Figuring out just how a man-alligator would go about eating a libertine was the subject of much artistic deliberation. We know how an alligator would eat a man, and how a man would eat a man, but what of a man-alligator? My end decision was that, delighting in the fact that it has hands, the man-alligator would take advantage of them to eat the libertine like a big ole sammich. I stand by that decision.
– Count Dolby von Luckner
If we had TV promos for FtG, this episode’s would be something like, “In this episode, everything BLOWS UP!” And there would be lots of quick cuts of Tophat and the graveyard and the Libido Gate and then Frederick would yell, “FINISH IT!” And then The Others would come out of the jungle and Tophat would eat them as well. Then everything would blow up.
In a non-comic related note, if anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area is interested in seeing a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘The Grand Duke’, I happen to know of two such performances this weekend. They are at 7:30pm Friday and Saturday night at the Dinkelspiel Auditorium on the Stanford University campus.
My costumes for the show run something like: lederhosen, Miles Standish, Miles Standish in a chambermaid outfit, and (the ever popular) harlequin vampire fop.
I’ve probably just sold The Count on the show, but he was coming anyways.
–Geoff
That is some mighty fine fan art.
I think we can all agree that Donatello is our favorite Ninja Turtle. I think we can also all agree that Tophat is our favorite alligator. Mostly because he is the only one with a name, and a tophat, and jokes.
The Count has to take credit for the pun “Per-fist-tence of Memory.” Originally, I had simply called the battle plan the less awesome and more historical “Persistence of Memory” but while The Count reviewed the script he had the idea to pun it up and he was spot on.
http://www.ftg-comic.com/2007/04/17/index.php
Frederick the Great has been online three months, a veritable quarter-year now, and today we celebrate the only way we know how: A quartet of fighting alligators! A bit of Prussian Charm! A Horrible Decision Born of Desperation!
If ever there were a week to miss your dose of Frederick the Great, this most assuredly is… not, in fact, that… you know… week. Onwards, gentle readers, to affectation!
– The Scholars