Gunnerkrigg Court Vol 1 Orientation - by Todd Siddell
In her first school year, Antinomy Carver attends a mysterious boarding school that looks more like a vast modern factory, while across the adjacent, forbidding Annan Waters is Gillitie Wood, home of fairies, gods, ghosts and sentient shadows.
As the chapters progress Antimony learns more about the school as well as her parents. Most of Antimony's childhood has been spent in hospital sitting with her dying mother. Now that her mother is dead her father is off to parts unknown leaving her at the boarding school both her parents attended. Many of the teachers were classmates of her parents.
But nothing really ruffles Antimony, not even where her little stuffed doggie, soon houses a grouchy but rather protective demon, while the robot she builds out of spare parts lying around the school crosses the Water and comes back with a living wooden arm. Grownups are of little help to the young protagonists, but Antinomy faces difficulties with courage and self-possessed good manners. She and her friend Kat respond appropriately to each fresh bit of weirdness, sometimes taking part in sci-fi space adventures, sometimes coping with the loss of a friend who's changing into a bird.
While this has an almost Harry Potter like feel it very much lives up to it's own as we discover along with Antimony what the school and it's participants are all about. Looking forward to Vol 2.
In her first school year, Antinomy Carver attends a mysterious boarding school that looks more like a vast modern factory, while across the adjacent, forbidding Annan Waters is Gillitie Wood, home of fairies, gods, ghosts and sentient shadows.
As the chapters progress Antimony learns more about the school as well as her parents. Most of Antimony's childhood has been spent in hospital sitting with her dying mother. Now that her mother is dead her father is off to parts unknown leaving her at the boarding school both her parents attended. Many of the teachers were classmates of her parents.
But nothing really ruffles Antimony, not even where her little stuffed doggie, soon houses a grouchy but rather protective demon, while the robot she builds out of spare parts lying around the school crosses the Water and comes back with a living wooden arm. Grownups are of little help to the young protagonists, but Antinomy faces difficulties with courage and self-possessed good manners. She and her friend Kat respond appropriately to each fresh bit of weirdness, sometimes taking part in sci-fi space adventures, sometimes coping with the loss of a friend who's changing into a bird.
While this has an almost Harry Potter like feel it very much lives up to it's own as we discover along with Antimony what the school and it's participants are all about. Looking forward to Vol 2.