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Post by mturtle7 on Dec 8, 2021 5:15:41 GMT
Having just reread a huge part of the archive (and I think it was barely from somewhere around chapter 60 and it still felt like sooo much)... I can only say this goshdarned webcomic is still my favorite in the whole wide internet. Consistent story, good jokes, great characters, always improving art,... That is all. Awwwwww. I feel the same way! Many of us do, I suspect. It's in the nature of fandoms. |
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Post by pyradonis on Dec 8, 2021 12:37:52 GMT
Having just reread a huge part of the archive (and I think it was barely from somewhere around chapter 60 and it still felt like sooo much)... I can only say this goshdarned webcomic is still my favorite in the whole wide internet. Consistent story, good jokes, great characters, always improving art,... That is all. Awwwwww. I feel the same way! Many of us do, I suspect. It's in the nature of fandoms. If I ever make a webcomic, my greatest wish will not be to make money with it, but for it to have a cozy discussion forum like GKC. |
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Post by theonethatgotaway on Dec 9, 2021 13:52:53 GMT
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Post by bedinsis on Dec 9, 2021 17:00:45 GMT
On a page where a central character engages with a side character that eventually becomes said character's girlfriend. How appropriate. You never know who's silently reading. Apropos of nothing, I follow you on Twitter. |
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Post by Druplesnubb on Dec 10, 2021 15:57:35 GMT
...but I also didn't make a account when I first started reading either Neither did I! I had been reading GC and lurked on the forums for a very long time before I registered for an account. It was a very long summer at my first office job, and I had lots of time to kill while avoiding the responsibilities of my actual work. But it felt creepy, because I had been familiar with many of you before I ever interacted on the forum. You never know who's silently reading. Same here. While I jooined the forum in 2015, I actually started reading in december 2011. Crap, that's almost an entire decade now. |
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Post by liminal on Mar 28, 2022 20:06:40 GMT
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Post by alevice on Mar 29, 2022 0:14:01 GMT
Not sure if brought up before but if you knew what to look for, you coulñd ahve realized that Loup's white spot in his forehead represented his memories gap, that dissapeared as he ate the missing memories  |
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Post by Runningflame on Apr 3, 2022 1:44:31 GMT
Not sure if brought up before but if you knew what to look for, you coulñd ahve realized that Loup's white spot in his forehead represented his memories gap, that dissapeared as he ate the missing memories It also looks like Annie is "holding" the white spot, with some memory orbs around it, in Treatise 8. |
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Post by Runningflame on Apr 3, 2022 1:59:54 GMT
Annie almost never says the word "huh." I realized, while making a mashup, that "huh" didn't sound right coming from Annie, so I went searching through the transcript. I found only two instances in which Annie says "huh," both somewhat recent. The transcript is incomplete, so there may be more, but I'm pretty confident she never once uses the word in the first 38 chapters--while other characters (Kat, Zimmy, Parley, Winsbury) say it all the time. This doesn't have any deep significance, but it is part of Annie's "voice": she speaks differently from the other characters, right down to the interjections she uses. That kind of attention to detail is pretty cool. |
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Post by DonDueed on Apr 3, 2022 11:23:54 GMT
Annie almost never says the word "huh." I realized, while making a mashup, that "huh" didn't sound right coming from Annie, so I went searching through the transcript. I found only two instances in which Annie says "huh," both somewhat recent. The transcript is incomplete, so there may be more, but I'm pretty confident she never once uses the word in the first 38 chapters--while other characters (Kat, Zimmy, Parley, Winsbury) say it all the time. This doesn't have any deep significance, but it is part of Annie's "voice": she speaks differently from the other characters, right down to the interjections she uses. That kind of attention to detail is pretty cool. Huh. |
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Post by warrl on Apr 3, 2022 14:22:43 GMT
This doesn't have any deep significance, but it is part of Annie's "voice": she speaks differently from the other characters, right down to the interjections she uses. That kind of attention to detail is pretty cool. I'm writing some characters who have different speech patterns, and it does take extra effort: a dedicated editing pass to make sure THAT character DOES speak that way, and another to make sure OTHER characters DON'T do so inappropriately. One such pair for each different speech pattern. |
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Post by blazingstar on Apr 11, 2022 20:50:34 GMT
It also looks like Annie is "holding" the white spot, with some memory orbs around it, in Treatise 8. It's incredible how the Treatises only make sense years after they're posted; I've thought Annie was cradling a hole in her solar plexus this entire time. A hole that led to a rip in time and space? I don't even know what I thought it was, but now that you've mentioned the memory orb, I can't un-see it. ![]()  |
