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The comic itself: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021104
News/Blog: http://girlgeniusadventures.com/
So Girl Genius is a webcomic that is currently active and has been since 2002. It started as a traditional print comic but then was transferred online. It's written and drawn by Phil and Kaja Foglio. It's considered a staple of the steampunk genre, though the authors describe it more as gaslap fantasy.
It takes place Europa (Europe) in an alternate timeline. Without spoiling too much, the setting is based after an invasion of alien-like "Slaver Wasps" which take over humans and turn them into "Reverents" which are more or less zombies. The Heterodyne nobles, admirably referred to as "The Heterodyne Boys", effectively end the invasion by cutting off the head of the snake of the Slaver Wasps, they then mysteriously disappear. An important aspect behind all of this is the "Sparks", which you could think of us genius inventors. The Sparks are described as by the peasantry as mad scientists as they tend to end up burning down villages from their unstable experimentation, yet anybody who's anyone is a Spark - be it noble, artist, or scientist. In the aftermath of the invasion, with effectively both Humans and Slaver Wasps without leadership, Baron Wulfenbach, an old friend of the Heterodyne Boys, mysteriously reappears and cleans up the mess that is Europa by brutal totalitarian force. Wulfenbach becomes the unofficial emperor of Europa and surprisingly effectively administrates a world that is constantly at threat of being torn apart - either by squabbling nobles, 'Madboy' Sparks, or another invasion by the Slaver Wasps.
I'm currently on Volume 9, Page 67 at the time of this first post. I'd recommend it, though I realize it's not for everyone. The main purpose of this post is just to tell other Taleworldians about it and possibly discuss.
So far I do have plenty of grievances, if minor ones, but I'd still rate this at a A- or B+
News/Blog: http://girlgeniusadventures.com/
So Girl Genius is a webcomic that is currently active and has been since 2002. It started as a traditional print comic but then was transferred online. It's written and drawn by Phil and Kaja Foglio. It's considered a staple of the steampunk genre, though the authors describe it more as gaslap fantasy.
It takes place Europa (Europe) in an alternate timeline. Without spoiling too much, the setting is based after an invasion of alien-like "Slaver Wasps" which take over humans and turn them into "Reverents" which are more or less zombies. The Heterodyne nobles, admirably referred to as "The Heterodyne Boys", effectively end the invasion by cutting off the head of the snake of the Slaver Wasps, they then mysteriously disappear. An important aspect behind all of this is the "Sparks", which you could think of us genius inventors. The Sparks are described as by the peasantry as mad scientists as they tend to end up burning down villages from their unstable experimentation, yet anybody who's anyone is a Spark - be it noble, artist, or scientist. In the aftermath of the invasion, with effectively both Humans and Slaver Wasps without leadership, Baron Wulfenbach, an old friend of the Heterodyne Boys, mysteriously reappears and cleans up the mess that is Europa by brutal totalitarian force. Wulfenbach becomes the unofficial emperor of Europa and surprisingly effectively administrates a world that is constantly at threat of being torn apart - either by squabbling nobles, 'Madboy' Sparks, or another invasion by the Slaver Wasps.
I'm currently on Volume 9, Page 67 at the time of this first post. I'd recommend it, though I realize it's not for everyone. The main purpose of this post is just to tell other Taleworldians about it and possibly discuss.
So far I do have plenty of grievances, if minor ones, but I'd still rate this at a A- or B+
