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2020-04-13, 01:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-04-13, 06:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Yup - He's not doing embroidery with a frame (I can't see a frame anywhere), he's reparing his shirt - probably stitching up where it got in the way of a stab wound. You can't look sharp if your shirt is in ribbons.
I like the interplay here - Oggie is old enough that the attractive marriage option was the girl who could carry two pigs under her arms rather than the pretty one. And he very obviously cared about her.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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2020-04-13, 08:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
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2020-04-13, 09:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-04-13, 09:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
* my emphasis
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Things that don't kill me make me strong
Things that do kill me leave me dead
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2020-04-13, 11:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Fairly common. For a large chunk of human history, being able to do the work was more important than appearances. Modern Beauty Culture is a pretty late development.
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2020-04-13, 12:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Im betting she is stunning but only according to human tastes. Not enough fangs and claws for a proper sexy jaeger bride.
"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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2020-04-13, 01:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
It is in fact both: I am very aware of the principle, but I think Pratchett managed to encapsulate it nicely in words.
And lest we forget who the typical Jager pin-up girl is : 1, 2.
Andre doesn't seem to be caught up in appearances here. Now that I think of it, reading Andre's list of attributes, I do wonder why Madame Von Pinn has the Jager seal of approval, while none of them seem to be interested in Bang. Perhaps because they know her from their time in the castle and recognise her as (at least in part) a girl from home.Last edited by Manga Shoggoth; 2020-04-13 at 02:01 PM.
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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2020-04-13, 02:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Jaegers were nuts even back then.
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2020-04-13, 02:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
They like incredibly lethal and violent ladies, fangs and claws included. So I could see him hooking up with a relatively normal lady and this was him admitting that she isnt a jaeger 10, but she was sweet enough for him. We have seen them flirting with normal looking ladies, but they tend to really lose it for the scary ones.
"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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2020-04-13, 03:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-04-14, 01:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
An ugly woman in Girl Genius? Is that even allowed?
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2020-04-14, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-04-14, 03:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Looking through the back issues, the art style doesn't really lend itself to "ugly", so it's hard to tell, but there's the young Albia; I suspect that Mistress Spudna is not conventually attractive; Lillith is supposed to have asymmetric features (especially mismatched eyes); Da Gurls aren't exactly lookers, but with them it's hard to tell what is make-up.
Also the early drawings of Sanna and some of Zola (admittedly while on drugs) look somewhat off.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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2020-04-14, 04:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Phil's always had kind of a ... flexible approach to model consistency, and there's more than a few pages where characters are kind of deformed even when they're not being cartoonishly exaggerated in the middle of a fit of anger or yelling. Not sure how much any single page can be taken as a representative of what a character 'should' like like for this particular artist. (Although yeah mistress Spudna appears to basically be a football with a toothy mouth and is probably not many people's choice of beauty ideal.)
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2020-04-15, 12:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
New comic is up.
I'm not crying. You're crying!
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2020-04-15, 02:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
I kind of had flashbacks to the first ten minutes of Up! there...and one wonders just how long it's been since that last panel, given how long Jaegers live?
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2020-04-15, 04:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Oggie's wife died 74 years after conceiving their child. That's a long life there.
Given that the stroyteller is only Oggie's great-great grandson, I'd say fifty years-ish.Forum Wisdom
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2020-04-15, 05:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-04-15, 09:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
And if the Heterodynes remember you as someone who tells good jokes and sings good songs it is possible that they actually gave you the good medicine when you got sick. I personally guessed 94 for his wife's age at death, but anything between 90 and 120 is possible (albeit, having a child at 46 is unlikely).
As for how long it has been since his wife died, my mother's great, great, great, great grandfather died about 140 years ago, but she is the same age as someone who is 2 generations closer to him (i.e. he is her great, great grandfather). If Oggie and his wife had children after he took the Jaegerdraught or his descendents had children late in life it could push his age out by a fair bit.
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2020-04-15, 10:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
It's also a question of birth order. One of my parents was the youngest of the youngest, the other was the eldest of the eldest, so there was a full generation age gap between those great-grandparents.
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2020-04-15, 12:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
I think in the case I listed a large part of the generation gap was because my ancestor was one of the first kids (so born when 5-great grandpa was ~25) and the nth-cousin was a product of his old age (when 5-great grandpa was 70 or so and had just married a 20-year old).
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2020-04-16, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
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2020-04-16, 08:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
To make this simpler I will assign names to the people involved. My 5th-great-grandfather is John. He had 2 sons (well, 2 that matter in this case), named Fred (who he had at 25) and George (who he had at 70). Fred is my 4th-great-grandfather. George is my 4th-great-uncle and is the ancestor of my cousin-a-couple-times-removed who is my mother's age. I am not actually sure how many greats back it is, nor how many generations different it is, but the difference in generations is at least 2 and John is at least 7 generations back from me.
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2020-04-16, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
At that level of genetic drift, they essentially aren't related to you at all. But I think the term would be first cousin X times removed.
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2020-04-16, 10:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
My mother's brother and, let's call her Sue, Sue's brother would have almost identical Y-chromosomes, but otherwise relatedness is indeed rather low. And technically for a y-cousin z-times removed y is the minimum generations back to siblings and z is the difference between the generations to siblings. So my uncle's children are my first cousins, their children are my 1st-cousins once-removed, and my great-uncle's grandchildren are my second cousins. My great-uncle's children are also my first cousins once removed.
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2020-04-16, 03:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
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2020-04-17, 03:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Oggie gives good advice.
Okay, the specifics might be a bit odd, but, well, Jägermonster.
And in general it still applies."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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2020-04-17, 09:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Ah, good old Oggie - not so much the wrong end of the stick as the wrong end of the forest.
Interestingly, he refers to Higgs as "De kid", which suggests that Higgs is younger than him - but Higgs is a General, which seems to be a function of age.
And there is the suggestion that he is disappointed in him (for not growing horns and stuff).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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2020-04-17, 09:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Girl Genius XXVII: Hoy! Hennybody else not dead?
Maybe Higgs is "de kid" because he looks like one by Jäger standards.
I mean, all those features come with time, don't they?
Either that or he matured faster/was less wild from the start than the usual Jäger.Last edited by Kantaki; 2020-04-17 at 09:15 AM.
"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")