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Gunnerkrigg status: Still rad!

So Jenny is either Up To Something, or she realized she messed up with the summoning location but decided to blame Annie since Jack was already mad at her. And with this comic I'd believe either.
 
I dunno, Annie has seemed a little off and too social/bubbly this chapter, and "Renard is busy" seemed weird. Someone is definitely Up To Something! Maybe this is Jenny pretending to be Annie, but that doesn't add up.
 
Ok yeah that's totally not Annie. Dollars to donuts that's Omega, trying to further turn the coven against Annie.
 
Huh, that makes a lot of sense. I guess reading GC only every few weeks makes me lose understanding of the characters, and how they would normally act.
 
Unless this is Annie's way to mess with the coven to turn them against Omega? More likely Kat's plan but hey why not. I'm glad I couldn't predict it, always nice to be surprised by this comic.

I do enjoy that Tony is still in fancy dinner clothes.
 
That would mean Annie was aware that Omega was influencing Jack, and thus Jenny and the coven, to begin with.

Not impossible, I suppose, if Jack picked up on Omega trying to manipulate him and somehow got in touch with Annie in a way Omega can't perceive. Though this probably means he used the coven as patsies, which Jenny surely won't like but probably isn't beyond Jack if it's to save Zimmy.

Orrrrr this is a totally separate plan to draw Omega out and Annie has no idea about Jack and the coven's plans. Awkward if so!
 
Somewhat related, but Jones doesn't have any special detection abilities, correct? I can't remember now if she could tell something was up when there were two Annies.

Someone told this Probably Annie where to find her and how to separate(?) her from the wall of light memories so there's that whole part too which I didn't really think about until now. Hmm.

Also I just realized Kat isn't present when introducing the New People to everyone. THAT is weird, right?

Edit: I also don't recall Annie being so much taller than Jones as shown here, could be a weird perspective thing or an error though. Maybe Parley then but dunno. I'm having too much fun thinking about this ha.
 
Tom did put “Did you know Jones is fairly short?” under the following comic. Not sure if that was a tongue in cheek reference to how short she was drawn or a misdirect or what though.
 
What are the odds Omega throws a conniption fit about being disabled again, Annie is all like you realize this is what you're doing to scores of people, empathy wins, and Kat just builds Omega a new body and gets her to flip sides
 
Thank goodness Annie had such a well communicated plan that everyone was in on.

Can't imagine how badly this might go if any of the principle actors aren't in the loop.
 
WisteriaHysteria said:
I don't feel comfortable with that first panel
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Same but glad he quickly reassured us the next day what's going on and I feel better. I hope this works out and still curious about the details and the effect on the coven.

I am nervous about the implications of Kat having access to "Omega's computer". I suspect this is where Kat's metal version in the ether comes from, that's the form she could have while connected to the computer, similar to the skeleton of Omega they previously showed.
 
I like that these past few comics are interesting from a sort of detective story "reveal" aspect, but is also two kids saying "I'm god!" and the other one says, "oh yeah? I'm god's god!"
 
I'm just waiting for the moment when Rosa and Zara simultaneously blink and remember 'oh wait this is exactly the thing we DON'T want to happen!'
 
This comes across as very similar to a villainous monologue, really.
 
I am confused (and have been for a while now) as to why people seem so sympathetic to the computer lady who runs around kidnapping people on a whim, which she was trying to do as this whole recent arc started, and in fact does SO OFTEN that Annie and Kat used that tendency as a lure to stop her from doing it anymore—and who has been doing so to maintain a distortion that is draining converted forest folk spirits so that she, personally, can keep her new body and freedom, at the expense of others'. Justifies it with regard to Zimmy's explicit torment with "she's just one person."

Like they are not cutting her off for no reason at all. Omega isn't evil and she faced a tough choice long ago, but she's very much causing problems with no real impetus to stop on her own and no exhibited willingness to do so, and there's little reason for Annie and Kat NOT to try and stop her. They tried talking it out first and Omega responded by kidnapping Tony as a hostage. Like. Yeah, they caught her in a trap. Because how else were they going to make her stop?
 
Sure, and that's fine, but some of the discussion surrounding this arc has been treating Annie and Kat as somehow villainous here. So I'm like, remember what this action is in response to.
 
Their actions might be warranted and necessary, but it doesn’t mean I gotta like it or root for it.

It’s also worth noting that the comic itself likes to intentionally question the character and actions of its own main characters. The things Kat is doing, and the way it’s being portrayed in particular is intentionally disturbing. I don’t see the problem with readers picking up on those cues and being uncomfortable with their actions because by my reading it’s literally what the author wants us to do.

And if that’s not the intention of the author? Then they’re kinda stupid.
 
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