Great to see that Lana isn’t putting up with Coyote’s carp!

1) Coyote knows less about emotions than we thought. 2) You tell him, girl!

And, unexpectedly, Coyote is pushed off a cloud by an angry redhead and falls to his death.

Ooh, I like where this is going! [I have no idea where it's going, but I like it regardless]

You go, Lana. Tell Loup to sod off.

I sent panel 3 Coyote to a friend I knew would recognize him despite the situation and they replied to me with Sixteen Question Marks!

Gosh Coyote, pull yourself together

A being that's at least 50% Coyote, getting lost in their own disguise? Who could have foreseen this turn of events!

"Whatchu mean, 'you creatures'?"

...doesn't he know that Kat rejected him? At least 3 times directly. And countless times implied. You could "push him into her arms" all you want, but unless those arms are open, and welcoming, then you're basically shoving him into a wall. Then Lana came along and gave him the kind of attention you made him crave. And I refuse to believe that Coyote is so clueless as to not realize this, already.

Incel Highschooler Coyote was not something I was expecting but it's hilarious how much sense it makes. "AHHH YESSS YOU HAVE RED HAIR AND FERTILE FEMININE SHAPE AND YOU SHOWED HIM A CRUMB OF INTEREST I LEARNED ABOUT HUMAN COURTSHIP AS AN ANIMAL I KNOW HOW THIS WORKS"

Thanks for the recap, but WHY did Coyote need Loup and Annie to be together? Was a mighty child supposed to be born?

Go Lana! Show that omnipotent deity who's boss. ^_^" (Also, Coyote too apparently knows what boys like.)

I like that Lana is sticking up for herself (and Loup). Don't take any guff, Lana!

wasn't expecting that, newman girl got sass! go tell *him* how it is girl! :D

Put him in his place Lana!

Ew. Coyote doesn't know what respect means. He has treated Antimony like an amusing toy and a useful pawn the entire time. Still not sure why Coyote wanted someone Loup was in love with to murder him. He went through too much trouble and planning for the answer to be "for the drama".

I both love and hate that Coyote's image of her is so sterotypically sexualizing, in such a dumb way, without actually feeling fanservicy. Similarly the human with the tongue out top right. Like... all of it is godawful fanfic material, and a kind of creepy window into how coyote thinks.... but also funny.

Coyote really ugly in this one.

Coyotes continual existence is a thoughtfull variation on the transporter problem.

Find yourself someone who will stand up for you like Lana :) talking back to gods is a time honored tradition for the redheads of this comic

You telll him, Lana!

Love does have a way of disrupting plans... and standing up to powerful forces :-D

yeah push back on this yapping Lana, you go girl!

The heart feels what it feels, Coyote. You can't control that.

Is this turning into a teenage romance comedy ? What was the purpose of this strip we already know all this??

Also: it occurs to me that Zimmy has made everyone in the distortion (barring Ysengrin) high-school-aged. That's about right for Antimony and the other humans, and arguably Cvet too, but Kat gave the New People adult bodies, Lana included. Presumably Zimmy de-aged her slightly to fit into the school environment and she retains that appearance on Coyote's cloud, yet he's reminded her of her New People hands. Will the rest of Lana's body revert to her original specs all at once or in piecemeal fashion, I wonder?

I wonder if Coyote is just now starting to realize how much his (and Omega's) ability to predict the future was warped when Annie didn't die when she fell off the bridge over the Annan Waters. I suspect Goddess Kat realized it in Annie's original timeline, which is why that Goddess Kat kept going back to the Norns earlier and earlier in Annie's life to create the a timeline where Annie survived.

Miss Bellum? • Coyote reminds me of Jack Torrance in The Shining who's also annoyed his characters ran away. Jack's writing a play about an orphan boy (with glasses?) who's bullied by his bitter private school professor (hmm) but the more he ruminates on his life - a creative guy derailed by alcohol who hurts his family, has to take an isolating job in a big empty building, discovers secrets and gets way too comfy with the "people" he meets (hmm) - the boy becomes something with "low animal cunning" and the professor becomes the victim of his nasty social climbing student's plots - just one more thing going wrong. Coyote and Jack should've taken a note from Leo Tolstoy, the good Christian was surprised by his sympathy for the adulterous Anna Karenina but kept rolling with it.

H!Coyote, stop with the creepyness!

Perhaps she is also Fire Head Girl, in her own way.

So Coyote...Respects Antimony? Idk, somehow I didn't expect him to.

Panel 3 is the best coyote face to date

let the two of them be bro

Meanwhile poor Jerrek is writhing around in pain and confusion and the last thing he might've seen was his best friend and new girlfriend ditching him to run off together. Heck, Coyote doesn't seem to remember what Jerrek looks like despite spending half a day together, he's just a big dumb baby plot device. Is this Coyote's new plot line: "Character kills his creator after the creator steals his girlfriend"? Was Coyote annoyed/confused that Eglamore never tried to kill Tony for "stealing" Surma? For all his bluster Eglamore fully, if very unwillingly, accepted him and Surma were done. • Love how Coyote shifts to the "animal" when talking about himself, Ysengrin, and Loup and "human(ish)" when discussing Jerrek and Lana. He even gets Jerrek's long hair!

Why would Coyote revert to that form when touched?

