Monday's comic

[madfilkentist]

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181105

It's not demonology, it's SCIENCE!

Comments

[marycatelli]

Demonology is a branch of magic. Magic is unexplained causality. So as soon as you explain it, it's SCIENCE.

[madfilkentist]

In Bob Asprin's "Myth Adventures" books, a demon is simply someone from another dimension (demon-sion). So it all fits together.

Meanwhile, I'm guessing Violetta delivered the book.

[deckardcanine]

For a moment, I thought they were implying that Higgs is all-powerful. But he's not exactly appearing before her.

[jbwoodford]

Meanwhile, I'm guessing Violetta delivered the book.

I disagree, but only because I don't think Violetta would need to put the lights out to deliver it unseen.

[therru]

Only because she's facing the wrong way.

That fifth panel is hilarious on many levels. :)

[bunsen_h]

She wouldn't need to, but doing so would muddy the waters... by making people follow the same chain of logic that you did.

[marycatelli]

Huh.

If she were tracking her attacker, her absence would be explicable, but why o why would she hide that she survived from this crew?

[marycatelli]

She doesn't speak of "before."

[turbobeholder]

1. Because she isn't sure the Lady Steelgarter is the only one who considers her an inconvenient witness. Or maybe even overheard some of her conversation with mysterious partner.
2. Because it's easier to sneak around when no one makes sure she is somewhere else before engaging in covert activity, or even considers that there's a Smoke Knight at large in the dome.

[murgatroyd666]

And in Charlie Stross' "Laundry Files" stories (recommended!, magic is a branch of mathematics. The viewpoint character is an expert in "computational demonology."

[turbobeholder]

So Higgs does have sense of humour.

[deckardcanine]

Look again: "Appear before me...."

[murgatroyd666]

Yes ... Tarvek's "I'm having a heart attack!" expression is pretty good, too.

[cmdr_zoom]

Friend of mine suggests that's not just a reaction to the juxtaposition of Agatha's remark and Higgs' appearance - but that Tarvek, who's had Smoke Knight training, didn't see him coming.

[turk187]

I love those books. They introduced me to the art of Phil Foglio.

[murgatroyd666]

Excellent point!

Come to think of it, Higgs has worked for Wulfenbach and for Albia ... would it come as a surprise to discover that he had worked for the Storm King, too? Or that he had founded the Smoke Knights?