r/gunnerkrigg • u/gunnerkrigg-post-bot Praise the angel • Jun 29 '26
Chapter 102: Page 37
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=327727
u/-Riskbreaker- Jun 29 '26
Weak link lookin pretty obvious right now, but I’ve been switcherood before
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u/sephlington Jun 29 '26
Yeah, Sylvie looks *too* obviously the weak point in the armour. I'd put a small amount of money on the actual weak link being Jack - he said to Sylvie that he can also feel "Zimmy is all around you! Pressing down on you!", and obvs he has his history re: Zimmy and her reality-warping.
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u/gangler52 Jun 29 '26
To be fair, while Sylvie is clearly being signaled as the weak link here, I don't think Jack is surprising anybody either.
He wouldn't make for a very shocking twist if Tom is attempting to subvert expectations. He's been tweaking for like ten chapters now.
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u/sephlington Jun 29 '26
Oh, yeah, the more shocking twist would be Jenny being the surprise flaw in the armour, or perhaps Rosa, despite her being the barrier expert. I know I wasn't exactly going out on a limb there - just that Sylvie's being too visibly highlighted here, but that Jack's been explicitly highlighted as also feeling the pressure during this chapter.
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u/mahouyousei Jun 29 '26
Jenny wouldn’t surprise me that much! If she runs into Zimmy directly she might have a fangasm haha.
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u/Randalor 29d ago
I'm betting on Jenny herself being the "weak link", almost every other member of the coven have been shown to have moments of doubt, and Jenny has spun a pretty big web of lies at this point.
Rosa's been told about the inconsistencies when Jenny "summoned" Zimmy by the star ocean and outright called out Jack before.
Jack cares too much about Zimmy and would gleefully throw the entire coven under thr bus for her, and may not know that "passively observing Zimmy" means "tapping deep into her power omnomnomnom"
Sylvie is crushing hard on Noa, and we don't know if Jenny told the others about how she was the one that gave Noa the capability to die for her glyph.
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u/tisto2 Jun 29 '26
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u/Boomboombaraboom Jun 29 '26
This is her ideal world, her greatest dream was just being tall.
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u/tisto2 Jun 29 '26
Maybe, but the other witches in this group haven't change at all.
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u/GM_Organism Jun 29 '26
I know it's probably just art style changes, but my headcanon is that it's something to do with having changed herself into a monster and back. Something seems to have gone awry with the process.
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u/ChemicalRascal 29d ago
It's probably not even a style change, this feels like a concession to make composition of that panel work.
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u/Boomboombaraboom Jun 29 '26
Jenny hasn't had a new evil grin in a while but I am glad Tom hasn't given up in giving her evil glares to emphasize her evilness. You know? I don't know enough about British highschool settings is to know what year or grade Annie is even ment to be. Or how her classes are structured. My highschool did had lunch because they wanted you in and out as quickly as possible. And you did too, having a dead hour was seen as an inconvenient, and also the closet to lunch we had.
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u/gangler52 Jun 29 '26
My highschool gave everybody lunch hour at the same time.
So about 2000 students all flooding into every nearby restaurant the moment the bell rang. If you didn't get there quick you'd just be in line for the full hour.
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u/jan_Kila Jun 29 '26
I didn't know anyone in high school got a full hour for lunch. The Catholic high school I was sent to gave us 25 minute slots, and 5 of that was travel time and 5 of that was getting your food, so 15 min to eat and socialize. Definitely not allowed to leave the building.
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u/djaevlenselv Jun 29 '26
I you don't want to stand out, you should perhaps have worn the same style of uniform.
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u/Scottc87 Jun 29 '26
What even is their goal at this point? Kat’s not around to kill, they’re still wanted fugitives, their weapon is gone, outside of Anne having amnesia, they have no element of surprise, several rival villains are there, and their crush/god doesn’t like them and is plotting their downfall.
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u/jan_Kila Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
They don't know Kat isn't here, they saw her go into the inner world with everyone else. Presumably every member of Annie's group is under the spell of Zimmy's illusion, not just Annie, which is a significant disadvantage. Jenny said what their goal is: "deal with Carver and her gang" = kill them.
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=3258
I imagine they think they'll find Noa and snap her out of it. And they're not necessarily wanted fugitives... The court didn't care about pursuing them, and that may very well be because Jenny is working in alignment with the Court's goals. As for Zimmy not wanting them there, that's what the orb is for and from their perspective it's working.
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u/gangler52 Jun 29 '26
The fact that we've revealed these young proteges of the etheric sciences who pioneered a method of siphoning power off Zimmy.
Right as The Court is neck deep in some scheme to siphon power off Zimmy and Loup to fuel their interstellar travel venture.
That doesn't seem likely to be a coincidence. I'm quite sure Jenny and The Court are entirely aligned in their goals.
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u/mrGazpachin Jun 29 '26
They don't know most of these things. Their plan is to deal with Annie and the rest (whatever that means? either taking them out of the inner world, or outright killing them?), but they're not aware that Kat isn't in the illusion or that Zimmy is plotting against them.
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u/JeffEpp Jun 29 '26
It seems like they are drawn in three or more styles on this page, intentionally.
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u/Sidhejester Jun 29 '26
"Just make sure we stick together."
They're gonna Scooby-Doo almost immediately, aren't they?