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Post by mturtle7 on Feb 12, 2020 21:53:05 GMT
This might be an odd detail to focus on, but I LOVE Zimmy's "trying to admit vulnerabilities but still be cool about it" faces in panels 3 and 4.
Oh, and panel 1 is just plain gorgeous, of course, but that's just kinda obvious.
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Post by pyradonis on Feb 12, 2020 23:18:33 GMT
Who, "they"? Kat and Annie? Or Kat and the Psychopomps? Why? I meant Annie and Kat, mostly because the forces supporting each (in their own way) are too heavily opposed to the other. We're already seeing how well Kat reacts to pressure, and if any of the narrative pressure that's historically been put on Annie is brought to bear on Kat, it will not be pretty. To be honest, I do not see any force supporting Annie right now, except herself. |
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Post by madjack on Feb 13, 2020 1:24:58 GMT
I meant Annie and Kat, mostly because the forces supporting each (in their own way) are too heavily opposed to the other. We're already seeing how well Kat reacts to pressure, and if any of the narrative pressure that's historically been put on Annie is brought to bear on Kat, it will not be pretty. To be honest, I do not see any force supporting Annie right now, except herself. The threat of a needy near-omnipotent god rampaging through the Court is very much in Annie's corner, whether she wants it to be or not. |
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Post by noone3 on Feb 13, 2020 7:13:04 GMT
Is it too late to call for Kat being the ultimate antagonist in the story? With her meddling to try Court-ify the ether she undoes the work of the Psychopomps and makes the world not turn, even if unintentionally? KANEDAAAAAAAAAA TETSUOOOOOOOOOO |
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Post by migrantworker on Feb 13, 2020 12:27:47 GMT
Oh dear. Paz is so not going to like this if Annie takes Zimmy's advice - but there is a mounting body of evidence that Annie really should do exactly that. Which one of them would end up holding sway over Kat, and at what cost?
This may get interesting, in the Chinese proverb sense of the word.
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Post by saardvark on Feb 13, 2020 13:04:00 GMT
Panel one replaces a tree in the original Flammarion engraving with what looks like an ether transmission tower(?), while the pastoral countryside with small town becomes the gray, monolithic Court. Possible implication: that ether experiments are what are letting Kat "peer behind the veil"?
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Post by pyradonis on Feb 13, 2020 16:10:35 GMT
To be honest, I do not see any force supporting Annie right now, except herself. The threat of a needy near-omnipotent god rampaging through the Court is very much in Annie's corner, whether she wants it to be or not. Yes, but said god does not support her in any way. Loup causes nothing but trouble for Annie. |
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Post by somebunny on Feb 14, 2020 0:38:10 GMT
I could never really reconcile chapter 5 Zimmy picking a fight with chapter 38 Zimmy whimpering and cowering, and kind of attributed it to Tom not having imagined all the specifics at the beginning of the comic.
I don't have enough evidence to be confident in this, but I always thought it was because there was a particular point in the comic where Kat became whatever she currently is. |
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Post by saardvark on Feb 14, 2020 3:28:26 GMT
I could never really reconcile chapter 5 Zimmy picking a fight with chapter 38 Zimmy whimpering and cowering, and kind of attributed it to Tom not having imagined all the specifics at the beginning of the comic.
I don't have enough evidence to be confident in this, but I always thought it was because there was a particular point in the comic where Kat became whatever she currently is. That creator-eureka moment is interesting... in the background is something which could either be a "blue flame of creativity" igniting, or it could be something (ether?) flowing INTO Kat... maybe the causal nudge for the light bulb event? Or maybe Im just over-interpreting! Wouldn't be the first time.... EDIT: adding also to wild-spec |
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Post by Per on Feb 14, 2020 7:56:10 GMT
Tom's Formspring answers on the subject are a little ambiguous, but never imply it was something that started happening at a certain point:
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