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Post by djublonskopf on Sept 22, 2010 19:07:24 GMT
There are continuity breaks on this page. Check the face of Young's watch on this page. Maybe its just REALLY deep and it took 3 hours to lower Jeanne to the bottom? OR Young hit the brandy a bit too hard this evening and he misspoke? OR, yeah, its just a screw up. ;D I don't understand. His watch says 3 o'clock. That's 3 hours after midnight . . . . . . where's the break?
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Post by djublonskopf on Sept 14, 2010 5:00:59 GMT
Y'know i was actually a little surprised to find that Jeanne's lover was from the forest; mainly because Diego described him as a "traitor"... frankly i figured he was originally a member of the court who was exiled to the forest over something he did. From the looks of this page, before the division, the Court was the forest, and the forest the court. You have a horse and an elf and some dudes and a bear and like some goblins or something . . . . . . my guess is that after the split, everyone who picked the "forest" side of the split may have looked like a "traitor" to those who chose the "court" side . . . because they had all originally been part of one inclusive "Court". (And likewise, some of the the forest folk may have seen everyone who picked the "court" side as traitors)
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Post by djublonskopf on Sept 2, 2010 13:54:33 GMT
Huh. For some reason, I can't help but think "Boss Fight." I'm going to have to disagree with the sentiment expressed by some people here: I don't think this counts as Annie undertaking dangerous investigation on her own, foregoing the potential help of authority. My guess is that she and Kat pretty much thought of this as an obvious, harmless, risk-free way of getting a look down there. As far as they know (knew?), nothing could harm her when in the ether-state. Yeah, I think you're right. Even though Coyote mentioned the cut, Annie didn't seem to believe him, and as he changed the subject quickly she certainly wasn't shown connecting the cut to Jeanne. That's information we as the audience have that nobody in the story knows yet. As far as she knew, she was totally safe.
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Post by djublonskopf on Sept 1, 2010 19:01:24 GMT
It doesn't look too much longer until we see this scene, or something like it. Oh, good thought! Assuming that was foreshadowing, and not just an illustration of what Muut wanted to happen, this may turn out all right. My fervent hope, however, is that the ghost of Steadman comes to the rescue, momentarily distracting Jeanne with his sexy ghost-body.
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Post by djublonskopf on Aug 30, 2010 14:27:30 GMT
I don't think her body was arranged after the fact. The way she's sitting with the sword, it looks like she died waiting . . .. EDIT: And I'd forgotten that Steadman fired nearly straight down.
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Post by djublonskopf on Aug 27, 2010 14:23:57 GMT
Oh my word every comic is funnier than the one before it!
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Post by djublonskopf on Aug 23, 2010 19:08:27 GMT
Wow Tom sure is drawing Eglamore different these days. Are you kidding? He looks handsomer and manlier than ever *swoon* Although...I think he's commiting suicide ;D He may have a long way to fall, but he's good at jumping high, so he must be good at landing, too . . ..
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Post by djublonskopf on Aug 23, 2010 13:41:01 GMT
Wow Tom sure is drawing Eglamore different these days.
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Post by djublonskopf on Aug 22, 2010 5:34:47 GMT
Tom drew Kris Straub a picture, and when Kris put it up on starslip.com, I followed the link back to here.
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Post by djublonskopf on Aug 11, 2010 22:49:20 GMT
I'm going to bet on the long shot and say she's off to have what TVtropes, in a rare moment of lucidity, would call an important haircut. Well. I didn't think I was actually going to be right. When you made that prediction, I was like "where where on earth did that come from? There hasn't been any indication whatsoever that she might cut her hair. That's a bizarre thing to guess." And then today I was like "oh snaps they were right".
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Post by djublonskopf on Aug 9, 2010 20:06:54 GMT
I wonder how Annie will take the news of Court doing animal testing. I assume she’s a bit more hardened to such things, having grown up in a hospital and all. It'll make it easier to meet Muut, if she ever needs to again. No need to kill an ant if you can just wait around for the mouse psychopomp . . ..
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Post by djublonskopf on Aug 6, 2010 14:46:11 GMT
I just realized something; Kat's not turning the bird into a cyborg; she's using it's bone structure and is going to apply it to Robot to make him less bulky! Possibly a la this scene from "S1"?
