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Post by keef on Feb 13, 2016 13:40:33 GMT
I assumed that Anja was just doing her rotation as the dorm mother and staying over night at the dorms. Crap, I screwed that one up.... yeah her being on rounds makes sense. Mwah, I liked that idea, why would we choose the logical explanation when we can have portable doors... |
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Post by Druplesnubb on Feb 15, 2016 9:09:31 GMT
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Post by OGRuddawg on Feb 16, 2016 1:27:37 GMT
Nice catch! We will probably never find out who it is, though... |
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Post by OGRuddawg on Feb 25, 2016 14:59:52 GMT
On www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=920Matt's MP-3 player is probably in Matt's sweatshirt, which the moon girl (I forget her name) is wearing. She walks off with the coat, so that's probably how she took the music player, possibly by mistake. I always assumed it got swept up with her pile of notes and stuff... |
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Post by goldenknots on Feb 25, 2016 16:22:40 GMT
On www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=920Matt's MP-3 player is probably in Matt's sweatshirt, which the moon girl (I forget her name) is wearing. She walks off with the coat, so that's probably how she took the music player, possibly by mistake. I always assumed it got swept up with her pile of notes and stuff... Yes, you can see that his earbuds cable goes to a pocket in the coat, which she wears later while he's chasing the rabbit. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Feb 25, 2016 17:34:10 GMT
On www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=920Matt's MP-3 player is probably in Matt's sweatshirt, which the moon girl (I forget her name) is wearing. She walks off with the coat, so that's probably how she took the music player, possibly by mistake. I always assumed it got swept up with her pile of notes and stuff... Yes, you can see that his earbuds cable goes to a pocket in the coat, which she wears later while he's chasing the rabbit. Makes one wonder how Tom decided to include this little non-essential detail in the comic. Including stuff like this gives the comic character, but it can also distract the reader if it isn't subtle like this example. My guess is that Tom, or someone Tom knows, lost something in a similar manner and the specifics are an inside joke. |
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Post by l33tninja on Feb 25, 2016 22:32:08 GMT
Nice catch! We will probably never find out who it is, though... it's probably one of the researchers that actually uses the animals Paz helps to raise. But, since the comic focuses mostly on the students, we will probably never meet or need to meet this person. |
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Post by Per on Feb 25, 2016 22:44:34 GMT
It's snake guy, he just can't help sneaking in there.
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Post by OGRuddawg on Mar 6, 2016 8:39:24 GMT
On page 1250 and 1251, Coyote's mouth banner... thing has the word liar along its edges. I always assumed it was just laughter (HAHAHAHAHA) until I took a closer look at the page. By the way, these two pages are some of my all-time favorite pages from the comic.
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Post by keef on Mar 6, 2016 14:12:31 GMT
I wasn't really looking for it, but I did wonder where Tom started using hand drawn text bubbles. Probably here. So "From the forest she came" was the first chapter he used them. (I noticed because they are easier to enlarge if the translation doesn't fit the bubble.)
In the first chapters, Tom makes both Robot and Kat end almost every sentence with an exclamation mark, Annie hardly ever. Of course this fits her calm cool character. Later it's a bit more even, but when Tony returns, and Annie addresses him, it makes it even more painful. |
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Post by matoyak on Mar 7, 2016 6:04:50 GMT
I wasn't really looking for it, but I did wonder where Tom started using hand drawn text bubbles. Probably here. So "From the forest she came" was the first chapter he used them. (I noticed because they are easier to enlarge if the translation doesn't fit the bubble.) If I had the time to go through all the retrospectives I could tell you exactly where he changed...he mentioned it at one point. |
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Post by keef on Mar 27, 2016 15:50:35 GMT
Not so much cool as curious. Page 510: is "transferance" just a misspelling of transference? I ask because he mentions an Asimov book in his comment. So maybe it is a reference.
