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Post by Mezzaphor on Jun 11, 2010 23:38:26 GMT
Zimmy is a gender-bent version of Tom. (Both live - or used to live - in Birmingham and are convinced that they will never be able to escape it, and Tom's self-portraits look rather Zimmyish.) I clearly remember Tom emphatically promising that he would never write himself into the comic (and that as a result, the announcement pages featuring the back of his cartoon avatar's head are non-canon). I less clearly remember Tom stating elsewhere that tries to he write a bit of himself into all the characters. Hence, Zimmy is from Tom's current home and reflects his stated opinion of the city, while Kat shares many of Tom's opinions regarding pop culture, and... those are the only two examples I can remember without finding those quotes again. |
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jun 14, 2010 21:30:10 GMT
Zimmy is a gender-bent version of Tom. (Both live - or used to live - in Birmingham and are convinced that they will never be able to escape it, and Tom's self-portraits look rather Zimmyish.) I clearly remember Tom emphatically promising that he would never write himself into the comic (and that as a result, the announcement pages featuring the back of his cartoon avatar's head are non-canon). Given the total trippiness of the current storyline, I almost wish Tea-San would break that rule just this once and insert himself into the comic. Just to complete the entire mindscrew-riffic feel to the story. "Many of you feel bad for Jack. This is because you are crazy. The new one is much better." |
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Post by ih8pkmn on Jun 14, 2010 22:42:02 GMT
Jack's Spider is really Ketrak, the insect guide!!!
What? It DOES make sense... Spiders kill insects, so logically, a spider would be an insect guide.
ANYWAY!!
Diego left his soul in Robot(s13)
Zimmy and Gamma are secretly part of an experiment made by the court to create an army of super solders that can take down walls and kill WITH THEIR MINDZ!!!!
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Post by mojojojo on Jun 16, 2010 9:40:10 GMT
Just chucking out some random ideas.
Surma is a now an important entity among the psychopomps. Maybe a psychopomp herself, maybe some other, more important, role. We know the dead help "The world turn" in some way. Her long association with the psychopomps would be a good apprentishship. And it also gives a sort of explanation why none of the guides came for her.
(Unfortunately, this sort of suggests a similar eventual fate for Annie, but I'm hoping she survives the comic).
Further, I guess Surma is going to be important in someway for the release of Jeanne's soul. Mostly just a guess.
Oh, on the current storyline, I'm wondering whether Reynardine might come to the rescue. Mostly because it would explain Spider-Jack's trapping of him in the real-world - Reynardine could potentially be extremely powerful in the other place, so Jack wanted to get him out of the way, and had no idea Jones would free him so quickly.
Also, Jones apparent lack of care towards Annie's safety is actually born out of dislike between her and Surma.
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Post by rafk on Jun 16, 2010 11:15:14 GMT
The role of Jones in setting up the current situation is interesting... allegedly the Court couldn't track Jack and doesn't track Zimmy, and yet Jones pretty clearly led Annie right to one or both of them and sent her in to wht certainly appears to be a very confusing and likely dangerous situation.
Wild Speculation: This is like the "harrowing" that mages in Dragon Age: Origins go through, except for mediums. Part of Jones' job at the Court is to set up a trial such as this for initiate mediums who are ready to take the next step. Surma disliked Jones because Jones put her through an ordeal like this one (and presumably made her keep it secret afterwards, which is why Eglamore and co still liked her).
As such this could be a simulation to see how Annie reacts (probably starting at Spring Heeled part 2, where Jones sends Annie through the door, and not earlier) or Jones could be taking advantage of an existing crisis to test Annie ("live fire" testing on real people is probably more medium-y, more Jones-y and more likely to anger past-Surma, so I'll go for this option).
Wildly speculative reason for "Annie" having no scar and "Gamma" seemingly failing to recognise for ages that she is not in reality: this is reality. Zimmingham is etheric, but the Jackingham has been made flesh in the real world (combined power of Jack/Spider/Power Station, there was a reason why the spider drove Jack to turn the station on again....), and so no matter what it looks like it doesn't feel like Zimmingham to Gamma and we won't see the scar on Annie unless she does something etheric herself on screen.
