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Post by wies on Sept 23, 2020 7:14:01 GMT
Caught in the fall. I like how Tom's comment refers to this comic's comment, but this time in singular. (Also, should I edit the title of past thread or keep it that way?)
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Post by merry76 on Sept 23, 2020 7:27:33 GMT
Shouldnt it be "Here comes the Tic Toc" then? Its a weird mix of plua-singular. Wich isnt wrong, because its complicated.
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Post by Timberwere on Sept 23, 2020 7:35:21 GMT
Shouldnt it be "Here comes the Tic Toc" then? Its a weird mix of plua-singular. Wich isnt wrong, because its complicated. I believe this use of pluringular was exactly the intention, namely to underscore that it is but one Tic Toc, but multiplied. |
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Post by stclair on Sept 23, 2020 7:56:37 GMT
The art has... improved somewhat.
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Post by chrisjenl on Sept 23, 2020 8:38:30 GMT
Is it me or look this Anne bigger than the one we see saved?
The clews are not around the arm but on her jacked. Her heir look longer.
Maybe it is the draws steal but he have he has often made small differences on purpose. to be important later on.
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Post by blahzor on Sept 23, 2020 9:35:18 GMT
why does 2260 have same thread title
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Post by wies on Sept 23, 2020 10:04:00 GMT
why does 2260 have same thread title Because there was no dialogue in that comic, and I thought to be cheeky and referred to this comic's comment in lieu of Tom's references in his comments in the recent comics. I expected the next page to have some spoken words that could serve as thread title, but was proven wrong. At least, as some commenters here have pointed out, there is some minimal difference with the nouns. But I am open to change either the title of this thread or the past if people want that. |
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Post by gpvos on Sept 23, 2020 11:09:53 GMT
But I am open to change either the title of this thread or the past if people want that. Please at least change the number in the title, should be 2361 instead of 2261. |
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Post by wies on Sept 23, 2020 11:33:24 GMT
Thanks for notifying me of that mistake!
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Post by Gemminie on Sept 23, 2020 12:25:22 GMT
This moment is one of the most important moments of the story, and it makes sense to devote an entire page to it -- again. We're seeing it from another point of view. No framing corners, though.
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Post by ctso74 on Sept 23, 2020 13:14:00 GMT
I wonder, if the Noms are looking over Kat's shoulder, and humming Ride of the Valkyries. Edit: Just saw this was already said yesterday. Doh. *Ride of the Valkyries begins to play* |
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Post by netherdan on Sept 23, 2020 14:19:11 GMT
This might be the start of a pattern: panel 2 here has six birds (five extra appeared next to the one Kat was controlling), then at panel 6 in the same page and panel 1 here we can see five birds diving. After that in panel 3 there's four birds. Maybe there's one out of sight but maybe they already started swapping? I mean, it all happens in a matter of seconds. If the next page show us three and then two birds I'll light the oven, but until we see them fizzling out of existence I'll refrain from claiming any cookie |
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Post by bedinsis on Sept 23, 2020 16:19:28 GMT
I wonder what Kat sees on her screen. Several screens in different windows? Edit: Just saw this was already said yesterday. Doh. Here's a fun exercise for you: try phrase-searching for that song on this forum. It has been name dropped quite a few times over the years. |
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Post by kayback on Sept 23, 2020 18:28:13 GMT
I'm way more curious to see what happens next. It appears Kat abandoned the Tic To at some point after this rescue because the carcass is growing into the hill.
Why? Why does the bird have the ability to take root? Kat wasn't there to hear it needed to do that. In the contemporary time line the river is gone. Why build the birds that way?
I assume Tom has a reason.
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Post by novia on Sept 23, 2020 21:28:30 GMT
The art has... improved somewhat. Idea: All these time travel shenanigans are only happening because of Tom's great desire that he must resist to redraw the early comics. |
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Post by manabi on Sept 23, 2020 22:07:32 GMT
I just had a crazy idea hit me... What if the Tic Toc is the Seed Bismuth? I know we saw it end up on the side of the river in the past strips, but it's a time-traveling device. It doesn't have to go straight there after saving Annie's life. There was plenty of time for it to pop back to the past, seed the Court (accidentally no doubt), then pop back to this time and "die" on the side of the river. It did start growing machinery after Ysengrin planted buried it.
