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Chapter 100: Page 48

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>>151173438 (OP)
>author's comments are back
Shut up, Tom.

>>151173438 (OP)
>quick, before she's cold

>>151173438 (OP)
I'll never forgive you, Tom. You can't distract me with Annie disrobing to reveal her sexy, sexy shoulders. Keep going though.

She's the woman who could have been like a mother to me!

>>151173438 (OP)
I approve of the physical contact between Kat and Annie

wait she's just gone like that with zero interaction or fanfare? really?

>>151173438 (OP)
Typical Annie, making another person's death all about herself.

Now cop a feel

>>151173438 (OP)
I... understand.

>dies offscreen
>gets sent to the afterlife in 1 page
>okay bye bye forever

Did Tom not like her or something?

>>151173572
Well she's not Kat so...

>>151173535
FUCKING APPARENTLY. I know we make jokes in the thread about "nothing happening" but godDAMN, Tom, this time really sucked - huge buildup and such a wet fart of a character departure, just killed off-screen. All that spooky horseshit about psychopomps and angels and Machine Gods for nothing, just waves her off into a white light. Shit got me heated. This sucks, man.

this does end with the witches and jack being brutally murdered right?

>>151173630
Hopefully not before they kill Kat.

Omegas feet! Omegas cute bare feet! Cute!

>>151173630
The way things have been going I'm fully expecting a "That's All, Folks!" page/chapter ending next update and for it to just end with no resolution

It's like a direct comparison of modern GC doing everything worse

>>151173681
this image gave me whiplash and made me remember they're supposed to sound british

>>151173664
>tank u 4 read my comic
>btw 3 weeks break :)
>next chapter is in the Zimmyverse where she's still just going to school with Coyote and Loup and has nothing to do with the immediate conflict

>>151173630
If Annie doesn't go fucking nuclear after all this we'll know that Zimmy truly lobotomized her.

>>151173681
So much sovl...

>>151173438 (OP)
If she doesn't wake up in the next panel as a fakeout I will drop a nuke on Tom's house.
This is a serious threat. I would get the authorities and the air defence involved if I were you, Tom.

>>151173438 (OP)
>oh no, she's dead, I guess that's sad, idk...

>>151173681
That's 500 pages too late. This is still modern GK. Old Gunnerkrigg had thick lines. The thinner the lines became, the worse the comic got.

>>151173681
this thread would hate this too if it happened now

you'd get one illiterate hater making the thread and then samefagging the first post with something negative and then everyone would step in line

>>151174021
Chapter 77 was when it all went wrong.

>>151174059
2 annies is where it all went wrong. 77 is just where it was clear shit was irrecoverable.

>>151174078
I liked two Annies. It's a fun way to force a character like Annie to finally work her shit out. Plus doing an evil clone plot where the evil clone turns out to be actually fine and sticks around felt appropriate for this comic.
Just a shame it ended the way it did and led to nothing other than the butchering of the whole Tony plot.

>>151174171
I liked two Annies but can accept them getting rejoined, the cop out was how it was done not that it happened.

>>151174201
This. Norn chapter is still uncontested peak of gunnershit mountain.

>>151173438 (OP)
I wonder how they'll dispose of the body?

Annie now is not the time to get naked.Your fashion sense sucks though the fuck is that pant.

>>151173438 (OP)
Even this reaction is retarded. A woman was just murdered in their house by a psychopathic killsquad that's still on the loose, and they're acting like it was grannie on her sickbed. Aw shucks, what are ya gonna do?

Fuck you, Tom. You are shit.

>>151174576
I was literally about to post this lmao. Someone they've known for a huge part of the comic is now a confirmed murderer, they just walked in on a fucking murder scene, watched her soul dance off into oblivion, and their reaction is as though they were already expecting her to die for some time and had largely come to terms with it. Compared to how the comic used to treat death this is so fucking bizarre.

>>151174689
M-maybe this means we can still get her back!
The court has a copy of Omega's brain and Kat still has that raven...

This shit is so bad it's sus and I really hope there is a twist at the end of the chapter.

>>151174576
>>151174689
>Someone they've known for a huge part of the comic is now a confirmed murderer,
Yeah I think that's what's bothering me the most actually. Even if Jack didn't do it himself here and it was one of the witches, he was still an accomplice and also orchestrated this thing. They should be freaking out at that fact alone and the fact that they're running around out there right now, and also losing it at the fact that they just saw someone fucking die. But they're just taking it slow. No big deal I guess. The fuck. I haven't actually been this upset at the comic since the Annies merged.

