Girl Genius

I have this ridiculous notion of the Mongfishes distributing Sparkhund puppies to the assorted Storm Children and Tweedle being the only one who actually wanted them....

I love this idea; perhaps Tweedle even adopted the unwanted ones?

Ooooh! Ooooh!
I had a thought!

Somewhat scatter brained...
The Professors are purposefully developing the character, but hiding his identity/face.
And now he appears to have an army of humanoid wolf-ish/bear-ish creatures with polearms?

Could this be the return of a partially recovered Dr. Dimitri Vapnoople?!?



I really, really hope I'm right.
I want to see how it would play out between Krosp and 'Papa'.

edited 18th Jul '14 6:55:51 PM by ArcanGenth

Second Schefflera's idea being great. And I love the idea of Tweedle adopting unwanted puppies; it kinda fits with the 'designer pet store' concept.

The Corbettite monks might be the ones to insist a Mechanicsburg station be outside the walls. Would you really put your sacred railway within reach of a peculiar castle- and town-controlling AI that thinks it's funny?

...Come to think of it, Klaus's troops were reporting what appeared to be Castle-directed attacks at least 20 km out. It is entirely possible that, if asked, Bill and Barry might have politely discouraged the railway coming significantly closer than, say, Sturmhalten. For its own sake.

Eh.. I seriously doubt it. For one thing, Wolkerstorfer has already seen and directly commented on Krosp, without showing any recognition. Plus, he has a long enough public history in this identity to have been banished to the Ant Farms for an extended period by the Council, before they were removed from the picture. Even with the timeskip, it's hard to believe that Dr. Vapnoople somehow had time to recover, get off Castle Wulfenbach, successfully set up a whole new identity, gain a position of some sort of responsibility, and get into trouble and be banished.

Though maybe whoever created the hairy army used Dr. Vapnoople's research..

edited 18th Jul '14 8:10:22 PM by Geoduck

Look at their ears. Might they be cats? If so, Krosp Can Command.

Ah, he already has a name. I must've missed that. Drawing conclusions from misunderstood data.

........Wait wait wait.

Wasn't part of the reason Dr. Dimitri Vapnoople was sore at Klaus was over Klaus' destruction of a pack of Sparky hounds? Part of the issue being they were too ridiculously loyal to Dr. V to ever be redirected, like the Lackia.

I wonder how much his research influenced the ones Tweedle's using, and the (apparently more complex) weapon-weilding furballs that have shown up now.

It was, I think, over a pack of wolf-men. The Sparkhounds were mentioned in a footnote as an established breed and bred by Lu's father, so they've been around longer than the three years before canon that Dr Vapnoople was defeated.

On the other hand, we don't know they were always bipedal and able to talk, the footnote made them sound more instinctively vicious toward Sparks and less sentient.

Yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean they said they enjoyed it.

edited 18th Jul '14 11:33:40 PM by khil

Until Sparks got a hold of them, and made them more intelligent. "They still hunted Sparks, of course, but now they enjoyed it."

PAGE!

jumps up and down

OMG _____!!

Great expression on Krosp in that second panel.

Swartzwalders?

Anyway, if a several hundred years old super soldier says 'RUN!', you run.

edited 20th Jul '14 10:06:54 PM by blauregen

Just like how a Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on, a General who recognizes the enemy outranks a Commander-in-Chief who doesn't.

Sure looks like it to me.

Ooooh my.

So, I suppose this means we're visiting the Depot after all..

Oh, I dont think that was ever in question. The only issue was how soon and what would force them to it and how many times we'd cut back to Castle Wulfenbach first.

Wasn't Dr. Dim into teddybears?

Freaking adorable and obviously deadly. Yep, Sparkwork.

Yes, and my memory was that his bigger, more problematic army was also ursine. But I don't even remember where I got that idea. I'll try to look it up...

eta: Found the reference to the aforementioned "wolf/men", toward the end of Chapter 10 of the first novel.

edited 21st Jul '14 12:28:50 AM by nectarbug

I don't think Dr. Vapnoople was ever mentioned, officially, in association with any bears except his toy ones. But it's hard not to wonder.

...

Although now I'm contemplating Tweedle making "little bear things. They sang."

edited 21st Jul '14 1:06:56 AM by Schefflera

Beware the cuddly menace!

Really, they look more confused than hostile.

On the other hand if Dimo is scared of them...

edited 21st Jul '14 3:57:59 AM by tricksterson

... Look, I know bears can use tools as it is. But, this is just ridiculous.

(Fuzzy, deadly and downright scary... but, also... ridiculous amounts of intelligence and tinkering on show. Worse, in a horde. Bears with weapons convinced to stay this close to each other without a small war breaking out with each other?! How? How do you circumvent an adult bear's natural propensity to get into the face of another adult bear? I'm not seeing a fish run... Unless the train counts as "a river". )

edited 21st Jul '14 4:09:37 AM by Euodiachloris

I understand your feelings, Dimo. Anthropomorphic bears can be very frightening.