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Post by laaaa on May 15, 2023 13:33:15 GMT
Not unprepared. I doubt they have thought things all the way through, however. Why? Because the only reason I can think for Loup to want to die right now is if Lana is dead. |
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Post by aline on May 15, 2023 13:35:53 GMT
No. It made sense to wait and see what Loup's next move would be while preparing for the inevitable confrontation. We don't know what Loup wants or why he decided to reveal himself now, but he surely thought that if any part of that conversation didn't go how he wanted he could just threaten devastation again. I mean, she's not waiting for his next move, though. As far as I can tell, his next move is to make out with Lana. She has been waiting for him to move. His next move was to let her know Robot made a deal with him to make her distrust him, and then reveal who he is. That's probably not the kind of next move Annie and Kat were expecting, but can you blame them? They surely don't buy cute Jerrek in love, but it *was* an act for a while. Also I'm not sure I fully trust his intentions now. He told Lana he was going to tell Kat because she needs to know, but he might well be lying to her about his motivations to ensure the make out sessions don't stop. |
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Post by sosleepy on May 15, 2023 15:04:07 GMT
Not unprepared. I doubt they have thought things all the way through, however. Why? Because the only reason I can think for Loup to want to die right now is if Lana is dead. I think there's another option for that. He might want to die FOR Lana to protect her or something like that. If Lana died Loup would most probably want to get revenge turning the whole Court into the barren wasteland. I think that he would want to die only when there's no one else left to vent his anger on. |
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Post by sosleepy on May 15, 2023 15:09:35 GMT
That's my fear as well, that she's gonna take the blow for Jerrek and die, causing him to completely lose it as he finally learns the pain of losing someone he loves. Or Annie may just do this all so fast that there's no time for either to do anything. She is very pissed off and not screwing around right now. Jerrek will cease to be as Loup gets sliced back into Coyote and Ysengrin, which will devastate both of the young lovers. Comedy option: It cuts Jerrek and Loup into two individuals. A totally viable option, to say the least! Not to say that it's way better than having Lana killed accidentally ...or perhaps Kat and Annie are still open to negotiations? |
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Post by fia on May 15, 2023 15:48:12 GMT
I dunno, I've been waiting for this other shoe to drop the whole dang series. This feels dangerously close to that scene. |
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Post by pyradonis on May 15, 2023 16:45:42 GMT
Is Annie left-handed and I never noticed?
Anyway, I really hope she just means to put herself into a position of strength for further talking. If she just straight up tries to stab Loup in cold blood, I'm out.
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Post by Gemminie on May 15, 2023 17:57:46 GMT
On the previous page, Jerrek is caged, and now Renard runs around a corner and disgorges Coyote's tooth, where it spins in the air before turning into Coyote's dagger in its sheath. Annie catches it and quickly unsheathes it, looking resolutely in what is presumably Jerrek's direction. Annie and Renard have practiced this. And Annie has probably been keeping Renard in the loop via her connection with him since they started walking from the café to this courtyard area. We weren't privy to this conversation, but I can understand why – if we had been, it wouldn't have made this quite as dramatic for us readers. Catching and wielding the blade in her left hand, Annie apparently plans to do a dramatic "Aha! I am not left-handed!" at some later point, or at least shift it to her right hand, as she's obviously right-handed. Why? Probably because Renard entered from her left, and she didn't want to take her eyes completely off Jerrek to catch the dagger. And her hair clip suddenly isn't blue – most likely an error, as it was blue in the previous page. Well, then. Will she use it? Stab Jerrek through the heart? Lana will certainly try to stop her; will Annie allow herself to be stopped? Will Kat's cage hold Loup for long enough? Will we see the end of Loup? I'm guessing not; something will happen to postpone the event for another time. I'm guessing that because I don't think Loup has realized what Coyote's plan is, nor agreed that it's an excellent plan. I also guess that because Coyote said that he'd arrange events to force Annie to kill Loup, and this doesn't seem like that sort of situation. It doesn't seem as if she has no other choice. If Annie lunges at Jerrek and Lana gets in the way, causing Annie to kill Lana, what happens? It seems fairly unlikely for that to happen, but would it be spirit guiding time for Annie? Would Lana's belief in Kat as the Angel reshape the Ether? |
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Post by Eily on May 15, 2023 18:42:18 GMT
If she hadn't been so intense about it, I would actually have expected Annie to just give the blade to Loup to try and get definitive answers about Coyote's plan. From Coyote himself even.
Or maybe she somehow knows a way to use the blade to cut Loup from his body and threaten to do to him what he did to Renard.