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Post by blahzor on Apr 12, 2022 0:49:17 GMT
Did we ever come to the consensus on what the cracked egg was? I tend to only look at treatise after a new one appears
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Post by mturtle7 on Apr 12, 2022 5:09:22 GMT
I was rereading in order to find the exact source of a half-remembered plot point, and I just realized how much this page was actually foreshadowing the circumstances of Smitty's almost-death! He cares about Parley, more than anything else in the world, which is why so many 'strings' are connecting him to her, and why those strings caused him to take the knife that meant for her... |
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Post by blahzor on Apr 12, 2022 5:40:15 GMT
I was rereading in order to find the exact source of a half-remembered plot point, and I just realized how much this page was actually foreshadowing the circumstances of Smitty's almost-death! He cares about Parley, more than anything else in the world, which is why so many 'strings' are connecting him to her, and why those strings caused him to take the knife that meant for her... That whole plot is just reminding me that Annie is taking the ability to focus more intently as she put it for granted because she could see regular smegular ether all the time. Like someone who learned how to do control breathing for marathon running but then never ran so they never do it unless someone ask if they could or the need arises |
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Post by rafk on Apr 15, 2022 23:59:03 GMT
www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=543"predetermination towards etheric sciences" PREDETERMINATION. Confirmation I think that Omega was directing the decision, and that is also probably why Surma and Anya were switched into a different house as and when they were. And I'd completely missed until now that Surma refers to Anya as Anny and that therefore Annie's name is probably intended by Surma to be a tribute to her best friend!
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Post by mturtle7 on Apr 16, 2022 23:29:14 GMT
www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=543"predetermination towards etheric sciences" PREDETERMINATION. Confirmation I think that Omega was directing the decision, and that is also probably why Surma and Anya were switched into a different house as and when they were. And I'd completely missed until now that Surma refers to Anya as Anny and that therefore Annie's name is probably intended by Surma to be a tribute to her best friend! I'm pretty sure "predetermination towards etheric sciences" is just a fancy euphemism for being born with magic powers...although, if Omega could predict that sort of thing even before the kids themselves know about it, that WOULD shine a lot of light on the Court's peculiar ways of recruiting students. And also why the Court would make such blatant mistake in their housing assignments, if Omega's inaccuracies were already starting then! This all makes me wonder just how far back the Court's Omega Project actually goes...perhaps even back to the advent of the first computers?
Also, I'm afraid while I see your point about the "Anny"/"Annie" similarity, I think it's just a coincidence, since we already learned that Antimony was named after her great-grandmother. |
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Post by blahzor on Apr 17, 2022 5:48:08 GMT
www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=543"predetermination towards etheric sciences" PREDETERMINATION. Confirmation I think that Omega was directing the decision, and that is also probably why Surma and Anya were switched into a different house as and when they were. And I'd completely missed until now that Surma refers to Anya as Anny and that therefore Annie's name is probably intended by Surma to be a tribute to her best friend! I'm pretty sure "predetermination towards etheric sciences" is just a fancy euphemism for being born with magic powers...although, if Omega could predict that sort of thing even before the kids themselves know about it, that WOULD shine a lot of light on the Court's peculiar ways of recruiting students. And also why the Court would make such blatant mistake in their housing assignments, if Omega's inaccuracies were already starting then! This all makes me wonder just how far back the Court's Omega Project actually goes...perhaps even back to the advent of the first computers? Also, I'm afraid while I see your point about the "Anny"/"Annie" similarity, I think it's just a coincidence, since we already learned that Antimony was named after her great-grandmother. or they are checking the accuracy of Omega with predictions of George's dad at some point in the Omega project |
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Post by blahzor on Apr 17, 2022 9:59:41 GMT
seeing as how she was taken care of that one time why is Jones so certain she could have taken Annie in this page www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=816 ? |
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Post by TBeholder on Apr 17, 2022 15:45:42 GMT
Not sure if brought up before but if you knew what to look for, you coulñd ahve realized that Loup's white spot in his forehead represented his memories gap, that dissapeared as he ate the missing memories Still looks like texture moving due to changed mapping coordinates to me. |
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Post by roobody on Apr 24, 2022 4:04:23 GMT
I just finished my latest re-read and while I did notice a lot of cool things, I'm mostly wondering how old our characters are now.
