ChronosCat

I seem to recall a strip where there was a joke about seeing Canada "from here". (There definitely was at least one about seeing Mexico.) True, but the fact that the Uryom participation was presented as the strange thing implies that said revolution occurred. (Plus as you mentioned, Arthur's pro-USA attitude only works if there is a USA. There have also been other references to "America" or the US over the years, such as the obnoxious tourists who visited the museum where Abraham's statue used to be displayed.)

I believe the fact that seers can't get their own spells is one of the things that sets them apart from other wizards, implying that other wizards do get their own spells. (This was one of the things Pandora mentioned to Heka that led to him telling her about seers. I seem to recall it being mentioned mentioned at some other point as well, with the implication being stronger that time, but I don't remember where.)

I highly doubt every Uryuom on the other side, let alone every one (if any at all) on the main cast's side, participated in this attempted conquest. Edward rejecting Lavender because of this would be like someone rejecting an American of German descent because a certain German and his followers tried to take over the world that one time...

I think it was previously established that Edward's glasses were for vision correction, though I don't remember when. Also, Tedd's current glasses are corrective as well (as established when she put them on during Ashley's party, continuing a story thread about Tedd's nearsightedness, a thread which began during the Card Tournament if I remember correctly).

Since my theory that the Griffin world is the Uryom home world is looking even more plausable, I suspect Dwight's hatred of technology (or of Virginia having it) is tied with the laws (and the religion inspiring those laws) that would make it illegal to buy or sell the TFG on the Uryuom home world.

The way I figure it, what my family doesn't know won't hurt them, and if some divine being really cared about what I thought they'd put more effort into convincing me they exist.

But 13 is my lucky number! It would be quite the plot twist if someone Grace knew secretly had contact with the griffins, but I assume you're actually saying it's an alternate of one of the existing cast. I doubt that would be the case; my understanding that since the griffin world is "the other side" of the main EGS world and thus technically they are both the same world, there shouldn't be any alternates of people from one "side" native to the other. I believe the worlds with alternates, like that of Magus or Lord Tedd, are far more separate from the main EGS world and each other than the main world and the griffin world; in fact probably each of those alternate "dimensions" has its own griffin side, with alternates of Tara, Andrea, Liam, etc. My current guess as to why Virginia's appearance surprised Grace is that Virginia is a Uryuom or a fellow Seyunalu. (This ties in with my current suspicion that the griffon world is also the Uryuom homeworld.)

I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but based on your previous output I can confidently state that as soon as I sort out my current computer issues I'll be buying my own copy.

I'm a bit more concerned with his shoulder issues; I haven't been keeping track of how often they delay production, so I can't say if they're getting worse, but they sure don't seem to be getting better.

While Susan may not be part of a relationship in canon, plenty of fans ship her with Elliot and Ashley - and per the current NP arc, apparently so does Ashley.

I loved Bill Nye, though by the time he was on TV I already knew most of what he was teaching; I watched it more for the humor than for what I could learn. (Then again, that was probably why most kids watched it. I've always been interested in learning, however, and have watched shows like "Nature" and "Nova" since I was a little kid, as well as various other PBS documentaries.) I never watched much of Shari Lewis, but my younger sister loved Lambchop's Play Along.

This sounds like some of the strange things that happen in quantum physics. In particular, it reminds me of a layperson-friendly explanation of Hawking Radiation. (Note: I say this as someone who is a layperson themself in regards to quantum physics, though I'm interested in it enough to be far better informed than the average person.)

I saw a little bit of The Electric Company in reruns when I was really young, but I don't really remember anything about it (in fact, looking it up just now I realized I was attributing some of my memories of 3-2-1 Contact to The Electric Company). I did have an issue or two of the magazine as a kid, but even there pretty much all I remember is the Spider Man comic strip in it. I also saw the PBS version of Captain Kangaroo in the mid 80s, but I didn't like it much. (I remember feeling several of the characters were too mean, to the point it made the show stressful for me. Ironically I found action shows with outright villains easier to handle.) While I did watch Sesame Street, my favorite show up until age six or so was Mister Roger's Neighborhood. Other kids shows I was in the target audience for and enjoyed included Voltron, Transformers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the first English-language cartoons of each). However, I've never stopped watching shows "for kids" (I almost stopped in my teenage years, then decided to ignore societal expectations and just watch what I liked), so the number of such shows I've seen over the years is far too huge for me to even attempt to list them all.

When I first started watching Sesame Street, I'm pretty sure I just figured "furry elephant" without questioning it. A bit later (at around age five or so), I started learning about prehistoric animals, and immediately concluded Snuffy was a tusk-less woolly mammoth.

