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Post by todd on Oct 17, 2014 22:02:14 GMT
Maybe it's all part of a plot to capture the Robot King. Not likely, since nobody could have known that Annie would tell Reynardine to ask the Robot King for help. |
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Post by todd on Oct 17, 2014 22:10:11 GMT
They're descending on what looks like threads of spider webbing. They have a shared mind, like the whitelegs do (so perhaps they've merged somehow, or are otherwise under their influence?) I'd noticed the spider-like qualities of the altered robot crew as well, and wondered whether the Whitelegs had anything to do with it. Since the only characters transformed by Zimmy's world (at least, so far) are the robots responsible for setting this up (the ship, the crew-bots, the Seraphs), with the students, Rey, and the robot rescue party unaffected, I wonder whether this may be some sort of consequence of their part in bringing this about - a surt of punishment-transformation. (The one problem with this theory is that Zimmy's world so far doesn't seem all that moral; it's probably as unconcerned with right and wrong as the Lovecraftian forces it's been often compared to.) |
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Post by todd on Oct 17, 2014 23:08:41 GMT
Sorry for three posts in a row, but someone put up a really lovely piece on the Comments page, a possible "battle oration" for the Court robots before they fight the crew-bots, based on the St. Crispin's Day speech from "Henry V". I urge everyone here to read it.
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Post by Fishy on Oct 17, 2014 23:18:57 GMT
You know, Zimmingham has always been kind of a craphole, but never a COMPLETE craphole. At least, never to the point of there being actual piles of debris from buildings just laying around. Don't get me wrong, there's been broken bits before, but usually it was as little as a degraded wall/ceiling or a couple broken windows. The amount of degradation here combined with Zimmy's complete absence since the whole "torn sea" event is kinda worrying.
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Post by warrl on Oct 18, 2014 4:13:42 GMT
Sorry for three posts in a row, but someone put up a really lovely piece on the Comments page, a possible "battle oration" for the Court robots before they fight the crew-bots, based on the St. Crispin's Day speech from "Henry V". I urge everyone here to read it. Comments become inaccessible when the next new page comes up. So I'm going to go find the comment you're referring to and copy it here... We few, we happy few, we band of 'bots; For he to-day that dents his exo-armor with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And noble 'bots in the Court, now- recharging Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their servos cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Kat's day. |
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Post by todd on Oct 18, 2014 10:36:02 GMT
Sorry for three posts in a row, but someone put up a really lovely piece on the Comments page, a possible "battle oration" for the Court robots before they fight the crew-bots, based on the St. Crispin's Day speech from "Henry V". I urge everyone here to read it. Comments become inaccessible when the next new page comes up. So I'm going to go find the comment you're referring to and copy it here... We few, we happy few, we band of 'bots; For he to-day that dents his exo-armor with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And noble 'bots in the Court, now- recharging Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their servos cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Kat's day. Thanks for that thoughtfulness, warrl. |
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Post by smurfton on Oct 18, 2014 20:19:21 GMT
Wow! Two seconds before the Comic was published! This must be a new record! No, I beat that once haha - posted ten minutes before the comic was released. Ask GK about it sometime  That's only the record if you don't count La Poire. gunnerkrigg.proboards.com/thread/37/199-story-discussion-mystery-solved He posted an hour before the comic showed on gunnerkrigg.com and magically knew what was on the page. |
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 18, 2014 23:05:04 GMT
How...  Could have been a guess since it didn't have words from the comic on the title... |
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Post by thedoctor on Oct 19, 2014 0:31:26 GMT
You are the perfect person to post this remark. It's like the roboking himself is saying it... I doubt that just shouting "attack!" and doing so will cut it at all. Seraphs appear to be far more competent than the other robots. Except those aren't Seraphs, just the crew-robots. Given Tom's dislike of gratuitous violence, I wonder whether something will cancel the robot-war at the start of Monday's page. Given that you're talking just about gratuitous violence, and remembering some of the stuff that's been in here ( this, for instance) I highly doubt it's going to be called off. The violence won't be shown as much as it would in an action movie, maybe, but there still will be some combat. One of the convenient(?) things about robots from a cartoonist's standpoint is that they don't bleed. Also, anyone notice the ninja/matrix style robots in the background of panel 7? I don't know if they're flying or just jumping, but they look pretty awesome either way! |
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Post by smurfton on Oct 19, 2014 6:05:44 GMT
How... Could have been a guess since it didn't have words from the comic on the title... Oh, he knew the contents. Gunnerkrigg used to have a mirror on drunk duck, and Tom couldn't get it to update at the same time. The forum didn't know that the mirror existed yet, so... |
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 19, 2014 8:05:08 GMT
How... Could have been a guess since it didn't have words from the comic on the title... Oh, he knew the contents. Gunnerkrigg used to have a mirror on drunk duck, and Tom couldn't get it to update at the same time. The forum didn't know that the mirror existed yet, so... Heh. Clever. |
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Post by Ophel on Oct 19, 2014 10:30:34 GMT
Reading through that thread, I can just feel the difference in age/era. And I almost recognised only a couple or so (apart from Tom, of course). |
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Post by Xan on Oct 19, 2014 13:06:11 GMT