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Post by djublonskopf on Aug 4, 2010 19:11:58 GMT
This is a good reminder that all institutions are just made of people. They may be people who follow a set of rules, but that is a choice on their part, and can be unchosen. (Or the rules changed.) You're right, and you sparked my thinking in a tangential direction. This is probably true of real-life institutions. But what does it mean for wildly un-real-life fictional institutions like the forest? Even the most corrupt of our real-life groups of people doesn't have an omnipotent prankster god stirring things up. My thoughts aren't really all together, so I'm posing it as a question: does Paz's claim hold for the Forest, or are they exempt from the rule?
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Post by djublonskopf on Aug 3, 2010 19:37:36 GMT
In case you don't know spiders eat flies(and other bugs that end up in it's web). Well last month a fly flew down near me and under it was a live spider. The two bugs kept flipping from spider to fly. Until finally,the fly flew of with the spider. Ha! I probably laughed 5 times reading through this one thread! There's a UK website, Ask a Biologist, a bunch of professional biologists willing to answer any and all biology-related questions. You might want to ask a question under "Insects" and see if any of the pros have an idea. (I have no affiliation with this website. I just thought it was neat.)
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Post by djublonskopf on Aug 3, 2010 19:30:40 GMT
"...would have to get through me first." What did the Court do before Paz? Was there another in her place? How serious is the Court leaving the welfare of lab animals to a child? If some scientist-type makes a case for an experiment that Paz disagrees with, what makes anyone think that they'd listen to Paz? Perhaps Paz is in for her own rude awakening? Truth is, in reality, things are rarely black and white. Learning this is part of the transition to adult. I think what Paz meant was that since she has joined them, "self-regulation" means she gets a vote on what they (as a group) do. She has more influence as part of the system than she would have had from outside it. I could easily be wrong on that. But that's how I understood it.
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Post by djublonskopf on Jul 21, 2010 16:08:50 GMT
Those little tufts of grass in the dirt-patch . . . are they the first "natural" plants shown in the court, other than in that camping-trip park? EDIT: Never mind. The dirt between the bridge and the steps of the court also has the occasional tuft of grass. EDIT AGAIN: And the Donlans have some bushes outside their house so nevermind altogether.
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Post by djublonskopf on Jul 14, 2010 17:39:56 GMT
Don't worry about the noise, Kat. It's just a girly-squeal from an alternate universe. (That's today's comic. In case you were still wondering whether Tom is psychic.) Ha! I came here to link to that . . . good thing I read through the other comments first . . ..
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Post by djublonskopf on Jul 2, 2010 13:11:59 GMT
Aww, poor Rey. xD I wonder if Jones could tell what was going on inside the illusion? Oh, weekend break. Yeah, there's a lot of questions I have about this. In the power plant chapter, Zimmy and crew ended up in Zimmyland but appeared to be right there on the roof to everyone else. I imagine they looked like they were standing there in a trance to those who weren't affected. But here, as the rain washes away the illusion, the characters appear to be placed physically in the same positions as when they were in the illusion. This seems to imply they moved around on the rooftop as illusion-time passed. But if they moved around, what was the time scale in relation to reality? What was the distance scale? In the illusion, they seemed to walk a great distance. Were they in danger of falling off the roof? I'm guessing that Jones would not be affected by the illusion and would have just seen some kids on the roof, perhaps walking around in a trance. I hope people see the inconsistency I'm talking about here between the current chapter and what happened in the power plant chapter. In "Power Plant", they got 'ported out by Gamma. In this one, the rain "washed it away". In Power Plant, they fritzed into it together . . . in this one, Annie at least walked into it through a door. They are inconsistent, but they are also not the same. (And it did seem implied (though not explicitly stated) that very little or no time passed between them entering and leaving Zimmingham in "Power Station". None of the kids on the roof noticed anything was amiss.)
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Post by djublonskopf on Jun 28, 2010 18:17:38 GMT
You know, in the past few chapters with both Zimmy and Gamma, you can see lines connecting them both. But, if you look at the first time they are shown, they are not there. When did they appear? 0.o You're right, they don't seem to be in "Two Strange Girls". At a glance, it looks like they first appear in "Power Station".
