Category: Notations

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• The masked stranger calls Glowborgs “savages”?
• “scrouture”

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• First page following 3-month hiatus (author broke three fingers while skateboarding, early 2014)
• The masked stranger tricks Cornelius into revealing that he comes from the “ordinary world”
• “Divergences”- if enough people believe your name is something different, another version of yourself can be created

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• This page was roughed on 3/3/13
• Friggo was able to escape the bowelyards of Castle Inway, thanks to the attack (#154)
• The twin moons of Yotaton appear at upper right in panel 1
• Lower creatures like besmurchins, Skatalyx, and even Pilfer & Pinch are all involuntarily drawn to the Lost Book, on some level

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• Essul feels protective of Zaz, after the loss of his apprentice Yla
• Essul’s last line references The Past, also known as Perceptive Times

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• The suspension bridge is very obviously inspired by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
• Safrom Tattra is a province of Midiria, on the (southeastern) Nardic Coast, where sortle is raised
• Did the masked person (who is dressed as an archivist) have something to do with the conveyance wreck?
• In panel 4, forbidden knowledge is offered

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• First appearance of Tortureskulls (panels 1-5)
• Cornelius awakens after the conveyance accident, in another part of Creepwood
• Who is the mysterious yet familiar masked stranger?

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• Waywardo is probably being maniplacated (by whom?); note the reaction of “are you calling me a liar?”
• There are Bogstanders visible in the background of panel 1
• The farmer calls Dedurum “a stranger”
• Sortle are cattle; the singular form is a sort
• “DRINK”, “HOAX”, “Xenihilo”

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• Faddlegas’ relationship with Aga Regata is different than Bromance’s; why is that?
• Essul has a crisis of conscience regarding Zaz

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• First appearance: Snyfus in Sector 53, part of the crew that maintains the engines deep within Insanus’ island
• The earpiece Snyfus is speaking into (panel 2) is based on the depiction of Frith-of-the-Hills from Watership Down (1978)
• Darkana is asleep next to Insanus in panel 3
• Insanus explains the risk involved in using your own body to conjure another (panel 6); Refusaleth displays it (panel 9)

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• Curdelbludd mentions the Solstera in panel 3, then the Void, while sticking his weird tongue on Bromance’s cheek
• Bromance defeats Curdelbledd with his bare hands, instead of using his sword