HOIST THE SAILS a thread for Gunnerkrigg Court shipping (and also discussion)

[Amake]

I ship Jack x Boxbot

No but I think this excellent comic needs a thread. Some thoughts on the most recent developments, where it appears our Annie turns out to be a disproportionately vengeful character straight out of a woman-hating ancient Greek drama:

She has done worse things (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=803) than a little baiting. And the timing here is interesting. Three pages before this, we see her leaving Jack after a rather amicable conversation. Or so it seems, until she's alone and makes a rather mean face. We now know that we're seeing her resentment about Jack's hurting Renard and putting her in a tough spot. We can imagine she intellectually understands that wasn't his fault; indeed we have earlier seen her express regret that she didn't help him sooner. But the feeling lingers. And then, only a few minutes later, Annie learns a whole new level of pain as a heated argument over her dead mother brings the conflicting feelings about her which have accumulated throughout a long day of hard lessons to cataclysmic levels.

The point being, as superficial as Jack is to all this, taking revenge for his shenanigans may at this point become Annie's goal as it gives her some kind of outlet for her anger, guilt, grief, fear, abandonment etc.

Assuming that there's any truth to that whole revenge scheme she lays out in the current strip, of course.

FURTHER QUESTIONS
What is a "seed bismuth"? How does it work compared to bismuth? Compared to seeds?

Who is the "real" Ysengrin? What does Coyote mean by "real"?

What kind of crazy people are buying volume 2 of the series from Amazon for nine hundred dollars?

[Fifthfiend]

Furious Anger Annie owns.

Especially when it completely backfires and bites her in the ass.

[Krylo]

Annie x Jack. Hate fucking forever.

[Fifthfiend]

Jack x Zimmy is the best ship this side of Equius X Donna Noble.

[Art of Hilt]

I don't understand why anyone would willingly choose to ship anything other than Parley x Smitty

WHAT are you even DOING you are like the guy with the wings flying too close to the sun with all these extra unnecessary ships

This is why America is in its current economic crisis

[greed]

Oh my god today's update is amazing. They are both horrible people and it is glorious.

[Krylo]

Jack is the best character in Gunnerkrigg Court.

[greed]

I really want to see Jack meet Coyote.

[Amake]

Tenuously topical, but I found a good old comic, The Books of Magic*, where the writer, a John Ney Rieber, writes in his own introduction a fine observation I always thought fit Gunnerkrigg just as well, except I couldn't remember much of it. To wit,

"Fortunately, London is only peripherally the setting for The Books. [The characters] actually live in a realm that has never been mapped by the Royal Geographic Society and never will be. People who have lost touch with the place call it 'Adolescence.' Those of us who still spend time there never can seem to find the time to tack names onto it. It's a place where anything can happen and probably will - the moment you blink, count on it. A place where nothing is real but the stuff you bang your head on, the stuff that dazzles you, and the stuff that makes your stomach all fluttery. A place where the only thing more mystifying than what's going on around you is what's going on inside you. In other words, a place of magic."

*Go ahead and read it. It's a comic book series of eight or so volumes, a couple of tie-ins, some spin-offs and reboots you're probably better of without, and it's basically a very similar story to Gunnerkrigg Court except it doesn't involve any school.

[Fifthfiend]

Jack is the best character in Gunnerkrigg Court.

Not opinion. Fact.

I don't understand why anyone would willingly choose to ship anything other than Parley x Smitty

PFft those two are OLD NEWS, MAN, you gotta get down with the new hotness.

The new, razortoothed, no-eyed, brain-spider'd hotness.

[synkr0nized]

hahaha yesssss

[Bard The 5th LW]

Finally, this one deserves a thread.

Jack is pretty much the best. Still just enough crazy in him to keep the readers on their toes. Seriously though, I would read a comic with Jack as the main character.

[Krylo]

Jack x Zimmy is the best ship this side of Equius X Donna Noble.

On the other hand, as we see here (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=933), Jack's parents are clearly utahraptors; a type of dinosaur. Of course, as we all know, dinosaurs are simply slightly less evolved birds.

