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athelindAccording to Kaja Foglio's Diary, Airship Books is suspending publication of the classic Gaslamp Fantasy, Girl Genius.
This is one of my favorite comic books of all time.
So why am I grinning like an idiot?
Because the story will continue on the web, as .
The idea is that the dead-tree quarterly book is really just a way of drumming up interest in the trade paperback collections (a point I've made repeatedly about mainstream superhero monthlies) -- and that a web comic can do that much more effectively.
For me, the idea of getting my Agatha Heterodyne fix three times a week instead of once every few months just makes me giddy.
New comics start on . You can read the whole of Issue One here.
This is one of my favorite comic books of all time.
So why am I grinning like an idiot?
Because the story will continue on the web, as .
The idea is that the dead-tree quarterly book is really just a way of drumming up interest in the trade paperback collections (a point I've made repeatedly about mainstream superhero monthlies) -- and that a web comic can do that much more effectively.
For me, the idea of getting my Agatha Heterodyne fix three times a week instead of once every few months just makes me giddy.
New comics start on . You can read the whole of Issue One here.
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Date: 2005-03-29 05:37 pm (UTC)I'm excited, too. I first saw Girl Genius a few years ago at the San Diego Comic-Con, and picked up an issue there.
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Date: 2005-03-29 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-29 06:01 pm (UTC)Your post just sounded like you had found that independently, is all. Sorry.
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Date: 2005-03-29 06:23 pm (UTC)I just like to go back to the original source material for my news posts, rather than risking data entropy.