The Industrial Trend has escalated into all-out warfare. Sixteen years possess passed since the Heterodyne Young boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious conditions. Today, Europe is definitely ruled with the Sparks, dynasties of mad scientists ruling over – and terrorizing – the hapless population using their bizarre innovations and unchecked power, while the downtrodden dream of the Heterodynes’ return. At Transylvania Polygnostic School, a pretty, youthful student called about Agatha H and the Airship Town Agatha Clay seems to have nothing but bad luck. Incapable of building whatever actually works, but focused on her research, Agatha appears destined for any lackluster career as a minor lab assistant. But when the school is overthrown with the ruthless tyrant Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, Agatha finds herself a prisoner aboard his substantial airship Castle Wulfenbach – and it starts to look like she might bring a spark of Mad Research in the end. From Phil and Kaja Foglio, creators of the Hugo, Eagle, and Eisner Award-nominated webcomic Female Genius, comes Agatha H. as well as the Airship Town, a gaslamp fantasy filled up to bursting with Adventure! Love! and Mad Research!