I guess that Annie has learned that sometimes doing the right thing has bad consequences. Maybe it would have been better if they'd had a replacement defence? From how the robots reacted, it looks like Diego was working on that so one wonders why the Court fixated on a defence mode that was so inhumane?

Don't lie Annie, you already knew the "excuse" (it was actually a valid reason) for doing this, and that was for it to protect the Court from invasion from the Woods. What did you think would happen if you removed it? You even knew that Tree-Wolf went into periodic rages where he would just go completely insane with his hatred of all things human. Every aspect of this incident, save, perhaps, for the sheer scale, was completely, and utterly foreseeable.

I'd say this is a really bad hidden pun here... Freeing a ghost has 'come back to haunt her'. It amused me when i realized this. Too bad that, as far as haunting goes, mort beat jeanne to it.

Troubles and piles of rubbles, cometh in groups of three...

"Ye Olde Kings Head" (est 1983) you 'mericans... Would love to be there Tom, hope it goes well!

I know! ... that I just drank a coffee.

Me! Me knows too, that I looked upon a nice comic page.

Re: Tom's pro flyer: 🔔🔔 There actually was a Law & Order Los Angeles, Doctor Octopus and the first Rhody Rhodes AKA Lucious Lyon were in it 🌴 I think they stole Law & Order UK's lieutenant, they had the same hairstyle and sweater vests.

You can only judge your actions based upon the information you had at the time, Annie. Madness awaits the other way.

Hmm, is this last panel some secret exit door or are they just walking out to a busted up court front area?

Ye Olde King's Head is a six hour drive, so I don't think I'll make it. :(

Hard to know when you're looking at something like this.

Coyote knows.

Wow, you can really see how his art has evolved over time, it looks so awesome now!

Go get 'em, Antimony. 'Cos magic.

"Sector 7G" on the previous page was a Simpsons reference, no?

Ye Olde King'se Heade

At least she doesn't have to say "And I did nothing".

Whoa Annie is strong as hell, look how she casually she busted that door off its hinges

Annie, given Coyote’s nature, this would have happened one way or another. And you were completely in the right to help Jeanne. Of doing that someone is the Court’s way punish them and protect itself, maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t meant to be safe.

The burden of justice.

Seems like if the resources of the Forest were deployed against Jeanne, Jeanne wouldn't be up to the task.

I mean, one Fist of YsenYote Wrath busted up the whole facade of the Court. What would it have done against Jeanne--who got knocked out by the butt of Parley's sword?

>Perhaps, post-Jeanne, the bridge was the ONLY safe way to cross the gap, and it could be closed/destroyed by the Court in case of war with the Forest, cutting off the two realms.

That would make some sense of Antimony's current conviction that freeing Jeanne caused the attack.

However, I rather hope it is not true. Jeanne was badass, but Parley knocked her around pretty good.

So, it seems like Antimony is somehow still convinced that Jeanne was keeping back major forest action.

Although, with YsenYote's demonstrated flying ability, and previous serious aggressions again the Court that seems silly.

However, I wonder if the bridge is key in this?

Ya mean if ya knew Coyote would be an asshat? YOU ALWAYS KNEW THAT!

Are you staying in CA next week? I will be in (and around:) San Francisco from 26 to 29 - maybe you are planning another meetup during these days? ;)

Aw, if I'd known more than two days ahead of time! I would totally drive 400 miles to Santa Monica to see you, I would. Cause I was born there, and a good excuse to go down to visit around. I don't suppose you'll come to the San Francisco area??

I love these thoughtful, quieter strips so much

coyote and ysengrin could always enter gunnerkrigg court; there was a bridge. they'd been in the court before - jeanne didn't stop them. many have crossed from one side to the other over the years. i don't understand what jeanne's absence has to do with ysengrin's actions.

I don't normally go there, but I may make an exception. Thanks for the invite!

my two fav characters, together again

Definitely a Simpson's reference, conscious or otherwise lol

Speaking of the consequences of freeing Jeanne, didn't she sell her soul to/ agree to work for the psychopomps in order to heal Andrew? Have we heard anything about that since she made the deal?

"Don't lie Annie, you already knew the "excuse" (it was actually a valid reason) for doing this, and that was for it to protect the Court from invasion from the Woods. " That is not at all an excuse for murdering one of your people and then enslaving their spirit to keep them from moving on to the afterlife. If the Court would willingly engage in such an act, then it does not deserve protection.

Annie is learning that correcting a past wrong is often more complex than it first seems, because the new status quo will settle in. The Court, having committed the initial crime of imprisoning Jeanne, was able to take a position of diplomatic arrogance towards the forest. The small slights and insults have built up over the years, and Ysengrin's wrath was born of them. Correcting the initial problem, but not accounting for decades of increasingly hostile relations, just meant that the bill came due upon the inheritors of the original situation. Freeing Jeanne was the right thing to do, but by doing it without looking at the larger consequence, she left a new mess that will also need cleaning up. (Anyone thinking there's a 'simple' solution to, say, the crises in the Middle East, would do well to heed this lesson.)

Well, hindsight is 20-20, Annie. She did what she thought was necessary at the time. Personally, I stand by her decision. There had to be a better solution to protecting the Court than trapping two innocent souls for eternity. Random idea that I just thought of. What if the end of this particular tale is splitting Ysengrin and Coyote, with Coyote appointing the wolf as the new protector of the chasm as punishment? That'd be a major twist!

F-ing good comments here. Yall are awesome

Another signifier of Annie’s growth: She may now look Jones in the eye.

The most worrying thing about this part is that it can lead to justifying or excusing what the Founders did to Jeanne ("Yes, it wasn't too nice, but it kept the Forest out....").

I wonder if there might be anyone, who I dunno, has lived a very long life, is basically seeking someone strong enough to kill her, and failing that, probably wants to not keep seeing people around her grow old? Someone who can take over for Jeanne. Or someone else, who has a family curse and also is stuck with a grim reaper job she doesn't really want. Who could that be?