The last good reference I could find was when Annie's father came back. The students were starting year 10 making them about 14-15. So much has happened since then! We know for certain that there was a 6 month time jump when we went into the 2 Annies arc but how much more time has passed? Are our characters around 15-16? Older?
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Post by blahzor on Apr 24, 2022 6:56:32 GMT
I just finished my latest re-read and while I did notice a lot of cool things, I'm mostly wondering how old our characters are now. The last good reference I could find was when Annie's father came back. The students were starting year 10 making them about 14-15. So much has happened since then! We know for certain that there was a 6 month time jump when we went into the 2 Annies arc but how much more time has passed? Are our characters around 15-16? Older? believe Kat and Annie are 17 or very near 17 at this point |
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Post by pyradonis on Apr 24, 2022 11:08:37 GMT
I just finished my latest re-read and while I did notice a lot of cool things, I'm mostly wondering how old our characters are now. The last good reference I could find was when Annie's father came back. The students were starting year 10 making them about 14-15. So much has happened since then! We know for certain that there was a 6 month time jump when we went into the 2 Annies arc but how much more time has passed? Are our characters around 15-16? Older? In the retrospective video for chapter 77: The Thousand Eyes, Tom "guesses" Annie and Kat are 17 years old at the time of said chapter. |
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Post by roobody on Apr 25, 2022 0:12:00 GMT
I just finished my latest re-read and while I did notice a lot of cool things, I'm mostly wondering how old our characters are now. The last good reference I could find was when Annie's father came back. The students were starting year 10 making them about 14-15. So much has happened since then! We know for certain that there was a 6 month time jump when we went into the 2 Annies arc but how much more time has passed? Are our characters around 15-16? Older? In the retrospective video for chapter 77: The Thousand Eyes, Tom "guesses" Annie and Kat are 17 years old at the time of said chapter. Thanks! I need to catch up on those videos. Haven't watched any in a long time. |
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Post by abbomeister on Apr 29, 2022 23:41:31 GMT
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Post by blahzor on Apr 30, 2022 4:31:50 GMT
the body is a plaything of the mind and Loup doesn't think the robots have minds
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Post by bedinsis on May 20, 2022 16:34:05 GMT
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Post by bedinsis on Jun 15, 2022 19:20:47 GMT
In retrospect, the comment of Annie on this page is rather funny: Annie(to Coyote): "[mom] told me stories about you, but I did not know you were friends." Coyote is a creature from myth, one one is telling stories about. It turning out that she was talking from a personal connection turns the entire story on its head. Like in this equivalent: "Annie, dear, eat your vegetables or you're gonna make Jesus cry." "Does he really care that much about what I eat?" "Yes. I've asked him. He works at the local bowling alley, children not eating their greens is rather upsetting to him." |
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Post by speedwell on Jul 2, 2022 11:47:25 GMT
When Renard, to provoke Annie, changed into that muscular pin-up form, he was still a wolf - in the metaphorical sense. 😄
(For those who are unfamiliar with the idiom in English, the word "wolf" can be used for a man who is physically attractive and a seducer.)
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Post by speedwell on Jul 2, 2022 13:57:29 GMT
Also, we all but had our noses rubbed in how jealous Loup is of Renard about Annie, in case we were going to overlook it: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2613 |
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