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Post by fr4tbrn on Jun 17, 2010 5:13:41 GMT
Wildly speculative reason for "Annie" having no scar and "Gamma" seemingly failing to recognise for ages that she is not in reality: this is reality. Zimmingham is etheric, but the Jackingham has been made flesh in the real world (combined power of Jack/Spider/Power Station, there was a reason why the spider drove Jack to turn the station on again....), and so no matter what it looks like it doesn't feel like Zimmingham to Gamma and we won't see the scar on Annie unless she does something etheric herself on screen. Or that it's one of Dr. Disaster's simulations that is messing with us all. Jones could be in cahoots with Randy to capture Jack by recreating what they know about his getting infected? That would explain why it's all white when Annie first opens the door. |
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Post by grinningcat on Jun 17, 2010 9:51:26 GMT
They are in Simmingjack in the sense that this is both a sim, and yet, not.
Jack may have latent technopathy/technomancy powers. The spider is enhancing these powers.
This IS sim technology, but goes much beyond the reaches of the current capability of the court's sim technology because it's getting pumped with etheric power.
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Post by Fen on Jun 17, 2010 19:47:05 GMT
Jeanne and Zimmingham are associated somehow. I base this entirely on the fact that the spiders are white and so is Jeanne.
but mort is white too no he isn't shut up he's purple
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jun 17, 2010 21:36:18 GMT
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Post by strangethoughts on Jun 18, 2010 4:56:51 GMT
Also this forum is purple, dun dun dunnnnnn!
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jun 19, 2010 11:37:03 GMT
We're all in the Court!
"You can graduate any time you like
but you can never leave."
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Post by moonhitler on Jun 19, 2010 12:26:12 GMT
The spider demon within Sunny Birmingham takes over a person's body, similar as to Coyote and Reynardine. However, keeping with the whole spider thing, it takes 8 steps (see wut i did thar?) to take over the body, as it can only take over eighths of the person's soul. As it resides in Sunny Birmingham, it cannot take over someone when they are not there. When Jack first went there, seven eighths of him were taken over, and because he wasn't fully taken over, the spider thing couldn't fully be in control. because, obviously, it would like the body, it uses what control it has over Jack to place curiosity in his mind over Zimmy to try to make him go back there, so it could take over the last piece and be fully in control. And the lamp. |
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Post by Gemini Jim on Jun 20, 2010 23:02:36 GMT
And Gamma's pantsholy moley, Gamma's pants are the key. Pants = purple, Purple= the Court and um... oh... sorry. I'm tired.... I think.
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Post by legion on Jun 20, 2010 23:53:06 GMT
Purple everywhere.
Maybe Gunnerkrigg Court is haunted by the mind of The-Artist-Formely-Known-As-Prince.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jun 21, 2010 5:11:08 GMT
A prince is a member of royalty. Where do royalty conduct business? In a court.
It's all coming together.
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Post by whosit on Jun 21, 2010 6:30:45 GMT
Prince was actually turned into a wolf and sent back in time by his nemesis, the evil Prof. Thorgenbacon. The space-time displacer that threw Prince into the past dropped him into a pigsty in B.C. France.
When the swineherd saw him and started screaming, calling him by the name of one of the local wolf-spirits, the hapless musician cried, "My name is Prince!"
However, his new, canine mouth, full of mud and porcine whatsit, made forming words extremely difficult, and all that came out was "Inamsekrins!" In time, this became what others called him, and was eventually corrupted into the name "Ysengrin."
The space-time displacer's use on Prince had several unexpected side-effects: it made Prince's new body immune to the passage of time, and drew him far closer to the ether than he had ever been, in his previous life. However, he yearned intensely for his old life, and often tried to find a way to return to his original form.
Unable to do so and unable to gain humanity's full acceptance as he now was, he became bitter and malicious, blaming his predicament on the very species he inherently belonged to.
