r/gunnerkrigg 22h ago

The Circle

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Lots of questions and thoughts about this.

* Noa's symbol.

* Zimmy's symbol.

* Kat(?) symbol.

* Possibly Loup (?) symbol as well?

Hear me out, this might be a bit random. The Circle is the symbol of strength. There's a lot of talk about strength, and it's always associated with some sort of godhood.

Noa dies after becoming the symbol, and becomes "indestructible", but it's implied she had to have some help from Zimmy to do it. Her true "form" is made of rocks or the like. Rocks are a symbol of strength.

Jones is called "the stone", and she is an indestructible, eternal (?) being. Coyote at least treats her as some sort of equal.

Ysengrim gets Coyote's strength and immediately ascends to godhood or at least some equivalent.

Zimmy is regarded by Coyote as a sister, which means she also has the godhood, or an equivalent to it. The witches call it "limitless" power. Her symbol is the circle. Now she has the power to change and create reality.

Now... Kat.

Kat says this in response to Renard talking about Omega, who had a similarity to Zimmy, both physical and in power. She had all the knowledge in the world.

EXCEPT Kat grabbed Omega's power and now she has it at her disposal. By being able to connect instantly to Omega's data, she has all the knowledge at her fingertips.

She also created a new species and even gave them souls. She has changed timelines. Coyote calls her a god. "A new god walks the earth". Then he mistakes her for Zimmy.

In my opinion, Kat is a new sort of god, and she has the strength of one. Therefore the circle may also be her symbol. Now she is, according to Zimmy, "underneath all things". The fact she was not absorbed into Zimmy's fiction without an orb sets her as an equal, in my opinion.

Thoughts?


r/gunnerkrigg 1d ago

Chapter 102: Page 47

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r/gunnerkrigg 3d ago

Chapter 102: Page 46

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r/gunnerkrigg 4d ago

Best way to read chapter 78 and beyond

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or -- is there a way to read them on a kindle - or read them one panel at a time?


r/gunnerkrigg 6d ago

Chapter 102: Page 45

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r/gunnerkrigg 8d ago

Chapter 102: Page 44

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r/gunnerkrigg 10d ago

Chapter 102: Page 43

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r/gunnerkrigg 13d ago

Chapter 102: Page 42

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r/gunnerkrigg 15d ago

Chapter 102: Page 41

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r/gunnerkrigg 16d ago

Did Eglamore have a statue of the Arbiter in his office?

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I was doing my millionth re-read of the comic and got to Chapter 9 and it occurred to me that this statue in Eglamore's office bears a striking resemblance to Arbiter Saslamel. This has me wondering if this is deliberate or just a coincidence...


r/gunnerkrigg 17d ago

Chapter 102: Page 40

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r/gunnerkrigg 20d ago

Whitelegs Hair Pin!

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There's not a whole lot of cosplay in the GC community, but man, how perfect would this be for someone caught in Zimmingham?

https://rottingrelictprops.com/products/white-albino-giant-house-spider-hair-clip

Found it link-hopping from a bug sub.


r/gunnerkrigg 20d ago

Chapter 102: Page 39

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r/gunnerkrigg 22d ago

Chapter 102: Page 38

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r/gunnerkrigg 24d ago

Chapter 102: Page 37

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r/gunnerkrigg 27d ago

Chapter 102: Page 36

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r/gunnerkrigg 29d ago

[Chapter 102 spoilers] The Noa situation might be simple. Spoiler

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Hear me out.

In the outer layer of the distortion, Polypedal Noa was invisible, while Bipedal Noa was visible.

And in the inner layer of the distortion Polypedal Noa is visible, and Bipedal Noa is invisible.

So where before we were struggling to figure out the true nature of Polypedal Noa, a mysterious entity hidden from our perceptions taking actions we couldn't properly predict or understand, now that is true of the other Noa.


r/gunnerkrigg 29d ago

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r/gunnerkrigg Jun 23 '26

Is the circle Noa’s or Zimmy’s?

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Just a thought from when I saw that familiar circle from latest chapter: instead of thinking about Noa, I had a flash back to Zimmy’s old shirt-circle that we haven’t seen for a while in the distortion. Does anyone else think there’s a connection here? Zimmy’s shirt-circle has been around for a long, long time.


r/gunnerkrigg Jun 22 '26

Chapter 102: Page 34

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r/gunnerkrigg Jun 20 '26

Those Interstitial Characters

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You know, the silver-haired lady and her comrades in some kind of post-apocalyptic world. Any ideas or leads about them and how they relate to this? Search turned up nothing, but there are probably loads of ways to describe them.


r/gunnerkrigg Jun 19 '26

Chapter 102: Page 33

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r/gunnerkrigg Jun 17 '26

Chapter 102: Page 32

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r/gunnerkrigg Jun 15 '26

Chapter 102: Page 31

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