Now, who has the hots for birds?

One Miss Katerina Donlan, due to circumstances in prior years.

Therefore, the only logical conclusion is Jack x Kat.

[Fifthfiend]

Things we learn from Tom Siddell's Tumblr:

Tom Siddell ships the fuck out of Princess Bubblegum x Marceline

[Kim]

As everyone really should.

[Intern Nin]

This is the best short tale of all time. That's really all there is to say on the matter.

[Kim]

He stole forty gold.

That's as many as four tens.

And that's terrible.

[Fifthfiend]

As I've said elsewhere, if there were one bad thing about these comics - and there isn't - but if there were, it's that at some poing Gunnerkrigg Court is going to stop being Tom Siddell's reimagining of Fast and the Furious starring his original characters and a horse with a spoiler on his back.

[Intern Nin]

Oh Annie... I'm afraid that ship has sunk.

[Amake]

Holy balls, Jack is a nice guy. That's deep sympathy, maybe even anguish, over his inability to do or be what Annie wants.

Zimmy is going to chew him up I think.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Jack is the best character forever now.

e: Nvm he always have been.

[Krylo]

Bwoosh. Shot down.

[Art of Hilt]

Only an image can describe this update

http://i51.tinypic.com/294l934.gif

There we go

[Fifthfiend]

Man, Annie.

This REALLY did not work out the way you wanted it to.

Hahahaha, this is great.

EDIT: This is actually a really good demonstration of how not having things go the way your character wants can actually make them more interesting.

[Kim]

I'm probably gonna hear several dozen "I didn't read it that way"s but this page totally feels like a subtle hint that Kat does indeed like girls, and thus my ship sails onward.

[RickZarber]

Yeah, I have a feeling it reads more along the lines of Kat just feeling bad for Paz, but considering how much shipping they've received already, it does seem like Tom could've avoided fueling that interpretation if he'd wanted. So...

[Fifthfiend]

Sorry Liz Kat remains a confirmed birdasexual.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

I'm probably gonna hear several dozen "I didn't read it that way"s but this page totally feels like a subtle hint that Kat does indeed like girls, and thus my ship sails onward.

She certainly seems to be thinking about it at the least.
Not entirely sure why she'd think it in Paz's direction though... has she even really talked to Paz before tonight?

[Intern Nin]

Not entirely sure why she'd think it in Paz's direction though... has she even really talked to Paz before tonight?

Cityface.

[greed]

She certainly seems to be thinking about it at the least.
Not entirely sure why she'd think it in Paz's direction though... has she even really talked to Paz before tonight?

They had a whole chapter together (healing a baby pigeon, who turned out to be SHOCK Cityface as Nin said) with hints that they've been chilling outside of that as well.

[Kim]

SHIP SAILS ONWARDS

[Intern Nin]

Screw your ship. Everything is beauteous psychic merostromatozon and nothing hurts.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Hahaha best webcomic ever.

[Intern Nin]

Correction, everything is beauteous psychic merostromatozon make-outs and nothing hurts.

[Art of Hilt]

Scratch what I said before, THIS is the best ship in the whole comic.

[Amake]

Bud and Lindsey are the water in which ships may sail.

You know, guys, the thread title was actually meant to be sarcastic. . .

[Fifthfiend]

Those last two panels are gonna make a great reaction image.

[Intern Nin]

Bam! Instant Parley.

[greed]

I love how Parley's friends can read her even better than Annie and Rey. Also Tennis Punk Jones and Fake Fairy girl are just awesomely designed.

[RickZarber]

He gave them names on Twitter: Jan (January) and Cookie Monster (Lily Cooke).

[Art of Hilt]

Gunnerkrig Court hit its peak today.
Let's all take a moment to mourn the eternal downhill slope it will experience from here on now.

[Amake]

Oooh I see what you did there (http://gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=294).

Man I had totally forgotten how long Annie's been at school now. If not for Tom's comment there I'd never have made the connection.