Any fans of "Girl Genius" by Phil and Kaja Foglio?

[kentauros]

I recently started reading it, even though I've known about it for a few years. Just finally got interested

Although I'm far from caught up, maybe halfway through right now, but I have to say, I literally laugh out loud often! It's hilarious, and a great adventure comic (combination of steampunk and mad scientist genres.) I highly recommend it!

Here's the first page, and while it is a bit slow at first, it gets better and better!

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021104

Here's a page from about where I'm at in reading it, from a story they put in as a form of break from telling the original adventure. It has some of the same characters, such as Agatha Heterodyne and Krosp the Cat Emperor, as well as some of the humor

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070926



(originally posted in the Comic Books group, but thought I'd get more traction/interest over here )

[malthaussen]

1. Very big with the Steampunk crowd.

Some of my friends in SL are associated with the Wulfenbach Consulate.

-- Mal

[kentauros]

2. Oh, that's funny!

And thanks for posting, because I was getting close to thinking there were just no people left on DU that were any fun at all

[Ron Obvious]

3. Not particularly...

But I remember Phil Foglio very fondly from Dragon Magazine and the old Phil and Dixie columns...

{sigh} Did they ever get around to the sex and AD&D column? 't would have been a big help to us, you know. I didn't get laid until the first time I had sex, you know.

[kentauros]

4. I don't know what columns you're talking about.

Because though I did play D&D, I never read any magazines associated with it.

It's too bad you don't like Girl Genius, because I find it hilarious and well worth the time it's taking me to catch up to the present pages

[Archae]

5. I still remember the cartoons he drew for the Trekkies.

During the mid 1970's.

His "coverage" of the 1976 Chicago Star Trek con is hilarious.

(I was there, and the stuff that Phil drew did happen!)

Some more of Phil's stuff here:

http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=33460&get=last

[kentauros]

6. That sounds almost like Donna Barr's "Barr Wars"

I don't think Phil was involved in that, but he'd have fit right in if he had

I see now that he did do a cover at about the time that war was going on in that particular publication; I just don't recall seeing any pages where he took part.




I'll look at your link in a bit, and thanks for posting it

[Archae]

7. Just don't be drinking or eating anything.

[kentauros]

8. Well, that's tru for ANYthing he does!