How old were you when this comic started?

[pinegreenjellybean]

I just did a double take when I saw that Gunnerkrigg began in 2005. That means that I was six years old when it started, with Annie being maybe eleven? I was about eleven when I started reading (The Coward Heart when I found Gunnerkrigg online). 

Now I'm 21, nearly 22, and Annie's only sixteen still.   She started out five years my senior and now she's five years my junior. It's really not fair that fictional characters get to age so slow, eh?

[echo]

Well, look at the bright side, your life doesn't only occur on a monday, wednesday, friday basis, right?

[dotdotdot]

I was 13 when it started, and I found and binged the comic right around my 21st birthday.

I'm turning 30 next year. Holy cow this makes me feel old.

[imaginaryfriend]

I found GC when it was still in the first chapter and thought it was promising... but many new webcomics don't go anywhere so I bookmarked it and came back roughly two years later, and have been an avid reader ever since. When I first found the comic I was just a year or two shy of thirty, a super-senior and TA in college and already in grad school... which I never finished because life happened.

[DonDueed]

I was 52 when the comic started.  My brother was 75 when I got him interested in GC last year. 

[Eversist]

Ooh, fun. I was 15 when it started, I THINK I started reading in mid 2010 after someone in college told me about it (Spring Heeled arc, chapter 28), so 20, and I'm 31 now (chapter 79).

This really has been a constant in my life for so long (and I'm sure the lives of many!). I love it.

[saardvark]

Dec 17, 2020 2:33:36 GMT imaginaryfriend said:

I found GC when it was still in the first chapter and thought it was promising... but many new webcomics don't go anywhere so I bookmarked it and came back roughly two years later, and have been an avid reader ever since. When I first found the comic I was just a year or two shy of thirty, a super-senior and TA in college and already in grad school... which I never finished because life happened.

what was your subject of study in grad school?

[maxptc]

This started when I was 15 based off your date. Looking at my profile and knowing I lurked alot before joining, I guess I started reading around right around then. I got recommended by some random from gaia when I still did that.

[saardvark]

Looks like I was 46 when it started. Didn't start reading for a few years after that tho, and joined the forum a couple of years later....

[imaginaryfriend]

Dec 17, 2020 4:10:54 GMT saardvark said:

what was your subject of study in grad school?

It was individualized. Undergrad was under the business umbrella and also another thing.

[blahzor]

My 20's and I think someone told me about /co/ and seeing a image there lead me to it

[pyradonis]

I was 17 when it started and 24 when I started reading it, after my sister had been pestering me for a year to check this comic out.

[warrl]

44 when it started. Joined the forum 3 years later. Presumably I started reading the comic sometime during those three years.

[phrogge]

I was a young lass of 64 when I encountered and became immediately hooked on Gunnerkrigg's early life; pretty sure during the first chapter but certainly within the first three. Took a while to join the forum, in which I still mostly lurk and very seldom post. Kept telling my son he had to read it, and finally he accepted one of my recommendations; he's been a devoted reader ever since and is now a young lad of 45. Alas, my grandson isn't into such; would love to have a three-generation fanmily. Nice to see there's at least one other septuagenarian amongst us!

[faiiry]

I was six, now 22. I got into the comic when The Realm of the Dead was the current chapter and my life has not known peace since. (In a good way.)

[pinegreenjellybean]

Waiting for someone to come on here and say that they were not yet born when it started... that would make me feel old LAUGHING ON LINE.

[gpvos]

The comic started when I was 34, I discovered it when I was 37; now 49.

[haspen]

Huh, turns out I was only 16 when it started? I found the comic and binge-read it from start to 'finish' (back then it was Spring Heeled part 1), but can't remember exact date.

And I'm 31.5 years now. Dang, time flies!

[philman]

Dec 17, 2020 22:54:18 GMT pinegreenjellybean said:

Waiting for someone to come on here and say that they were not yet born when it started... that would make me feel old LAUGHING ON LINE.

Pft, all you guys saying you were still kids when you found it is making the rest of us feel old! I'm glad there are at least a few others of an older age!

I would have been 18 in 2005, just about to go to Uni. I didn't find the comic until a few years into my first degree though, so I guess it would have been a while later until I first read it.

[jda]

Holy
Holy
Holy Cow.
I'm about to turn into my midlife crisis, and yet I met GCK when a young lass of 28.
I started reading it to practice my English, via Google Translate and Cambridge dictionaries.
Now, thanks to GKC, QC, XKCD, SMBC, and SFAM, I work as full-time Eng >Spa translator, believe it or not (mostly not).

[Gemminie]

I was 36 when the comic started, but I didn't know about it yet. And I was 46 when I discovered it, sometime in chapter 51.

[lurkerbot]

I was 41 when the comic started, but I didn't discover it until earlier this year around the beginning of Chapter 76 (Down That Road).

[speedwell]

Jesus, I wasn't quite 40 yet.

Also, if you just asked everyone their current age, you could calculate that quite handily, eh.

[fia]

I'm 32 now and a college professor and I started reading in high school and I'll leave it at that thanks. 

[iconocat]

Let's just say that I was somewhere between 0 and 3 years old when the comic started. I think I picked it up when my aunt recommended it to me, when I was about 9.

[goldenpinecone]

I was a mere three years old (I’m 17 now) and I started reading around some time last year. I think it’s so cool how many older people there are reading the comic! (That’s not supposed to be offensive I think it’s actually really cool haha!)

[pyradonis]

Dec 20, 2020 16:45:32 GMT fia said:

I'm 32 now and a college professor and I started reading in high school and I'll leave it at that thanks. 

Wow, congratulations for making it to professor that fast!

[bedinsis]

Dec 21, 2020 21:55:31 GMT goldenpinecone said:

I was a mere three years old (I’m 17 now) and I started reading around some time last year. I think it’s so cool how many older people there are reading the comic! (That’s not supposed to be offensive I think it’s actually really cool haha!)

Honestly given the target demographic I am also surprised how many people older than me I find here.

Although several people in this thread are roughly my age.

Anyway: I was apparently 16 when this comic started. Next year it will have existed for half my life.

For fans of other web-comics I find it interesting that the popular geek-comic xkcd started just one month away from Gunnerkrigg.

[fia]

Dec 23, 2020 14:53:42 GMT pyradonis said:

Dec 20, 2020 16:45:32 GMT fia said:

I'm 32 now and a college professor and I started reading in high school and I'll leave it at that thanks. 

Wow, congratulations for making it to professor that fast!

Just an assistant professor! But thank you; was half ungodly lucky fluke and half sheer force of will. Skipped the Masters, went straight from BA to PhD, finished that in 5 years (my program allowed a paper- rather than book-style dissertation), and did a Postdoc, which unbelievably became a tenure-track offer because my predecessor retired at exactly that time. Get a lot of impostor syndrome thinking about exactly how lucky I have been. But also I got confused for a college student a lot the first few years.

If anyone ever has questions about graduate philosophy programs, I have some tips. But now may not be the best time historically to go into academia, sad to say.