|
Post by idonotlikepeas on Oct 9, 2009 11:56:28 GMT
Random googling suggests that an ATV's top speed can vary from 40 to 80 miles per hour (about 65 to 128 km/h). It's going to depend a lot on the make and the terrain, though - if you try to drive at eighty miles per hour over bumpy ground you're going to quickly discover you have a second career as a farmer. Because you'll be plowing the earth, see. With your face.
|
|
|
Post by Rasselas on Oct 9, 2009 12:11:48 GMT
With Marcia so worried about the trees and not the kids (and this time she really doesn't know whether the fire is a real danger or not, unlike their ghost prank where she could've known), it's increasingly possible that she's really some sort of ex-dryad. I posit further that it was her who animated the trees in such a scary way. Just like Annie can use her blinker stone, Marcia can control trees from afar. This comic! Now we have an empath towards etheric beings, an empath towards laser cows ...err, robots. And an empath towards trees.
|
|
|
Post by Robo Alchemist on Oct 9, 2009 12:23:41 GMT
Tom HAS to make an a print of the 6th panel. The fire behind Annie is just too perfect ;D
|
|
|
Post by Mylian on Oct 9, 2009 14:04:43 GMT
Somebody set up us the fire!
ANNIE: How are you gentlemen. All your prank are belong to us.
|
|
|
Post by tyler on Oct 9, 2009 15:11:02 GMT
The wry yet kind of apologetic smile makes the whole page for me.
The thing about teacher pranks is that they really have to consider they have a child prodigy in the class.
|
|
|
Post by cespinarve on Oct 9, 2009 15:50:25 GMT
Has Annie ever looked cuter than in that last panel?
|
|
|
Post by Casey on Oct 9, 2009 16:18:34 GMT
Has Annie ever looked cuter than in that last panel? Yes, in fact, she has! P.S. I like your Etna avatar.
|
|
rageboy
Junior Member
just like real cows! only with lasers.
Posts: 91
|
Post by rageboy on Oct 9, 2009 16:23:32 GMT
Somebody set up us the fire! ANNIE: How are you gentlemen. All your prank are belong to us. Very well done
|
|
|
Post by crysiana on Oct 9, 2009 16:40:32 GMT
Has Annie ever looked cuter than in that last panel? Yes, in fact, she has! That was the exact panel I thought of too.
|
|
|
Post by Aris Katsaris on Oct 9, 2009 17:32:27 GMT
Eh, two different kinds of cute. One is childish innocence, the other is adolescent amusement and self-satisfaction. I like the latter (the current strip's) more.
|
|
|
Post by Ulysses on Oct 9, 2009 17:46:39 GMT
Annie's da man. Uh, woman. Girl. Whatever.
She's getting too powerful! Soon they will lock her in an etheric-proof chamber for the rest of eternity.
What happened to James' shoulders? Between the wood-chopping scene and now it seems like they've been shaved down :S
|
|
|
Post by Amethyst on Oct 9, 2009 17:50:17 GMT
Hah, she's not Alma Wade, Ulysses, though I DID think of that throughout this thread. Anyone else notice how much Annie's shadowy appearance looks a lot like Bob the first time we met him in the decon room?
|
|
|
Post by cespinarve on Oct 9, 2009 18:16:58 GMT
Yes, she was more ADORABLE in the earlier panel. But not cuter.
|
|
|
Post by seitosilver on Oct 9, 2009 18:26:30 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Snes on Oct 9, 2009 18:52:39 GMT
As one commenter pointed out, this is the second time Annie has been around fire that wouldn't hurt her. I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what Eglamore's expression says in the last panel. It looks to be a combination of "Why you little!" and "I can't believe I fell for that."
|
|
|
Post by martinjh99 on Oct 9, 2009 19:09:23 GMT
Or he could have forgotten about the stones capabilities - Or is that Kat's mum's forte..?
|
|
|
Post by the bandit on Oct 9, 2009 19:18:48 GMT
Finally found an appropriate GKC-derived avatar, courtesy of today's comic.
|
|
|
Post by wynne on Oct 9, 2009 20:19:12 GMT
Nice expression, Bandit. Seriously. This strip made my year. You can practically hear those guys thinking, "Shit." as they realize they've been outsmarted by a bunch of kids with a rock. Not to mention the fact that Annie is now officially the Coolest, Most Badass Character of the Year. (and that the way Bob hugs Marcia is ridiculously adorable)
|
|
|
Post by garlicgreens on Oct 9, 2009 21:02:05 GMT
I wonder what the consequences of this trick will be. What if there is a real fire (or some other problem) and none of the staff come to Annie's aid because they think it is a ruse? The girl who cried wolf fire, maybe?
|
|
troll
Junior Member
Posts: 53
|
Post by troll on Oct 9, 2009 21:05:14 GMT
Pity that Tom still needs to spell things out in the commentary at the bottom. (I don't think that the story's that difficult to follow - at least, as long as you read it as a serialized graphic novel and not a "gag-a-day" strip. Maybe the people who express their confusion over the story are reading it as the latter.) I find it amusing when he does that, really. But that may just be me. Also I suspect that him spelling things out is at least as much to clamp down on insane speculation as it is to explain to those who don't get it. I'm sure that without today's comment there would be all sorts of theories about Annie being a fire elemental or something popping up to explain why the flames don't bother her, along with all sorts of other crazy ideas. I thought he did those to be funny.
