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2020-12-01, 11:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
Actually, now that the experiments are adults, I would not be surprised to see expys of them show up. Heck, I'm looking forward to it.
Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2020-12-02, 12:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
Awwww.
Oggie really is sweet.
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2020-12-02, 01:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
And he's smart.
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2020-12-02, 08:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2007
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- In the mind.
Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
Looks like Stroppy or Bloodfang already made it to the party, so that excuse definitely wouldn't have worked. First panel
If you want a OotS style Touhou avatar, send me a request.
Steam name: memnarch. Same avatar.
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2020-12-02, 02:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
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2020-12-02, 03:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
Phil is documented as having been more svelte back in 1979.
See this photo from Seacon. http://fanac.org/photohtm.php?worldcon/Seacon/w79h003Last edited by DavidSh; 2020-12-02 at 03:17 PM.
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2020-12-04, 06:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
New comic
So his stories are really, really boring then?
Also, it's Mechanicsburg, of course the Jägermonsters are popular."If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
Ronkong Coma "the way of the bookhunter" III Catacombium
(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")
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2020-12-04, 06:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2017
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- France
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
Yes. Yes, they are.
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2020-12-04, 11:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2006
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- England. Ish.
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
There are so many hilarious things about that sequence, especially in retrospect: He is annoyed about having to put the children in the hospital to sleep - He seems a lot happier about telling stories to the family children. The exchange about Burgermeister Zuken... And the fact that the Baron is pulling a fast one in front of Lucrecia after being wasped.
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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2020-12-04, 03:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2013
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- Pacific NW
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
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2020-12-07, 01:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Therinos
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
...Why do I get the feeling I know where this is going?
Spoiler: New comicIs it just me, or is this insistence on walking home alone so they can provide themselves as a target for muggers or malcontents who want to use the time to assassinate the Heterodyne? Only to be (probably violently) rebuffed? Either by the Heterodyne themselves or, far more likely, by the townsfolk or by the Castle. My money's on the Heterodyne unflinchingly walking through Castle-induced chaos as a group of assassins are dismantled. Or some similar sort of macho display.
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2020-12-07, 02:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
Yanno, for all the speculation about who Agatha is going to end up with ...
This story, and other side-stories, are set much later, when it's implied that Mechanicsburg has been freed, and Agatha is busy off saving the world in her happily ever after ... and she's not with anyone. I had to dlouble-check the first strip of this interlude, but even there it says it's "her" first year back, and that "she" got there in time to save Zagreb - no "they". Granted, only the Heterodyne is going to be important to Mechanicsburgers ... but even in interludes like the Weasel Queen/the frogs, there's just her, Zeetha, Krosp and Othar.
I get that they want to avoid spoilers, but now I'm seriously wondering ... Before they fell for Agatha, Gil was set up as "okay, you want to call me evil, I don't care" in the beginning, Tarvek was not the most well-intentioned to start off with ... I wonder if she's going to have to actually defeat them both (as well as Martellus) before the story ends?
(Okay, this might be my least coherent post so far. Sorry!)I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.
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2020-12-07, 04:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2017
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2020-12-07, 07:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2010
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- right behind you
Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2020-12-07, 09:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
Quick interruption from the solstice fun--- tinfoil hat time!
The eyes in the mist in the harmonic chamber will turn out to beSpoilerMoloch von Zinzer's.
Turns out that Mechanicsburg's big ol' visitors assimilated the place and scrambled them up.
Agatha's experiments simply 'unscrambled' him so Mechanicsburg can still remain frozen while he can gallivant with her again.
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2020-12-07, 11:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
I think it will set up some "Heavy is the head that wears the crown" story...
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2020-12-07, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
Gil is specifically mentioned in "Personal Trainer". 3rd page, with a smile.
Not sure. I think it's more that they don't have any friends or close family because of the way they act, not because they are rulers. Higgs mentions that at one point when he's taking Zeetha to Mama's after she got stabbed.Member of the Giants in the Playground Forum Chapter for the Movement to Reunite Gondwana!
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2020-12-07, 12:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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- England. Ish.
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
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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2020-12-07, 01:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
Might be something slightly silly/embarrassing.
Like the Heterodyne has that collection of plushies he doesn't want them to see or he goes to the (normal) petting zoo.
You know, because even a brutal mad scientist-warlord that spends his days pillaging and burning Europa needs at least one day he spends with something cute and cuddly."If it lives it can be killed.
If it is dead it can be eaten."
