Chapter 102: Page 24Peerhttps://www.gunnerkrigg.com/
>>153943685What are these two weirdos even talking about?
>>153943709Which weirdos?
Living up to his trickster rep, I see.
>>153943685look at that bottom left panel, Annie's thinking face is goofy as fuck
>>153943685>coyote throwing a wrench in thingswe are so fucking back
>>153943970Coyote is overjoyed at getting to witness this wacky bullshit.
>>153943685I love Coyote
>>153943970This comic really suffered from him being gone.
>>153943685has she got danger hair?
>>153943836Annie and that guy.
>>153944720>and that guyGeorge?
Imagine if Grant Morrison or Alan Moore wasted space and panels like they were writing a movie instead of a comic.
>>153944859...Uhh...
>>153944850No that's John, George is the quiet one and John likes having a laugh.
>>153944859you're joking, right?
>>153943685I like pages that show off how pretty Annie's eyes are. As much as we clown on her for being a screw up Annie really is a very pretty girl.
The universe will end in heat death before this comic gets to the fucking point
>>153945302She is a pretty incel.
Whiners gonna whine, but this does give some insight into how the Zimmy Hill illusion works. It's like Annie and the others are being subconsciously told that Noa is "just a girl" but it falls apart when Annie is pressed to describe what she's seeing.
>>153943685This looks like someone just stuck it in Annie and she's trying really hard to stay composed.
>>153946841"damn thinking is HARD"
>>153945688This comic opens new stories within new stories like it's a fucking nested Excel formulaWe're going to need a dozen closing parentheses to calculate this comic in the end
>>153946841Look what you made me do
>>153947196The attempted ahegao didn't really work out imo.>>153943685>Coyote actually undoing seamsHuh, somehow wasn't expecting that. It's not against his nature of course, but I thought he was content with this world staying up for a long as it might, and just kind of confident something would topple it naturally. I wonder what his angle is. Also, this place has Ysen, Yote, and Loo all separate, I wonder if this distortion ending would have all entities existing, like how the Annies were collapsible.
>>153943970I thought he was pro-distortion, what with him taking away Zimmy's guilt and such.I guess he's just pro-chaos.
>>153948086>I guess he's just pro-chaos.Of course he is, it's coyote
>>153947972That's because it's not trying to be ahegao you goofus.
>>153948115Whatever you wanna call it then, her stupid edited cross-eyes. Fucker.
>>153948191Fuck THIS>Eats your entire ass
>>153948203I barely have an ass, you'll starve.
>>153945302Remember back in the day when Tom would draw Annie's eyes with unnecessarily elaborate detail?
>>153948532Annie still has the most detailed eyes in the comic. I don't think anyone else even gets colored irises.
>>153949882hot zimmy does
i fucking love coyote. he better make it out of this.
>>153950387Tom here, do I detect my fans liking a character of mine? Tsk tsk anon, now I'm going to have to kill off Coyote.
>>153950346More evidence she is the Shadow to Annie's Sonic.
>>153951040Did her intro chapter not clue you in to that? Fucking retard. This is why Sonic fans need to be hunted down and shot.
>>153948086>>153948093Read chapter 68 again for discussion of Coyote's chaotic nature and "branches" structure that's equal-but-opposite to the Court's star ocean - with very similar imagery to the distortion and its cracks (remember Zimmy, the other power source, is said to have similar etheric engine function as Coyote).The only question is his ultimate goal, and I think there's enough in the text to demonstrate it's similar to the Court's but in the opposite direction, and both will be potentially genocidal, possibly even world-ending. Our protagonists will have to stop them both, restore the balance to save the world in the spirit of the true meaning of Bismuth.
This comic and its fanbase is so fucking dead.
>>153951897Nothing about the court's plan is in any way genocidal or world ending. The earth will lose like 0.00001% of its ether. It is not going to have any effect whatsoever.
>>153953386Both of them are like shambling corpses
>>153954174And all because Tom was a bitch ass coward. Incredible.
>>153954670>Threads absolutely exploded in speed just at people deluding themselves into thinking the distortion could be bringing them backGod imagine if Tom found his balls and said fuck it and wrote them back in somehow, the thread would probably hit bump limit.
>>153944305Well we briefly had Omega to alleviate that until the retard writing it killed her off...
>>153954808We also got the two Annies very shortly after the Coyote merged into Loup, before they were killed off...
Shit like this did not help. >>153954808>>153954833Tom is eternally butthurt that people don't like Tony, so he's going to systematically kill off every character in the comic until Poochie is the only one left.
>>153954892damn this was embarrassing. who is she even talking about, nobody ever talks about hating tony in the comic besides kat before she was won over by his sparkling personality, and eglamore because he cucked him
>>153955205It's literally unironically "the character talking to the reader to tell them how to feel". I consider that exact page basically the lowest point in the comic, even a little lower than the Norns, because at least the Norns still maintained some internal narrative cohesion even if it was a letdown. That entire chapter coming right after the Annies merged just for Annie to be completely unaffected and say "Ok but people really should stop talking bad about Tony, and I'm talking to you the audience and I'm totally not the voice of Tom or anything ;)" was so fucking bad man. And I'm not even that guy that viscerally hates Tony in these threads, that chapter was just straight up insulting.
>>153955274Right? Genuine, bottom of the barrel hack shit.
>>153953409>the ultimate plan is for fucking nothing to happen and no one to careSums up every single plot point in this comic over the 9 years I've been actively reading it. Holy shit. It's been 9 years since 'yote got nommed by Louis huh.
