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Post by CoyoteReborn on Jan 21, 2015 8:00:56 GMT
Behold my godly might, yes yes!!!Witness as even our stoic Fire-Head Girl smiles in my divine presence! See how, with my wise teachings, she leaves the earth behind, and soars! And daaaaaaaamn I'm looking seeexy today!!
See how I'm showing off My beautiful curves to the camera?
Tom, bonus points for including Me in the first real page of the year!
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Post by smjjames on Jan 21, 2015 8:05:55 GMT
Okay, so we're starting off in the forest, and celestial form coyote.
I was going to say cosmic form coyote, but then decided celestial sounded better.
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 21, 2015 8:12:29 GMT
Hoping for lots of Coyote too. We haven't had a Coyote-centric chapter in *forever*. Woot! (called it) Looking forward to Coyote's spin on recent events. |
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Post by OGRuddawg on Jan 21, 2015 8:25:22 GMT
Yes, an ether-style drawing! We haven't had one of these in a while! (Zimmyngham does not count)
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Post by philman on Jan 21, 2015 8:31:36 GMT
Hoping for lots of Coyote too. We haven't had a Coyote-centric chapter in *forever*. Woot! (called it) Looking forward to Coyote's spin on recent events. To be fair I think most people called Forest upon seeing the title page  and is it just me, or does it look like Coyote is almost, caressing Annie's leg? Maybe it's just the angle, but starting to wonder just what Coyote's plans are for Annie. |
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Post by Elysium on Jan 21, 2015 8:39:25 GMT
And daaaaaaaamn I'm looking sexy today. Yup, lookin' gud here m8 |
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Post by The Anarch on Jan 21, 2015 8:53:27 GMT
Oh hey, Annie's necklace has an antimony pendant.
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Post by Ophel on Jan 21, 2015 9:36:49 GMT
Interesting to see that almost everything is colourful, even the forest background! The only thing that isn't colourful is Annie's clothes and that single grey band behind Annie's head. But I get the feeling that's part of the (Coyote's) colour scheme.
Kinda shows, to me, that Annie has now developed an almost full grasp of (being in) the ether.
When was the last ethereal picture? The wisp? Anything before that?
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Post by sidhekin on Jan 21, 2015 10:05:53 GMT
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Post by stci on Jan 21, 2015 10:08:46 GMT
I never noticed this before, but the white detailing on the blue bits between Coyote's eyes(?) looks kind of like the etheric computer magic that Kat's parents use from time to time. A little more natural and less electronic, but similar.
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Post by OGRuddawg on Jan 21, 2015 11:05:03 GMT
I think the last ether-pic was when Annie and Mort went through the door. Chapter 47, page 1350 |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jan 21, 2015 11:20:35 GMT
Hoping for lots of Coyote too. We haven't had a Coyote-centric chapter in *forever*. Woot! (called it) Looking forward to Coyote's spin on recent events. It usually takes more than a few pages, and a dash of misdirection, before the direction of the chapter is evident. It might still be about robots! |
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Post by todd on Jan 21, 2015 11:37:13 GMT
Woot! (called it) Looking forward to Coyote's spin on recent events. It usually takes more than a few pages, and a dash of misdirection, before the direction of the chapter is evident. It might still be about robots! We just had a robot chapter (if before the hiatus) - let's have it about the forest-and-Coyote part of the story, since that's the part Annie's more closely involved with. Kat's part of the story has been upstaging her a bit too much lately. |
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Post by calpal on Jan 21, 2015 11:44:33 GMT
... Or it was definitely a chapter about Coyote and the Forest folk. No robots here, bugger that.
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Post by csj on Jan 21, 2015 12:39:33 GMT
Yes, an ether-style drawing! We haven't had one of these in a while! (Zimmyngham does not count) petition for every panel to be drawn in zimmingham style forever |
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Post by fuzzyone on Jan 21, 2015 13:23:10 GMT
Slightly off topic, but I have to wonder if spammers like that ACTUALLY get any results from blatant, shotgun approaches like this. I've never been motivated at all to buy any good or service advertised in this manner. (if they've been deleted by the time someone is reading this, we had another bot flood the forum with virtually identical posts advertising... Looks like some sort of love-help phone line? Not sure, though.)
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Post by Deepbluediver on Jan 21, 2015 13:40:18 GMT
I have a new theory- that cut on her cheek will finally heal once she solves the Jeanne problem once and for all.
