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Post by King Mir on Jan 26, 2009 8:11:10 GMT
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vryko
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Post by vryko on Jan 26, 2009 8:12:46 GMT
I can't help but feel that there was some time in Gunnerkrigg Court where it was inferred that someone saw something using a blinker stone, or am I imagining it?
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Post by zingbat on Jan 26, 2009 8:40:50 GMT
I don't remember... but a blinker stone would make an excellent spy device, wouldn't it? You just plop it down in some unobtrusive place in the teachers' lounge and -BAM!- instant visual feed! Until Mrs. Donlan notices and puts it in a flower pot or something.
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Post by fjodor on Jan 26, 2009 8:54:15 GMT
I wonder if the Blinker stone is a natural, etheric device, or that it is the result of Court technology.
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Post by tetsamaru on Jan 26, 2009 9:20:28 GMT
"Oh darn, i seemed to have misplaced my blinker stone in the girl's locker room.....excuse me for a second."
-"wait, the girls locker room?"
"Im a janitor"
-"Ohhh"
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Post by stroth on Jan 26, 2009 10:35:27 GMT
The cut is getting brighter. Why is the cut getting brighter?
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Post by Midnight Meadows on Jan 26, 2009 10:52:25 GMT
I don't remember... but a blinker stone would make an excellent spy device, wouldn't it? You just plop it down in some unobtrusive place in the teachers' lounge and -BAM!- instant visual feed! Until Mrs. Donlan notices and puts it in a flower pot or something. This makes me wonder whether the Court hasn't used like..... a very powerful slingshot or something that will discretely hurl a blinkerstone into the forest. Y'know, one of those ones that requires 3 people to operate (or one person and two trees to tie it to) just so they can wing stones over there to "keep an eye on things."
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Post by todd on Jan 26, 2009 11:38:45 GMT
Coyote would probably be aware of it and have the blinker stone moved somewhere where it would communicate no usable information (though, knowing him, a lot of potentially embarrassing information from the point of view of the people who put the blinker stone there).
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Post by wanderer on Jan 26, 2009 12:17:41 GMT
The cut is getting brighter. Why is the cut getting brighter? Maybe the injury grows worse every time she comes into contact with the etheric world. Eventually it will grow severe enough to destroy her soul.
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Post by Goatmon on Jan 26, 2009 12:54:18 GMT
The cut is getting brighter. Why is the cut getting brighter? Maybe the injury grows worse every time she comes into contact with the etheric world. Eventually it will grow severe enough to destroy her soul. Except the cut only appeared while she was seeing the etheric plane. The last time we saw the cut was in Zimmy's mind, where reality itself is kind of twisted around (Zimmy also saw the cut once in the real-world, when Gamma was asleep and she started seeing things wrong, and realized the cut was something that occured in the past) It seems to have some spiritual significance, like perhaps the attack on Annie's face left some kind of scar on her spirit that only shows under extraordinary circumstances. Or maybe Tom just likes the idea of her carrying the mark on her face from time to time and has no real other reason for it.
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Post by cenit on Jan 26, 2009 13:01:33 GMT
Once I again I am without words to express the greatness of Tom's art... can't wait for that page to come out in print!!!
The blinker stone would be an effective way to spy... but as Anja said, most people can only see a very short area around the stone, that visual feed that annie is getting is beyond normal
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Post by todd on Jan 26, 2009 13:10:22 GMT
Someone suggested once on the comments page that the cut stems in part from Annie not having helped Jeanne out (something that we know, from the end of Chapter Sixteen, she feels guilty about). Annie isn't conscious of the cut itself, but her self-reproach might be ensuring that it appears in etheric situations. I won't even try to guess, though, whether the cut will disappear if Annie does solve Jeanne's problem and help her move on.
(Though Tom's already said that Annie doesn't know about the cut, the evidence in the webcomic on its own would argue that. Annie didn't see herself in the mirror on either occasion that the cut appeared in the past - Chapter Eleven and Chapter Nineteen. Zimmy didn't mention it to her, either - not surprising, since her attitude would probably be "if it's not happening to me or Gamma, I don't care." So Annie would have no way of knowing about it.)
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Post by Dominic on Jan 26, 2009 13:13:46 GMT
Astral projection to the etheric plane. YEAH BABY.
Very pretty page, nice flow. Excellent expression on the last panel.
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Post by wanderer on Jan 26, 2009 13:32:51 GMT
Maybe the injury grows worse every time she comes into contact with the etheric world. Eventually it will grow severe enough to destroy her soul. Except the cut only appeared while she was seeing the etheric plane. The last time we saw the cut was in Zimmy's mind, where reality itself is kind of twisted around (Zimmy also saw the cut once in the real-world, when Gamma was asleep and she started seeing things wrong, and realized the cut was something that occured in the past) It seems to have some spiritual significance, like perhaps the attack on Annie's face left some kind of scar on her spirit that only shows under extraordinary circumstances. Isn't that what I said? The question was why is it growing brighter, though. I simply wondered why the cut may have been growing worse each time we saw it in this chapter, and came up with the hypothesis that somehow Annie's etherial self (her spirit, if you will) had been injured, and that injury was growing worse each time she aggrevated it by using her spirit's power. This is not an unheard of concept. Thus, even though her real body will never show a mark, every time she pushes herself supernaturally she hurts her spirit a bit more, until the wound eventually threatens her spirit's existence. It's just a theory, but we don't really know what Jeanne's ghost IS. She crossed the Annan waters to attack Annie, which shouldn't have been possible. I'm not going to rule anything out at this point.
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Post by blackmantha on Jan 26, 2009 13:52:53 GMT
Heh. Stone vision. Does mrs. Donlan realise she's also teaching one of her students a new and exiting way of cheating on exams? The cut is getting brighter. Why is the cut getting brighter? Maybe it's just like the colours from the forest; magical things glow in stone-vision. Wonder why that didn't happen on the previous page than, though.
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Post by snes on Jan 26, 2009 14:43:42 GMT
As if anyone for a moment would have guessed that Annie's wouldn't have natural ability.
I love how the large "panel" has no boundary and the hair flows from one Annie's head to the other.
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Post by Vadigor on Jan 26, 2009 15:22:09 GMT
The question was why is it growing brighter, though. I simply wondered why the cut may have been growing worse each time we saw it in this chapter, and came up with the hypothesis that somehow Annie's etherial self (her spirit, if you will) had been injured, and that injury was growing worse each time she aggrevated it by using her spirit's power. This is not an unheard of concept. Thus, even though her real body will never show a mark, every time she pushes herself supernaturally she hurts her spirit a bit more, until the wound eventually threatens her spirit's existence. It's just a theory, but we don't really know what Jeanne's ghost IS. She crossed the Annan waters to attack Annie, which shouldn't have been possible. I'm not going to rule anything out at this point. Instead of your doomed theories about Annie's imminent selfdestruction, you might want to consider that it just gets brighter the stronger the etheric field around it is, which would be quite powerful as Annie is reaching out to the blinker stone.
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Post by Chrome on Jan 26, 2009 15:51:21 GMT
I see it as more of a mark. Maybe Jeanne got brought across by Annie's attention in her--the kid does have an "attractive" quality to etheric beings--and wanted to mark Annie so she recognized her should they meet again. For all we know, she did that in her human life as well to worthy individuals so they could be found again, by her or her friends.
I'm just wondering, cause it seems almost like a symbol, an indicator to others of the spirit world. Mort's pretty young, so he wouldn't know about the significance of it. But others...I dunno. It's just an idea.
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Post by vryko on Jan 26, 2009 17:18:33 GMT
So Annie's cut from Jeanne is equivalent to Zorro's "Z"?
In other news, how come there was no "blink" when the blinker stone appeared in her hands?
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Post by Chrome on Jan 26, 2009 18:37:13 GMT
Well she's fumbling it in the second-to-last frame. That might mess up the "Blink" effect. "Blink" might be what happens when the stone comes in contact with your hand after you pull it up from wherever you left it.
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Post by wanderer on Jan 26, 2009 21:36:04 GMT
The question was why is it growing brighter, though. I simply wondered why the cut may have been growing worse each time we saw it in this chapter, and came up with the hypothesis that somehow Annie's etherial self (her spirit, if you will) had been injured, and that injury was growing worse each time she aggrevated it by using her spirit's power. This is not an unheard of concept. Thus, even though her real body will never show a mark, every time she pushes herself supernaturally she hurts her spirit a bit more, until the wound eventually threatens her spirit's existence. It's just a theory, but we don't really know what Jeanne's ghost IS. She crossed the Annan waters to attack Annie, which shouldn't have been possible. I'm not going to rule anything out at this point. Instead of your doomed theories about Annie's imminent selfdestruction, you might want to consider that it just gets brighter the stronger the etheric field around it is, which would be quite powerful as Annie is reaching out to the blinker stone. But that's not as much fun. ;D
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Post by sebastian on Jan 26, 2009 21:53:02 GMT
I don't remember... but a blinker stone would make an excellent spy device, wouldn't it? You just plop it down in some unobtrusive place in the teachers' lounge and -BAM!- instant visual feed! Until Mrs. Donlan notices and puts it in a flower pot or something. This makes me wonder whether the Court hasn't used like..... a very powerful slingshot or something that will discretely hurl a blinkerstone into the forest. Y'know, one of those ones that requires 3 people to operate (or one person and two trees to tie it to) just so they can wing stones over there to "keep an eye on things." pfft, I'm Sure Eglamore could throw it with his bare hands. ;D Bee-yotiful art BTW, I love how the hair of the two aether antimony flow into each other. The cut, the cutr is obviously spiritual in nature, until now we have seen it only in realtion to some kind of "spirit world" like Zimmy's world and now this. mmmh... was there other instances?
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Post by sebastionlender on Jan 26, 2009 22:25:04 GMT
I don't remember... but a blinker stone would make an excellent spy device, wouldn't it? You just plop it down in some unobtrusive place in the teachers' lounge and -BAM!- instant visual feed! Until Mrs. Donlan notices and puts it in a flower pot or something. This makes me wonder whether the Court hasn't used like..... a very powerful slingshot or something that will discretely hurl a blinkerstone into the forest. Y'know, one of those ones that requires 3 people to operate (or one person and two trees to tie it to) just so they can wing stones over there to "keep an eye on things." I don't think throwing blinker stones into the woods is a good idea as then they could be stolen then they wouldn't be owned by you and you couldn't connect or retrieve them, and blinker stones seem to be a finite resource and not to be handed over to the opponents.
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Post by paracelsus on Jan 26, 2009 22:32:33 GMT
Very nice!
I was going to liken what she's doing more to Remote Viewing, but now that I think about it, Astral Projection is probably a better description of what she's doing, though it is like Remote Viewing on that you can do it on the fly as opposed to having to get into a meditative state first Astral Projection.
Forget all the technical bits, this webcomic is COOL!
I wonder if she'll learn how to do this with other things then just the Blinker Stone.
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Post by vryko on Jan 27, 2009 2:26:29 GMT
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Post by starburst98 on Jan 27, 2009 4:01:28 GMT
anyone notice that ALL the color is from the forest? while the court is a monotone grey. also, notice how mrs. donlan was all grey on the last page. the only things with color are annie's body and the stone, the clothes also a mute grey. i think anything... artificial, comes up grey.
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Post by Azeltir on Jan 27, 2009 4:20:26 GMT
anyone notice that ALL the color is from the forest? while the court is a monotone grey. also, notice how mrs. donlan was all grey on the last page. the only things with color are annie's body and the stone, the clothes also a mute grey. i think anything... artificial, comes up grey. You're calling Anja the <100% human? I doubt that, so here's my interpretation - the color represents connection to the etheric realm. Annie's hair - a trait acquired from her mother - retains its hue because of her natural prowess with the ether. The scar is yet more colorful, representing its unnatural nature and origin. And finally, the Gillitie Wood is aflame with color for obvious reasons. After all, the sky is grey in these strips, and I doubt the Court's very air is artificial. Ben
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Post by deram on Jan 27, 2009 9:29:45 GMT
anyone notice that ALL the color is from the forest? while the court is a monotone grey. also, notice how mrs. donlan was all grey on the last page. the only things with color are annie's body and the stone, the clothes also a mute grey. i think anything... artificial, comes up grey. I doubt the Court's very air is artificial. Are you sure about that? I mean, they can create artificial rain: www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=458
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Post by blackmantha on Jan 27, 2009 12:56:43 GMT
Yeah, it's probably the staring. But the mouth is pulled in a slightly different way, and together with the paleness that makes quite the difference.
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Post by todd on Jan 27, 2009 13:29:31 GMT
So does anybody have any theories as to why the "etheric Annie" has Rapunzel-length hair? (I don't, but I was wondering if anybody does.)
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