There was once an occasion when Tom's update scripts wen awry and the comic was posted a whole day earlier. I guess it was leap year not being counted properly. It was this page. It was taken down, but I managed to snag a copy from my browser cache. I did not exactly post a comic thread, but mentioned a key fact from the comic. Tom strongly did not like it and the posts that were discussing it were deleted. I'm not proud of that, I apologized to Tom later, but here you go, there was an instance of discussing a comic 1 day early. |
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Post by aaroncampbell on Oct 19, 2014 20:59:55 GMT
They're descending on what looks like threads of spider webbing. They have a shared mind, like the whitelegs do (so perhaps they've merged somehow, or are otherwise under their influence?) I'd noticed the spider-like qualities of the altered robot crew as well, and wondered whether the Whitelegs had anything to do with it. Since the only characters transformed by Zimmy's world (at least, so far) are the robots responsible for setting this up (the ship, the crew-bots, the Seraphs), with the students, Rey, and the robot rescue party unaffected, I wonder whether this may be some sort of consequence of their part in bringing this about - a surt of punishment-transformation. (The one problem with this theory is that Zimmy's world so far doesn't seem all that moral; it's probably as unconcerned with right and wrong as the Lovecraftian forces it's been often compared to.) Yes, her world does seem decidedly amoral. I'm curious about the transitions of the bots as well. It could be that the robot crew were transformed simply because of their presence during the transition combined with their composition -- that is, their being animate creatures but lacking a spirit as such. (There was some discussion of them being "soul containers" which is an interesting concept. If one runs with this, then it may be that they are animate but empty containers which leads to all sorts of weird and creepy ideas.) You bring up an interesting point that the rescue crew has not been transformed. So far we only have a single panel from a distance to judge this from, so I'm not quite ready to hang my hat on this as confirmed yet, though you're probably right. Still, the transition may take place over a brief period of time, or transmitted by contact with another creature like some sort of weird robot infection. Heheh, who knows what a computer virus would look like in Zimmingham? Could be that this is what this is all about -- one big nasty botnet evolved from the ILOVEYOU virus! |
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 19, 2014 21:37:29 GMT
I'd noticed the spider-like qualities of the altered robot crew as well, and wondered whether the Whitelegs had anything to do with it.
Since the only characters transformed by Zimmy's world (at least, so far) are the robots responsible for setting this up (the ship, the crew-bots, the Seraphs), with the students, Rey, and the robot rescue party unaffected, I wonder whether this may be some sort of consequence of their part in bringing this about - a surt of punishment-transformation. (The one problem with this theory is that Zimmy's world so far doesn't seem all that moral; it's probably as unconcerned with right and wrong as the Lovecraftian forces it's been often compared to.) Yes, her world does seem decidedly amoral. I'm curious about the transitions of the bots as well. It could be that the robot crew were transformed simply because of their presence during the transition combined with their composition -- that is, their being animate creatures but lacking a spirit as such. (There was some discussion of them being "soul containers" which is an interesting concept. If one runs with this, then it may be that they are animate but empty containers which leads to all sorts of weird and creepy ideas.) You bring up an interesting point that the rescue crew has not been transformed. So far we only have a single panel from a distance to judge this from, so I'm not quite ready to hang my hat on this as confirmed yet, though you're probably right. Still, the transition may take place over a brief period of time, or transmitted by contact with another creature like some sort of weird robot infection. Heheh, who knows what a computer virus would look like in Zimmingham? Could be that this is what this is all about -- one big nasty botnet evolved from the ILOVEYOU virus! I'd always thought that transformations in Zimmingham arose from Zimmy's emotions having real effects - like how her love for Gamma manifested peaceful area in the toy shop. Conversely, she's afraid and mistreated by the robots, so they have been turned into terrifying spider-things. And, as we all know, Zimmy does have a spider motif (just like Tom). |
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Post by AluK on Oct 19, 2014 22:57:28 GMT
Reading through that thread, I can just feel the difference in age/era. And I almost recognised only a couple or so (apart from Tom, of course). Trip down memory lane. Many great users that left over time, like Aspen, mrw, Yin, La Poire, mudmaniac, etc. Wonder what happened to those guys/gals. Great thing that Todd and wanderer are still around, though. |
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Post by fwip on Oct 19, 2014 23:04:14 GMT
MudManiac was online within the past month, actually. He posted fifteen comics ago.
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Post by todd on Oct 19, 2014 23:12:11 GMT
It could be that the robot crew were transformed simply because of their presence during the transition combined with their composition -- that is, their being animate creatures but lacking a spirit as such. (There was some discussion of them being "soul containers" which is an interesting concept. If one runs with this, then it may be that they are animate but empty containers which leads to all sorts of weird and creepy ideas.) You bring up an interesting point that the rescue crew has not been transformed. So far we only have a single panel from a distance to judge this from, so I'm not quite ready to hang my hat on this as confirmed yet, though you're probably right. Another possibility is that the robot rescue party wasn't present when the ship was pulled into Zimmy's world, but only arrived later. I suspect, though, that only Tom can answer this question. And we don't even know whether he'd answer it in the comic itself, or would have to explain in answer to readers' questions. (Except I don't think he has an "Ask Tom" feature anymore.) |
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