I don't think any of that is an issue. The teleporter not working properly is a slight bit contrived to explain Kat's absence from the situation, especially considering that the setup for this was the button that Annie should have pressed to prevent all of this, but it does also make sense in-universe.
Re-establishing what just happened is actually a pretty clever move by Tom here. It allows for this big event to sink in to a reader. Decompression is important in comics sometimes. If you were reading this normally, all in one go after it's been published, the events of last chapter would fly by very quickly and going from the normal world to the distortion would happen in the span of one page. You'd generally want to stretch that out a bit and there are more creative/interesting ways to do it than to relay what happened to another character, but Kat does need to know what happened, so there isn't any reason not to spend a few panels bringing her up to speed. If this wasn't happening it'd be worse in pretty much every way: Annie has a responsibility to tell Kat about Lana, Kat needs to know as much as she can about what happened and it helps the reader digest Lana's digestion (or rather, it establishes it as a major concern for the characters, since they didn't see that creepy page of Lana sitting somewhere. It helps reinforce the gravity of the situation.)
This is not a 24 page super hero comic, Tom has the luxury of spending time on things that matter and he's pretty good at pacing the comic. The pacing might be Tom's strongest point right now.
>the button that Annie should have pressed to prevent all of this
Realistically what would pressing the button have done? Loup wasn't the problem, Coyote was. And Loup is the strongest after Coyote, so he was best suited to stopping him or saving Lana. That he didn't being besides the point, he was pretty much her only hope. And Gamma and Zimmy's best hope as well. It only makes sense to consider pressing the button once Loup loses control over himself, and even then, why? Besides a meta knowledge that we suspect that this is what Coyote wants, Coyote is still the clear threat after Loup loses control. He's the one going after a god to start a fight, and ultimately finding Zimmy and Gamma as a target. Pressing the button incapacitates an ally we might suspect is unwittingly playing into what Coyote wants, but what needs to be incapacitated is Coyote.
And pressing the button also brings Kat to Coyote's attentions, and might even put the two directly into each other's paths. Why piss off your ally Loup and incapacitate the thing trying to stop Coyote?
Annie should have pressed the button even just out of a simple fear reaction the moment Coyote started bursting out of Loup.
If she didn't press it then, she should have pressed it once Coyote started getting angry, just on the off chance to contain him.
Then, she should have pressed it when Loup got angry, as she was trying to calm him down already, telling him not to pursue Coyote, so not pressing it went against her goals at that point in time.
Besides all of that I can promise you that Annie at no point during that event considered the repercussions of pressing the button and deemed it wise not to. She simply forgot, in her panic. Because Annie is unreasonably stupid, which is the only reason why the cage button is only a slight contrivance.
No, you seem to have misunderstood.
I said ANNIE should have pressed the button, because that's what ANNIE in that situation would have done, had she not had one of her sporadic lapses of judgement in favor of plot contrivance.
8 months ago
Anonymous
The fact that Tom tries to talk his way out of it by having a character say it wouldn't have worked anyway is fricking hilarious.
It's like he realized he fricked up just too late and decided to add in that bit of text to cover his ass.
8 months ago
Anonymous
No, that's not true. Kat can't use the cage NOW, because of the distortion. If Annie had pressed the button before the distortion, it would have presumably worked just fine.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Oh, right. I totally knew that and totally didn't mix up the timeline.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I like how you assume that something that lasted 2 pages means it lasted like 15 minutes in story life time. It really make your stupidity shine at its brightest
8 months ago
Anonymous
You aren't very bright, are you?
She had time to talk, she had time to press a button. Yes.
8 months ago
Anonymous
And now you are using the moronic "I namedrop the author he's le dumb because I could write better".
Frick, it's really just about your fragile ego, isn't it?
8 months ago
Anonymous
Let's not handwave away the thousands of examples of bad writing just because your feelings got hurt, shall we?
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Let's not handwave away the thousands of examples of bad writing just because your feelings got hurt, shall we?
keeping that one in green before you realise how stupid you just got and delete your post.
