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2020-02-25, 02:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
It is a world ruled by Mad Science! Things happen. Usually, they happen to other people. This is entertainment. That's when the front door gets blown in- And you belatedly realize that, once again, you are doomed to be the entertainment in another exciting installment of: GIRL GENIUS!
Many elegant, finely-crafted, and vintage links follow:
Links to Previous Threads
SpoilerGirl Genius! (thread)
Girl Genius II
Girl Genius III: Nize Thread!
Girl Genius IV: Because SCIENCE! is my mistress
Girl Genius V: Madre de Diodes!
Girl Genius VI: Der Pestle in Der Kestle
Girl Genius VII: Get on the Slab, I Want to Get to Work!
Girl Genius: VIII Will Show Them All!
Girl Genius IX: The Unstoppable Thread
Girl Genius X: The Othar Shoe Drops
Girl Genius XI: Ding Dong, the Baron's Dead!
Girl Genius XII: For Doom The Bell Tolls
Girl Genius XIII: "Gott's Leedle Feesh in Trousers!"
Girl Genius XIV: A Lightning Arc in All But Speed!
Girl Genius XV: The Weasel, the Spark, and the Wardrobe
Girl Genius XVI: The Wrath of Klaus
Girl Genius XVII: And Then He Had Pie
Girl Genius XVIII: Invisible Hand of the Legendary Smoke Knights
Girl Genius XIX: Worth a Third of Your Grade
Girl Genius XX: Endothermic Life Forms Are Inherently Heretical
Girl Genius XXI: Cancel the Jugglers
Girl Genius XXII: Paris Needs Pants
Girl Genius XXIII: Screaming, Ranting and Egregious Violence
Girl Genius XXIV: Ask Vit a Bit More Terror
Girl Genius XXV: It needs work! BUT THE CONCEPT IS SOUND!
Girl Genius XXVI: Madness is the best possible response
Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Comic Links
Link to current comic and link to the beginning of the strip. (Updates MWF, usually after Midnight [Eastern Time])
The Continuing Adventures of Othar Tryggvassen, Gentleman Adventurer! (back on hiatus, may update in the future)
A compilation (and much easier to read if you're just catching up) of the first three chapters can be found here at the GG website.
And if one goes to snapbird.org and types in "Othar" in the 'Who?' field, all of Othar's adventures can be read on one page (albiet in reverse order of posting - Now must have a Twitter account to use).
Mirror of the comic found on LiveJournal (No longer being updated as of Mid-May, 2017)
Mirror of the comic found on Facebook (Will occasionally have Girl Genius related news)
And one can find mirrors of Girl Genius on deviantArt as well. (Occasionally Kaja will put up or link to interesting GG related art that is found on dA)
Reference Links
Wiki Project devoted to to Girl Genius
Wikipedia entry on Girl Genius.
TV Tropes page on Girl Genius.
The Secret Blueprints (NOTE: Contains background information on the GG Universe, so it should probably be read after "catching up" to the newest comic, as it contains many spoilers.)
Social Media and News Links
Phil Foglio's new Wordpress art, news, and blogging website.
Kaja Foglio's LJ Page and Studio Foglio News LJ Page (Not currently being updated)
Kaja & Phil's Personal Facebook Page (Not currently being updated)
A twitter account that basically is a catch-all feed for Girl Genius related news.
Cheyenne Wright's Twitter and LiveJournal Accounts (The colorist's twitter and LJ pages)
And finally,
Phil's old LJ page. (Occasionally contains crossposts from the Wordpress website)
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Q: What is this "Sneaky Gate" y'alls go on about?
Sneaky gate: Named from this hidden gate in comic, it has become a name for viewing new comics early. Remember, if you're going to discuss the new comic, put it in spoiler boxes until the release time (12am EST).
Sneaky Gate 101:
- Right click the comic image.
- Select view image or copy paste the image location into the address bar.
- Modify the date to be the day you're trying to look at. (ex. 20120111 -> 20120113)
- Go to the modified url.
- Be disappointed when there's no early comic to read.
- Alternately, enjoy the comic!
Last edited by Manga Shoggoth; 2020-02-25 at 02:44 PM. Reason: Adding current thread
Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2020-02-25, 06:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Hoy, anybody else find the new thread?
Continuing recent conversation: is it a retcon that Zeetha got dosed with the Jagerdraught? Do we care? Does this make her a more or less suitable warrior princess? Will her family notice any change in her behavior when she gets back home?
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2020-02-25, 06:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
She's been gone for years at this point. Maybe it would be better to ask if they'll even recognize her.
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2020-02-25, 07:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
While she had been gone for years she hasn't changed/aged that much since we first saw her. Visiting Skif will be interesting enough I think with Gil being there.
