What chapter was the comic on when you caught up?

[zaferion]

Remember the Good Ol' Days™ when you first found Gunnerkrigg Court and you were happy binge reading it and then you died a little on the inside when you reached the end and now had to wait just like everyone else??? Relive those moments for a brief second as you answer this poll!

I've simplified the poll into 5 chapters per option to cut down on clutter. With that in mind, tell us specifically which chapter in the comments! And if you want, tell us how you found the comic!

I, personally, finally caught up to the comic toward the end of Microsat 5. But then, two weeks later, when Divine started and the comic went off the deep end, I was so confused. I thought I had missed something so I went back and reread the entire thing only to find out that I hadn't missed anything and was still confused until later, during The Great Secret, that I found the forum and finally figured it out: Divine was just a confusing chapter.

Someone had linked me to the comic a long time ago using Coyote's Tooth as an example for something--I don't remember what--but the comic didn't catch my attention. It wasn't until that weird webcomic tournament a couple years back where Gunnerkrigg and Goblins faced off in the finals and things got ugly that I gave it a shot. I was a big Goblins fan at the time and thought that if the Gunnerkrigg fans were so nasty, how good could this comic be? I totally came with the mindset to hate the comic and to ridicule it and I still fell in love.

[haspen]

I clearly remember the page where Jack started up the etheric machinery in Spring Heeled pt.1 as the page I caught up with.

Man, feels like it was AGES ago.

[Daedalus]

I was browsing TV Tropes, and ran into the character Coyote under the "Trickster Mentor" page. His design and character were so interesting that I looked up the comic: at the time, this was the most recent page (so, Chapter 42). I read the entire archive twice in a single night, and I've been caught up ever since (I've literally never missed reading a page the day it came out). Then I convinced all of my friends to read it the same week. Then I joined the forum a few months later and the rest is history.

It's actually funny, but Gunnerkrigg acted like a gateway drug into the wondrous world of webcomics. I quickly picked up Girl Genius, Order of the Stick, and Questionable Content, and an addiction was born.

[Per]

Red Returns, which perhaps for this reason is still my favourite chapter. But I cannot recall "dying a little on the inside".

[aithecomputerguy]

I came to this comic when it was in quicksilver. I was heavily medicated at the time, so I managed to read the entire thing in three days. Now my only regret is that if I came a few months earlier, I would see the Jones thing unravel with everyone else.

[temnoc]

Ah yeah, good times. I also found this comic through TV Tropes, as a result of the Noodle Incident (seen here: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident ). At the time, Ysengrin had just chased Annie out of the woods; we hadn't yet seen Coyote pulling the memory from his brain.

[l33tninja]

I caught up just after the second page of The Torn Sea (ch 49) was posted.

[Starrylight]

I stumbled across GKC as a recommendation from another webcomic author that I was reading at the time ("Thunderstruck," I believe it was called). I still remember the first page I saw - "Isn't there always a deathray?" I didn't truly fall in love with the comic until chapter 11, though.

[stevecharb]

I came here from TV Tropes, too, but the page for Trickster God's entry on Coyote.

It was between chapters at the end of Coyote Stories, and I thought the comic was super long to binge and did it anyway. And now I'm amazed that I've reading for more than half the length so far and so much has changed.

[keef]

Not sure, think it was the beginning of Faraway Morning. If I remember correctly I went back a few pages and read the end of Give and Take. Probably that settled it. I started at the beginning, and read the whole thing, and never stopped rereading.

[warrl]

There's no voting category for 'I have absolutely no idea'.

[Jelly Jellybean]

I came to GKC through Questionable Content and Jeph Jacques' links to other webcomics.  The first time I looked it was early in The ROTD and I was confused by the way Kat saw the ROTD.  I didn't know if GKC was a silly or serious comic.  A little while later I gave it another shot by starting with the first chapter and was hooked.  I did my best to take my time, but i still caught up before the end of See Ya!

[todd]

Chapter Eight - to be precise, the page where Annie first sees Jeanne (the page before she attacks Annie).

I found out about it through an extra on the now-ended webcomic "Arthur King of Time and Space" (an oddball webcomic version of the Arthurian legend), where King Arthur and Merlin were hosting a Webcomics awards event, and "Gunnerkrigg Court" was one of the nominees, with Antimony present (commenting "Whatever" when "Gunnerkrigg Court" is announced as a nominee). I became curious enough about it to look it up.

[Druplesnubb]

I started reading just as Chapter 36 was starting. This was the first page I ever saw. By the time I had read through the archive the comic had already updated to the page immediately after.

[imaginaryfriend]

A couple pages into Ch 2. I found the comic through Drunk Duck (yea, it will always be Drunk Duck to me) and bookmarked it because the color use promised great things... but many promising webcomics don't last when the reality of the work it takes sinks in/catches up with the artist. I returned to it in ch. 4 and kept reading ever since though I did not join the forum until later; I made an account to ask why there wasn't merchandise being made.

[Gotolei]

Hatbird first* impression == best first impression

Started lurking the forums just as the discussion for Treatise 5 was dying down, if I recall correctly.