When the Great Divide was created by Coyote, Ysengrin, intent on eventually reclaiming the Court as part of the forest, placed within high-ranking leaders of humanity the desire to name the human side a 'Court,' thus ever-so-subtly hinting at the intent of its greatest foe.
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Post by Aris Katsaris on Jun 21, 2010 12:42:33 GMT
Not quite "wild", as I consider it halfway plausible, but here goes:
Annie's role as a "medium" means that she instinctively fills any etheric gap that requires filling. In the absense of Gamma, she becomes a quasi-Gamma that can GOP nobodies. In the absense of Zimmy, she becomes like Zimmy for Gamma. In the absense of a psychopomp, she became one for her mother.
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Post by moonhitler on Jun 21, 2010 16:21:13 GMT
I like that one.
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Post by whosit on Jun 21, 2010 16:31:18 GMT
Say, that IS pretty good.
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Post by thesecondbeast on Jun 22, 2010 18:50:10 GMT
We've seen a lot of different forms of romantic attraction explored in Gunnerkrigg. It's brought out the best and worst in people. But I think it's always been secondary to friendships, especially between two girls. Kat and Annie. Surma and Anja. Zimmy and Gamma. Red and Blue. As with romance, we've seen these relationships bring out the best and worst in the partners. But we've never seen any of these girls stay apart for so much as a chapter.
I think at some point, we're going to get the Diego/Jeanne of platonic girlmance. Either one of the relationships I listed above (although I don't think or hope it'll be one of them!) or another one yet to be introduced will totally explode and end in betrayal and permanent estrangement or death.
It will be ridiculously gut-wrenching and probably make us all cry.
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Post by spacemilk on Jul 9, 2010 14:04:00 GMT
Wild spec: Winsbury used to be a fairy in the forest! Though I think he's in the wrong house? But his HAIR! It's too perfectly spiky...
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Post by dawngazer on Jul 9, 2010 19:54:59 GMT
Wild spec: Winsbury used to be a fairy in the forest! Though I think he's in the wrong house? But his HAIR! It's too perfectly spiky... I felt so bad when I accidentally sat on that guy I was apologizing to his...Squished self for a while before I realized he was taking the test. When we first met he tried sitting on me, the jackass. Bygones are bygones though. Sadly my hair wasn't good enough for friendshipness, so we parted ways. Everytime we pass each other though we offer our hinneys in remembrance, to the confusion of everyone else around. |
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Post by Ignotus Somnium on Jul 11, 2010 3:20:16 GMT
Purple everywhere. Maybe Gunnerkrigg Court is haunted by the mind of The-Artist-Formely-Known-As-Prince. This is quite possibly the best theory in the history of theories. Aside from the one about bunnies. |
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Post by zara on Jul 18, 2010 13:00:26 GMT
I only have one theory for this comic, and figured I'd post it, although I'm sure someone else has already mentioned something similar given the size of this thread.
I'm imagining that dead people not only return to the ether, but become it again, fueling the cycle of life and energy in the universe. At some point this will become evident in the comic, and the fact that the court is using ether as fuel will become a huge ethical dilemma.
Less likely, but if the court wanted to become god in a literal sense, then channeling as much life force as possible would be one step in that direction.
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Post by ajfriss on Sept 2, 2010 2:15:26 GMT
I do believe this has been said, but I guess I will say it anyway.
Mort is the soldier seen in on the pages 491, which is coyote's story and 582, the simulation.
I remember hearing somewhere that the tune mort is heard whistling (I don't remember the page) involved 'dying for ones county' and when I saw the soldier-like character, I immediately thought of mort.
Again, its kind of a boring theory, and I would believe it would have been noticed by now, but I felt the need of bringing it up.
EDIT: It wasn't the tune, it was the inset in the wall.
