So, about the Sphinx Pox

[Ruck]

That strikes me as very, very unlikely. That’s a Book 1-style stunt, not a Book 6-7 one. Specifying that everyone on the Mechane has a potentially deadly, infectious plague and then never mentioning it again would be both not a very good joke and, much more importantly, awful writing.

I have much more faith in Rich than to assume he is such a dreadful writer.

The strip that mentioned it also specified an incubation period long past the documented time frame to get to the expected climax of the story. (Something that could be further confirmed if, say, Team Evil finds the final gate at the end of this book.)

I can't tell if you're serious or not. I'm leaning towards...not?

By all evidence, deuterio is reading an entirely different comic than everyone else.