Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!

[Scarlet Knight]

That sounds like one of Phil's other comics.

Since this is plain Girl Genius ( we have a seraglio for the other version), I'm putting my quatloos on having the beaus ( final number yet to be determined) drinking some kind of marker, then submitting their...um..."contestants" into an elaborate vat with a...ah...turkey baster. When the baby is born, it will then placed in a scanner which identifies the "fittest" father! For Science!

[Rogar Demonblud]

Given how this keeps spinning further and further out, I am beginning to suspect most of us will suffer Reader Existence Failure before we get to that point, if we ever do.

[Kantaki]

New comic

I love how Agatha it the only one looking exited.
Everyone else seems either nervous or ready to fight.
And the Vozzler is doing that thing where you give a really scary first impression.
Mostly obscured shadowy, not entirely human looking figure with glowy eyes?
That's either a fight or the friendliest guy ever.
My quatloos are on the latter.

[runeghost]

My money would be on an Agatha for each suitor, if it came to that...


...but my money is on this, namely one of the two dying heroically/tragically to save the rest of the end-stage protagonist group during the final showdown (however that ends up being).

My theory on that (which isn't of my own invention, I just can't remember where I originally read it), is that iin the original outline Tarvek was originally supposed to die somehow, but that the Professors have decided to keep him and so introduced Martellus to take his place (and his death).

[PraetorDragoon]

Looks like the world hasn't exploded yet. A succes!

New comic

I love how Agatha it the only one looking exited.
Everyone else seems either nervous or ready to fight.
And the Vozzler is doing that thing where you give a really scary first impression.
Mostly obscured shadowy, not entirely human looking figure with glowy eyes?
That's either a fight or the friendliest guy ever.
My quatloos are on the latter.

Vozzler was already a friendly guy to begin with, so an easy bet.

[DavidSh]

I'm figuring we're about due for two weeks of paper dolls, a Heterodyne Play, and a short bit with Othar, before we get the full revelation.

[Vinyadan]

With this one, I'm beginning to think that maybe "Kill all the sparks" was the right idea. I mean, the idea of one spark, in one room, doing something so extreme that it shunts all of the earth into another reality, why, that sounds like the premise of an anime series (or 20 :-)

The Vlozzer would have said something, however. He already foresaw the end of the world while in the cetacean's belly and warned the Sparks so that they could avoid it. In this case, there was little reason to believe it would have ended badly.

It's true that, in general, it makes you wonder why reality still exists. Maybe Sparks have some extreme fugue state that triggers to reverse their actions and avoid annihilation of reality by their own hands (like how one Heterodyne destroyed his machines when they summoned otherworldly creatures). Maybe that's a side result of having top sparks like Klaus or Albia or Voltaire, or minions like Violetta. From this point of view, Gil looks like a worrisome successor... But then, his daddy did too summon horrible interdimensional monstrosities.

[Fyraltari]

[sarcasm]
Turns out he's Agatha's son with Gil and Tarvek (yes, both) displaced in time.
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[Manga Shoggoth]

Actually, I'm thinking we are about to find out what the Dreen look like (at least , the younger ones).

[Kantaki]

Looks like the world hasn't exploded yet. A succes!



Vozzler was already a friendly guy to begin with, so an easy bet.

Could always be faked. Who knows how many „They are beginning to trust me. Soon I will be freed and then I will conquer THE WORLD! MUHAHAHAHA!“ scenes we missed on account of him being imperceivable.

Nah, not really, it's just, the whole presentation of the cliffhanger is so... “a wild villain appears” that even if he hadn't been presented as a nice guy I would've bet against it.
The villain thing, not him being friendly.

[Shining Wrath]

Vozzler is Lucrezia, copy #N for large N. You read it here first.

More likely those are the "I'm surprised by what just happened" eyes rather than the "I'm pure evil and about to start killing" eyes.

In fact, since we know time travel is on the table and Karl is out of sync with time, Karl may be one of the party's future selves.

