Gunnerkrigg Court

>>94346051
Tony a qt.

knowing what we know now about tony, surma's reaction seems kinda mean :( he genuinely doesn't know what to say or do

>>94346051
Surma is a bitch

>>94346051
>thinking about dicks

>>94346085
>>94346087
I can only imagine that she, like 99.6% of everyone Anthony has ever met, doesn't "understand" him yet

It seems the idea of this chapter (at least in part) is meant to show us how that hurdle was crossed (at least in part) and she would eventually come to choose him over Eggy

>>94346163
considering that she and anja seem much younger here than they did in the S1 flashback, maybe this will be a series of flashbacks showing the growth of their relationship?

>>94346085
>U
What did.. what did he do wrong here, actually? He just politely agreed?

>>94346282
He said what he's supposed to say in this situation, but he doesn't actually mean it, he has no empathy.

>>94346333
>Missing the point of Tony's character this badly.

He means it but he just can't communicate it.

>>94346282
he didn't do anything WRONG, he's just being awkward and probably making the situation more uncomfortable unnecessarily. that's probably why surma is rolling her eyes, because she doesn't think he's being genuine and/or he's being awkward about it.

fwiw i think at this point her opinion of him is largely influenced by eglamore

>>94346282
Non-native English speakers might miss on this. There's nothing wrong with what he said, but the way he talks would be considered unnatural, it's very stilted language, and his stiff posture and blank expression give off a sense of detachment.

The way he reaches out but then stops shows that he wants to comfort his friends but he really doesn't know how.

anja is so cute

Bear in mind that this probably wasn't long after Brinnie, so Surma is probably fed up of Tony being like this all the time.

>>94346051
I want to cum in Surma's hair

>>94346282
See the bottom three panels.

He reaches out and goes to move forward, probably in an attempt to comfort Anja and Don.
Then he stops and reverts back to his previous posture, probably because he feels too self-conscious and doesn't quite know how to do it without coming across as weird or overly familiar. Through not wishing to be awkward, he is being awkward.
This is clearly common enough that Surma can't help but roll her eyes at it. Even when a friend of his has lost a loved one, he can't even get over himself long enough to try and comfort his friend.

>>94346051
>mockingly roll eyes at an autist being autistic
>15 years later, rolling eyes back into head as you knowingly let yourself die on said autist's deadly dick
Funny how things worked out, Surma.

>>94346926
Tom is truly a poet.

Can't wait to see all the enraged comments from people convinced Tony is a monster and Tom shouldn't be getting people to sympathize with him

People don't really seem to realize Annie is more like him than Surma

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>>94346865
20 years of awkward almost body contact

>>94347334
I need to go back and reread these scenes, because knowing more about what we know about him now, it's easier to read him as more comedic and buffonish than he initially looks. Though we got a glimpse of it earlier, with the thing about the friend trying to get him to date her.

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>almost everyone in the series hates Tony including the fans
>he's just a sad autist who doesn't understand how to talk to people and show that he cares

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>>94346051

>>94346051
I'd ask for bets that Surma goes on this trip or whatever it is instead of Donald, but it's such a sucker bet that it doesn't seem right. Surma probably goes with him to resolve this issue, and then Tony is stuck having to deal with someone without any real excuses to fuck off or run away and without his one friend to help him out.

>>94346051

>attempt to comfort
>give up immediately

I need more Tony trying and failing at showing emotions in my life.

>>94346085
>>94346087

Eh I'm not reading too much into it. We know from Rey's flashback she can be way more mean/hurtful.

>>94347419
Shit we need an edit of that strip except the end has to have a the fire vaguely in the shape of a woman and giving him a blowjob

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>>94347399
it's really well paced. the dinner with the donlan's and the drunken convo between tony and donny are so dynamic, rereading i feel like i have a much better feel for all these characters

>>94347522
that's his every appearance so far, though

well, excepting when Donny's around.

The thing I'm baffled about is why Kat likes him now. Kat is stupidly outgoing and brash and Tony doesn't really understand how to talk to people at all.

