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Post by Tom Siddell on Jan 16, 2009 12:52:12 GMT
A while back.
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Post by emptypiro on Jan 16, 2009 14:24:48 GMT
you made robox because everyone hates boxbot didnt you?
also do you play a musical instrument?
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Post by Tom Siddell on Jan 16, 2009 15:25:15 GMT
Nope.
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Post by fjodor on Jan 16, 2009 19:38:58 GMT
Tom, it won't be long before this forum will have 1,000 members. I think this calls for a celebration. Can we have a forum logo, member's badge, or a wall paper of the Gunnerkrigg Court skyline? Pretty please?
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Post by Klex on Jan 16, 2009 19:45:37 GMT
The return of commissions...?
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Post by Vadigor on Jan 16, 2009 21:53:19 GMT
Tom, it won't be long before this forum will have 1,000 members. I think this calls for a celebration. Can we have a forum logo, member's badge, or a wall paper of the Gunnerkrigg Court skyline? Pretty please? He seems to like it just the way it is though. =p |
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Post by Tom Siddell on Jan 16, 2009 22:21:45 GMT
Tom, it won't be long before this forum will have 1,000 members. I think this calls for a celebration. Can we have a forum logo, member's badge, or a wall paper of the Gunnerkrigg Court skyline? Pretty please? Here is a badge people can use in their signature:  |
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Post by Tom Siddell on Jan 16, 2009 22:22:00 GMT
The return of commissions...? Unknown. |
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Post by Madii on Jan 17, 2009 0:22:14 GMT
Tom why do you hate the Thing I mean really it was how I discovered this blasted comic all along
/partially cheesed off.
2010...?
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Post by Tom Siddell on Jan 17, 2009 1:00:39 GMT
I don't hate The Thing, it's just that I'm not exactly a "people person", I have nothing to sell, and nothing really of interest to offer.
While I would love to go to comic conventions, I don't think it's something I can (or should) do.
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Post by todd on Jan 18, 2009 2:00:19 GMT
Have you read the Harry Potter books? (I think that one of the great things about "Gunnerkrigg Court" is that, although it's about a young orphan - or semi-orphan, in this case - attending a really strange boarding school at the edge of a dark forest where mythical creatures dwell, its tone is so distinctly different from "Harry Potter".)
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Post by Tom Siddell on Jan 18, 2009 8:03:26 GMT
I read Harry Potter a couple years after starting the comic mainly because everyone was saying my comic was ripping it off.
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Post by Trism on Jan 19, 2009 2:15:57 GMT
I read Harry Potter a couple years after starting the comic mainly because everyone was saying my comic was ripping it off. People will claim that ANYTHING is a rip off of Harry Potter now. Dont get me wrong I like Harry Potter, but I don't believe that anything to do with: Boarding School, Magic or....I don't know, Kids with Scars, Is a Rip-Off of HP. |
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Post by tictoc on Jan 19, 2009 4:48:58 GMT
It'd probably be hard to do any comic about a UK boarding school without it seeming pretty similar to Harry Potter, I wouldn't worry about any comparisons..
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Post by Tom Siddell on Jan 19, 2009 7:25:10 GMT
I don't worry about comparisons because, as you said, any story written after 1997 that involves a kid or kids doing something will be compared to Harry Potter, especially by Internet couch experts. However, had I read the books first my comic would be quite different.
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Post by Trism on Jan 19, 2009 10:47:41 GMT
I don't worry about comparisons because, as you said, any story written after 1997 that involves a kid or kids doing something will be compared to Harry Potter, especially by Internet couch experts. However, had I read the books first my comic would be quite different. How different? Is there an alternate timeline where Gunnerkrigg Court is about a group of reasonably attractive all-american high-school Co-Eds solving mysteries on Mars in the year 2241? This doesn't count as my question to Tom. I'm still working out that one. |
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Post by Babble-jargon Bill on Jan 20, 2009 0:20:30 GMT
I don't worry about comparisons because, as you said, any story written after 1997 that involves a kid or kids doing something will be compared to Harry Potter, especially by Internet couch experts. However, had I read the books first my comic would be quite different. How different? Is there an alternate timeline where Gunnerkrigg Court is about a group of reasonably attractive all-american high-school Co-Eds solving mysteries on Mars in the year 2241? This doesn't count as my question to Tom. I'm still working out that one. Let's hope to god that that dimension stays where it is and never reaches ours. Tom- How far in the eighth grade are we as of now in the comics time-line? |
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Post by theindievisual on Jan 20, 2009 0:54:58 GMT
Hey Tom, did you ever go to art school or anything like that? How did you start drawing?