[Rodin]

It's true that, in general, it makes you wonder why reality still exists. Maybe Sparks have some extreme fugue state that triggers to reverse their actions and avoid annihilation of reality by their own hands (like how one Heterodyne destroyed his machines when they summoned otherworldly creatures). Maybe that's a side result of having top sparks like Klaus or Albia or Voltaire, or minions like Violetta. From this point of view, Gil looks like a worrisome successor... But then, his daddy did too summon horrible interdimensional monstrosities.

Most Sparks aren't talented enough. Of the ones who are, most of them don't have the resources/education to create a world-killing machine. The story is focusing on the absolute top tier Sparks, and I've always had the impression that they are strong Sparks even by that standard.

Additionally, this world-ending machine is being created by several of said Sparks working together. That never happens.

[Rogar Demonblud]

At least not for any length of time. It starts out well enough, then somebody gets bored and acts out and minions are thrown into the fray and it's all "Kneel Before Von Fogg!!".

[Rockphed]

At least not for any length of time. It starts out well enough, then somebody gets bored and acts out and minions are thrown into the fray and it's all "Kneel Before Von Fogg!!".

The Von Foggs are vaguely based on the Foglios, right?

[Rogar Demonblud]

If you mean direct expys by vaguely, sure.

[Kantaki]

New comic

I want to be annoyed they're delaying the cliffhanger, but this made me smile.
Good for my (Christmas) mood.

[Lateral]

I'm figuring we're about due for two weeks of paper dolls, a Heterodyne Play, and a short bit with Othar, before we get the full revelation.

hit the nail on the head, huh

[geoduck]

New comic

I want to be annoyed they're delaying the cliffhanger, but this made me smile.
Good for my (Christmas) mood.

I was sorta expecting a scene change, and I don't mind holiday filler, but another flash-forward where they spend a month dancing around not revealing how the main story ends is going to be annoying. I really hope this is the last time they do this.

[eee]

"It's Christmas time, in Mechanicsburg
Ding a ling, the Doom Bell rings
Soon it will be End of Days!"

[Shining Wrath]

So the Foglios are descended from Oggie? Much becomes clear now. Soon the Experiments will manifest their Jagermonster powers, and then THEY'LL SHOW US ALL MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Or not. But anyway, cute strip.

We may not be in for a lengthy diversion - I can't blame them for serving up something frivolous while digesting Thanksgiving.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Considering the last side trek was for Ivo Sharktooth, PJ, I am quite fine with this.

[Manga Shoggoth]

Considering the last side trek was for Ivo Sharktooth, PJ, I am quite fine with this.

Really, the only digression I have disliked was the "Extra: Nonsense from Professoressa Foglio", and mercifully that was only Monday and Tuesday.

[Scarlet Knight]

Now I've got " boom boom boom let's go back to my room " playing in my head...

[Ellen]

Mental picture of our three favorite Jagermonsters standing in a field of the fallen singing The Chipmunks Christmas Song.

We've been good.
But, we can't last.
Hurry, Christmas,
Hurry fast.

[Radar]

Mental picture of our three favorite Jagermonsters standing in a field of the fallen singing The Chipmunks Christmas Song.

We've been good.
But, we can't last.
Hurry, Christmas,
Hurry fast.

They call it Christmas, where I'm from.
I kind of think, they would like this kind of family gathering.

[DaLucaray]

Honestly I'm just glad they're really keeping at the "Phil is one of Oggy's descendants" bit, digging in deep.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Well it's not Phil, just an expy of him. The real Phil is nowhere near that thin, for starters.

[Narkis]

Well it's not Phil, just an expy of him. The real Phil is nowhere near that thin, for starters.

So you're saying Phil got fat in his old age after he settled down.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Honestly, I've never seen a 'thin' picture of him.

[DaLucaray]

Well it's not Phil, just an expy of him. The real Phil is nowhere near that thin, for starters.

It's a known side effect of interdimensional travel. You've seen the documentary Into the Spiderverse, right?