Coyote gets a reality check, and a second person does the unthinkable with a shove. Is this the start of Coyote learning humility? No.

Ahahaha, all the shapeshifting is glorious!

Coyote demonstrating he does not understand falling in love at all lol

From the character Feynman diagram to Coyote's untucked shirt, this is a fabulous page!

Of course he would. Both Coyote and Ysengrin worked that way after all.

Absolutely love how Lana is just like "this guy is melting in front of me but I'm still going to shove him around." Girl has so much fire, she's great :)

Coyote discovering another red head girl who do not let him get away with it.

She has a long history to go on, given how easily the robots get amorous. He's more clueless about this sort of thing.

I believe this is the first time I've seen anything approaching anger on the face of Lana. I rather like it!

I still have no clue as to why Coyote was trying to play matchmaker here with Loup and Antimony. It mattered enough to Coyote that he attacked Lana. What scheme was at hand?

So love was the thing that broke fate? Quite the classic we've got there

This is interesting, I didn't realize Lana being a red head was also at play here!

So glad Lana is pushing back against Coyote (figuratively and literally), although I am worried if that's safe.

I love Lana’s expression in the fifth panel. She continues to defy Coyote’s expectations.

Tom is having way too much fun with Coyote's face.

I thought Antimony's hair was pink, not red.

Panel 3 Coyote really looking like a Beano character.

I love panel 3 where Coyote looks like he's about to tell a roommate he needs to take a shower because he smells like ass

Okay, Coyote doing surreal Coyote stuff while still retaining human coloring/clothes is super disturbing. Congratulations? But good for Lana standing up to it, and defending her relationship with Loup!

Wasn't there a panel of a spine hanging in a vat at some point? Yeah, seems Kat did some good design work on that part.

there are so many themes and ideas in GC. i love the literal and literary interplay around the idea that you can’t anticipate what happens after you die, even less than you can truly predict the future while you’re here, even with all possible information at your fingertips. it makes me happy that you’re telling this story so carefully and so lovingly.

Again, look how he travels from anatomical nightmare to a sweet teen, unprepared for a young lady in love, defending the very reality of said love . You went and opened the can of whoop-@$$ for her. Prepared ti get defeated

Several good pfps from Coyote these last few pages.

What the heck is that third panel face

Lana fell for Loup between Chapters 83 and 84; on Page 2584 she was already pretty interested in him but she was just an annoying child creature to him useful to get close to Antimony despite the bright and deepest dark lights the Court is full off. And Lana had to be very insistent to finally earn Loup's love on Page 2685 (took 100 pages). Coyote is still superficial with the facts. His smallest mistake is that Lana is not red-headed but orange-headed.

Man coyote can you chill on distorting yourself into a gross weirdo

The trickster openly discloses a failed plan in order to influence Lana and thereby advance a new plan. He may even be telling the truth, but I wouldn't bet on it. Surely Coyote knew that Annie was unlikely to reciprocate love with Loup. She neither trusted nor liked him. So his original plan probably involves some kind of distress or harm toward Loup. Or Annie. Or both.

Lana will save the day.

And that's the last check needed for being a real people: The capacity to be sick of this guy.

Lana just said one more thing Coyote chose not to know so he could experience and discover it. Such is his power according to Page 2018.

Coyote really can't seem to grasp that Ysengrin doesn't love Annie romantically.

That's Coyote gets for seeing everyone else not on his radar as extras. He had observed A & Y enough to get a read on them, but Lana is new in more than one way...

Hmmm! But why did Coyote want Loup and Annie to fall in love? What would he gain from that?

Yeah,well, I fall for whatever redheaded beauty I come across too, it's quite understandable. Thing I saw on TV once: "You kind of have a thing for redheads, don't you?" "Doesn't EVERYBODY have a thing for redheads?"

I'm turning bald Coyote into an emote on my friend's discord server, thank you for the creation Tom

I love that you can add Ysengrin's and Coyote's expressions together to get Loup's.

A compliment? Indeed.

Also fundamentally misunderstood the relationship between him and Annie imo.

Different types of love i think. Maybe the trickster doesn't understand that?

Sometimes the first person to ask you out really IS the winner.

Lana's bangs are getting more micro by the second

I actually really like the way human Coyote is drawn. And also that Lana is just instantly pushing back on what he's saying. And that she's literally pushing him (back into human form, apparently). Looks like he's about to respect a new redhead all over again. And, at this point, he's had enough weird subforms that this is starting to feel less of an uncanny valley thing and more of a Coyote being Coyote thing, and I like that too. Panel 3 is still.. kind of a lot, but, these forms are much better overall. I'm here for it.

Lana's really taking all this body horror in stride!

He also has a thing for red heads as this is the only second time he's let a a red head physically touch him while puttingin his place.

There we go. Disheveled human coyote all the way. I thought he looked weird looking all prim and proper.

Cashed his reality check. Poked him right back to his previous form.

hey, does anyone remember that the goosewife was also coyote?? am i taking crazy pills???? i thought for sure this was a goosewife situation. for months i thought of lana as... the goosewife...

Coyote doesn’t like his son’s choice of girlfriend. And instead of reflecting or respecting Loup’s choices, of course Coyote blames the girl for ‘corrupting’ his son. Typical helicopter parent. /joke

Spankies, Lana, just like Annie did.

I like that Lana is having *none* of Coyote's nonsense