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Post by Daedalus on Mar 11, 2015 7:00:21 GMT
Looks...biblically ominous.
Now is the time to mention the references to the "tree of life" in alchemy, and the "tree of knowledge" in abrahamic scripture.
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Post by Sky Schemer on Mar 11, 2015 7:02:50 GMT
Damn. That is some lovely art there, Tom.
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Post by snipertom on Mar 11, 2015 7:04:50 GMT
SUCH MYSTERIES ARE BEING SOLVED
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Post by Daedalus on Mar 11, 2015 7:04:55 GMT
Best thing of all: the chapter icon is another planet!!
Here's hoping we travel there, heh. In Donny's rocket ship, of course.
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Post by Fishy on Mar 11, 2015 7:04:51 GMT
First thought was that maybe we'd get to see the girls heading back to that artificial habitat, though... That was a cherry tree, wasn't it? This would be a very large cherry. Or maybe my perspective is just a bit wonky. Or more likely, wrong tree. Ah well, I can dream.
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Post by sapientcoffee on Mar 11, 2015 7:16:42 GMT
The tree decides who will go and who will stay!
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Post by ed1300 on Mar 11, 2015 7:44:55 GMT
Is it me or has the comic gone out of sync? Normally there is the ending on a Monday, bonus strip on Wednesday and the new chapter splash cover in the Friday.
Or has lack of sleep finally gotten to me?
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Mar 11, 2015 7:47:57 GMT
That, right there, is one delicious looking fruit. Kudos on the chapter art, that's for sure. Now is it a reddish plum, a dark nectarine, a bright up-close cherry, or just a really shiny apple? I don't know enough about fruit tree leaves to tell. My grandfather used to have a pear and peach tree, so those are the only ones I'm familiar with.
[edit] I don't think there's ever been a rhythm to which days chapters start and end. Maybe a recent coincidence?
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Post by philman on Mar 11, 2015 8:15:01 GMT
Is it me or has the comic gone out of sync? Normally there is the ending on a Monday, bonus strip on Wednesday and the new chapter splash cover in the Friday. Or has lack of sleep finally gotten to me? I think that's been an assumption some people have made about the comic, but I've never been sure if it's always been true. If it is then the number of pages in each chapter should be divisible by 3, which should be easy enough to check
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Post by Gulby on Mar 11, 2015 8:19:36 GMT
That's Returned-from-the-forest-Robot's arm tree, right ?... An apple tree, then...
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Post by eightyfour on Mar 11, 2015 8:24:39 GMT
Is it me or has the comic gone out of sync? Normally there is the ending on a Monday, bonus strip on Wednesday and the new chapter splash cover in the Friday. Or has lack of sleep finally gotten to me? I think that's been an assumption some people have made about the comic, but I've never been sure if it's always been true. If it is then the number of pages in each chapter should be divisible by 3, which should be easy enough to check Didn't Tom at one point state that he doesn't plan chapter ends/starts to be on specific days and that it's coincidence if it appears to be that way? That's Returned-from-the-forest-Robot's arm tree, right ?... An apple tree, then... That was my assumption, too.
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Post by foresterr on Mar 11, 2015 8:40:43 GMT
Yikes, Gunnerkrigg goes photorealistic
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Post by stci on Mar 11, 2015 9:00:47 GMT
Trees. Apples do not fall far from them. Could easily apply to both Kat and Annie, from what I've seen.
Also, there's the shadow of what I take to be a forked twig across the apple, right through the reflection of the sun - kinda ominous. Two strands coming together? Or splitting up? Or just a really, really nice picture?
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Post by calpal on Mar 11, 2015 10:19:08 GMT
A near-photo-realistic apple on a tree, combined with an archive image of another planet? Clearly this is the doings of...
DOCTOR DISASTER!!
(But seriously, why no Dr. Disaster in a long time?)
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Mar 11, 2015 10:26:47 GMT
"My God - It's full of stars!" The apple sort of looks like a fish-eye lens view of the night sky. There is the silhouette of the horizon and another tree, stars in the sky, and the silhouette of a branch cutting through a brighter object (moon?). The shadow of the branch on the apple looks like a dowsing rod, pointing up to the sky/moon/sun/stars. And finally, I didn't notice/appreciate that in the 6th Treatise, the seven symbols in the top half of the treatise are growing off the tree like fruit. My own fault because it is clear as day and I bet others commented on it.
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Post by ctso74 on Mar 11, 2015 17:09:47 GMT
Is Coyote going to eat Saturn?... I like Saturn...
Awesome art! Subtly complex and soft. Technically, apples are made of star dust, but so is everything else. With planets and fruit, this may be a very metaphysical chapter. Something to look forward to.
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Post by Lightice on Mar 11, 2015 18:15:09 GMT
With the tree and astronomical elements, I wonder if this has anything to do with Yggdrasil, the World Tree? I don't know if it's ever been depicted as an apple tree, but it would be a cool bit of symbolism to present the worlds as fruit hanging from Yggdrasil's branches...
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Post by calpal on Mar 11, 2015 19:22:30 GMT
Does this mean we might see Brinnie now? If memory serves me well, there was some idea or other that she was based off Nordic mythology, which would tie in well to Yggdrasil (if that is what this is all tying into).
