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I don't think we know Zola's whole story just yet.

I think it might be more Jason Blood than Bruce Banner. Actually, no, Jason Blood doesn't work.

More accurately, more of a more aggressive side he has complete control over rather than some uncontrollable transformation triggered by something he got few days ago - Higgs seems too ancient and mysterious for it to be something like that.

edited 19th Oct '10 2:41:12 PM by KnownUnknown

We don't, and there may be important information there. But the Foglios have had Agatha interrupt when she was about to get important information, so we can't be sure that we're going to get any now.

By the way, Higgs is an airman but Pink Hot Zola called him "sailor." This may just be demonstrating her attitude, but it might also be clueing us to think of Popeye. Well, we should learn something tonight.

Higgs loves his spinach?

Well, he's certainly surrounded by green stuff in the conservatory. ('twas Pinky with the Sword in the Conservatory.)

I'm pretty sure there's little difference between the naval navy and the airforce navy in Wulfenbach's army. I'd still call them sailors.

There's the wet sea sailors and the wild wind sailors, but they both set sail.

As far as I can tell, the airships are combustion-powered. And sails only work because the seaship can derive different forces from its interaction with water and air. An airship cannot do this.

(Hippogrif, your last was post 75 for this GG page.)

Hippogrif, you're right about the article count. It was the 78th. Seventy-five is special only because it is three full forum pages. And while much has been lightweight speculation rather than deep analysis, it still demonstrates strong interest.

The ships get underway, but there is no sail, hence no sail can be set, nor can any be reefed.

edited 19th Oct '10 3:37:00 PM by GreybeardFan

They appear to be powered, but it's still "sailing" in the same sense that a sailor on a US naval vessel sets sail.

And...my indicator gives some different count. And is 75 a special number?

They seem to view airships like many sf series do spaceships. Space navies and all that.

Someone check me on this. Monday's page, lower left panel: is that a N. Dulcis blossom lapping up Zeetha's blood?

Of course, the tranquilizer it exudes might actually slow the exsanguination ....

And I'm wondering whether or not Bang Du got to see the face we see in Monday's final panel.

edited 19th Oct '10 6:04:48 PM by GreybeardFan

Sneaky Gate!◊

It has BEGUN. But it has not ended.

That wound should bleed badly, and it may compromise the chest muscles. But it it outside the ribcage, so the viscera should be undamaged. Which is more than I can say for the Pink Peril. Zola can take punishment. Whether that is an solely effect of the Moveit #11 is open to conjecture. If it is, she'll pay for it if she is still alive when it wears off.

Those trilobytes seem well-attached, do they not?

And Zola's first priority was not escape. Good thing Airman Higgs is around. And, as always, he is a man of few words. Scarcity of a resource increases its price. The aftermath of this sequence may leave us wealthy, but the cost—to us and Agatha—will be ill-borne if Zeetha cannot be revived.

I don't know what it means, but everyone in this page is drawn with one eye much larger than the other. Just the expression de jour, or a hint to their origins?

If Zola is spared, it may be the result of a decision by Agatha.

edited 19th Oct '10 9:09:44 PM by GreybeardFan

Funny thing was, the FUN-MADD knocked one loose that time it pinned her....

^Why, you're right, Corgi. On one page, it comes loose. On the next, we see her without it. The missing one is on the right.

On the other hand, Zola did not have Lu locked within when that happened.

Thank you.

Say, what was the term that Da Boyz used ... rhinohiding?

edited 19th Oct '10 6:57:50 PM by GreybeardFan

Hi Greybeard Fan When Dimo is implying Higgs was treated like Gil was, look at the expression on Higgs face. I see that as "No thats not what really happened but useful." The reveal will come soon.

Also the flower is definitely carnivorous and not missing the opportunity Zeetha's wound presents.

Well, he was presumably injured after being the only survivor of an attack and lugging the baron for miles and miles out of a battle zone.

^^ Rejfan, I'm not entirely convinced, but your point is good. If there is that much more going on, we may want to watch how Mr. Higgs heals.

edited 19th Oct '10 9:10:12 PM by GreybeardFan

Well, his blood is red, that's a good sign about him being human... unless he's something else entirely that has red blood.

Constructs seem to have any color blood - Von Pinn has red blood, but Punch/Adam has purple blood, for example. Jaegers are the same way: Dimo definitely doesn't have red blood (if I remember it's sort of extremely light greenish yellow), but I think Maxim might. I can't remember if we've seen Oggie bleed.

edited 19th Oct '10 7:48:32 PM by KnownUnknown

That may have been Dimo's arm melting under the influence of that Sturmhalten monster.

Speaking of which, let's remember that those might come under the Chekov heading.

I think they cut it off before it reaches his shoulder - it was at his forearm or maybe his bicep before it was cut off, but in any case the side still connected to him (his shoulder) would still have been the right color.

Plus, the acid stuff was more of a... slime green.

edited 19th Oct '10 7:54:20 PM by KnownUnknown

high cut, looks like just using the tip of the sword Probably not deep. From what I've seen on The Most Dangerous Warrior, I expect that Zeetha's sword is one that could take off an arm or nearly cut you in two, if a goodly amount of momentum got behind it.

From the way Higgs is drawn, he's moving fast, faster than Zola.

Zola calls him 'sailor' because he's dressed like one. The airship unit seems to behave somewhat as a navy, at least as far as ranks go (though at least they give HIM an air ranking, so the Stealth Pun isn't PAINFULLY obvious.)

Corgi? That you? (Juliet V at haus_of_klaus and the Quill.)

I briefly wondered if it was Higgs in the last panel punching Zola. The cuff looks like Higgs', so I think the fight is still on between those two.

Edit: Oh, a coloring error: No blood on sword Monday◊, Bloody sword today◊.

edited 19th Oct '10 8:18:13 PM by adam850

It's also coming from the same side. Besides, if Violetta were to inject herself, I don't think she'd do it in quite that way. She's outmatched and she knows it. I'd expect her to take Zeetha's other sword and try to lop off Zola's arm. And maybe get a bad electric shock, since I still think our little monster may be at least partially built of nuts and bolts and ten t'ousandt volts, in the style of von Pinn. Her personality resembles Clankevka's.

Oh, and we saw Maxim's blood in the Hat story. We'll know if it's canon the next time we see him.

edited 19th Oct '10 8:27:26 PM by GreybeardFan

It's nice to finally see Pinky get what's coming to her.

While I'm firmly in the 'Higgs is an old Jager' camp, I have wondered if the changes in the appearance of the Jagers was due to changes in the Jagerbrew formula/procedure as each generation of Heterodynes got their hands on it. If that were the case, I could see the Heterodyne Boys trying to produce a brew that gave the benefits, without the monsterification. I don't believe it, but it would explain a bit.

Hmm, more evidence against that. Higgs knew about the Dyne. I focused so much on the fact that he knew about 'old Ingeous' that I didn't think about the fact that he knew what Ingeous had done after drinking from the Dyne. The Heterodyne boys didn't know about the Dyne, why would a Jager/Jager-relative/whatever know?

edited 19th Oct '10 8:39:10 PM by JohnDoe