User:Mphj7/Sandbox: Girl Genius

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Rating Summary

Before I go any further, it should be said that I actually unironically like Girl Genius. However, there are criticisms of the webcomic that I want to make.

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Background
Girl Genius is a comic series, both in print and web form, by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio. It began around the year 2000 as a serialized print comic, with Issue #1 being released on 28 Feb. 2001. It first became a webcomic in the year 2005, with the print issues being canceled that same year (though print paperback collections are still released). In 2011, the story began to get prose novelizations to accompany the webcomic. It's been going strong, in some form or another, for well over twenty years at this point. I'd say it shows no signs of stopping, but the Foglios do say the story will end at some point, so instead I'll say it shows no signs of stopping within a normal human lifespan.

Girl Genius has been on the Bad Webcomics Wiki radar for a very long time. The old forum made a thread on it back in 2010 and added it to the most wanted list in 2011. However, little progress was made since - despite the prominence of it's hatedom - Girl Genius is generally a well-recieved webcomic with many fans, some of whom are/were frequent users of the BWW. Naturally, many people did not want a webcomic that they love to be put on the Bad Webcomics Wiki. At the same time, many of the people who did think it deserved to be here simply didn't want to read through the entirety of a webcomic that they hated. In 2019, the user Lt. Art Major took one for the team and posted a review of the webcomic after reading up until around Volume 8 or 9. But then, in 2023, I (yes, the person writing this article) posted a challenge to the review, and was given a chance to write another.

Downfall
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Story and Plot
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Art review
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Writing review
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Author biography
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Conclusion
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Links

 * First Page: So you can read Girl Genius in order.
 * Books: So you can read Girl Genius in order, but without looking at the art.
 * Girl Genius Wiki: So you can read Girl Genius out of order.
 * The Chronology: So you can read the TLDR of Girl Genius in order.
 * TV Tropes Page: So you can read Girl Genius in alphabetical order.
 * Amazon: So you can order Girl Genius to read.