Girl Genius XVI: The Wrath of Klaus

[The Glyphstone]

Zeetha's face is almost tolerable in this one.

[Lizard Lord]

Okay....when you adapt from one media to another certain things need to change. In a radio drama you need to say everything that is going on because otherwise people won't know. Comics, however, are a visual medium. They operate on a show don't tell policy.

I see no reason what so ever for the "He's hitting me with a hammer" line to stay in this and it actually looses its humor for me.

[HandofShadows]

Hammer Time!

[Agi Hammerthief]

strangely this interlude makes as much sense to me as the original storyline.

[wingnutx]

You know, I read all of spacetrawler, and it was great. Then he decided to change his art style for the new comic he started after spacetrawler, and I can't stand it.

I really hate it as well.

[eee]

Okay....when you adapt from one media to another certain things need to change. In a radio drama you need to say everything that is going on because otherwise people won't know. Comics, however, are a visual medium. They operate on a show don't tell policy.

I see no reason what so ever for the "He's hitting me with a hammer" line to stay in this and it actually looses its humor for me.

It would work if it were more exaggerated. "He's hitting me with a hammer! Ow Ow Ow! Hitting me! With a hammer! OW OW OW! HAMMER! HITTING! OW OW OW OW OW! HE'S LEAVING DENTS! SOMEBODY STOP HIM!!!"

Of course that would lead to a wall of text type speech balloon...

[eee]

I'm hearing a speeded up version of Verdi's "Anvil Chorus / Gypsy Chorus" right now.

Not the "Anvil Head Chorus": I've got no idea how that goes...

[BannedInSchool]

To the Hammer Space page!

Edit: link added just in case someone didn't know

[Traab]

I'm hearing a speeded up version of Verdi's "Anvil Chorus / Gypsy Chorus" right now.

Not the "Anvil Head Chorus": I've got no idea how that goes...

Odd, im hearing a variation of the 1812 overture and its cannon sequence. Just imagine every smack with a hammer is a cannon blast.

[BannedInSchool]

Hmm, Phil, Kaja, and the Experiments are apparently experiencing quite the storm on their semi-evacuated tropical vacation island: http://girlgeniusadventures.com

[Traab]

On the plus side, they seem to be rather enjoying it. I admit, a good storm can be a lot of fun to play in with the right mind set.

[sihnfahl]

I admit, a good storm can be a lot of fun to play in with the right mind set.

Yeah, playing outside during a Category 1 or 2 hurricane is rather interesting.

I draw the line at 3, personally.

[T-Mick]

So little time left... Will we miss a day?

Yeah, playing outside during a Category 1 or 2 hurricane is rather interesting.

I draw the line at 3, personally.

When Katrina went through Louisiana, we played outside through the whole thing. Though where I live, it was equivalent to about category 3-4.

[factotum]

So little time left... Will we miss a day?

What timezone are we talking? Because it's 7:45am in the UK and still no Friday strip...

[Porthos]

*pours a 40 for the death of one of the longest update streaks that I am aware of in drawn webcomic history*

April 18th, 2005 - January 29th, 2014

That's a pretty damn impressive streak that survived multiple health scares. Took a guest cartoonist to break it, it seems.

[Grif]

*pours a 40 for the death of one of the longest update streaks that I am aware of in drawn webcomic history*

April 18th, 2005 - January 29th, 2014

That's a pretty damn impressive streak that survived multiple health scares. Took a guest cartoonist to break it, it seems.

Does a guest cartoonist even count?

[Porthos]

Does a guest cartoonist even count?

If it didn't then the streak would have been broken when they went on vacation.

Still, I see your point. I imagine the arguments are already starting where they keep track of/care about such things.

Perhaps an asterisk will be applied when the Foglios start back up.

[petersohn]

While they never missed an update, I remember it sometimes being a day late.

[Porthos]

While they never missed an update, I remember it sometimes being a day late.

From what I recall they always hit with something by 11:59 pm Eastern Time M/W/F (even if it was a B/W pencil that was later colored in). I've missed a couple of days of checking here and there over the last few months or so. But I'm fairly sure the update still always hit by that time. Mostly because someone would have said something in this thread.

Might have come real close a couple of times (like minutes away), but as far as I am aware, this is the first actual for goodness slip.

