Comments on: Agatha H and the Airship City: Girl Genius book is a cross between a comic and a prose novel

By: Auf keinen Fall Jens

Auf keinen Fall Jens — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:04:00 +0000

If it was only they made her thinner …

Anyone notice there are two (slightly) different covers on Amazon?

By: Jen Savage

Jen Savage — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:33:00 +0000

Wait, did they make Agatha thinner on that cover for a reason? I always appreciated that she was plump.

By: steampunksweets

steampunksweets — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:29:00 +0000

“Clay.” Not Crumb.

I liked the book, though there were some style/writing workmanship issues that were jarring in a professionally-pupblished book versus a fan fic (like random POV shifts and awkwardly-structured sentences) but it’s fun for diehard fans and a good way to indoctrinate friends and family who “don’t read comics.”

By: TheMadLibrarian

TheMadLibrarian — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:59:00 +0000

Minor quibble: Agatha’s nom de guerre is Clay, not Crumb.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:43:00 +0000

Girl Genius is one of those strips I WANT to like and SHOULD be way into, but somehow found intimidating. So much to catch up on! (Dresden Codak is that way too, and is possibly too damn smart for me in addition.)

But I like the idea of learning up on the background and origins with this novel. Gotta see if it is available on Kobo.

(Edit: Yes it is!)

By: James Bond

James Bond — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:29:00 +0000

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By: Dave Brunker

Dave Brunker — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:22:00 +0000

I love Girl Genius and even though the story and art are dramatically different I can’t help comparing it to Elfquest.

By: Shiawase

Shiawase — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:58:00 +0000

It also available as a DRM-free e-book in several formats via webscription.net

By: Tom Mathews

Tom Mathews — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:29:00 +0000

I rather enjoyed it, and have read all their comics as well. There were several things that I had forgotten over the years that had importance in the current story arc, which lead to a few ah hah! moments.

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:14:00 +0000

I’m seriously in love with Girl Genius, but I’m a little disappointed that this is a retelling of earlier parts of the comic series. Not sure if I will be buying.

By: markdery

markdery — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:07:00 +0000

I dream of a retro future in which “girl geniuses” with the chutzpah to
poke their Freud-friendly phallic lightsabers into the vagina
dentata-like maws of robo-octo-whatever-a-poids are permitted to do so
without first having to strip down to fap-friendly negligees.

By: Diego Fernetti

Diego Fernetti — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:20:00 +0000

I like the way the illustrator of the book cover placed the cat’s tail on the girl’s crotch. Subtle!

By: Lobster

Lobster — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:15:00 +0000

She had to save her sammich money for that lightsaber.

By: yri

yri — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:59:00 +0000

It’s always great to see the Foglios get some front-page time, and the more Girl Genius’s fame spreads, the better – but what’s with the anorexic Agatha on the cover? Had she been held captive and starved for weeks? I much prefer the Foglios’ own Agatha H., whose figure has much healthier proportions. :-)

By: Andrew Iverson

Andrew Iverson — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:50:00 +0000

might want to fix the link on Girl Genius, it goes to a parked site, the real site is: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/