Girl Genius - Wednesday 2/17/2010
William George Ferguson
http://girlgeniuscomic.livejournal.com/
You might want to go there even if it's late enough to be up on the regular
site. The thumbnail pretty much says it all :)
Although it's pointed out in the blog followups that this technically meets
the Jaeger definition of a 'Bad Plan'.
--
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
(Bene Gesserit)
Dorothy J Heydt
William George Ferguson <wmgf...@newsguy.com> wrote:
>Is up on the LiveJournal blog page at
>http://girlgeniuscomic.livejournal.com/
>
>You might want to go there even if it's late enough to be up on the regular
>site. The thumbnail pretty much says it all :)
>
>Although it's pointed out in the blog followups that this technically meets
>the Jaeger definition of a 'Bad Plan'.
Higgs hasn't *lost* his hat. It's somewhere around his feet
there. He'll retrieve it once he settles Otilia.
--
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Paul Ciszek
In article <KxyzD...@kithrup.com>,
Dorothy J Heydt <djh...@kithrup.com> wrote:
>In article <vmsmn5hi119iqdlte...@4ax.com>,
>William George Ferguson <wmgf...@newsguy.com> wrote:
>>Is up on the LiveJournal blog page at
>>http://girlgeniuscomic.livejournal.com/
>>
>>You might want to go there even if it's late enough to be up on the regular
>>site. The thumbnail pretty much says it all :)
>>
>>Although it's pointed out in the blog followups that this technically meets
>>the Jaeger definition of a 'Bad Plan'.
>
>Higgs hasn't *lost* his hat. It's somewhere around his feet
>there. He'll retrieve it once he settles Otilia.
Besides, he isn't a Jaeger. Though I think the Jaegers would be proud
of him right now.
BTW, did the Baron or Dr. Sun use some of their fiendish quick-healing
techniques on Higgs? Because, unlike Gil, he hasn't had the prerequisite
biochemical work done.
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Pedro Dias
tested to failure, he did *not* appear able to withstand being shoved
through six-to-eight inches of solid stone.
Jes' sayin'.
Robert A. Woodward
> Is up on the LiveJournal blog page at
> http://girlgeniuscomic.livejournal.com/
>
> You might want to go there even if it's late enough to be up on the regular
> site. The thumbnail pretty much says it all :)
>
> Although it's pointed out in the blog followups that this technically meets
> the Jaeger definition of a 'Bad Plan'.
He might be loosing his hat, but that is not losing it
--
Robert Woodward <robe...@drizzle.com>
<http://www.drizzle.com/~robertaw>
Dorothy J Heydt
Paul Ciszek <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>In article <KxyzD...@kithrup.com>,
>Dorothy J Heydt <djh...@kithrup.com> wrote:
>>In article <vmsmn5hi119iqdlte...@4ax.com>,
>>William George Ferguson <wmgf...@newsguy.com> wrote:
>>>Is up on the LiveJournal blog page at
>>>http://girlgeniuscomic.livejournal.com/
>>>
>>>You might want to go there even if it's late enough to be up on the regular
>>>site. The thumbnail pretty much says it all :)
>>>
>>>Although it's pointed out in the blog followups that this technically meets
>>>the Jaeger definition of a 'Bad Plan'.
>>
>>Higgs hasn't *lost* his hat. It's somewhere around his feet
>>there. He'll retrieve it once he settles Otilia.
>
>Besides, he isn't a Jaeger. Though I think the Jaegers would be proud
>of him right now.
>
>BTW, did the Baron or Dr. Sun use some of their fiendish quick-healing
>techniques on Higgs? Because, unlike Gil, he hasn't had the prerequisite
>biochemical work done.
Dunno. But we meet him for the first time (not counting
backstory) in Mamma Gkika's, so if there were any injuries
remaining on him, she could've fixed it.
Quadibloc
wrote:
> He might be loosing his hat, but that is not losing it
I don't expect Higgs' hat to join the attack on Otilia.
John Savard
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
> Is up on the LiveJournal blog page at
> http://girlgeniuscomic.livejournal.com/
>
> You might want to go there even if it's late enough to be up on the regular
> site. The thumbnail pretty much says it all :)
>
> Although it's pointed out in the blog followups that this technically meets
> the Jaeger definition of a 'Bad Plan'.
>
I don't think it's Jaegerdraught. Higgs shows none of the Hulkoid
characteristics of the Draught; even Gil has shown some strange quirks.
I think he's something else -- a construct, possibly a Heterodyne or
other Spark in disguise, or just the Last Competent Man-At-Arms from the
planet Krypton.
--
Sea Wasp
/^\
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Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
besides Higgs, and she was not there to see exactly what happened in any
other part of it.
The entire story comes from HIGGS. And if he doesn't/didn't want people
knowing there was more to him, he would simply tell the story in a way
that didn't admit to anything more than someone else SAW.