I think everyone who has a brain knows Tony is a well-meaning person but Kat doing a 180 on him is so weird I'm not surprised that Annie is confused. And him not knowing how to talk to Annie makes sense since how the fuck does a man this awkward talk to his child.

>>94347583

Yes. But I still need more.

Does Anja even like Tony? Donny is the only character that seems to understand him at all. I guess maybe Kat inherited that ability.

>>94347589
That has to be the point, really. For most people, what it looked like for Surma and Tony is just, one day, they're in fucking love. What the fuck is that? With Kat and Tony, all of a sudden they're laughing together. Kat will probably try to explain the circumstances to Annie, and it was probably something like them bonding over tech stuff.

>>94347589

Donnie, Tony and Kat are eggheads. That commonality they find through work is what allows Tony to express himself.

Which goes to further explain why that connection is non existent in his interactions with Annie.

She is too much a child of the forest.

>>94347589
Like most socially anxious people, he's able to put aside some of that anxiety when dealing with people on a one-to-one level. Not fully but enough to make a few jokes, enough to come across as quirky and complex rather than just an outright asshole.

So a few days of interaction with Kat was, in all likelihood, enough to break the ice and reveal that he's a decent guy.

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Imagine how different things could have been if Tony had some guidance.

>>94346051
>rolleyes
Is Surma even worse than Annie?

Tony is so pretty. I wish his face wasn't fucked up in the present.

Is Tony legitimately autistic or is he just THAT socially anxious?

>>94346051

It's a good thing he had the sad glasses on hand for just such an occasion.

>>94346051
My best friend is in deep emotional pain but this loser is being an autist about trying to show genuine concern?
>rolleyes.jpg

Surma is awful.

>>94347627
>Praising a kid for a B
>Good parenting
Sure, if you want your kid to be a narcissist.

>>94347918
Yeah, but we already knew she was awful. I give Tom a lot of credit for showing most characters to be flawed or have negative aspects though, the Dolans and Mort have been pretty much the only virtuous characters.

>>94347987
Well, the donlans might have some skeletons in their closet vis a vis ungodly creations of science.
And Mort just didn't live long enough to make mistakes.

>>94346051
Tony is trying when his best friends are in real pain. Not exactly the right time to be annoyed with his awkwardness Surma, even if he should just "get over it". The guy really wants to comfort his friends but is just incredibly autistic.

Like seriously, rolling your eyes? This isn't the fucking moment to roll your damn eyes and be annoyed at Tony, you should be trying to comfort them too.

>>94347918
Surma's far more compelling as a flawed character because so many people in the damn comic put her on a pedestal and it has really fucked Annie up.

>>94348078
But in the end, getting dicked to death made her a better person.
Annie should just put a baby in that blast furnace already.

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>>94347399
>>94347567
Tony was always a funny guy, he just only seems to show it to Donny, (presumably) Surma, and (assumedly) now Kat.

I tried to laugh with my friends about this page but they were too mad about Tony "abusing" Annie at the time and likely still wouldn't see the humor in this.

But it's funny as fuck.

>>94348296
Are you sure that was Tony being funny, tho? Or was it Tom? Cuz for all we know he really did spend a week trying to feng shui that chair.

>>94348296
I more sort of meant, that we see Tony saying all of this blunt, sometimes pretty rude shit. But with the larger context we realize he doesn't really mean anything by it, it's just the only way we really knows how to communicate with people in day to day life. So lines like him just apologizing for his daughter's cheating off Kat becomes, instead of him humiliating his daughter, him desperately trying to apologize to his life long friends because he thinks it's some great sin he must atone for. His day to day actions take on the quality of Sakaki from Azumanga Daioh. This stoic, reserved person people make all these assumptions about, but he's really just kind of a doofus who doesn't know how to properly engage with people on a normal emotional level. It's all freezing cold and burning hot with this guy. Like Eglamore complained once:

>Jeez, who talks like that?
Tony, that's who. Because he's still this bottled up, anxious fucking teenager. Obviously this has had serious consequences for his daughter's upbringing and their relationship, but it's worth bringing up her defensiveness earlier in the story and the flashback we got of them during what I guess was a sparring session. There is a relationship there that, presumably, was a bit closer before her mother died. Both Annie and Tony are suffering deeply from her death, but neither is emotionally open enough to be able to engage each other in the bonding and healing process they should be undergoing as the survivors of the family. Annie doesn't hate her dad, but he's an incredibly frustrating person to be close to and to have as your only living relative and father.