Her eyes are open

>>151174720
To be fair, they've seen plenty of deaths by now and neither of them actually liked Omega very much, but yeah, they should be more concerned with Jack and Jenny. Maybe not panicking, but at least frazzled or unsure of what to do, not calm and collected.

>>151173438 (OP)

What's wrong with Omega's eye in the last panel? That can't be where it would be placed with her head tilted at that angle, right? I predict this gets a redraw, like Annie's nose job.

>>151174746
Your eyes don't automatically close when you die.

>>151173438 (OP)
Is that her mouth or did they just leave her eyes open on the ground?

Pretty odd as most close them when they find a dead body.

>>151174720
>>151174747
They're in shock that Omega is actually dead. The events of the past few pages probably only took a minute or so of real time. Once they've finished paying their respects or making arrangements with the body they'll go back to planning what to do about Jack and Jenny's four emperors of darkness

>>151175363
Oh yeah, we all remember the scene in every slasher film where the protagonists take a moment of silence in the middle of the villians rampage just after he swung and missed at them.

>>151173438 (OP)
So, Annie doesn't understand.

>>151174201
>I liked two Annies but can accept them getting rejoined
I can't because they were explained as not being split in the first place.

>>151175577
Yeah does everyone just forget that the comic went out of its way to show that Annie was basically in some kind of parallel dimension or timeline? They weren't presented as "split" until Tom decided to "merge" them, it was one of the big issues people took with that chapter in the first place. It basically ran contrary to everything we'd learned about the two of them up to that point.

>>151175363
>they'll go back to planning what to do about Jack and Jenny
You misunderstand. My complaint isn't that their response isn't effective enough or not the best they can do to ensure their continued survival. My complaint is that their response isn't natural. I get that Tom's been trying to make Kat less and less human and Annie's just autistic, but that development of Kat away from humanity has been a constant issue for me in the comic. It doesn't feel like character development and instead like mischaracterization.
If other characters reacted more to it, possibly even confronted her, like Paz did in one of the only decent post-norns Kat chapters, it would be fine.

>>151174796
She's not dead, Jim.

>>151176099
We literally just saw her soul be spirited off.

>>151173438 (OP)
Of course you didn't get to know her, Annie. She DIDN'T FUCKING EXIST UNTIL TWENTY FUCKING MINUTES AGO. On the plus side, she didn't do anything or mean anything and had no real purpose in the plot so there wasn't actually anything to know.

Has Annie fucked herself yet?

>>151176203
based bot

>>151176203
Annie and Kat should both fuck themselves.

>>151176540
Kat should convince a nuperson to have her exact same body and use it to fuck herself?

>>151176540
Agreed. Mutual impregnation

>>151176577
Or she could just fuck her mini-me.

How long till jack kills Jimmy to keep zimmy from telling kat why she would want to kill zimmy?

>>151176581
But they don't have pepises

>>151177285
If the fanart can give one of the Annies a pepangus for no raisin it can give Kat a porgis too.

>>151177238
What's Eglamore got to do with this?

>>151177390
I meant zimmy but it autocorrected to jimmy

>>151176166
the robot brain has a neuron inprint its ok

>>151173438 (OP)
At this point I have completely forgotten why I read this webcomic. What is the point this is leading to that I'm supposed to look forward to? What do the characters care about that I'm supposed to care about? This somehow feels worse than finding out a webcomic died.

>>151177582
The main plot of the comic still seems to be ' will Annie ever have the sex?'

>introduces the most amazing sticc waifu you could ever imagine
>kills her off

>>151177582
At least Tom isn't as bad as hussie

>>151177699
Nobody's as bad as Hussie, that's a very low bar to clear.

>series has gone so shit that not even imaa is making any of his disgusting art anymore
Grim

>>151177582
I mean... you really should have found that point several years ago, man. It's clear as day that Tom has no idea what you're supposed to look forward to or what the characters care about, either, and he's absolutely just pulling random shit out of his ass as he goes along. It's such a meandering mess of complete fucking nonsense that there literally can't be any form of satisfying conclusion.

Bring Annie 2 back, have her, OG Annie, and Kat enter into a quasi-incestuous romantic polycule, have Zimmy contract dysentery and shit herself to death. There, everything tied up. And yeah, I get that only the yurifags and memesters get what they want but at least it would be some form of catharsis.

>>151174383
It's just a synth. Recycling seems prudent. Throw it back in rotation for the next bot. Maybe Boxbot?