8 months ago
Anonymous
You're not seriously implying this comic has had none to few writing/continuity errors, are you?
8 months ago
Anonymous
Errors?
No, I don't think so.
Tom's been very good about that. Obviously, there's meaningless continuity errors in his artwork fairly often, like characters changing positions or colors changing or stuff like that, but flat-out errors in the writing? Can't really think of any.
Contrivances, sure, but no plot holes.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I'd give you examples, but you can't expect a dog to solve a jigsaw puzzle, now can you?
8 months ago
Anonymous
Okay.
8 months ago
Anonymous
There's a lot to criticise but I don't think outright plotholes are one, agreed. Annie being a tard is not a plothole.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Establish device that would solve the plot instantly >Character forgets it exists so plot can happen >Spend 3 pages explaining how now it works totally differently and can't do shit
Why introduce it in the first place if it's such a burden on the story?
Also >Recapping for other characters in-panel
Literally wasting space
Is it ironic that the one dude defending Tom's pacing did so in a needlessly long rant or just coincidental?
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Why introduce it in the first place if it's such a burden on the story?
Because it made for a big dramatic moment.
8 months ago
Anonymous
We may be reading different comics.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Annie locking up Loup when he had repented created conflict and that was good. Annie locking up Loup to prevent catastrophe would avoid conflict and that is bad. This is how Tom thinks about things.
8 months ago
Anonymous
see? You just com ethere with dumb "I WOULD HAVE DONE THIS", you can't fricking comprehend basic stories for teenater, at all moments you just talk about you and post some "epic memes" from your discord.
8 months ago
Anonymous
8 months ago
Anonymous
Like I said, this is not an action comic. This is a long-running character-driven coming of age comic. Establishing things that have very good reason to happen in-universe in a way we see characters' reactions to those events is not 'wasting space'.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Exposition the reader already knows is not wasting space!
Yes. It is.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>bleep bleep reality is inconvenient let me rewrite and meme that I won bleep bleep
8 months ago
Anonymous
UTTERLY mindbroken
8 months ago
Anonymous
Why would anyone repeat somethingtthey already know to someone who doesn't know that thing?
I'm a literal toddler!
8 months ago
Anonymous
>what the frick is a comic book? Gunnerkrigg is real life!
You ARE a literal toddler.
Kindergarten's hard as frick you fricking butthole >OK identify the basic compositional units of organized matter >Using only your eyes, classify wavelengths into specific categories >Here's a wild beast you've never met, identify its cry >Sit down and produce art, now. >Mandatory rest periods so that you don't get completely burned out from the toil >Breaking even the slightest rule results in extreme punishment
Never had it harder in school, college was a fricking breeze compared to kindergarten
She's basically wearing this, just a little more bland.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I remember Tom once saying he 'shops' for his characters, by looking through clothing catalogues and picking stuff they'd wear, so it's probably that exact one.
No shit? He's legitimately been one of my favorite smut artists for ages and I somehow never knew this and missed this GC stuff. That's crazy. Now I wanna comm him even more even though I doubt he'll ever open comms.
Oh dang! It was shared with me yesterday and I just assumed it was new. Sorry, hatebit, I don't have twitter, so I must have missed this when you first posted it! 🙁
>he ate lana
HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHA
This has potential.
Anyway, now that there is a robot inside Coyote, Kat can affect him.
Habsburgs looking ass
>Wasting all this time to remove the teleporter from the situation and re-exposit what the audience already knows
I don't think any of that is an issue. The teleporter not working properly is a slight bit contrived to explain Kat's absence from the situation, especially considering that the setup for this was the button that Annie should have pressed to prevent all of this, but it does also make sense in-universe.