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Post by Lightice on Mar 11, 2015 20:14:18 GMT
Does this mean we might see Brinnie now? If memory serves me well, there was some idea or other that she was based off Nordic mythology, which would tie in well to Yggdrasil (if that is what this is all tying into). I believe that Tom confirmed that she is the Valkyrie Brynhilde (sp?). And she came to my mind, too. I just wonder how Norse mythology would tie to the plotlines that are currently in development...
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Post by Daedalus on Mar 11, 2015 21:03:06 GMT
Does this mean we might see Brinnie now? If memory serves me well, there was some idea or other that she was based off Nordic mythology, which would tie in well to Yggdrasil (if that is what this is all tying into). I believe that Tom confirmed that she is the Valkyrie Brynhilde (sp?). And she came to my mind, too. I just wonder how Norse mythology would tie to the plotlines that are currently in development... I don't think it would tie in. I'm not sure why people assume Brinnie and her father Odin are always going to be brought back into the story, but for whatever reason, they're the first thing anyone speculates about many new chapters.
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Post by calpal on Mar 11, 2015 23:51:36 GMT
Probably just a matter of 'if X says something related to Nordic mythology, then Brinnie must be right around the corner'. My two cents: Tom wouldn't just put someone in two chapters and intend to never bring them up again, right? So based on that presumption, surely there might be a coming chapter where Brinnie will make a come-back.
And I would LOVE to see any interaction between Coyote and Odin.
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Post by Lightice on Mar 11, 2015 23:54:09 GMT
I don't think it would tie in. I'm not sure why people assume Brinnie and her father Odin are always going to be brought back into the story, but for whatever reason, they're the first thing anyone speculates about many new chapters. I wasn't including Brinnie in my speculation, I just thought that a tree + cosmic imagery sounds a lot like Yggdrasil or some other iteration of the World Tree from various mythologies.
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Post by The Anarch on Mar 11, 2015 23:57:03 GMT
I'm not sure why people assume Brinnie and her father Odin are always going to be brought back into the story, but for whatever reason, they're the first thing anyone speculates about many new chapters. Maybe they'll stop by and tell us more about that Steadman fellow.
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Post by todd on Mar 12, 2015 0:08:22 GMT
I don't think it would tie in. I'm not sure why people assume Brinnie and her father Odin are always going to be brought back into the story, but for whatever reason, they're the first thing anyone speculates about many new chapters. I wonder if much of it comes from Brinnie being the "sixth kid" in the photograph back in Chapter Seven of Annie and Kat's parents and Eglamore when they were students at the Court. The other five (Surma, Anthony, Anja, Donald, and James) have all had major roles in the story. Brinnie, so far, has been the odd one out - and maybe readers are expecting her to do something important as a result. (On the other hand, it might be more realistic to have one of the kids in the photograph be a bit character rather than an important figure in the story.)
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Mar 12, 2015 1:22:52 GMT
Maybe Anthony got past his personal issues and reconnected with Brinnie. We haven't seen either because they're shacked up together somewhere hiding from both the Court and Odin. Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow!
Okay, that's a little off topic, but it's got Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow!
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Post by fwip on Mar 12, 2015 3:41:17 GMT
It's an apple tree. We used to have an apple tree, pretty good match based on the shape of the leaves, the type of the stem, and the bottom of the fruit. I thought it was a cherry tree too at first due to plot reasons but you won't be convincing me it's not an apple tree any time soon. That's a very healthy apple for something that grew from a wild tree though. (I don't know how much breeding has effected fruit size and luster. However, that fruit still looks cultivated to me.)
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Post by The Anarch on Mar 12, 2015 4:06:23 GMT
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Post by SilverbackRon on Mar 12, 2015 6:58:10 GMT
I believe that Tom confirmed that she is the Valkyrie Brynhilde (sp?). And she came to my mind, too. I just wonder how Norse mythology would tie to the plotlines that are currently in development... I don't think it would tie in. I'm not sure why people assume Brinnie and her father Odin are always going to be brought back into the story, but for whatever reason, they're the first thing anyone speculates about many new chapters. I think people expect to see a reappearance of Brinnie at some point just because of her inclusion in "The Photo" and then the mystery dragging out for 15 chapters before she made her first and only appearance. And it was quite a flashy event. Pretty much what todd already said, I guess.
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Post by arf on Mar 12, 2015 9:12:45 GMT
I don't think it would tie in. I'm not sure why people assume Brinnie and her father Odin are always going to be brought back into the story, but for whatever reason, they're the first thing anyone speculates about many new chapters. I think people expect to see a reappearance of Brinnie at some point just because of her inclusion in "The Photo" and then the mystery dragging out for 15 chapters before she made her first and only appearance. And it was quite a flashy event. Pretty much what todd already said, I guess. Brinnie also came up here. She's not been forgotten.
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Post by snipertom on Mar 12, 2015 9:27:07 GMT
Trees. Apples do not fall far from them. Could easily apply to both Kat and Annie, from what I've seen. Along with the icon of the planet, I wonder if we're going to see ANTHONY this chapter.
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