As many of you know art is quite a core part of comic and webcomic development. Even though that sequential art with poor stories, dialogues or characters usually ends up as a big bummer, many people turn to read comics, mangas or webcomics because art is good or creative; so no matter how bad a story could be, if it looks good it will get a lot of viewers for a while, meanwhile better stories with poorer art will be ignored and get far lesser crowds. But even good art or creative looking characters can’t fight against ill-conceived stories, bland personalities and plot holes and mistakes so deep that can physically kill you. That is quite a problem in several webcomics and really something I don’t want to get in, ‘cuz it bores me¬¬.
Let’s instead look into stories that makes us readers thumb up in approval and dive in excitement while we see great character in gorgeous worlds run into adventures that makes our minds blow in all the good ways. So for today I’ll give you the gorgeous beauty of:
GUNNERKRIGG COURT
SAY IT’S PRETTY!
Gunnerkrigg Court is, like Dr. McNinja, a comic style webcomic that works premises in a chapter based system around the fantastic/sci-fi pseudo-British place called the Court. The Court is a highly technologically developed place where men lives; the Court is quite a mysterious place where mysteries are all around, they have been seen that highly advanced robots live hidden from humans and ghost, shadows and spirits lure every corner wrapped all in twisted stories of betrayals, lost loves and murders. Opposite to the Court, behind a cliff with a single bridge, there is a forest where magic and wild rule and humans are not allowed due to the bad relationship that both sides have.
Is in the Court’s boarding school, conveniently located near the bridge to the forest, where Antimony Carver settles and starts a life in the Court’s boarding school. Annie, as Antimony is commonly know, is the protagonist and main character through the story. She is a girl “left” by his father at the school once Annie’s mother died. Is not clear why did he leave her but it has been hinted that the reason may be an important plot in the story. Annie is a girl with powerful psychic abilities and constantly connecting to the supernatural. Annie is a girl that represents nature, change and emotion; she is connected to everything in a way and always finds a spark of hope and humanity in every creature or being in and beyond the court, she empathizes with everyone she meets and reflects on herself the scars carried on people souls.
SHE PLAYS WITH THE WEIRDOES^W^
As a support character and second in command is Katherine or “Kat” as she proffered to be called, she is Annie’s best friend and the youngest top scientist around. She is Annie’s counterpart since she is the mechanical whiz-kid capable of everything mechanical. She has a cheery personality to counter Annie’s gloom and is always inventive; she is obsessed with machines and have different manias explained through the story. She is a linear yet interesting character since you can almost predict her every move yet you never stop feeling for her and her decisions; the best way to summarize Kat is as a “love everyone scientist” she may be creative but she never overlooks anyone, she feels for all and holds responsibility for what science does and always think that there is a human solution for everything and save everyone (even robots).
The cast and crew is huge through the story, talking about characters and stories that’d make you cry, hate, laugh and simply scratch your head in awesomeness. Creatures like Reynardine the body thieve Fox eternally bounded to a pick-locking puppet; Shadow, the shadow; Coyote, the god of mischief and trickery; or humans like Mr. Eglamore, the super strong teacher; or Mrs. Jones, the “Terminator woman” (not a robot). All of them analyzed, seen and interiorized in ways you won’t think, his characters are quite deep and every end has a mean. Is worthy of your time and more.
I say you go and dig into this webcomic that, you like it or not, will pierce you deep and hit you strong.
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