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Post by Midnight Meadows on Mar 25, 2009 21:43:11 GMT
What about Gamma? Doesn't this "Not-Jones" girl (as she has apparently been dubbed) look kinda like Gamma? *ten facepalms* The next person who brings this up, and anyone subsequently, should be automatically banned. Unless of course you're trolling.... But that still merits a ban. |
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Post by sandjosieph on Mar 25, 2009 21:57:55 GMT
Come to think of it, Not-Jones looks like alot of people. Most of them not related to the webcomic.
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Post by Babble-jargon Bill on Mar 25, 2009 22:01:01 GMT
I never thought about Not-Jones being Parley's mom. Does that mean that she is a mediator-in-training as well, or is George being trained as one only due to her dad being a psychic? Maybe she has a boy's name too. That would be a pretty funny family tradition, could even be the reason Mr. Parley got the gender on the birth certificate wrong.
Edited for better clarification.
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Post by emptypiro on Mar 25, 2009 22:15:52 GMT
well my theory is out the window.( I was gonna say she is related to gamma in some way) now im starting to think she is just a character with no big role in the story
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Post by sandjosieph on Mar 25, 2009 22:18:04 GMT
Anja's using her left again!
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Post by todd on Mar 25, 2009 22:30:51 GMT
I don't think we should be so shocked by Surma's speech patterns; we saw her talking the same way in the flashback at the end of Chapter Eighteen.
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Post by clementine on Mar 25, 2009 22:47:24 GMT
Donny and Anja are so unbelievably cute.
Also, Anja's wearing a long skirt with her uniform. I wonder why? Does it have some kind of cultural/religious significance to her?
Or, you know, she could just like long skirts and it was an option.
edited for grammar.
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Post by mjh on Mar 25, 2009 23:30:10 GMT
Insecurity is a turn-off to most people. I wonder if it has something to with Surma suddenly changing to Anthony from Eglamore? That will come much later. In this flashback, Surma and friends must be about the age Annie and Kat are now, and I doubt there was any serious dating going on at the time. But Anja obviously had a crush on Donald and vice-versa, and it looks like they had rounded up the others only as an excuse for a photo of those two together. When the group of six dissolved after the photo had been taken, they broke up into three subgroups: the three girls, Donald and James, and Anthony. So far there is no evidence for Surma and James being in a romantic relationship just yet. But in the flashback at the end of chapter 18, when Anja and Surma where in their late teens, according to Tom, it was Jim (i.e. James Eglamore) Surma and Donald were missing, not Anthony. So a couple of years after the current flashback, Surma and James were (still) an item. |
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 26, 2009 2:43:33 GMT
Regarding Surma's speech patters: Tom says here that she has a Barnsley (Yorkshire) accent. |
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Post by orangesodafish on Mar 26, 2009 3:07:28 GMT
I thought that Donny and Anja had matching embarrassment-faces... They look very cute together with the same wavy half-grin half-eyeroll blush thing.
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Post by Dentrala on Mar 26, 2009 3:11:33 GMT
snes, do you permanently have that third quote on Ctrl+C?
I'm willing to bet it's either George's mom, or someone Annie/Kat meets up with later on in the story.
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Post by Azeltir on Mar 26, 2009 4:54:54 GMT
snes, do you permanently have that third quote on Ctrl+C? If so, that'd be awesome, snes. You'd be the Saint of Shutting Up the Really Annoying Kind of Speculation. Ben |
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Post by snes on Mar 26, 2009 5:04:00 GMT
snes, do you permanently have that third quote on Ctrl+C? If so, that'd be awesome, snes. You'd be the Saint of Shutting Up the Really Annoying Kind of Speculation. Ben All in the line of duty, son. All in the line of duty. |
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Post by Goatmon on Mar 26, 2009 7:25:54 GMT
Note the total absense of carver.
Also, Anja and Donald are adorable. Destined for romanace from their early years, it seems.
