjoy roaming around the place, mostly on my own. Learning about fiberglass pipe-insulation the itchy way, haha. There were also some old abandoned buildings around, I never set a foot near them, though. Something held me back, even then (probably a word of warning by my parents or something). I did enter one of the less threatening-looking buildings with a friend once, though I really had to overcome my inner inhibitions first. But then we moved to Germany (I was 7 at that time) and in Germany there are not as many places to roam around in the first place. (There are places to roam around, but none that are as abandoned and would give you the thrilling feeling of a real adventure.) Furthermore the culture shock I probably experienced did not particularly help in making my already timid personality more outgoing, haha. I do miss the thrill of exploring sometimes. Should I ever get the chance to a small adventure, I would be hesitant and cautious but I'd never dismiss it out of hand. After all being hesitant and cautious does not necessarily make you cowardly, the same way being curious and adventurous does not make you stupid, haha. |
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Post by Rasselas on Dec 12, 2014 0:14:56 GMT
In that case, you do have the adventurous spirit, after all. (yesss the joy of fiberglass insulation, haha.  ) I agree with you. |
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Post by todd on Dec 15, 2014 23:02:05 GMT
Reynardine turned out to be right about Diego being a coward, though not in the way he thought; the guy's conduct on his deathbed, blaming Jeanne's death on Sir Young, ducking his own responsibility for it, was definitely cowardly.
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Post by thedoomblahsong on Jan 13, 2015 12:51:48 GMT
So... did I miss something? Why did the retrospectives stop?
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Post by todd on Jan 13, 2015 23:16:02 GMT
Tom said something about not having the opportunity to make them during the holiday season. Now that it's over, though, we might see the retrospective resume.
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jan 13, 2015 23:20:59 GMT
So... did I miss something? Why did the retrospectives stop? Tom produced a number of retrospectives quickly and may have burnt himself out a little. I also think that he hit chapters that are difficult to talk about while avoiding spoilers for chapters that have yet to be published. I figured he specifically stopped before Chapter 19 Power Station because he was publishing Chapter 49 The Torn Sea. |
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Post by todd on Jan 19, 2015 0:53:10 GMT
Tom just posted his YouTube commentary on "Power Station"; as with most of his others, much of it discusses the real-world inspiration for the various places in the story (naturally, taken from Birmingham).
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jan 19, 2015 5:31:53 GMT
Tom references the links in the comments of the Chapter 19 bonus page at the end of the retrospective. I assumed the sketch of Margo dreaming about John twenty-one years later meant that John and Margo stayed together. I didn't realize until now that they may not have stayed together and Margo may have been dreaming about her first boyfriend. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Apr 10, 2015 23:35:41 GMT
So... did I miss something? Why did the retrospectives stop? Tom produced a number of retrospectives quickly and may have burnt himself out a little. I also think that he hit chapters that are difficult to talk about while avoiding spoilers for chapters that have yet to be published. I figured he specifically stopped before Chapter 19 Power Station because he was publishing Chapter 49 The Torn Sea. On Twitter, Tom said that the comic retrospectives will return next week. Yea! Maybe Tom slowed the chapter retrospective videos because he was creating Chapter 51: The Tree. As gut wrenching as this chapter has been for the readers, I imagine it wasn't easy for Tom to create. Knowing where the story is going probably helped, but it is still understandable if he didn't feel like doing other stuff until it was done. |
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Post by DesTyn on Apr 13, 2015 19:59:49 GMT
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Apr 13, 2015 23:08:30 GMT
Tom said that this chapter stands on its own, and I agree just like most of his chapters. They explain exactly as much as Tom meant them to explain and what is left uncertain is intentionally deferred to later chapters.
I may need help remembering this when Chapter 51 ends with Annie still being Anthony's zombie slave.
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Post by todd on Apr 14, 2015 0:30:39 GMT
Pity that it came out when the sound on my computer isn't working. (I recently moved, and the cord you need to plug in between the main computer and the monitor to have the sound work went missing during the move - though thankfully, none of my other computer components did.)
Though the bulk of the revelations in the retrospectives tend to be about what real-world place was the inspiration for this place in the comic or the drawing style, and far less about the story. (Understandable, since Tom doesn't want to give away the future developments in the comic.)