>>94348349
It following Tony's "get that in my house" and Kat very openly laughing with him and outright telling Annie he's funny makes the joke in Tony's character I think.

>>94347616
For sure. Kat probably realized Tony was just awkward and stand-offish but actually a cool person on the inside like her bff Annie

>>94348296
>>94348349
Gotta be a joke, Tony's all smiles and hahas once he gets a little drink in him.

>>94348409
eglamore's kind of a faggot desu

>>94348441
Annie and Tony are extremely alike in their personality, demeanor, and neuroses, it's good characterization. Annie's quite a bit better in groups than Tony is but overall they're pretty similar

>>94346085
She has only one relative alive at most. Why would she understand? From her perspective they're the family equivalent of rich rich people being sad that they lost a dollar in front of the homeless.

>>94348441
>like her bff Annie
lmftfy
>unlike Annie

>>94348441
My dad and my friend are both autistic, and both become way more funny and easier to get along with and talk to once they're a little bit drunk.

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>>94348459
The characterization is great, even how they interact with their friends have parallels

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>>94348557

Remember how all her classmates disliked or didn't care for Annie for being a socially awkward weirdo with stilted speech and no sense of humour? How she only ever opened up to Kat?

Tony's the same, except he never grew out of it.

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>>94347972
Oh please, A B is still technically above average and not necessarily easy to reach depending on how your region/country/teacher scales performance, a B in one school could be a A in another, and im saying that from experience. not to mention and if your kid has been in D-F(ail) hell in the subject before this you bet your ass he/she deserves praise for improving.

It is all about context. And you would probably be surprised how many parents don't bother praising for As either.

>>94348459
I dunno, Tony is autistic, but Annie becomes a fullblown monster when she snaps, can't take what she dishes out though.

>>94348617
When Annie acts headstrong and lashes out emotionally, she's clearly channeling her mother. It's her more reserved, logical reactions to things, as Coyote points out, that come from her father. In the end, they're too similar in their emotional distance to people when it comes to having to deal with each other. Both need a close bond with the other, but neither understands how to start it or even contemplate it.

>>94348617
Holy hell, I'd actually forgotten how cruel Annie can be.

>>94348617
The ol fire spirit is a bitch to try and control

Annie went too far but Renard did need his shit slapped quite a bit to get to a place like he is when he kills Hetty. If nothing else that chapter helps drive home how cruel Surma can be. I think Annie gets that from her.

I'm hoping though that this chapter shows that she dumped Eglamore because he was an ass, not because Surma had a whim. It'd help slow the roll of knocking Surma down from the pedestal everyone puts her on and leveling her out. Almost every character is burdened by flaws, it would be nice to see James exposed as a petty angry person.

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>>94348409
Pretty much my thoughts on him too. People rant about the 'abuse' he gave Annie but don't stop to think that he just came back home to find his daughter has cheated years of coursework, fooled around with ethereal beings that have nearly kill her more than once and is wearing his dead wife's makeup.

Of course he's going to put an immediate stop to all of that until he knows Annie is safe. He risked his own life by stepping up to a raging Coyote to ensure her safety and gave Annie back her forest and Rey privileges right away.

It's just a shame that Tom put all this work into a misunderstood character and people are actually complaining to Tom because they want Tony to remain a flat trope.

>>94348739
>audience misunderstands misunderstood character
Pottery.

