Girl Genius

I always find myself asking... how much of this is Gil and how much of this is Klaus?

If anything Gil is getting some deserved break. If anything the Klaus part in Gil would see the case on a more positive outlook: It ain't the Heterodyne Girl, it ain't a Lucrezia clone and if anything could and would help a lot with the relations with Albia.

Then the fridge logic came to scare me with a hammer, if anything goes sourly, as noted by Klaus' tendencies to infuriate sparky women, which it seems Gil inherited, it is bound to give a major headache. Wondering if Papa Klaus would surface to stop Gil from making things worse or would do the deed himself (making the time go awry).

Well here goes nothing

I think there's a grammar problem in today's strip (linked on the previous page).

The bold word seems misplaced.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.

@AnotherBear: Technically speaking, it is precisely a theory. A hypothesis is a starting supposition based on limited evidence as a starting point. A theory is a supposition where the further gathering of evidence supports the supposition, but it has yet to be confirmed as fact. A fact is something we know to be true and beyond the point of supposition.

Higgs being The Sneaky General is not yet confirmed, so it is not a fact. The facts that we have in evidence (in particular, the comic to which you linked and the subsequent comics) certainly support the supposition that he is The Sneaky General, but there are still possibilities that are not that but are supported by what has been shown so far (for example, if Higgs is the aide-de-camp for The Sneaky General).

Thus, by definition, "Higgs is The Sneaky General" is a theory (one I happen to agree with, mind you).

@FuzzyBoots: Well, I think this is more Gil, because Klaus is all too aware of how he has to be the head of the empire at all times.

Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.

I noticed that typo myself.

I'm not quite certain I trust her...

Anybody else not liking the new BB? I especially don't like the lack of a cursor in the message box.

"Give sorrow words; The grief that does not speak knits up the o'er-wrought heart, and bids it break." William Shakespeare - Macbeth

I'm one. I don't like having to scroll down to the bottom to skip to the current thread. Whose silly idea was that?

Good point. Has her Undying Majesty initiated a plot? Is Trelawney on the up and up? Does she have designs on Gil for personal reasons? Anyone up for shipping?

Edited by AnotherBear on Jun 27th 2018 at 1:09:19 AM

If it moves, eat it. If it doesn't move, kick it—then eat it!

At the very least, we know Albia considers Gil to be a "weed", so anything she can do/encourage to lure him away from Agatha will be seen as good.

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And that box is slow too, it's like they re-implemented the textbox control entirely in javascript.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Getting "logged out" every time I have to reset or go back into the same machine is a bit tedious to say the least. But it seems it is going to be the top complaint some have at this point.

Also stupid question but outside the "the works" blocking the update... how much have been without fillers? Since at this point I am feeling a "they are due" vibe in the head.

Well here goes nothing

Well, it looks like nearly the entire gang is together again, which probably means a major story arc is coming. Any guesses who the principle antagonist is going to turn out to be?

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."

Hmm... the most immediate antagonist is going to be someone connected to The Other again, I bet. But I have a feeling that, for this arc at least, Albia herself is looming as a Bigger Bad.

Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.

Dunno, I'm expecting something more like there being so much trouble around Agatha that Albia decides keeping her around is just not that great of an idea after all.

Yeah, I really don't see Albia taking The Other's place as the main protagonist. If anything, I wouldn't be surprised if she's dead before Agatha departs England, and Princess Urania has assumed the throne. (Urania is mentioned here, and appeared in person in the Trelawyne Thorpe side-story that Cheyenne Wright did at one point, so her appearing in the main comic is at least a possibility.)

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With a bit of a mind flip you're into a time slip ...

Edited by GreybeardFan on Jun 28th 2018 at 1:20:17 PM

Been ages since I was the one putting the new one. Linkie

OK who didn't see that one coming?

Edited by Mauri on Jun 29th 2018 at 5:34:27 AM

Well here goes nothing

Guilty, here. Though I admit in hindsight it's perfectly logical. You want the next Big Bad? Those things in hats that terrify Der Kessel!

If it moves, eat it. If it doesn't move, kick it—then eat it!

I'm somewhat surprised that Agatha didn't see that coming. Though let's be fair - this one is Klaus' fault, not hers.

Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.

Interesting thought- if Klaus had been warned this would happen, from a source he trusted, would he have still done it?

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I predicted Tobber knew something about the Thing from Beyond Time in Mechanicsburg! I was kinda right! That counts as at least half a Moxana, right?

Seems Agatha has a short memory

To be fair, she's had a lot on her mind.

Edited by MagusLucius on Jun 29th 2018 at 12:08:13 PM

"Give sorrow words; The grief that does not speak knits up the o'er-wrought heart, and bids it break." William Shakespeare - Macbeth

@Geoduck: Huh... if whatever is advancing on Mechanicsburg (which is in no way associated with the Dreen, I'm totally sure) was something Klaus had known about instead of an Outside-Context Problem... hmm... basically, would he have crossed the Godzilla Threshold to use the Take 5 bomb regardless.

Given that he thinks that Lucrezia is either in control of Agatha or very close to taking total control, I suspect he would have. Presuming Klaus had the right context (namely, that he had roughly 4-5 years from its detonation before Whatever-It-Is breaks reality), he probably would have seen "problem I have to solve soon or it destroys everything" as better than The Other controlling Mechanicsburg, which he views as "problem I have to solve RIGHT NOW or it destroys everything."

Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.

Monday's post [1] Okay, another scene setter.

If it moves, eat it. If it doesn't move, kick it—then eat it!

a useful one though. We have to now find and protect the last living candidate who knows wth the Dreen are.

Doodles

Well in any instance what I was meaning is that it seems that as an in universe law that: "If there is something that will cause even the Sparks consider it is too mad dangerous and whatnot, it is bound to have happened or happen in Mechanicsburg. "

The Heterodynes have managed to put the weirdness magnet to work enough times for that to be postulated in universe.

Well here goes nothing

And our girl Agatha seems to have genuinely forgotten that Jenka told her about the situation in Mechanicsburg a few days ago.

Fortunately, her Spymaster is inbound.

"Give sorrow words; The grief that does not speak knits up the o'er-wrought heart, and bids it break." William Shakespeare - Macbeth