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
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
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?
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.
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
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
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.
Yes, the baron has the Heliolux Air Fleet
which seems to be a semaphore system or something like that.
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".
Heh... tempted to start calling it "Castle Wulfenbeethoven" now, Brickman, just to see if I can make your head explode
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.
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
Planescape Hijack
@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
Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count Dorku... 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
edited Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:42:36 by TeChameleon
Planescape Hijack
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?
Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count Dorku

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.