Comic 322 - Peenemünde
7th Jun 2018, 12:00 AM
in Parabellum
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Author Notes:
(Or rather was, because it got blown up here. But this is a flashback!)
- This flashback is of course only possible in the first place due to Camilla being immortal and not aging.
- Peenemünde is the place on Usedom (an island at Germany's Baltic coast), where Wernher von Braun developed the V2 rocket.
- During this whole chapter, the weather will be rather grey and dreary. This is meant symbolically, because we are in World War II here.
- Camilla is did explain here in panel 2 how her pigeon coin is working.
- Because the term "Aryan" got co-opted by the Nazi propaganda, Standartenführer Eisenthal and Camilla apparently have quite different ideas concerning its meaning. Camilla is not thinking about blonde and blue-eyed people, but instead about speakers of Indo-Iranian languages, with the Sintashta culture from Central Asia being amongst their earliest representatives.
User comments:
Furthermore, we will later even have a small flashback within this flashback, which I intend to set apart in this way.
But you know what? On second thought, I think you are right.
I'll see if I can come up with a least a slight "flashback-y" tinge that satisfies me, and then re-upload this page (plus the following ones I already finished) with it.
Thanks for the suggestion!
(When it came to etymology, that man was unbeatable!)
(Though I have to admit that the effect got significantly improved by Chippewa Ghost's suggestion to put a colour filter over the picture!)
By the way, the building we see here is supposed to be a really existing one! It's a power station, which today houses the Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum. (As seen from this perspective.)