 Yes, I spent about ten minutes doing the math on this - as I recall it, the encyclopedia wound up being around 55 volumes, total. I really like this comic.
Anyhow, Hypedon is the old, latin form of Hippedown. I was, at the time, fascinated by countries where the noun and adjective forms are different, like how things are Welsh instead of Walesish, or Dutch instead of Neatherlandish.
 There were readers who shipped Brisbane and Nina, and then there was Brisbane, who shipped Nina and Caleb. Nina and Caleb have an awful lot in common.
 This is kind of what I was going for two weeks ago, with the clever inversion of subjects. Kind of.
"I'm not a ghost!" would've been Nina's catchphrase if she had one.
 Yes, it's a reference to the Thirty Years War. The original plan for Nina was that she read and believed everything. This got very complex very quickly, and wound up getting dropped because it was more trouble than it was worth. I probably could've done a lot with it if I were astoundingly well-read. At the time, I enjoyed odd, old books that nobody else bothered with. If I kept it up, it would've been a lot of work for something that nobody else would really get. It's kind of a shame, because I want to be hip but my tastes run towards the very obscure.
 Mind you, just because a children's book agrees with you doesn't mean that you're wrong. I think we can all agree that, for instance, you shouldn't wear a pot on your head because you might mishear things, or that you should always let people tell you when your house is on fire. It's just that, well, Nina cites everything at once, and not everything is true. Nina pt 2
drawn by Orochi, Oni Ahcem, Rachel Witter, and Isabel Marks
   
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