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Post by gilmoure on Jan 21, 2009 19:57:12 GMT
My copy, ordered through Amazon, showed up yesterday. Haven't had a chance to open it up but is very nice and solid. Now that it's out, will be ordering a couple more copies for friends. They got other Web Comic books for holidays but really want them to get Gunnerkrigg.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 21, 2009 22:29:32 GMT
My copy just came today. Looks nice so far, but I won't be able to read it cover to cover until later tonight.
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Post by todd on Jan 21, 2009 23:13:52 GMT
I bought mine today. It's great, being able to read the first fourteen chapters while off the computer, and check up on things without having to consult the archives on-line.
Incidentally, has anybody else noticed that the Bonus Page about Kat's video games unsettling Annie wasn't included? (I suspect that's because it was made for a different collection.) I suppose that the guest-comics that went up between Chapters Fourteen and Fifteen won't make it into print either.
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Post by Trism on Jan 22, 2009 3:39:10 GMT
I bought mine today. It's great, being able to read the first fourteen chapters while off the computer, and check up on things without having to consult the archives on-line. Incidentally, has anybody else noticed that the Bonus Page about Kat's video games unsettling Annie wasn't included? (I suspect that's because it was made for a different collection.) I suppose that the guest-comics that went up between Chapters Fourteen and Fifteen won't make it into print either. Shame, that bonus was pure hilarity concentrated.
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Post by larmor on Jan 22, 2009 4:19:55 GMT
I'm enjoying the higher resolution in print. It's even clarified some small details - for example, it's hard to read the name on the door in the first panel here, but pg. 159 more clearly reveals who's got the office next door to Eglamore.
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Post by amtgardjean on Jan 22, 2009 4:29:27 GMT
I just got it tonight from Amazon. FAirly good binding with a nice hardcover. The pages do tend to stick together a bit due to the kind of paper they used but that will change the more I read it.
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Post by todd on Jan 22, 2009 12:04:00 GMT
Shame, that bonus was pure hilarity concentrated. Though including it would have upset Tom's careful plans (which he's acknowledged) of having all the title pages be odd-numbered pages.
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Post by pdcm on Jan 22, 2009 13:53:03 GMT
Mine showed up on friday (1/16). I must say the quality of the print has far exceeded what I was expecting, but then I can't say I read through any announcements/information regarding the publication prior to it's arrival. It's fun reading through everything again in book form! Thanks!
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Post by supersizewilly on Jan 22, 2009 17:19:47 GMT
Got my amazon.com copy yesterday. It's beautiful! I love the binding. Haven't gone through the whole thing yet, but everything looks right.
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Post by oneiros on Jan 22, 2009 21:15:52 GMT
I got my copy from Amazon.com (US) a couple days ago. The shipping monkeys screwed up the shrink wrap and tore a bit of the dust cover, but otherwise the book is beautiful. The quality of the printing, paper, and the hard cover itself is great.
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Post by Z on Jan 22, 2009 22:50:09 GMT
Picked up my copy at my local comic shop a couple weeks ago (in Salem NH, USA), all ship-shape and minty fresh! I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to get it, since I had originally ordered it in Feb. '08. Having spent the past week or so reading through most of the topics here, I now understand why it was delayed. And it was well worth the wait! I was quite glad to see so much more of the story was available beyond what was published in the book. I think I'd have gone stir crazy had I needed to wait a year or two for the next volume. It's nice having a little something extra to look forward to every Mon, Wed, and Friday. Thanks for all your hard work, Tom. I look forward to following this series for a long time to come!
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Post by tetracycloide on Jan 23, 2009 18:09:43 GMT
i ordered two copies of the book when i first heard it would be going to print back in april 2008 from amazon.com in the intervineing period i have recieved updates on the order every 3 months or so telling me the shipping date has changed to some BS date amazon is just making up. i recieved both copies of the book earlier this week on the 19th and they appear to be in good order although i have not read them all the way through yet.
the inside edges of the jacket are repeats of pages within the book itself. while not technically an error it makes it look like there wasn't anything specifically written for the jacket edges so someone pulled something from the book they thought would fit and didn't think to also remove it from the regular pages.
i was very impressed by the look of the book without the jacket cover, the cover art on the book's actual over looks very impressive.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 23, 2009 23:26:04 GMT
Overall the book is really nice.
I see what Tom said about the dust jacket being too short. It seems like it was designed for a cover that's 1/4-inch narrower.
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Post by murgatroyd on Jan 24, 2009 0:33:23 GMT
Just received my copy from Amazon today. From what I've read of it so far, it looks excellent, and well worth the money.
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Post by etcetera on Jan 24, 2009 9:00:14 GMT
The copy I ordered from Amazon Germany arrived just two hours ago. It smells a bit funny, but other than that, it's marvelous!! That made my weekend! And there is even a comment from Neil Gaiman. "...my favourite webcomic..." Wow!
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Post by drdave on Jan 24, 2009 13:38:37 GMT
Since my Amazon order got cancelled, I did order one from my local bookshop. The said It'd take som 3 weeks. Yesterday my Amazon book was in the mail (Though being cancelled by *them*), so I went to the store and they said it'd take another 6 weeks! Confusion in the ranks, perhaps? But I am still happy I got one. It's great, fun to read and my wife loves it, too. So, hugs and kisses from her to Tom :X
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Post by petrock on Jan 24, 2009 23:45:01 GMT
I got mine through Amazon. I can't help but notice though, the cover seems kinda bland compared to the rest of the book. The picture of Antimony and the gang is alright, but the whole shebang put together doesn't do the book justice.
