Well, I’m back from my vacation and continually working on setting up my new place.
I’m aiming to get my backlog of uncolored comics sorted out (and also to start having the comics colored by update time) within the next few weeks.
–Geoff
Welcome back! Wow, are we already like one sixtieth done with 2009? That’s kind of sad, actually…
Anyway, back to the story! It’s been a month, so perhaps a refresher is due (retroactive spoiler alert!):
The Civil War went kind-of, sort-of as it should. Thoremerson was defeated, but Frederick Douglass was not permitted to remain in his time, but was rather compelled to return to the 1775 Stasis Year A. That was going pretty much for suck, when Ethan Allen tracked the party there and, unleashing a Voltron-like combine harvester, wiped out Voltaire’s pad and, in the confusion, stole the Chronicle of Time. Frederick unleashed Calvin Coolidge to deal with the Harvester. Leonhard Euler showed up to kill Calvin Coolidge, but only managed to knick Allen by mistake. Still, a knick by a Factotum is no laughing matter, so Allen zoomed to the future to get that patched up, which brings us to TODAY!! Ta-Da!
– Count Dolby von Luckner
http://www.ftg-comic.com/2009/01/01/index.php
We have in this corner a peasant, Jacques Barquin, who swapped his clock for one of the king’s, inadvertently leaving behind his wife’s love letters to him. In this corner, Louis XIV, who upon opening his clock, found a stack of passionate love letters that he assumed against all reason were to him, but no battle plan for Malplaquet. And in this corner, Frederick the Great, who could have removed all of this difficulty with an ounce of foresight, but come on! The gloves are off, and you are in a PRIME position to take in the conclusion to the 2008 FtG Holiday Special! And be sure to come back next week when we return to Ethan Allen in The Far Future!!
– The Count and Geoff
Man, 2009. Amazing how time flies when you’re drawing Peter the Great beating the hell out of Nathan Bedford Forrest…
I’ll save the big Year in Frederick re-cap for January 16th, when we celebrate our Second Full Year of putting together this Very Fine Comic. For now, welcome to the conclusion of the Holiday Special… next Tuesday we’re back into the main arc, with Frederick the Great (along with Newton and Abe) off chasing Ethan Allen into the Far Future, William S. Gilbert desperate to do something grand for England in 1870, and Voltaire stuck with Peter the Great, Delaflotte, Frederick Douglass, and a destroyed house in 1775.
And so, on to 2009, may she be a bonnier lass than was 2008!!
– Count Dolby von Luckner