I'm a little disappointed the scientist and assistant look so similar. Only one should have glasses, or their glasses should be distinctly different (except at such time as they need to wear safety goggles). Their hair styles could use to be more different as well; in particular they shouldn't both have the same sort of ponytail. If their coats are supposed to be lab coats, I suppose it makes sense they would look similar; otherwise they just add to the similarities between them. On the other hand, I like the test subject.

Well, Ashley already knows that Grace is comfortable being naked, and even witnessed Grace naked during the Introduction to Magic party. But unless I'm forgetting something, she doesn't know Sarah and Tedd have accidentally wound up naked around one another and Grace. Furthermore, based on the fantasies we've seen, that would be right up her alley.

Ashley doesn't know about the accidental nudity during Tedd's experiments, does she? I bet it'll really break her brain when/if she finds out.

My laptop stopped working yesterday. (I'm currently borrowing my parents' laptop.) I'm hopeful it can be fixed, but I'll need to go to a professional - it's beyond my meager skills to fix. If not, I did just do a backup this past weekend, so I won't loose much. Not having it usable in the mean time is still a pain, though. The really annoying thing is I have a major car repair bill coming up, and my finances were tight to begin with. I really didn't need another expense to deal with...

https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/assorted2022a12 Dan tweeted yesterday that he came up with an idea for a series of related comics within the Assorted 2022 "story". I hope this is the first part of that; I can see several interesting directions to go from here.

Unless Lord Tedd had something to do with Magus being ejected from his universe, I don't think there's any connection between their worlds; after all Tera is Magus' world's alternate of Tedd. The griffins described their world as being "the other side" of the main EGS-verse. If the previously established alternate universes are truly separate worlds rather than additional "sides", then I suspect "sides" don't have alternates of characters from their own set of worlds, and there should be no Elliot, Tedd (or Lord Tedd), et cetera in the Griffin world. In other words, if I'm understanding how the EGS multiverse works, the worlds of Magus, Lord Tedd, and the Griffins are all separate worlds, with the only connection between them being that people can travel between them and have traveled from them to the main EGS-verse.

The Lord Tedd arc had too much build up back in the day for it to be resolved quickly without it being disappointing to those of us who still care about it. I'm thinking it's going to require at least one long story of it's own, possibly more than one. Meanwhile, Balance is already quite long and has so many sub-arcs that it's hard to keep track of; I'd really prefer we don't have even more ongoing plot threads pulled into it, at least not in a way that requires much panels space. My current expectation and hope is that the current adventures in the forest will be the final segment of Balance (barring possibly an epilogue), and will focus on the griffins and the magic-dam. We then maybe get one or two short stories touching on other ongoing plot threads (maybe Kaoli might visit during this time, but it wouldn't resolve the Lord Tedd arc, just lay the groundwork for that arc to return to prominence), then a time skip to graduation. After possibly a few more short stories (this would be another spot Kaoli's visit could fit), we would then finally get to the cast entering college, and it would be sometime in that new era that Lord Tedd (and General Shade Tail) would finally be dealt with.

I don't have as long hair as Susan, but I do have long hair. As far as I can tell, the only time my hair comes into contact with something my shirt or jacket wouldn't is when I'm trying to push my way through the branches of trees/bushes in the woods. In most circumstances, if you care about keeping your clothes clean, trying to keep long hair clean isn't going to be too much of an additional challenge. That said, I can still see where Susan's coming from; I certainly would rather get my clothes dirty than my hair. On the other hand, hair isn't alive, so getting something on it isn't as bad as getting something on one's skin (not that I'm as worried about getting things on my skin as Susan, either).

I was specifically talking about "Balance", not EGS in general. I doubt any of those are going to be dealt with in Balance. In fact, I've been assuming the meeting with the griffins, or at least the current adventure in the forest, would be the final part of Balance. As for the questions of who was controlling the owlgriffin and what happened to Tara and Andrea, those might be dealt with in Balance, and could make a good climax. I had just thought the battle with the owlgriffin might be the climax or at least the first part of it, but that wouldn't be the case if there's a long enough period of calm followed by another battle.

They played Hee Haw on a local station regularly back in the 80s, which is when I watched it. According to Wikipedia, new episodes were still being produced for syndication at that time, which is presumably what I saw. As for Lawrence Welk, my grandparents used to watch it regularly. I never really watched it with them, but I often heard it on in the background when I was visiting them or they were visiting my family. For as long as I can remember, and to this day, the local PBS station has been playing Lawrence Welk at 5 PM on Saturdays. Every once in a while when I'm missing my grandparents on a Saturday, I'll take the time to watch a little bit of it.

I'm surprised things seem to be calming down. If the battle we just got was the climax of Balance, it was disappointingly and somewhat anticlimactically short. Of course it's still possible someone else might attack, or there will be some other climactic event, but now such a climax would have to rebuild some of the lost tension.