Ceaseless Fables of Beyonding

NOTES

• Karbunkel introduces Cornelius to life in Fargon
• Karbunkel is in his “diplomat” uniform

NOTES

• Professor Harshon is based on John Houseman, particularly his role in The Paper Chase (1973)
• Where did Cornelius learn the answer he gives? (See #46, panel 5)

NOTES

• Did Waywardo actually fall this time (from Insanus’s walloper), or is he stuck on repeat?
• Hugturd notes that Waywardo’s legs are broken
• Pip arrives with Irata in panel 7, in expanded form and carrying a “Mr. Blindy”; what are they planning to do with Waywardo?

NOTES

• Refusaleth remade Shiraadh after she died the first time (#127; note how her eye-frames didn’t fade), so her death wreaks an unimaginable toll on his physical form, as well as his Fortress, which he rebuilt from a Literalist ruin (#136)
• Darkana and Demandice are revealed to be sisters

NOTES

• Wouldn’t it be crazy if, starting with the first page of the Fargon Saga (#289), the first word of each page formed a secret message that concluded with this page?
• Was Karbunkel lying about being in contact with Nefaria? What else could he be lying about?
• Shiraadh’s eye-frames disappear as she loses power and dies

NOTES

• Shiraadh of Fargon meets Nefaria the Red Queen, in Bonehenge
• Shiraadh averts her eyes and formally addresses Nefaria in panel 6, delineating how Nefaria sank the continent of the Gargiles, and massacred the Glowborgs (which is actually inaccurate)

NOTES

• The Boneguard is inspired by Kenner’s “Bone Age” toyline (1987-1988)
• Crybdeth and Marrowort’s console resembles a DJ’s turntables (panel 6)
• Nefaria can pass through anything but resinate or bone, meaning she can’t pass through a person’s body

NOTES

• Who is actually telling the truth? (Narrative versus Perceptive)
• Refusaleth shows Quiatas the Temporal Cycle

NOTES

• Who would Quiatas be speaking with?
• Shadist “connective darkness” theory; the belief that all dark places are connected, and can be used to go anyplace else that’s dark, by those who know how (Darkana is one example)
• Quiatas evidently doesn’t ascribe to Shadist theory (panel 6)

NOTES

• Feve, Cornelius’s assigned sycophant, is inspired by Vitsie, the “videositter”
• Cornelius is again pushed by someone to make him go
• Hold up a mirror to “Jausiv” in panel 7
• Cornelius wants to unshrink the Lost Book, but Feve thinks it’s to something else