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>>94348739
The court also came to him after he was a broken man tricked into almost killing his daughter and told him they were going to expel Annie if he didn't come back and make her retake a year. He's cold to her because 1 he's an autist and 2 the court watches everything and he likely can't be completely open with her even if he wanted to

Annie cheating rampantly off of Kat was a plot point left alone for fucking years, it boggles my mind that people were angry she was heavily punished for it and blamed it all on him, and now complain to Tom about writing Tony as a sympathetic character because it would "excuse his abuse"

>>94348790
Well, misunderstood from the perspective of the characters we see. We had years thinking he intentionally put Annie in a coma to do some sort of evil ether surgery on her. Now we know he was tricked by psychopomps into doing it.

Audience's reaction to this news? "Tom stop writing him that way! You abuse apologist!"

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>>94348790
That is how you can tell he is a well written character.

>>94348687
She is also Cray-Cray.

>tfw no gunnerkrigg anime by trigger

>>94348739
I think it's less him being a reasonable man, though Ysengrin agreeing with him was a pretty amusing scene, but Tony being Tony. There were better ways to handle trying to rein in Annie's increasingly out of control life, but Tony doesn't know how to do that. He operates on a different paradigm. You bluntly talk about your daughter cheating. You immediately tell her to take her make up off in class because you still can't deal with her mother's death. You take her friend away because you remember what a danger he was when you were around, but without talking to Annie about it. As soon as Annie confronts him to ask him to release Renard, he immediately does so, in one of the best bits in the entire comic. He just does these things and only thinks to offer an explanation when prodded.

Tony's problem is he doesn't know how to negotiate the delicate balance of social situations and doing the right thing. He blunders through, smashing everything because he's just trying to do the right thing, right? Doesn't know how to deal with a girl propositioning him when his own emotions are unclear. So he deflects stoically, rather than commit to a relationship he's uncertain of or dismiss a friend, even though his action does more harm to her than either other outcome. What he does to Annie isn't really abuse, it's just bad parenting brought upon by his inability to comprehend how his actions affect others emotionally.

>>94348851
It would be western animation, so it's a choice between ToonBoom/Flash puppetry or CGI.

Actually thinking about it, Tom did say he'd rather see Gunnerkrigg be adapted for a video game. I could see Telltale work with that.

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>>94348851
>You get Gunnerkrigg Anime
>It isn't by trigger
>It is by Satelight
>Gunnerkrigg is now a Musical
>and gets as much budget as Symphogears first season

>>94348887
Very true. A lot of times it feels like he needs help in these matters but nobody seems to bother and just criticises him from a distance instead. Donny's been the only guidance he's had in a while.

>>94348897
On the subject of abuse, we should go back to when Tony first showed up proper in the present. He didn't make a good impression. A lot of his actions are a lot more assholish seeming than any other in the comic. In particular him leaving Annie to stew as to why she doesn't have a book and them brutally telling her to mind her own business when she's worried about his hand. With hindsight, one might posit the book was because he didn't want to call her out as a cheat in front of the class and the hand thing is obviously because he can't possibly bring himself to tell her the truth.

But how it comes across is pretty bad, which is the point and why Tony is little liked both in and out of comic. When ever he needs to take an action to address something, he does it without understanding the other concerns he should be keeping in mind. He's also the adult here, whatever problems he otherwise has. So he becomes a tragic character because it is his responsibility to be better when he is incapable of being so. As her father, he's really been failing Annie in their time of crisis and in helping her overcome her own problems because it seems he never really got through his own.

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>>94348970
forgot to post the relevant page

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>>94348970
Man, rereading this chapter is an adventure after all we've gotten since then. How Annie acts here? This must be how Tony is all the damn time.

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>>94349034
Oh hey look, what a subtle transition to a conversation I'm sure cannot be directly applied a relationship Annie has.

>>94349101
it definitely applies but sometimes i find it tough to trust ysengrin's advice because he's literally insane and coyote alters his memories

>>94349034
Seeing how Annie was the one who cute her hair in a nervous breakdown, that card does sound pretty terrible. It's like going to a suicide survivor and mocking the scars on their wrists.

>>94349133
Obviously his advice is a problem, but it's more what he describes here that matter. Annie hates her dad sometimes, but she still loves him. With Ysengrin, Coyote actually is abusive, cruelly manipulating him for his own ends. Perhaps not entirely maliciously, but certainly without overwhelming care. Tony meanwhile is simply incompetent as a father, rather than manipulative.

