Gunnerkrigg Court

[Ed]

Maybe Annie told someone about coyote's tooth while she was in the forest.

I mean she has the ring of teeth on her hand and everything.

[chimericWilder]

I think the ring of teeth on her arm is more like a memory or something.

[deathsbuddy]

Maybe Annie told someone about coyote's tooth while she was in the forest.

If that were the case, her hand would be gone.

[Druplesnubb]

New comic

I'm gonna be literal and say that Annie's green boyfriend left her because he was jealous of this totally rad mask she got from Jones.

[Xartarin]

Zimmy, stop watching Annie's sexy dreams, those are private.

[Bandages]

That whole Jones thing strikes me as kind of sinister

[Drillgorg]

Man, I don't know if this is all going to retroactively make sense or what. The green guy seems to have removed the "bind" and replaced it with a woven band like the one he's wearing. And then Jones goes and hands er a weird mask, much to the disappointment of green guy (who is maybe Kamlen.)

Something tells me that we're being screwed with and this chapter isn't taking place in the real world.

[BRPXQZME]

The woven band Annie’s wearing has a different pattern from the one elfdude’s wearing.

And Annie’s seems to disappear before panel 6 which is probably not a mistake but aaaah what it means!?

[Freack]

The woven band Annie’s wearing has a different pattern from the one elfdude’s wearing.

And Annie’s seems to disappear before panel 6 which is probably not a mistake but aaaah what it means!?

What it means is that JOnes is super sexy. This entire chapter is a tribute to Jones, and her overpowering hotness.

Because so far I understant nothing else.

[BRPXQZME]

oh yes, jones is a stone cold... somethingorother.

[unbridledExüberance]

Watch this whole chapter just be Zimmy dreaming. Or Annie dreaming and Coyote messing with the dream because hehehehehehe hahahaha hoohoohoohoo

[The_Codfish]

I'm thinking what we're seeing is supposed to symbolize Annie's 'situation'. Like the 'mask' is her hiding her 'true self' and Jones appearing to take her away from ol' greenie is her being taken back to the Court. Or something like that.

[chimericWilder]

I think perhaps that makes fine sense.

[Ender]

Mystery solved.

[Zombiitwo]

Here's a take I heard from a friend of mine, and it seems quite realistic:

This isn't Annie we're watching, it's Surma, or some kind of double representation of both Surma and Annie. This was inspired by the fact that in the first panel of the latest update she seems to appear much older/developed than a 13-year-old girl (Wow, that was extremely creepy), as well as the fact that her face doesn't appear right as Annie's (although this could just be me). This would mean that the other girl is more than likely Brinnie, rather than Jones (although she bears an uncanny resemblance to both, and the fact that "Brinnie" is actually Brynhildr, a valkyrie, who could possibly also be Jones, should not be overlooked). However, that leaves the forest man (Kamlen?) up in the air. Although he could just be a symbolic representation of Gillitie Forest, while Jones/Brinnie is a representation of The Court, and the mask symbolizes Surma/Annie's indecisiveness about which she prefers more/wishes as her home.

tl;dr
This is some treatise level symbolism up in this bitch.

[PleasingFungus]

Here's a take I heard from a friend of mine, and it seems quite realistic:

This isn't Annie we're watching, it's Surma, or some kind of double representation of both Surma and Annie. This was inspired by the fact that in the first panel of the latest update she seems to appear much older/developed than a 13-year-old girl (Wow, that was extremely creepy), as well as the fact that her face doesn't appear right as Annie's (although this could just be me). This would mean that the other girl is more than likely Brinnie, rather than Jones (although she bears an uncanny resemblance to both, and the fact that "Brinnie" is actually Brynhildr, a valkyrie, who could possibly also be Jones, should not be overlooked). However, that leaves the forest man (Kamlen?) up in the air. Although he could just be a symbolic representation of Gillitie Forest, while Jones/Brinnie is a representation of The Court, and the mask symbolizes Surma/Annie's indecisiveness about which she prefers more/wishes as her home.

tl;dr
This is some treatise level symbolism up in this bitch.

I'm not really sold on the Surma thing. We don't know that she ever hung out with the elves, whereas we do know that Annie met Kamlen over the summer. Also, why would Coyote's binding appear on Surma?

We know that Jones isn't Brinnie; Surma &c knew Jones as a separate person. (Also, if Jones could teleport around like Brinnie can, she could have been spared some embarrassing situations.)

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There's pretty obviously some symbolism going on. The best speculation I've seen is that Annie is attracted to the forest (Kamlen), but the responsibility that Jones (a neutral agent) hands her, the mask (Annie's role as a medium), drives the Forest away from her. But there are certainly other plausible interpretations.

It's also interesting to note how much the mask resembles Jeanne's face.

This is a really fun chapter! Last chapter was interesting, but kind of slow towards the end. It's exciting to be back in the thick of things!

[bloodyEmissary]

Oh dear, could Wandering Eye be trying to take Annie over?

It seems like the kind of thing that might do that, if there was some pressing need for it. Maybe it really needed its phone back.

[wrinklefudger]

wow, I just reread the comic. I didn't realize jones was naked at first.

[BRPXQZME]

that is gonna be read way more neutrally if ever you change your avatar away from

[Rikushadow5]

I think Zimmy is seeing Subconcious bits of everyone. There isn't actually a pigeon on Kat's head, it's just a representation of her thoughts. Hence when City Face mentions Kamlen and Zimmy says something about it, City Face says something about Mind-Reading.

OF COURSE I PROBABLY WAS A BIT SLOW TO DRAW THAT CONCLUSION.

Anyway, I think the analysis that PF gave a bit up on Annie's duty and stuffs sounds legit. I mean, this symbolism stuff's thicker than gumbo.

[Freack]

Confusion over pluralization means the pigeon is confirmed for Kat's invisible thoughts? That is what I got out of it.

That and I really like the last panel. The style is still improved, but it is showing the past, and it looks a bit like some o the older art as well. Maybe this is just me, but that is what I noticed.

[sjasogun]

Does Tom take requests? If so I'd like to request twenty metric tonnes of sense, to be delivered ASAP.

[Hytheter]

Ok so just to confirm
I'm not the only one confused by the pigeon?
This isn't some old thing I've forgotten?

Oh good

[The_Codfish]

The pigeon is basically a visual manifestation of Kat's thoughts.

It is also City Face.

[PleasingFungus]

Okay, I stand corrected. The mask's meaning is much more obvious than what I thought; it's the mask Annie uses to hide her emotions. That's why it drove Kamlen away. (The scene pictured is one of the few times she took the 'mask' off.)

Jones, of course, is the master of (apparent) emotionlessness; thus her being the one to hand Annie the mask.


I suspect now that Kat's been dragged into the dream ('dream'?), too. (Thus her look of confusion/worry in the last panel; looks a bit different than in the original.) Zimmy scenes love nothing more than mixing reality with illusion, after all.

I was initially confused by the hair-clip, but it looks like it's just something she wore back then? Wonder when it vanished.

("How about you guys shut up and let me do this." What is 'this', anyway? I guess that's the £100 question.)