My favorite things from this first episode: – A conquistador riding a dinosaur – The octocube of time – Frederick losing at cards to pigs – Finally getting this thing started up We are planning on an update schedule of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The Count Speaks: Welcome to the inaugural salvo of Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable Comedy Breaching Time and Space. In the months leading up to the launch of This Fine Ship, I’ve been asked many times, “Why Frederick? Why […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Count declares: Wow. Episode 2. If you’d told me back on January 16, 2007 that I’d be sitting here today, writing the chatter for the SECOND episode of Frederick the Great, I’d have boxed your ears with Bibles for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Aqueducts, the Bacchanalia, the Justinian Code, and Fuzzy Pink Bunnies; these are the enduring legacies of the Roman Empire.
The Count Postulates: Rene Descartes was, without doubt, one of the greatest minds of the past five hundred years of human history. The founder of modern philosophy AND analytic geometry, he reduced a bunch of ideas that had grown WAY […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Speed lines make everything better.
The Count harumphs: The relationship between Voltaire and Frederick the Great was complicated. At first, Frederick worshipped Voltaire the way that, say, Napoleon worshipped Julius Caesar or Geoff worships Shigeru Miyamoto. Voltaire, for his part, was probably flattered by Frederick’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Speedball, as we knew him, is dead. However, his memory lives on in The Power’s speech bubbles.
“How did the art get so good all of the sudden, and speaking of art, what happened between episodes 2 and 3 anyway?” The answers to these questions, if they became generally known, could well subvert the natural order. But, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The subtle layout trick of Episode 3 was making sure the shot to the pills was dead center. In this episode, I hadn’t quite figured out what I was doing color-wise yet, so filling in the power around the chapeau […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…