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    Quote Originally Posted by wingnutx View Post
    He like 'em sturdy.
    The official term is callipygian.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Radar View Post
    The official term is callipygian.
    "Rubenesque" might be more accurate. "Callipygian" only covers one specific portion of anatomy, rather than the gestalt.

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    Aww, issa Dingbot Prime! Let's let it loose and see what happens!
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    Aww, issa Dingbot Prime! Let's let it loose and see what happens!
    It's more than that.

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    I like little Kestlebot and Trainbot's interactions. "Let me teach you about sematics" indeed.
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    Yay, the little guy is still alive!!

    Stop talking, you two yahoos, and let it out.

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    Never thought the little thing would resurface again.

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    That is one long callback and I am sure it was planned. I think this raises some scary implications. These guys had agents in the Empire before everything went pear shaped and clearly know more than we thought they knew. Also since that bot had a lot of info on the Other it raises the possibility that the monster these people are trying to summon may be Lucrezia.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HandofShadows View Post
    That is one long callback and I am sure it was planned. I think this raises some scary implications. These guys had agents in the Empire before everything went pear shaped and clearly know more than we thought they knew. Also since that bot had a lot of info on the Other it raises the possibility that the monster these people are trying to summon may be Lucrezia.
    Considering the situation in paris it would only make sense that england as well as a lucrezia problem that agatha will bring to light. Immortal beings who are sure of their omnipotence tend to start missing things because of their assumed superiority. Of course this applies to lucrezia as well most likely. I honestly wonder if this is going to end up forming a new version of the cabal we learned about in paris where everyone unites to face down the other this time. I mean, albia already has learned, holy crud, this may be the same being that murdered my fellow queens, learning that she managed to infiltrate her kingdom for lord knows how long may also persuade her that she has to move directly to destroy lucrezia, and do so as part of a group effort. Im sure the mistress of paris will agree as well once she has had some time to get her house in order. And of course gil is already fighting her. Even martellus, if tarvek doesnt somehow supplant him, would probably be willing to work with them on this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Traab View Post
    Considering the situation in paris it would only make sense that england as well as a lucrezia problem that agatha will bring to light. Immortal beings who are sure of their omnipotence tend to start missing things because of their assumed superiority. Of course this applies to lucrezia as well most likely. I honestly wonder if this is going to end up forming a new version of the cabal we learned about in paris where everyone unites to face down the other this time. I mean, albia already has learned, holy crud, this may be the same being that murdered my fellow queens, learning that she managed to infiltrate her kingdom for lord knows how long may also persuade her that she has to move directly to destroy lucrezia, and do so as part of a group effort. Im sure the mistress of paris will agree as well once she has had some time to get her house in order. And of course gil is already fighting her. Even martellus, if tarvek doesnt somehow supplant him, would probably be willing to work with them on this.
    Martellus has shown himself more than happy to work with Agatha in the past (cf. The Beast, Andronicus Valois), but I can't see him working with Gil willingly, much less Tarvek. Also, Colette's very emphatically the Master.

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    I don't think it's arrogance on Albia's part. She does rule a might nation as well as being immortal. She just didn't remember who had killed the other queens because she hadn't looked at her memories from that time. If you had several thousand years of memories you would miss a lot as well. Especially from a thousand of years ago. On the other hand with Lucrezia I think you are correct. She is arrogant to the extreme and apparently it's already come back to bit her a bunch of times, but she doesn't learn.
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    could be Lucratia got stuck in time back when she tried to kill Albia?

    anyone got a link to when Fly Dingbot last came up?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Agi Hammerthief View Post
    could be Lucratia got stuck in time back when she tried to kill Albia?

    anyone got a link to when Fly Dingbot last came up?
    That would be here, with the chase sequence beginning here

    And I'm pretty sure Lucrezia got stuck in time when Van Rijn captured her.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Agi Hammerthief View Post
    anyone got a link to when Fly Dingbot last came up?
    That would be here, with the chase sequence beginning here[/URL]
    Tiny correction, it's very few comics later, here.

