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• Is that the twin moons of Yotaton in panel 2?
• Is consuming food necessary in the Beyonding, or is there another method of sustenance?
• First appearances: Insanus and Kudo

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• First introduction to Pip, Bromance’s familiar and companion
• Besmurchins rarely act on their own… so who’s controlling them?
• Pip’s expression in panel 3 indicates that the search for the Lost Book has been long and fruitless

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• First appearance of Bromance!
• Corny inadvertently unleashes a Conundrum regarding the Overkeeper’s visor, causing a bolt of lightning
• First depicted form of Bromance’s privilege, also known as a weirdsword, or variblade

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• First appearance: Prince Karbunkel of Fargon. He is first seen tracing, which is a Plagiarist discipline
• First appearance: Vurka, the Prince’s sycophant. Both he and Karbunkel were able to sense the Lost Book’s return to the Beyonding, which is another knowledge forbidden by the Midirian Empire
• First full appearance: Overkeeper of Inway, King Reclinus V’s militia
• In the Beyonding, the use of foul language causes increasingly bad breath, which attracts and frenzies the Besmurchins

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• First full appearance of the Besmurchins
• Would the Lost Book really be blank?
• Whose sword is that?

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• The Entry Pedestal covers with moss after deposit
• Corny drops another “D-bomb”
• What’s that in the trees?

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• Corny opens the Lost Book, and the strip turns to color!
• The Entry Pedestal to the Beyonding is visible behind Corny- this is technically the “Nearest Point”
• Corny’s first words upon entering the Beyonding include “damned”; this will be relevant later

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• The poster on Corny’s bedroom wall says “rapetosaurus”. The narrata border cuts it off inappropriately

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• First appearance of Corny’s stepsister Daizee, who was inspired by Pete Bagge’s style
• Daizee’s shirt has a Heartbreaker symbol from John’s Arm: Armageddon (2008)
• Mr. Barham, a teacher at my high school who came from England, made the “rubbers/erasers” gaffe one day, and everyone lost it

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• First appearance of Cornelius’s biological father Thurburt, and his stepmother Kaandra