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jan 21, 2015 14:19:22 GMT
Slightly off topic, but I have to wonder if spammers like that ACTUALLY get any results from blatant, shotgun approaches like this. I've never been motivated at all to buy any good or service advertised in this manner. (if they've been deleted by the time someone is reading this, we had another bot flood the forum with virtually identical posts advertising... Looks like some sort of love-help phone line? Not sure, though.) The cost of creating the spam is almost nothing. So if just one person follows the link, the spammer makes a cent or two in profit. That's why there was some discussion of an internet stamp that would cost a tiny fraction of a cent. A normal person might acrue a few dollars worth of charges in a year, but the stamp would be enough to make spam unprofitable. I believe the idea never took off because of implementation concerns. |
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Post by ctso74 on Jan 21, 2015 15:59:57 GMT
What Etheric teeth you have!
Great start to the chapter. I'm hoping we'll here about divine worship. Did other gods in the past lose worshipers and fade away, or are they still around? There seems to be some kind of Divine Rank. How exactly does Coyote have so much power? I can't imagine too many Coyote worshipers currently "crossing over" to affect the Ether.
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Post by goldenknots on Jan 21, 2015 16:12:15 GMT
I never noticed this before, but the white detailing on the blue bits between Coyote's eyes(?) looks kind of like the etheric computer magic that Kat's parents use from time to time. A little more natural and less electronic, but similar. I just went back and looked at the first time Annie used the stone to look at Coyote, and those patterns were there, yes. It was in " The Old Dog's Tricks". |
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 21, 2015 16:48:52 GMT
How exactly does Coyote have so much power? I can't imagine too many Coyote worshipers currently "crossing over" to affect the Ether. Perhaps he is the archetype of the Trickster, so many people believe in him without seeing him as a coyote. Our understanding of his secret is fuzzy. |
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Post by OGRuddawg on Jan 21, 2015 17:49:34 GMT
How exactly does Coyote have so much power? I can't imagine too many Coyote worshipers currently "crossing over" to affect the Ether. Perhaps he is the archetype of the Trickster, so many people believe in him without seeing him as a coyote. Our understanding of his secret is fuzzy. I'm gonna take a stab at fleshing out some of GKC's etherphysics and Coyote's source of power. We all know that creatures in this world can develop or be given etheric abilities. We also know that these abilities can shape the physical world directly. We also know people's thoughts and perceptions of the world affect the ether once they die. Once absorbed into the ether, these perceptions continue to shape the world, similar to how society and psychology influence our view of the world. I think the ether is a more literal interpretation of sentient creatures' perceptions and beliefs, accelerating and amplifying this process. Coyote seems to have known this, so all he had to do was find out about the folklore surrounding the coyote, gather a small following in America, show off, and expand his powers by using them. He is literally stoking his ego and bootstrapping himself into a position of power using the ether, if only for shits and giggles. I have no idea if anyone can follow this since I'm operating on like 2 hours of sleep. |
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Post by Lightice on Jan 21, 2015 18:36:17 GMT
Great start to the chapter. I'm hoping we'll here about divine worship. Did other gods in the past lose worshipers and fade away, or are they still around? There seems to be some kind of Divine Rank. How exactly does Coyote have so much power? I can't imagine too many Coyote worshipers currently "crossing over" to affect the Ether. I don't think that it's the amount of religious worship that keeps the Etheric deities going, but human imagination in general. We've seen that Chang'e is still around and well, which seems to suggest that the old gods in general are still around. |
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Post by SilverbackRon on Jan 21, 2015 19:10:43 GMT
Great start to the chapter. I'm hoping we'll here about divine worship. Did other gods in the past lose worshipers and fade away, or are they still around? There seems to be some kind of Divine Rank. How exactly does Coyote have so much power? I can't imagine too many Coyote worshipers currently "crossing over" to affect the Ether. I don't think that it's the amount of religious worship that keeps the Etheric deities going, but human imagination in general. We've seen that Chang'e is still around and well, which seems to suggest that the old gods in general are still around. Old Gods don't die, they just drop in on Gunnerkrigg once in while. |
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Post by luxanima on Jan 21, 2015 23:48:52 GMT
