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Post by bedinsis on Mar 29, 2024 7:02:17 GMT
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Post by silicondream on Mar 29, 2024 7:03:24 GMT
Someone's got her Jerrekface on. |
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Post by basser on Mar 29, 2024 7:04:30 GMT
Man laying bare his soul here and Annie's just like "what?"
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Post by ezpak on Mar 29, 2024 7:04:35 GMT
Black Hair Girl looks like she was edited into the scene lmao
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Mar 29, 2024 7:20:45 GMT
Just FYI: That last panel (constructed by the dialogue bubbles, lower right corner of the page) depicts Robot's devilish self-conception on a breaking wheel mounted on a pole, which would be a post-torture post-execution position similar to a crucifixion where the malefactor's corpse is left on display so that all may contemplate their wicked deed(s).
Also: I'm thinking that Antimony et al are not seeing the imagery that we readers are treated to, unless possibly Robot's confession is so dramatic that it's inspiring these scenes in someone's mind.
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Post by bedinsis on Mar 29, 2024 7:29:04 GMT
Just made a bit of a mental connection. The Shadow men/glass eyed men were cast aside by Coyote, and the Seraphs have been rejected by Kat. |
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Post by tibert on Mar 29, 2024 7:55:31 GMT
Also Kat "From now, angel-calling is the new deadnaming."
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Post by silicondream on Mar 29, 2024 8:32:11 GMT
Also: I'm thinking that Antimony et al are not seeing the imagery that we readers are treated to, unless possibly Robot's confession is so dramatic that it's inspiring these scenes in someone's mind. You don't think that Zimmyngham is externalizing them? Kat: "Zimmy, Robot... Why everyone is thinking I'm going to kill them? Good thing she can't read this forum! |
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Post by arf on Mar 29, 2024 8:33:29 GMT
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Post by worldsong on Mar 29, 2024 8:42:58 GMT
I still think that Kat's dismissive attitude towards Zimmy's fear is mostly a demonstration of Kat being so used to being the smartest and most competent person in the room that she has a hard time imagining her projects having unintended and unwanted consequences.
But I agree that it's highly unlikely she'd intentionally harm either Zimmy or Robot, even after learning that Robot is responsible for turning her into the deity of a synthetic cult.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Mar 29, 2024 9:28:14 GMT
Also: I'm thinking that Antimony et al are not seeing the imagery that we readers are treated to, unless possibly Robot's confession is so dramatic that it's inspiring these scenes in someone's mind. You don't think that Zimmyngham is externalizing them? I may be proven wrong in the next few pages but no, I don't think the distortion is or is going to make these scenes real or even visible... at least not currently. There's the opposite of a common frame of reference at work here and I doubt Robot's going to be persuasive enough to create one unless he's got a lot more evil deeds to confess to that we don't know about. There's always a chance of a third party intervening one way or another, of course. |
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Post by rafk on Mar 29, 2024 9:32:29 GMT
If Tom is reading this, PLEASE let us know if this was intentionally timed for Good Friday, because it is a brilliant enough page as it is: going to air on Good Friday with Robot's duelling images of Lucifer and martyrdom is just so perfect....
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Post by Geekette on Mar 29, 2024 9:57:50 GMT
Robot's plan feels rather narcissistic. Being the devil of his plan means that Robot gets to be entirely in control of everything that happens. He and he alone can decide what becomes of his people should have, he and he alone gets to decide the means they get there, and he and he alone gets to decide his own fate and ensure that his memory and message will live on forever.
But by 'narcissistic', I also mean familiar. Where have I seen the reflection of this before in Gunnerkrigg Court?
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Post by Corvo on Mar 29, 2024 10:04:07 GMT
It's time to get BIBLICAAAAAAL!!! ~ sick guitar solo ~
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Post by zaratustra on Mar 29, 2024 10:11:31 GMT
Man laying bare his soul here and Annie's just like "what?" What *do* you say when you learn your friend has been secretly hoping to star in biblical fanfiction with him as lucifer |
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Post by Isildur on Mar 29, 2024 11:59:22 GMT
You don't think that Zimmyngham is externalizing them? I may be proven wrong in the next few pages but no, I don't think the distortion is or is going to make these scenes real or even visible... at least not currently. There's the opposite of a common frame of reference at work here and I doubt Robot's going to be persuasive enough to create one unless he's got a lot more evil deeds to confess to that we don't know about. There's always a chance of a third party intervening one way or another, of course. It seems pretty evident to me that they've been truly seeing audio-visual projections/windows/visions/whatever you want to call it. I mean, what else is Annie reacting to here and here when we see the robots chanting "It was worth it"? Robot voluntarily (off-panel) narrating the scene at length? No, these are memories escaping his mind unbidden, before Robot meant them to be revealed. It's these visions, I think, that mystery gal came closer in order to make sure she could "see". (How she knew the clip show was about to begin isn't yet explained; she may even be prompting the opening of these windows into Robot's past herself, or may have had some foreknowledge of the events that are transpiring. If she is at least in part Gamma, she would already have experience with looking through Zimmy-distortion windows into others, as seen during the distortion that resulted in a re-unified Annie.) |
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Post by morrahadesigns on Mar 29, 2024 13:54:30 GMT
Man laying bare his soul here and Annie's just like "what?" What *do* you say when you learn your friend has been secretly hoping to star in biblical fanfiction with him as lucifer "That's rough, buddy." |
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Post by morrahadesigns on Mar 29, 2024 13:55:14 GMT
Well *ahem* that sure took a turn....
