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Post by matoyak on Apr 20, 2016 23:28:58 GMT
Red Returns, which perhaps for this reason is still my favourite chapter. But I cannot recall "dying a little on the inside". I thiiiiiink I might maybe have been around that time as well. Give or take a chapter or two. most likely slightly before Red Returns, I think, as I remember sitting there and being annoyed at her behavior.
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Post by fuzzyone on Apr 21, 2016 5:59:39 GMT
I discovered the comic through what is now called a "Demotivational Poster" thread on RPG.net, featuring then-recent images from S1. I archive binged, and it probably didn't take me long. I don't know what page I was on, but I know I caught up before Bull-bot. It would be a bit before I joined the forum, mostly because I was tired of my comments disappearing forever when the page went into the archives.
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Post by arzeik on Apr 21, 2016 9:17:57 GMT
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. Had a bad experience with the first page at which you had to wait for a new update? Hey, Coyote can help you wiping that from your memory. Works like a charm! I remember I started reading during Totem. I'm just grateful it wasn't a month later or so.
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Post by Druplesnubb on Apr 21, 2016 12:12:58 GMT
Seeing how I started on the very first page ofChapter 36, I can see who started reading before or after me pretty easily by counting all the other guys in the 36-40 range as starting after me. That currently gives a result of 19 before me and 18 after me, so I seem to be pretty close to the middle.
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Post by csj on Apr 21, 2016 14:08:10 GMT
Hard for me to pick out actually; before I joined the forum, I'd already dipped my toe in the comic several times without being 100% hooked. Then, I binge-read the whole damn thing on New Years Day, 2012. And I stuck around. It's a bit of a ritual for me now to binge-watch new stuff on that day. New things for the new year
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Post by Bill on Apr 23, 2016 3:27:20 GMT
I came here from Girl Genius via the joint Kickstarter (while first-read archive bingeing). The first page I saw was this one, which I somehow mistook as the final page of a concluded comic. I came back a few days later ("oh, it's not over"), started at the beginning, and caught up I think here. Ouch. A few weeks earlier would have been worse, though, and I arrived just in time for the Fiery speculation.
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Post by Fuin on Apr 23, 2016 15:26:54 GMT
I caught up sometime in The Fangs of Summertime, possibly at this page. Discovered GC thanks to a link from another webcomic, likely the now defunct Templar, AZ if I remember correctly. Bookmarked it first and forgot to check it out for a while, then binged the archive in a day or two. Seeing as that was almost nine years and almost 1400 pages ago. How time flies.
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Post by freeman on Apr 24, 2016 11:32:12 GMT
It was this webcomic aggregator I would originally load once a day to catch up with multitude of webcomic. I would see Gunnerkrigg Court on the front page and like the art style, backtrack some pages until I would arrive into scene with ether, coyote or robots and get as confused as birdwhisperer . This happened several times. I remember thinking " what is this, some kind of fantasy comic. I don't do fantasy!" Chapter 38 (Divine) started to divert more of my attention: " what's the deal with this girl with no eyes?" Without context and backstory, that chapter made very little sense, by the way. I remember reading the TV tropes character description on her and being even more lost. By the great secret I had lost my interest again. Around chapter 43 (Quicksilver) I would again pick it up more: "man that little white imp looks annoying, but he also can be this stoic-looking dog that look way less annoying, is this a a same character or what?! What does TV tropes say about this?" "...What?!"I remember seeing this page and liking it very much. " Does anyone do this ass-bump thing in real life?" Then the story went into the Forest again and I was lost. The more slice of life-y sections got me almost hooked and the fantasy without backstory got me lost. Then came the chapter 45: "HOLY SHIT FORBIDDEN SAPPHIC LOVE, I MUST ARCHIVE BINGE AT THIS INSTANT!" That is almost how it went. It also was christmas time, so there was time to do it. I'm a slow reader, I'm sure it took more than a nychthemeron to do so.
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Post by louisxiv on Apr 24, 2016 18:06:29 GMT
I found Gunnerkrigg Court fairly early on in its life, either linked from another comic or possibly from a Usenet reference, and read the archive though on various occasions without actually following the comic as such. It was still the early art style, which was kinda striking taken with the colour use, so I am guessing at sometime in the first five chapters for First Archive Read. I probably started following Gunnerkrigg Court sometime in 2006-7.
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Post by warrl on Apr 24, 2016 19:52:11 GMT
I remember seeing this page and liking it very much. " Does anyone do this ass-bump thing in real life?" And the pun Paz made... I think I like *the pun* better if it's accidental, but *her* better if it's deliberate. So overall... um... I don't know which I prefer.
