Frederick and crew must have been *into* their discussion of Austria to somehow miss a mass abduction perpetrated by a Thoremerson.
–Geoff
Now, you or I might not realize the connection between the taking of a small American frontier town and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but then again, that is why we are not Napoleon.
Seriously, though, an inordinate amount of Napoleon’s plans usually had as the frosting on the cake the thorough drubbing of Austria. It didn’t really matter where he started his campaign: Italy, Spain, Prussia… the end result was always the same. Through some divine gift, the Habsburgs had a sixth sense for the exact wrong moment to enter a campaign, and with zen-like patience, waited for just that moment to enter the fray and get themselves roundly whipped. “No generals, We believe We must give Napoleon another month to gather his forces, and THEN attack, if our defeat is to be more spectacular than the last. That is the PROPER way to engage in war.”
– Count Dolby von Luckner
Archival Episodes of Especial Interest:
Really, Frederick Douglass?
Before They Were Thoremerson
http://www.ftg-comic.com/2007/12/11/index.php
Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Peter the Great, and Isaac Newton set down in a small American town around 1843 to begin their search for Frederick Douglass. Usually, the team handles these investigations through a combination of oblique interrogation and Waiting For Euler To Tell Them What To Do. This time, though, they’ve got a Napoleon on their team, and things work out a LITTLE differently… It’s Napoleonic, and it’s in Episode 85: The Firstest with the Leastest!!
– The Count and Geoff
Hmmm…
I just realized that I placed Napoleon’s word bubbles squarely over the main visual joke in panel 3. Underneath all those words is a Maddenesque battle plan for taking down the Americans. You can kind of see the yellow arrow, and some of the buildings.
That is what I get for doing layout before I color things.
–Geoff