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#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?
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#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
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#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?
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#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”?
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#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?
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#289

August 14, 2016

NOTES

  • First page of the Fargon Saga
  • Quiatas meets Yakimastu Obeisan at this home
  • Obeisan is a former member of the mysterious Hatmender Briguild
  • Do the Allied Kingdoms receive special favor for accepting Shoadom’s sponsorship, and if so, at what price?
  • What is pictured in panel 9?
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#287

July 31, 2016

NOTES

  • First full appearance of the Gravers, an anonymous terrorist anti-laughter group (motto: “We are graver than you”)
  • As soon as Obarf Yuker proclaims amity towards Cornelius, the Gravers rise out of the crowd and assassinate him (and everyone else but Cornelius)
  • Y.L.Y.L.: You Laugh You Lose
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#286

July 27, 2016

NOTES

  • Cabrelandra combs her hair out so that it’s all one color
  • The club’s audience is almost all Similarians, except… who’s that in the upper left corner of panel 6?
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#285

July 17, 2016

NOTES

  • From Karbunkel’s Keep, Vurka communicates with Shiraadh, who is drilling to Bonehenge in a mountain-grinder
  • Shiraadh is a graduate of the Four Colleges of Fargon (Jausiv, Dejavecho, D’Bocklewith and Nodde-Gamra); she is actually much more learned than Prince Karbunkel
  • Of course, even in college she was still Shiraadh, as evidenced by this picture from the 4th CFB Digest
  • Shiraadh was raised Obsolesmian, a militant following of the Dark Unmentionable Obsolesmus; her utterance of the phrase “Obsolesmus unwilling” is analogous to one saying “God willing”, in that she prays her god will not facilitate the obsolescence of her craft as she makes her journey to free Nefaria