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Post by popo on Dec 3, 2007 7:11:35 GMT
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Ed130
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Post by Ed130 on Dec 3, 2007 7:55:04 GMT
My shot in the dark is one of those guides like Muut.
Good to tb back
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neal
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Post by neal on Dec 3, 2007 8:03:44 GMT
No, I doubt it is a Guide. It killed that fly, and Guides don't kill things. Muut said so, its why he wouldn't kill the Suicide Fairies. I wonder what the spider has to do with ghost stories. Hmmm...
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Asuka
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Post by Asuka on Dec 3, 2007 8:57:46 GMT
I don't think the spider has anything to do with it. The spider killed the fly, and the guide showed up. Guide is neither spider nor fly.
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Post by sebastian on Dec 3, 2007 9:05:44 GMT
I don't think the spider has anything to do with it. The spider killed the fly, and the guide showed up. Guide is neither spider nor fly. Yeah, it could be the guide for the fly's spirit. Good thinking That must be a busy guide, btw. |
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Post by todd on Dec 3, 2007 11:39:23 GMT
I also think Annie's talking to the Guide who came for the fly. (If they attend to the souls of insects as well as of humans - and presumably all other life forms on the planet - they must be an extremely busy lot.)
I'm glad to see Annie back in uniform again; it seems to match her calm, matter-of-fact disposition better than most of her civilian clothes do.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Dec 3, 2007 12:25:52 GMT
Annie doesn't look happy to see Ketrak, which would make perfect sense, considering her conversation with Muut. But if flies have souls that need guidance into the afterlife, why don't the TicTocs? (Oh, wait, Muut could have been referring to himself with the royal "we", saying that he personally doesn't guide the souls of robots. So maybe another Guide took the TicToc's soul while Annie was swimming to shore.) |
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Post by Neon on Dec 3, 2007 13:01:00 GMT
Because robots don't have souls?... Seriously, what.
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Post by La Goon on Dec 3, 2007 16:29:29 GMT
Yeah, I think insects are more likely to have souls than robots are (or robots are less likely).
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Post by cenit on Dec 3, 2007 16:42:02 GMT
Agree with everyone, most likely a Guide, most likely came for the soul of the fly, and robots don't have souls.
And I think Annie doesn't like them in general because they took her mom's soul...It's their job, but would you be all friendly like to someone who reaped your mothers soul??
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Post by popo on Dec 3, 2007 22:54:39 GMT
Annie doesn't look happy to see Ketrak, which would make perfect sense, considering her conversation with Muut. To be fair, Annie never seems to be happy about seeing anyone except Kat. |
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Post by todd on Dec 3, 2007 23:14:01 GMT
To me, Annie looks more neutral or detached than displeased in that panel.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Dec 3, 2007 23:26:23 GMT
The angle in panel 6 makes it look like Annie is on the edge of the light and the shadow. Re: robot souls, I was assuming that the possession of a soul was more likely to correlate with sentience and self-awareness than with which side of the biological/synthetic divide one falls on. While the TicToc may not be self-aware, I would assume it's more sentient than a fly. That said, my previous objection was just jumping at a shadow. We don't know for a fact that there isn't a Guide assigned somewhere to collect TicToc souls. Annie doesn't look happy to see Ketrak, which would make perfect sense, considering her conversation with Muut. To be fair, Annie never seems to be happy about seeing anyone except Kat. Well, she looks like she's unhappy to see Ketrak, and she's just being polite. The only other people I can recall her treating this way are Muut and Eglamore. |
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Post by nikita on Dec 3, 2007 23:40:42 GMT
In the comments, ZreaperZ came up with an explanation I hadn't thought of:
"Isn't it obvious that she's talking to someone that approached her. Shes totally not looking at the spider. Rather someone standing before her."
So maybe it's the name of one of the ex-fairies.
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Post by popo on Dec 4, 2007 8:46:55 GMT
In the comments, ZreaperZ came up with an explanation I hadn't thought of: "Isn't it obvious that she's talking to someone that approached her. Shes totally not looking at the spider. Rather someone standing before her." So maybe it's the name of one of the ex-fairies. Possible, but Tom has said that we won't find out the names of the fairies any time soon. |
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Neon
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Post by Neon on Dec 4, 2007 17:29:04 GMT
That said, my previous objection was just jumping at a shadow. We don't know for a fact that there isn't a Guide assigned somewhere to collect TicToc souls Dhurr, except Muut said so himself. |
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Post by King Mir on Dec 4, 2007 18:38:19 GMT
If a guide had come for the TicToc, Annie would have probably have noticed. That means that either TicToc's don't have guides, which is what I am included to believe, or the TicToc was not sufficiently dead; the TicToc was still alive enough to build a radio station of some sort.
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Grey
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Post by Grey on Dec 4, 2007 21:23:52 GMT
Muu is not for TicToc, but for shadow at bridge. When Eglamore's blades strikes Robot, shadow lost its cover and becomes many pieces..
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Post by venndiagram on Dec 4, 2007 23:01:40 GMT
I wonder what's up with that circular hole in the foliage in the first, fourth, and fifth panels? At first I ran right over it, since big bright spots in the top part of a panel are fairly common ways of showing the direction the light's coming from, but especially in the fifth it looks like there's actually a hole pruned through the leaves. Nothing important, probably, but it is a little odd.
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Post by wanderer on Dec 5, 2007 1:00:40 GMT
...This is easily the most terrifying and horrific page of this comic ever.
Spider is creeping me out.
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Post by popo on Dec 10, 2007 4:53:34 GMT
Annie doesn't look happy to see Ketrak, which would make perfect sense, considering her conversation with Muut. But if flies have souls that need guidance into the afterlife, why don't the TicTocs? (Oh, wait, Muut could have been referring to himself with the royal "we", saying that he personally doesn't guide the souls of robots. So maybe another Guide took the TicToc's soul while Annie was swimming to shore.) I looked back and noticed that muut does seem to often use the royal we ( we took a moment to see how you were). so maybe your theory is correct. |
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Post by King Mir on Dec 12, 2007 3:23:56 GMT
I wonder what's up with that circular hole in the foliage in the first, fourth, and fifth panels? At first I ran right over it, since big bright spots in the top part of a panel are fairly common ways of showing the direction the light's coming from, but especially in the fifth it looks like there's actually a hole pruned through the leaves. Nothing important, probably, but it is a little odd. I think that that was a portal through which ketrak appeared. Although that would be inconsistent with how mutt disappeared. |
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