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*it wasn't actually the first impression
but for whatever reason gkc didn't really hook on the first time i looked at it which i'm guessing was when hussie sicced a fandom on it during that comicmix voting thing?

second time was either mcninja's or dresden codak's sidebar

[Daedalus]

Apr 20, 2016 2:41:13 GMT Gotolei said:

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Oh hey, I just noticed the date you registered.

I never knew you joined around the same time as I did; I thought you were one of the old guard, haha.

Oh hey, I dug up my oldest post. I was much chattier back then; it's why I have such an excessive number of posts.

[birdwhisperer]

I also found it from TV Tropes. I don't remember the specific page, I just remember browsing TV Tropes a lot and references to Gunnerkrigg Court kept showing up EVERYWHERE so I figured I should check this out so I would understand all the references being made. (When all you see of GK is a few out of context snippets it's really confusing, because one moment there's robots and the next there's magic talking animals and ghosts.) It took me a few days to catch up and by the time I did it was on the early pages of Faraway Morning. (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=900) I don't know how long that chapter is compared with others but oh my word it felt so long having to read everything one day at a time. Five years and two GK t-shirts later I'm still around and it's still my favorite work of fiction ever.

[Gotolei]

Apr 20, 2016 5:08:51 GMT Daedalus said:

Apr 20, 2016 2:41:13 GMT Gotolei said:

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hehe yeah i remember when we were both ~200 in post count
feels like it was a lot longer than ~2.5 years ago, though that's kinda the point of this thread isn't it

also nice accurate link :>

[Daedalus]

Apr 20, 2016 6:59:35 GMT Gotolei said:

Apr 20, 2016 5:08:51 GMT Daedalus said:

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hehe yeah i remember when we were both ~200 in post count
feels like it was a lot longer than ~2.5 years ago, though that's kinda the point of this thread isn't it

also nice accurate link :>

...Huh. I don't know what went wrong with that link.

[noone3]

Oh... I remember... yes...
It was at the time, when poor little Mort appeared for the first time, Tom rest his soul...

Whoa... that officially makes me one of the Old Ones...

[philman]

I don't recall exactly, but I do know that I remember reading Chapter 17: the medium beginning (when we learn from Jones about what is known about the court's founding) in "real time", so it must have been before then. I think I read Red Returns all in one block though, so I guess it must have been sometime in Chapter 16: A ghost Story.

Yay that makes me the only person in the 16-20 block so far!

I also found it in a link out from Questionable Content's 'other comics' section. QC was the first webcomic I stumbled across online and the list of comics I follow has done nothing but grow ever since!

[Druplesnubb]

Apr 20, 2016 7:07:04 GMT Daedalus said:

Apr 20, 2016 6:59:35 GMT Gotolei said:

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hehe yeah i remember when we were both ~200 in post count
feels like it was a lot longer than ~2.5 years ago, though that's kinda the point of this thread isn't it

also nice accurate link :>

...Huh. I don't know what went wrong with that link.

I said it yesterday and I'll say it today; quotes on this site are the fucking worst.

[hifranc]

I can't remember exactly which page I came in on but I know it was in Chapter 30. I think it was this page.

[dotdotdot]

The exact page slips my mind... but it was right around the time that people started asking "How far back does this go?" during The Stone (Chapter 40).

[ohthatone]

I don't remember for sure because I have a habit of reading a couple pages of a new comic, putting it away for a while then picking it back up and then decide if I want to start from pg 1 and follow.
I'm pretty sure we were on chpt 18: S1 when I decided to be a loyal follower:)

[warrl]

Apr 20, 2016 9:02:54 GMT Druplesnubb said:

I said it yesterday and I'll say it today; quotes on this site are the fucking worst.

I assure you that this is not the case. Not saying they are great, but...

* There's a forum I'm on where you can't easily re-quote a quote. What you're re-quoting gets stripped out. You have to find the ORIGINAL message containing it, and quote both messages. (Then you can rearrange things to make it look like a re-quote.)

* There's another forum I'm on where you can't provide substitute text for a link. (In fact you can't mark something as a link - it's a rather weak pattern-recognition algorithm that identifies things as links.) If the link is long, it will be abbreviated for display purposes. And the only quoting mechanism is your own computer's copy-and-paste, which will copy the link as displayed.

[nightwind]

I don't remember.
I read the first two paper volumes first and only later realised there was a webcomic. D'oh!

[fatexx544]

Chapter 17 (A Medium Beginning). I wouldn't have remembered, except I made a forum account when I finished (my first ever webcomic-related forum account!).

I don't remember how I ended up on this site, but I believe it was from a "recommended comics" link on another webcomic.

After reading the forum I became obsessed with the symbology in the comic and spent a week trying to figure out what the "symbol" on Eglamore's glove is in panel 6 on this page. I am pretty sure it is just a button, but who really knows?

[arnj]

It took me like a week or two to get through a first read-through ... but I very clearly remember the exact page where I was left with no more comic to read. For obvious, life-ruining reasons, of course.