Girl Genius discussion OPEN SPOILERS

[thorny]

I don't have the reference to hand either; and what I remember is the scene in which there's an attempt to exterminate them and many are killed, but some are rescued -- including all those kits clinging to Tarvek. Does anybody remember what happened to those kits?

[Jitter]

Oh is the dome thingy actually the city in the time bubble? And Tarvek is just looking at it from height? I thought it was something that was to produce ”our batch”.

[thorny]

Are those Geisterdamen? Siding with the Jaegers? And what battle just happened -- or have I just forgotten about one recent in comic time but a whole long time ago IRL? -- no, I think we're now finding out that they've just had a fight, offscreen, with the Polar Lords. Have we met the Polar Lords?

And is there something just a little different about the artwork in these last few pages, or am I imagining things? I can't put my finger on it.

-- I don't know what the dome thingy is. If it is the city, then the city has just killed some wasps big enough for their bodies to have squashed the place. If those are legs-up dead wasps, and not something else going on.

[Jitter]

Looking at Wednesday page, I thought it’s some sort of dome thing in a large room and Tarvek is standing close to it. And yes looks like wasp bellies. But in panel 5 of Friday page, they are looking at an enormous dome over a field with lights, with mountains in the background and airships above.

I am now certain the done is the same on both pages, see the wall structure. The “wasp bellies” I can’t identify but they could be some sort of equipment attached to or placed on top of the wall. Tarvek is in one of the airships and his mention of “our batch” is not in relation to the dome, he just happens to take a look outside while discussing.

Do we remember anything about the time bubble? It appeared by surprise, but was is considered an attack or a neutral phenomenon?

[thorny]

The time stop was caused by Wulfenbach the elder; who caught himself in it, apparently deliberately, in the process. (He'd first put a version of himself into Gil.)

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130501

-- What he intended to accomplish by this is, as far as I can tell, still uncertain. It certainly stopped a battle; but he could have stopped that by leaving.

[thorny]

Ollie believes in consent -- and consent while not drunk.

Good person, Ollie!

[wavewright62]

And is there something just a little different about the artwork in these last few pages, or am I imagining things? I can't put my finger on it.

Looks to me like the inking is more delicate - but with the same pencils and colours.  Refresh my memory, but I was under the impression that Kaja does or has done the inks in the past?  A tiny archive shows the inks were not this delicate in 2022 or 2021, so not a reflection of how crazy busy Kaja has been.  Maybe they have a new assistant, or even one of the experiments?  I know their elder experiment helps with behind-the-scenes business stuff now.

[thorny]

The time stop was caused by Wulfenbach the elder; who caught himself in it, apparently deliberately, in the process. (He'd first put a version of himself into Gil.)

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20130501

-- What he intended to accomplish by this is, as far as I can tell, still uncertain. It certainly stopped a battle; but he could have stopped that by leaving.

It occurs to me: he not only stopped the battle, but he took Mechanicsburg out of any possibility of political action for as long as the timestop lasts -- and, he undoubtedly expected, everybody in it (a couple of people have been fished out since.) And he must have expected that to include Agatha. The only reason she wasn't caught in the timestop was that she was in the process of being abducted; and the timing even for that was so close that those of them going through the mirror didn't come out till several years later, due to interference from the timestop, which went into effect just as they were going through.

So maybe what he intended to do was to seal off both Mechanicsburg and the Heterodyne from Europe; possibly permanently, as he may not have realized the dangers of what he was doing. And he might well have thought that was worth sacrificing himself and leaving his empire to Gil.

[Jitter]

But Gil was caught in the timestop, although I can’t recall if this was something his father would have known or not.

[thorny]

No, I don't think he was. Tarvek was -- Gil was instrumental in getting him out.

Maybe I'm wrong. I'd have to go back and read through that.

[wavewright62]

Correct - tarvek was in the process of bleeding out and got rescued by Gil.  I think Gil was aloft?

[thorny]

Gil was very definitely outside Mechanicsburg. There's a batch of pages, not all of which even show him, but here's one:

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20131108

And here's Gil going in, after they think they've figured out how (not for Tarvek, yet):

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140516

and here he is fishing out Tarvek:

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160307

And I thought I was going to find out what happened with the weasels:

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160318

But this was as far as that conversation got.

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160321

And I need to be done re-reading stuff for a while, now.

-- oh, but I almost forgot: in hunting for that, I came across another page, and realized we'd been told straight out why the Baron trapped himself in Mechanicsburg.

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151130

[Jitter]

Oh I misremembered that it was Gil who was trapped and Tarvek getting him out. Oh well.

[wavewright62]

Great links, as always! (AWWWW)

[thorny]

How old is Princess Neena? Anybody have any idea?