Girl Genius XXII: Paris Needs Pants

[SZbNAhL]

I'd settle for any Buck Godot, given that it's offline.

This sort of thing is what the Wayback Machine was invented for.

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OhMyGodThankYouSoMuchForThatWaybackLinkHowMuchOfTh eComicIsThereLetMeRefillMyCoffeeMug

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AhYes,TheTopLineHere:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110102...?date=20070203

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Even What's New is there. Here is my second favorite (this and the next page): Fantasy vs Sci Fi:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110706...?date=20070617

And my favorite:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140423...?date=20071202

[eschmenk]

Also, Phil's Myth Adventures, too.

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I love how, in Myth Aventures, Ahz complains about being stranded and powerless, and suddenly changes 180 at the top of the next page.

[factotum]

You can definitely tell we're into a hiatus between books, can't you?

[keybounce]

We need to think of the next book when we name threads next time.

[Rogar Demonblud]

That's a long ways down the road.

[Rockphed]

We need to think of the next book when we name threads next time.

We could have gone with "Not in Paris, In Seine by Default".

[Rogar Demonblud]

That's why a lot of us voted for that one. We aren't even 200 posts into the new thread and the title is already in the dust behind us.

[eschmenk]

Paris will always need pants, won't it?

[Rogar Demonblud]

Unless they man up and switch to kilts like proper warriors.

[factotum]

Paris will always need pants, won't it?

Yeah, but by the time we get to page 50 (probably a year or two down the line, at the speed threads in this subforum usually develop) they won't be in Paris anymore, and thus anything referring to Paris will be irrelevant. I mean, you could call the next thread Girl Genius XXIII: Sky is Blue and it would definitely be *true*, but wouldn't necessarily be relevant to the comic or the thread itself.

[Kantaki]

Girl Genius XXIII: Sky is Blue

I like it. Vote.

[keybounce]

Careful, we might be underwater by then -)

[eschmenk]

Yeah, but by the time we get to page 50 (probably a year or two down the line, at the speed threads in this subforum usually develop) they won't be in Paris anymore, and thus anything referring to Paris will be irrelevant. I mean, you could call the next thread Girl Genius XXIII: Sky is Blue and it would definitely be *true*, but wouldn't necessarily be relevant to the comic or the thread itself.

GG is quicker than many many. The last thread lasted about six months. By then we should be more than half way into the next book and whatever happens will probably give us some ideas, like what usually happens.

I don't know if we will see much of Paris before then or not. Agatha looked very ready to go, but as far as we know Gil and Vol and Higgs are still en route, so Paris may still be relevant at least at times.

Careful, we might be underwater by then -)

Well, that would just make the sky color even more irrelevant. Kantaki might like the Sky is Blue title even better.

That's why a lot of us voted for that one. We aren't even 200 posts into the new thread and the title is already in the dust behind us.

You aren't remembering correctly. That exact one wasn't even suggested. Perhaps you were thinking of this one instead:

Well, since it's likely we will be done with the Paris arc before our next thread, I've got an alternative to suggest:

Girl Genius XXII: No Longer In Paris, But Always In-Seine
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That didn't have other people voting for it either, though, unless your comment was intended to be a vote. The original "Girl Genius XXII: In-Seine by Default" got a lot of votes, but not anything that said anything about not being in Paris anymore.

[Kantaki]

Even under the waves the sky's still blue.

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Can an archive genius find the page where the Jaggers were saying something about "It's one of those plans. A plan where you have to kill everyone is not a good plan"?

[Kantaki]

Can an archive genius find the page where the Jaggers were saying something about "It's one of those plans. A plan where you have to kill everyone is not a good plan"?

Do you mean this one?

[keybounce]

Yes; that was fast. Thank you.

[eschmenk]

New update: It looks as if the story title is given in the lower left corner, but I can't read it it very well. "Ivo Sharkteeth P.1" is the best I can come up with, but I doubt that's right.

[Lethologica]

New update: It looks as if the story title is given in the lower left corner, but I can't read it it very well. "Ivo Sharkteeth P.1" is the best I can come up with, but I doubt that's right.

I see "Ivo Sharktooth PJ P001".

[factotum]

Yeah, I get that as well.

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Is a snail race (taking months to reach the end) a reference to Mechanisburg being timelocked, and needing months (years) to do anything?

I mean, it's not like these will turn out to be mechanical clank snails that activate "Turbo" mode, right?

[Rockphed]

Is a snail race (taking months to reach the end) a reference to Mechanisburg being timelocked, and needing months (years) to do anything?

I mean, it's not like these will turn out to be mechanical clank snails that activate "Turbo" mode, right?

I suspect the snail race will take all day, but I don't think it will take months to end.

On the other hand, mechanical clank snails that have powerups and turbo mode sounds awesome. You just don't want to be the first one to activate (because then you are ahead and an easy target).

[eschmenk]

There have been quite a few references regarding snails in Mechanicsburg, especially as food. The GG wiki has a page about them. I think snails were used in the race because of their association with Mechanicsburg and because of the obvious humor. I doubt there is any sort of metaphorical meaning.

ADDED: Come to think of it, in What's New, there was an evil snail that was ordered to deliver a message which spent quite a few updates crawling across the bottom of subsequent pages.

Also notice that Agatha and Krosp made a guest appearance there, too. (That was second iteration of What's New, in 2000.)

[Porthos]

Even in the future, Agatha hasn't learned not to ask certain questions.

SMDH.

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That said, she has gotten quicker on the uptake when her staff is freaking out, so that's a plus.

[Rockphed]

Are we about to see Othar as a civil servant?

[The Glyphstone]

I think we are about to meet the titular Ivo Sharktooth.

[keybounce]

Are we about to see Othar as a civil servant?

Darn, wasn't fast enough :-)

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WOW, thank you for that link to What's New. I did not know that there was life after Dragon. What new What's New comics will I read now?

And ... Wall of Mice? Was there really such a card?

EDIT: Magic cancelling out the trade deficit? ... Umm ...

[rooster707]

Are we about to see Othar Tryggvassen, GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER! as a civil servant?

FTFY. /10chars