The one thing that they drill into your head pretty quickly in high school history is that, even if FF didn’t get whacked, WWI would have happened anyway… That Bismarck’s massive personality and professional jealousy had so gutted the German foreign office of talent that there was nobody around come 1914 to maneuver out of the diplomatic trap, that France had slipped so far so fast that the chance for one big roll of the dice was too tempting, that the Habsburgs were Habsburgs and so, by their nature, incapable of not destroying themselves (to be more fair, that they had an empire of such conflicting elements that had little in common after the threat from the east subsided that explosion was unavoidable.) But it should be interesting to see just how things work out here.
In the meantime, I am going through Rowen Rinaldi’s sketches. She is the writer and artist behind Zombie High, and is generally a good and honest voice in the world of comics!
– Count Dolby von Luckner
This was a tricky episode to write, but I think it came out in the end.
–Geoff
That’s right, it’s off to the end of the Long Nineteenth Century with us – Geoff has been dishing out his plans piece by piece to me here and I am mightily excited. I am drawing up 360 at this very moment and it is Franztastic!
Speaking of Franztastic, I finished reading the Knights of Nine to Five first volume yesterday, and it is a mighty fine thing. The story of a middle aged knight errant in a questing conglomerate looking to prove he’s still adventure material, it is written with a tinge of Black Adder dry wit that keeps you from feeling too closely the truth of, yeah, one day you’re done.
And now, more sketches! I’m still working through the pile – only a couple left, so if you haven’t gotten yours yet (and you asked for one), drop me a note and let me know!
The Manhattan Project – After Hours!!
A Stately Bit of Nathan Hale Portraiture!!
– Count Dolby von Luckner