... This is now a real issue. There's a US company offering to clone your pet for you and they've had at least one satisified customer who had her dead cat...
... At Anglicon, Kaja said this would be answered in the GURPS book, as background information. I *think* she indicated that this is the correct answer, but...
Hello, all, I have been looking through my GG collection for the Trelawney Thorpe story. I do not have the second volume collection (individual issues only),...
I just saw the movie the Aviator, about Howard Hughes. I think he was very sparky, and really a neat, eccentric guy. There was a scene with a zeppelin that...
Eh, well, on re-reading all my issues, I am finding plenty of epithet usage which might show Christian influence. In Issue 11 alone, I found four instances ...
"With whom do the clergy of Europa make such deals? With Sparks, of course. Possibly the destiny of the world is St. Klaus of Wulfenbach??" Sometime after the...
[ "Xena" introduced me to the view of Caesar as a bloodthirsty egomaniac villain, vs. the usual "building empires is part of civilizaiton".] Aterix knew that a...
[Hello, all, I have been looking through my GG collection for the Trelawney Thorpe story. I do not have the second volume collection (individual issues only),...
Warning, slight spoiler of you don't have the 3rd gg collection. ... middle of issue 8. It's hilarious- and provides a certain insight into Gil, too. His...
s p o i l e r w a r n i n g Heh - there is also some added stuff with Baron Wulfenbach! At least, I think it is new - the whole part about the dead royal (ye...
Or, if you want to go directly to Trelawney: http://arcanetimes.keenspace.com/d/20041008.html The rest of the strip is fine, although navigation can be tricky....
Damien Sullivan seems to have been arguing for a war of extermination: the clerics siccing the peasants on those blasphemous Sparks; and then the Sparks taking...
MAJOR SPOILER ALERT Be warned- the new pages are much better if you actually see them in person, but here's a summary. ... New page #1 in issue #8 Agatha and...
Not entirely a bad thing. Part of the stiffening of science is the enormous armature of observations she carries around. When the first chapter of the geology...
... That's rather difficult without buying the new collections; my store doesn't carry them casually. So I thank you for keeping us informed. -xx- Damien X-)...
... But consider the fate of paganism under Christianity, or Islam. No one's worshipping Odin or Zeus these days, except a few modern revivalists. Religious...
I come down in the middle on this. Consider a specfic example of empire: the Wulfenbach dominion of Europa. Is it better for most Europaeans than what Klaus...
Yes of course it does happen. But the priests of Odin occupied the same ecological niche, or social function, as the Christian clergy. (and even then it is...
I was listening to a show on RantRadio, and they mentioed the odd new-years celebrations around the USA. "Ohohoh.. in Mechanicsburg, instead of a ball, the...
... Several, no doubt. There's also one in Ohio near where I grew up (make of that what you will) and one in Indiana. There may be even more, but those are the...
... sure....people tend to name new settlements on a frontier after home- or at least familiar places e.g. York- New York, Scotland- Nova Scotia (New Scotland)...
... Olga and Zulenna... ...a match made in Con Artist Heaven. <shudder> Debbie http://www.brigidsforge.com Original sterling Gothic and Pagan jewelry "He...
... Somehow I don't think there was enough of Olga's torso left to provide a new heart for Zulenna, since that's what she needs. If Zulenna had lost her legs,...
... it ... Still, there's that look of speculation on Klaus' face... What about "Agatha Herodyne and the Electric Coffin"? Wasn't the construct "dead" for...
... There are about six pages devoted to him. It starts with mentioning his "voracious sexual appetite" as he finishes up a liaison with "Mrs. Pompey", goes...
... be ... dug ... - ... True, but I'll bet constructs are a special case, even if they are made of human body parts. In issue ten, where Von Pinn rips apart ...