If I had the time to go through all the retrospectives I could tell you exactly where he changed...he mentioned it at one point. I remember him saying somewhere he was sorry he made the bubbles so cramped in the early chapters. I've been listening to some of the retrospectives again, but haven't found it yet. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Mar 27, 2016 18:36:19 GMT
Not so much cool as curious. Page 510: is "transferance" just a misspelling of transference? I ask because he mentions an Asimov book in his comment. So maybe it is a reference.
If I had the time to go through all the retrospectives I could tell you exactly where he changed...he mentioned it at one point. I remember him saying somewhere he was sorry he made the bubbles so cramped in the early chapters. I've been listening to some of the retrospectives again, but haven't found it yet. Tom talked about the speech bubbles in the retrospective video for Chapter 12: Mainly Involves Robots, but his comments indicated that he talked about switching to hand drawn speech bubbles in an earlier retrospective video. |
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Post by keef on Mar 27, 2016 21:12:41 GMT
Not so much cool as curious. Page 510: is "transferance" just a misspelling of transference? I ask because he mentions an Asimov book in his comment. So maybe it is a reference.
I remember him saying somewhere he was sorry he made the bubbles so cramped in the early chapters. I've been listening to some of the retrospectives again, but haven't found it yet. Tom talked about the speech bubbles in the retrospective video for Chapter 12: Mainly Involves Robots, but his comments indicated that he talked about switching to hand drawn speech bubbles in an earlier retrospective video. Thanks Jelly and matoyak. Is this transcription correct? Here is another bloody(?) example of not giving the text enough space in the speech bubbles. This is terrible to look at, right here (pointing at door-robot's speech bubble). If these comics weren't already printed in paper-form, then it would be very hard to resist the urge to go back and fix small things like this. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Mar 27, 2016 23:28:18 GMT
Tom talked about the speech bubbles in the retrospective video for Chapter 12: Mainly Involves Robots, but his comments indicated that he talked about switching to hand drawn speech bubbles in an earlier retrospective video. Thanks Jelly and matoyak . Is this transcription correct? Here is another bloody(?) example of not giving the text enough space in the speech bubbles. This is terrible to look at, right here (pointing at door-robot's speech bubble). If these comics weren't already printed in paper-form, then it would be very hard to resist the urge to go back and fix small things like this. Very minor edit: Here is another bloody (?) example of not giving the text enough space in the speech bubbles. This is terrible to look at, this right here (pointing at door-robot's speech bubble). If these comics weren't already printed in paper-form, then it would be very hard tough to resist the urge to go back and fix small things like this. Tom originally talked about the speech bubbles in the Chapter 11: Dobranoc, Gamma retrospective video. |
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Post by keef on Mar 28, 2016 9:07:46 GMT
Very minor edit: Here is another bloody (?) example of not giving the text enough space in the speech bubbles. This is terrible to look at, this right here (pointing at door-robot's speech bubble). If these comics weren't already printed in paper-form, then it would be very hard tough to resist the urge to go back and fix small things like this. Thanks."Much later in the comic" he made the switch to hand-drawn bubbles. |
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Post by Jay on Apr 13, 2016 17:01:56 GMT
I'm not a frequent poster, but while I was reading today, I noticed that the fire spike shows up subtly here. I don't recall when the first sighting of it was, but this may be the earliest in-timeline. |
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Post by Daedalus on Apr 13, 2016 19:33:09 GMT
I'm not a frequent poster, but while I was reading today, I noticed that the fire spike shows up subtly here. I don't recall when the first sighting of it was, but this may be the earliest in-timeline. I apologize, but where is the fire spike in that page? |
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Post by Gotolei on Apr 13, 2016 21:09:36 GMT
I'm not a frequent poster, but while I was reading today, I noticed that the fire spike shows up subtly here. I don't recall when the first sighting of it was, but this may be the earliest in-timeline. I apologize, but where is the fire spike in that page? Guessing somewhere in the second panel:  |
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Post by Per on Apr 13, 2016 21:11:17 GMT
I can't see it either, just some stylized flames.
