Girl Genius Comic for Monday, January 02, 2023
Added 2023-01-02 01:09:16 +0000 UTCWell, here we are in the New Year, and I hope it's a good one for everyone! I'm very tired after all the holiday work, and when I've posted the page I'm going to take a much-needed nap. Or watch Reanimator. I haven't decided which.
Last night we played Wingspan with our friends, a board game about birds. As with everything reality based, I think it needs more dragons, but I still had a lovely time seeing our out-of-town friends. I'm not very good at keeping track of things during board games: is it my turn, what mechanic should I be watching out for and how does it work, that sort of thing, let along strategy, so I always wind up feeling terribly stupid. I'm not even sure playing more would help, every game has different things to keep track of, and the people I usually find myself playing games with are very clever, so I might just wind up the table fool every time no matter how much I play. Yay!
Anyhow, I'll be back with the colors as soon as I've got them. Happy New Year!
--Kaja
Comments
Playing cooperatively might be the thing for you. In the days between we played a lot of Paleo, were the players win or lose together. So before you do a thing, there is always a discussion what will be best for the group. No dragons in Paleo as well but Mammoths, Dodos.
Lars Hoffmann
2023-01-04 15:39:54 +0000 UTCCheyenne is indeed a wizard colorist and a very busy one at that! (As well as being great as part of a set including Phil and Kaja!)
William Ansley
2023-01-04 02:50:32 +0000 UTCI'm tired and now I'm imagining the eels in the background of the last panel singing the song from the old "space is fun!" animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf8X_Ep0V9A
Michael Bacon
2023-01-03 21:24:17 +0000 UTCAh. Live and learn. Thanks. Still, Cheyenne is a wizard colorist. Well, hell, they're all (Kaja, Phil, Cheyenne) great!
2023-01-02 14:04:21 +0000 UTCAgreed, but the question was whether the jagged word balloon at center right here indicated caffeine withdrawal or spark mode - https://www.patreon.com/posts/girl-genius-for-75983032
Elka Tovah Davidoff
2023-01-02 13:02:42 +0000 UTCI don't think everyone who drinks coffee is necessarily a spark, nor are those who don't necessarily not sparks. That having been said, I would expect that most people in Mechanicsburg probably study some mechanics on school - at least enough to find out if they're at all sparky.
Some Ed
2023-01-02 05:26:09 +0000 UTCGood catch! I wasn't seeing caffeine withdrawal as triggering Spark Mode.
Elka Tovah Davidoff
2023-01-02 04:00:18 +0000 UTCShe also went into fugue a few pages ago back when there wasn't any coffee, if I remember correctly. It just didn't last long because she got coffee beans off Hector.
Le'letha
2023-01-02 03:53:01 +0000 UTCDidn't you used to do game art, Kaja (he asked rhetorically)?
Carl Fink
2023-01-02 03:13:43 +0000 UTCActually, Kaja does all of the lettering, including lettering and coloring the sound effects, which is why the POFs are already colored.
William Ansley
2023-01-02 03:08:44 +0000 UTCAha! Lumi is talking in Spark Mode! Apparently the Von Mekkans aren't only administrators...
Elka Tovah Davidoff
2023-01-02 01:53:47 +0000 UTCWhy do I suspect Lumi got top marks just to get her and her flamethrower out of the kitchen? "needs more dragons". (happy sigh) I knew I was in the right place with the right creators.
Le'letha
2023-01-02 01:47:39 +0000 UTCI played board games with some friends over Christmas. Learning the mechanics was fun but I wasn't able to keep track of anything not in front of me. So I was kind of the table fool too. That's ok it was still fun.
Alan
2023-01-02 01:37:18 +0000 UTCThe flaming dessert reminds me of the Pinky and the Brain episode in which they enroll in a class on how to prepare crêpes Suzette, and the Brain has figured out that adding cinnamon will make the crêpes explode. :)
Brian Harvey
2023-01-02 01:35:25 +0000 UTC