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Post by djublonskopf on Jun 28, 2010 14:20:39 GMT
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Post by djublonskopf on Jun 28, 2010 5:27:59 GMT
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Post by djublonskopf on Jun 27, 2010 14:47:23 GMT
I'm all for mutual understanding. The sooner we get over the "arthropods are ew" prejudice, the sooner we can start to farm and commercialise this much more energy-efficient food. I bet spiders taste like crab. Yum yum. While it is a prejudice, it's prejudice that's strongly set by our DNA. Even as babies (human or even other primates), we're wired to be afraid of snakes and spiders, just about from birth. "Primal" fears tend to be set to turn on and off in us at key developmental phases. Young children are primed to be afraid of the dark, but it wears off with age, and once they're old enough that they could have handled themselves at night in our hunter-gatherer days, they tend to not need a night-light anymore. Teenagers are primed to be afraid of bleeding (though not all develop this fear), as that's the age they're most likely to do something dumb enough to cause a LOT of bleeding. In people where the fear does emerge, however, it tends to surface around age 13, and quietly fade away by 17 or so. But spider/snake fears are already set in primate babies, even before the babies have seen a single living snake or spider . . . (and actually, snake-fear is common among a phenomenal number of mammalian species, and it's much stronger than, say, the lion-fear that might make more survival sense . . . but lions are relatively new on the evolutionary scene, whereas deadly snakes and spiders were around with the very first mammals hundreds of millions of years ago). (Also, spiders and snakes are things that you can still avoid when they're relatively close. Once a lion is close you shouldn't need a genetic phobia to tell you that you're in trouble. The teeth and claws and "bigger than you" and "running right at you" should all be good hints.)
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Post by djublonskopf on Jun 25, 2010 16:14:54 GMT
I like all these characters taking an Occam's Razor approach to crisis resolution. CRUNCH! SPLAT! Occam's FIST!
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Post by djublonskopf on Jun 23, 2010 16:07:22 GMT
So . . . Jones said she was interested in seeing what Annie did next. It doesn't seem like Annie did much of anything at all . . ..
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Post by djublonskopf on Jun 17, 2010 14:59:11 GMT
Maybe the "buzzzing" isn't a spider-and-the-fly insinuation after all. Maybe Tom's just been listening to the World Cup. I've not been paying attention to the World Cup, but didn't Tom begin buzzing before the tournament started? Only by a few days. But I bet he knew what was coming.
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Post by djublonskopf on Jun 17, 2010 13:33:31 GMT
Maybe the "buzzzing" isn't a spider-and-the-fly insinuation after all. Maybe Tom's just been listening to the World Cup.
buzz
buzzz
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Post by djublonskopf on Jun 16, 2010 15:14:30 GMT
I think the colors of the speech bubbles for Zimmy and Gamma have changed. They look more similar. Obviously, this illusion is a lot more convoluted than what we've seen, what with Gamma's mistaking Annie for Zimmy. Maybe we're seeing things as they aren't? Zimmy and Gamma have always had the exact same color speech bubble. I've wondered (privately) if one of them isn't a creation or extension of the other . . . but for the time being I assume they're distinct people who are just strongly identified with each other.
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Post by djublonskopf on Jun 14, 2010 13:42:32 GMT
I still wonder whether Zimmy and Gamma would have come out again when Jack switched on the power station; he was convinced that they would, and so was Jones Jones only said that Jack would have good reason to believe they'd come.
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Post by djublonskopf on Jun 14, 2010 13:37:43 GMT
It means that nobodies can appear in the real world, OR it means that Gamma gets confused sometimes about when she's in the "real world" and when she's in "Zimmingham". Or it means some other thing entirely.
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Post by djublonskopf on Jun 13, 2010 3:21:35 GMT
Has anybody yet suggested that maybe it's not Jack that wants to find Zimmy, but the spider?
Back when Jack was first asking about Zimmy, it seemed like he wanted her to undo whatever happened during his accidental trip to Zimmingham. But since the spider seems to have so much influence over him . . . maybe the spider is the one looking for Zimmy?
Because she'd make a better host than the not-nearly-as-etherically-endowed Jack?
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