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Mar 26, 2009 8:50:57 GMT
The way Surma's drawn, with a slightly angular face, like earlier!Annie, makes me think this page has been probably drawn long ago. Actually, when Tom draws Annie in Young-Annie flashbacks, he'll intentionally exaggerate the angle of her face slightly as a callback to the earlier form of the comic's art style. It's use here is for the same purpose, so I doubt he's been saving this chapter up or something. |
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Post by nikita on Mar 26, 2009 16:52:37 GMT
I don't think so.
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Post by inhumandecency on Mar 26, 2009 17:12:12 GMT
The third girl is Jeanne!
(Gunnerkrigg had a very active SCA back then.)
(Also, Eglamore was actually in training to be an etheric scientist until the absolutely disgraceful "robe and wizard hat" incident, which led to the rift with Surma and to his respeccing as a dragon slayer.)
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Post by Azeltir on Mar 26, 2009 19:13:39 GMT
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Post by warrl on Mar 26, 2009 20:54:25 GMT
If Not-Jones were Gamma's mother, we'd expect Gamma to know more English.
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Post by todd on Mar 26, 2009 22:22:23 GMT
I think that many of the people who persist in arguing that the Mystery Girl is either Gamma's mother or a younger Jones, in spite of Tom's statements, ignore those statements because they're not made directly in the comic. Some people nowadays believe that what the author says about his work doesn't count - that only what appears in the work itself counts. In their eyes, Tom's statements are no more valid than those made by the readers. (I do not adhere to this philosophy, I might add.)
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Post by Dentrala on Mar 26, 2009 23:02:55 GMT
I think it's more to the fact that they either haven't bothered reading a few pages back in threads before they post, or they think Tom is trying to be tricky and throw us off, or he's just being sarcastic. His sarcasm shows through in some of the individual comic notations; I'd say they simply don't think he's being serious. Although I do think your point, todd, is both true and valid.
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Post by nautus on Mar 27, 2009 0:22:42 GMT
I'm still thinking that the whole Not-Jones being Not-Jones or Gamma's mom, is a really big case of "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain"
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Post by Babble-jargon Bill on Mar 27, 2009 0:42:07 GMT
I've been thinking a lot about Anthony. Out of all the characters in the story so far, he is the one that I am the most interested in learning more about (though I suppose that goes for most of us too). Seeing him as a kid should provide some insight into what he was like while working at Good Hope. I imagine he acts much like Antimony does now; calm, reserved, but open when with people he trusts. Sometime in the chapter we might even see him working as a doctor. Just because we are seeing the characters as kids right now doesn't mean it will stay that way for the whole chapter.
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Post by lingus on Mar 29, 2009 2:47:35 GMT
What about Gamma? Doesn't this "Not-Jones" girl (as she has apparently been dubbed) look kinda like Gamma? *ten facepalms* The next person who brings this up, and anyone subsequently, should be automatically banned. Unless of course you're trolling.... But that still merits a ban. Come off it man. Not everyone reads every single post on this forum. Sorry if I missed that part. If you'd like I can just as well not read these forums and/or post here... But regardless of what you feel I probably still will. I could care less if I repeat something someone else says. I'm still not going to go out of my way to read every last post on this forum to make sure I don't... That's just ridiculous. I think it's lame that you are so upset that multiple people should bring up something multiple times, and that doing so should merit a ban from the forums. And I was in no way attempting to troll. I hate when people do that. I just haven't read most of the posts on these forums and didn't realize people would get so touchy about something so insubstantial... |
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 29, 2009 3:07:28 GMT
In MM's defense, the fact that Not-Jones isn't related to Gamma was also spelled out in the note below this page. So the annoyance is at least partially because of the assumption that anyone proposing that theory hasn't been paying attention, otherwise they would have seen that note. But calling for bans is a bit harsh, and I hope MM was joking about that. |
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Post by lingus on Mar 30, 2009 22:45:29 GMT
Fair enough. But to be honest I tend to skip those notes most of the time as well. I'm not sure why I really visit this forum all that much. I'm far more interested in just reading the comic than seeing what everyone has to say about it... but occasionally I like to visit here and see what all the buzz is and even less frequently will I throw in my opinion. That my opinion matches so many others just means that I'm not very original I guess. I sincerely apologize for bothering anyone by that...
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