Thread 151142347

Chapter 100: Page 47

https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/

>>151142347 (OP)
Tom, you rat bastard!

>>151142347 (OP)
Terrible

>>151142347 (OP)
Weren't we supposed to see a final respects video tape? Or something.

i cant believe anthony lost another 10/10 baddie. my man is fucking cursed.

>>151142390
That protocol gets ignored all the time. No one really cares.

>>151142390
Probably more of something if you catch them while they still remember anything.

Also I forget was it established Kat would be the one doing this for them, and not someone like Annie vollunteering to do it for Kat?

>>151142390
Tom is back who doesn't care about his story

>>151142415
Kat took on temporary responsibility for it until she figures out a better arrangement because she didn't want to force it on Annie, since she's been delaying and avoiding becoming a full time psychopomp for the entire comic

>>151142415
No kat explicitly did not choose a psychopomp for the new people which is why she is stuck doing it

>>151142415
Yes, Kat didn't make Annie her official psychopomp, because that would effectively kill Annie and put her into eternal servitude, something Annie already has signed up for once she dies, but Kat didn't want to fast track that.

>>151142441
Can Annie get out of psychopomp duty if she has a kid? Or would the responsibility be transferred onto her kid since it's technically the same soul?

>>151142466
How should I know?
We do know the psychopomps have had a special interest in her lineage, just like coyote. They tried to recruit Surma as well, but she refused.

Aw, bye Meg. :(

>>151142347 (OP)
This dialogue is calling upon cultural tropes we associate with the afterlife, but canonically she's leaving to get erased.
Kind of weird to have her wanting to meet old loved ones and craving some peace when she's not getting any of that.

>>151142577
It's nicer to make her think that way in the moment, though. If she's erased either way, no reason to make the experience traumatic for everyone involved.

>>151142577
That's probably why kat is hesitating saying where the light is

>>151142347 (OP)
Huh. So Tom really did kill Omega permanently. And here I thought she was going to stick around as a sassy neet ghost before getting her body back. Whatever. You Kat-Will-Die people will have to pay up.

>>151142347 (OP)
>gee how is kat going to deal with having to guide people to the afterlife on her own
>she just does lmao because she's kat
TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

>>151142347 (OP)
Kat does it instantly without struggle. Of course. Like everything else.

>>151142636
Kat will die. Maybe not in this chapter, but soon.

>>151142657
Annie did it when she was like 5 years old. Guiding someone to the afterlife is clearly not difficult. It's about as difficult as taking a grandma across the road.

>>151142636
I don't think anyone had any real hope that Tom would allow something to happen. We simply hoped it would.

she was a normal human I hope Kat get SUED for this illegal BLUNDER

>>151142665
>KAT WILL DIE
>with the heat death of the universe

>>151142674
come on Kat isn't even supposed to see 99% of the supernatural things.

>>151142619
>If she's erased either way
Why would this be the case? It's a bad system that calls out for optimization. And look, a machine god is currently rising.

>>151142688
She does, now. Given that low poly Kat can act at computing speeds, we shouldn't need to be shown her. It should just be implied that Kat is able to see the ether at least as well as Annie can whenever she wants to.

>>151142347 (OP)
Well. That was unceremonious.

>Tom: Oh shit, the readers like her too much. I gotta bullshit a way to write her out NOW.

>>151142698
It has to be that way, because that's how the gods exist in the first place. No god is above the natural phenomenon of the ether.

>>151142717
This anon will never touch royalty.

Damn Tony is never getting a new wife.


So do Kat and Annie just have to kill Jack now?

>>151142347 (OP)
>Omega is hastily written out, denying us so much as a chapter of fun interactions with the other characters after seemingly joining them
Lame and gay. RIP in piece, Omega, you sexy clairvoyant antelope.

>>151142767
No fun allowed.

Alright faggots, reset the counter till Kat's communicating in semaphore again.

Kat made her mortal in the first place she better show some guilt.

omega bump

>>151142347 (OP)
Lol, she came and went.

How incredibly fucking stupid.

>>151142347 (OP)
>I have to go now. My husband needs me.

lame, she left before even getting good r34 of her

>>151143669
Gunnerkrigg court doesn't get r34 anymore.

>>151142347 (OP)
So Omega gets hyped for half the series.
Becomes a new-man.
Enjoys manipulating the big cataclysm that Coyote causes.
Kidnaps a few adults to party with.
Then gets tricked by a couple of Nancy Drews into losing her connection to omnipresense, leaving her to lounge around as a post college unemployeed loser.
All to get killed off screen MAYBE by the person we're blaming.

