gunnerkrigg court

The webcomic Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell launched way back in April of 2005. A sci-fi fantasy story about two young women at a weird boarding school, the series updates twice a week, which means it's become quite a tale over the course of the past decade --- and it's tale you might just enjoy checking out.

Before getting started this week, I want to point out some great articles about webcomics that you may have missed. In case you didn't know, ComicsAlliance's Lauren Davis has been doing some longer-form reviews of online titles, like Questionable Content and its evolution as a science-fiction story, the Diesel Sweeties Kickstarter, and Dylan Meconis' brillant Family Man...

When I was a teenager, I thought my boarding school was pretty ominous. It was just a few miles from a famous UFO sighting. We had special evacuation procedures in case the local nuclear power plant had a meltdown. My freshman year, the school was plagued by flood, fire and pestilence (the pestilence was a particularly virulent strain of flu, but after the flood and fire, I was searching the skies