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Post by Yin on May 7, 2008 5:00:21 GMT
How sweet.Anja's pendant is that no-eyes sign, I see. Strange.
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Post by edzepp on May 7, 2008 5:03:47 GMT
Figure what out? Methinks interesting times lie ahead for our heroines. There is at least an interesting implication that a torch has been passed here. That no-eye design could have have been a symbol for some kind of organization. Oh, the speculations we could have. And sorry Todd, but your theories about Annie's face from the last 2 comics is all but defeated.  It was just a trick o' the art. Also, how great is that first panel? |
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Post by fr4tbrn on May 7, 2008 5:11:53 GMT
Aww... Anja and Don are so cute together.
What's restricting Anja from going? Old age? She really doesn't seem that old... Maybe she cannot get caught there, and their time being passed means simply that they're too old to go on such adventures.
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Post by popo on May 7, 2008 5:13:05 GMT
I wonder how pudge's class will react to that.
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Post by philweasel on May 7, 2008 5:13:38 GMT
Awww... Kat's shivers be damned, there's nothing wrong with having your parents still be in love  |
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Post by Count Casimir on May 7, 2008 5:19:00 GMT
Aww... Anja and Don are so cute together. What's restricting Anja from going? Old age? She really doesn't seem that old... Maybe she cannot get caught there, and their time being passed means simply that they're too old to go on such adventures. I understood it as now that she's a teacher, she can't be the adventurous kid constantly running around the school making mischief. Even if she tried, Kat and Annie would probably still find it kind of hard to fully expand while Anja was around. I imagine she and Donny must have had some amazing times with Eggy, Anthony, Surma and that other girl. |
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Post by mudmaniac on May 7, 2008 6:12:12 GMT
To quote pop culture song:
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
As a teacher and a parent, i imagine that she would try and protect Kat and Annie from whatever threat she may perceive. What with the implications of a complicated history of the old gang (plus Reynardine, Coyote, etc), she has seen things go horribly bad.
My guess is she does not wanna temper their youthful exuberance with her caution.
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Post by silvercat on May 7, 2008 7:36:29 GMT
I'm looking forward to finding out more about the "no-eyes" symbol on two levels...
1. several mysteries at Gunnerkrigg Court are linked to the eye. I think of Zimmy, the tic-tocs, the no-eyes symbol... but also of Antimony : our narrator tells us what she sees while she's at Gunnerkrigg Court, eh?
2. the combination of a web comic and "no-eyes" : without eyes we won't be able to see the visual medium of the webcomic... so it's not just a secret, it's a threat to the very existence of our beloved comic! *gasp*
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Post by nikita on May 7, 2008 10:32:15 GMT
Isn't it just the warning sign that was painted at the doors of reynardines prison?
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Post by todd on May 7, 2008 10:44:35 GMT
I wonder if that's why Anya was stammering on the last page - not out of uneasiness or fear that Kat was getting into something that she shouldn't - but because Kat's request was bringing up memories of her youth, memories that she wished she could relive. (Maybe some of the robots around Gunnerkrigg were built by her when she was around 12.)
And, yep, it looks as if I read too much into the last two pages (shades of the time, in Chapter Thirteen, when I read too much into that shifty expression on Alistair's face as they were leaving the classroom).
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Post by Yin on May 7, 2008 11:10:19 GMT
Isn't it just the warning sign that was painted at the doors of reynardines prison? Yeah, that's why I said it was the no-eyes pendant. I'm wondering why she's wearing it. Perhaps it acts as an invisible eyeshield against our favourite Reynardine (or others)? |
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Post by nikita on May 7, 2008 11:51:31 GMT
Oh, I wasn't aware you were already talking about that sign.
Yes, it might be part some kind of spell.. that'd also explain why there were signs inside the prison, where it'd be to late to warn someone. It'd also answer the question why Reynardine hadn't taken some insect's body in his prison.
The magic blindfold Anja used against Reynardine also had this symbol.
Or maybe it's just Anjas personal sign. Some kind of signature in all her spells.
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Post by rc5 on May 7, 2008 12:11:41 GMT
Aw, they're such a cute couple!
I really love how you did Anja's silhouette in the first panel and how you did the kiss in the last one. (like, having no inked line between their lips.)
