Phil Foglio est un créateur riche d'une longue histoire dans l'art et la bande dessinée. Reconnu initialement comme un fan artist populaire de science-fiction dans les années 1970, il s'est tourné vers l'écriture et le dessin professionnels dans les années 1980. Son travail, souvent caractérisé par l'humour et l'aventure, présente un style artistique distinctif et une implication dans la création de mondes complexes. Aux côtés de sa femme, Kaja Foglio, il est le co-créateur d'une série acclamée de bandes dessinées et de romans.
Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg, to convince the artificial intelligence that animates her family's castle that she is, in fact, the new Heterodyne. But things get complicated when an imposter claiming to be the legitimate heir appears.
After escaping from the massive airship known as Castle Wulfenbach, Agatha falls in with a travelling troupe of performers, where she begins training under Zeetha, swordmistress and princess of the lost city of Skifander. With Wulfenbach on her trail, it's going to take more than a spark of Mad Science for Agatha to traverse the treacherous wasteland of war-torn Europa.
The Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare and Europe is ruled by dynasties of mad scientists, terrorizing the population with their bizarre inventions. At Transylvania Polygnostic University, student Agatha Clay seems destined for a boring career as a lab assistant, until the University is overthrown by a ruthless tyrant, and Agatha finds herself a prisoner aboard his massive airship
An alien task force searching for test subjects for their experiments meets their match in a tough New York City street gang