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2020-02-25, 07:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
More of a confirmation, I think? There were always some implications that both Gil and Zeetha's miraculously fast recoveries involved some risky techniques, and it's pretty natural to assume that miracle cures in the place where the Jaegers go to get patched up probably involve the Jaegerdraught.. I think before I at least had assumed it was a derivative treatment or something developed from the draught and not the 'well it'll probably kill you but if not you get to be superhuman' draught itself.
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2020-02-25, 08:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
If the Baron is a Jäger now, that could be interesting.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-02-25, 10:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
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2020-02-26, 12:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Klaus loaded Gil up with all kinds of extras, including (probably, per Gkika) Jager tech.
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2020-02-26, 01:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
so did Gil figure it out?
what’s with the Anima?* my emphasis
http://dmreference.com/SRD/
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/
Things that don't kill me make me strong
Things that do kill me leave me dead
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2020-02-26, 01:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-02-26, 02:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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* my emphasis
http://dmreference.com/SRD/
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/
Things that don't kill me make me strong
Things that do kill me leave me dead
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2020-02-26, 02:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-02-26, 04:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Poor Higgs. Gil had him "out spied". Of course Gil did the same thing to England's greatest spy as well. I think it's great that Agatha thought Gil would figure it out and is happy she was right.
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2020-02-26, 09:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Of course, other than the Doylist reason (to reveal it to the audience, and to take some air out of Higgs' sails), Gil did just reveal that he knew all along for no particularly clear gain (maybe he really does need to talk to Higgs about the details for as of yet unexplained reasons, or he's telegraphing to them all 'we're all on the same team here, look at me laying my cards on the table').
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2020-02-26, 10:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
I think that the problem is that he now is a public figure and a ruler. As a ruler, it's best for him if people accept that he is an exceptional individual, so going against him is ill-advised. It also sends a message to Mr Spymaster: "you can't hide things from me, so you can save yourself the trouble and just tell me."
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-02-26, 10:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Knowing Gil, he probably had a number of good reasons for doing what he did. Which is always a good way of doing things.
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2020-02-26, 11:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Heh. Gil is great at having knowledge he shouldn't have.
Or at least looking the part."If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
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2020-02-26, 12:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-02-26, 12:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
So when did Gil find out? You'd think that his Klaus overlay would have reacted badly to the knowledge, so perhaps he figured it out post-removal.
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2020-02-26, 12:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
I think one of my favorite things about this is the degree to which Gil is "We can talk about this when you feel comfortable" vs Tarvek's needling Higgs over it to show he knows.
He had plenty of opportunities to pick up clues. Higgs was around him when he was messing around in the time-stopped Mechanicsburg, specifically when they pulled Vole out.
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2020-02-26, 12:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
I find that Tarvek really doesn't make sense. He has a personality/informed attribute disparity. This kind of behavior (which is absolutely on-brand for the character we see) should have him dead a thousand times over as the 'weaselly little snake who just happens to be on the protagonist's team' character we're told he is.
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2020-02-26, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
I think he knew since Der Kastel arc or at least suspected it strongly as on This Page. And remember, he found Higgs is a Mamma's Bar so he had a lot more info than Tarvek. The Klaus overlay didn't know what Gil knows, so if Gil were careful (and you can bet he was) Klaus shouldn't have been able to figure it out. Would not surprise me if Gil wasn't making feeding info to Higgs to allow some supplies to "go missing" to the residents of Mechanicsburg in the tunnels.
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2020-02-26, 03:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-02-26, 06:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
One possibility I like is that he figured out that Higgs is something that works for the Heterodyne but he isn't fully confident that he knows what Higgs is. Thus the details. Mostly I like that so he actually doesn't know everything.
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2020-02-26, 07:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
More than likely, since Higgs is, as he stated, an anomaly. He's the SOLE person to have drunk the jaegerdraught who didn't die OR visibly become a monster.
So everyone's thought would be that he's some sort of experiment, but not that he was a jaeger - cause jaeger = pointy teeth + claws, maybe horns...May you get EXACTLY what you wish for.
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2020-02-27, 01:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-02-27, 03:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-02-27, 04:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Weren't Jenka's fangs literally ripped out by the Storm King? I think she complained about it to his corpse.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-02-27, 05:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-02-27, 06:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
This might actually be closer to the truth than anyone realizes. Or hell, Gil might even actually suspect Higg's true nature, but decided it wasn't a problem, relevant or otherwise worth making a fuss or letting Higgs know that he knows, specially since it'd mean losing such competent minion.
Remember for a moment how he knew Wooster was British Intelligence: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060303