>>151143540

She should have known better.
its No Nut November.

This is fucking bullshit

>>151143681
It does sometimes, but it's always spiteful fetish shit, drawn by a psycho.

at least she went barefoot

This is so beyond retarded. I'm not even going to waste time with clever biting insults for Tom anymore. It's just fucking bad. Fuck this.

>>151143693
Sorry but these random witches we met 5 second ago are your new antagonist now

it could be funny is she just rand back to reality saying that she's so NOT doing that, but that's no the tone of the chapter I guess.

It's the Annies all over again.

My boredom is immeasurable
And my day is ruined

There are so, so, so, so, SO many things he could have done that would have been better and more interesting than this. So many potential ideas and plotlines and symbioses just thrown in the trash.

>>151142759
Considering that the court casually kills or does worse than death to people so casually "for the needs of many", I wonder what they have in reserve for when they have someone who would warrant actual execution, especially when it is murder carried through supernatural and scientifically unproven methods.
Eglamore is going to get his old master's books and teach Georgie how to hang, draw and quarter to the court's standards.
Where are the black people who supposedly keep a watching eye so we don't have a situation equivalent to a rogue wizard roofying up students in Hogwarts?

It would be funny if this killed the Omega device and made half the court collapse inside the distorsion.
but somehow I have the feeling the secret will lead to a "it was a good deed all along" and nobody will regret anything once the misunderstanding is left.

>>151144182
The Court pretty much gave up on maintaining Gunnerkrigg, and are instead focused on their interstellar muggle 'ark' thing.
They don't give a singular shit about the magical populace being drained to death or killing eachother.

>>151143753
I was surprised to see her wearing socks before. Tom's been holding his urges back for a while.

>>151142688
>in Kat's mind, this whole process is literally dragging and dropping a file named "omega.dat" to a Recycle Bin icon, and emptying it

>>151144270
Antimony Stabnite Carver, do your thing.
Remember, Coyote's Tooth goes in, guts come out.
Ask Kat to fabricate a Brazen Bull for no particular reason.
Tell the robots they sinned against God and have the seraphs mummy wrap them in that anti-etheric duct tape they got.
Turn them into boxbots.

>>151144508
I wonder if she's aware of what people think of Kat's etheric form since Omega mentioned people finding her scary.
Like for Kat, Mort (for some reason at least in flashbacks) and most of new people (presumably), the ether looks like either plain or goofy, with the exception of the bug psychopomp for some reason.
I think Tom simply didn't established that back then or forgot that detail for a quick gag.

>>151142347 (OP)
This feels like an insult

>>151142577
>she's leaving to get erased.
when was this established? My memory of the older chapters is a bit spotty

>>151144182
>>151144270
Court has not killed anyone for hundreds of years. In fact it whole plan is to escape to so it does not have to hurt anyone. Leaving the entire city and forest, to do whatever.

>>151143693
The important part of Omega is still around, there's no real need for the rest of her.

>>151144644
It been established that the soul gets destroyed to power the Ether.

So their are two options either the soul is just a false illusion created by the Ether, and everybody and everything is just robots with no existence beyond their one life. Or the Ether is is destroying your eternal existence to power itself

And people still think that the court escaping the Ether is somehow a bad thing.

>>151143669
There's a pic by Sparrow of her and Tony.

>>151144644
There's still stuff we don't know. When a soul is guided to the afterlife they become part of the ether, the fabric that keeps the dead universe alive. But there's a lot of bureaucracy around souls, psychopomps have disputes over claims and ownership that don't make any sense if the soul is just "deleted" a few moments later.

>>151142466
It's ok, annie has two souls now. Which is quite an accomplishment for a ginger.

>>151145015
>becomes part of the ether
>the distortion is like 50% ether
>The white light disapear and Omega's soul is still there with a mail in her hands from the ROTD saying that they are working on the question

>>151144706
It's not destroyed, it joins the ether and becomes part of the machine that shapes the world. Because the minds of those who believe join the ether you can assume that those who believe the same thing create their own ether paradise.

Wait. That's it?

>>151145151
Their are established afterlifes created by the Ether in GK. Joining the Ether explicitly is the final destination of the soul after they are done with the existence. Where the soul gets destroyed to power the mass illusion that th ether is.

>People love the two Annies, a new addition to the comic
>Tom forcibly merges them out of nowhere with the excuse that the planned ending is impossible with them... somehow.
>People love Lana, a new addition to the comic
>Tom has her eaten alive
>People love Omega, a new addition to the comic
>She's killed off-screen just to have us watch her soul be obliterated
Does
Does Tom just hate his audience or something
Why does it keep happening

>>151145576
it's such fucking garbage

>>151145576
I guess he just likes fucking with waifu-fags

I... what? She's just gone? Huh? How long was she in the comic again?