>>151177285
Desert grassland whiptail lizard are all 100% genetically female and they reproduce by rubbing their cloacae on each other to induce parthenogenesis. So, it can work even if you don't have a benis. But hey, give them one, plenty of fan art has.

>>151178210
Well, at least it went to an actual post and not some GET thief script.

>>151178037
Whiptail lizards are also extremely susceptible to illnesses that generally end up wiping out huge portions of their population because making a copy of a copy of a copy tends to fuck up genetic diversity beyond repair. Parthenogenesis is intended to be a second chance to pass on your genes through normal male/female reproduction, not a means of reproduction itself.

>>151178323
Okay, not really my point in relation to a fetish post about two girls impregnating each other. I am aware. It's just a case of, in nature, a species (actually two) of lizard all reproduce by hot lesbian sex (if you're into reptiles). So you can handwave it for your fetish art.

>>151177699
>>151177720
Homestuck makes me feel angry
GunnerKrigg makes me feel apathy

>>151178360
Just Saiyan.

>>151174698
>>151177568
>The court has a copy of Omega's brain.
People keep thinking this is SOMA. Minds/souls aren't just information that's copied in the Gunnerkrigg-verse. Her new-person body or her computer side might have files and memories of hers, but Omega as a person is GONE.
>>151174834
Yeah, I was thinking the same. Especially since Annie is already giving her respects by covering up the wound on her stomach(?).

>>151174689
>>151174720
This reminds me, how did she die anyway? The witches roid out Jack with magic disintegrate-o-fists to take care of an awkward skinny british teen but Omega gets, what, choked out when she wasn't paying attention?

Please wait, omega.exe is rebooting.

>>151173438 (OP)

Sometimes a creator just makes that one particular mistake with a story which begins to kill interest.

>>151179704
Removing the second Annie?

>>151179727
Making kat gay

>>151179832
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz3OISxP-Iw

>>151179832
This, but not making Kat trying to awkwardly hit on clueless Annie.

>>151177582
You read it for Jones. Like I do.

>>151179601
No, she got the Jack Fisting Special too. Hence the smoke coming from her mid-section.

>>151180220
If you look at the 'smoke' it looks weirdly pixelated, I think that's not the effect of an attack, but the ether evaporating out of her.

>>151180279
it was a JAV fisting

>>151180325
Lewds when?

>>151180279
So she killed herself and blamed Jack?

>>151180393
Tactical self-disembodiment would be a nice twist.

>>151180220
>on screen jack misses all his hits and can't kill for shit
>off screen jack kills omega without having to destroy the house

>>151180279
It does match their ether colors. I just thought it was weird smoke because of bioflesh smoldering down there.

>>151173438 (OP)
>i didnt get a chance to know her
>she wasnt a bad person
She kidnapped your father you stupid bitch

>>151180435
To seduce him.

>>151180431 cont-
I looked up that scene where Annie could see the first New-Person who died. There was no ether smoke, but Kat did confirm her place as their creator/goddess directly after that, so maybe she sees it differently.
Also saw this page, and I guess the Arbiter is going to appear very soon.

>>151180393

I know it's not but if this was some fifth dimensional chess game played by Omega that would be amazing.

>>151180588
>You will not have access to the tools and skills afforded an afterlife guide
>I'll figure it out
And then she just kinda... did. Cool.

>>151180876
She still has to decide who is going to be the psychopomp for the new-people, and since Omega counted as one, she may have to decide right now.

>>151173438 (OP)
Why is Omega presented like she were maybe a bad person? Annie is the one fucking up here. Omega was 100% right about how Zimmy is better off now.

Annie and Kat just tangentially killed someone to save someone who didn't even need saving.

Omega, we should be reminded, spent her whole nightmare of a life serving humanity. And when she finally got some reprieve, she didn't just kill everyone who would return her to normal. She only wanted to buy herself some more time in vacation.

This page is so fucking stupid it's driving me mad. Literally is there anyone here who things Omega was bad?

>>151180435
She invited him to dinner.

>>151180588
Yeah, since the last one wasn't purely kat's responsibility, a psychopomp was able to take them and their essence did not languish, as was the case for a few seconds with Omega, is my guess. Also likely the reason she started rapidly forgetting things long before entering the ether.

>>151181371
Ethically it's pretty complicated actually. Most importantly, although Zimmy and Coyote are contained for the moment, Jerrek and Lana are trapped with them. Omega's motivations are reasonable and understandable, but her actions ultimately were not ethical. Annie and Kat are no better of course, especially Annie, who enabled Coyote to do all tgis crap in the first place.

