Field Primus
You know, Lindesfarne's origin was a big deal when it was revealed, and for new readers I don't think it should be listed as part of her basic description. May not be as big as "Luke is a farmboy who doesn't realize he's Darth Vader's son" but still. "Mad-scientist-in-training" conveys a great deal about how to read her character, but her actual origin doesn't, and I think it should be deleted (from the opening description — obviously it still goes under trope examples).
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It still happened. If you want, you could add that to What Happened to the Mouse? along with all the other plot threads Bill has left hanging over the years without outright retcon'ing them.
I just went through and split up the trope page into four. With that, I expanded the header system for each page, which I originated with the characters pages, to include the comic title on each header, and links to all the trope subpages.
Wizzard
Not sure about this bit from Artistic Licence – Biology:
- Lindesfarne is shown a series of quills belonging to Princess Chertsey. Without even using any of her equipment, she is immediately able to tell them what the DNA looks like, "down to the last gene
." It should go without saying that DNA strands are not visible to the naked eye.
- Lindesfarne is shown a series of quills belonging to Princess Chertsey. Without even using any of her equipment, she is immediately able to tell them what the DNA looks like, "down to the last gene
It looks to me that Lindesfarne used her equipment between strips, and what she's looking at there isn't the actual quills but the DNA fingerprint. The idea she has her own DNA pattern memorised so she can instantly say they're identical is a bit of a stretch, but not that much of one for a cartoon geneticist.
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The art is a little unclear - it looked to me like Fiona had literally just handed Lindesfarne a sheet of quills and Lindesfarne suddenly knew the genetics of it.
I mean...for starters, DNA strands don't look like the ones in the comic.
Very late in getting back to this, sorry. But a DNA fingerprint isn't a picture of DNA molecules. It's a sequence of short lines. Which - allowing for the cartoony art style - looks pretty much like what Lindesfarne's looking at.
I would like to ask for some help in getting character images for the Characters page ecosystem here.