Really, how would compound interest work for time travellers? Especially for Frederick who is trying to fix a highly unstable timeline. I would imagine if he ever tried to get to a spacetime location downstream of any account he opened, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Well, the script is by Geoff, while Holland Smith drew and inked this fellow, so I’m just sort of sitting down here today observing. So, I suppose I’ll talk a bit about Peter the Great and Frederick the Great. They […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today we answer the question, “How come everybody in your comic is speaking English?” The answer is that apparently they aren’t speaking English at all. A deeper question is, “If everyone in the world spoke the same united Language, wouldn’t […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Again, script by Geoff, art by Holland Smith. Leaving me to talk about a monastery that won a war… Preobrazhenskoe has a rather interesting history. The site of a famous monastery, the youthful Peter chose it as the location for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Perhaps the greatest bit of reading in the entire corpus of historical writing is to be found on pages 637 and 638 of Robert K. Massie’s Peter the Great biography, where he goes into detail about the 18th century Russian […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Count beat me to the punch. I was going to talk about how the barest of facts make up our caricatures of history. When discussing Peter the Great it is hard to get past all the dwarves and viscera.
This was a clear influence on the last panel of today’s thrilling episode. While I don’t think Brandon Bird has the monopoly on depictions of dino wrasslin’, credit is due when a man writes in his script, “Count, I want […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Proof by Abduction” is hands down my favorite Geoff title ever. That being said, Peter was quite the sucker for anything Western. For the most part, this was a good thing. It brought to Russia advances in medicine, science, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am a fan of the awesome “white door from out of nowhere.” Of course, this is because I am a fan of Quantum Leap. More specifically, the character of Al from Quantum Leap. Dean Stockwell is totally awesome. Everytime […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What a weekend it was. Treasure Island Comics, the store that reignited my love of the comic medium and has been steadily supplying my habit for five years now, said good-bye to the estimable Moe as he moves off to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…