The title of this volume, The Beast of the Rails, was announced by Phil on Girl Genius Adventures in early February 2015. The fourteenth volume of Girl Genius begins with… The colors were done by Cheyenne Wright. The first page of volume 1 of act 2 begins here: [ March 3, 2014] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]]. While this volume is often referred to as the first volume of act 2 for short, it is officially the first book of The Second Journey of Agatha Heterodyne.