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Mod edit to add this convenience link to Girl Genius. Original OP below:


Last thread vanished with the crash...

So, the Weasel Queen interlude is over. Is this Storm King opera another one?

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Feb 19th 2025 at 1:51:41 PM

Brickman Since: Jan, 2001
#951: Feb 5th 2009 at 7:04:13 AM

You were expecting him to make stuff up? Why? Why would he need to? The facts he had pointed towards Agatha=Other already.

Anyways, I don't think it's gonna be an easy task convincing Othar to stop attacking Agatha again. By which I mean it's not gonna be a possible task. There's gonna be a big fight, no doubts about it.

adam850 Since: Dec, 2009
#952: Feb 5th 2009 at 10:49:15 AM

Othar tends to go with the "good or evil" mindset. I suppose the the baron is trying to get Othar into a Enemy Mine situation. And with Othar convinced that Agatha is evil, he'll probably go after her relentlessly. In the end, the baron wins both if Othar succeeds and if the castle snuffs Othar (although he'd still have to deal with Agatha). I'm just wondering what his backup plan may be, if Othar switches sides somehow.

edited Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:50:05 by adam850

adam850 Since: Dec, 2009
#953: Feb 5th 2009 at 10:37:42 PM

New comic

And we're back in the castle faster than I expected. Did Tarvek's bleeding catch you off guard? It did for me. Was that from the Fun-Sized Mobile Agony and Death Dispenser?

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#954: Feb 5th 2009 at 10:52:27 PM

Hmmmmmmmmmm. Who *was* it that Gil met when he came into the Castle. It wasn't Agatha or any of her crew. Who else do we know who was inside? Von Pinn? She wouldn't call him "Gil" Tiktoffen? We don't know much about him at all, beyond that he's part of Zola's plan. He could know Gil from Paris. Wilhelm? We know next to nothing about her either. She could also know Gil from Paris. Zola? We don't know who she is at all. Paris is a possibility, again.

Tangent128 from Virginia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
#955: Feb 5th 2009 at 10:59:29 PM

Obviously, he'll meet an inmate named Paris. tongue

But I think this makes the time passage (or rather, lack thereof) clear.

edited Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:00:01 by Tangent128

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Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#956: Feb 5th 2009 at 11:14:12 PM

I agree that this is right after Gil's entrance, and Phil is usually very good about keeping things in more-or-less chronological order even when he skips between plots.

Rallan but they CANT kiss! Since: Jan, 2001
but they CANT kiss!
#957: Feb 5th 2009 at 11:32:28 PM

He's certainly not meeting Von Pinn. She gets wiggy speech bubbles and her own font.

adam850 Since: Dec, 2009
#958: Feb 6th 2009 at 2:36:52 AM

Yeah, by the bubble and text is not a jager, or Von Pinn, or anyone else with a distinctive speech bubble. The jagged bubble probably just signifies that the speaker was shouting. Unless it's someone new, it has to be Zola or one of the prisoners.

edited Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:37:11 by adam850

TeChameleon Since: Jan, 2001
#959: Feb 6th 2009 at 6:25:20 AM

I'm not particularly surprised that Tarvek is bleeding- from the way they were talking during the Fun-Sized Mobile Agony and Death Dispensers scene, he was in pretty rough shape to begin with, and riding a Fun-Sized Mobile Agony and Death Dispenser can't have been good for the keeping wounds closed. Nor can whatever reaction said Fun-Sized Mobile Agony and Death Dispenser displayed to being ridden >.>

(You know, I keep waiting for that to stop being funny, but it's so utterly ludicrous that it hasn't happened yet).

And I think there's one person we've all forgotten.

Consider the possibilities; it's a either a new character (so we have no way whatsoever of knowing who it is), one of the students, or... well, we haven't seen anybody else who would call him 'Gil' (aside from Bang, I guess, and we KNOW where she is). Except maybe... Bertie Wooster? That's my guess, anyways.

And yeah, that's one impressively fast tunneling machine. Either that or Grantz caught Othar just outside of Mechanicsburg or something.

edited Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:32:56 by TeChameleon

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#960: Feb 6th 2009 at 9:44:41 AM

It doesn't have to be an incredibly fast tunneling machine. If it's part of an army (and frankly, almost everything the Baron has is part of his army,) there'd have to be some way to communicate with the people in it while it's underway. Wherever Grantz was planning to meet the Baron and deliver Othar, all it would take would be one radio call or the sparky equivalent to tell her to bring him to Mechanicsburg instead. And I suspect that the Baron wanted Othar back anyway, just to get even with him for escaping Castle Wolfenburg. Once he found out what was going on in Mechanicsburg, he decided to use Othar instead of simply vivesecting him.