>>151145797
It doesn't even have a thing to do with "waifu" shit. Omega was an interesting character and there were so many possible avenues to explore with her history and what, if anything, remained of her abilities, and even if not the fact that she was a new person living entity inside a magical space while still related in some way to the technosphere and presumably there's still the remainder of her "machine" somewhere and- NOPE, it's over, done, forgotten in two pages, swept under the rug now just forget she ever existed. Ha ha off to the ether woopsie! Fuck this garbage.

Even IF something like this were a reasonably story development to happen, the pacing in this is always just a complete mess. It's page after page, chapter after chapter of nothing, then WOOSH "something happens" and it's too much too soon with no time to narratively settle in and then it's over and gone and on to the next year of agonizingly dull nonsense. FUCK I am literally mad at how bad a writer Tom is.

>>151145576
>with the excuse that the planned ending is impossible with them... somehow.
I'm still calling bullshit on this. He has complete control over the story, he can alter the ending to allow for both of them. And even then it's seriously dubious just what about the ending inherently prevents there from being two Annies. I think he just saw people thirsting over them and got uncomfortable.

>>151146029
thats my take on it. you take this character with a bunch of history and just throw her away. this author is a shitty writer

Has Annie fucked herself yet?

>>151146031
At the very least the ending of the dual Annies arc could have been done with at least a bare minimum amount of story arc conclusion. He could have kept it going for as long as was fitting to draw out some kind of satisfying climax to a genuine conflict that benefited from their unique circumstances. Instead, no, it JUST. FUCKING. ENDED.

How is he so aggressively, actively BAD at this? He's not terrible at STARTING any of these plot threads or devices. He's not bad at character design, he's not bad at communicating a personality, he's not too shabby at world building even if there are a lot of gaps it would be nice to fill in, I'll even be so generous as to say he's not bad at setting up tension but he JUST CAN'T SEAL THE FUCKING DEAL and come up with any sort of genuine dramatic conflict, trial, and resolution. What he resolves every storyline with is not bad, is not even mediocre, it is literal anti-storytelling. I cannot fathom anyone ever possibly doing that this badly, and this consistently, by accident.

Maybe it's some witches shenanigans and she's not actually (or fully) dead.

Otherwise, yeah, low blow Tom.
Low blow.

>>151146165
She's going into the Ether, which is as final as it gets in this comic. This is empty the recycle bin, no undo tier.

The one and only thing that would save this comic now is if the next page is Omega inside the ether but she's not getting deleted and is instead doing pic related. That's it. That's the only thing that could bring this back from the brink.

>>151144644
She is joining back joining back the Ether. It's really more like joining the allspark, actually.

>>151144681
Oh yes, they're so considerate. Taking only the people they want with them, and leaving the rest to "do whatever they want" whilst trapped in a disaster zone.

>>151142347 (OP)
This is kinda a far cry from the way death was portrayed earlier in the comic, as a sort of respite.

The Ether was creepy here. It didn't even give Omega time to reconcile with her death. The Ether started eating at Omega nearly instantly and manipulated her memories like some HYPNOFAG snake vore monster so she would willingly feed herself to it.

This page made me slightly more afraid to die than usual, Tom kinda a jerk here

>>151144681
What the heckies are you talking about? The court tried to kill Coyote not that long ago. Jenny and her group have clearly killed before. Eggs was prepared to kill on many occasions. Jones even seems like an implicit threat to the Foley kids.

There is no way they were going to let Omega live after their space trip, Zimmy too.

I don't think Gunnerkrigg Court is some grimdark le secret evil place, but they clearly don't care if some people live or die. And they are clearly willing to kill if its in their best interest.

>>151147007
Coyote is not real

The whole point of the court leaving is they are beyond the Ether influence. What where Omega'a ablity base on, the Ether. So she would be irrilvent. Not even counting the fact they have already replicated Omega's ablitites with pure mathematics.

>>151147110
I mean, you saying coyote is not real, then talking about the ethers' influence is kinda contradictory. Though if you mean, like if they got far enough away from earth that Coyote would lose meaning as a concept and therefore not be real, I kinda understand.

>>151147110
They need the ether to travel "metaphoricaly" in the first fucking place.

They can't escape the ether, and I don't even know why they want to.

>>151147302
their whole plan is ultra sus if you think about it. Normally, if this wasnt Gunnerkrig Court. You'd know they would need to blow up earth after leaving for their plan to be successful.

