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May. 16th, 2011 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsFor years and years, people have been saying to me "Becca! Read Gunnerkrigg Court! It is exactly all the things you like!" And for years and years I have been saying back to these people, "yes and I will get around to it when I know I have a day I can afford to lose entirely in reading many years' worth of accumulated webcomic backlog!"
But finally my resistance was conquered when people presented me with collected versions of Gunnerkrigg Court such that I no longer had any reason to resist. And as it turns out a.) yes it is exactly all the things I like and b.) I did in fact lose an entire day that I probably could not afford reading several years' worth of accumulated backlog once I had exhausted printed versions. SO EVERYONE WAS RIGHT.
Okay, so Gunnerkrigg Court is basically about two adorable BFF schoolgirls at a MYSTERIOUS SCHOOL OF MYSTERY.
Antimony aka Annie, the pragmatic and socially awkward one with a mysterious past:
Kat, the enthusiastic genius nerdy one with a past that is probably less mysterious:
The school and surrounding forest's various mysteries include:
- robots!
- ghosts!
- fairies with great hair!
- creepy psychic soulbonded kids!
- suspicious experiments!
- lots and lots of psychopomps!
- the trickster-creature of possibly-evil who is now possessing Annie's stuffed toy!
- the school founders, who were also possibly-evil or at least highly morally ambiguous!
- Annie's dead mom, who apparently really had it going on given that at least 50% of the adult and/or nonhuman cast seem to have been tragically in love with her! (ESPECIALLY awkward times when one of those people is your dragon-slaying gym teacher)
- JONES. Probably not a robot and clearly the best character of all. (She should stoicface and wear party hats ALL THE TIME.)
Unlikely as it may seem, it becomes increasingly clear that all of these mysteries are somehow related and gradually coming together in a very well-plotted, well-paced, gradually darkening story with lots of shades of gray that still makes time for giant giant sea monster couples therapists and robot cows with laser vision.
The art in the first few chapters is a bit jaggy, but it smoothes out pretty quickly; the story complexifies fairly rapidly, too. And so much ladyfriendship! SO MUCH. So, okay, fine, everyone can say I-told-you-so, I seem to be hooked.
But finally my resistance was conquered when people presented me with collected versions of Gunnerkrigg Court such that I no longer had any reason to resist. And as it turns out a.) yes it is exactly all the things I like and b.) I did in fact lose an entire day that I probably could not afford reading several years' worth of accumulated backlog once I had exhausted printed versions. SO EVERYONE WAS RIGHT.
Okay, so Gunnerkrigg Court is basically about two adorable BFF schoolgirls at a MYSTERIOUS SCHOOL OF MYSTERY.
Antimony aka Annie, the pragmatic and socially awkward one with a mysterious past:
Kat, the enthusiastic genius nerdy one with a past that is probably less mysterious:
The school and surrounding forest's various mysteries include:
- robots!
- ghosts!
- fairies with great hair!
- creepy psychic soulbonded kids!
- suspicious experiments!
- lots and lots of psychopomps!
- the trickster-creature of possibly-evil who is now possessing Annie's stuffed toy!
- the school founders, who were also possibly-evil or at least highly morally ambiguous!
- Annie's dead mom, who apparently really had it going on given that at least 50% of the adult and/or nonhuman cast seem to have been tragically in love with her! (ESPECIALLY awkward times when one of those people is your dragon-slaying gym teacher)
- JONES. Probably not a robot and clearly the best character of all. (She should stoicface and wear party hats ALL THE TIME.)
Unlikely as it may seem, it becomes increasingly clear that all of these mysteries are somehow related and gradually coming together in a very well-plotted, well-paced, gradually darkening story with lots of shades of gray that still makes time for giant giant sea monster couples therapists and robot cows with laser vision.
The art in the first few chapters is a bit jaggy, but it smoothes out pretty quickly; the story complexifies fairly rapidly, too. And so much ladyfriendship! SO MUCH. So, okay, fine, everyone can say I-told-you-so, I seem to be hooked.
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Date: 2011-05-16 04:16 pm (UTC)YES, YES, IT IS THE GREATEST.
&gunnerkrigg;
But no, really, there are so many ways in which this comic is my perfect, perfect story. I was so disappointed when I tore through all of it and couldn't just inhale like I'd been doing when I started!
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Date: 2011-05-16 04:18 pm (UTC)But this is the eternal problem with webcomics, eventually you run out of archive and then you have to wait at a GLACIAL PACE. Ongoing storiiiies! *shakes fist*
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Date: 2011-05-16 04:20 pm (UTC)...uh, I mean, oops, what just happened?
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Date: 2011-05-16 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-16 04:28 pm (UTC)