Other than that, I'm quite pleased with it.
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Post by vegcoyote on Jan 25, 2009 1:38:14 GMT
... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
you guys! you guys!
I am holding Gunnerkrigg Court in my hands it has a hard cover in its very own jacket it smells like book the pages are so glossy and pretty to touch
you guys you guys you guys!
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 25, 2009 2:19:41 GMT
Something I forgot to mention. On the Chapter 3 bonus page, the font of much of the text was changed, and inconsistently. The italicized text, and the first four lines of regular text, aren't altered; but the rest of the unitalicized text is changed to a pixelated font. And the giant O was changed to something else entirely (a handwriting font?).
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Post by vegcoyote on Jan 25, 2009 2:29:54 GMT
oh also 287 and 288 were switched but I didn't care, I read them in order anyway I hope you sell a gazillion copies and the publisher learns an Important Lesson of some sort about not treating its authors like crap. Hopefully involving poetic irony and possibly cream pies.
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Post by theoldwolf on Jan 25, 2009 5:19:56 GMT
There's a book? There's a book? Goin' to order mine right away! XD
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Post by Vadigor on Jan 25, 2009 12:45:52 GMT
Something I forgot to mention. On the Chapter 3 bonus page, the font of much of the text was changed, and inconsistently. The italicized text, and the first four lines of regular text, aren't altered; but the rest of the unitalicized text is changed to a pixelated font. And the giant O was changed to something else entirely (a handwriting font?). It's likely that that was a change by Tom to capture more of the old, handwritten bestiary feel. Sadly my book still hasn't arrived yet so I can't compare. Care to take a picture of that page so we can see the change? =p
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Post by Tom Siddell on Jan 25, 2009 16:55:00 GMT
Looks like Photoshop replaced the font with a monotype default font when I went through and saved that page for print. The page is formatted strangely, so only some lines were affected.
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Post by todd on Jan 26, 2009 1:25:21 GMT
Reading the full first fourteen chapters as a book rather than as a serial on the web has certainly made things seem different. When I first saw the last regular page of Chapter Nine on the web (the one about the wooden arm being planted), I thought that the line "It's been taken care of" was a report from whoever had planted it to the higher-ups in the Court. After seeing it in the context of the immediately preceding page, however, I realized that it was more likely to be Eglamore's final words to Annie about the arm.
Another thing I picked up on from reading the book, this time the Bonus Page for Chapter Five: Janet's speech patterns are much more formal than Winsbury's (though I was prepared for that by her Shakespearean style in the Bonus Page for Chapter Four). Things like "This grows tiresome, Winsbury" (in contrast to Winsbury's "Oh yeah, well you can shut up!") and when they're hugging, she calls him "William" rather than "Willie".
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Post by Babble-jargon Bill on Jan 26, 2009 4:47:26 GMT
Reading the full first fourteen chapters as a book rather than as a serial on the web has certainly made things seem different. When I first saw the last regular page of Chapter Nine on the web (the one about the wooden arm being planted), I thought that the line "It's been taken care of" was a report from whoever had planted it to the higher-ups in the Court. After seeing it in the context of the immediately preceding page, however, I realized that it was more likely to be Eglamore's final words to Annie about the arm. Another thing I picked up on from reading the book, this time the Bonus Page for Chapter Five: Janet's speech patterns are much more formal than Winsbury's (though I was prepared for that by her Shakespearean style in the Bonus Page for Chapter Four). Things like "This grows tiresome, Winsbury" (in contrast to Winsbury's "Oh yeah, well you can shut up!") and when they're hugging, she calls him "William" rather than "Willie". I think that's why Janet has some of the best lines of any of the characters in the entire story, and considering that she appears so rarely and talks even less is what makes it great when she does pop up in the story.
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Post by nyarmathotep on Jan 26, 2009 14:23:31 GMT
I got my copy and the first of the copies that I'm ordering for other people also arrived.
I love it. It is beauty, and I don't mean that in a slang sense where people call things "beauty" as a moronic shortening of "beautiful", but in a much more philosophical - one might even say definitional - sense.
And now I start counting the days until the next book.
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Post by Vadigor on Jan 28, 2009 12:31:04 GMT
I just got my copy and I'm absolutely thrilled. It got a bit dented in transit: it's got a scissor mark on the cover that went through the dust jacket and there's a dent on the top edges (looks like a ruler or something fell on it) but other than that it's great. It's true that the dust jacket was printed too close to the edge but I don't care much for them (unlike some collectors =p), as long as it keeps the book itself spotless.
I've had a cursory look through the book and it looks fantastic, I might take a pic of the Rogat Orjak page later. It does look different with a few parts in a low-pixel font, but I'd say it's still an improvement on the digital page.
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Post by zachol on Jan 30, 2009 0:28:09 GMT
It came on the 12th from Amazon, for some reason only just got it from the post office. Is very shiny. The dust jacket is a little crinkled, came in a tight box, but the insides are just perfect.
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Post by Yin on Jan 31, 2009 13:52:29 GMT
What's the full blurb from Mr Gaiman? Just wondering.
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Post by Fuin on Jan 31, 2009 15:28:21 GMT
"I was thrilled to hear that my favourite webcomic was going to be collected on paper. I wish that Antimony Carver and her adventures and mysteries and myths, not to mention her school, had been around when I was a boy, to shape and warp and twist my growing mind - but I don't think you could ever grow too old to delight in Gunnerkrigg Court"
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