NOTE: Can't always trust the days given on the archive pages, as I've noticed they can be a bit wonky at times, for whatever reason.

[Radar]

*pours a 40 for the death of one of the longest update streaks that I am aware of in drawn webcomic history*

April 18th, 2005 - January 29th, 2014

That's a pretty damn impressive streak that survived multiple health scares. Took a guest cartoonist to break it, it seems.

It's a very good update streak, but they have nothing on Howard Tayler - the author of Schlock Mercenary. He updates daily, started on June 12th 2000 and never missed a day. It took a fire in the server building to even delay his updates (as far as I remember). I have yet to see someone as orginised and inhumanly dependable.

[petersohn]

From what I recall they always hit with something by 11:59 pm Eastern Time M/W/F (even if it was a B/W pencil that was later colored in). I've missed a couple of days of checking here and there over the last few months or so. But I'm fairly sure the update still always hit by that time. Mostly because someone would have said something in this thread.

Might have come real close a couple of times (like minutes away), but as far as I am aware, this is the first actual for goodness slip.

NOTE: Can't always trust the days given on the archive pages, as I've noticed they can be a bit wonky at times, for whatever reason.

So the latest they delay is by midnight. In Europe, that makes it somewhere before dawn, the time when I would never read the update before next morning. That makes sense. I usually see the update on the afternoon, but sometimes in the evening or next morning.

[Porthos]

It's a very good update streak, but they have nothing on Howard Tayler - the author of Schlock Mercenary. He updates daily, started on June 12th 2000 and never missed a day. It took a fire in the server building to even delay his updates (as far as I remember). I have yet to see someone as orginised and inhumanly dependable.

I knew someone was going to bring up Schlock. which is why I said one of. The other ones that comes to mind are things like Skin Horse/Narbonic and Irregular Webcomic/Darths and Droids.

However, as massively impressive as Tayler's accomplishment is (and it is massively massively massively so), in my mind it's still not quite the same as knocking out a full page comic three days a week. How the hell the Foglios/Wright managed it for almost nine years, I haven't a clue. I think people underestimate how difficult that is.

Still, I have been expecting this for a while now. For the longest time, they had it up at precisely midnight MWF, nearly without fail. The longest they were ever delayed was for around 45 minutes or an hour (due to the aforementioned health emergencies).

However, in the last year, year-and-a-half or so, their Real Life schedule looks to have finally caught up with them. Instead of updating precisely at midnight, it would usually come up within a couple of hours of midnight. Often times though, it would update sometime during the actual day. And, as I said earlier, sometimes they made it by the skin of their teeth. In that time, I haven't once seen it up early (the now outdated Sneaky Gate).

Today is the first day that I am actually aware of that it has entirely slipped the update window. Maybe it was the guest cartoonist. Maybe it was Cheyenne not finishing the colors in time. Maybe it's the uploader. Don't know. But I do think it is worthy to note it's passing. If only to salute the accomplishment of knocking out a full page comic without fail for nearly nine years.

Technical Note: Yes, I am aware that they put up a repeat once (twice?) at Christmas. Meh. I am also aware that some might not count the paper doll strips as 'updates'. Double Meh.

So, as I said, I pour a forty out in acknowledgement of a damn fine accomplishment. No more, no less.

[BannedInSchool]

And for some of us who just got here, we're asking, "What do you mean no Friday update? It's right there!".

[eee]

I am pleased to see Zeetha is physically much superior to Othar. At least in this odd universe where Agatha can apparently unhinge her jaw...

[petersohn]

I like Agatha's expression on the last panel.

[HandofShadows]

No surprise at all that Zeetha can take Othar. Her skills are up near Gil's and Gil can take down Othar without a huge problem. And the last panel is great.

[Rockphed]

I can't tell if Othar is a complete moron or just really, really thick skulled. Either way, it is impressive that he can still think when the coup de sludge was about to be given.

[HandofShadows]

Very, VERY VERY thick skull.

[Gez]

I think Zeetha's hammers were meant to be smaller. Both Othar's incredulousness and Agatha's comment about the "proud race of carpenters" lead one to think the hammers were supposed to be tool-sized, not weapon-sized.

[HandofShadows]

Considering that tht duel with hammers, they are certainly meant for hitting other people and not nails.