The described story was **ALWAYS** clearly a ludicrous tale. It was
always clear to me that there was Something Left Out or covered up.
Now we know.
J. Clarke
Hmm--how would the GG version of Oddjob's hat work?
Quadibloc
I just remember the damage Jethro's version of Oddjob's hat did to the
statuary out by the cement pond...
John Savard
Paul Ciszek
In article <hlgmeg$s1l$3...@news.eternal-september.org>,
You think Higgs has a boson or two up his sleeve?
J. Clarke
Not to mention the damage it did to Jethro.
David DeLaney
Perhaps when they repaired him, they used the GOOD suturing?
>Jes' sayin'.
Dave "it's no good fixing someone if you just have to turn around and re-fix
them the next week, you see" DeLaney
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Robert Carnegie
I call dibs on him being Bill Heterodyne himself in disguise.
Y'know, let's make it interesting.
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
I believe I covered that in my earlier post.
Pedro Dias
<seaw...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
> Pedro Dias wrote:
> > Am I the only one going "WTF?!?" here? Cause last time this model was
> > tested to failure, he did *not* appear able to withstand being shoved
> > through six-to-eight inches of solid stone.
>
> We don't actually KNOW that. There was only one witness to any of it
> besides Higgs, and she was not there to see exactly what happened in any
> other part of it.
>
> The entire story comes from HIGGS. And if he doesn't/didn't want people
> knowing there was more to him, he would simply tell the story in a way
> that didn't admit to anything more than someone else SAW.
>
> The described story was **ALWAYS** clearly a ludicrous tale. It was
> always clear to me that there was Something Left Out or covered up.
Well, no: DuPree, while conscious, was clearly non compus mentis, and
so I suppose she may or may not remember (repeatedly) attacking Higgs.
But the adventure was described to Gil by Dr. Sun, and one would think
he's in a position to know, if not directly at least from staff
reports, about the reality of the various injuries. You know, two
broken arms, a broken leg and an infected bite. All of which would
seem to indicate that he is, you know - *breakable*. Or rather, that
he *was* breakable, which is the only fact about the adventure with
any bearing on the present discussion.
serg271
god's particle?
serg271
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
There's breakable, and breakable. What broke him before could have been
something more formidable than Otilia.
Leif Roar Moldskred
> Well, no: DuPree, while conscious, was clearly non compus mentis, and
> so I suppose she may or may not remember (repeatedly) attacking Higgs.
Then again, DuPree is -- perhaps conveniently so -- not able to say
much at the moment.
--
Leif Roar Moldskred
J. Clarke
Hmm. "Infected bite". Infected with _what_?
Pedro Dias
DuPree bit him. Human bites often get infected because we're such
feelthy feelthy animals.
Pedro Dias
Meaning something more violent than getting shoved through six-to-
eight inches of stone wall - much more, since in this instance he
dusts himself off and appears not to even have had the breath knocked
out of him, let alone a cracked rib.
I suppose it's possible something happened aboard the dirigible that
a) was enormously more violent than Kestle-Otilia, and b) left no
evidence of itself other than Higgs' injuries. But I'm not gonna
pretend I like that big a misdirect from the authors.
J. Clarke
I think you've misunderstood the question.
Joel Polowin
> On Feb 18, 7:57 am, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"
> > something more formidable than Otilia.
>
> Meaning something more violent than getting shoved through six-to-
> eight inches of stone wall - much more, since in this instance he
> dusts himself off and appears not to even have had the breath knocked
> out of him, let alone a cracked rib.
>
> I suppose it's possible something happened aboard the dirigible that
> a) was enormously more violent than Kestle-Otilia, and b) left no
> evidence of itself other than Higgs' injuries. But I'm not gonna
> pretend I like that big a misdirect from the authors.
It appears to me that Higgs currently has some ability to affect
the flow of time in his personal space. If he speeds himself up
enormously compared to his environment, he can do the not-being-there
trick when someone takes a swing at him; if something does connect,
he can make the impact seem to occur over a much longer time, giving
forces that his body can withstand. From his point of view, the
stone wall would seem soft; to the rest of the world, his body would
seem incredibly rigid.
But he has to consciously engage the ability, so he can be hit if
he's taken by surprise. And we don't know how long he's been able
to do this trick, and we don't know if it's a personal ability or
if it's because of some device he's picked up.
Dorothy J Heydt
He was bitten by DuPree, whom in the absence of any evidence to
the contrary, we may as well consider human.
Here's a (probably partial) list of what he could've been
infected with.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/218901-overview
Wayne Throop
: Then again, DuPree is -- perhaps conveniently so -- not able to say
: much at the moment.
What, did something happen to her after she yells about Klaus?
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091221
Wayne Throop thr...@sheol.org http://sheol.org/throopw
J. Clarke
Geez, you're all so serious. This is the GGverse. The potential infections
have to go far beyond what mere non-mad modern science has enumerated.