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Post by cenit on May 7, 2008 13:01:05 GMT
....but of course!!! you see Anja has no eyes (we haven't seen them) and that's why her magic symbol is the no-eye!!!!
and the painting in Rey's cell was because Anja might have be the one who contained him...
Other than that, it's crazy adventure time for the girls, not for their folks, they must have their own fun in their time... and it also might be better if the girls just figure things by themselves, just like Anja said...
and the donlans make a cute couple :3
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Post by Fhqwhgads on May 7, 2008 15:05:19 GMT
and the painting in Rey's cell was because Anja might have be the one who contained him... Now that is an interesting thought. I hope we get to find out more about that piece of the backstory. |
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Post by Mezzaphor on May 7, 2008 21:23:05 GMT
Two thoughts: How far away from the Donlan residence are the west canals? Dare I hope it's far enough to require the girls to take a horse-drawn carriage? Back when Coyote talked about the creation of the Glass-Eyed Men, the God/god who created humans was depicted as a single eye. |
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Post by todd on May 7, 2008 22:27:54 GMT
Two thoughts: How far away from the Donlan residence are the west canals? Dare I hope it's far enough to require the girls to take a horse-drawn carriage? Back when Coyote talked about the creation of the Glass-Eyed Men, the God/god who created humans was depicted as a single eye. Tom repeats gags sparingly, so if it is that far, we might not see as many of the different forms of transportation this time around. For all we know, he might cut straight to the old workshop on the canals. (Or he might even use this chapter to tell a flashback story about the Donlans' experiences there when they were kids, with their conversation on this page leading into it, and leave Annie and Kat's adventures there off-stage, up to our imagination.) The single eye's often been used as a symbol for God (such as in the infamous one-eyed pyramid on the Great Seal of the United States that has so excited conspiracy theorists). |
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Post by nikita on May 8, 2008 0:33:32 GMT
(Or he might even use this chapter to tell a flashback story about the Donlans' experiences there when they were kids, with their conversation on this page leading into it, and leave Annie and Kat's adventures there off-stage, up to our imagination. !!! That would be totally awesome! It'd explain why the chapter includes S1 (which has probably been put into a box in the NO Spare Robot Parts room long ago) and the blinker stone (Anja's). It'd also explain the Donlan's reaction to Kat mentioning robots if they had to do with S1 in their youth. |
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Post by Riess on May 8, 2008 0:42:01 GMT
Well... It doesn't exactly look like they're in the mood for a flashback.
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Post by Mezzaphor on May 8, 2008 2:21:45 GMT
Two thoughts: How far away from the Donlan residence are the west canals? Dare I hope it's far enough to require the girls to take a horse-drawn carriage? Back when Coyote talked about the creation of the Glass-Eyed Men, the God/god who created humans was depicted as a single eye. Tom repeats gags sparingly, so if it is that far, we might not see as many of the different forms of transportation this time around. For all we know, he might cut straight to the old workshop on the canals. I just want to see Horse-bot again. I had assumed that Kat would be the subject of this chapter's flashbacks. Eyes can be drawn in many different ways. What I find interesting is that the symbol representing mankind's creator is one slash mark shy of the sigul on Anja's necklace and Reynardine's prison. |
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Post by todd on May 8, 2008 11:01:14 GMT
I just want to see Horse-bot again. Yes, you've got to admire anything that recites classic English poetry so well. |
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Post by Tenjen on May 9, 2008 11:52:15 GMT
www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=277O HEY JUST A MINUTE! i noticed in the page after the link you gave us [about the Eye [all seeing eye] representing the creator of humans] ...o wiat let me begin again. In this page, you can see jones in the last panel, noticing that annie and coyote are talking.
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Post by popo on May 9, 2008 16:01:02 GMT
its' sort of hard to not see Jones in the last panel
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Post by Tenjen on May 10, 2008 1:06:52 GMT
yep but we gave her no true significance till now.
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Post by nikita on May 10, 2008 1:40:51 GMT
I don't see what you think this last panel showing Jones should imply?
We know Jones was watching her throughout the meeting. Tom even mentioned it under page 269: "Why that lady be all starin'?"
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It was just a trick o' the art.