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Post by warrl on Sept 2, 2010 3:46:42 GMT
I do believe this has been said, but I guess I will say it anyway. Mort is the soldier seen in on the pages 491, which is coyote's story and 582, the simulation. I remember hearing somewhere that the tune mort is heard whistling (I don't remember the page) involved 'dying for ones county' and when I saw the soldier-like character, I immediately thought of mort. Again, its kind of a boring theory, and I would believe it would have been noticed by now, but I felt the need of bringing it up. I can't comment on the whistling because I can't hear the tune. The coffin-like inset in the wall in the area where Mort usually hangs out, has the inscription "Dulce et Decorum", part of a Latin poem about how it is "sweet and proper" for a young man to die for his country - a really stupid attitude, as several more realistic military commanders have pointed out: it's much better, from both a personal and a national viewpoint, to make the poor sucker on the other side die for his country. |
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Post by Elaienar on Sept 6, 2010 3:41:29 GMT
I do believe this has been said, but I guess I will say it anyway. Mort is the soldier seen in on the pages 491, which is coyote's story and 582, the simulation. I remember hearing somewhere that the tune mort is heard whistling (I don't remember the page) involved 'dying for ones county' and when I saw the soldier-like character, I immediately thought of mort. Again, its kind of a boring theory, and I would believe it would have been noticed by now, but I felt the need of bringing it up. I can't comment on the whistling because I can't hear the tune. The coffin-like inset in the wall in the area where Mort usually hangs out, has the inscription "Dulce et Decorum", part of a Latin poem about how it is "sweet and proper" for a young man to die for his country - a really stupid attitude, as several more realistic military commanders have pointed out: it's much better, from both a personal and a national viewpoint, to make the poor sucker on the other side die for his country. This clearly means that a spy from Gillitie Wood put that there in order to create suicidal tendencies in the subconscious of the Court's warriors. And while I'm here.... The relationship between William and Janet will furnish the plot for at least one chapter. Parley and Smitty have been so very awkward and unhappy around each other because Parley keeps teleporting accidentally and always ends up within ten feet of Smitty. When Antimony resolves Jeanne's problem, Brinnie will act as her guide to the afterlife. The Donlans, the Carvers, Eglamore, and Brinnie all had/have extra-normal abilities and took medium classes from Jones. Surma disliked Jones because of her disinterested attitude and her habit of getting to know people better by making them angry. Eglamore liked/likes her because she is an older relative or a family friend. Anthony, like Antimony, found her something of an enigma. The matters he attended to were mostly inventions designed to discover whether she was actually an alien. Jones is not a robot (or an alien). She is an android created by the same divine being who made the Tic-Tocs. Jack will find out/has already discovered who or what Jones is and tell Antimony. He will do it in the most blunt and/or rude way possible. The reason none of the psychopomps came for Surma was because she asked them to let Antimony do it. Surma and Anthony have similar eye shapes (slightly slanted, rounded lower eyelid and more angular upper lid), therefore they are related. This is why they did not speak or even look at each other at all in "Ties". It is a well-known fact that one can communicate with one's relatives by telepathy and thus negate the necessity of actual physical interaction. In the same vein, Zimmy and Gamma are actually sisters. If you look closely you can see the family resemblance: the two eyes, so - nose in the middle, mouth under. Okay that's it for now. |
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Post by Casey on Sept 6, 2010 4:18:32 GMT
The reason none of the psychopomps came for Surma was because she asked them to let Antimony do it. Hmm, that's actually plausible... |
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Post by Elaienar on Sept 6, 2010 4:37:21 GMT
The reason none of the psychopomps came for Surma was because she asked them to let Antimony do it. Hmm, that's actually plausible... OOPS. Let me try again. Surma had a vision of a future where Antimony was estranged from her psychopomp friends and Muut had to resort to tricks to get her to look into a situation for them; this vision caused her to ask the psychopomps to let Antimony escort her into the ether so that said estrangement would proceed according to plan. She did this because she thought Antimony's reaction to Mort's apparent claim-staking was hilarious. How's that? |
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Post by tyler on Sept 6, 2010 9:41:02 GMT
Stable time loops!
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