Wednesday's comic!

[murgatroyd666]

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180509

If there was ever any doubt of it, Krosp is indeed a cat.

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[madfilkentist]

Krosp is figuring in reader time, Agatha in story time.

[marycatelli]

Doctor Dim has his bears back!

[vik_thor]

chrtles.
can't wait to see Friday!

[skybreak]

I think it was my third reading of the comic (from the start) when I noticed Krosp observing Agatha from behind the toys.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031210#.WvOwVOSQyUM
I had assumed that he was just quietly working out what sort of person Agatha was, but now that we know Dr Dim was Krosp's creator so how that encounter went was doubly important.

Thanks for the reminder!

[glorin_4]

"you... help keep my bears _secret_? Keep them safe from the Baron?

Perhaps he was not entirely, or even primarily, talking about the rag bears?

[turbobeholder]

So, any bets on who's losing it?
• Klaus replica, realizing being had is not an event, but a state, and sometimes state of the art?
• Tarvek, who knows something others didn't bother to find out (like with Vole)?
• Some "old friend"?

[spectrum_09]

Albia. Vapnoople created enough of a problem that Klaus had to take him out. Novelization says that took three years. Now a talking cat in a military coat, claiming to be one of Vapnoople's creations, shows up commanding an army of bears, also Vapnoople creations, along with Vapnoople himself for whom the CAT ia requesting asylum. The cat and Lady Heterodyne appear to be not only acquainted but good friends. All of them now in Albia's domain. That "WHAT?" can easily be several emotions combined.

Besides the combination of characters and how they complicate matters, this is NOT anything like what Albia was expecting.

[madfilkentist]

The interesting question now is why Krosp brought Vapnoople to England. He didn't seem to be in danger; Klaus had done everything to him he was going to.

Perhaps Krosp thinks Albia has the expertise to repair his brain.

[spectrum_09]

Maybe to get him off Castle Wulfenbach and away from Klaus, who destroyed Vapnopple's earlier creations because of their strong loyalty to their creator. Klaus ordered Krosp to be terminated. He would have destroyed the bears as well. Now Vapnoople (what's left of him) is in the company of his creations, including his "Masterpiece" (Krosp).
He's brought Vapnoople to a place Wulfenbach doesn't control. Paris is closed. Krosp and the bears have their "Papa". It's more emotional than logical.

[murgatroyd666]

But Klaus isn't on board Castle Wulfenbach, and he's out of action for the foreseeable future due to the Magic 5 Ball (or the Take Five bomb, if you prefer). Krosp wants to rescue Vapnoople from any and all dangers he might be in, and he probably hopes that Albia can restore Dr. Dim's brain as well.

[mindstalk]

> Klaus ordered Krosp to be terminated.

In the novel, Krosp says he hid his intelligence, "Which, in retrospect, might have been a mistake." So whoever scheduled him for termination (who may *not* have been Klaus, we're never told) didn't know he was intelligent.

Though given what we've since learned, I can see being leery of a Vapnoople "masterpiece". And it's not like Krosp is all that moral himself. But it seems like the Baron would still have given Krosp rope to hang himself with, rather than killing him immediately.