Let's Read Gunnerkrigg Court

(This review will evaluate Gunnerkrigg Court based on chapters 1-23, plus chapter 24 up to page 23)

I've always been fascinated by the idea of webcomics. A medium where creativity can be free to roam, unconstrained by issues of profit, sounds like a great concept.

And then I tried reading some webcomics and found out they're all cross-gender furry porn.

Okay, that was mean of me. Obviously that's not true, but there's no denying it: most webcomics suck, whether it's a case of an author ripping off every other story in sight instead of coming up with their own idea, or an artist who's trying to ride a jet-powered unicycle while juggling chainsaws before they can walk, or just someone who wants to saddle their story with some kind of cancerous fetish tumour. There are some great comedy webcomics out there, but I've always wanted to read a story driven comic, something with a proper overarching plot and well-developed characters. In spite of all the crap I've spent a long time searching, convinced that somehwere out there is a genuine diamond in the rough.

And then I found Tom Siddell's Gunnerkrigg Court, and while I won't be ready to call off the search until it's finished, let's just say I know where I'm placing my bets. Gunnerkrigg Court is, to me, far and away the best story-driven comic on the internet (and since it's in print now it also gives most "normal" comics a run for their money). So that's why, inspired by the Let's Watch I did of Toward the Terra and this annotated Re-Read of The Wheel of Time (which I am incidentally enjoying far more than trying to read the actual books themselves), I've decided to do my own little commentary project for Gunnerkrigg. The sensible way to do this would be to handle it by chapter, but since I'm an uber-fan I'm going to pull out all the stops and do it by page. All 300+ of them. This is clearly going to take a while.

Anyway, the first page will probably be up tomorrow some time. Enjoy.