>>94349169
There is that too, yes. Annie doesn't understand their sentiment because of her own perspective, but is also unwilling to share that perspective with others. Leaving her looking like even more of an autist than she really is.

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>>94349101
>Coyote is the only one who can see how Tony's mind works aside from Donnie

>>94347402
He's also a shitty father, though.

>>94349235
There's a jellyfish inside Tony's mind??

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>Surgically removed his own hand just to see his wife
>Realised it was his daughter just before Zimmy punched out cold
>Was half dead when the Court picked him up and made him return under threat of ruining his daughter's life
>Already on the edge of a mental breakdown and forced to face the daughter he failed in a crowded classroom.
>Turns around, finds her wearing his wife's make up and says something he instantly regrets.

>Mc-Psychology-Expert in his desk chair, scoffing down a bag of doritos: "Yeah no. He should have been completely rational because being an adult and/or parent means you're not human anymore and make no mistakes, ever."

>>94349235
i like that coyote just casually destroys a skyscraper in this chapter

i wonder if he's going to get away with his bullshit forever. probably

>>94348296
>they were too mad about Tony "abusing" Annie
Granted he DID keep her in a fucking white walled isolation tank away from her friends. He may not have known what effect that would have in her but he damn well did it. He can be a complex and "good" guy while still being psychologically abusive and damaging to Annie. I like how Tom writes him

>>94349541
Antimony was being grounded for years of cheating. Granted most of these people scream "abuse!" when they're told to do chores or refused money for something.

>>94349591
Most people aren't sent to a sterile white room in an underground bunker when they're grounded, anon. I don't know that we know the exact circumstances of why that place in particular is where is went, though. She may have even wanted it herself right then, given her bizarre state of mind. But still, not the best kind of environment to overcome mental trauma.

>>94347402
Very strange, seeing how relatable Tony is.

>>94347402
I don't know, I like him a lot. He feels one of the most unique characters in this comic, almost as if he was a real person instead of just a charcter.

>>94349702
Tony is a nerdy autist with a limited set of friends and incapable of understanding or appreciating the social lives of the majority of humanity that themselves cannot appreciate his social troubles and hates him for it. There's a fairly small, very specific subset of the internet population that finds that relatable.

>>94349633
Judging from Tony's own house, he probably thinks it helps one concentrate on work, which is something Annie desperately needed to catch up.

>>94349443
>Doritos
This is CHEETO country, motherfuckers!

>>94348739
Subtlety is a dead. If a character isn't one-note and flatter than a sheet of paper, audiences will only get confused and angry.

>>94349927
It's always been like this you fucking special snowflake. Complex characters have always been controversial.

>>94349833
I was going to say 'Wotsits' (same thing?) but I didn't think enough people would know them.

>>94349975
Then why is "so complex" the go-to phrase of praise so ubiquitous among the casual public? People like complex characters, except not really?

>>94350062
Because complex means complicated and complicated means "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DUMB IT DOWN FOR ME YOU PRETENTIOUS DOUCHE"

>>94350062
Complex characters are by definition difficult to understand. In some cases that may lead to them being misunderstood, making the audience confused and angry.
That's deliberate. Tony's reintroduction has been purposefully written in a way that makes him look like a fucking monster while it's gradually being revealed that he's actually just a conflicted person.
Before his return, we only heard negative stuff about Tony. We even saw him putting her in a coma. Then he returns and starts treating Annie like shit. Not only that, but we've also had characters subjectively influencing the readership on Tony's character:
We've had Eglamore, who openly talked about what a horrible person Tony is. We've had Annie, who blindly trusted him (until now), but at the same time showing clear signs of mental abuse. She was suffering a huge mental breakdown, and Tom deliberately wrote that as if everything came from Tony. For example, he made it look as if Annie cut her hair because Tony forced her. Turns out most of it came from Annie, but the readership doesn't believe her (just like other characters, like Kat) because the rest of the comic is constantly telling us Annie is being abused.
We've had Donnie, who is the person who knows Tony the most and despite showing Annie the reason behind Tony's behavior he still tells her that it doesn't justify how he's acting towards her.
With all that, It's not so crazy to expect that some readers will choose to read Tony in a very negative light, while others will understand Tony and will appreciate his arc. That makes Tony a polarizing character, and the thing with polarizing characters is that they're not liked by everybody.

