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Post by stef1987 on Jan 4, 2015 17:51:09 GMT
well, humans eating a bird can hardly be called extreme cannibalism. Though I'd rather not have them eat city face, he's my favorite bonus comic character Don't tell me you forgot Laundry List!?  [edit] If it were another bird, that'd be ULTRA cannibalism! [/edit] I totally did :s Your link made me re-read the character's city face comics (the ones before that page you linked to), and they're just awesome, it's amazing how Tom made them all fit the character(s) that supposedly wrote and drew it. |
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Post by philman on Jan 8, 2015 9:20:13 GMT
Also should there even be a thread for this? I don't see why not... Seems like there's a decent amount to speculate on in regards to the world presented in these Tea images, and whether it has any bearing or relation to the world of Gunnerkrigg itself. Incidentally, are there any more of them than these?: (I know there are more comics featuring Tea, I'm specifically talking about ones that seem to be part of this post-apocalyptic setting. The ones with her talking about the Houses, dorms, and swords I don't think fit quite in?) TeaPocalypse 1TeaPocalypse 2TeaPocalypse 3TeaPocalypse 4TeaPocalypse 5Number 2 appears to be London (I think that is the BT tower), so I guess they are still in the UK, if this is indeed a running thing and not just random backgrounds Tom likes... |
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Post by matoyak on Jan 8, 2015 10:00:29 GMT
I don't see why not... Seems like there's a decent amount to speculate on in regards to the world presented in these Tea images, and whether it has any bearing or relation to the world of Gunnerkrigg itself. Incidentally, are there any more of them than these?: (I know there are more comics featuring Tea, I'm specifically talking about ones that seem to be part of this post-apocalyptic setting. The ones with her talking about the Houses, dorms, and swords I don't think fit quite in?) TeaPocalypse 1TeaPocalypse 2TeaPocalypse 3TeaPocalypse 4TeaPocalypse 5Number 2 appears to be London (I think that is the BT tower), so I guess they are still in the UK, if this is indeed a running thing and not just random backgrounds Tom likes... I kind of thought they were "current day" things. Like the entire story is almost a Framed Narrative, with Gunnerkrigg being the "In the past" portion. Kind of like The Kingkiller Chronicle. (Book one being The Name of the Wind). |
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Post by warrl on Jan 8, 2015 18:34:25 GMT
But the entire story already is a framed narrative, with Gunnerkrigg being the "in the past" portion. Antimony is the narrator. And while that framing is mostly glossed over, it does show up occasionally. |
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Post by todd on Jan 8, 2015 23:20:08 GMT
But the entire story already is a framed narrative, with Gunnerkrigg being the "in the past" portion. Antimony is the narrator. And while that framing is mostly glossed over, it does show up occasionally. Though Tom's drifted away from it; the narration last appeared in Chapter Fifteen (unless you count the "present-day voice-over" in the MicroSat chapter), and I suspect that Tom may have dropped the idea. |
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 9, 2015 4:13:41 GMT
well, humans eating a bird can hardly be called extreme cannibalism. It could if we knew birds were sentient (shrug) also sorry for late reply |
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Post by lit on Jan 9, 2015 15:16:11 GMT
I'd never considered that these chapter break pages with Tea and San could be forming their own narrative - just assumed that they were disconnected, random backgrounds. It is really interesting to think that this possible portrayal of an apocalypse in the framing may be a direct result of what happens in the story between Annie, Kat, the robots, and the forest etc. I want to know more about these two.
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Post by keef on Jan 9, 2015 19:30:36 GMT
I'd never considered that these chapter break pages with Tea and San could be forming their own narrative - just assumed that they were disconnected, random backgrounds. It is really interesting to think that this possible portrayal of an apocalypse in the framing may be a direct result of what happens in the story between Annie, Kat, the robots, and the forest etc. I want to know more about these two. , the boy probably Tom. I always assumed san is just the Japanese honorific. He says she is nobody important.. Weird isn't it? |
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 10, 2015 1:22:06 GMT
I'd never considered that these chapter break pages with Tea and San could be forming their own narrative - just assumed that they were disconnected, random backgrounds. It is really interesting to think that this possible portrayal of an apocalypse in the framing may be a direct result of what happens in the story between Annie, Kat, the robots, and the forest etc. I want to know more about these two. , the boy probably Tom. I always assumed san is just the Japanese honorific. He says she is nobody important.. Weird isn't it? I think she represents someone he knew or lost in the past. She seems kind  but it's not my place to speculate, really. |
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but it's not my place to speculate, really.