Chapter 102: Page 19Shapes and colours.https://www.gunnerkrigg.com
>>153729487Does this imply that she doesn't know Kat and/or that Kat looks different?
>>153729487Coyote has declared his love for Annie.Ysengrin has declared his love for Annie.Mort has declared his love for Annie.And there is Kat, too.Hmmmmmmm...
>>153729487>Annie's got Kat on the brainOh? What's all this then, Carver?
>>153729487>Pink flower headband, bestows +5 straightness upon the wearer
>>153729698picrel Kat unequipping FlowerHeadband
>>153729637I'll forgive Tom for how shit this arc is if she and Kat finally bone
>>153729487Wherever she is, Kat has nothing but thoughts of a naked cute black goth girl and doesn't know why.
>>153729698>>153729707I was gonna say, that's a very conspicuous callback. While in the middle of the Yuriworld arc no less. I have no delusions of a second happening, but I can dream.
>>153729708Right? Honestly the most enjoyable pages have been the ones where girls are kissin' on each other. I mean I'd still be mad about the Two Annies, but if Annie and Kat hook up, I'll be significantly less mad.
>>153729487I hate Kat
>>153729708Tom is probably monitoring these threads to see what anons want so he knows what not to do.
Seriously, we even got the delinquent lesbians. What's funny about Red and Ayilu is that these bitches were always gay as fuck. No really, I checked. They first show up in Chapter 8 and even then they acted like a couple. >>153729769At this point, I genuinely wouldn't be that shocked if he was actively sabotaging his own story for the sake of being ~subversive~. Because that's apparently more important than being cohesive and enjoyable.
>>153729722>>153729707the art used to be so good
>>153729714If Tom does the next page with Kat daydreaming of everyone but Annie I'd be sooooo happy!
>>153729757I don't remember making this post.
Or at the very least, friends who don't yet realize they're a couple. Look at this!
>>153729487>dang I'm so horny today
>>153729843look at this skank , touching her girlfriend pointy ears in public
>>153729496Probably just an establishing panel to show she's reflecting on her 'dream'Although it's kind of weird that Kat is 1/3rd of it so presumably this is set up for Kat being radically different or absent
>>153729932Ear stroking really is lewd as fuck, isn't it?
>>153729919>Miss. Carver, both hands above the desk during class.
>>153730016>Although it's kind of weird that Kat is 1/3rd of it so presumably this is set up for Kat being radically different or absentOr maybe this is a hint towards Kat being Annie's secret crush. It's either her or Jones. No other option is remotely interesting enough to keep a secret. ... Fuck you, I want to believe.
>>153729751>>153730803STOP REMINDING ME ABOUT THE TWO ANNIES THEY SHOULD HAVE FUCKED GOD FUCKING DAMN IT AHHHHHHHHH
>>153730803I think it's possible Annie has feelings for Kat she hasn't really come to terms with or consciously registers, while Jones is the person she just straight up has a crush on and is actively aware of it. Like it's very, very obvious that Annie wants to bump uglies with Jones, Kat's a lot more ambiguous if they're just incredible friends or if there's something more going on beneath the surface.
>>153730842Tell that to Tom where he put the word "Annie Annie" in this page for some reason.
>>153730871>Annie still has two Annies on her mindOh fuck you Tom
>>153729487>One of the things Annie still clearly remembers is MortAw>>153730871>>153730899Lmao if that was actually intentional, it's kind of weird she'd be "remembering" her own name twice from a dream
>>153730803such a cute moment. Annie doesn't usually talk about relationship stuff so Courtney embarrassing both of them here is adorable.
>>153730871It actually says Court Annie and Forest Annie, but it's cut off.
>>153730855>Annie is in love with her best friend and doesn't realize it, but also wants to fuck her mentor... Annie really just a yuri protagonist. Explains a lot. Also, sorry, it will never stop being funny how blatantly horny for senpai she was in this chapter.
>>153730842>>153730871>it's happened twice nowI swear to god, Siddell.
>>153730992To be fair that was basically just all of us convincing ourselves a poorly-executed angle shot was two Annies in the same room while desperately hoping the alternate reality angle would bring them back. "Annie Annie" is a real slap in the cock.
>>153729496Yeah, I get that, that's why I'm saying, if Kat was in her 'dream' and her face is weirdly distorted, does that imply that she doesn't know Kat in Zimmyworld, or that she looks different?
>>153730842They did. A LOT. It happened every night and they were too shy to talk about it during the day. They just crawled into each others' beds and started groping and petting and twining legs together
>>153730973>Huehuehue I saw you naked
>>153730973>so much hope and promise from this partial arc>all thrown into the gutter
>>153731245That image is absolutely burned into her retinas. >>153731253Killing off Omega really did feel like spite.
