The Saga Continues… The flu of Saturday through Monday lead straight to what is probably a bacterial infection of the stomach that meant I didn’t sleep from Monday morning until Wednesday night, and that also kept me from eating. But […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Peter the Great died almost two years ago to the day in this here comic – and I have missed him every day since. Why don’t we celebrate his apparent return by going back to the beginning, to the dark […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The faithfulness of the domestic composer is a commonplace, but it is always heart-warming to see it in action. And, while we’re at it, why not see where this steadfast partnership began, waaaaaay back in episode 215 (which is part […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Historically, Frederick lived to see just about everybody who had ever been close to him die before their time, and each stuck in his memory and haunted his final, lonely years. Our Frederick is blessed with being slightly less concerned […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Really, this is how Abe would have turned out if Frederick’s grandfather, the arch-fop King Frederick I, had had his way with him. Frederick II could barely be compelled to change one tobacco-stained uniform for another identical tobacco stained uniform, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I adore Thomas Paine. If this comic weren’t about Frederick, I probably would have lobbied hard for it to be about Tom. As we’re catching up with him here, it would have been right around the time his second part […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Welcome to the Spring Special! We’re going to be looking at the origin of Ethan Allen and some of his adventures with Thomas Paine while Geoff works steadfastly on getting the formatting done that will allow us to print our […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’ve talked about this before, but just to reiterate, Ethan Allen Furniture just named itself after EA because they thought he was cool, not because he was a renowned Furniture Whisperer. In real life, Ethan Allen divided his time between […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And thus was a Zeitsgeschlaeger born. I’d like to keep looking at the early history of Allen and Paine, but next week we return to our main story, as we delve into a Paris divided between Antoinette and her surprising […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Robespierre working for Antoinette? A secret weapon designed by the father of chemistry himself? We’ve only just begun! Lavoisier’s story is really quite sad. He was a tax farmer, which was an occupation that the Revolutionaries particularly loathed, but by […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…