COMIC BOOK NEWS FOR OCT 24: GUNNERKRIGG COURT, NORSE MYTHOLOGY AND FANTASY NOVELS

gunnerkrigg court, norse mythology and fantasy novels

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I know I promised a Hellboy post, and I will get around to that. But right now, there are a couple of different things I want to talk about, the first being Gunnerkrigg Court. It’s a peculiar confection – a webcomic that’s been running for a while (though I just discovered it, and blitzed through the archives) about some children (two girls in particular) who attend a school, and there’s some stuff to do with magic and technology, and, in a manner redolent of Hellboy actually, it has an awful lot of foreshadowing, and, since it’s been going for about five years now, quite a bit of mythos, (though not in the same way as Scary Go Round). It also has some surprisingly funny bits – the joke in these two panels, for instance. But what I like best about it is the almost Gormenghast feel it evokes – the big empty (almost deserted) complex which the school occupies. To be honest, I’ve done a rather inadequate job of describing the comic itself. Let’s remedy that.

It’s a boarding-school story, but the boarding school is part of an enormous technological… thing which hasn’t itself been properly explained. As with much of the comic, explanations will come in time, I should imagine. The main character is a girl called Antimony, and the majority of the plots revolve around her or her friend Kat exploring or discovering things within the Court. Sometimes these things are apparent one-offs (like the Minotaur in the second story) but sometimes they pick up more significance as the comic wears on (the robots, for instance).

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