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Post by The Anarch on Mar 25, 2015 7:01:51 GMT
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Post by SilverbackRon on Mar 25, 2015 7:02:50 GMT
Anthony Carver continues to be the charismatic charmer we all know and love...
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Post by alliek on Mar 25, 2015 7:03:11 GMT
Really hoping Zimmy will make a surprise appearance and punch him again...
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Post by wombat on Mar 25, 2015 7:03:42 GMT
At least we got to see the hand.
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Post by Daedalus on Mar 25, 2015 7:04:13 GMT
So many cookies to November. Now, I wonder if Anthony blames Antimony for it...his dialog today leaves that ambiguous. And now we'd have a reasonable motive if we decided that he was nicer before, then became a jerkass. |
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Post by Fishy on Mar 25, 2015 7:05:00 GMT
I'd be concerned too if my dad's hand was showing signs of transforming into a cartoon.
Also, Kat, please feel free to go in there and bring him down a peg or two. For friendship and such.
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Post by zimmyzims on Mar 25, 2015 7:05:30 GMT
So, we got to see the class room, no trolling by Tom, but obviously he was not going to cut straight to the business. However, the mystery of the hand is solved! She shouldn't be pushing it... having lost his hand is not what he was going to talk about and it irritates him. So, "fair point!"
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Post by edzepp on Mar 25, 2015 7:05:32 GMT
Loving concern from your child?
Can't be having none of that now.
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Post by Daedalus on Mar 25, 2015 7:05:58 GMT
Kat's face mirrors my own these last few pages. Again, confirmation of November's hand-related speculation makes Tony's actions towards his daughter more understandable, though not any less deplorable. |
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Post by zimmyzims on Mar 25, 2015 7:05:58 GMT
Anthony Carver continues to be the charismatic charmer we all know and love... Tons of fan post incoming. |
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Post by edzepp on Mar 25, 2015 7:11:05 GMT
Kat's face mirrors my own these last few pages. Again, confirmation of November's hand-related speculation makes Tony's actions towards his daughter more understandable, though not any less deplorable. It would explain a lot. Whether it excuses anything remains to be seen. |
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Post by ed1300 on Mar 25, 2015 7:12:55 GMT
Kat's face mirrors my own these last few pages. Again, confirmation of November's hand-related speculation makes Tony's actions towards his daughter more understandable, though not any less deplorable. I don't know, as a lefty I eat with only a fork using my right hand due to etiquette and in the previous page second panel he's rubbing his hair with his left, which can indicate he is left hand dominant. |
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Post by psybershadow on Mar 25, 2015 7:13:17 GMT
Wait a second, is his hand some sort of prosthetic because of the gleam?
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Mar 25, 2015 7:14:25 GMT
I am still waiting to see if it is a ROBOT HAND before final dispensation of cookies...
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Post by vakri on Mar 25, 2015 7:23:12 GMT
I'm a lot more concerned about his second hand. And what is he writing. How do you think? A letter explaining everything, because it would be easier this way? A massage to Kat's parents? Detention? Additional homework?
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Post by thesaddestface on Mar 25, 2015 7:23:59 GMT
Yeah, at this point I don't care about the why behind his behavior. Whatever the sob story that your pain is understandable doesn't make your behavior acceptable.
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Post by zimmyzims on Mar 25, 2015 7:26:27 GMT
Hmm... maybe I'm wrong, maybe this was straight to the business... maybe "let me restate" is indeed the key: this should not be interpreted as him being annoyed of the question, but as seizing the chance to interrogate his daughter about her possible involvement in the accident that lost him his hand. That said, I understand that losing your hand must be extremely annoying, but if it is as a result of executing an operation on someone without her knowing about it, let alone giving her consent, it should in aftermath be clear that it is not to be blamed on her and should be considered as a materialisation of a deliberately taken risk. It is not many who would do so, obviously people usually do blame others when their reactions cause their deliberately taken risks to materialise to their own damage. I'm not sure if this is about that, I mean, it is not obvious what is the reason of this interrogation, if it is interrogation, because there's at least the obvious possibility that whether or not Annie could have acted in the way to attack him etherically like that (the Zimmy-punch) would be important information for future action. Hmm.... him writing suggests perhaps rather the latter reason than the former. If he was just annoyed about that, what would be the meaning of this writing? Perhaps he's indeed already over his irritation with what happened and thinking of the next step. The theory that Anthony is already in a war appeals to me more and more. Maybe there is a lot of hidden manoeuvre's that are not visible to the children yet, the relations between the Court and the Forest even more tense than what they seem, or the tensions indeed having already broken into unofficial conflicts. I remind everybody, once again, of this. |
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Post by zimmyzims on Mar 25, 2015 7:28:24 GMT
I'm a lot more concerned about his second hand. And what is he writing. How do you think? A letter explaining everything, because it would be easier this way? A massage to Kat's parents? Detention? Additional homework? Very good point, what is he doing with his left hand... However, I may be naive, but I'd imagine that Kat's parents can get a massage without a doctor's order. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Mar 25, 2015 7:29:04 GMT
The loss of the hand may explain why he's Mr. Carver instead of Dr. Carver now. Tough to be a surgeon with a prosthetic hand, though the Court might be able to do something about that and that may offer an alternate explanation on why he's back. Although, a new hand might be the bribe that got him back to rein in Antimony or something, since the two possibilities aren't mutually exclusive.