>>151147302
The Court believe in pure, predictable science, and because Ether stuff doesn't follow that science, they want to be rid of it and go to a universe that has no ether.
It's petty and contradictory as fuck, but they think they're the 'grown ups' who know better than all the silly magic people, and will do whatever they want.

>>151146937
>old Gunnerkrigg
>Annie mercifully takes you into the ether after comforting you after your traumatic death. The ether is shown as important to life and going into it was something you had to accept for yourself.
>New Gunnerkrigg
>Kat yeets you into the ether after she killed you. The ether is a hungry, you will be winked out of existence as the punchline to the joke that is your life and your spiritual remains will be used as fuel.

>>151147641
I used to think this comic was some sort of allegory for a brain/mind, with the characters ideas, and the divide the literal bridge between brain hemispheres, but if I'm supposed to take this shit seriously...

In a world with direct access to magic and direct access to the gods no one would be trying to fundamentaly get rid of it. How many irl governments are trying to get rid of electrons? Thats the analogy, It's fucking retarded. Any group with any political power trying to do that, would lose all it's political power immediately.

>>151142347 (OP)
>no chapter of bringing Omega into the ether
>she's just gone like that in 1 page
What the fuck

>>151148362
Your not getting it the Court has did studied and tried to get magic to work. It not possible the Ether is based upon illusion IE if you understand it, its not Ether based. Nobody can replicate or understand or utilize Ether based stuff, it a fundementally locked system that requires inequality.

Sure it great if your on the top able to warp reality to your whim, but what about 99.9999999999999999999999% of everybody else do you think they like the thought that their continued existence, and life exists only at your whim to allow it to continue existing. What happen the masses when the people on top decide they should stop existing, well they all die.

The idea of equity which is what the court was founded upon, is fundamentally impossible alongside something like the Ether.

>>151148362
I don't see the connection with politics or elections, but I agree, it's weird that they're trying to deny an essential element of their world, just because they can't define it.
I kinda hope they do succeed in going to that ether-free universe, just to see what happens the moment somebody dies. Are they going to be stuck as ghosts forever, or go straight into oblivion, or even jumpstart a whole new ether that ruins the whole point of their trip?

>>151148727
Did you not read the comic, the Ether prevents the court from fully understanding reality.

Once the court escape the Ether it will be able to figure out all the fundamental laws of reality. Then they can do anything as they will be able to create a new Ether fully understood from the outset with repeatable results anybody can use.

>>151148214
Tom clearly needs to replay Majora's Mask.

>>151142638
I think the problem with her doing it isn't that it's hard to do but that she can't necessarily be there in a timely fashion every time a new person dies, and if she's not they might be fucked

>>151145576
Lana is still alive though and having a fun school life in Zimmy's fantasy land

>>151145576
I unironically think the poor reception to the Norns chapter broke something in Tom. He talked about how excited he was to finally post a chapter he'd been planning since the beginning of the comic, and the almost universal reaction was that it was quite possibly the worst chapter in the entire comic. Ever since then the comic's not felt quite the same and we keep having newly-introduced and liked characters getting killed.

>>151149230
Was it received badly outside of /co/? I don't look at anything else

>>151149241
The forums didn't like it either.

>>151149230
What was the Norns chapter? I barely remember anything from more than a year ago.

>>151149230
>>151149241
Reminds me of how Tom spent years setting up the whole "Tony isn't actually evil" bit, and the fandom flat out rejected it. It just doesn't pay for him to take chances.

>>151144644
It is rejoining the lifestream.
Energy from the ether is spent to make souls in the first place.

>>151148727
Not elections, electrons, the things in atoms.

>>151149331
That tells you how much happened in it (nothing). But it was the culmination of what should have been a significant story moment.

The story went to shit when MUH ETHER-FREE WORLD was the reveal. Things were so much more interesting when there were dramatis personae doing suspicious things all over the court during its long history. Remember that Steadman fellow? The headmaster? All of these things became non-entities. It's bizarre how much just evaporated from the story. Like one little offhand comment about what the court's true master plan they were working on offscreen and it's the excuse to never show any character's face ever again. Annie and pals are just running around like it's recess and all the teachers went home. Surely she and Kat are not the only ones there with parents. There's no mystery or threat from anyone with specific motivations or goals other than whatever Coyote's stupid nonsense in that has long since ceased to be interesting. We're inside an "etheric distortion" that barely feels like one, if anything it just makes the court as a location that much less interesting and unique. We went from baldie dying to a spider to everyone just kind of hanging out doing their own thing in their various clubhouses like it's Saved by the Bell or Degrassi. Except without any of the actual teen drama/interactions to go along with it. It feels like the story itself just forgets they're supposed to be inside the distortion most of the time so there's no visible effect on anything. There was something about Annie punting a Coyote-gopher into the stratosphere in a virtual desert of the mind, now people just kinda walk around the "campus" or whatever like it's no big deal. I hate this all so much. What's wrong with him?

