It’s May 15! 35 years ago, Nolan Ryan pitched the first of seven career no-hitters. 103 years ago, Las Vegas was founded. 252 years ago, the Seven Years War began during which Frederick the Great, by Surviving, became the lion of Europe. Also, a happy birthday to Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum and super-awesome author Mikhail Bulgakov!
Warning: Retroactive Spoilers Ahead!
Anyway, for those just joining us, we figured it would be a good time to go over where we’ve been with Abe and Douglass and the Thoremerson. This arc started here with the Shadowy Lathe-Happy Overlord approving the plan to corrupt the good intentions of Frederick Douglass. Douglass then goes on to create an unkillable monster. He then kidnapped a thermodynamicist and built himself a rocket train. His attack on Mexico ultimately failed, however, due to an excess of a Napoleon high on George Lucas.
Douglass and the Thoremerson then disappear for a spell until the breakout of the Civil War. Napoleon, having proved annoying, is dumped and a young Abe Lincoln is subtly brought in to replace him. Together, they find the Thoremerson working for the Confederacy, and planning nasty things. So, they track down Douglass, concoct a plan, and today it seems all but vanquished.
And that’s 6 months of comics for you, friends. And oh do we have snakes and ladders planned in the future!
– Count Dolby von Luckner
Recently, I’ve been whiling the hours away with Chronotron, a happy little robot that can travel thru time.
This is a good little puzzle game that features all the multiple instantiation and time-becomes-a-loop-ness that I crave in my time-traveling robot puzzle games.
–Geoff
http://www.ftg-comic.com/2008/05/13/index.php
It’s Episode 125!! And there are deep forces at work… To all appearances, Grant and Douglass have formed themselves a fool-proof plan for defeating the Thoremerson and setting history right again, but there is danger waiting in the wings, and he is carrying a tasteful congratulatory bouquet… of TREACHERY! Today, one of our heroes Will Fall, in Episode 125: Other than that, How Was the Play?
– Geoff and The Count
I never trusted that beaver.
Beavers are pretty fascinating little suckers really. Almost human in their willingness to totally screw with nature in order to be mildly more comfortable. Still, awesome critters. Check out the blurb from one of my favorite things to look through in spare moments, the Macmillan Illustrated Animal Encyclopedia:
“A pair of beavers starts by damming a stream with branches and mud to create a lake, deep enough not to freeze to the bottom in the winter, in which they hoard a winter food supply of branches. A shelter with sleeping quarters is made of branches, by the dam or on an island or bank, or a burrow is dug in the riverbank. When beavers have felled all the available trees in their territory, they DIG CANALS INTO THE WOODS TO FLOAT BACK TREES FROM FARTHER AFIELD!!!”
If you’re not impressed by that last bit, you’re most likely either a Skrull or deceased.
In any case… 125 Episodes! YAY!!
– Count Dolby von Luckner