Questions to Tom #2

[cenit]

So, I agree that the other one is too long... so maybe time to start a new one... if you don't want you can kill it.

Two questions, asked by other people actually:

1. If it is possible to add/make other skins for this forum

2. Perspective in the pannel when Shadow 2 is calling their attention about the door... he is in the wall and his foot is touching the door in the floor... right?

And one of myself

Does Anja had to buy that space... or she asked for it? I mean... this being a school do kids have to pay for stuff (food, haircuts, and other stuff)?

[cespinarve]

Oooh, new question thread. Good plan. My three questions, Should the Great Tom deign to answer, are as follows:

1) Does Gunnerkrigg have farm property or, given their pathological fear of trees, hydroponics? Or do they just buy locally?

2) In the past, was their a village/town that supported the Court until it got swallowed up it the court's expansion.

3) The nomenclature of "Court". Did the court at any time operate legal juridsdiction, or does it refer to courtyard? Or royal court?

[nikita]

I think this could be helpful:
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The original thread can be found here: gunnerkrigg.proboards75.com/?board=general&action=display&thread=40
and there are reasons why this new one was made:

May 29, 2008 12:49:04 GMT Tom Siddell said:

I was thinking about making a new questions thread anyway, since this one had gotten so long. However I don't answer questions that have been answered for me.

If you don't feel like digging through the 800 posts in that thread and the rest of the forum, a nice collection of stuff Tom already talked about is "Word of Tom" by Mezzaphor: metaphoragizery.blogspot.com/2008/02/word-of-tom.html

[Tom Siddell]

Okay, here we go. Also remember that I won't answer anything that will reveal future plot or spoilers and things like that. Also, if you have a funny random question like "Can Superman beat up Darth Vader?", don't count on it being answered.

May 29, 2008 13:33:57 GMT cenit said:

So, I agree that the other one is too long... so maybe time to start a new one... if you don't want you can kill it.

Two questions, asked by other people actually:

1. If it is possible to add/make other skins for this forum

2. Perspective in the pannel when Shadow 2 is calling their attention about the door... he is in the wall and his foot is touching the door in the floor... right?

And one of myself

Does Anja had to buy that space... or she asked for it? I mean... this being a school do kids have to pay for stuff (food, haircuts, and other stuff)?

1: Not a priority right now.

2: Yeah.

3: Everything is provided by the Court, including Anja's old work unit.

[Tom Siddell]

May 29, 2008 17:26:00 GMT cespinarve said:

Oooh, new question thread. Good plan. My three questions, Should the Great Tom deign to answer, are as follows:

1) Does Gunnerkrigg have farm property or, given their pathological fear of trees, hydroponics? Or do they just buy locally?

2) In the past, was their a village/town that supported the Court until it got swallowed up it the court's expansion.

3) The nomenclature of "Court". Did the court at any time operate legal juridsdiction, or does it refer to courtyard? Or royal court?

1: The Court does have farm property as well as other means to make food.

2: Nope

3: The use of "court" here refers to a formal gathering of people/beings.

[imaginaryfriend]

May 16, 2008 6:38:11 GMT Tom Siddell said:

The Queen knighted him. And no, the Court isn't mentioned in the Act of the Union.

If possible, would you please clarify if the Queen who knighted Sir Eglamore is Elizabeth II or some other royal person, real or fictional?

[Tom Siddell]

Two answers:
1) He was knighted by the Queen of England.
2) The Queen in the story does not exist in real life.

[armonis]

I don't believe this was addressed before. If it had been, please forgive me.

1. What would you say your 1 to 3 most major influences are in terms of story composition and stuff?


2. What would you say your 1 to 3 most major influences are in terms of your art?

[digikitty]

question I have pertains to today's comic. Do you actually know how to pick a lock, or is this something you had to research?

[Tom Siddell]

May 30, 2008 0:42:40 GMT armonis said:

I don't believe this was addressed before. If it had been, please forgive me.

1. What would you say your 1 to 3 most major influences are in terms of story composition and stuff?


2. What would you say your 1 to 3 most major influences are in terms of your art?

I really don't know. I try to learn from everyone I like, so there are just too many to mention, and no small few I would claim as major influences. I guess if I had to boil it down to a short list that answers the question without actually conveying my true opinion, it would include people like Yukito Kishiro, Alfred Hitchcock, Rumiko Takahashi, Jaime Hewlett, Akira Toriyama, my little sister, Mike Mignola, and people like that.

[Tom Siddell]

May 30, 2008 22:49:54 GMT digikitty said:

question I have pertains to today's comic. Do you actually know how to pick a lock, or is this something you had to research?

I do know how to pick a simple tumbler lock, but only because I was researching for the comic and learned how. Also the equipment is readily available on-line.

[cespinarve]

I would assume that Annie no longer has any living grandparents, or other relatives. Am I correct in thinking this?

[Tom Siddell]

She probably has some living relatives on her father's side.

[monkeybucks]

In todays strip, Annie is wearing the blinker stone as a necklace. Does she still wear the antimony symbol necklace her mother gave her? I thought she wore it all the time, but perhaps she only wore it sometimes to begin with.

[Tom Siddell]

No, she still wears the antimony pendant. She has two necklaces on in this chapter.

[Count Casimir]

Since it's just recently come up, I have to ask; have you ever partaken (partook? partaked?) of the realm of tabletop gaming?

[Tom Siddell]

Nope, never.

[mudmaniac]

Assuming that it does not reveal anything about plot, when Reynardine was in Sivo's body, was capable of this same form manipulation that he is exhibiting with Annie's doll?

[Tom Siddell]

Nah, he can't do that sort of thing with a living body.

[Tenjen]

ahem*

The shadowmen how do they "see" and do they eat?

[Tom Siddell]

Ahem what?

They see with their eyes, and they don't eat.

[popo]

Is shadow 2 getting his own voice now, seeing as his word bubble has changed colors?
if so, what does it sound like?

[cespinarve]

Jun 4, 2008 17:58:38 GMT popo said:

Is shadow 2 getting his own voice now, seeing as his word bubble has changed colors?
if so, what does it sound like?

Dick Cavett

[Tom Siddell]

Jun 4, 2008 17:58:38 GMT popo said:

Is shadow 2 getting his own voice now, seeing as his word bubble has changed colors?
if so, what does it sound like?

It sounds like Annie and Kat at the same time.

[Tenjen]

oh the "ahem" was just me clearing my throught, i often type in a cough or such if i do the actually do it while typing out something. Weird habit from RP days.

Hmmm so they move along the shadows and watch stuff from the surfaces they ly on.

Is there a psychopomp for robots? The ones that develop personalities and then quite possibly souls?

[Tom Siddell]

Nope, there isn't.

[Klex]

Couldn't you use png format instead of jpg ? It's quickly lossy if we zoom on a picture, for example : (4X zoomed Annie)

If this is on purpose to save space/bandwith, you can try a little program called pngoptimizer, it works great and the picture remains lossless .

I'm worried about that because it's quite a waste to spoil such art with compression.

[Tom Siddell]

I'm sure I could use .pngs, yes.

[popo]

in the latest page, is it rey's eyes or antimony symbol that's glowing?

[Tom Siddell]

His eyes.