Ronkong Coma "the way of the bookhunter" III Catacombium
(Walter Moers "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher")
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2020-12-07, 02:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
Or they're just making sure the help are getting a holiday party without the boss hanging over their shoulders. As has been noted, the Heterodynes are fairly good bosses for Sparks.
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2020-12-07, 06:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2006
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- Watching the world go by
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
Just remember that the "for sparks" caveat is there for a reason.
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2020-12-07, 08:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
The impression I get of Girl Genius history is that the Sparks are always in charge. Even the noble families we've seen have had Sparks either at their head or wielding power behind the throne - Sturmvoraus, Blitzengaard, Mongfish, etc.
The Heterodynes just happened to be the strongest Sparks around. They might have been a little bit better than their contemporaries, but the main advantage is that they can beat up all the other nutters. Mechanicsburg's love of them is down tonaturalSCIENCTIFIC! selection as much as anything else.
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2020-12-07, 11:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
And the Heterodynes actually view Mechanicsburg as a place to take care of instead of just run into the ground. Witness Agatha, who had never been there in her life, deciding to defend the place by every means possible, improbable or even impossible.
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2020-12-08, 02:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Watching the world go by
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
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2020-12-08, 05:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2007
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- Greece
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2020-12-08, 06:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
Assassins probably.
They had a functional Castle, so a general attack would have been unlikely to succeed, but they took power young, so the possibility of assassination would certainly have appealed to someone thinking they were unready for the position. I can easily see Bill and Barry 'freestyling' someone into a long terminal fall off the battlements in under two minutes.
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2020-12-08, 08:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2010
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2020-12-08, 10:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
No, Zulenna's family had sparks in it, she wasn't one though. We found out that she was Tarvek's cousin and that he actually liked her.
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2020-12-08, 11:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
It's also because, while Mechanicsburg is pretty high on the Invincible Fortress scale, the Heterodynes know it is the last place they can fall back to.
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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2020-12-08, 11:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2007
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Re: Girl Genius XXVIII: Dancink! Ve is here for de dancink!
I think it's just that the Sturmvarious/ Valois conspiracy is pretty intermarried within the noble families of europe, as was not uncommon. (Remember, by the time of WWI, the monarchs of England, Germany, and Russia were all first cousins). The noble families seem to exist as non-sparky power structures.
Besides, it seems that "Grandmama" is the de-facto head of the Sturmvarious Network, and we've seen no indication that she's a spark.
Similarily, The Storm King Himself didn't seem to be a Spark.
It seems that there's four main modes of political organization.
1) Immortal God-Kings, like Albia or The Master of Paris
2) Sparky Nobility, like the Heterodynes, Sturmvarious or Wulfenbach families. A noble family that is ALSO a family with a high instance of Sparks (The genetics of the spark are unclear, but certain families seem to have a higher incidence of being Sparks. Plenty of the Valois line women appear to be sparkless, but it seems that every Heterodyne is. Klaus was looking into the origins of the Spark, so I doubt it's as simple as a recessive gene)
3) What I'll call "Free Sparks", warlords, Professor Beatle, ect. Sparks who just kind of rise to power on their own right. It's possible that this is only common due to the instability of the Long War, which allowed a spark to set up their own petty barony without a starting power base.
4) Non-Sparky nobles, although usually with sparky allies, or lesser sparks in their employ. They seem to be the oldest power structure (Exempting things like Albia and the Heterodynes), who still hold a lot of power and influence just by equipping troops with commonly available tech, even if they don't have Sparks building monsters and doomsday clanks for them.
With the exception of the Heterodynes, it doesn't' surprise me that the noble families, Sparky and otherwise, are commonly intermarried in the usual political marriage game.
We also don't really get much of a sense that houses like Sturmvarious are always led by a Spark. Tarvek and his father were both Sparks, but we know nothing about any uncles or prior generations. It's possible that Nobility is Nobility, and Sometimes You're A Spark, and noble sparks are far more likely to receive support and education and survive their breakthroughs compared to poor sparks, so they have a higher incidence of survival/power.
While any noble family that wants to compete probably wants ACCESS to useful sparks, it's not clear that it's important to actually be LED by them. A handy relative, or even hired servant making monsters in the basement may even be preferable to having your leader occasionally consumed with a desire to build dancing spiderfrogs. Sure, Sparky Charisma can be useful, but the noble families are probably able to train up loyal minions the old fashioned way.Last edited by BRC; 2020-12-08 at 11:35 AM.