Re-establishing what just happened is actually a pretty clever move by Tom here. It allows for this big event to sink in to a reader. Decompression is important in comics sometimes. If you were reading this normally, all in one go after it's been published, the events of last chapter would fly by very quickly and going from the normal world to the distortion would happen in the span of one page. You'd generally want to stretch that out a bit and there are more creative/interesting ways to do it than to relay what happened to another character, but Kat does need to know what happened, so there isn't any reason not to spend a few panels bringing her up to speed. If this wasn't happening it'd be worse in pretty much every way: Annie has a responsibility to tell Kat about Lana, Kat needs to know as much as she can about what happened and it helps the reader digest Lana's digestion (or rather, it establishes it as a major concern for the characters, since they didn't see that creepy page of Lana sitting somewhere. It helps reinforce the gravity of the situation.)
This is not a 24 page super hero comic, Tom has the luxury of spending time on things that matter and he's pretty good at pacing the comic. The pacing might be Tom's strongest point right now.
>the button that Annie should have pressed to prevent all of this
Realistically what would pressing the button have done? Loup wasn't the problem, Coyote was. And Loup is the strongest after Coyote, so he was best suited to stopping him or saving Lana. That he didn't being besides the point, he was pretty much her only hope. And Gamma and Zimmy's best hope as well. It only makes sense to consider pressing the button once Loup loses control over himself, and even then, why? Besides a meta knowledge that we suspect that this is what Coyote wants, Coyote is still the clear threat after Loup loses control. He's the one going after a god to start a fight, and ultimately finding Zimmy and Gamma as a target. Pressing the button incapacitates an ally we might suspect is unwittingly playing into what Coyote wants, but what needs to be incapacitated is Coyote.
And pressing the button also brings Kat to Coyote's attentions, and might even put the two directly into each other's paths. Why piss off your ally Loup and incapacitate the thing trying to stop Coyote?
Annie should have pressed the button even just out of a simple fear reaction the moment Coyote started bursting out of Loup.
If she didn't press it then, she should have pressed it once Coyote started getting angry, just on the off chance to contain him.
Then, she should have pressed it when Loup got angry, as she was trying to calm him down already, telling him not to pursue Coyote, so not pressing it went against her goals at that point in time.
Besides all of that I can promise you that Annie at no point during that event considered the repercussions of pressing the button and deemed it wise not to. She simply forgot, in her panic. Because Annie is unreasonably stupid, which is the only reason why the cage button is only a slight contrivance.
>omg I would have pushed that button and killed the jokers omg stories are so le dumb why I am not a billionaire.
No, you seem to have misunderstood.
I said ANNIE should have pressed the button, because that's what ANNIE in that situation would have done, had she not had one of her sporadic lapses of judgement in favor of plot contrivance.
The fact that Tom tries to talk his way out of it by having a character say it wouldn't have worked anyway is fricking hilarious.
It's like he realized he fricked up just too late and decided to add in that bit of text to cover his ass.
No, that's not true. Kat can't use the cage NOW, because of the distortion. If Annie had pressed the button before the distortion, it would have presumably worked just fine.
Oh, right. I totally knew that and totally didn't mix up the timeline.
I like how you assume that something that lasted 2 pages means it lasted like 15 minutes in story life time. It really make your stupidity shine at its brightest
You aren't very bright, are you?
She had time to talk, she had time to press a button. Yes.
And now you are using the moronic "I namedrop the author he's le dumb because I could write better".
Frick, it's really just about your fragile ego, isn't it?
Let's not handwave away the thousands of examples of bad writing just because your feelings got hurt, shall we?
>Let's not handwave away the thousands of examples of bad writing just because your feelings got hurt, shall we?
keeping that one in green before you realise how stupid you just got and delete your post.
You're not seriously implying this comic has had none to few writing/continuity errors, are you?
Errors?
No, I don't think so.
Tom's been very good about that. Obviously, there's meaningless continuity errors in his artwork fairly often, like characters changing positions or colors changing or stuff like that, but flat-out errors in the writing? Can't really think of any.
Contrivances, sure, but no plot holes.
I'd give you examples, but you can't expect a dog to solve a jigsaw puzzle, now can you?
Okay.
There's a lot to criticise but I don't think outright plotholes are one, agreed. Annie being a tard is not a plothole.
>Establish device that would solve the plot instantly
>Character forgets it exists so plot can happen
>Spend 3 pages explaining how now it works totally differently and can't do shit
Why introduce it in the first place if it's such a burden on the story?
Also
>Recapping for other characters in-panel
Literally wasting space
Is it ironic that the one dude defending Tom's pacing did so in a needlessly long rant or just coincidental?
>Why introduce it in the first place if it's such a burden on the story?
Because it made for a big dramatic moment.
We may be reading different comics.
Annie locking up Loup when he had repented created conflict and that was good. Annie locking up Loup to prevent catastrophe would avoid conflict and that is bad. This is how Tom thinks about things.
see? You just com ethere with dumb "I WOULD HAVE DONE THIS", you can't fricking comprehend basic stories for teenater, at all moments you just talk about you and post some "epic memes" from your discord.
Like I said, this is not an action comic. This is a long-running character-driven coming of age comic. Establishing things that have very good reason to happen in-universe in a way we see characters' reactions to those events is not 'wasting space'.
>Exposition the reader already knows is not wasting space!
Yes. It is.
>bleep bleep reality is inconvenient let me rewrite and meme that I won bleep bleep
UTTERLY mindbroken
Why would anyone repeat somethingtthey already know to someone who doesn't know that thing?
I'm a literal toddler!
>what the frick is a comic book? Gunnerkrigg is real life!
You ARE a literal toddler.
You say it yourself.
have a nice day moronic Annie hater
Too long; didn't read
>not doing easy reading
THIS is why you are still in kindergarten, jobless moron.
Kindergarten's hard as frick you fricking butthole
>OK identify the basic compositional units of organized matter
>Using only your eyes, classify wavelengths into specific categories
>Here's a wild beast you've never met, identify its cry
>Sit down and produce art, now.
>Mandatory rest periods so that you don't get completely burned out from the toil
>Breaking even the slightest rule results in extreme punishment
Never had it harder in school, college was a fricking breeze compared to kindergarten
lel
>OK identify the basic compositional units of organized matter
They made You identify atoms in kinder?
If I had the chance I would eat Lana too.
Lucky they didn't try to use the teleporter then
>Kat could have tried to teleport and end up splatted in pieces all over Annie
Damn Annie stop ruining the good things
Kat being increasingly careless with her body is pretty hot to be fair.
Exploding her head was chef's kiss.
Kat should have teleported.
That last panel is so fricking funny.
>sigh... somehow Coyote has returned
I HATE ANNIE'S WHITE SHIRT SO MUCH IT'S UNREAL WHY IS IT SO WHITE AND UGLY
I love it. She looks very elegant and mature, but not stuck up. Like a fun person to be around, which is a crazy thing to say about Annie.
There's literally no reason to ever wear a tight white shirt unless you plan to soak it in champagne and dance on the tables afterward.
>tight
It's a sweater, dude, what are you talking about?
>sweater
>doesn't even reach her belly button
She's basically wearing this, just a little more bland.
I remember Tom once saying he 'shops' for his characters, by looking through clothing catalogues and picking stuff they'd wear, so it's probably that exact one.
Isnt it just tucked into her skirt
Hard to say, I think it's cropped.
No, you're right, it's tucked. Clear on this page.
I like it because it shows off her breasts better than anything she's worn before.
Damn I didn't even know Hatebit ever drew Gunnerkrigg stuff, always wanted to comm him but I've never seen him offering comms.
Hate reads the comic.
No shit? He's legitimately been one of my favorite smut artists for ages and I somehow never knew this and missed this GC stuff. That's crazy. Now I wanna comm him even more even though I doubt he'll ever open comms.
New art:
https://twitter.com/h8bitx/status/1189460962274766849
(NSFW)
>Oct 30, 2019
Oh dang! It was shared with me yesterday and I just assumed it was new. Sorry, hatebit, I don't have twitter, so I must have missed this when you first posted it! 🙁
Will we end before One Piece gunnerbros?
Probably not.
I expect an ending around chapter 100, 110 at worst.
Giggity
So Imaa, what would you Say is the percentage of completion of your game so far?
69
Nice