And it's always been like this, in every piece of storytelling. Subtlety isn't dead. If anything, I think these reactions are sort of necessary to make characters like him shine.

>>94350062
Also, because people know in a theoretical level that "complex = good" (not that I agree with that) but they don't actually appreciate it because they lack the ability to do so, so when they label something as "so complex!" to praise it 1) it's probably not that complex and 2) they're being hypocritical and they're just pretending to like complexity because they're supposed to.

>>94349633
>>94349784
I mean. That actually makes quite a bit of sense when you think about it. Hasn't Tony also admitted that he doesn't really know how to raise Annie?

Annie's kind of full of herself, you know?

>>94347132
it's funny since that's been well established since the beginning of the comic. annie has always been heavily implied to be much more like tony than surma, even before we saw either of them in the comic

>>94347596
She probably doesn't hate him, even if she doesn't agree with his actions. She's also been around Donny and Surma enough that she's caught on to his more sensitive side in occassion. Never close to him the way Donny is but she's a very understanding person so I can see her giving him the benefit of the doubt. In this latest update she's probably at least aware that Tony is being sincere with his words, even if he doesn't know how to show it.

>>94347132
How can Tony be a monster when I sympathize with him? Is a monster no longer a monster once a human identitfy with it?

>>94348078
>so many people in the damn comic put her on a pedestal and it has really fucked Annie up
With the exception of Donny, Annie's primary male role models have been Eglamore and Reynardine. Both kind of have a pretty fucked perspective on her parents but it's only fairly recently (past year or so?) that enough information on Tony and Surma has come up to contrast with the narratives that Eglamore and Reynardine may have had.

>>94351384
You can't really declare someone a "monster" until you have a pretty good sample size to work with. Tony has been shrouded in mystery since Day 1 and it's taken several months past his introduction to reveal bits and pieces of hia character. Anyone who called him a monster within the first 2 months of his intro chapter were just kneejerk reacting.

>wants his friends to put their own needs before his
Wow, what a freakmo, am I right, Surma?

>>94350918
>annie has always been heavily implied to be much more like tony than surma
There was that fake-out with Surma's picture where she looks exactly like Annie but with fluffy hair only for it to be later revealed that was totally misrepresentation of her personality.

One of my favorite little twists.

"I had on me serious face."

>>94349443
>Annie is drawn with Surma's hair in panel 2.
Pottery.

>>94347402
Tony is great, though.

>>94351936
Surma, like Annie, is a sociopath.

>>94348585
I never noticed how they have the same smile.

>>94353458
huh, they do

panel with him drinking there reminds me of when she choked on water during microsat 5

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>>94347419
quality image and file name

>>94347562
you mean like this?

>>94353976
What ever happened to that Annie?

>>94348296

Still find it funny. I would love if this flashback results in Annie trying to approach him from a different angle.

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I get that this thread is kind of gushing about the writing of this comic right now, but you have to remember that the story hasn't really gone anywhere in years.

>>94355281
But anon it finally resolved that plot thread that had been hanging for years by creating another plot thread that will hang for years.

>>94355281
Have you considered that Gunnerkrigg Court isn't a plot driven story?

>>94348617

Well, no matter how much she is like Tony in general, she is still her mother's daughter, carrying her fire.

And we've seen Surma be a raging thundercunt too.

>>94347132
But all I see are comments from autists who are offended that Surma dare not show deference to the character they self-inserted into.

I can't wait for the comic to show that Surma was always a worse person than Tony until the day she died.

>>94356112
I can't wait for the comic to show Zimmy

>>94348887
>Ysengrin agreeing with him
When?

