Girl Genius Comic for Friday, March 11, 2022

No, A Patreon of the Ahts is right. They always use quotation marks when the speaker is not in the frame. Have a look at 20021106, 20040806, 20041101and many others.

Yes. That does look a bit important.

Mary Catelli

I'm trying to imagine Agatha taking her boys to the beach, and far from "everyone in swimsuits"...I'm not sure how they managed to set the ocean on fire, but yeah, but the ocean is on fire. As is everything else.

Le'letha

So I'm obviously confused as to where all the bots came from (they don't look like Agatha's usual miniclanks, did the copter bot go and build them?) but it is a reminder that the castle *is* highly experienced at engineering architectural repairs.

Michael Bacon

I think it's a mistake -- I would guess that "interesting thing" is supposed to be in quotes, but not the whole thing.

Michael Bacon

I was just thinking yesterday how great the coloring is in GG. Today is a wonderful example. Nice, Cheyenne!

Tim Price

Your dilemma sounds like my old basement. Fortunately, most of it was donated to the computer museum before I moved. Now, I have newer hellrabbitholes to deal with. (Dear spellcheck, Whatchumean hellrabbithole isn't a word?)

kaitou

I think the Heterodynes just acquired a beach house, and that’s kinda cool!

Martin Pollard

Uh oh, it's after midnight west coast time and this page isn't up yet. Sounds like serious server trouble.

Brian Harvey

No, that's true of all the speech balloons in Castle-style double borders with popcorn. Narration is in plain rectangles.

Brian Harvey

I think that they're trying to show that it is dialog and not narration.

A Patreon of the Ahts

P.P.S. Is there a reason for the quotation marks in the speech balloon, or is that a typo?

Brian Harvey

P.S. Is that an early cell phone in the bottom center?

Brian Harvey

This image is making me think of the scene in Magical Mystery Tour with the extremely fat woman attacking an infinite serving of spaghetti with a shovel. It was weird. (This was in their LSD period.) Do you not have a sysadmin? Should I try to recruit an undergraduate for you?

Brian Harvey

The image of making a sandwich with a shovel needs to be illustrated. I visualize the kind highway work crews lean on.

At this point I should just have one of those gimmick buttons that make a specific sound when you hit it, and the sound it would make would be "The page!!!!!" Oh, but the Dingbot Army was worth the wait! I hope your computer issues work out. What a nightmare. Consider making yourself a sandwich (using your hands, although I love and will be stealing the simile) if it all looks hopeless. Good luck!

Le'letha