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Post by Nepycros on Jun 22, 2015 7:00:17 GMT
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Post by youwiththeface on Jun 22, 2015 7:01:21 GMT
That smile friggin' hurts me.
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Post by Gotolei on Jun 22, 2015 7:02:41 GMT
...Annie wasn't walking with her eyes closed that whole time, was she?
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Post by aquamafia on Jun 22, 2015 7:02:45 GMT
Joy, one of the first semi nice things he's said to Annie so far.
Also, do the proportions in the fourth panel seem kinda off to anyone else? Either Annie's head is HUGE, or Anthony's head is tiny.
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Post by Chancellor on Jun 22, 2015 7:03:32 GMT
FOR THE LOVE OF PETE JUST HUG YOUR GODDAMN CHILD, PLEASEEEEEEE!
Anthony almost seemed human for a moment here.
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Post by vakri on Jun 22, 2015 7:04:40 GMT
One happy family  yeah, of course I'm kidding. |
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Post by Daedalus on Jun 22, 2015 7:05:40 GMT
...Annie wasn't walking with her eyes closed that whole time, was she? Anthony: "Eyesight is about as important as independence in this household. Thus, you will walk home with your eyes closed." *Antimony falls and skins her knee*
*Tony does not help her up*Anthony almost seemed human for a moment here. Operative word: "almost". |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jun 22, 2015 7:06:31 GMT
She forgot to add the "sir" but I guess it's "all good" because they're not in school.
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Post by avurai on Jun 22, 2015 7:08:54 GMT
Smashcut to Anthony clenching his hand into a fist in his pants pocket.
"Goodnight, offspring. Away to your secret bunker now."
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Post by Daedalus on Jun 22, 2015 7:10:08 GMT
Seriously though, I really am starting to think that something supernatural is suppressing Annie's emotions. The closed eyes are almost certainly a callback to her white emotionless mask, and notice how she closed her eyes when Kat confronted her a while ago...The peaceful closed-eyed face is kind of creepy, actually. Dissonant serenity, invoking TV Tropes. Or it's just her quirk for bottling up an overload of harmful emotions, almost like meditation. But this is the closest thing to human current-day Tony has been portrayed as. So there is...something non-robotics in there. I'm getting vibes that the next several pages will be a shock, somehow. Anyone else feel like that? |
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Jun 22, 2015 7:11:32 GMT
This chapter sure is still going. I keep thinking the next page will be the end, and it keeps not ending. I'm really curious what this is all supposed to be leading toward
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Post by ninjaraven on Jun 22, 2015 7:13:23 GMT
Annie's expressions in this panel actually remind me a little of the beginning of Fire Spike (though she's a good way off the tipping point right now). The chafing has begun.
I expect Annie might be shown dabbling with her blinker stone in her room alone.
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Post by youwiththeface on Jun 22, 2015 7:14:27 GMT
I'm getting vibes that the next several pages will be a shock, somehow. Anyone else feel like that? I'm getting that vibe, but I've been wrong before. |
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Post by pasko on Jun 22, 2015 7:18:32 GMT
Next page: fire on a wall to vent her frustration.
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Post by msouth on Jun 22, 2015 7:27:09 GMT
Well, I guess I have to give up on all my theories.
He went through/is going through something really bad.
Annie was embarrassed by the embarrassing things he did, but she's
(a) really glad that he's back
(b) willing to be patient with him
She's actually being the grownup in this situation.
That's what it looks like to me now. I really wanted this to be an elaborate ploy by Coyote to show Annie her innermost fears and so on, but I guess it just is what it appears to be.
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Post by SilverbackRon on Jun 22, 2015 7:39:50 GMT
Seriously though, I really am starting to think that something supernatural is suppressing Annie's emotions. The closed eyes are almost certainly a callback to her white emotionless mask, and notice how she closed her eyes when Kat confronted her a while ago...The peaceful closed-eyed face is kind of creepy, actually. Dissonant serenity, invoking TV Tropes. Or it's just her quirk for bottling up an overload of harmful emotions, almost like meditation. But this is the closest thing to human current-day Tony has been portrayed as. So there is...something non-robotics in there. I'm getting vibes that the next several pages will be a shock, somehow. Anyone else feel like that? Yeah, that page you linked really creeped me out when I first read it... and ever since actually. If the coming pages will be a shock, that would be a welcome change. We are fully in rut right now of pages that don't reveal anything new at all. Oh, some show promise, such as Donald's confrontation which ultimately didn't give us much really, other than repeating that Anthony is a cold, secretive, manipulative jerk that we shouldn't like. Yes, I get it. I am totally ready for a shock. |
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Post by speedwell on Jun 22, 2015 8:05:03 GMT
Seriously though, I really am starting to think that something supernatural is suppressing Annie's emotions. The closed eyes are almost certainly a callback to her white emotionless mask, and notice how she closed her eyes when Kat confronted her a while ago...The peaceful closed-eyed face is kind of creepy, actually. Dissonant serenity, invoking TV Tropes. Or it's just her quirk for bottling up an overload of harmful emotions, almost like meditation.... I think it's a sign she's spending that time in, or partly in, the ether, like that time she spent with the fairy class. If she's actually zoned out most of the time, it might explain why she is putting up with the rest of her life being so drab and spartan. |
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Post by justcurious on Jun 22, 2015 8:08:47 GMT
The almost puppy like smile in the fourth panel. She is so obviously seeking affection and Anthony just can't see it. He just does not know how to relate to a child. And the sixth panel. The resignation, the suppression of feelings, I can't read what she is feeling here.
Heartbreaking.
