>>62472 Previous thread.
Fixed the spoiler mistake.
what a nice peptalk, paz
>>79799Paz, you awesome.>>79800Ooo, that's cool!
>I-I could never do that!I'm looking forward to delicious irony.
>>79842I hope you're right about that. Fine, I'm a misanthropic bastard etc., but if the true point of this story segment turns out to be "Things are better than you think! You must keep a positive attitude", I'll be kind of let down. But oh well!
>>79866I think the moral is more along the lines of "just because the system sucks is no excuse to be a pessimistic donothing that takes potshots at people who try to do good"
>>79945That's a valid point, but Kat's going through an interesting moral slump here--and I don't want it concluded too quickly, or with any moral at all. It's too simple, too pat. I'd like to see her driven and working towards goals, but a little more wary than she was before.
>>79799There is no such thing as a beautiful pigeon.
>Have you had any interesting dreams recently?>Yes. My dad found some strange alcohol in a series of interconnecting tubes that screw together and sold the contents to a Chinese guy but demanded payment in the form of a scrap of paper with "Ironman" written on it many times. I figured it was some Inception shit going on.
>>80033Well done. I haven't laughed that hard for a while.
>>80110>My dad found some strange alcohol
>>80110What? Would I get this if I read the comic?
>>80144its just a weird dream mang
>>80149But did it really happen or was it said in the comic?
>>80150dude who makes the comic has a formspring where ppl ask him questions
>>80151Ah
>>80152but feel free to give the comic a shot too
>Oh!
>>80448Did Kat just get John Stewart-vision?
"KAT...what have you done!?""I made him..better"
>>80448Wow, someone on regular /co/ totally called that the pidgeons organic structures would help inspire Kat in her robotics work like, a whole week ago.
I really like that fifth panel.
"I have it! I'm going to build pigeons! Flocks and flocks of robotic pigeons, that will blacken the skies with my vengeance and crap greek fire all over the Court! Paz, thank you SO MUCH!"
So Paz is the student who can talk to animals. That makes her work double creepy really.
>>80466It really does, unless mice are just too simple-minded to formulate or ask any questions. I have no strong feelings about animal testing. But the minute mice start saying stuff like "Other mice get to do the maze and the cheese...I don't like the needles, they hurt and the stuff in them makes me bite myself," that's when I hang up my apron, go home and drink myself into a stupor.
"I'D KILL A KITTEN TO SAVE A HUMAN BEING"
>>80466That's kinda already been explained. The Court's not going to halt testing, but Paz can at least make it better for the mice, so she does what she can within her abilities. It might be easier for her to simply shut out the problem, or oppose it from without, but she's opting to try and better the situation from within. If anything, the fact that she can communicate with animals means she takes all this more personally because she understands them in a way most other people can't.
Thats a very happy lightbulb.>>80539Maybe she can talk to them, but they only have to say what we normally would assume mice have to say with their intelligence.Sort of like talking dogs that just go "Hey!"
Anything that grants sentience to things that normally don't have it and then plonks them back into a realistic world is incredibly dystopian.Yes I watched Toy Story 3 last night. I'm still thinking through the implications.
>>80826paz isnt granting sentience, just communicatingor is this more an issue with the uh setting's choice to give small animals the ability to have thoughts coherent enough to be communicated
>>80829Well, 'coherent' doesn't automatically mean 'intelligent'. Something like "hungry, give food" is understandable, but not especially advanced.
>>80830
>>80779That's Kat's symbol, just like the Antimony symbol is Annie's. You can see it on the second and third treatises.http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=295http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=560
"DOC-TOR PAZ"NO "DEE-COMM-ISH" WE3.
>This is the only Gunnerkrigg fanfic I will readShould we be so lucky?
>>8082yes I meant the setting. Toy story or Gunnerkrigg or any such mileu where things are more or less like reality but with extra sentients. It's fucking terrible, really. Real reality is bad enough
>>80873Someone write it.
>>80875animals can already feel pain in real life mang
>>80873
>>81097About time someone did some sexy Bowhite fanart.In fact, there's a lack of Bobwhite fanart in general.
>>81156Speaking of Bobwhite in a Gunnerkrigg thread, anyone notice anything in the first panel?
>>81175Annie's plushie!Before being possessed by Reynardine.
Dang it Bobby.
>>81554Too bad Bobby isn't going to spill the beans about why the bots call her an "angel".
>>81091>animals can already feel pain in real life mangWhich is why I said "real reality is bad enough"
We have Paz's last name.
>>82355Oh poo. I like her longer hairstyle.Well at least she seems to be getting back to her old self.
>>82355Andrei would be pleased with Kat's short hair.>>82356I liked her longer hair too, but her short hair is also nice.
>>82356I liked her long hair, too. But, the author has given us a personality trait in exchange for it; we now know that when Kat lets her hair grow out, she's upset and depressed.
Hmm... No update yet.
And now we have an origin story.
>>83147Look, someone has to say it, so I'll say it.Remember when Calvin found the little baby raccoon?Don't get your hopes up, is all I'm sayin'.
>>83148But we already see city face alive and well.
>It was City Face all along!
Does this mean that it is now canon that Zimmy talks to pidgeons?
Aww I thought Kat looked pretty with the long hair :(Oh well, City Face makes everything better!
City Face is the best name.
>>83137Oh Kat. :3Also, she looks more grown up.>>83160That always has been canon.
Aaaaand chapter's over.
>>83979Don't get me wrong, I love this comic to death, but man, what a non-event of a chapter.
I thought this chapter would be more dark than I expected. Maybe this is just a cool-down chapter after seeing THIS?
>>83979
Oh guys, haven't you ever heard of the calm before the storm? With everything nice and quiet and going good, something is about to blow up.
>>84120ha ha yeah right
>>84120What about the calm after the storm?
I'd like something with Parley and Smitty next chapter. Haven't seen them in a while.
>>84120Haven't you learned? There are no storms in this comic.Shit is perpetually unreal.
>>84382As much as I love those two, I'm dying to know to what the Suicide Fairies are up.No pun intended there.
Bonus page is a super fun page about pigeons! Show your friends!
>>84574That page was informative and cheery until that last bit which was a glimpse into the terrifying madness that lies at the center of Mr. Siddel.
>>84594I know, isn't it great?
Hey, it's Jeanne!
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>>85137Shit has a certain probability of being about to get real. Maybe.
>>85164At least a 70/30 chance.
>>85192That's in favor of it not getting real right?
>>85164I hope so.
Is this stuff just as confusing when you're into it? Because I used to read this but I'm not sure if I should catch up or not.
>>85207Re-reading usually clears up a lot of confusion.
Time for a fan art dump.
This artist really likes Parley.Who can blame him?
>>86236Merge and form Devastator!
>>85137Looks kind of like Aisling.
>>86233Well, it's MK.No one will blame him.
>>85154>(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) :[ im sure it was meant in jest :[
Model /b/, yes?
Crazy theory time!At the beginning I though Annie was practicing with the blinker, but after seen better the page I was wondering: does the stone is being "called" by it's original owner?
>>86294Things are gonna get crazy.
>>86294Students aren't really allowed to exit the Court so she has probably thrown the stone as a way to scout ahead or get her aether spirit there.She is going to deal with the non-sucky ghost this chapter.
;_;
>>86278Oh, I larfed.
>>86302Dammit Red!
Sweet callback!
>>86840Coyote taught her how to move things with her spirit. Can't she drop it over the edge herself?
>>86840DAT ART EVOLUTION.