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Re: Girl Genius - You're my creation and must obey my commands!
« Reply #630 on: 01 December 2017, 15:24:33 »
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« Reply #631 on: 04 December 2017, 01:22:39 »
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« Reply #632 on: 07 December 2017, 16:00:49 »
"Lady of refinement" ;D
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« Reply #633 on: 26 January 2018, 16:49:09 »
Looks like Bang has more fans than just us... :)
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« Reply #634 on: 27 January 2018, 00:02:08 »
The best part is she's winning while making a mockery of the assassin's trade. This is the most unprofessional killing i've ever witnessed, and I've dome some very stupid things with a Stinger. <3 <3 <3
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Re: Girl Genius - You're my creation and must obey my commands!
« Reply #635 on: 18 June 2018, 21:19:06 »
Arise, and wreak havoc on the world once more! Show them, show them all!!!

So here's a question. Many of the GG books are sitting in my FLGS on their half-off shelf, so naturally I've been steadily snatching them up. Came across an interesting bit in book seven, in the crypt of the Heterodynes:

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070810#.WyhnTvlOldZ

I've been thinking about it for ages, but I still don't get it. What is the significance of the timing of Klaus Heterodyne's birth and death? I keep looking for some hidden meaning, but I'm getting nothing. Am I looking too deep?
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Re: Girl Genius - You're my creation and must obey my commands!
« Reply #636 on: 18 June 2018, 21:30:13 »


I've been thinking about it for ages, but I still don't get it. What is the significance of the timing of Klaus Heterodyne's birth and death? I keep looking for some hidden meaning, but I'm getting nothing. Am I looking too deep?

Death?  Nothing other than he died when Lucy went nuts.  Birth?  Well, two YEARS would be an awfully long gestation period if the implication given by the name was actually real.  As it is, Klaus's name is a sign of the friendship the Heterodynes had with Wulfenbach and nothing more.

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« Reply #637 on: 18 June 2018, 21:32:27 »
So the only thing it's saying is that he definitely is NOT the Baron's son, nothing else?
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« Reply #638 on: 18 June 2018, 21:43:35 »
Death?  Nothing other than he died when Lucy went nuts.  Birth?  Well, two YEARS would be an awfully long gestation period if the implication given by the name was actually real.  As it is, Klaus's name is a sign of the friendship the Heterodynes had with Wulfenbach and nothing more.
i think the point was that people kept assuming that the Heir was Klaus's son.. despite the fact Klaus 'vanished' long before the kid could have been conceived, given his age.
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« Reply #639 on: 18 June 2018, 22:45:27 »
i think the point was that people kept assuming that the Heir was Klaus's son.. despite the fact Klaus 'vanished' long before the kid could have been conceived, given his age.

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« Reply #640 on: 13 July 2018, 08:29:26 »
How/When on Earth did they manage to kill THAT?!?
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« Reply #641 on: 13 July 2018, 16:49:29 »
Which?
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« Reply #642 on: 13 July 2018, 18:45:05 »
Upper left.
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« Reply #643 on: 13 July 2018, 19:05:19 »
...I assume the creator had a sudden Heart attack....
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« Reply #644 on: 18 July 2018, 08:51:25 »
Anyone else getting the impression that it's the RAEF doing the pillaging and regiciding? I have wonder if Albia is trying to reestablish contact with her peers, or if she likes her current state of having no effective peers on her level, and is taking steps to keep things that way. If so, Zeetha's probably VERY lucky that Skifander's queens are mortal these days...
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« Reply #645 on: 18 July 2018, 15:11:54 »
Anyone else getting the impression that it's the RAEF doing the pillaging and regiciding? I have wonder if Albia is trying to reestablish contact with her peers, or if she likes her current state of having no effective peers on her level, and is taking steps to keep things that way. If so, Zeetha's probably VERY lucky that Skifander's queens are mortal these days...
that was my first impression too.. but then i noticed the scenery and city style is totally different between panels 5 and 6, the people walking away from the burning city in panel 6 are clearly barbarians of somekind, not quasi-british, and the bit about Ubar and Queen Ishtar-Re clearly makes it sound like the city and its Queen was found intact.

that said, i wouldn't be surprised to find out that if the Royal Archeological Expeditions find one of these old kingdoms still living, but without their old immortal queens, that the next thing the Albion's do is send an conquering army to induct them into the Empire..

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« Reply #646 on: 05 August 2018, 23:10:10 »
I forget. Who did we identify the seaman whats-his-name is?
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« Reply #647 on: 05 August 2018, 23:11:47 »
I forget. Who did we identify the seaman whats-his-name is?

That's the "Unstoppable Higgs" A.K.A. "The Secret JagerGeneral"

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« Reply #648 on: 05 August 2018, 23:17:31 »
That's the "Unstoppable Higgs" A.K.A. "The Secret JagerGeneral"

Oh right. I was thinking something royal like king, but I forgot that general was what Strumvoraus called him.

I also looked him up. One of his previous ranks was (this is either old or your going to love this) Boatswain.

That is, Higgs, Boatswain.  ;D


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« Reply #649 on: 05 August 2018, 23:29:52 »
We all love Bosun Higgs. :)
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Re: Girl Genius - You're my creation and must obey my commands!
« Reply #650 on: 06 August 2018, 12:59:52 »
We all love Bosun Higgs. :)
I thought he was called airman Higgs ???

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« Reply #651 on: 06 August 2018, 13:29:05 »
I thought he was called airman Higgs ???

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Depends on where he shows up. I know he's had the rank of boatswain as well. I thought he might have been able seaman, but that might not be a correct recollection.
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« Reply #652 on: 06 August 2018, 17:31:35 »
Higgs' "bosun" rank was appended by fans who got a little carried away putting 2 and 2 to get 5, he's really just a lowly airman

I got to say, the bit a few pages back where he revealed himself was excellent

if anything can put the fear of Heterodyne in Tarvek, it's probably a secret Jagergeneral calling his bluff

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« Reply #653 on: 07 August 2018, 12:31:57 »
Higgs' "bosun" rank was appended by fans who got a little carried away putting 2 and 2 to get 5, he's really just a lowly airman
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« Reply #654 on: 07 August 2018, 12:35:54 »
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« Reply #655 on: 08 August 2018, 05:11:23 »
Is it unfair of me that I look at Schlock Mercenary and it's uninterrupted publishing history, and wish the Foglios would put in less filler?

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« Reply #656 on: 08 August 2018, 10:34:19 »
Is it unfair of me that I look at Schlock Mercenary and it's uninterrupted publishing history, and wish the Foglios would put in less filler?
I have to say yes, it is unfair of you. I enjoy most of the fillers, in particular their take on Cinderella and
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« Reply #657 on: 08 August 2018, 10:37:06 »
The way I would put it is that GG relies on a very lush art style that probably takes longer than the daily strip style Howard Taylor uses. Taylor is also unusually dedicated and disciplined to a degree that most artists and storytellers couldn't manage. Shoot, even print cartoonists who have to labor to keep up a two-week-plus buffer don't last this long. They tend to retire from the field, descend into mediocrity, or hand the strip off to another artist.
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« Reply #659 on: 29 August 2018, 10:41:43 »
"to make sandwiches, punch monsters"
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