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Post by Jay on Apr 13, 2016 21:22:05 GMT
On that panel, the flame in the "crown" area has a large spike with the two prongs much smaller. It's not clean like the symbolic ones, but it seems intentional to me. Edit: Oh I thought it seemed familiar |
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Post by speedwell on Apr 18, 2016 7:11:41 GMT
That's not her fire that she's causing, it's his fire that he's imagining. Why would she show a fire spike when she's beating back a fire?
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Post by Druplesnubb on Apr 18, 2016 11:11:06 GMT
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Post by bedinsis on Jul 27, 2016 8:22:03 GMT
In this page Smitty expresses his belief that Parley sees him as a kid. In this page Parley puts Smitty outside the group she considers to be kids. I mean, the in between pages shouldn't let that be a surprise, but it was a nifty little detail I only now saw/realized. |
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Post by Gulby on Jul 27, 2016 10:34:38 GMT
I was rereading it just in case, and I must say I always found it weird that Antimony could make it as far as to find the place they guarded Reynardine in the body of Sievo without trouble. Yes she's smart, yes she's little, yes she has many talents, but what if that was the Tic Tocs that led her to Rey ?... If I go with Daedalus theory about Tic Tocs coming from the future, it could make sense ! I mean, next page, there's a train that leads exactly to where she wants to go. How convenient. Even for humoristic purposes. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jul 27, 2016 11:21:54 GMT
I was rereading it just in case, and I must say I always found it weird that Antimony could make it as far as to find the place they guarded Reynardine in the body of Sievo without trouble. Yes she's smart, yes she's little, yes she has many talents, but what if that was the Tic Tocs that led her to Rey ?... If I go with Daedalus theory about Tic Tocs coming from the future, it could make sense ! I mean, next page, there's a train that leads exactly to where she wants to go. How convenient. Even for humoristic purposes. She followed the trail that started with "No Entry To Students" and continued with the "Secret" sign. There was probably a "Keep Out" sign along the way that we didn't see in the comic. The "No Carvers Allowed" sign really confused her because it clearly wasn't new, but years later she realized it wasn't referring to her. |
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Post by bicarbonat on Jul 27, 2016 13:42:10 GMT
That's not her fire that she's causing, it's his fire that he's imagining. Why would she show a fire spike when she's beating back a fire? Early foreshadowing that Annie's fire elemental nature (which her mother KNEW she had, having lost it to Annie) made etheric fire a non-hazard to her. Surma's reassurance gains more meaning in hindsight when you remember she knew that she had essentially fireproofed her daughter - hence, the absence of "danger". |
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Post by Eversist on Sept 30, 2016 19:58:00 GMT
I didn't notice this when the page was first released, and didn't read the thread then either... so upon reading the thread just now, I didn't see a post specifically mentioning this idea. The chapter is already worth a re-read.  The box on this page is maybe the monument stone we see here or something similar (although they do appear to be slightly different shapes). |
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Post by bgb16999 on Jan 6, 2017 20:56:08 GMT
Every time I read this page I thought about a local superstition; If someone in my family would give a knife or another sharp object as a present, they would add something like a cake to be cut with it. The idea is the knife would otherwise "cut" the friendship. I decided to look it up, and the belief seems to be quite common (with all kinds of local variation) And of course the ties between Surma and Jim were broken. Writing this I suddenly realise..Okay, I know I'm responding to a post that is nearly three years old, but... what does this mean for a possible friendship between Jeanne and Andrew, now that Jeanne has given Andrew a "gift" of a sword through the chest? |
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Post by Neon_Knight on Jan 7, 2017 2:21:23 GMT
Smitty's earliest appearance being Chapter 5 (sad feels for his rubberband car), before his proper introduction to the comic in Chapters 14 and 23. Those eyebrows don't lie.
Just noticed them after reviewing the pages for the spanish translation.
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