Girl Genius discussion OPEN SPOILERS

[thorny]

I think that's the under-minions who have to use fannish enthusiasm. Every proper madgirl/boy needs somebody who'll tell them off when necessary.

And I keep forgetting that a lot of these people just woke up -- and the last thing they remember is a very long time ago in our story time, and years even in the comic. Franz threw Gil out, at Agatha's instruction, right after Agatha re-energized the Castle; Gil had been attempting to "rescue" her by capturing her while she was doing so. Shortly after that she got thrown through the time portal.

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130111

[wavewright62]

2013??!!
Now I don't feel so bad about not remembering.

On the other hand, I bow to you and your scholarship!

[thorny]

It's more a matter of a vague memory followed by searching through the comic's function -- down some distance below the comic on the page there's a box where you can look for story sequences by titles. (It says "jump to a scene".) The titles are often kind of vague and each covers a number of pages; but if I can remember more or less in the sequence when something happened, I can usually hunt around for a bit and find what I'm after.

Also once in a while I reread chunks of the comic; so I expect I'd re-read that more recently than 2013. Agatha bringing down the lightning is one of my favorite bits.

[wavewright62]

Yes indeedy!  As you said, the jump-to-scene prompts are quite vague - many's the time I've gone looking for something and ended up doing a re-read of something different altogether.  (Sometimes the fandom wiki is faster.)