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Post by UbiquitousDragon on Jan 20, 2009 0:59:09 GMT
I don't worry about comparisons because, as you said, any story written after 1997 that involves a kid or kids doing something will be compared to Harry Potter, especially by Internet couch experts. However, had I read the books first my comic would be quite different. My favourite alleged Harry Potter rip off was the accusation of Sir Terry Pratchett with his Equal Rites. Published 1987. (Response from interviewer: So, JK Rowling's ripping *you* off then?! ... Jeez.) |
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Post by todd on Jan 20, 2009 1:29:49 GMT
However, had I read the books first my comic would be quite different. Thank goodness you didn't read the books first; the aspects of the webcomic that most strongly parallel "Harry Potter" (the weird boarding school, the dark forest outside, Annie as an orphan with remarkable abilities) are all crucial to the story. |
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Post by SatansBestBuddy on Jan 20, 2009 6:24:30 GMT
Right, let's see here, we've got page 1: www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=416vs page 2: www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=511My question is, is Anja a little on the short side, or is Kat gonna grow up to be taller than she is? Maybe I'm just misreading the timeline, but both girls seem to have grown quite a bit over the last year and a bit, and they look like they're about as tall as Parley, who's, what, 2 years older than them? Grr, it's stuff like this that keeps me up at night, are they really that tall, or is it just a trick of perspective/drawing? |
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Post by Tom Siddell on Jan 20, 2009 9:17:32 GMT
How far in the eighth grade are we as of now in the comics time-line? About half way through. |
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Post by Tom Siddell on Jan 20, 2009 9:25:10 GMT
Hey Tom, did you ever go to art school or anything like that? How did you start drawing? No. I just tried to draw in my spare time. |
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Post by Tom Siddell on Jan 20, 2009 9:31:05 GMT
Anja is fairly short, and Kat might grow up taller than her. Grr, it's stuff like this that keeps me up at night, are they really that tall, or is it just a trick of perspective/drawing? If this sort of thing gets you angry I would recommend finding a comic that has a better artist. |
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Post by Klex on Jan 20, 2009 15:33:25 GMT
Is there things, in the gunnerverse, that have been scientifically explained but would still be considered etheric here ?
Is my previous sentence correct english ?
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Post by Tom Siddell on Jan 20, 2009 17:45:06 GMT
Yes.
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Post by SatansBestBuddy on Jan 20, 2009 18:29:54 GMT
Grr, it's stuff like this that keeps me up at night, are they really that tall, or is it just a trick of perspective/drawing? If this sort of thing gets you angry I would recommend finding a comic that has a better artist. I wasn't angry... I was just gonna spend all night staring at the ceiling, wondering if I'd skipped a year without noticing or if the girls were in a growth spurt or if I could reach into the comic and measure their height myself. (that's about the point where the lack of sleep would affect my mental processing) Actually, could you draw a police line-up of all the major characters? I wouldn't mind seeing who the tallest is. |
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Post by Tierra Y Libertad on Jan 21, 2009 2:58:13 GMT
Grr, it's stuff like this that keeps me up at night, are they really that tall, or is it just a trick of perspective/drawing? If this sort of thing gets you angry I would recommend finding a comic that has a better artist. That comic is nonexistent, Tom. |
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Post by King Mir on Jan 21, 2009 4:26:11 GMT
I was just gonna spend all night staring at the ceiling, wondering if I'd skipped a year without noticing or if the girls were in a growth spurt or if I could reach into the comic and measure their height myself. (that's about the point where the lack of sleep would affect my mental processing) Actually they are in a growth spurt. Girls grow the fastest at about 12 years of age. |
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Post by vryko on Jan 21, 2009 8:44:37 GMT
Hey, Tom. I've been reading Gunnerkrigg Court since Red got a haircut (I think during what was probably an amusing montage sequence) and it is one of my very favorite webcomics, and I've read at least 50 at some time or another. It's tied for number one with Girl Genius (which I think is where I was referred to this, by one of their many webcomic references).
Anywho, the question:
in "Fangs of Summertime," page 282, as you have clarified that it is Mr Donlan who is making the force field, does that mean that Reynardine put his life at risk to protect Antimony?
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