>>153954892People usually talk about daddy issues but what do you call it hwne someone is overly attached to an objectively shitty parent. It's like reverse daddy issues. Like someone will talk about how their dad is 65 and treated them like shit through highschool, actively interfering with friendships or girls thinking that no one should date under 18, told them to either go to college, join the military or be homeless at 18, then later it turned out they had just embezzled th eir entire college fund in order to buy a house for his second wife from Thailand or some shit and how all the stuff his dad promised in inheritance is already basically spent by the second iwfe and dad is talking about how Son 1 is goign to have to foot the bill for his retirement because "I did all that -fucking nothing- for you" and how his mom is also basically a whore hwo stole from him and ruined his relationship with his grandparents and only girlfriend to keep him living in squalor at 32.And then someone will pop up in the thread seething "omg how can you be so ungrateful to your parents, hating your parents is wrong, daddy issues much?!?". Like that sort of thing.
>>153955972Honestly, at a certain point, it's just contrarianism. Tom went too far with the shock value, and couldn't deal with the criticism. So he tripled down and like two thirds of the comic since Ch51 has been desperate justifications for why Tony somehow isn't total shit. It's some actual "No, it's the audience who is wrong." delusion. Also, are you okay, anon?
>>153953409>0.00001% of its etherWhat do you base that on? We don't know for sure it poses a serious threat the the world's ether, but it's sensible to conclude such a huge interstellar voyage, that presumably is meant to be at ridiculous speeds instead of taking generations and generations, would have absurd energy demands.Also, if it in any way interacts with Coyote's equal-but-opposite system if may have unforseen and catastrophic consequences (think matter meeting anti-matter, or a positive and negative number cancelling out).I have an even more schizo theory though. They're said to be traveling to their new, etherless world in a "semi-metaphorical" state. I forsee this meaning that instead of actually traveling to the stars, their ships simply end up back on an Earth that has been drained of all etheric influence (a "dead" world, Loup would say), like a Planet of the Apes scenario.
>>153956467>ridiculous speedsDamn, missed my chance to say ludicrous speed.
>Tom Siddell, not-so-subtle horny ass freak, gets skeeved out by selfcest memes even though he's the one who write the Annies like they were gonna fuck>removes one of the most popular elements of his comic and started a passive aggressive fight with his own audience>now the comic is fucking dead cause he couldn't just roll with itThe absolute state.
>>153956467Also, even if it is 0.00001% is used up (of the energy that "keeps the world spinning" and may literally be made up of all its dead souls), that could represent a sizeable population of etheric creatures being consumed/destroyed. Loup seemed sure he or Coyote would be destroyed by it, and we have direct evidence of the fairies (who were doing calculations for the voyage or something) being killed by it or the distortion powering it. If it weren't for Kat's intervention after the first one died, anyway. How much will they be willing to sacrifice to escape the ether they despise so much? Think of Jeanne.Also, this is without anything unintentionally going wrong. Like, say, someone fucking with the distortion, or the actions of those godlike beings who are currently sustaining it.
>>153956864Let's be honest though, the comic is dead since the Distortion. One Annie didn't kill it and two Annies wouldn't have saved it.
>>153956467>I have an even more schizo theory though. They're said to be traveling to their new, etherless world in a "semi-metaphorical" state. I forsee this meaning that instead of actually traveling to the stars, their ships simply end up back on an Earth that has been drained of all etheric influence (a "dead" world, Loup would say), like a Planet of the Apes scenario.That would add necessary tension to the plot.
>>153947196https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tmd-ClpJxA
>>153955972That was very specific.
>>153956467>What do you base that on?The world loses only the ether that can't be collected. Powering their machine doesn't destroy ether, just like Annie doesn't destroy ether whenever she fires her laser. The only thing that destroys ether in their plan is the fact that a couple hundred, maybe a couple thousand people are leaving earth for good. If they die, their ether can't be collected. The ether that earth will lose in this is equal to the fraction of earth's population made up by the few court inhabitants that are leaving the planet.
>>153956904>two Annies wouldn't have saved it.It would've helped. Look at this shit. The bastard was absolutely mocking us.
>>153956904Two Annies would have made the ride a little less dull at least. The comic was already dull when they were introduced and they made it a lot less so while they were there.
>>153959335>powering their machine doesn't destroy etherIt explicitly does. And while they consider Zimmy to be an etheric "generator", we've seen the fairy's life being siphoned by her distortion. Remember the "power station" that drew ether from the water and removed it for mysterious purposes and how that concerned Reynard? Jones said Zimmy works the same way, "extracting" ether. And thanks to Tony we now know it's to burn it. She's not a generator, she's a siphon. Of the life force of the planet, it's like Mako energy from FF7.
>>153962591I should say that I don't think that normally the ether she draws is destroyed, it's as you describe, with etheric beings and people using it for "magic". But the Court is "burning it away" by disappating it into space, that's different.
>>153962591Moe moe~!
>>153956872>Think of JeanneThis is another time the Court not only were willing to sacrifice and goulishly enslave two people, including one of their own, but was doing actual damage to the ether to achieve their means.
>>153963206The arrow and Kat continuing to use it is something that still hasn't paid off fully.
>>153963226Y'know, it was unclear to me if she no longer needs to use the arrow at all, or she's just no longer "misusing" it by breaking contracts or treating living minds as objects that can be owned. Have we seen or heard about it since chapter 71?
>>153963383Not directly but the green cage she used to confine Loup was pretty suspicious.
