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Post by wies on May 4, 2020 7:02:00 GMT
Now we know what the road down is. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on May 4, 2020 7:03:40 GMT
Next comic: Kat explains why there is absolutely no need to start calling Juliette and Arthur on their cellphones.
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Post by madjack on May 4, 2020 7:04:17 GMT
That face in the last panel. Kat knows how Annie is going to react to this, especially when she learns the robots weren't given a choice over it.
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Post by shaihulud on May 4, 2020 7:04:41 GMT
Oh no, the little cloud is gone! You will be missed, visual gag anger cloud.
Edit* All those comments from people hoping the cloud meant she was getting volcanic/firestorm lightning powers.  |
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Post by stclair on May 4, 2020 7:17:13 GMT
We're fine, we're all fine, here, now, thank you.
How are you?
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Post by basser on May 4, 2020 7:27:05 GMT
Is this a whole chapter about offscreen boning.
(I interpreted Kat to be implying Arthur and Juliet were using the basement for romance endeavors but on second thought yeah I guess it's probably more likely she's just got a few hundred androids printing down there like some kinda Westworld set and doesn't feel up to explaining that particular impulse decision yet.)
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Post by Futurismo on May 4, 2020 7:42:18 GMT
Is this a whole chapter about offscreen boning. (I interpreted Kat to be implying Arthur and Juliet were using the basement for romance endeavors but on second thought yeah I guess it's probably more likely she's just got a few hundred androids printing down there like some kinda Westworld set and doesn't feel up to explaining that particular impulse decision yet.) ... Now that you mention it, this could be a follow-up to more humorous off-screen boning.
Kat: Annie wait, you don't want to go down there! Annies: Oh yes, we...! *Comes back upstairs further disturbed, Kat looks on concernedly.* Annies: ... So as I was saying before, that has pretty much been how my day has been going.
While I wouldn't be too surprised if that is what Arthur and Juliet are doing right now and if it humorously distracts Annie from noticing anything else going on down there, I think that what Kat means is that she'd rather keep things on the down-low, not just for Annie but everyone who's not directly helping really, until the process has been completed for all the robots.
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Post by zaratustra on May 4, 2020 7:52:56 GMT
Even my ʷᵒʳᵈˢ are out!
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Post by imaginaryfriend on May 4, 2020 8:37:05 GMT
Is this a whole chapter about offscreen boning. Like I said... Now that you mention it, this could be a follow-up to more humorous off-screen boning. I suspect the point may not be who is boining but who is NOT boning (and who is also unable to escape the reality that seemingly everyone else is boning). Wouldn't surprise me if Paz comes out of the back room wearing only a shirt of Kat's. Then, failing to reach either Juliette or Arthur by phone, the Antimonies go to see Smitty and George for help in stealing back the water only to find them inexplicably missing. And Kat's parents aren't answering the door. So they go to the Forest dude apartment building to recruit a burglar but every single door has a sock on the doorknob... |
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Post by migrantworker on May 4, 2020 8:43:38 GMT
So, Kat is alone in the workshop, right? Annies, you really should use this opportunity to ask her some questions. Like, you know, those which Zimmy has raised. |
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Post by Elysium on May 4, 2020 8:48:49 GMT
Kat needs one of these stop sign robots for smooth and unsuspecting access management.
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Post by arf on May 4, 2020 9:41:39 GMT
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Post by IvDead on May 4, 2020 10:59:41 GMT
My first assumption was that Kat was working on "fixing" the whole problem with the temporally displaced Annies (and the absence of the original!Annie). And considering how she reacted to the revelation that none of the Annies there with her is actually her Annie, it seems natural to assume that she would not see the solution as something the Annies would like. The fact that it was Zimmy who first asked the Annies about how they are going to fix their twin problem instead of Kat is... worrying, to say the least. |
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Post by fia on May 4, 2020 11:46:26 GMT
I mean, whatever Kat is plotting, it made Paz really upset, so it can't be good.
Maybe it involves the arrow? Or the Tic-Tocs.
Possibly Rey is in on it, but likely not anyone else.
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Post by madjack on May 4, 2020 12:20:49 GMT
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Post by IvDead on May 4, 2020 12:38:02 GMT
But, why wouldn't she want Annie to know that? Is my memory defective again? Because I don't remember any of the Annies being against giving the robots new bodies.
Edit: And Paz is upset, if we take her word at face value, because Kat is getting more stressed the more she works, instead of less (as would be normal), and refuses to stop.
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Post by csj on May 4, 2020 12:50:45 GMT
A terrible liar, but a pretty good Wizard of Oz.
99% curtain-free
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Post by wombat on May 4, 2020 13:28:12 GMT
Well, I had to read through this thread to even consider a non-horny interpretation of this page. Definitely on the side who first thought it was about Jules and Arthur boning.
