How did you discover GC?

[Gotolei]

Dec 10, 2013 0:14:43 GMT keef said:

I noticed a lot of new people on the forum, so a good moment to bring this thread back to life.

This ^^

[Intelligence]

I discovered it through Tv Tropes, when trees attack. It was the page image.

[freeformline]

I've been here a few months, but haven't posted in this thread, so here's my thrilling tale of discovery:

My father, nerdy as he can be, was shown the laser cow pages in Residential because that was the kind of thing people knew he liked. Of course, being a nerdy father with nerdy kids, he called my brothers and I over to his computer to show us the laser cows. A few weeks later (this was a four or so years ago, so I was probably in my first year of high school), I Googled up Gunnerkrigg Court to see the laser cows again, wound up reading a few pages, and then (I must have had a project to work on at the time) went to the start and read the entire archive in a little over a week. Nowadays I would do it overnight because college is like that, but that was pretty extreme for the then super-disciplined me.

So, yeah. Laser cows. Just like real cows! Only with lasers.

[CoyoteReborn]

How I discovered Gunnerkrigg? Do you need to ask?

Fine. I will dispense further unearned knowledge.

I stumbled upon one Tom Siddell, someone whose artistic talents are nearly sufficient to capture my infinite beauty.

I convinced him to write Gunnerkrigg Court about our beloved Firehead Girl - people's minds would explode if they were to see his completed masterpiece, 'The Glorious Adventures of the Sexy Lord Coyote'. One day...

[zimmyhoo]

TvTropes. Which is actually how I discover nearly everything. I'm a reeeally picky consumer of entertainment, and being able to see a work completely dissected without giving away the plot makes me feel all squishy and happy inside.

And the Treatise pages looked completely awesome. Until I started reading it, I thought Kat was male because hair.

[thshrkpnchr]

Dec 10, 2013 2:49:10 GMT zimmyhoo said:

TvTropes. Which is actually how I discover nearly everything. I'm a reeeally picky consumer of entertainment, and being able to see a work completely dissected without giving away the plot makes me feel all squishy and happy inside.

And the Treatise pages looked completely awesome. Until I started reading it, I thought Kat was male because hair.

Agreed heartily. 
The absurd cutting power page brought me to the comic, as it did with Girl Genius and Oots

[polioman]

/co/. I'd been reading it for The Legend of Korra and Adventure Time discussion threads. I'd noticed the Gunnerkrigg Court discussion threads, but I'd never opened any of them. Then one day, quite by chance, I opened one up and went to gunnerkrigg.com and MY WHOLE WORLD CHANGED.

[fwip]

Dec 10, 2013 2:49:10 GMT zimmyhoo said:

And the Treatise pages looked completely awesome. Until I started reading it, I thought Kat was male because hair.

The first comic I saw was this, and I saw Kat and assumed that she was male, then forgot about her.  It wasn't until I read to that page from the beginning that I realized it was Kat.

[Señor Goose]

Dec 11, 2013 5:45:23 GMT fwip said:

Dec 10, 2013 2:49:10 GMT zimmyhoo said:

And the Treatise pages looked completely awesome. Until I started reading it, I thought Kat was male because hair.

The first comic I saw was this, and I saw Kat and assumed that she was male, then forgot about her.  It wasn't until I read to that page from the beginning that I realized it was Kat.

Kek, you thought it was straight. I remember my first page, this one. I was confused because the art style was different than what I'd suspected, but I read the archives in two days. I fell in love with it quickly.

[Gotolei]

Dec 11, 2013 5:59:21 GMT Señor Goose said:

Dec 11, 2013 5:45:23 GMT fwip said:

The first comic I saw was this, and I saw Kat and assumed that she was male, then forgot about her.  It wasn't until I read to that page from the beginning that I realized it was Kat.

Kek, you thought it was straight. I remember my first page, this one. I was confused because the art style was different than what I'd suspected, but I read the archives in two days. I fell in love with it quickly.

My first page was this one. I..don't know.

[Señor Goose]

Dec 11, 2013 10:42:57 GMT Gotolei said:

Dec 11, 2013 5:59:21 GMT Señor Goose said:

Kek, you thought it was straight. I remember my first page, this one. I was confused because the art style was different than what I'd suspected, but I read the archives in two days. I fell in love with it quickly.

My first page was this one. I..don't know.

I remember when that came out, I was on spring break in Colorado.

Yeah, that would be a weird place to drop into the comic.

[zimmyzims]

Dec 11, 2013 10:42:57 GMT Gotolei said:

Dec 11, 2013 5:59:21 GMT Señor Goose said:

Kek, you thought it was straight. I remember my first page, this one. I was confused because the art style was different than what I'd suspected, but I read the archives in two days. I fell in love with it quickly.

My first page was this one. I..don't know.

By the way, I don't think Gamma really needs to assure anybody that Zimmy was involved in making of this. We believe it, we believe it because we know it, just by looking at it.

[thshrkpnchr]

My first page was this. First impression: the brown hair girl is cute, the mechanic girl seems weirdly awkward, then BANG robots in the last panel.

[brightside]

I discovered it thanks to the the "links" section of another webcomic. Just I don't remember anymore if it was Sandra and Woo or Thistil Mistil Kistil...