>>151181457
>Jerrek and Lana are trapped
I don't think they want to leave

>>151182211
Anon, they are mindcontrolled to be background characters in a wandavision style fantasy world.

Was Tom worried the comic was getting too horny or something? Why spend years building up the ultimate (omega) waifu and then immediately kill her off unceremoniously?

>>151182764
She already had a husbando

>>151183144
Yeah but she never got to smash. She died a virgin.

What a disgrace.

Zimmy´s cult is a real threat.

>>151182483
You are projecting.
WandaVision was extra stupid.

Even so, they are being "mind controled" into the behavior they want anyway.
Eternal young love sounds so horrible, doesn't it?

>>151181457
>but her actions ultimately were not ethical.
They were ethical, though. Omega was preventing harm from coming to herself and Zimmy through Annie's misguided actions.

What is happening to Jarrek and Lana is that they are simply living a new life. The distinction between their old life and new life is completely arbitrary within the distortion. Once they express some desire to leave, then there is some argument to their duress. But as of right now, Jarrek and Lana are fine.

>>151180220
Hmm. I thought that was supposed to represent her ghost/soul/whatever but yeah I could see that being Jack's attack... but why not show it clearly instead of hiding it here and with Annie's shirt in the next strip? Seems weird to clearly demonstrate it earlier and try to downplay it now

>>151185879
New-peeps are supposedly as fleshy as humans, so it could be too gory for Tom to show.

>>151173438 (OP)
Gunnershit. Fail.

>>151184635
It was stupid because what wanda did was unambiguously evil but she wasn't treated that way in the end because it was really the darkhold that did it or whatever.
Zimmy has a very similar claim to victimhood as wanda and she's also unambiguously evil. Not just for imprisoning and enslaving Lana and Jerrek, but for doing whatever she did that she had Coyote wipe from her memory. Zimmy is evil and Tom clearly intends her to be evil, but just like with Coyote, he keeps forgetting to have other characters realize this.

at least threads survive more than 2hours now...

Kat should convert Omega's body into an Onahole for Tony. I mean they're good friends and deserves some relief

>>151174689
>>151174576
I genuinely would not go "Oh my god oh fuck oh fuck. How could this happen" if one of my friends just killed someone one day.

It'd be pretty weird to freak out that much. Like yeah It'd disturbe me but some huge reaction would really be baffling

>>151186810
>zimmy is evil
Tom keeps forgetting to show this, you mean.

>>151187331
That's pretty much what I said.

>>151187111
Lewds when?

>>151187118
That's because you're a sociopath, hoot hoot.

>>151181010
She watched Annie send Mort so she has an idea of how the process should look. And after rereading those interpreter ghost pages I think afterlife guide tools and skills would be stuff like teleportation, invisibility to non-etheric people, and knowing where all recently deceased have passed. That's a big one, all the other psychopomps know their quarry is dead and where to find them, but Kat didn't know Omega was dead until she saw her. If a bunch of new people die outside her immediate area Kat might never know, and their souls could suffer that fate worse than death thing. I still think Kat will probably keep escorting dead new people herself unless Annie ends up in a near death situation

Haha what if Tony is going to ask to 'examine' the body... Just as a joke lol.

>>151188785
If you think Loup wants Lana locked up in a cell while her mind is forced to participate in Zimmy's delusional fantasy, you are retarded.

>>151189223
Boxbot plz

>>151173626
You know what really irks me? The omega device is still functioning. Kat confirmed that to Annie's dad, Omega herself was just cut off from it.

So this means that EVERYTHING about Omega as a character was a complete waste of time. He defeat/death doesn't change the plans of the court at all, her being her own person doesn't change or affect anything, she never had a chance to impact anything or form meaningful character relationships, etc.

Her only two accomplishments were some lore dumps and filling up 2 years of time.

>>151187898
That is not what you said.

"Unambiguously evil" doesn't match with "the author hasn't shown us, or even any other in story characters, her being evil"

WandaVision was more retarded than evil. The incompetent writers wanted it to be evil and braindead audience accepted it.

>>151188785
And how the heck is the court at fault for literally ANY of this? They tried to stop Annie, but Coyote forced them to let her back in the forest, they told her not to trust Coyote, but she did, any bad thing that has happened in the comic was because Annie broke the rules, they tried to help Zimmy, too, they have no way of fighting Coyote or even Zimmy, who apparently has god-like powers, too. The only way the court could have prevented any of this would have been to kill Zimmy. I agree that the court ethically speaking has some kind of responsibility towards those they are leaving behind, but by no means are they the bad guys. At worst you could call them callous or cowardly, but that's it.
And the distortion's 100% Zimmy's responsibility. Have you even read the comic?

