Missing Volume 6 Girl Genius Page

[Quadibloc]

I was re-reading my printed copies of the GG TPB for volumes 1 through
6 - and am eagerly awaiting the opportunity to buy volume 7 locally,
as the Post Office charges $5 for charging GST on imported items -
when I noticed a page I didn't remember seeing.

Checking, I find that between

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060424

and

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060426

there's an extra page in volume 6 - containing the memorable line,
"Thought I was the cat here".

John Savard

[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <7098d8dd-d612-4169...@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,

So there is!

Not to mention Anevka's line, "It's been a while since I wasn't
the strangest thing in the room."

Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djh...@kithrup.com

[Quadibloc]

On Jul 20, 10:44 am, djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
> In article <7098d8dd-d612-4169-82f5-8d747d10d...@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,

>
>
>
> Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> >I was re-reading my printed copies of the GG TPB for volumes 1 through
> >6 - and am eagerly awaiting the opportunity to buy volume 7 locally,
> >as the Post Office charges $5 for charging GST on imported items -
> >when I noticed a page I didn't remember seeing.
>
> >Checking, I find that between
>
> >http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060424
>
> >and
>
> >http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060426
>
> >there's an extra page in volume 6 - containing the memorable line,
> >"Thought I was the cat here".
>
> So there is!
>
> Not to mention Anevka's line, "It's been a while since I wasn't
> the strangest thing in the room."

Another thing that might be interesting to some people here.

On the Girl Genius Yahoo! Group, someone just recently asked, "Is
anyone else here wondering about how Othar and Ferretina are doing"...

I responded, very diplomatically, I thought, that while this was an
interesting story too, just now would not be perhaps the best time to
switch to it. Someone then replied to me suggesting that it would be
*my fault* if this happened on Monday... I replied and a discussion
ensued.

In that discussion, I noted that the Foglios might not have Part 3 of
"Revenge of the Weasel Queen" in hand. But, on the other hand, they
_do_ have that Trelawney Thorpe adventure that appeared in one of the
collections but which isn't on their web site, unlike the other short
stories.

In my recent re-reading of the stories in luxurious large convenient
print form, I noticed that *that* story was not drawn by Phil Foglio,
but by Cheyenne Wright, their colorist. In a *later* volume in the
series, the URL of *his* web site was given. So the idea crossed my
mind that perhaps the Trelawney Thorpe sequence was _there_.

So I paid

http://www.arcanetimes.com/

a visit. While I didn't find _that_ there, the link labelled
"Portfolio" _does_ include some GG-related artwork that may be of some
interest to some Girl Genius fans.

John Savard

[John Savard]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:31:32 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca>
wrote, in part:

>While I didn't find _that_ there,

further Googling led me to

http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/The_Crown_of_the_Sleeping_King

which led me to

http://www.arcanetimes.com/index.php?strip_id=44

so I have found it now.

John Savard
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html

[seagy...@yahoo.com]

I actualy just got GG#6 in the mail yesterday and read it this
morning, laughed at those two lines but did not realize I had not seen
them before. I did however catch a Terry Pratchett reference I didn't
catch online, via a "The Luggage" recreation here

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070112

The Amazing Pratchett no less.
JBL

[seagu...@yahoo.com]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:04:40 -0500, seagy...@yahoo.com wrote:

>On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:44:18 GMT, djh...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
>Heydt) wrote:

>>>
>>>http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060424
>>>

>
>I actualy just got GG#6 in the mail yesterday and read it this
>morning, laughed at those two lines but did not realize I had not seen
>them before. I did however catch a Terry Pratchett reference I didn't
>catch online, via a "The Luggage" recreation here
>

>

>The Amazing Pratchett no less.
>JBL

Oops my server belched or something.

I was also going to ask, what the heck is "RHINOHIDING" in the above
link? Am I just missing the joke, which isn't unlikely.

JBL

[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <3b378491q2mg986p1...@4ax.com>,

Rhinohiding is an SCA term. In SCA fighting, you're supposed to
be honourable and to call your own blows (that is, blows that
land on you: if the blow would have killed you if the weapon had
been real, you're officially dead; if it would have lost you an
arm, you fight with that arm behind your back). No one else, the
theory goes, is able to judge whether the blow would have been
good or not. But there are those who would rather win than be
honourable, and they'll say "Light!" meaning the blow wasn't hard
enough ... when it was. Such behavior is called "rhinohiding."
The guy must have a hide like a rhinoceros or he would've called
that blow.

[seagu...@yahoo.com]

>>
>>I was also going to ask, what the heck is "RHINOHIDING" in the above
>>link? Am I just missing the joke, which isn't unlikely.
>
>Rhinohiding is an SCA term. In SCA fighting, you're supposed to
>be honourable and to call your own blows (that is, blows that
>land on you: if the blow would have killed you if the weapon had
>been real, you're officially dead; if it would have lost you an
>arm, you fight with that arm behind your back). No one else, the
>theory goes, is able to judge whether the blow would have been
>good or not. But there are those who would rather win than be
>honourable, and they'll say "Light!" meaning the blow wasn't hard
>enough ... when it was. Such behavior is called "rhinohiding."
>The guy must have a hide like a rhinoceros or he would've called
>that blow.
>
>Dorothy J. Heydt
>Vallejo, California
>djh...@kithrup.com

Thanks,
JBL