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Post by matoyak on Apr 25, 2016 3:04:40 GMT
I remember seeing this page and liking it very much. " Does anyone do this ass-bump thing in real life?" And the pun Paz made... I think I like *the pun* better if it's accidental, but *her* better if it's deliberate. So overall... um... I don't know which I prefer. ~furrows brow~ I can't find the pun.
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Post by pheZ on Apr 25, 2016 8:02:42 GMT
I'm pretty sure I first came in from QC, and that the first page I saw was the bonus page for ch.22. I just remember seeing Tea and thinking that she was the main character, and being relatively confused trying to figure out when she was going to show up in the story...
It's been a long time.
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Post by fallenleaves on Apr 25, 2016 16:00:44 GMT
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Post by Morpheus on Apr 25, 2016 19:59:23 GMT
Well, my forum account is from when Fire Spike was current, but I'm positive I remember reading Residential as it was being updated, and pretty sure I'd been reading for a while at that point as well. I think I probably started reading around chapter 17-18 if I think back, but damn, that's a long time ago. I distinctly remember how I found the comic though. I played some WoW back then and was browsing a forum (MMO-Champion), where one poster had Antimony's robot disguise (Sixth panel) as his avatar and the picture intrigued me, so I found a link to the comic in his profile info, read up to the latest page in a night and have since then dreaded the weekend for the extra day I have to wait for my fix.
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Post by fish on Apr 25, 2016 21:25:56 GMT
I found GC through the links page on The Meek (It's alive again, yay!) but actually turned away after a few pages. I was new to webcomics in general and was looking for shinier artwork, haha. A few months later I gave it another go and haven't missed an update ever since (except for a week on vacation or so). My first pages after the binge were the last pages of Ties (Chapter 22; same as pheZ , hey there!), and next came City Face. I was so frustrated with having to wait for updates I actually held a silly grudge against City Face for a while (I came around to him in A Bad Start, poor baby pigeon). I think I reread it immediately after, and then again some months later. I was reading a lot of webcomics back then. After a while of excessive daily webcomic reading I decided to stop and only read new updates every month or so but wasn't able to put Gunnerkrigg Court aside for even one week, cheking the page had become a part of my daily routine even on non-update days. However, it wasn't actually until Fire Spike that I realized that GC was something special to me. So when page 831 came around I decided to donate money for the first time. Man, it's really been a long time. And still, whenever a major mystery is solved (i.e. What Is Coyote's Big Secret, What Is Jones, Where Is Anthony) I start to panic "Nooooooo! Does this answer more questions then it generates? Have we reached the middle point? Are we wrapping up soon? Noooo!" So far my fears were unfounded, I think. I couldn't even start to guess which percentage point we are at.
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Post by tiberius on Apr 26, 2016 9:54:35 GMT
Oh boy, to be honest, I don't really know exactly when I started reading the comic regularly. All I know is I first came across GC when it was in chapter 14 and thought it was very strange. I returned every now and then. Mostly when other webcomics linked to Tom's work. It must have been during chapter 20 or 21 when I read through the whole archive in one sitting and really got hooked up. Ever since, I have moved to three different towns, five different apartments and had three different jobs, but I still like the comic the same way as in the beginning.
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Post by Gorobay on Apr 30, 2016 1:28:30 GMT
~furrows brow~ I can't find the pun. Annie: Kat’s always had quite a thing for him, you see! Paz: ¿Ay, sí? “¿Ay, sí?” sounds like “I see”.
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Post by matoyak on Apr 30, 2016 1:40:19 GMT
~furrows brow~ I can't find the pun. Annie: Kat’s always had quite a thing for him, you see! Paz: ¿Ay, sí? “¿Ay, sí?” sounds like “I see”. ...is that a pun? That's basically just what it means. Direct translation is "Oh, yes?", but it's essentially the same thing. Is it a pun because Annie said "you see" and then Paz responded with the equivalent of "I see." ?
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Post by west on Apr 30, 2016 6:12:49 GMT
Chapter 8, p.132. I'm pretty sure I followed a link there from No Rest for the Wicked, which might actually have been the first webcomic I followed. Then I came across an owl-guy in a ravine and a deadpan girl who was having none of his sass and decided to investigate further...
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Post by stef1987 on May 2, 2016 20:13:53 GMT
chapter 31, halfway "fire spike", when Annie found out and her world crumbled down. but I started noticing GKC at the end of chapter 30, those last pages looked amazing to me and caused me to read the entire comic from the beginning. (on a side note, Tom's art style around that Tom is by far my favorite of the (sometimes subtle) style differences GKC has gone through)
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Post by gpvos on May 3, 2016 8:45:00 GMT
I came to GC after it was mentioned in a comment under the comic by Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content (maybe Tom did a guest strip there?). This was during chapter 18, Power Station. I caught up about a day and a half later; not sure if it was just before or just after the Zimmingham sequence.
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