Category: Notations

NOTES

• The high-speed trains that circle Midiria run underneath rails that are high off the ground, but appear unsupported outside of the train stations
  
• He-Don returns, mentions Obarf Yuker, and experiences an old Midirian prejudice against “sea-bug eaters”

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• At the capitol spires of Midiria, Yakimastu Obeisan meets with Theon Tenfield
• In Imperial Midiria and its territories, laughter is a punishable offense
• The capitol spires are visible in panels 5 and 6
• When one follows the Path of Aga, they must only let their good deeds speak for themselves; boasting of one’s positive actions nullifies or reverses them 
• The U-Lex is based on ulexite
• Councilor Obeisan finally sees the invasion and destruction wrought upon the Frontlands 

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• The Big Curtz and the other Cursiveres wear decorated archivist robes
• What is one Cursivere correcting the Big Curtz about, in panel 1
• Cornelius doesn’t know what a “pictogenetic designation” is; it’s a controversial identification code used on Imperial Midirian travel passes, that alludes to the aesthetic inspirations from which the character is drawn (Cornelius’s would be TINARCHITIN, Bromance’s would be ATRUNYUSK)
• Theon and Dandelflower reappear, incapacitating Eldlyfe

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• The border sign references passage 4.1 in the Sacred Testament
• Cursiveres have large eyes and sensitive ears, from long periods of reading and quiet study

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• Subliminus and Zardoza are refurbishing some kind of base of operations
• Zardoza notes that Bromance is on the Path of Aga, and if they interfere, they may damage his spiritual connection to the Goddess
• Pip is no longer with Bromance

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• The attendant at the Totsuvosto terminal at Elixiry Station (Northern Midiria) is inspired by George Wendt as Norm Petersen from the TV show Cheers
• The attendant motions Zaz to the alley behind the station, possibly because he can tell she is lying to him
• A sign in the back of the station reads “If You Don’t Like Us, Try The Next Province”, and there is graffiti of YLYL (“You Laugh You Lose”, the Gravers’ motto)
• Tribb, the Shoadomite, takes away a year of Zaz’s life in exchange for two travel passes
• “Come out to Shoadom” 
• Who’s that at the rear of panel 9?

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• Quiatas finally says Refusaleth’s name?
• The subborg finally speaks (panel 7)
• Refusaleth is literally drilling himself through the Midirian continent to Fexes, the lowest point of its underside (panel 8)

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• From the mountains of Midiria, the moons of the Beyonding appear close enough to touch, like the twin moons of Yotaton visible in panels 1 and 6
• Zaz tricked Cornelius into thinking she ejected him from the cloudswatter in the previous strip, using his terror and anxiety to charge the “tension cannons” (panel 9 of #261), repelling the sky sliggan

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• Steptung has some sort of electric whip (panels 2-)
• Panel 6 has a close-up of the surface of a sky sliggan- it is covered with knife points
• Zaz suddenly kicks Cornelius out of the cloudswatter because he’s “adding too much hot air”?
• Panel 9 shows the size difference between the cloudswatter and the head of the sky sliggan