Latest page has me quite curious. The way they worded everything, especially on the 3rd panel more or less. Does that mean that Brother Ulm is very much alive and is now the new core of the train? Plus...he's being trained by the old train. ....dat pun will haunt me forever now.

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:12 PM, charpoketron@... [girlgenius]
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> Latest page has me quite curious. The way they worded everything, especially on the 3rd panel more or less. Does that mean that Brother Ulm is very much alive and is now the new core of the train? Plus...he's being trained by the old train. ....dat pun will haunt me forever now.

I'm guessing that Ulm is not in fact alive. They used a "Si Vales
Valeo", remember? That's a resurrection technique. I bet they
transferred Ulm's mind from his corpse into the train's brain.

David Goldfarb

I don't think you really disagree here. It's just that the existence of these kinds of resurrection techniques raises questions about the exact definitions of the words "dead" and "alive." If a person's body is destroyed, but his or her mind has been transferred to someone or something else and is still conscious with the same personality and memories, isn't he or she still alive, then?

Of course, we know that it has been raised in the Girl Genius world, and in some cases they are *not* considered alive. We know that nobility who has died but been resurrected lose all right to their titles and possessions, something Lord Selnikov (sorry, *mister* Selnikov) is dealing with right now, and probably Zulenna as well, and it's bound to come up if Tarvek is unable to keep it a secret.