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V-Adore

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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« on: September 21, 2005, 04:57:59 am »
Oh my GOD. It's not over yet.

And this establishes quite firmly that it was a setup...

This may be the best arc ever. Discuss.
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2005, 05:16:01 am »
awesome !

it's so perfect that ray would hop in the car and follow the directions left in it. this arc is so much like a nightmare.
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2005, 05:17:19 am »
So it WAS a setup. Damn you, Onstad, for toying with my emotions so!

chuggita chuggita chuggita
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2005, 05:26:05 am »
Great artwork in this entire storyline.  

Ray thinks he has free will, but CH is showing him just how much that he is CH's plaything tonight.

Ah, the inevitibility of it all...
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2005, 05:43:37 am »
I don't think CH is just toying with Ray, though.
If he has everything this well-planned,
there's got to be something more going on.
I'm terrified at what will be in this house,
and yet I can't wait to find out.

I'm starting to agree; this is probably
the best story arc yet.  Almost as gripping
as the Philippe Kidnapped arc, and far more
oneiric and unnerving.

Notice that the card with the directions
for Ray to drive to 921 Elden is the only thing
in CH's wallet (which has his monogram
stitched on it... classy!)
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2005, 07:51:24 am »
Prediction is useless as Onstad himself doesn't know (read the newest interview).
Love the artwork and the "colouring". Perfectly pitched night-time sequences. Mmmm.
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2005, 09:33:55 am »
Quote from: "JordanB"
Notice that the card with the directions
for Ray to drive to 921 Elden is the only thing
in CH's wallet (which has his monogram
stitched on it... classy!)


It's the only thing on that side but I'm pretty sure those are credit cards or membership cards or, I don't know, woe cards in the opposite facing whatever-you-call-it.
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2005, 11:38:58 am »
Anybody else notice that the car is suddenly transparent?
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2005, 11:50:54 am »
CH's slender fingers reach from beyond the grave to manipulate the strings of this poor puppet Ray (or not).  i do like the ghostly car though, very appropriate. i'm personally anticipating something unspecific and quite terrible to happen to Ray in the house a la Gorey.
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2005, 11:59:18 am »
The question here remains, is CH alive or just remains?  I love the look on Ray's face when he realizes he's not really free just yet in that little bubble panel.

C'est détail!
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2005, 12:23:27 pm »
I still don't have any idea whether or not CH is really dead. At this point it's preplanned even if he actually committed the murder act on himself. I think the only point it disproves is that whatever happened to CH was an accident, unless the car setup was intended for a gag not reached by Ray running for it.
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2005, 12:44:51 pm »
Quote from: "southworth813"
Anybody else notice that the car is suddenly transparent?


The car is totally a ghost car! Awesome.
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2005, 12:55:30 pm »
Hey, for all we know every room in CH's place had a card in it telling Ray to take the car. Thus no matter which way Ray went it would create the illusion of prescience.
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2005, 01:14:49 pm »
I really like the font used to make the 'chuggita'. It reminds me of some sort of engraver's gothic sans serif font that I saw back in the day, but I don't remember what it is.

Lazyweb, help me here.
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921 Elden -- 21 September 2005
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2005, 01:38:50 pm »
Quote from: "V-Adore"
I still don't have any idea whether or not CH is really dead. At this point it's preplanned even if he actually committed the murder act on himself. I think the only point it disproves is that whatever happened to CH was an accident, unless the car setup was intended for a gag not reached by Ray running for it.


I disagree.  This is like The Game.  The same way that Sean Penn knew Michael Douglas would jump off the building in exactly the right spot, CH knew Ray would jump out the window and take the car.  

Alternatively, this could be like The Day The Earth Stood Still (pour one out for Robert Wise, by the way).   Maybe the card is there just in case something went horribly wrong with CH's performance, as it did.  Ray is directed to the house, in which sits a large r.o.b.o.t.  Another card will instruct Ray to tell the r.o.b.o.t: "Cartilage Head barata nikto," after which the r.o.b.o.t will trudge over to the dressing room and reanimate CH.

Either of these are likely possibilities.
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