|
|
|
Post by Robo Alchemist on Oct 9, 2009 21:38:07 GMT
maybe it's all the same hat and they're passing around. Like whoever is the focus in a certain panel gets to wear the hat. Also it seems to be a reoccurring theme of fire being used for specifically NOT destroying things, unlike old legends with fire being the element of destruction, death, and recycling matter. part of me wonders if Tom tries to tell more than just a simple story at times...if not the whole time.
|
|
|
Post by wanderer on Oct 10, 2009 1:06:19 GMT
I find it amusing when he does that, really. But that may just be me. Also I suspect that him spelling things out is at least as much to clamp down on insane speculation as it is to explain to those who don't get it. I'm sure that without today's comment there would be all sorts of theories about Annie being a fire elemental or something popping up to explain why the flames don't bother her, along with all sorts of other crazy ideas. I thought he did those to be funny. No one said they couldn't serve more than one purpose.
|
|
|
Post by xanbcoo on Oct 10, 2009 3:25:19 GMT
And then Annie and Co. find out that the adults weren't behind the disappearances after all, and all they've accomplished is scaring the crap out of Eglamore with a glorified fireworks show . I actually am curious about Kat's part of this all. What has Annie made her do? This was a really cool strip.
|
|
|
Post by wanderer on Oct 10, 2009 3:30:15 GMT
And then Annie and Co. find out that the adults weren't behind the disappearances after all, and all they've accomplished is scaring the crap out of Eglamore with a glorified fireworks show . No, they'd have also accomplished one other thing. They got competant authority here to deal with the situation. If the adults aren't doing this as a trick, it's their responsibility to get in here and fix the situation. They weren't doing that, so Annie forced the issue. If this is not a trick by the teachers, doing something big to get them here was even more important than if this is a trick.
|
|
Chrome
Full Member
The Shiny One
Posts: 232
|
Post by Chrome on Oct 10, 2009 4:10:18 GMT
I think a lot of what Annie's trying to do may depend on what else she saw through the blinker stone with Kat. Note that in the page before this one, Kat had it and was getting instructions from Annie. In this one, obviously Annie had to have set up the fire with the stone. That means she's retrieved the stone, and Kat has gone and done whatever she's been instructed to do. Some time has passed, and when you get that kind of passage of time in a situation, it's rather easy for the "hero" or the protagonist of the story to point out "Oh, something I found out during Time Passage - game over, guys." It's probably listed in TVTropes somewhere. I await the revelation on whatever it was Annie saw that made her do THIS with the fire, and bringing the teachers.
|
|
|
Post by wynne on Oct 10, 2009 16:42:22 GMT
Pity that Tom still needs to spell things out in the commentary at the bottom. (I don't think that the story's that difficult to follow - at least, as long as you read it as a serialized graphic novel and not a "gag-a-day" strip. Maybe the people who express their confusion over the story are reading it as the latter.) I find it amusing when he does that, really. But that may just be me. Also I suspect that him spelling things out is at least as much to clamp down on insane speculation as it is to explain to those who don't get it. I'm sure that without today's comment there would be all sorts of theories about Annie being a fire elemental or something popping up to explain why the flames don't bother her, along with all sorts of other crazy ideas. Of course, the comments haven't always stopped all speculation (cue pictures of Brinnie, Jones and Gamma). I mean, he specifically told us they weren't related. With bold font. And I'd be willing to bet I wasn't the only one who suspected that he might have been kidding/sarcastic/lying to conceal the truth until we found out who Brinnie actually was.
|
|
|
Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 10, 2009 16:59:29 GMT
Note that in the page before this one, Kat had it and was getting instructions from Annie. In this one, obviously Annie had to have set up the fire with the stone. That means she's retrieved the stone, and Kat has gone and done whatever she's been instructed to do. Some time has passed, and when you get that kind of passage of time in a situation, it's rather easy for the "hero" or the protagonist of the story to point out "Oh, something I found out during Time Passage - game over, guys." It's probably listed in TVTropes somewhere. Yes, the good old Unspoken Plan. Also the related phenomenon, the Unspoken Plan Guarantee, where the protagonists' scheme is exponentially more likely to work without a hitch if the audience doesn't know the details.
|
|
|
Post by Amethyst on Oct 10, 2009 18:37:43 GMT
Here's what's happening. The emergency back at the Court was real and so were the kids being kidnapped. While Annie's little trick distracts Eggers and Bob, the situation at the Court is getting out of hand. At the same time, bad tings are happening to the kidnapped kids because no one is focusing at them anymore. John breaks into the Sutton manor for no reason during this. Annie REALLY screws up. Yup.
|
|
|
Post by judgedeadd on Oct 10, 2009 19:25:56 GMT
John breaks into the Sutton manor for no reason during this. ...and in doing so, accidentally frees the thing kept there. He is its first victim, others follow quickly.
|
|
|
Post by rhoffman12 on Oct 10, 2009 19:48:03 GMT
hey guys... where's Jack?
is there any way that creepy face spiders could ruin the rescue attempt?
|
|