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Post by pandadan on Mar 8, 2010 7:33:17 GMT
Finally breaking down and registering to post this!
I keep hearing mention of the spider "on" Jack's face. However, Ether-Jack had the distinctive monochrome scheme of something that has no etheric presence -- such as a corpse. The Jack that Antimony sees in the ether is the same dead shell she sees normally... except for that spider.
I'm much more inclined to believe the spider is inside Jack, possibly "driving" him in a puppetmaster-esque fashion.
The question this begs, of course is... did contact with Zimmy hollow him out, or was he always this way? Maybe the "Jack" that's been in Gunnerkrigg Court has always been a spider-like being controlling an otherwise empty human body. Calculating and methodical, weaving his webs...
(see the documentary "Dark City" for more details!)
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Post by mudmaniac on Mar 8, 2010 8:08:19 GMT
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Post by cannedbreadmaker on Mar 8, 2010 15:00:02 GMT
Yes but her hair was still crazy! Was Jack's hair crazy? |
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Post by karakai on Mar 8, 2010 15:08:06 GMT
He doesn't have a lot of hair for it to be crazy :]
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Post by King Mir on Mar 8, 2010 16:58:24 GMT
Jack's hair was interference; it flowed against the either instead of with it.
Anyway, from the page it seems pretty clear to me that the spider is crawling on Jack's face.
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Post by karakai on Mar 8, 2010 19:42:40 GMT
it didn't really interrupt it until the spider showed up, unless that was just Annie's OMGWTFBBQ reaction to an etheric spider on Jacks face LAUGHING ON LINE
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Post by sostorm on Mar 8, 2010 22:09:53 GMT
Well I'd say it's most definitely crawling on his face, as you can see his eyebrow is under it. The spider as well as the web is however drawn in a very peculiar way. |
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Post by wynne on Mar 9, 2010 0:32:04 GMT
We can probably attribute Anya's hair to either her natural etheric talent or Tom's mad art skills.
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Post by karakai on Mar 9, 2010 3:06:15 GMT
What I'm def curious about tho, is how Jack has a copy aura on his back. I don't think we've ever seen that before, right?
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Post by coyotagoat on Mar 9, 2010 15:12:21 GMT
I dunno... It would be cool if we got to see more with mr. Anti-ether spider, but I kinda thought it was just symbolyzing his etheric "decay". He's a bit more out of touch with the ether than even most regular people are, and that not healthy for his psyche. I dunno, just speccin here  . Also, has it ever been stated that the spider wasn't there before his trip to zimmingham? I'm not arguing that that's probably the cause, just an interesting realization I had. It's cool to finally get back to the Jack storyline. |
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Post by karakai on Mar 9, 2010 16:36:30 GMT
I hope he doesn't have to see the insect psycho-pomp 'cause of that "spider" :] That might scare him more than Zimmiland
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Post by supasasson on Mar 9, 2010 20:24:26 GMT
I don't know if some one pointed this out already, but on this page: www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=465 in panel 3 you see a spider hanging over a figure peeking out of the window behind kat. Jack, perhaps? If so, he might have picked up the spider there as a sort of stowaway. |
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Post by Mr Pitchfork on Mar 10, 2010 7:39:15 GMT
I always imagined that page to be Jack going "Oh I see you Annie, get the frig away", with the spider being a sidefeature and probably related. I don't think the ether-interference was a permanent, ongoing feature, but when Annie got close Jack could tell she was there (or at least sense a disturbance in the force) which made him turn around and push away, consciously or subconsciously.
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Post by dustypants on Mar 10, 2010 13:27:30 GMT
I imagine Jack has almost no knowledge of the ether, and is becoming slowly aware of it after being pulled into Zimmy's world and picking up a traveler. It explains his earlier creepiness, as he is trying to understand something that even Annie and Zimmy don't understand. Maybe he can even feel his passenger, and only wants Zimmy to take it back, or Gamma to remove it.
He's reminding me of Mulder, or a Lovecraftian hero, at the moment, desperately trying to understand something that will likely do nothing but ruin him.
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. Also, has it ever been stated that the spider wasn't there before his trip to zimmingham? I'm not arguing that that's probably the cause, just an interesting realization I had. It's cool to finally get back to the Jack storyline. 