>>151188510
>If a bunch of new people die outside her immediate area Kat might never know, and their souls could suffer that fate worse than death thing. I still think Kat will probably keep escorting dead new people herself unless Annie ends up in a near death situation


Why is that a bad thing, we know the Ether destroys the soul to power itself. By all rights the Psychopomps are the ultimate evil of the setting. Course being a new people is a major downside over being a robot, which makes Kat the second worse being in the universe, she stole infinity from the robots.

>>151189297
Yup, classic Tom.
Court Annie, Forest Annie and Omega. Rest in piss, bozos, I guess.

>>151189304
Sending Zimmy to a rainforest where it rains 360 days a year was an option, I thought of 15 years ago. That would pretty much permanently deal with her.

>>151189303
Oh, I see!
No, in that case, he has shown it. Zimmy had her memory wiped because she didn't want to deal with the guilt over what she's done. What she's done hasn't been shown yet, but erasing the memory of it for your own comfort while others have to live with the actual consequences of it is pretty darn rotten. She's also incredibly abusive towards Gamma. Just because there are reasons Zimmy is the way she is doesn't mean she isn't still an awful person.
>>151189328
It's not normal rain, it has been processed by the power stations of the court. Normal rain wouldn't help Zimmy.

>>151189407
I don't think you know what evil means.

>>151189569
evil
/ˈiːvl/
adjective

profoundly immoral and wicked.

I think lying to people and intimidating them so that they don't talk to Gamma and not letting Gamma talk to others or even learn english so she couldn't even talk to others if she wanted is pretty profoundly immoral.

>>151189705
Intention is core to evil.

You haven't shown any intention on zimmy's part. She was compared to an overheating cpu in your example.

At best you/tim have shown she is dangerous unintentionally, and intentionally harsh to drive others away, to protect others, because she knows she's unintentionally dangerous.

Dangerous and evil are different catagories.

Even her current situation wasn't her intention, even if she is permitting it to continue.

Her wishing to forget, isn't inherently evil you autist.

>>151189705
Nta. You understand you are projecting about a tiny detail from years ago, which is the demonstration Tim hasn't shown to the general audience what you think he has.

>>151189705
>immoral == evil
Autism is a hell of a drug

>>151189802
My 'example' was for the rain thing. Read what I wrote. She is severely abusive to Gamma and has nurtured a codependent relationship for selfish reasons. It was ENTIRELY intended selfishly. Zimmy doesn't hit Gamma because she wants Gamma to be happy. That's insane.

>>151189819
>>151189802
>Not that anon
>tim
brother
>>151189888
...
...
It literally is, though?
'Evil' just means extreme immorality.

>>151189223
Zimmy rescued Lana from this jail-like situation, you retard.

>>151189917
Headcanon based on literally nothing.

>>151189906
The "immorality" you cite is circumstantial and not extreme

>>151189304
The court started all of this by trying to kill Coyote and use him as a fuel source. What the FUCK have you read the comic? Annie has nothing to do with it; if anything, Annie allowed the Court to get close to Loup.

Jesus its like no one understands the comic.

>>151189953
Shut the fuck up, projecting faggot. Is Lana still in a cell? No. She is now a normal schoolgirl living a normal life.

>>151189997
Sure, one can argue about the extremeness of it, and maybe I was a bit hyperbolic, but in my own sense of morality I'd define the totality of Zimmy's actions as we've seen them so far as evil. Where you draw that line may differ. Dunno what the heck you mean by circumstantial though.
>>151190010
This is too stupid for me to argue further.

>>151190010
>this by trying to kill Coyote and use him as a fuel source
I didn't think he noticed

>>151190061
>black and white thinking
>confusing extreme and fine
>emotional reaction to disagreement
For your own sake, please get diagnosed

I think this is it
After all these years I finally don't care at all anymore
I'm free
Goodbye.

Alright I'm gonna draw something with Jones in it to commiserate this nothing ever happening

>>151190420
Draw Jones getting plowed by a frustrated character asking why they can't cum while Jones replies "Because nothing ever happens". I'd normally say Annie but I feel like we get a lot of Jones X Annie art... although sometimes there's nothing wrong with the classics.

>>151190389
See you on monday!

>>151190420
Draw Annie and Kat's first kiss and Jones watching through a window.

>>151174576
>what are ya gonna do?
Retribution will be fire.