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Post by Igniz on May 15, 2023 18:58:01 GMT
unless it's a ruse of some sort. In any case I eagerly wait to see how this plays out! I lean towards this, especially considering that since her trying to avoid killing Loup two chapters ago and this point in the story he has not done anything of relevance other that spending time with and being lanalyzing a certain NP. Anyway, even if she does stab Loup (or at least tries to), we must also take into account that a) we don't know for sure what can or will happen if he is indeed stabbed; b) his "death" is all part of Coyote's bigger plan; and c) the current events may have a relation to deactivated machines rising from their graves. |
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Post by rabbit on May 15, 2023 19:12:00 GMT
Or maybe she somehow knows a way to use the blade to cut Loup from his body and threaten to do to him what he did to Renard. I have wondered if the reason Loup, or Jerrek, might agree that Coyote's plan is a wonderful plan is that the giggle-blade may destroy Loup the god, but not Jerrek the NP. At this point in time, Jerrek's new-found ability to love might overrule his desire for revenge or destruction. I don't think it will be as simple as Annie immediately striking Jerrek, or Lana intercepting the blow intended for him. At least I hope not!
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Post by rabbit on May 15, 2023 19:20:30 GMT
Is Annie left-handed and I never noticed? I thought she is right-handed also. Perhaps Jerrek could benefit from a bit of Gurney Halleck's advice: Keep the mind on the knife and not on the hand that holds it. The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand. |
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Post by jda on May 15, 2023 19:41:32 GMT
That last panel gives off vibes of One Piece, though
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Post by blazingstar on May 15, 2023 19:58:50 GMT
Holy crap, that escalated quickly! So quickly that the color of Annie's hairclip disappeared. (I wonder if Tom will correct it later.)
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Post by blazingstar on May 15, 2023 20:22:04 GMT
Is Annie left-handed and I never noticed? Probably right-handed! In this page and this page, and this page too, she writes right-handed. She bowls with her right. And when asked to perform impromptu surgery on her best friend, she uses the scalpel with her right. (But in her dream that Zimmy stepped into, she's cheating off Kat's papers with her left. I don't think that means anything.) Annie was never ACTUALLY trained in how to wield a weapon by Jones, Parley, or Elgamore. She probably has no idea what to do with that thing, if she were going to use it as an actual blade. I say don't think too much on her handedness in this scene. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on May 15, 2023 20:54:28 GMT
Holy crap, that escalated quickly! So quickly that the color of Annie's hairclip disappeared. (I wonder if Tom will correct it later.) Maybe the hair clip is like a mood ring or robot eyes. She's now at yellow alert and is ready to attack if needed, blue meant normal non-combatant status, and I guess red should mean it's go-time. |
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Post by Sky Schemer on May 16, 2023 1:21:56 GMT
I say don't think too much on her handedness in this scene. Give her a break. She's never wielded a tooth before. |
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Post by csj on May 16, 2023 1:56:16 GMT
'while you snogged, I studied the blade'
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Post by jda on May 16, 2023 5:01:17 GMT
Oh, yes, the old: a) Lana tries to protect Jerrek and is ripped in pieces. b) Loup goes berserk and destroys the cage, disrupting Kat shenanigans. c) then instead of rampaging and obliterating reality, Louperrek cradles Lanas dying form, where she tenderly says bye and see you in the Ether. d) Kat as Psycopomp guides Lana to the afterlife? e) Louperrek says to annie that nothing else matters but being with Lana, so, dying is a Good Idea, to go to her. f) Annie, nodding, slices Louperrek, killing him. g) Coyote Laughs. |
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Post by laaaa on May 16, 2023 6:44:59 GMT
You made me laugh out loud! |
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Post by Polyhymnia on May 16, 2023 11:51:56 GMT
I can easily see young Annie as the kind of person to practice things with both hands so as to be ambidextrous
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Post by yellowb on May 16, 2023 17:09:06 GMT
Annie cheating with her left hand in her dream might signify that she's... well, cheating. Doing something behind Kat's back. By the way, true ambidexterity is very rare. But being cross-dominant is more common. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dominance |
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Post by todd on May 16, 2023 23:43:17 GMT
It might be a simple drawing error that didn't get caught before the page was released.
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Post by TBeholder on May 18, 2023 11:53:11 GMT
It might be a simple drawing error that didn't get caught before the page was released. Also, her hair clip. |
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Post by Runningflame on May 18, 2023 14:28:08 GMT
Wow, that's neat! Great spot by addyelf22. Others on the forum had remarked on Annie's wearing white, a color I think we've never seen her wear before; I bet this is why (out-of-universe, that is). |
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