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Post by basser on Mar 29, 2024 14:32:01 GMT
Somewhere amongst the background characters there's some rando idly wondering whatever happened to that annoying robot they stuffed in the hall cupboard.
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Post by atteSmythe on Mar 29, 2024 14:49:46 GMT
Man laying bare his soul here and Annie's just like "what?" What *do* you say when you learn your friend has been secretly hoping to star in biblical fanfiction with him as lucifer "I must say, bad show old chap. You might have done some things differently." |
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Post by blazingstar on Mar 29, 2024 16:15:06 GMT
I love how Shadow and Annie are both in different stages of "wtf, Robot?!" and Black Haired Girl is just in the back listening, like, "Hmmm. How fascinating." What a hilarious contrast
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Post by louisxiv on Mar 29, 2024 19:48:02 GMT
It rather seems that poor little Robot S13 badly needs a reassuring hug from his Mommy. (Who should tell him he is not the Messiah, he's a very naughty robot (but she loves him).) |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Mar 29, 2024 20:26:35 GMT
I may be proven wrong in the next few pages but no, I don't think the distortion is or is going to make these scenes real or even visible... at least not currently. There's the opposite of a common frame of reference at work here and I doubt Robot's going to be persuasive enough to create one unless he's got a lot more evil deeds to confess to that we don't know about. There's always a chance of a third party intervening one way or another, of course. It seems pretty evident to me that they've been truly seeing audio-visual projections/windows/visions/whatever you want to call it. I mean, what else is Annie reacting to here and here when we see the robots chanting "It was worth it"? Robot voluntarily (off-panel) narrating the scene at length? No, these are memories escaping his mind unbidden, before Robot meant them to be revealed. It's these visions, I think, that mystery gal came closer in order to make sure she could "see". (How she knew the clip show was about to begin isn't yet explained; she may even be prompting the opening of these windows into Robot's past herself, or may have had some foreknowledge of the events that are transpiring. If she is at least in part Gamma, she would already have experience with looking through Zimmy-distortion windows into others, as seen during the distortion that resulted in a re-unified Annie.) If you examine Antimony and Shadow (and Zoob to a lesser extent) on this page not only are they not being illuminated by any white light from the front but they're wearing Michael Jackson tilt shoes. To put it another way they're still looking up at Robot as on previous pages but they've been rotated so that it appears they're looking at the devil on the wheel in the last panel. There's been traces of that prior but not so obviously. The reactions of Antimony, Shadow and Zoob are actually happening but I think they're being forced (artistically speaking) to look at the scenes Robot's dialogue is invoking (metaphorically speaking) because it'd look weird otherwise. Maybe I'll be proven wrong in the next few updates but I don't think so. I think we're going to snap back to barnacle-bound biblically-accurate robot soon and proceed with the barnacle-scraping. |
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Post by Gemminie on Mar 29, 2024 20:33:46 GMT
Continuing to answer the Mystery New Person's question, which was why he didn't have a NP body yet, Robot elaborates on how he believes Kat would have discovered his deeds during that process. He believes he would have been tried, found guilty, and sentenced to termination. But he believes that it would have been worth it, for the ascension of his fellow robots. In the background we're seeing a fairly devil-like figure, and in the foreground some kind of crucifixion, only on a wooden wheel – being broken on the wheel, perhaps? Annie and Shadow look fairly shocked at his description of this, while MNP looks thoughtful in the background. No feathers, barnacles, or cilia on this page. Tom's note: "Self image."
I don't think Kat would actually have done any of this. She may not have found out, or if he did, she might have been upset, but I don't think she would have had Robot terminated. But what's important is not what really would have happened; what's important is what he believes would have happened, because that's what guided his actions.
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Post by novia on Mar 29, 2024 21:36:54 GMT
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Post by novia on Mar 30, 2024 1:18:27 GMT
Robot - Why doesn't your demonic CPU have that extra blue thing on it?
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Post by basser on Mar 30, 2024 1:52:01 GMT
Wait wait wait.
Imagine if Robot had ascended but Kat didn't notice his "evil deeds" cause why would she even care to look.
Would he have ended up all sulky over Mommy not punishing him.
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Post by blahzor on Mar 30, 2024 1:59:08 GMT
did Lana lend him some books?
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Post by csj on Mar 30, 2024 3:41:47 GMT
Wait wait wait. Imagine if Robot had ascended but Kat didn't notice his "evil deeds" cause why would she even care to look. Would he have ended up all sulky over Mommy not punishing him. way too much kink undertones in this panel I hate it |
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Post by jda on Mar 30, 2024 6:56:56 GMT
If Tom is reading this, PLEASE let us know if this was intentionally timed for Good Friday, because it is a brilliant enough page as it is: going to air on Good Friday with Robot's duelling images of Lucifer and martyrdom is just so perfect.... And so previous page shows Robot illuminated by a three-parts powerful light source, echoing The Transfiguration from Xst Passion (celebrated on Wednesday) |
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