Never Trust
What makes you think Franklin wasn't a Spark in this world Hell, he was practically a Spark in the real world.
edited 26th May '15 5:05:23 AM by tricksterson
Trump delenda est
I used to be Ol Bear
True, that.
If it moves, eat it. If it doesn't move, kick it—then eat it!
Sorcerer in training
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Ben Franklin's inventions actually genuinely helped? And he understood long-term consequences, even if he had difficulty overcoming his Anglophilia. (He really liked England, so didn't speak up as much as he should have while over there.)
aka PK
Hey, Klaus invented paper that won't give you paper cuts and he's still Sparky enough to get completely distracted by his enemy's projects. ;)
New page is up.
Yeah... That's not foreshadowing or anything...
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That was informative. I do hope Agatha's going to have an audience with the Master of Paris.
No, not ominous at all. 
Given the sponsor of that little infodump, what are the odds that the puppets weren't always puppets?
edited 27th May '15 1:42:47 AM by Euodiachloris
Probably high enough that I wouldn't bet against it.
As if puppets weren't creepy enough...
Sorcerer in training
Sigh. Tweedle is really easily amused.
Hmmmm, last panel. The Foglios aren't much for pointing out the blatantly obvious, unless it's a bright shiny arrow directing readers to a future plot point...
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Tweedle had better watch out, then. He'd make a fantastic Storm King puppet in any political satire or historical play if he's not careful.
He does have a habit of rubbing people with power up the wrong way. <_<
Do you think part of the reason they haven't updated the Baron puppet is because they take pride in their high-quality, accurate puppets and they don't know what Gil looks like?
'May you live in interesting times.'- Chinese curse
It's possible, but inertia is a more likely answer.
Never Trust
Hmmm, the Master of Paris is very old, a patron of the arts and sciences and named Voltaire? Wonder if it's that Voltaire
. A sparky Voltaire would have been interesting indeed.
edited 27th May '15 6:13:50 AM by tricksterson
Trump delenda est
Sorcerer in training
Okay, who opened the dimensional portal and let Sparks through?
Check this article.
With Sparks, I suspect extended life and near-immortality is just Thursday.
Oh sheeeesh, Spark alchemists...
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
I used to be Ol Bear
Oh, I dunno. I thought the salmon cannon and the robodeer were pretty cool. Taking a course where you have to watch Seinfield and attempt intelligent discussions about it, on the other hand . . .
If it moves, eat it. If it doesn't move, kick it—then eat it!
Herald of Endless Research.
Is Master of Paris an Art Spark or a Science Spark that studies art?
“You can’t be an important and life-changing presence for some people without also being a joke and embarrassment to others.” -Mark Manson.
Sorcerer in training
Eh, it says something the scriptwriters and all managed to come up with characters that fit real-life diagnoses, and not just Hollywood-seat-of-the-pants "diagnoses" that can be fixed permanently with music and road trips.
I have opinions on not treating mental conditions as the very real things they are. 
I wonder if it's possible for an occasional Spark to be both Science and Art. Which brings me back to Van Rjinn.
The Master can probably make Beetle's jars look like a kiddie playground.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
World's Cutest Direwolf
Nettle
Me too. Sometimes it's just a character being himself.
Is the narrator puppet supposed to resemble the Master's daughter?
Sparks get mad about their area of expertise, so I would guess that the Master is indeed an art Spark. We were told in the reddit that there were such things; and if the Master of Paris and a city devoted to art isn't the appropriate place to introduce one, I'm not sure we'd ever see one.
I love the pat pat on the head.
A wise Spark. Thought that was an oxymoron. Of course, this is advertising.
If he truly is simply devoted to his city and the arts, Klaus may have simply never needed to come over there. Keeping peace within your own boundaries wouldn't bother Klaus a bit, even if it involved using miscreants as raw materiel. I thought of the bone chapels myself...
Sorcerer in training
Going back to the jars, Klaus never seemed overly concerned with Beetle's methods. When we first see him, he "came over there" because one of his rules was "turn over all Other tech and material to me", and Beetle actively didn't follow that.
Which brings up interesting implications, if I remember the novel correctly when they're discussing Beetle's notes and what they managed to get out of them before Doc whozit went on his murderous rampage. I'd think knowing about Agatha and not turning her over would count very heavily on the "annoying Klaus" meter.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Re: the narrator-puppet. The Master-puppet actually looks very close in both appearance and dress to how he is depicted in The Works card-game. The narrator looks physically like Collette as she appears in the game, but her dress is completely different.
"In distress", my ass.
I found it interesting how the 4th panel gave the narrator puppet a somewhat more sinister expression just from how it was tilted forward to more directly address the audience.
Or maybe it's just that I should be sleeping now.
Sorcerer in training
In a hundred years or so, Girl Genius will get to where Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage will be alive. It will be epic.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Ben was of strictly European/English descent as far as I know. He wouldn't ever have to be in America to exist. He would be a different person in detail, though likely just as smart and enterprising as ever. You can't keep a good brain down, especially in a Sparky world where regular science has to keep up in self-defense. (That's in the intro in the first novel.)
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett