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Inside Front Cover: Cutouts of Baron Klaus Wulfenbach and
Theopholous DuMedd.
Back Cover: Build your own dingbot.
Note: Pages are no longer numbered.
Page One:
Panel Two: "Do I need to get you some boots?" A reference to
Puss in Boots, a fairy tale.
Page Two:
Panel Two: The bottle is labeled: "Ne", the atomic symbol for Neon.
Krosp informs Agatha that she's a spark.
Pages Three thru Five are drawn primarily in red, as if the scene was taking place in a photographer's dark room. It abruptly goes back to normal color in the middle of page five. Why?
Page Four:
Panel Two: The Baron states that Othar is also a spark. An
adventurer, yes. A spark? Has he created clanks? constructs? anything? Is it
possible to identify someone as a spark if they haven't built anything?
Page Five:
Panel Two: The lab instrument is labeled: "Brain Corer".
Panel Four: We're back to normal coloration.
Page Six:
Panel One: One bottle in the lab is labeled: "Essence of Beef".
Page Seven:
Panel Four: The Baron off-handedly mentions that he's married.
TO WHOM??? The bottles are labeled: "Flesh Dissolver", "Blood Salts", and
"Neuric".
Panel Six: The lab instrument is labeled: "Lil Rippy". Is this what
happened to Dr. Dimitri?
Page Nine:
Panel Five: There's a dis-embodied brain in a jar in the lab. Another spark?
Page Ten:
Panel Three: "First" appearance of Bangladesh DuPree. Her earlier appearance
was a flashback in Moloch's story. This time, she's actually in the plotline.
Page Eleven:
Panel Four: The book cover is labeled: "The Book of DuPree". The book spine
is labeled: "Phenomena Observed:DuPree".
Page Twelve:
Panel One: Bang sees a portal with Agatha, Moloch, Gil dressed as a
White Lady and a White Lady. This is immediately after Moloch's gunboat was
destroyed and Moloch is saying "They made it!". This may be significant later.
Panel Three: Bang says it's two weeks later.
Panel Four: The portal re-appears. Gil can see that Bang has a gun,
so vision is two-way thru the portal. Agatha starts a sentence that she
finishes in the earlier portal. This means the portals are not limited by
time. We still don't know if it's possible to pass through a portal. Or what
the range is in time or space. The Dragon King of Mars was a story and not
reliable data.
Page Thirteen:
Panel Five: Othar has escaped.
Page Fifteen:
Panel One: Agatha is introduced to Zoing. Zoing speaks English, sorta.
"Schmeka Teee?" is "She's making tea?".
Panel Three: The washtub is labelled "GET BIGGER TUB" -- Miod
Panel Four: Agatha is introduced to Ardsley.
Page Sixteen:
Panel One: Check out the tuning fork hanging on the tool board. It's
an optical illusion. The handle is two square prongs, the ends are three round
prongs. The hippo helmet has a sign that reads "Needs work".
From Miod: Mimmoth Sighting: two mimmoths above tool board.
Panel Two: Brace yourselves! It's the library!
Page Seventeen
Panel One: Agatha selects "Trelawney Thorpe, Girl Adventurer in the
Seraglio of the Iron Sheik". The publisher is "A Jolly Good Book! Co."
We learned in issue #5, page 132 that Theo is the son of The Iron Sheik.
From Asuka: "Seraglio" is a rather fancy name for a harem, as in the
Mozart Opera "The Abduction From the Seraglio". Notice Agatha hasn't made the
conection, and Gil's trying desperately to ensure she won't. Meanwhile
Wooster is chearfully teasing Gil's lack of romantic success "a favorite.."
ala Othar. Gil must have been a bit shy in Paris..
Panel Two: Another set of library shelves!
Page Eighteen and Nineteen: Double Page Panel: Gil and Agatha dance to a mechanical orchestra!
Page Twenty:
Panel Four: First appearance of the blue globe, a genuine Heterodyne
artifact -- . It will be significant later.
Page Twenty-One:
Panel One: Mimmoth sighting, under Agatha's word balloon. -- Miod
Panel Two: First appearance of Gil's lightning generator.
Panel Four: Would you really put your face in front of a lightning
generator and then repeatedly click the on switch? Sparks may be bright, but
sometimes, they're not too bright! :D
Panel Five: First appearance of Gil's fencing clank.
Page Twenty-Two:
Panel Four: A fencing opponent with four arms and power tools is a
"more realistic" opponent??? Who does Gil expect to meet???
Page Twenty-Three:
Panel Four: Agatha defeats the fencing clank.
Page Twenty-Four:
Panel One: Aha! Now we know who Gil is expecting to meet. :D
Page Twenty-Five:
Panel One: From Miod: one of the clanks' arm opens and reveals a
miniature action figure with a mace (to the right of Agatha's head). Soooo
cute!
Panel Two: Agatha defeats the fencing clank. Again. How's that
spark ego and temper holding up Gil? :)
Page Twenty-Six:
Panel Two: The Baron has an awful lot of surgical stitching. Either
adventuring with the Heterodyne Brothers takes it's toll, or he's a construct!
Page Twenty-Eight:
Panel One: The Baron comments that Othar isn't even damaged. And he's
been hit in the head with a pipe wrench. He must be nearly as tough as a
Jaegermonster. The door reads "Sponge Control Station 7". The pipe is
marked "Steam Conduit".
Panel Three: Agatha is starting to realize she may not be with 'the
good guys'.
Page Twenty-Nine:
Panel Five: The Baron thinks that Gil wants Agatha for his mistress.
Page Thirty:
Panel Three: Zoing says "ugettagurl?"
Translation: "You get a girl?"
Panel Four: Othar is awake and makes a remark about Gil's actual
taste in women. How would he know?
Panel Five: Bottles are labeled "ADT", "O2", "75" and "Caution".
Page Thirty Two:
Panel Four: Agatha gives a direct order to Dr. Rovainen and he obeys
and calls her 'mistress'. Is he just trying to get away from suspected spark
with a temper, or does she have some sort of control over him, like she may
have with Von Pimm?
Page Thirty Three:
Panel One: Agatha informs her friends that Othar is prisoner aboard
ship.
Page Thirty Four:
Panel One: Krosp tells Agatha his name.
Panel Three: Krosp explains he's a construct. Over the next two
pages, he explains how he was supposed to be used and why it didn't work.
Page Thirty Five:
Panel Five: Agatha remarks 'Oh good. I can serve the King of the
Cats'. This is the first time Krosp is addressed as The King of Cats.
Page Thirty Six:
Panel One: Krosp says he accept her fealty. Depending on the local
culture, this may be a binding contract. In panel four, he says he's now
responsible for her safety.
Panel Five: Krosp says his creator was Dr. Vapnoodle and he couldn't
save him. Is Dr. Vapnoodle dead? or has a lobotomy made him Dr. Dimitri?