As to Bertie, that's a distinct possibility; he was last seen on the walls with Agatha when the warclanks attacked. Zeetha and Krosp were there, too, but they've hooked up with Gil while Bertie just disappeared.

And while browsing, I noticed that there's another old friend in the Castle: Doctor Merlot.

adam850 Since: Dec, 2009
#961: Feb 6th 2009 at 12:09:52 PM

Yes, the baron has the Heliolux Air Fleet which seems to be a semaphore system or something like that.

TeChameleon Since: Jan, 2001
#962: Feb 6th 2009 at 1:40:37 PM

... a mirror-and-lens system seems to me to be of dubious use in communicating with a tunneling machine >.>

Brickman Since: Jan, 2001
#963: Feb 6th 2009 at 3:55:02 PM

Alright. Once and for all: Castle Wulfenbach. Wulfenbach.

Anyways, I like the theory that it's Wooster. He's been charged with protecting Agatha but he completely disappeared about when Gil blew up the attacking robots, and everybody else is accounted for at this point except the Seneschal, his son, and Wooster. And he'd certainly refer to him as "Gil".

TeChameleon Since: Jan, 2001
#964: Feb 6th 2009 at 10:13:11 PM

Heh... tempted to start calling it "Castle Wulfenbeethoven" now, Brickman, just to see if I can make your head explode evil grin

Oh, and I'm going to take a stab at what the Yahoo GG group calls "Moxana points" (i.e. trying to predict what happens next) with the prediction that Malibu Heterodyne, Gil's group, and Agatha and crew will all run into one another at the same time. Hilarity Ensues.

Tangent128 from Virginia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
#965: Feb 7th 2009 at 12:16:01 AM

Incidently, are the Muses out of the plot for good, or will they show back up?

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TeChameleon Since: Jan, 2001
#966: Feb 7th 2009 at 12:18:31 AM

Well, given that Tinka's body was the basis for Mecha-Lucrezia, I'm thinking that they'll be plot-relevant once again at some point in the future; after all, Moxana decided that she was destined to serve Tarvek, the Storm King's heir.

And given that Tarvek's plot is nowhere near finished, I'd say it's a logical assumption that we'll see them again.

edited Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:18:53 by TeChameleon

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#967: Feb 7th 2009 at 5:22:48 AM

Why are you calling Zola "Malibu Heterodyne" ? Where does that first name come from?

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Haven Planescape Hijack Since: Jan, 2001
Planescape Hijack
#968: Feb 7th 2009 at 5:27:22 AM

@Medinoc: The Simpsons, I think. I lul'd.

Also, on this page, I love the little mimmoth peeking out in the second-to-last panel

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TeChameleon Since: Jan, 2001
#969: Feb 7th 2009 at 8:42:20 AM

... you know, I'm really not sure where I got "Malibu Heterodyne" from. I'd actually thought it was a Barbie reference, but apparently I'm getting my parodies mixed.

At first I thought I first heard it floating around on the Yahoo GG Group, but that might have just been me >.>

Maybe Haven is right, and it's just some sort of weird Simpsons flashback tongue

edited Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:42:36 by TeChameleon

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#970: Feb 7th 2009 at 12:55:26 PM

I assumed that it was a reference to Malibu Barbie. She was blonde and had an affinity for that particularly eye-shattering shade of pink.

Haven Planescape Hijack Since: Jan, 2001
Planescape Hijack
#971: Feb 8th 2009 at 7:31:10 PM

Oh, there actually was a malibu barbie? And here I thought it was just the Simpsons.

Anyway, here's another page. I bet before she caught herself, she was thinking of Lars.

Also, is it just me or does everyone look really weird in that third panel? Especially the smoke knight, who looks a lot taller than before (especially her legs), and has a very odd facial expression and posture. Moloch is kind of weird too, and is Tarvek trying to give the Vulcan salute, throw the horns, or make a ray gun with his right hand?

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Tangent128 from Virginia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
#972: Feb 8th 2009 at 7:45:51 PM

Well, the smoke knight is closer to the foreground... but yeah, certain details suggest that was one of those panels that just started out wrong.

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Brickman Since: Jan, 2001
#973: Feb 8th 2009 at 8:34:24 PM

Ok, why is Violetta walking on the railing rather than the floor? Is she just bored? Trying to prove she's not an oaf like Moloch? Worried the castle's gonna drop the floor unexpectedly?

Tangent128 from Virginia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
#974: Feb 8th 2009 at 8:44:11 PM

She's a ninja smoke knight. Ninjas Smoke knights do that.

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Haven Planescape Hijack Since: Jan, 2001
Planescape Hijack
#975: Feb 8th 2009 at 9:06:06 PM

Oh wow, I somehow missed that she was on the railing.

And Tarvek's hand is Pacman and the section of railing on the other side is just power pellets. Got it.

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