    And soon afterwards, Wooster showed up in the circus. I assume that it was him who found the Dingbot and that it gave him the first hints towards Agatha in Sturmhalten. And that's how the Dingbot wound up in Britain. Not sure if Albia had discarded the bot as unimportant, so her researchers could have it? And also not sure, if said researchers have already understood that the Dingbots are little sparks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HandofShadows View Post
    I don't think it's arrogance on Albia's part. She does rule a might nation as well as being immortal. She just didn't remember who had killed the other queens because she hadn't looked at her memories from that time. If you had several thousand years of memories you would miss a lot as well. Especially from a thousand of years ago. On the other hand with Lucrezia I think you are correct. She is arrogant to the extreme and apparently it's already come back to bit her a bunch of times, but she doesn't learn.
    The arrogance is in assuming that because you have always been so far above the common rabble you always will be and dont have to keep pushing. The master as an example was basically the god of paris. You couldnt litter without him knowing about it. In his case though it was less arrogance and more the sheer march of time forcing his omnipotence to wane. For albia, to go against her has been literally unthinkable for a very long time. How long has it been since she had to enforce that reality last? When she was last tested not by an army of invading mutant squid, but by secret agents moving in shadow and silence? Carefully obscured plots that in turn even more carefully hide the real goals?
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    great thanks for the link. damn long time ago.
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    12 years 7 months and 14 days. That's got to be in the Top Ten.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar Demonblud View Post
    12 years 7 months and 14 days. That's got to be in the Top Ten.
    We'll see Zulenna again some day, and that's gonna beat all records.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Radar View Post
    The official term is callipygian.
    That just means "beautifully buttocked", without defining what beautiful buttocks exactly are, so it's subjective. Some like big butts (and cannot lie, yes), others prefer slim butts.

    Quote Originally Posted by geoduck View Post
    "Rubenesque" might be more accurate. "Callipygian" only covers one specific portion of anatomy, rather than the gestalt.
    Doesn't fit either. Phil Foglio's cartoon women have cartoony hourglass figures, so they're curvy yet slim at the same time. Rubens' women don't have a thin waist.
    E.g. look here at Agatha's prone figure; she's wasp-waisted.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gez View Post
    That just means "beautifully buttocked", without defining what beautiful buttocks exactly are, so it's subjective. Some like big butts (and cannot lie, yes), others prefer slim butts.
    I used that one, since Agatha said so herself in the Cinderella side-story. But I have to admit, it was mostly about her buttocks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gez View Post
    That just means "beautifully buttocked", without defining what beautiful buttocks exactly are, so it's subjective. Some like big butts (and cannot lie, yes), others prefer slim butts.



    Doesn't fit either. Phil Foglio's cartoon women have cartoony hourglass figures, so they're curvy yet slim at the same time. Rubens' women don't have a thin waist.
    E.g. look here at Agatha's prone figure; she's wasp-waisted.
    http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030421
    Foglio women are THICC. "When a person has fat in the right places, creating sexy curves." According to urban dictionary at least
    "Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gez View Post
    Doesn't fit either. Phil Foglio's cartoon women have cartoony hourglass figures, so they're curvy yet slim at the same time. Rubens' women don't have a thin waist.
    Girl Genius has a neo-Victorian design aesthetic in many ways. Ergo, most of the female characters look as if they've been wearing corsets their entire lives even when they haven't.
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    I wonder who was at Sturmhalten capturing dingbots, and writing "Sturmhalten" on the blackboard.

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    damnit Krosp!
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    And that is a GOOD thing by any definition.

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    And, by the horrified look on his face, I think Tarvek is going to try to find Violetta and revive her. Hope it works.

    Question: Is Tarvek realizing he thinks of Violetta as a non-psychotic, non-homicidal, non-meglomaniac, and a few other nons sister? Or are they far enough apart on their family tree for him to be realizing something else without it being kind of disturbing?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Krosp
    Zeetha, Wooster and the other Jagers went with her.
    So Krosp knows Higgs is a Jager?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SZbNAhL View Post
    So Krosp knows Higgs is a Jager?
    And has not noticed that it isn't obvious to everyone else.
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    I do like how Higgs first instinct is that Agatha wanted to see the extra-dimensional horror.

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    So Krosp knows Higgs is a Jager?
    He can probably tell by smell.
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    is there a way to turm off the whiny „this site is run by ads“
    because I can see the ads quite all right.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ellen View Post
    And, by the horrified look on his face, I think Tarvek is going to try to find Violetta and revive her. Hope it works.

    Question: Is Tarvek realizing he thinks of Violetta as a non-psychotic, non-homicidal, non-meglomaniac, and a few other nons sister? Or are they far enough apart on their family tree for him to be realizing something else without it being kind of disturbing?
    A little verisimilitude-breaking for me.
    First panel: This place is dangerous and trying to kill us!
    Last panel: Whaaaaaaat? People I know and care about (who are here where everything is trying to kill us) might die? Whaaaaa???
    Does Tarvek know that Violetta (and he) are main characters, and thus shouldn't just die? No. He knows that the two of them are adventurers in an extremely dangerous place. I get being upset. Maybe even surprised that he is so upset. Surprised in general? Shouldn't be.

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