>>153730871>for some reasoni thought that was obviously because next page is going to be someone repeatedly saying her name to get her attention as she daydreams in schoolit didn't even occur to me that it was "two annies" lol
>>153730871"You know what's weird Renard? For some reason when I think about that dream I have this urge to have sex with myself. Not like masturbation, I mean like having sex with an identical clone of myself. It's really specific.""Uh, cool Annie. Thanks for sharing."
>>153729487Is that cum stain supposed to be Mort or some kind of deformed speech bubble?
>>153731851Neither, it's a shot of semen being shot out of Forest Annie's dick.
>>153731359Her role in the story was done and it served as a shocking moment. He didn't do it out of spite, he's just not pandering to people who want everyone to have a happy ending.
>>153731446I mean obviously that's the case, but it's getting harder and harder to avoid seeing them everywhere. ... God I want them back.
>>153729487Alright, I've never read this comic, I only know about it from seeing these threads on the catalog and from seeing this image when I was like 12 and thinking it was hot. Is the comic any good?
>>153732339>and it served as a shocking moment.It happened off-panel, the characters barely were phased by it, and Annie alos unceremoniously spirited her away off-panel. It was about as shocking as being hit by a pillow.
>>153732565It basically goes from good to great to fantastic to meh then waffles between meh and good after that. Lots of cute girls though and it has a story arc that's served as rabid selfcest fuel.
>>153732609It was shocking to us the readers. The threads are right there in the archives.
>>153732633Yeah I was in those threads, people were pissed the fuck off that her death was so nonchalant. If that counts as "shocking" to you then yeah I guess people were shocked it was handled so poorly.
>>153729698Annie: i never wore the headband of straightness Kat if you know what i mean
>>153729784Red and Ailyun are low level lesbian wizards they only create monsters that doesnt exist for their loveZimmy creates entire cities and Gamma stays awake 72 hours gay constantly to be with Zimmy more
>>153730016Do electric sheep dream of pansexual robot goddesses?
>>153732342I miss them so much, bros..
>>153732565It is very engaging. The author knows how to string readers along.
>>153732339>>153732609Cheap shock value doesn't fly with any audience, least of all comic readers who were well and truly sick of this bullshit since the fuckin' 80s. Tom has been doing this comic for over 20 years and should damn well know better.
>>153729784All faires are women and turn into girls/women when getting lab grown bodies. They are gay on the sub-atomic level
>>153732742I will say, based of Tom to finally just come out and say that Zimmy and Gamma are in fact a couple. I mean, we all knew that, but the comic kept trying to imply it was some vague "more than love" thing for the longest time. Or maybe Jack is just a fuckin' idiot, who knows.
>>153732883>Or maybe Jack is just a fuckin' idiot, who knows.I'm gonna have to say yes going off of his... almost everything in this comic. His only smart moment was turning down Annie when he realized she was just desperate for some kind of physical comfort.
>>153732883you do realize 'more than love' includes 'love', yes?
>>153732565original page
>>153733137Annie takes barefootery after her mother
>>153733137I always felt like this page was basically just an excuse for Tom to draw feet. Not even in a fetishy way, just as like "hmm I wonder if I can draw feet well".
Here's a few answers Tom gave aabouut Zimmy and Gamma being a couple, from https://www.chrysoprax.org/gunnerkrigg/results?term=zimmy+couple :> Zimmy and Gamma are--in a complicated, twisted, unhealthy, etc. way-- a couple and very much in love,correct? I think this has been stated before, but I'd like to be sure I don't have the wrong idea.> They are a couple, yes.> That was an unusually straightforward answer about Zimmy and Gamma being in love. Why were you so open about them, but remain secretive about other couples?> Because it's already obvious in the comic that they are in love.> Are you tired of all the "Are Zimmy and Gamma a couple?" questions, or have you accepted that it's one thing which will never be fully understood unless its cleared up leaving no doubts in the comic?> I'll get questions about it even if I clearly label and explain every element of their being and interaction.> Sorry I asked you this earlier, but there's apparently no way to search for older answers. Are Zimmy and Gamma a couple?> Yes they are> How does Zimmy view Annie? Does she dislike her or is she more or less indifferent?> She sees that Annie doesn't give her to omuch trouble and even helped her and Gamma a couple times. So she's cautiously indifferent about her.> Why haven't you been stoned to death on the street over Zimmy and Gamma - is their relationship flawed and ambiguous enough to be written off as non-romantic, thus sparing you your grim fate?> People can make of their relationship what they want, but they aren't exactly a cute couple. Not in the Internet sense of things, leastways.
>>153733137>"-but if they really wanted to stop me, they would have."True. But then the modern Court's leaders would actually have to characters in this story, and we can't have that... for some reason I'm sure Tom thinks is clever. >>153733169There was a conspicuous amount of foot stuff in the early years.
