Finally, issue 9! Studio Foglio has a little trouble hitting its publishing dates; but they do send pretty little postcards apologizing.
I don't know whether to say this ish has no cliffhangers or is all cliffhangers. It's a B-movie, Robots of Ruritania story: lots happens.
Character development is beginning to happen to our heroine Agatha; she has told off two ambiguously bad guys, and one foresees an eventual blowup at some of the good guys, when she realizes what was done to her for her own good... It seems very nicely modern that the GG characters are always conscious of the depths of poverty and fear they could fall to, Outside the Cities. A medieval difference between the stations, with a nineteeth-century fluidity of state. But, considering the gilded 19th-c. costumes from Eastern Europe that I read about recently, maybe the centuries were blurrier than I'm thinking.
I can even forgive the cheesecake women and hardly-beefcake men - I'd like more balance, though. I remain annoyed that one of the marks of womanhood seems to be feet so boot-bent as to seem bound.
ISBN: 1-890856-26-6