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Post by madjack on Sept 22, 2021 7:55:11 GMT
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Post by blahzor on Sept 22, 2021 9:34:16 GMT
she's ruining a universal rule of Gunnerkrigg. don't ask adults for help. Kat did that once and fixed the past
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Post by saardvark on Sept 22, 2021 11:31:15 GMT
Parley not even going to check on Cvet? (I suppose if they are "bonded" in some way, she may be able to sense that Cvet is OK?)
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Sept 22, 2021 11:33:34 GMT
Yeah, come on people, I was at work, I don't have time to make threads, only make pointless comments! With that said, my work here is done! See you Friday, everyone! |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Sept 22, 2021 11:39:49 GMT
Could be worse. At least nobody's following a white rabbit down a hole in the comic.
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Post by TBeholder on Sept 22, 2021 11:56:17 GMT
Could be worse. At least nobody's following a white rabbit down a hole in the comic. Yes, but it looks like they enter a maze of twisted passages, all alike. |
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Post by phantaskippy on Sept 22, 2021 12:27:42 GMT
Panel 6 Annie.
That's all.
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Post by pyradonis on Sept 22, 2021 13:09:04 GMT
I suppose what some of us saw as snakelike in the body of the short-haired fairy was just a lanky body after all, possibly looking longer due to her clothes and the poses she was in on the previous page. Parley not even going to check on Cvet? (I suppose if they are "bonded" in some way, she may be able to sense that Cvet is OK?) She said two pages ago that she can't find Cvet without getting Andrew first. True, she could leave and do that, but Cvet is an Orjak, meaning, if anyone else survived this then it's her. At the same time, there are apparently many people right here who need help right now. |
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Post by ctso74 on Sept 22, 2021 13:44:21 GMT
Unless it opens up more, those tunnels are going to be a tight fit for Eggs. It would be helpful if the fairies could shrink people. What "powers" do GC fairies officially have?
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Post by Gemminie on Sept 22, 2021 13:55:42 GMT
Still no answer to my question about whether these are the "original" sub-Forest tunnels or new ones, but the fairies are expecting Annie to go with them, so perhaps we'll see. The freckled one with short hair is a bit taller than the other one, but doesn't seem to have a snake or lizard body as I'd been wondering; maybe she's just extraordinarily limber or stretchable.
Annie is in a position where she could well be afraid for her life – what if there's a cave-in, and how much oxygen is there down here anyway? And yet she shows compassion for the Forest creatures who may need help. But she's always shown compassion for non-human entities; the very first story in the comic has her helping Shadow 2, despite having only just met him. This is in character for Annie. It also sort of gives her a role when she didn't really have one; she was useful to the Court as long as the gifts still remained to be returned, but what use does the Court have for her now? She's found another mission to go on.
James and Parley's response is very understanding, as if they somehow know about this quality of Annie's that she's always exhibited whenever she has a chance. James makes a good point, that Annie agreed to be Forest medium, which doesn't mean Coyote's or Loup's medium. This does kind of raise the question of whether the people of the Forest ever really considered Coyote or Ysengrin to be representing them or their interests, or whether Coyote simply ruled them because he had the power to. And that brings up another point: what if Loup had trouble controlling the Forest not because he wasn't doing the magic spell right, but because the people of the Forest didn't have a relationship with him? As Khepi said, at least with Coyote you knew where you stood. What if they're just not cooperating? That is, what if Coyote "controlled" the Forest by simply talking to everybody now and then, and that's not something Loup ever does? What if that's what the "system of chaotic branches" actually means?
OK, somehow I went from Annie going down a hole to Coyote being a good politician. Anyway, down Annie goes, with James and Parley helping her enlarge the fairy-size tunnel to human-size, and it looks like she's bringing her werelight with her. That blue light's still back there in the opening that Parley and James came from, so it's got to be something of theirs, some spell or device. Are they going to come with Annie? We're about to see more Forest creatures, I think, for the first time since Loup's existed (other than the tree elves), and we're going to see why the chapter's called what it is.
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Post by Gemminie on Sept 22, 2021 14:01:25 GMT
Unless it opens up more, those tunnels are going to be a tight fit for Eggs. It would be helpful if the fairies could shrink people. What "powers" do GC fairies officially have? This is a good question. Flight, upcycling, easily interacting with the Ether, speaking with animals, and brutal honesty appear to be common abilities. Beyond that, individual ones seem to have individual special powers. We haven't seen any fairies do a Ferngully on anybody, but one of them could have shrinking as an individual ability. |
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Post by DonDueed on Sept 22, 2021 15:23:07 GMT
I'm intrigued by the final panel. Whose point of view are we seeing here? Is there another person or entity present, watching Annie & Co. from the recesses of the cave?
Is it anyone we've met before?
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Post by warrl on Sept 22, 2021 15:33:44 GMT
Pending further information, I'm assuming it's the after-the-fact narrator's view.
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Post by bedinsis on Sept 22, 2021 17:58:11 GMT
I suspect Annie's enhanced fire beam will soon become relevant. Also, am I seeing things wrong or has Annie's eye color switched from blue to grey? |
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Post by speedwell on Sept 22, 2021 18:09:53 GMT
I suspect Annie's enhanced fire beam will soon become relevant. Also, am I seeing things wrong or has Annie's eye color switched from blue to grey? Her eyes were clearly blue just after the tunnel collapse. However they're definitely grey now. For now I'm blaming the ambient light. |
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Post by alevice on Sept 22, 2021 18:21:15 GMT
I'm intrigued by the final panel. Whose point of view are we seeing here? Is there another person or entity present, watching Annie & Co. from the recesses of the cave?
Is it anyone we've met before?
Seems to me just a zoom to move to a different PoV in a probably different but semi adjacent location in the next page, |
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Post by mturtle7 on Sept 22, 2021 18:28:55 GMT
Unless it opens up more, those tunnels are going to be a tight fit for Eggs. It would be helpful if the fairies could shrink people. What "powers" do GC fairies officially have? This is a good question. Flight, upcycling, easily interacting with the Ether, speaking with animals, and brutal honesty appear to be common abilities. Beyond that, individual ones seem to have individual special powers. We haven't seen any fairies do a Ferngully on anybody, but one of them could have shrinking as an individual ability. You're right about special powers changing by individual, but I get the impression some powers are more common than others. Clouding minds and Etheric illusions, in particular, have been seen in other fairies besides Blue, though apparently those don't always go together.
Oh yeah, and there was that one time a fairy turned her friend's head into a slug. And I guess that must also be pretty common, since the cure for that sort of thing (a four-leaf clover) was at least relatively common knowledge. |
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Post by saardvark on Sept 22, 2021 18:45:24 GMT
I'm intrigued by the final panel. Whose point of view are we seeing here? Is there another person or entity present, watching Annie & Co. from the recesses of the cave?
Is it anyone we've met before?
Is the last "panel" really two panels? (Is that what you are getting at?) The very last panel being the little triangular wedge with the dim glow? Or is the "panel separator" just a diagonal root or something? It could also be a segue to the next page, where we see Annie et al with the glow in a tunnel... we are seeing that glow from a distance in the wedge here. |
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Post by todd on Sept 22, 2021 23:42:54 GMT
Or it might be a "transition sign" that we're about to shift to somewhere else (say, what's happening in the Court with the Forest-attack, from the point of view of Kat or Renard).
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Post by rimwolf on Sept 23, 2021 4:16:03 GMT
I think the last panel is Parley being the last to enter the tunnel, with the light source already in the tunnel. I can make out her pigtail, the red in her top and the blue in her pants. The POV is tilted and pulled back from the previous panel.
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