Girl Genius Vol 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse

Girl Genius Vol 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse (2011) Phil & Kaja Foglio

It was reading Agatha H and the Airship City that made me realize it had been awhile since I read a new Girl Genius comic. (Yes, I know you can read them online, but I just like having the bound volumes. And I’m sure Phil & Kaja Foglio aren’t complaining about me paying money to read Girl Genius.) so I went and looked and LO! A new volume had just come out! SCORE!

Agatha is still trapped in Castle Heterodyne, she’s still having problems fighting off possession by the spirit of the Other (also known as Agatha’s mother) and if she doesn’t cure the Spark illness that she, Gil, and Tarvek have, they won’t have to worry about any of the other things.

As with previous volumes, I think my favorite characters are the Jagermonsters. They’re just so fun! (PLUS! Bonus Jagermonster story at the end of the volume! Woot!) Agatha and Gil and Tarvek are almost incomprehensible when they speak Spark, but it doesn’t really matter, because everything else is so completely insane, it hardly matters.

Actually, now I think about it, coming up with a coherent synopsis of a Girl Genius volume is an exceedingly difficult thing to do. It’s kinda like trying to explain a dream. “So the Baron gets in the huge battle clank and attacks the castle except Gil is there so he can’t destroy the castle because Gil is his son and Gil and Agatha and the Storm Prince (he also goes by another name) are sick with a Spark disease that makes them turn different colors and they have to build a machine to cure them and… Yeah. So, kinda hard to explain.

Yet, fun!

If you have not read any Girl Genius, DO NOT START HERE. Go back to the beginning and work your way here.

Then go buy all the books so the Foglios can spend more time on Girl Genius and the volumes will come out faster.
Rating: 8/10

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