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Post by netherdan on May 4, 2020 13:29:42 GMT
My first assumption was that Kat was working on "fixing" the whole problem with the temporally displaced Annies (and the absence of the original!Annie). And considering how she reacted to the revelation that none of the Annies there with her is actually her Annie, it seems natural to assume that she would not see the solution as something the Annies would like. The fact that it was Zimmy who first asked the Annies about how they are going to fix their twin problem instead of Kat is... worrying, to say the least. I mean, whatever Kat is plotting, it made Paz really upset, so it can't be good. Maybe it involves the arrow? Or the Tic-Tocs. My first thought was that she had an Annie clone body-in-a-vat down there, I didn't even remember the unethical robot embodiment program |
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Post by pyradonis on May 4, 2020 13:31:28 GMT
Isn't it ironic? Kat helps the robots along to become more human while adopting some of their mannerisms ("NO secret base!") - and, even if just for the moment, even successfully fools the perhaps only person(s) in the Court who would actually fall for it. But, why wouldn't she want Annie to know that? Is my memory defective again? Because I don't remember any of the Annies being against giving the robots new bodies. Since the Court will most certainly not react kindly to finding out that Kat, S13 and Juliette have been stealing the robot's CPUs and (forcibly) giving them organic bodies behind the Court's back, she might want to keep Annie out of it, so she will not be punished as an accomplice.
Frankly, I am surprised so many readers seem to have immediately forgotten the clandestine body switching operation going on down there, which was the whole point of the last chapter and half of the chapter before that.
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Post by shadow3 on May 4, 2020 14:01:13 GMT
Kat is building a Gundam to battle Loup.
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Post by IvDead on May 4, 2020 15:38:56 GMT
Frankly, I am surprised so many readers seem to have immediately forgotten the clandestine body switching operation going on down there, which was the whole point of the last chapter and half of the chapter before that.
That's not that I forgot, it just didn't seem to me like something Kat would purposely hide from Annies. But if that's the case, I'm on the side that thinks Kat wants to keep the Annies out of the loop because she doesn't want to make them accomplice and add to the pile of problems that the Annies now have. Mainly because I kind of doubt Kat would, on her own, see the whole process as unethical as some people can and has seen it as. Edit: And because we kind of have a precedent (in this much book) for Kat trying to spare the Annies from knowing how bad she is dealing with the whole situation. |
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Post by bicarbonat on May 4, 2020 15:47:22 GMT
What would be a hurtful secret? Maybe some sort of research on how to punt the Annies back to wherever they hailed from, so that Kat can get her Annie back? After speaking with that insufferable little Cool Whip dollop, the Annies were unlikely to forget that info, but probably were very happy to just have their best friend, their dad, and Renard.
Meanwhile, the knowledge has clearly festered in Kat's head, judging by the look she gave after Dollop's exeunt, and by the emotional distress so kindly highlighted by Paz.
If the secret is this, it would be the second thing that the Annies thought they knew and considered a non-issue (like Eglamore's constancy, and Idra's "guest appearance" status) that turned out to be something quite different.
After the Annies had their "come-to-Jesus cum ashray" episode, they called pax and admitted that they were the same. It would be painful to find out that, while they could accept themselves as-is, it isn't enough for Kat (even for the moment). They are Annie - just not her Annie.
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Post by basser on May 4, 2020 16:30:46 GMT
Y'all should maybe remember too that Annie is etherically tagged as a psychopomp (as we saw way back in the Realm of the Dead arc), and she's more or less being stalked by them like, all the time. So if Kat's creating new life forms with souls and stuff down there she might be assuming it's gonna get weird if the soul-ferrying brigade gets wind of it.
She might also be nervous because she's using the arrow to do this against Ghost Lawyer orders, on account of etheric laws are just a lot of goofy nonsense to her presumably as a side-perk of being a hyperdimensional technogodess. So she's like "whatever, throw me in ghost jail, it'll just be some janky cartoon bars made of cardboard and string". But she knows Annie takes the etheric stuff seriously so she might not want to let on that she's directly flouting ghost rules.
Sidenote I kind of love the idea that etheric stuff looks goofy and boring to Kat because she's essentially the sphere in Flatland.
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Post by mturtle7 on May 4, 2020 16:39:13 GMT
One should NEVER try to obviously stop someone from looking at your big secret, because whatever it is, it's rarely worse than the worst thing they can imagine, and THAT is what will spring to mind for them when you try and pull this bulls**t.
Edit: as evidence, I present the theories people are currently proposing for what Kat's big secret is.
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Post by Eversist on May 4, 2020 17:01:43 GMT
Me and my SO had basically the reactions you guys have had:
SO: So is like, Paz downstairs...
Me: *goes to read the page* ... I think it's more the whole "reanimated ancient robots to do her bidding" situation.
I do like the idea that she's doing something with the Annie data she gathered...
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Post by TBeholder on May 4, 2020 19:21:18 GMT
Kat needs one of these stop sign robots for smooth and unsuspecting access management. But they're also unavailable (if for another reason). That's the problem, isn't it? She should know Annie got the anatomy and surgery covered, down to bonesaws, IIRC. Then again, this was Anthony's design, so things can easily get weird and awkward. And at very least he will be distracted, if he oversees it right now. |
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Post by Gemini Jim on May 4, 2020 19:59:52 GMT
My first assumption is that there's "Absolutely Not A Humanoid Robot Factory Down There".
Although I'm not sure why Kat doesn't want her to see it.
Maybe she just assumes that Annie wouldn't like it, or she wants to get a chance to explain before Annie has a chance to see it.
Either way, Annie can't possibly not notice that Kat is a horrible liar.
Still waiting for the return of the title page image ...
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Post by wies on May 4, 2020 20:05:33 GMT
Never considered that it could be about finding the right Annie, but that sounds interesting too.
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Post by jasmijn on May 4, 2020 20:59:58 GMT
theyre fucking, right?
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