Girl Genius discussion OPEN SPOILERS

[wavewright62]

(I think it means Phil Foglio draws not by anatomy but by Rule of Funny and/or Sexy) (and googly eyeballs in a corpse fall in there somewhere - so to speak)

[thorny]

Speaking of anatomy -- that Polar Lord skeleton doesn't have a human rib cage. Nowhere near enough ribs.

[wavewright62]

True.  Beats me why they would try to conquer Europa, you'd'a thunk they'd try to get decent ribs in Kansas City or the American (Americanum?) South.
*ba-dum-tish*

[thorny]

Is Lord Moncrieff being presented as non-binary or otherwise of nondeterminate gender, or am I just confused?

[wavewright62]

Tough to say, that may be the intention?  I don't know how much instruction, if any, Phil gives Cheyenne in working out any given character's colour palette, so is it the pink hair or just its overall swoosh?  No pronouns are used when speaking directly to a person, so there's no clue there.

Spoiler: anecdote about travel in london once upon a time • show

Maybe it's a British thing - way back in 1984 I travelled to London and was intrigued with the middle-aged ladies with pink and purple hair I could see on the tube.  It wasn't fashionable then, either.  *shrug*

[thorny]

It isn't primarily the hair; the face looks very female to me, but the chest is (very uncharacteristically for a Foglio woman) quite flat.

[thorny]

Update today explaining why there have been no updates.

Kaja is recovering.

[wavewright62]

Yeahhh, she was sick enough that she had to miss a major con, and that would have been a blow to their already parlous finances.

[thorny]

I didn't realize their finances are parlous. I wish mine were in better shape, so I could afford to send something.

[thorny]

A prediction:

The Heterodyne going where she was told not to go in 10 . . 9 . .  8 . . .

(Though, considering what work this is, it may be more pages than that.)

[thorny]

Looks like it's going to take fewer pages than I thought.

[wavewright62]

She is also using The Voice, which would account for the expressions of those behind her, I assume. 
Always something keeping Gil & Agatha apart, isn't there?

[thorny]

That, and the insult to their Mistress.

And she's got the entire Jaegar army out there right behind her, hasn't she? Not that the Heterodyne all on her own wouldn't be enough trouble. These people trying to bar the door aren't bright. Or they aren't educated. Or both. Wonder why Gil left them in charge -- or whether he didn't, and whoever's actually in charge is going to show up any minute.

[Buteo]

I'm guessing "whoever's actually in charge is going to show up any minute." It's hard to picture Gil leaving anyone this clueless in control of - well, anything.

For some reason I'm particularly impressed with Maxim's face. He is usually so... normal? for a Jager?-looking.
But any slight to Agatha will trigger him as fast as any other Jager.

Notice who we don't see in that last panel: Zeetha and (oh, floop - the Smoke Knight's name is refusing to surface)...

[thorny]

Violetta. (I drew a blank for a minute too.) And Neena, though I don't know how she is in a fight. And a certain cat of our acquaintance, who's been known to throw himself into a fight in defense of his subject.

Maybe they just don't all fit into the picture. Or maybe they've snuck around and found the back way in.