Girl Genius 1 End
Huh, it looks like that there were chapters here this entire time. And I thought this was ALL the prologue. (it could be, who knows). Well, I’ll just keep the Prologue tag as Vol 1 and leave it at that (for now I guess).
Overall view: It took a while for me to get into it. I like the setting, the weird things that happen in the background. The robot designs like instead of a prosthetic leg a guy has a spider crawler. Mutant people are the norm (wolf man, multiple hands). And I still don’t know about the glass jars of death. All of that is pretty interesting to see what this world is like.
But the characters? I don’t think there is any that really pulls me. Most of the scientists were crazy (RIP beetle you nut), the soldiers weren’t likable (but they were intentionally trash) I ended up rooting for what I assume to be the villains of the series, or at least a Pretty Bad Guy like Baron here. Agatha is the protagonist, but I am more curious about why she gets these headaches than who she is as a person. I like what they were going for with the headache=color thing. When see feels emotion she gets colorful, but the headaches suppress that. That is interesting. But all I got from her was that she was a klutz student who everyone seems to take advantage of, but then the focus shifted to villain inspection day and the downfall of the university’s scientists.
And the art…isn’t really my thing. It took a while to get use to, but the way some of the faces and bodies are drawn, it doesn’t look right. Like the eye alignment is off or a body part shouldn’t be where it was at. My guess is sense this comic started in 2002 (holy shit that was a long time go) the art is going to get better after 17 years worth. And lord knows that I can’t draw the same. But it is more or less the setting/questions the plot has that is attracting me to this series, and not necessarily the art itself.
