Want to learn more about ravens? Here is a fine site with an appropriately spooky of the current Raven Master of the Tower of London.
*A moment of silence for Luciano Pavarotti*
And now your Donnie Murphy Update:
Donnie Murphy returned to play today and went 3-for-4 including one home run. Apparently he took the trauma to the ribs and, Sebastian Shaw-like, transmuted it into kinetic batting energy. Hurrah and Hooray say we.
– Count Dolby von Luckner
Here is some background on the ravens of the Tower of London.
The current plot is primarily concerned with is the legend that if the ravens ever leave the tower, then the monarchy and England will fall. A secondary concern is the connection between ravens and the goddess Andraste.
–Geoff
http://www.ftg-comic.com/2007/09/04/index.php
We had our fun, our month of cracking wise without any particular need to adhere to a plot, but it’s September now, and with September comes responsibilities. Yes, Frederick is back in COLOR, back with SIX PANELS, and back with all the LOYOLA-STOMPING-ACTION you have been anticipating for well nigh on one month now. So come on over and see Frederick again, for the first time in Episode 57: Never Underestimate a Man Who Has Pigs at his Disposal!
– Geoff and The Count
Ah, Prussian Blue, how my heart goes out at the sight of you!
So, we are back to our main story after a month of pretty much just yukking it up with Ty Cobb and Mary Baker Eddy. A recap for those who haven’t been visiting the archives every day for the past month:
As we rejoin the adventure, Emily Dickinson, Anne Boleyn, and Frederick are in England after Euler revealed the connection between Euler and Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s first wife. An incredibly successful plan involving a fake mole and an equally fake knight got the team admission to the court of Henry, only to find Aragon, Loyola, and a mysterious robed figure there waiting for them.
Meanwhile, in Italy, Peter the Great and Isaac Newton were attempting to stop Franz von Sickingen from murdering the ancestors of Galileo Galilei when Peter unwittingly teamed with Sickingen and is now poised to beat the hell out of a disguised Newton.
There, that should about do it. In the meantime, I just noticed that, each time I draw Catherine of Aragon, I morph her closer and closer to the witch from The Day The Earth Froze. That is either profound or it is not.
And now your Donnie Murphy Update:
Donnie Murphy was placed on the 15 Day Disabled List retroactively to August 19 for some sort of rib muscle injury. It is good of him to pretend that he can be physically harmed… gives the kids a sense of hope.
– Count Dolby von Luckner