What: Graphic designer Sydney Padua appreciates this and has created a webcomic all about Ada Lovelace --- a genius mathematician and the daughter of Lord Byron --- and fellow mathematician Charles Babbage.
Fighting crime for Queen Victoria. Using a difference engine. As you do.
Comparable to: Very Kate Beaton sense of humor, but with a lotta lotta footnotes about how much Charles Babbage hated street musicians (fact!).
Opening lines: "Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate child of mad, bad, and dangerous to know poet and nutcase Lord Byron. Her mother Anabel fledthe exploding planet her husband yet worried that Ada had inherited his wild blood."
Representative panel:
Bonus representative panel:
How to get it: The main page is here. Meet the cast here. See the Pocket Universe Guide here. Access the archived stories here.
Connections to previous Wreckage: Yes, as a matter of fact I did mention Kate Beaton. I also mentioned her in Rec. #95, List #2, List #3, List #8, Rec. #186, Gift Idea #2, List #14, and List #21.
Comparable to: Very Kate Beaton sense of humor, but with a lotta lotta footnotes about how much Charles Babbage hated street musicians (fact!).
Opening lines: "Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate child of mad, bad, and dangerous to know poet and nutcase Lord Byron. Her mother Anabel fled
Representative panel:
Bonus representative panel:
How to get it: The main page is here. Meet the cast here. See the Pocket Universe Guide here. Access the archived stories here.
Connections to previous Wreckage: Yes, as a matter of fact I did mention Kate Beaton. I also mentioned her in Rec. #95, List #2, List #3, List #8, Rec. #186, Gift Idea #2, List #14, and List #21.
[Originally posted 12/10/12.]
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