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Post by mistergunpowder on Sept 24, 2020 5:21:43 GMT
Is it me or look this Anne bigger than the one we see saved? The clews are not around the arm but on her jacked. Her heir look longer. Maybe it is the draws steal but he have he has often made small differences on purpose. to be important later on. I think this might be the timeline where Annie didn't live. |
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Post by pyradonis on Sept 24, 2020 13:57:01 GMT
I just had a crazy idea hit me... What if the Tic Toc is the Seed Bismuth? I know we saw it end up on the side of the river in the past strips, but it's a time-traveling device. It doesn't have to go straight there after saving Annie's life. There was plenty of time for it to pop back to the past, seed the Court (accidentally no doubt), then pop back to this time and "die" on the side of the river. It did start growing machinery after Ysengrin planted buried it. This theory is gaining popularity, it seems.
Although in my opinion the more important question is why did the Tic-Toc grow at all? There has been no hint yet of Kat having included any such functionality. When that is cleared up it should become more obvious whether the Tic-Toc could also be the Seed Bismuth. I am on the fence, personally. The Seed Bismuth grew buildings, as far as we presume to know, while what grew out of the Tic-Toc seemed to be pure machinery and electronics. Mostly tubes and commication devices actually. Of course we have no idea what it would have looked like after several more months.
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Post by netherdan on Sept 24, 2020 17:53:40 GMT
I just had a crazy idea hit me... What if the Tic Toc is the Seed Bismuth? I know we saw it end up on the side of the river in the past strips, but it's a time-traveling device. It doesn't have to go straight there after saving Annie's life. There was plenty of time for it to pop back to the past, seed the Court (accidentally no doubt), then pop back to this time and "die" on the side of the river. It did start growing machinery after Ysengrin planted buried it. This theory is gaining popularity, it seems.
Although in my opinion the more important question is why did the Tic-Toc grow at all? There has been no hint yet of Kat having included any such functionality. When that is cleared up it should become more obvious whether the Tic-Toc could also be the Seed Bismuth. I am on the fence, personally. The Seed Bismuth grew buildings, as far as we presume to know, while what grew out of the Tic-Toc seemed to be pure machinery and electronics. Mostly tubes and commication devices actually. Of course we have no idea what it would have looked like after several more months.
I'm still not sure it grew at all, but I'm tilting to the side of it did. Ysengrin doesn't seem to be able to come up with such an elaborate lie on his own, so I'm guessing Coyote ordered him to bury it and then erased his memory. What I can infer from the way it apparently grew is that it started with a mining operation to acquire resources and keep expanding (little tubes intentionally avoiding the waterbed level, medium tube on a nearby boulder and a large tube on the cliff wall, plus some kind of machinery that I'm assuming was to refine it), then it proceeded to build communication devices (both parabolic and microwave antennas) and finally to the top-right there was what I assumed to be either some kind of matter transference receptor or an assembly unit (the rectangular thing with colorful displays, three tubes attached and an aperture mechanism door thingy). Again, I don't think Ysengrin came up with all these details, and that that panel was probably just showing us what it was actually there and not an accurate description by a wolf who doesn't know the difference from little girl's outfit to an adult one. But on top of all that, we weren't shown Kat to have access to autonomous growing tech on the scale it was presented, her tech still need the Court's growing vats, so this will probably be the work of future-Kat. Maybe the Tic-Toc had a tiny matter transference receptor inside it that would allow for future-Kat to send a "seed" to upgrade it after if gets busted, but I don't see the reason for all this. Probably if the Norns forbid her from using the time stream again so she couldn't send new ones and then she had to get creative to solve this? She'll probably get the idea of a "seed" from Annie's ramblings about the origins of the Court, and decide to try using her Tic-Toc built-in part replacement mechanism as a wormhole to the past (I know she made it "by hand" but she could have included it for good measure, right?). This doesn't mean Kat would have made the Seed Bismuth herself, but just got inspired by it and made some kind of growing seed! Anyway, right now the Tic-Toc shouldn't be capable of growing, so maybe some other theories are right and there was actually multiple Tic-Tocs throughout the Court's history and not just this current one |
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Post by ctso74 on Sept 25, 2020 13:22:16 GMT
Is it me or look this Anne bigger than the one we see saved? The clews are not around the arm but on her jacked. Her heir look longer. Maybe it is the draws steal but he have he has often made small differences on purpose. to be important later on. I think this might be the timeline where Annie didn't live. Welcome to the forum. |
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Post by wies on Sept 25, 2020 13:29:25 GMT
Welcome as well, mistergunpowder.  |
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