#268

March 21, 2016

NOTES

  • The Big Curtz and the other Cursiveres wear decorated archivist robes
  • What is one Cursivere correcting the Big Curtz about, in panel 1
  • Cornelius doesn’t know what a “pictogenetic designation” is; it’s a controversial identification code used on Imperial Midirian travel passes, that alludes to the aesthetic inspirations from which the character is drawn (Cornelius’s would be TINARCHITIN, Bromance’s would be ATRUNYUSK)
  • Theon and Dandelflower reappear, incapacitating Eldlyfe

#266

March 6, 2016

NOTES

  • Subliminus and Zardoza are refurbishing some kind of base of operations
  • Zardoza notes that Bromance is on the Path of Aga, and if they interfere, they may damage his spiritual connection to the Goddess
  • Pip is no longer with Bromance

#265

February 28, 2016

NOTES

  • The attendant at the Totsuvosto terminal at Elixiry Station (Northern Midiria) is inspired by George Wendt as Norm Petersen from the TV show Cheers
  • The attendant motions Zaz to the alley behind the station, possibly because he can tell she is lying to him
  • A sign in the back of the station reads “If You Don’t Like Us, Try The Next Province”, and there is graffiti of YLYL (“You Laugh You Lose”, the Gravers’ motto)
  • Tribb, the Shoadomite, takes away a year of Zaz’s life in exchange for two travel passes
  • Come out to Shoadom” 
  • Who’s that at the rear of panel 9?

#264

February 22, 2016

NOTES

  • Quiatas finally says Refusaleth’s name?
  • The subborg finally speaks (panel 7)
  • Refusaleth is literally drilling himself through the Midirian continent to Fexes, the lowest point of its underside (panel 8)

#262

February 7, 2016

NOTES

  • From the mountains of Midiria, the moons of the Beyonding appear close enough to touch, like the twin moons of Yotaton visible in panels 1 and 6
  • Zaz tricked Cornelius into thinking she ejected him from the cloudswatter in the previous strip, using his terror and anxiety to charge the “tension cannons” (panel 9 of #261), repelling the sky sliggan

#261

January 31, 2016

NOTES

  • Steptung has some sort of electric whip (panels 2-)
  • Panel 6 has a close-up of the surface of a sky sliggan- it is covered with knife points
  • Zaz suddenly kicks Cornelius out of the cloudswatter because he’s “adding too much hot air”?
  • Panel 9 shows the size difference between the cloudswatter and the head of the sky sliggan 

#260

January 24, 2016

NOTES

  • Legends say that the sky sliggans were created by the Dark Unmentionable Holocough, in Perceptive Times
  • Zaz’s description of Eldlyfe clears up his inspiration even more so

#259

January 17, 2016

NOTES

  • Eldlyfe formally introduces himself to Steptung as an Agratian Ascendant
  • Eldlyfe’s sword is always bent unnaturally at the hilt, as seen in panel 4
  • “Moor locks” is a reference to H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine
  • Cornelius still has the picture of the young unicorns

#258

January 10, 2016

NOTES

  • Clockwork automatons similar to Waywardo are visible at the top of panel 3- carrying black paint and a brush?
  • Nefaria is Karbunkel’s mother? How could that be possible, unless childbirth is not necessarily physical in the Beyonding? Perhaps it can be done by belief alone?