It's pretty clear the Ice Lord troops are serving under duress. As we were recently reminded, a bunch of them mutinied and surrendered to Gil after the previous Lord attack. And yeah, the Wulfenbachs don't tax their subjects use of fire.
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I assumed it's because a lot of them were recent converts.
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
Most of a Comic for Friday, January 05, 2024
Sit Rep.
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.
I used to be Ol Bear
These are the voyages of the airship Wulfenbach . . .
If it moves, eat it. If it doesn't move, kick it—then eat it!
One a five year mission to destroy new worlds and topple civilisations never encountered before!
Edited by DeMarquis on Jan 5th 2024 at 1:19:16 PM
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"That is not the mission. Stop acting like it's the mission, Dupree."
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Har har har
"Shhh, let people enjoy things!"
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Feed the propaganda machine.
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.
I used to be Ol Bear
Even Wulfenbach is getting into the polyandry idea. Let Tarvik romance Agatha.
If it moves, eat it. If it doesn't move, kick it—then eat it!
They both have been well aware that Agatha's choice is both of them for a long long while. She explicitly made this choice back in the Castle Heterodyne basement.
Edited by Adannor on Jan 8th 2024 at 11:46:01 PM
Comic for Wednesday, January 10, 2024
An occupational hazard.
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
I see Phil had a lot of fun on this page drawing Dupree with a subtle variety of ear-to-ear smirks.
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
Somebody get this freaking duck away from me!
Now that we've seen Gil back at the head of his empire, I'm again wondering whatever happened to Bohrlaikha.
Edited by shigmiya64 on Jan 10th 2024 at 2:35:22 PM
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
Repurposed into Bedpans, most likely.
"You can reply to this Message!"Comic for Friday, January 12, 2024
Tools of the trade.
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.
Plot recap infodump!
So my 
thought here is: Lucretia didn't actually invent the Othertech. She stole it from the Polar Lords.
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That's possible, but ... I have a hard time believing it. The impression I was getting so far was that Lucrezia has recently shared othertech with the polar lords which motivated them to make their move southwards - it doesn't look like it fits naturally with their ice-based magic, and it's only recently that there was those rumors of people getting wasped in norway or whatnot, which doesn't jive with the millenia-old polar lords... but yeah maybe this impression is wrong and we got things backwards.
Look at Bang, talking to Tarvek as if she thought he was a real, respectable person. She's so good a dissembling.
I, too, get the feeling that, where ever Lu's othertech originally came from, it's a deeper mystery than anything we have seen so far. The future is my best guess, but I'm not real confident in it.
Oh, and Tarvek just got his wasp detector to test his smoke knights with.
Edited by DeMarquis on Jan 15th 2024 at 4:42:13 AM
Agatha complains about having to hold up the staff forever right after we see her with both hands free.
So what is Tarvek reacting to? On page or off?
Edited by GreybeardFan on Jan 18th 2024 at 12:51:23 PM
Off-page. Seems like he's just inspecting the corpse.
Comic for Monday, January 22, 2024
Mission creep.
Creed of the Happy Pessimist:Always expect the worst. Then, when it happens, it was only what you expected. All else is a happy surprise.
I used to be Ol Bear
Oooo, foreshadow, foreshadow! What 'huge extra-dimensional monster'?
If it moves, eat it. If it doesn't move, kick it—then eat it!
Having just catched up on everything I missed over the past month, I'm impressed that I caught up on everything right as a new volume is starting.
Now, why would the Polar Lords' soldiers be requesting sanctuary from the Wulfenbachs, who they were just fighting? Is it because the Wulfenbachs are typically merciful to enemy POWs?
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