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Post by csj on Mar 25, 2015 7:40:33 GMT
Just because you have the technology to grow another one, doesn't mean you'd like the idea of having a body part that doesn't really 'belong' to you.
I don't think Donlan will achieve too much from trying to return his backhand with her forehand, either.
He is not someone that likes being fingered. Or having noses thumbed at him.
On the other hand, who knows?
I can't quite put my finger on what happens next.
:3
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Post by KMar on Mar 25, 2015 7:43:08 GMT
At least we got to see the hand. Well yes and no, we now know he wears a glove. |
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Post by rafk on Mar 25, 2015 7:51:17 GMT
Kat is going to boil over in a second.
Don't forget how her head-bird reacted to Zimmy's question about Anthony in "Divine". She already HATE HATED him before she saw him being cruel to Annie right in front of her.
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Post by Ammy on Mar 25, 2015 7:52:21 GMT
Is it a glove or a prosthetic hand? I feel that Annie wouldn't be as immediately shocked at seeing a glove (moreso "why are you wearing a glove"), and it does look strangely shiny on closer inspection.
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Post by psybershadow on Mar 25, 2015 7:54:47 GMT
At least we got to see the hand. Well yes and no, we now know he wears a glove. Nah. It looks more like a prosthetic to me than a glove. If you look closely you can see the light sheen/gleam. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Mar 25, 2015 7:58:14 GMT
Just to be a contrarian I'll mention that one theory I've had on where Anthony Carver has been all this time... at a Doctors without Borders or similar volunteer outpost. If I were a doctor who was feeling like hiding out and maybe earning some good karma that's where I'd go. Some of those are in/near conflict zones where one could lose an arm to an IED or booby trap, and his personality may make is face eminently punchable, so there are alternate explanations for his injuries.
That said: Since there is an explanation in the comic for his injuries I'm ready to hand out cookies to the third of the forum who answered the poll with right(ish) answers. If it turns out to be a ROBOT HAND, then those two people get full cookies while the remaining correct respondents get half-cookies.
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Post by Daedalus on Mar 25, 2015 8:03:30 GMT
He is not someone that likes being fingered. :/ |
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Post by sidhekin on Mar 25, 2015 8:25:23 GMT
Again, confirmation of November's hand-related speculation makes Tony's actions towards his daughter more understandable It does? I don't see it. What does that concern Annie? |
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Post by pasko on Mar 25, 2015 8:46:14 GMT
I'm starting to think that Zimmy mauled him real good. The cut on the lip and now the hand. He maybe would't have lost his hand if not for Zimmy's intervention.
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Post by zimmyzims on Mar 25, 2015 8:49:27 GMT
Just to be a contrarian I'll mention that one theory I've had on where Anthony Carver has been all this time... at a Doctors without Borders or similar volunteer outpost. If I were a doctor who was feeling like hiding out and maybe earning some good karma that's where I'd go. Some of those are in/near conflict zones where one could lose an arm to an IED or booby trap, and his personality may make is face eminently punchable, so there are alternate explanations for his injuries. A good theory. Now, this is one thing, people tend to judge each other's personal characteristics, emotions and intentions according to their looks (this unshocking claim is also scientifically proven), while really, looks deceive and we often were better off without making such judgements. Some people just look grumpy or dickish normally, even if their internal state is neither. But I doubt this concerns Anthony absolutely chronically, however, because he was considered handsome as a youngster, but he also was witnessed to turn outwardly the more closed the more he was emotionally engaged, this then not really reflecting his inner state. So, maybe there's something of that. It looks more like a prosthetic to me than a glove. Agreed, it is a prosthetic hand. |
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Post by linchie on Mar 25, 2015 8:58:09 GMT
This chapter continies to break my heart, and mostly not because of Annie, but because of Anthony. I guess his plotline and backstory were ones I was excited to see the most since the beginning of the comic (and I always feel empathy for emotionless characters who cannot into socialization), and now when it starts to reveal, I feel like it is all going wrong! Well, maybe it is too early to judge, but his behavour towards Annie is already too cruel (and if you remember all stuff happened in Divine...) to suddenly make him a decent person in the end, and if he continiues to be a jerk, he'd be too blatant Gendo-style evil dad.
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