>>94356279
When Annie told him about the AWFUL things her father did to her and he agreed with Tony about every single thing, e.g. it's shameful that Annie was cheating.

It was one of several on-the-nose "Annie is a twit" chapters this comic has done.

>>94349034

I had forgotten how much she channelled Tony in that page.

>>94353986
She went to the forest where her charm was smashed to bring out an emotional response.
Even at explosive firery anger, the forest people find her more recognizable than her closed off self.

>>94355281
Where do you think it is supposed to go?
It's a comic about a girl going to school.

>>94349541

I still question who came up with the white room. Remember that Annie had severed her fire elemental.

I think the room was probably her request.

>>94356604
>It's a comic about a girl going to school.
>all the techno-magic is just dressing
This is deflating, really.

>>94346233
You have to fix your eyes

Where the hell has Renard been for the past months of this comic?

>>94356777
Probably hanging out with eglamore and everyone else off screen.
Going to visit Smitty in the hospital room like "so heard ya popped your 'getting stabbed' cherry".

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>>94356634
Eh, it seemed like it was clearly Tony. Granted, the cutting off of her fire elemental and that room definitely pushed toward the same theme.

jack with the ghost spiders is probably my favorite chapter

>>94356777
Standing in a blank, empty room with Zimmy, Gamma, and the tic-toc birds.

>>94356081
She shows annoyance for what is actually incredibly sad on Tom's part, kind of a dick move

>>94347732
Nigger cut off his hand because some cave demons said it would make his waifu real

>>94347334
why did he turn into a doodle dwarf in the last panel?

>>94349833
Friendo

There's only room for one cheesy snackfood in this town

This is Schneider's territory

>>94356914
I love Tony.

>>94355281
>freed jeanne

>annan barrier is compromised

>Kat is getting closer and closer to her robot apotheosis

Come now

>>94346051
Tony needs a "Please Be Patient I Have Autism" hat

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>>94356279
>Chapter 54: Page 14

>>94358291
I like Bugles.

Crying Anja is cute cute CUTE! And the filter over this chapter is nice too.

>>94348296

I have said this before but Tony is being half the father that he should be. He is setting Annie back on the right track when it comes to her education and teaching her responsibility but is a total failure on the emotional level.

But the issue is that Tony himself is basically only half of a fully functional adult. A problem that goes all the way to his childhood. It's not that he is emotionally stunted, he never learn how to interact with others on a casual level save for a selected few, he never outgrow his social anxiety and at the same time is tormented by these failures on top of the guilt of not being able to save his wife.

>>94358479
>>annan barrier is compromised
And we'll probably only have to wait a year or two until it matters.

>>94361253
She is really cute. I love Anja.
Your post reminds me, that weird autistic guy hasn't been coming to these threads recently. I hope he's gone forever.

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>>94361303
>actually kind of miss him

>>94348970
>But how it comes across is pretty bad, which is the point and why Tony is little liked both in and out of comic.

This kills me. He was painted as a monster by the comic (up to that point) because of what little information we had on him (and by Tom fucking with us and keeping the impression going up to Donald's visit.) Now he's arguably one of the most sympathetic characters in the comic. People need to stop projecting their own baggage onto him.

>>94350651
Doesn't know how and thinks himself completely unworthy of the task and her love. Hell he probably would rather she continue thinking he's a monster because it's just easier that way for him

>>94361810
I mean, he still called his daughter a painted whore in the classroom becasue she wanted to be like her dead mother, that's kind of shitty, even if he is all fucked up.

>>94362018
>he still called his daughter a painted whore
Proving anon right about the projecting.

>>94362164
>tony admitted it was an inappropriate outburst
>still defends him for something he is obviously wrong on

>>94362237
He never called her a whore, just told her she looked ridiculous. It's still bad but you're deliberately making it sound worse.

>>94361609
what emotion is this meant to convey
i keep seeing this fucking gif

>>94348349
It seems to be the only thing in the house. Definitely a joke.

Note as well how he doesn't even have two glasses, so he needs to do with a glass and a mug.