#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

#297

October 16, 2016

NOTES

  • The sailor’s boat is based on an old Fisher-Price toy tugboat
  • The sailor’s hat bears the sigil of the Fisherwit Briguild
  • The Gargrudgen have emerged from the ocean, after walking across the bottom atop each other’s shoulders; each is well over a hundred feet tall
  • In panel 9, what’s in the Gargrudgen’s hand? Have we seen this hand before?

#296

October 9, 2016

NOTES

  • The final rounds of the Tournament of Greatest are commencing
  • General Dedurum was the only survivor of Shiraadh’s assault on the Imperial Advance Guard
  • Dedurum can sense that the Gargrudgen have reached the Regatian Coast

#295

October 2, 2016

NOTES

  • Insanus reminisces about his old island, compared to his customized walloper 
  • Panel 4 references a “forced” Pokemon meme that originated on the 4chan messageboard 
  • Is Insanus looking at the Gargrudgen as he crosses the ocean?

#294

September 26, 2016

NOTES

  • First appearance of Xober and Rebox, representatives of Bordorea and New Bordorea; they seem almost like a negative (inverted) image of something…
  • “Every participant [of the Tournament] gets a trophy”
  • “We are all stronger together” (note original publishing date)
  • What is that shadow in panel 7?

#293

September 18. 2016

NOTES

  • “Don’t touch me, I’m an archivist” is a rather obvious Ghostbusters reference
  • Ylana Underaja is the formal name of the Empress of Midiria
  • We’ve seen the Empress before… why does she look like Yla?
  • Essul laughed in the presence of the Midirian Empress, which is considered high treason

#292

September 11, 2016

NOTES

  • “My teeth unclenched hours ago”; Zaz and Essul survived the astronomically stressful ride on top of the train track, thousands of feet above the ground
  • “KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL WHO WISH” is the Central Archives motto
  • Is the archivist in panel 4 somehow familiar?

#291

September 4, 2016

NOTES

  • Castle Creepwood (panel 1)
  • Count Feudd invokes Xandinculus (panel 3)
  • Bogstanders are pictured in panel 4
  • Tremenz formed his tongue into the shape of an infant’s head, to trick the occupants of Castle Creepwood into listening
  • “Gargrudgen”?

#290

August 26, 2016

NOTES

  • Eldlyfe has apparently survived the sky sliggan attack on Steptung’s ship; does that mean the others did too?
  • First appearance of Imperial Commander Brikbat
  • Is Captain Tiscinivel grieving over the Inspectorate?
  • Is this room somehow familiar?