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A paper collection of the first 20 chapters of the webcomic, which is also available for free online.
An oddball, inventive steampunkish fantasy set in a bizarre boarding school, combining tropes from… well, basically everything ever, but most prominently the English boarding school story and world mythology.
A rather peculiar girl, Antimony Carver, who grew up in a hospital where she hung out with all the psychopomps who came to escort the spirits of the dead, is sent to a boarding school in which students build robots and bring the Minotaur to class to do a presentation on himself, counsel ghosts on the best methods of terrifying unsuspecting students, and have romances end tragically when one of them turns into a bird.
Somewhat surreal and often funny, this reminds me a bit of the earlier volumes of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. At first I had a hard time with the art, especially the bizarrely angled heads, but it improves as it goes along. By the end of the volume, I liked it a lot, and the characters and story as well. I’m having a hard time describing this, but I enjoyed it and will read the rest online rather than wait for the next volume to come out in print.
Thanks to the multiple people who recommended this.
Gunnerkrigg Court
An oddball, inventive steampunkish fantasy set in a bizarre boarding school, combining tropes from… well, basically everything ever, but most prominently the English boarding school story and world mythology.
A rather peculiar girl, Antimony Carver, who grew up in a hospital where she hung out with all the psychopomps who came to escort the spirits of the dead, is sent to a boarding school in which students build robots and bring the Minotaur to class to do a presentation on himself, counsel ghosts on the best methods of terrifying unsuspecting students, and have romances end tragically when one of them turns into a bird.
Somewhat surreal and often funny, this reminds me a bit of the earlier volumes of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. At first I had a hard time with the art, especially the bizarrely angled heads, but it improves as it goes along. By the end of the volume, I liked it a lot, and the characters and story as well. I’m having a hard time describing this, but I enjoyed it and will read the rest online rather than wait for the next volume to come out in print.
Thanks to the multiple people who recommended this.
Gunnerkrigg Court