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Post by mangotango on Jun 22, 2015 8:10:03 GMT
The last panel really suggests a change in atmosphere-- what with the sudden (darker) change in color, perspective...
Also, the way that Annie waits/watches Tony leave gives me a sense that Annie is toooooooootally not what she seems at first glance right now, and that the next page will describe whats actually going on.
Thrilling, suspenseful conclusion to the chapter?
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Post by noone3 on Jun 22, 2015 8:12:08 GMT
...Annie wasn't walking with her eyes closed that whole time, was she? This actually made me think. It's so not-Annie to act like that... Maybe she's acting, and following some subvertive plan of hers? She didn't gave Tony command over Renard, so she's not totally honest with him already. Maybe she's been doing some etheric spying on the man? I even consider apparent Tony not being who he claims he is. |
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Post by sherni on Jun 22, 2015 8:47:14 GMT
Annie's smile in the second panel and blank face in the last are giving me the creeps. Can she go into the ether in her state of mind? Or is she going... somewhere else? Joy, one of the first semi nice things he's said to Annie so far. Also, do the proportions in the fourth panel seem kinda off to anyone else? Either Annie's head is HUGE, or Anthony's head is tiny. Yes, it does look strange. Maybe the perspective is off? Annie was supposed to be more up front and Anthony behind instead of both of them being level? |
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Post by csj on Jun 22, 2015 11:13:29 GMT
Remember how Antimony tends to have here eyes closed whilst here mind is predominantly in the ether?
Gee, that sure would help dissociate from current events now, wouldn't it.
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Post by speedwell on Jun 22, 2015 11:28:22 GMT
Remember how Antimony tends to have here eyes closed whilst here mind is predominantly in the ether? Gee, that sure would help dissociate from current events now, wouldn't it. Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. |
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Post by justcurious on Jun 22, 2015 12:47:30 GMT
Remember how Antimony tends to have here eyes closed whilst here mind is predominantly in the ether? Gee, that sure would help dissociate from current events now, wouldn't it. Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. I think you may be right. That's why I couldn't read her expression in the last panel. But if she is in the ether is she communicating with someone? It might not be possible to communicate with anyone in the forest but could she be communicating with someone in the court? Jones? Though her lack of etheric abilities might make that impossible. Lindsey and Bud? |
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Post by pendell on Jun 22, 2015 13:16:48 GMT
Possibly I misinterpret this, but I don't think there's anything etheric in this episode, neither mind control nor communication.
What I see is a deeply conflicted girl. On the one hand, by playing "good girl" and living up to Anthony's expectations, she was able to actually get something semi-nice out of him.
Obviously this is a painful experience for her, and I don't think she's at all happy about how the dinner played out, and she's not happy about what's happening with her friends.
But on the other side of the scale , *her father is back in town and actually paying attention to her*. If I read correctly, this is something she has wanted and craved her whole life. And now that he's back, there is almost nothing she won't do to win his approval.
Anthony, however, being socially un-adept to a degree which makes me question whether he has Asperger's, is both unable to see these cues and to meet her emotional needs.
This is a family in need of help -- help from folks like the Donlons. It's too bad that they had to force a confrontation bare minutes into their meal. As it is, it's going to be hard to get both Carters out of the shell they're in.
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Post by ctso74 on Jun 22, 2015 13:20:38 GMT
Seriously though, I really am starting to think that something supernatural is suppressing Annie's emotions. The closed eyes are almost certainly a callback to her white emotionless mask, and notice how she closed her eyes when Kat confronted her a while ago...The peaceful closed-eyed face is kind of creepy, actually. Dissonant serenity, invoking TV Tropes. Or it's just her quirk for bottling up an overload of harmful emotions, almost like meditation. I keep going back and forth between supernatural mask and it being a coping mechanism. I'd think that a glimpse of her in the Ether, with Tony around, would tell us. Whatever the case, it seems to be caused by Anthony. A mask would offer a quick narrative solution, but probably be a weaker story. |
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Post by rainofsteel on Jun 22, 2015 13:25:59 GMT
If art is sufficient skill to produce emotional impact, then everything since Anthony has returned has succeeded. I am thrown down and made listless. I have stopped reading my other Web comics. Nothing that is happening makes any sense. I plod onward in the hopes that just deserts are delivered, or at least a revelation about what is happening appears.
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Post by youwiththeface on Jun 22, 2015 13:39:48 GMT
Seriously though, I really am starting to think that something supernatural is suppressing Annie's emotions. The closed eyes are almost certainly a callback to her white emotionless mask, and notice how she closed her eyes when Kat confronted her a while ago...The peaceful closed-eyed face is kind of creepy, actually. Dissonant serenity, invoking TV Tropes. Or it's just her quirk for bottling up an overload of harmful emotions, almost like meditation. I keep going back and forth between supernatural mask and it being a coping mechanism. I'd think that a glimpse of her in the Ether, with Tony around, would tell us. Whatever the case, it seems to be caused by Anthony. A mask would offer a quick narrative solution, but probably be a weaker story. This comic does have a habit of using supernatural elements as metaphors for real things (Coyote and Ysengrin, anyone?) so if there is a supernatural element here, there's nothing that means it can't be both that and a coping mechanism, or that the etheric element can't be the coping mechanism, or something like that. The events of Divine were almost all ethereal but they were still gripping, and still hinged on Annie's emotions and experiences. |
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Post by sable0aria on Jun 22, 2015 13:57:29 GMT
Why do I have the feeling the mask is going to come off soon, and when it does it's going to rip my heart to microscopic shreds?
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Post by nero on Jun 22, 2015 15:11:24 GMT
The last panel looks like she's going to the ether to look at Anthony or she is just relieved that he left. She could also be a little stressed by the dinner outcome.
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