Girl Genius

Dimo's hair seems to have grown back rather quickly. Wasn't he still clean-shaven when Agatha was looking for pants?

Dimo strikes me as on of those types who can shave and immediately afterwards get 5 O'clock shadow just by flexing his face muscles.

Maybe that is part of his particular package of Jager abilities.

Like Mama's skin changing? Makes sense to me.

Comic for Monday, March 27, 2017: sneaky gate permalink

Nice one! Took 'em both out . . . for the present.

For those two, I doubt it's any more harmful than two toddlers falling on their bottoms. I note that their armor is remarkably similar, clearly they're both into the gilded look. I think that POOM is the two weapons clashing, but it could be Voltaire I suppose.

Nah I am thinking more around magnetism and polarity myself.

edited 26th Mar '17 9:51:57 PM by Mauri

I imagine the armor is similar because Tweedle is deliberately aping the design.

Good point, he'd be wanting to do that.

The polarity of the weapons? I could see that.

When two unstoppable weapons meet ... hmm.

Whatever's going on with Andronicus, he's indeed looking less and less human. Compare him arriving above ground and now. Unless he's been Dimo in disguise this entire time and grew some kickin' sideburns while we weren't looking, that face looks downright skull-like.

Stupid train of thought just arrived at my noggin: When the Jagers arrive to go and harass Andronicus they will also manage to do so with Tweedle, directly or indirectly, which will cause a reaction of both reacting the same to Jagerclowning.

Yeah, I'll join with others and note that absurd facial hair growth is something that happens to some guys in Real Life (especially guys with darker hair) - I bet there's probably a Jager who dials that Up To Eleven to the point that he can make whips out of his rapidly-growing facial hair (ew....).

For today's comic... while I'm certain that, as noted, Tweedle almost certainly aped Andronicus' style intentionally, the fact that they're thrown apart from each other almost identically has me thinking that Foglio is intentionally making the two as mirrors of each other. Among other things, I think it's a suggestion that maybe Andronicus wasn't quite the benevolent Golden Age-style ruler that his stories suggest.

He was definitely willing to be ruthless when he had to- the print-novel prologue from his POV includes mention of his deliberately allowing some captured Heterodyne monsters to escape and rampage around a bit, in a successful effort to get some of his wavering financial backers to stay committed to the fight.

Given the way his descendants behave, I'm gonna assume he's as crafty & backstabbing as any of them, when he feels it's necessary.

Cue granny saying: that is so grand grand papa...

Well, the Storm King is based on the Sun King, right? (Sorta?) That was a sneaky court if ever there was one.

I remember reading a book containing an interesting analysis about how Louis XIV set the whole court dynamic up to break the power of the nobility. Problem was, he did too good of a job, which was one of the contributing factors to the disasters of Louis XVI.

(Another was XVI being way too dedicated to sticking one to the British via their rebellious colonies, but I don't think that applies here.)

There's also the fact that Louis XIV racked up a lot of debts for his wars (that made him look good), and then the debt passed to Louis XV who didn't do anything about it, and then to Louis XVI tried to do something about it, which didn't contribute to his popularity...

But back to Andronicus, I don't really see him as the scheming kind, more as the noble heroic leader that manages to get everyone behind him out of charisma and power and daring actions. If he was the scheming kind he would may be more suspicious of Euphrosynia, and less complaining about being a pawn in a "fight between wizards".

Point. I forgot about that particular stunt of XIV. (I do remember the nobles generally didn't have to pay taxes. I have opinions on that.)

I think it partially depends on how sneaky Andronicus thought he was. If he was really clever, then found out his betrothed/allies/advisers had outmaneuvered and manipulated him, well, he probably feels that's just insulting.

I can see him underestimating the Heterodynes because sneaky isn't really a Heterodyne trait.

They did create the Jaegers...

Might have missed this if it was discussed, but is anyone curious about the sword's zappy aura forming a stabby crown on Tweedle's head? http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170322#.WNq0gTsrI2w I only ask because during a reread, it felt weirdly similar to this page: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110513#.WNqz6zsrI2w

The impression I've gotten of the Heterodynes is, while smash, grab, and scare is their normal way of doing business, general-they are quite capable of being quite sneaky if the occasion calls for it.

Thinking of that vacation story where the first Heterodyne is pulled into the future -and is wise enough to realize he must return to the past for the future he's in to come about. (And the professor wasn't really a bad guy. Nope.)

Well most of the tie the heterodynes didn't care for sneaky because it wasted time. But if situation demanded they could do so.