>>151149331
There was a long running mystery of the mechanical birds and he set up a potential conflict that could happen in the future. In the very next chapter, he completely deflated it.

good job killing the one interesting character. I'll see you guys later.

>>151150977
This page is also retarded, it could be a bootstrap paradox that has no beginning. Has kat never watched Bill and Ted?
Or hell, harry potter book 3.

>>151148794
Growing up and getting disillusioned by reality is allowed in fiction, anon.

>>151151158
Yeah, same.

>>151150977
Did he really set up that dumb bird as a time travel device all those years ago? I'm not sure if yes or no is the worse answer.

>>151152113
He set up the gods as being retroactive existences. As on coyote was only born once enough myths about him existed, but he retroactively became the one that put the stars in the sky because the myths say he did. Jones says the stars were ALWAYS in the sky since she appeared.
So before the norns arx we all assumed the tiktoks were a retroactive change to the unverse caused by kat becoming robogod.
But then tom went "nah, regular time travel"

>>151150977
>>151152285
idk, this was kind of a great moment to me. this was more the payoff of months of Kat being crazy after finding out about all Annies being shifted from the Arbiter.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if the very first Kat to ever exist was the one that broke time and got a visit from the Norns, and perhaps working together they figured out that saving this one girl Annie would fix everything

>>151151834
Shit man she's a gamer, you'd think she'd at least have played Ocarina of Time.

That's it! I'm going to make my own comic! With double Annies and Omega! In fact, forget the comic!

>>151151898
it's more just a general decay of society. Death isn't melodramatic anymore. Britain is a shithoile. When you die, people videotape it with smartphones, then laugh at the way you bled.

not even tom is immune to cultural shift

>>151151898
Did you respond to the correct post?
I was just making a half-joke that Tom should start aping Majora's Mask for the 'psychopomp leading a spirit to the afterlife" aspect of GC, because that's sort of what Link does in the game.

>>151153603
man MM had so many feels moments. That one was one of the big ones.

DAOOTS

>>151149937
The only meaningful effect of distortion is that characters can now fast travel.

It's the sort of bullshit you might make up to explain it if this were a video game

Wait, Omegas dead now? Wasnt she still doing stuff?

>>151155806
Yeah she was doing Tony.

>>151152285
>we all assumed
No "we" did not. Speak only for yourself.

>>151155975
I know of at least 3 other anons that all ascribed to the retroactive creation theory. So yes, we.

>>151156366
No, not "we". Your personal headcanon is not a "we" moment.

>>151156576
No, i think you are just a retard that is upset other people had cool ideas.

>>151156613
Keep crying, retard. Nobody cares about your pet headcanon.

>>151142350
Watch your language

>>151142365
rude

looks like GK, without being as good as it used to be, can still make people react strongly to single page event. Now to think, will people react more if this stays like that, or if the end of the chapter still bring her back for some reason.

>>151146031
That makes sense. Reynard has one cock and the other Anne would get jealous when it's not in her.

>>151149210
next page: omega shows up in zimmy land

>>151146031
The actual worst thing about this reasoning is that it's basically hard confirmation that Tom had originally intended for them to be a permanent addition, even if his excuse is bullshit. We were deprived of a world where the two Annies were permanent.

Tom says no one on his show can be hotter than Annie.

>>151159394
Making up a reason contrary to the author's own statement on the matter isn't a "hard confirmation" it's just your head canon.

>>151157935
Well, "Omega" is dead, but "Omega" still "lives."
This was just the partition Kat separated from the Omega Device.

>>151161370
He literally said they didn't fit the ending. That's not "making up a reason" that was his own stated words in the livestream. Whatever the reason is that he got rid of them, it's hard confirmation that they were intended to stick around, because otherwise he wouldn't have mentioned that the reason he got rid of them was because they didn't fit the ending. Get better reading comprehension.

>>151162017
Tom always knew what his ending was, they were never intended to be permanent. He just thought he could figure out a way to get rid of them as easily as he introduced them.

>>151153603
Yes, meant to reply top the post you replied to.

>>151158026
This. I still believe in the Rey x Annie endgame.