Wednesday's comic!

[murgatroyd666]

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190206

Whoa! Chekhov's Cannonball!

Comments

[madfilkentist]

A train and a castle riding a weasel! I love it!

[deckardcanine]

That little thing brought down the beast in one shot?

[bunsen_h]

In the GGverse, it's hard to predict the damage dealt by a weapon of whatever size. What appears to be a small low-powered projectile might do something horrific once it penetrates -- think of the magic-tech needle grenades and such of the Vorkosigan universe and elsewhere.

I suspect that their being down to two shots will be significant, thanks to mini-Castle's wasting ammo by seeking irrelevant targets.

(Mini-Castle? Castlette? Rook?)

(Mini-train? Mini-Beast? "HO"?)

[madfilkentist]

It's worth taking a look back here and the next few pages.

[murgatroyd666]

Indeed! Thanks for posting that link.

It's a twelve-year Chekhov's Gun! Many of us -- myself included -- had decided that the Professors had simply decided to drop that plot thread. It's gratifying to see that they didn't.

I wonder if it's safe to assume that the cannonball dingbot was found by Wooster?

[jbwoodford]

It was looking for Wooster, I believe.

Oddly enough, I was thinking about the cannonball the other day, and wondering if Wooster was going to pull it out at an opportune moment.

[elmegil]

I thought it was looking for Gil?

[elmegil]

Ah, no I see. Ardsley was flying by at the time....

[jbwoodford]

No, you were right--Agatha had sent her little flock after Gil's car, thinking Gil was in it, but Wooster was driving it at the time.

[spectrum_09]

She thought the flyer meant Gil. She instructed the bots to "find an airship coming in this direction". http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060605#.XFzhxlxKhWw
Her message seems to be aimed at a wider audience than just Gil.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060602#.XFzh-lxKhWw

[katzedecimal]

If it was, it explains why Wooster was so certain that Agatha was innocent, during the confrontation with Boris and the Jaeger Generals. It also explains how Albia knew about what Lucrezia did to Agatha. I had a "huh? How'd she know?" moment then but assumed that it had become common knowledge somehow, possibly during the time skip. But if Wooster saw the original message, he would surely have shared it with his Queen as soon as possible.