#307

December 25, 2016

NOTES

  • Christmas, 2016
  • In panel 1, more of Quondry’s optical-illusion architecture is just visible
  • Trysteum is the purest form of resinate crystal
  • What force could be pulling it?

#306

December 18, 2016

NOTES

  • This messenjerk delivers a “flipper” message (flip book) to Candlewary, remarking that it’s “non-fatal”, referring to the typical method of self-destructive communication
  • Because Candlewary still has faith in Aga, he can hear Jellyback’s voice as he flips the pages of the message
  • Jellyback reports that the Sideland of Ystyr is ravaged by the Dark Unmentionable Obsolesmus

#305

December 11, 2016

NOTES

  • St. Madinis, capitol of Quondry, is where the old Midirians exiled those whom they judged “impossible”; Shoadomites run it
  • St. Madinis is based upon optical illusions, such as the Impossible Trident, or MAD “poiuyt”

#304

December 4, 2016

NOTES

  • Tournament staff is greatly reduced by this point; also the janitor’s broom has blood on it (panel 1)
  • Eldlyfe claims to be an “Agratian Ascendant” 
  • Eldlyfe’s weirdly-angled privilege is fully visible in panel 10

#303

November 27, 2016

NOTES

  • “The Troubles” is a social euphemism for the massacre of the peoples of the Frontlands
  • Allied Kingdom councilor Pael Natricarus objects to fellow councilor Yakimastu Obeisan’s desperate gambit with Refusaleth (panel 7)

#302

November 20, 2016

NOTES

  • Someone is holding a “GRAVER THAN YOU” sign in panel 5
  • In panel 9, the Dark Unmentionable Holocough is obliterating Castle Inway

#301

November 13, 2016

NOTES

  • The crowd at the right edge of panel 2 references the back cover of Frank Zappa’s The Man From Utopia (1983)
  • The Tournament of Greatest (and its announcer) are obvious references to Dragonball Z (“Tournament X”)

#300

November 6, 2016

NOTES

  • Faddlegas can smell falsehood; however, the Questioneer continues to communicate only in questions, as is their wont
  • “You come from the mountains”
  • Structural integrity is different in the Beyonding; note how the exterior wall of the train crumbles, now that it isn’t believably intact
  • Faddlegas has the (forbidden) knowledge to shrink books for easy transport

#299

October 30, 2016

NOTES

  • Brikbat calls Faddlegas “old one”
  • Faddlegas deploys the Nardmasher (panel 4), causing Brikbat to shoot the wall of the train, and fall out

#298

October 23, 2016

NOTES

  • Brikbat and the Questioneer are transporting Cornelius via train to Cape of Purity, to be flown to Quondry
  • Faddlegas (a Nard) barely fits in the aisle of the train