#really big

[rockrockgrace]

♪♫♩ You both have done enough ♩♫ Now rest - ♫♩♬

♪♫ - it is Adrian's turn to watch ♫♩

[anotheronleft]

I need to know if you guys see my vision:

Dunk with a warhammer.

goodnight

[the-stars-in-your-gaze]

reaching out to touch him to find empty space where he should be

[talesfrommedinastation]

Superpets predicted Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein.

Just facts.

[lefiggy]

[itowhotypes]

you thought i was joking huh?

[williamansley]

Agatha vs. Dexter

Agatha holding a really big wrench on the cover of The Secret Blueprints for Volume One, Electronic Edition

Dexter holding a really big wrench in a picture grabbed off the Internet.

When I said in my previous post, "Wrenches feature prominently in both the Foglios' comic and Genndy Tartakovsky's animated series, and I don't think that's a coincidence," I didn't mean to suggest that Dexter's Laboratory was a major influence on Girl Genius, although I do think that Agatha might not have quite such a big wrench in the cover illustration above if it wasn't for Tartakovsky's show.

Girl Genius and Dexter's Lab are certainly both works that feature "mad scientists" and, in such a context, the wrench is the badge of the Engineer, just as a chalkboard covered with incomprehensible equations is the badge of the Theorist. Both Agatha and Dexter seem to enjoy playing the part of the Engineer more the Theorist, but they each seem to have mastery over both aspects of Mad Science.

[bxklnemo]