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Apr 19, 2015 23:38:30 GMT
Chapter 21: Blinking retrospective is up! Lots of comments from Tom about himself, including Nancy Drew kicking ass. Perhaps an early influence that led to female protagonists in his comic? |
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Post by Knight on Apr 20, 2015 0:36:31 GMT
Makes me wonder what short hair Annie looks like in the ether.
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Post by Corvo on Apr 20, 2015 1:34:01 GMT
Well, that explains the current chapter! Tony is just angry with Annie because she hid all of his change.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2015 6:31:27 GMT
Makes me wonder what short hair Annie looks like in the ether. When Tom was making all those comments about Annie's long hair being a "signature look", I couldn't help but be drawn back to the current events of the comic. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Apr 28, 2015 0:49:44 GMT
Chapter 22: Ties comic retrospective is up! Brinnie will be back in the future. I don't know if that means she'll be appear in another flash back or appear during Annie and Kat's time. And Tom didn't say how soon she would appear again (he certainly did not say "soon"). I'm just happy we will get to see her character again. And I will not be baited into talking about "everyone's favorite dad"...
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Post by todd on Apr 28, 2015 1:30:55 GMT
Chapter 22: Ties comic retrospective is up! Brinnie will be back in the future. I don't know if that means she'll be appear in another flash back or appear during Annie and Kat's time. And Tom didn't say how soon she would appear again (he certainly did not say "soon"). I'm just happy we will get to see her character again. I haven't seen that one yet (I'll have to wait until I get the sound restored on my computer), but did Tom establish that by "Brinnie will be back in the future" he meant a chapter he hasn't released yet, rather than her scene in the Microsat chapter? |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Apr 28, 2015 2:01:50 GMT
Chapter 22: Ties comic retrospective is up! Brinnie will be back in the future. I don't know if that means she'll be appear in another flash back or appear during Annie and Kat's time. And Tom didn't say how soon she would appear again (he certainly did not say "soon"). I'm just happy we will get to see her character again. I haven't seen that one yet (I'll have to wait until I get the sound restored on my computer), but did Tom establish that by "Brinnie will be back in the future" he meant a chapter he hasn't released yet, rather than her scene in the Microsat chapter? Argh! I think you're right (Tom referring to Microsat) and I was just projecting my own wishful thinking about seeing Brinnie again.. |
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Post by freeman on Apr 28, 2015 14:39:45 GMT
Chapter 22: Ties comic retrospective is up! Brinnie will be back in the future. I don't know if that means she'll be appear in another flash back or appear during Annie and Kat's time. And Tom didn't say how soon she would appear again (he certainly did not say "soon"). I'm just happy we will get to see her character again. And I will not be baited into talking about "everyone's favorite dad"... Well, after these events it would be a good time for another chapter about "The Ties generation" with some more glimpses about Tony. Who's the little guy? Not robot because no green eyes. |
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Post by todd on Apr 29, 2015 0:12:36 GMT
Well, after these events it would be a good time for another chapter about "The Ties generation" with some more glimpses about Tony. All the more so since it would offer one solution of what to do for stories while Annie is under Anthony's new regime. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jun 12, 2015 3:06:09 GMT
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Post by KartoffelnMcNugget on Jun 15, 2015 16:01:57 GMT
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jun 15, 2015 22:58:17 GMT
And a new excuse for not having your homework, INTERGOAT 2.0 ate my internet! |
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Post by KartoffelnMcNugget on Jun 16, 2015 2:03:02 GMT
And a new excuse for not having your homework, INTERGOAT 2.0 ate my internet! I want a INTERGOAT so bad right now |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jun 16, 2015 15:52:48 GMT
In the Chapter 24 Residential retrospective, Tom said that Annie realized she was keeping Kat from socializing with the other students and decided to start interacting more for Kat's sake.
I always thought that Kat coaxed Annie out of her shell. But given what we've learned about her father and Annie's similar personality, it now seems like Annie would have been content staying antisocial. And rather than Kat coaxing her out, Annie made a conscious decision to do something for her friend that she didn't personally care about.
Once Annie started to socialize more, her classmates started accepting/liking her to the point of making that condolance card in The Tree. I really wonder if Annie would now be content being antisocial. In her current state she might not care. But I hope she decides that her interactions with all her friends mean something to her.
And all of this is in contrast to Anthony who had opportunities to be more social and couldn't do it.
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But it's refreshing to know there are different kinds of people, too. 
) I agree with you.
