The title of this volume, Escape from the Island of the Rat Queen, was announced on Patreon, on a page available only to patrons, which provided a preview of the Girl Genius Comic for Monday, June 19, 2023 and repeated on a second Patreon page which previewed the the comic for Monday, October 9, 2023.[1]
The twenty-third volume of Girl Genius begins with…
The colors were done by Cheyenne Wright.
The first page of volume 10 of act 2 begins here: Monday, April 4, 2022 ✣ . This volume is the tenth book of The Second Journey of Agatha Heterodyne and the twenty-third volume overall.
On Friday, August 26, 2023 ✣ , this volume was put on hold while some tricky plot details were worked out.[2] As usual, the Professors decided to write another story to keep the fans entertained while the main story was on hiatus. It was originally intended to be just another short side story, but grew into a full-length graphic novel[3] which eventually became known as The Quest for Gold and Sequels. This story features Franz Scortchmaw and some other familiar faces along with many new characters and is set in the Girl Genius Universe after the end of the main story line. Escape from the Island of the Rat Queen resumed on Friday, August 4, 2023 ✣ and completed on Monday, December 25, 2023. ✣
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- ↑ At that time, this volume was still ongoing; it is unusual for a volume's title to be announced before the book is complete, but the Professors felt that this was the only possible title for this volume from the beginning. Given that this title was revealed far in advance of release of the printed volume, contrary to the Foglos' usual practice, it may yet change.
- ↑ "We're at one of those turning points in the story where it behooves us to stop for a minute and look over our continuity to make sure we don't mess anything up going forward. Of course, whenever the need to do some serious writing comes along, our obvious solution is to layer on another piece of writing to fill the gap, so here's a little story about Franz, the Great Dragon of Mechanicsburg.", note below page image posted on Friday, August 26, 2022 ✣ .
- ↑ In fact, at 144 pages, it is longer than many volumes of the main story.