Special guest artist: Jim Alexander. Reprinted with his permission from his former online comic strip Algernon's Dilemma. Characters and artwork from Algernon's Dilemma are © Copyright 2003, Jim Alexander. All rights reserved.
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[[Otto is commenting on one of the plans in the tech manual his father is showing him.]]
Otto: Dad~!! I think the vertical flux capacitor needs to be placed FORWARD a bit more!!
William: Forward?! Yes~!! I'll suggest that, son!!
[[Greta pulls William a little ways away from Otto.]]
Greta: I know the boy's a GENIUS, Will ~ and if not for him FINE-TUNING the designs behind the scenes ~ we wouldn't have developed much of the technology we have in the last THREE YEARS~
[[The scene widens, and we see Greta gesturing toward Flavoura and her huge "tracts of land."]]
Greta: ~But, don't you wish that ~ just for once, the boy'd take an interest in the things OTHER boys his age are interested in?!!