Dorothy J Heydt
Agreed. I said that list was probably partial. You could go on
adding to it ... for quite some time.
Leif Roar Moldskred
>
> What, did something happen to her after she yells about Klaus?
> http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091221
Ack. No, just my memory being faulty. I thought she still had her
jaw wired shut.
--
Leif Roar Moldskred
Pedro Dias
Oh? I'm afraid my comprehension hasn't improved any in the intervening
time. Elucidation?
J. Clarke
The question is not how he came to be infected, but with what, specific,
horrendous organism unique to the Girl Genius universe, like, for example,
one that makes him become invulnerable?
David DeLaney
>"J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...@cox.net> wrote:
>> Hmm. �"Infected bite". �Infected with _what_?
>
>DuPree bit him. Human bites often get infected because we're such
>feelthy feelthy animals.
Well, that and the fact that humans are what the germs that can infect
humans live inside, after all.
Dave
Dorothy J Heydt
Oh, I see. You're thinking that the change in Higgs, from
moderately vulnerable (though fairly invincible) to practically
invulnerable, may be the result of the bite. Well, we'll see.
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
He was bitten by a radioactive Klaus.
Bill Snyder
No, by a crazy Klaus ('cause we all know there ain't no sanity
Klaus.)
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Quadibloc
Well, he was bitten by Bang, actually... and, yes, she is definitely
crazy. Radioactive (like the spider...)... now, that's another story.
John Savard
Wayne Throop
:: No, by a crazy Klaus ('cause we all know there ain't no sanity Klaus.)
: Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca>
: Well, he was bitten by Bang, actually... and, yes, she is definitely
: crazy. Radioactive (like the spider...)... now, that's another story.
Your tracks today are "Radioactive" by The Firm,
and "Pocket Full of Kryptonite" (aka Jimmy Olson Blues) by Spin Doctors.
Got to concentrate - don't be distractive
Turn me loose tonight - I'm radioactive
So, Higgs has been turned loose. And as we see, he needs to concentrate,
lest he be distracted and mashed in the face. Hopefully he also has
a pocketful of muse-kryptonite.
Mad Hamish
DeLaney) wrote:
>Pedro Dias <pedr...@snip.net> wrote:
>>"J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...@cox.net> wrote:
>>> Hmm. "Infected bite". Infected with _what_?
>>
>>DuPree bit him. Human bites often get infected because we're such
>>feelthy feelthy animals.
>
>Well, that and the fact that humans are what the germs that can infect
>humans live inside, after all.
>
apparently it's more to do with the fact that most injuries from human
teeth aren't bites but result from punches which cause different
wounds to the puncher than they'd get from a bite.
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Mad Hamish
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Gene Wirchenko
Heydt) wrote:
>In article <hll7l...@news1.newsguy.com>,
[snip]
>>The question is not how he came to be infected, but with what, specific,
>>horrendous organism unique to the Girl Genius universe, like, for example,
>>one that makes him become invulnerable?
>
>Oh, I see. You're thinking that the change in Higgs, from
>moderately vulnerable (though fairly invincible) to practically
>invulnerable, may be the result of the bite. Well, we'll see.
Shall we start eliminating possibilities? I will have first go.
Radioactive spider has been done.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
Robert Carnegie
Wikipedia says that Ultra Boy in "Legion of Superheroes", real name Jo
Nah, was swallowed (in his spaceship) by an "ultra-energy space
whale", exposed to radiation, and acquired voluntary invulnerability
as well as other powers.
I just picked him as "What fictional character can I think of who is
sometimes invulnerable".
But there's precedent for miniaturised animals in Girl Genius...
maybe Higgs has swallowed that fish in a bowl that Gil had around all
the time, and it's more than it seems. (Does that make more sense in
reverse order?) I think it had the similarly biblical name of
Ahasuerus.
Another, oh and also biblical-named, precedent for that sort of thing,
kind'a, is Douglas Adams's "Babel Fish".
Konrad Gaertner
>
> But there's precedent for miniaturised animals in Girl Genius...
> maybe Higgs has swallowed that fish in a bowl that Gil had around all
> the time, and it's more than it seems. (Does that make more sense in
> reverse order?) I think it had the similarly biblical name of
> Ahasuerus.
Carassius Auratus (named on the back cover of issue #6).
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Dorothy J Heydt
Konrad Gaertner <kgae...@tx.rr.com> wrote:
>Robert Carnegie wrote:
>>
>> But there's precedent for miniaturised animals in Girl Genius...
>> maybe Higgs has swallowed that fish in a bowl that Gil had around all
>> the time, and it's more than it seems. (Does that make more sense in
>> reverse order?) I think it had the similarly biblical name of
>> Ahasuerus.
>
>Carassius Auratus (named on the back cover of issue #6).
That's his species name. "Golden Carp." Goldfish, in other
words.
Mind you, if Gil had decided to call his individual fish by his
species name, he could've. He's mad, after all.