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honeybee451's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
amanita_device's review against another edition
2.0
Well, that was underwhelming.
Vaguely interesting setting, but overall, pretty dull. I have no interest in picking up the (barely started) story in the next volume.
Vaguely interesting setting, but overall, pretty dull. I have no interest in picking up the (barely started) story in the next volume.
jasperitis's review against another edition
2.0
I am so sad I didn't enjoy this book. Steampunk, the Foglios, and a smart female protagonist...all up my alley. But I couldn't keep the characters straight and just wanted to finish it to finish it.
rebeccacider's review against another edition
2.0
Neat setting and a couple interesting characters, but mostly just setup so far - nothing to pull me into the story. I also expected a lot more humor. I'll read more at some point, though, because everyone seems to rave about it.
Also, it's in black and white and as a result some of the action sequences are visually confusing. The rest of the comic is in color, I think (the extra promo comic at the end is, at least) and I think that will make the art much better.
Also, it's in black and white and as a result some of the action sequences are visually confusing. The rest of the comic is in color, I think (the extra promo comic at the end is, at least) and I think that will make the art much better.
carolynaugustyn's review against another edition
2.0
I went into this knowing that steampunk and scifi aren't really my thing. I was hoping to expand my horizons, find something new and out of the typical for me. This...wasn't it. I wanted to like this so much- I love a good lady scientist kicks butt type of story! But I found myself lost several times throughout the book and there was a lot of points in the story where I wondered if I had missed some previous volume that explained the world better (this is volume 1, did I miss the world building volume? I was very confused). My confusion might be due to me not knowing much about the steampunk genre. So, in the end, I didn't find a new genre for me to love, but I could see that this would definitely a good pick for fans of steampunk and adventure comic series.
elianaclaire's review against another edition
5.0
I've been reading Girl Genius for about ten years and, I have to say, it only gets better. Not only is the gaslamp fantasy world consistently engaging and surprising, but the story as it stands in November 2020 is expansively empathetic. It interrogates the intersection between being in a powerful ingroup (here represented as humans) and being worthy of empathy by refusing to explicitly classify clanks, constructs, and other spark-created beings’ level of earned empathy except for through Agatha’s deconstruction of other sparks’ anti-construct prejudices. It's hilarious and the art is beautiful and Zeetha and Krosp always leave me smiling.
femamerica13's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
ostrava's review against another edition
1.0
I checked out the web before getting into it properly out of curiosity, since this is from the people who coined the term "gaslamp fantasy", apparently. The Death of the Necromancer is a novel in the "genre" I would very much recommend if anyone is interested in a completely unasked suggestion.
Back to the comic: it's not great. The art is...genuinely ugly, a word I tend to avoid most of the time when describing comic art, but here it's giving me a really weird vibe. Since this is a webcomic of sorts, I feel extra bad about being this harsh, but you seriously didn't need to make it look so... clunky.
And the writing is not much better either. I was ready for some random escapism, but dude is the comic unnecessarily convoluted. Not complicated mind you, but a mess. And characters are very random in their behavior and feel lacking in any base whatsoever.
It just didn't do it for me.
I'm going to check out the next one, maybe it's a "they were starting" type of situation.
Back to the comic: it's not great. The art is...genuinely ugly, a word I tend to avoid most of the time when describing comic art, but here it's giving me a really weird vibe. Since this is a webcomic of sorts, I feel extra bad about being this harsh, but you seriously didn't need to make it look so... clunky.
And the writing is not much better either. I was ready for some random escapism, but dude is the comic unnecessarily convoluted. Not complicated mind you, but a mess. And characters are very random in their behavior and feel lacking in any base whatsoever.
It just didn't do it for me.
I'm going to check out the next one, maybe it's a "they were starting" type of situation.
plaidpladd's review against another edition
2.0
This is kind of a weird mess. The story seemed interesting, but our main character is just Cathy from the comic strip Cathy. The art style is annoying, ESPECIALLY when it came to female characters, and all of that was just too distracting for me to enjoy the mad science/steampunk plot that I would otherwise have gotten into.