Entirely unrelated to history, but if you have two minutes of time you’re just dying to shoot in the face, You Touch My Hands for Stupid Reasons is currently the delight of the von Luckner household. Benjamin Disraeli is known […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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“I need to ask The Count about the color of Benjamin Disraeli’s coat.” is a sentence I hadn’t ever counted on uttering before this episode came along. The Count’s advice was to “pick a dandy color and go with.” So, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Edward Sabine was pretty awesome. Before becoming president of the Royal Society in 1860 of which Joule was also a member (“But how is Joule ‘Edward’s Joule’ in 1843?” you ask. All things to the patient), he wandered around the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The circular panel cutout makes a triumphant return! One of these days we should do a panel that has all four corners cut out, and maybe a full circle in the middle. Or maybe that would look too much like […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our one year anniversary is coming up tomorrow! Hopefully, the implied tragedy of Baron Pfoetchen has sufficiently distracted you from the reason his demise was brought up in the first place. –Geoff
Tomorrow our modest comic turns one year old, which on one hand totally freaks me out and on the other seems an entirely natural and reasonable number. That’s a year with a new comic every Tuesday and Thursday, rain or […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, we’ve officially got a year under our belts now. We’ll probably wax rhapsodic after our 100th proper episode. On another subject, where did the fopstick go? Frederick has a pretty easy time of inventory management because he has his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First of all, this is a pretty sweet James Joule statue. If you were around in the 1840s and 50s and wanted to make yourself a supercharged locomotive, Joule was probably your best bet. In our year, 1843, he discovered […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Railroads! I am firmly convinced that the path to victory in Civ4 (and every Civ game) is rooted in railroads. A fun meta-game for me to play is to watch the Count’s wife whenever she is playing Civ and ask […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A part of me desperately wanted to art this up as a 1905-era movie train fight but I knew that allowing myself that indulgence would just lead to more until every panel of every comic came out like some D.W. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…