Perhaps he is the archetype of the Trickster, so many people believe in him without seeing him as a coyote. Our understanding of his secret is fuzzy. I'm gonna take a stab at fleshing out some of GKC's etherphysics and Coyote's source of power. We all know that creatures in this world can develop or be given etheric abilities. We also know that these abilities can shape the physical world directly. We also know people's thoughts and perceptions of the world affect the ether once they die. Once absorbed into the ether, these perceptions continue to shape the world, similar to how society and psychology influence our view of the world. I think the ether is a more literal interpretation of sentient creatures' perceptions and beliefs, accelerating and amplifying this process. Coyote seems to have known this, so all he had to do was find out about the folklore surrounding the coyote, gather a small following in America, show off, and expand his powers by using them. He is literally stoking his ego and bootstrapping himself into a position of power using the ether, if only for shits and giggles. I have no idea if anyone can follow this since I'm operating on like 2 hours of sleep. I can. Sounds like a pretty good idea actually. How are you pulling off the 2 hours btw? That one of those sleep schedule routines to save daytime, or were you real busy? You do say "if only for shits and giggles", but I feel I must say I think that's the farthest from the truth. Do I know what's he about? Hell no. But trickster gods, to me, are a lesson in thinking for yourself. Don't believe everything on first sight (btw, I think that was one of the points my avatar had). I think he might just come out benevolent. I actually wish that. But I recently remembered the manipulation on Ysengrin. I don't like to say never, but justifying that is gonna be hard, if Coyote is to turn out pure white like, instead of grey. |
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Post by CoyoteReborn on Jan 22, 2015 3:43:41 GMT
Do I know what's he about? Hell no. You could just ask Me! *pouting* Nobody cares about my opinion but poor, stupid Ysengrin. And he's so boring because he won't disagree or get mad at me!! No use talking to someone if you can't annoy them! |
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Post by OGRuddawg on Jan 22, 2015 4:37:30 GMT
I'm gonna take a stab at fleshing out some of GKC's etherphysics and Coyote's source of power. We all know that creatures in this world can develop or be given etheric abilities. We also know that these abilities can shape the physical world directly. We also know people's thoughts and perceptions of the world affect the ether once they die. Once absorbed into the ether, these perceptions continue to shape the world, similar to how society and psychology influence our view of the world. I think the ether is a more literal interpretation of sentient creatures' perceptions and beliefs, accelerating and amplifying this process. Coyote seems to have known this, so all he had to do was find out about the folklore surrounding the coyote, gather a small following in America, show off, and expand his powers by using them. He is literally stoking his ego and bootstrapping himself into a position of power using the ether, if only for shits and giggles. I have no idea if anyone can follow this since I'm operating on like 2 hours of sleep. I can. Sounds like a pretty good idea actually. How are you pulling off the 2 hours btw? That one of those sleep schedule routines to save daytime, or were you real busy? You do say "if only for shits and giggles", but I feel I must say I think that's the farthest from the truth. Do I know what's he about? Hell no. But trickster gods, to me, are a lesson in thinking for yourself. Don't believe everything on first sight (btw, I think that was one of the points my avatar had). I think he might just come out benevolent. I actually wish that. But I recently remembered the manipulation on Ysengrin. I don't like to say never, but justifying that is gonna be hard, if Coyote is to turn out pure white like, instead of grey. The 2 hours of sleep was a result of a random bout of insomnia combined with late-night internet trawling. And yeah, I definitely was not thinking when I said Coyote only does what he does for shits and giggles. He clearly has motives, but his erratic behavior makes it hard to see what angle he is playing so far in the comic. Maybe this chapter will help us understand what Coyote's true motives are. Being a trickster god, I doubt we will ever fully understand Coyote's behavior, since deception and manipulation are tools of Coyote's trade. Also, I have a strange feeling that Tom wouldn't want it to be that easy for us haha. |
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Post by alpacalypse on Jan 22, 2015 5:05:23 GMT
Since no one seems to be discussing what Coyote actually said, based on the wording, it seems that they are still in the Summer. Which I am excited for because we haven't seen much of their summers besides in sidestories or letters and stuff. I am also excited for the possibility that they are still in the middle, or at least not at the end, of summer.
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Post by Pig_catapult on Jan 22, 2015 8:58:16 GMT
Since no one seems to be discussing what Coyote actually said, based on the wording, it seems that they are still in the Summer. Which I am excited for because we haven't seen much of their summers besides in sidestories or letters and stuff. I am also excited for the possibility that they are still in the middle, or at least not at the end, of summer. The hand-guillotine seal is gone, so I think it must be at the end of the summer. |
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Post by sidhekin on Jan 22, 2015 8:59:49 GMT
... or next Summer.
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