>>153733282I remember on my first read through I thought the court leader would be an actual character because of how cool he seemed. I honestly don't even remember the last time he was on panel, let alone looked as cool as he did in chapter 14.Did we ever get context to why he called Ysengrim General?
>>153734090We've never seen the current court leadership. I assume you're talking about the headmaster.'General' is probably Ysengrin's preferred title or whatever. He hates humans after all, so he probably thought he was fighting some kind of war against the court, since he didn't actually know what Coyote's goals were. Maybe at some point in the past there was some kind of acknowledgement of Ysengrin receiving the title. Who knows.
>>153732883>to finally just come out and say that Zimmy and Gamma are in fact a coupleI hate retards like yourself that needs to have everything spelled out for them otherwise "it didn't happen".
>>153730842I headcanon that the Annies actually did fuck during that merge sequence where everything went crazy, and that's why Zimmy was actually giving them that knowing smile. "Lmao I know that you fucked yourself Carver, about time".
You guys should know how Tom works by now. Annie's secret crush will be a nothing background character revealed as a joke.
>>153732565I just read all of it over the last couple of days.It starts out extremely aesthetic and has alot of charm to it, but kind of falls off midway the moment a twist villain appears and becomes kinda meandering for quite awhile after. It's weird to say I even didn't mind all the relationship drama, because atleast then there was still shit happening and a large cast to bounce off of. Tom has a habit of introducing interesting characters and concepts only to completely drop them (Hattie, Omega) or have no idea what to do with them (Reynard, Jones, Tony, "Courtney"), so you only really get Annie and Kat throughout the series. It lowkey makes me chuck a brick everytime he randomly gets rid of a character completely with no closure after building them up.That's kinda emblematic of the problems with the entire series. So much good buildup, but no real payoff or climax. The delivery is very british- always anticlimactic.
>>153732565Working on a gunnerkrigg painting that footfags can enjoy rn, btw.
>>153735627Noooooooice. Not a footfag but I am a paintingfag.
>>153735810It's based on this.
>>153735627>>153735852Good shit imaa
>>153736263Thanks! I'm very lucky to get some really cool requests like this on my fanbox.
>>153729487>3/4 of what Annie is daydreaming about is katWhat did tom mean by this
>>153737037He means that Gunnerkrigg Court was friends-to-lovers yuri this whole time. (Please, I beg you.)
>>153729757Zimmy...
UNF. Why is she so fucking hot?
Jesus Christ Annie, can you stop being gay for 10 minutes?
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>>153735627>>153735852Was hoping to finish this today, but couldn't
Antimony Carver should go fuck herself. Literally.
I caught up recently, something I don't remember if the comic addressed. Why didn't Annie immediately freak out or see thru Loup's disguise? By which I mean why didn't she look into the Aether and her astral form immediately see that he's not a New Man like the others but the literal demi-god she's trying to find?That seems like a glaring plot hole.
>>153729722>I have no delusions of a second happening, but I can dream.AnnieKat has been the most likely endgame since pretty close to the start. It wouldn't be much of a happening at this point, though.
>>153732883>I will say, based of Tom to finally just come out and say that Zimmy and Gamma are in fact a couple. I mean, we all knew that, but the comic kept trying to imply it was some vague "more than love" thing for the longest time.but it didn't? unless the whole "Gamma" and "Zeta" thing implies they aren't actually entirely independent beings.
>>153742142Annie often forgets to check the ether until reminded it may be helpful.But I think a god like Coyote or Loup vsn disguise themselves in the ether as well. They can truly become a goose, or compartmentalize or split aspects of themselves. Maybe Annie could have gotten lucky if she caught Jerrek in a moment where he was being Loup-y or talking between the two, but I think those might have mostly been artistic representations of them talking internally. Then again, he is kind of a fuck-up who does things impulsively, so maybe not.
>>153742142Its kind of a lame handwave but I think Loup thoroughly buys into his crafted persona in the same way that Coyote forgets hes Coyote when he's the dead goose by the lake.
>>153742142Annie getting more incompetent every year is the only consistent characterization this comic has
>>153743698Jerrek seems to be an entirely separate personality or aspect thereof, yeah.
>>153743982It may be more of Renard's "What is the mind but a plaything of the body" thing than Coyote-the-dead-goose?
>>153743117I still want to believe in AnnieRey. Him being such a shlub in zimmyworld really makes me reconsider, though...
>>153743117Annie and Kat's relationship is the emotional core of the story. It's always gonna be about these two at the end of the day. As such, it's entirely too easy to read some potential romantic subtext. I hate shippers, and I desperately want them all to be purged, but even I'm like "Yo, is there a little something going on here?".