[alpacalypse]

I came here through the links from QC. I had seen the link for a long time and the name seemed interesting. At the beginning of this past summer I wantes a new webcomic to read. The home page then was the second page of Quicksilver with Kat and Paz in the background. I loved the artstyle and the setting seemed interesting so I gave it a read through and was done in two days. I have since lost track of how many times I have re read the entire story, I think ive done one day re reads 3 times though. Ive been a bit jaded by other forums so I didnt really venture here until I saw that thread on Kat being gay and I just had to comment after seeing how civil the discussion (mostly) was and that is how I discovered the comic and then the forums.

[stef1987]

I got here at the start of Fire Spike (right before annie ran away), from another webcomic, don't remember which one though,
I started reading backwards,
and it was one of these pages that caught my attention: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=769 or www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=779
So I started reading from the beginning

[lit]

Dec 13, 2013 18:34:37 GMT stef1987 said:

I got here at the start of Fire Spike (right before annie ran away), from another webcomic, don't remember which one though,
I started reading backwards,
and it was one of these pages that caught my attention: www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=769 or www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=779
So I started reading from the beginning

I came closer to the end of Fire Spike.

[allpurposeguru]

Guest appearance of Sir Eglamore at Sandra and Woo. Sir Eglamore challenges Cloud to a duel.

[atteSmythe]

I don't remember any more! It may have been from the signs in Mechanicsburg at Girl Genius.

[eyemyself]

Oh gosh, I don't remember. I think it might have been a link in the sidebar of either "a softer world" or "Scary go Round." I think they were still in year one, maybe just starting year two. Tom was still on a twice a week update schedule and wasn't working on the comic full time yet.

[nightwind]

Saw an ad in a Previews a long time ago for the first book. The art style looked weird, the story sounded interesting, so I bought it. Then the second. Then the others, with growing ardor. Only some months ago I stumbled over the online version. Then the forum, awed by all the in-depth examination of every single page and reading a lot of them. Now I'm here. End of story.

[dard]

I wonder when I did find out about Gunnerkrigg Court for good.
The first time when I read GC was very soon. I think only the first story was finished. I don't know what brought me to it, but I suspect some comments on Elfwood. Maybe by another webcomic artist like Ursula Vernon. However, I lost sight of the comic soon after.

I really don't know when I returned. I suspect somewhere around the time when Coyote was introduced. Again, I don't know what prompted my return. Although I have read Phil Foglio's stuff since Buck Godot, it surely wasn't the background inscription in Girl Genius. I was into GC already at that time. I am pretty sure it wasn't the Questionable Content link, although I read that comic, too.
My most likely guess is a forum entry, probably in DMFA. But I guess I will never know.

[lurkerbot]

(I thought reviving this ancient thread might interest some of us more recently-joined forum members. Thanks to Per for posting the link.)

About a year ago I came across a web page describing how Reynard the Fox was a major influence for the animated fox character of Robin Hood in Disney's 1973 movie of the same name. In the web page comments, someone asked if there were any modern interpretations of the medieval tales of Reynard and Ysengrimus. Gunnerkrigg Court was mentioned, I followed the link, and I've been captivated ever since.

[ysenfrown]

! Thanks lurkerbot for reviving the thread. Personally, I got into GC in 2012, during the Divine chapter, and was utterly bamboozled. As for how I got into it, I think it was because I was interested in reading webcomics and GC came highly recommended

[ohthatone]

I found it from the links of another webcomic whose name I cant remember. Which is upsetting because that webcomic was my gateway into this whole webcomics world. I happened upon a printed copy of that one in a bookstore once, found I could read it online, found the links section and was shocked to discover there was MORE THAN ONE WEBCOMIC. One of those was GC🙂

[antiyonder]

Was reading Sandra and Woo in 2013 when James appeared in an arc with Novil mentioning/linking to GC.

[wies]

I think I just arrived at it either through just general osmosis (GKC is pretty well known by now in webcomic circles) or by stumbling on an old blog post of Neil Gaiman where he recommended GKC. Memory is fuzzy.

[pyradonis]

My sister told me about it. I looked at the first two or three pages and said no thanks, I don't like the art style. She assured me it would get better. I said okay and randomly opened a more advanced page. It was the one where Margo and John heal the ghosts with their music. I was convinced and read through everything (at this point, "The Great Secret" was almost finished) within three or four days.

[mturtle7]

My memory's a little hazy about this one, but I think it might actually have been from the Legendary Showdown crossover game with Girl Genius! I never did actually end up buying the game, but looking into it after I saw it advertised on the Girl Genius site got me curious enough to investigate this other comic (apparently it's also about "machines and magic"? Sounds cool enough...), and boy am I glad I did.

[exterminatecake]

I actually started reading about 10 years ago. I was in middle school at the time, and my dad was really nerdy and liked showing me things that were nerdy/spooky, because we shared a lot of interests along those lines. He introduced it to me as a comic about a precocious girl attending a mysterious boarding school, which I latched onto right away and we bonded over the updates for a good couple of years. I actually spent quite a while being a typical 13-year-old idiot and bothering Mr. Siddel on Formspring (many, many apologies to him, I had no idea how to behave myself as a kid). So, Gunnerkrigg has actually been an incredibly formative media experience for me growing up--I grew up alongside Annie in many ways, even though I obviously outpaced her at a certain point