So, my partner's been hooked on this webcomic for almost 20 years – the other being *MegaTokyo* – and while I've read the first few installments of *Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank*, I've never quite caught up. It's a bigger commitment to catch up with this one than MT, because the creators are – appropriately enough for this comic – like clockwork, posting three pages a week for decades now. The art in *Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank* is a blast – fun and campy – and the...

4/5 starsI AM SO EXCITED TO SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING, OH MY GOD*Since it's a huge series, I'll probably do what I do with manga and review it properly at the end, with the last volume.* I'm genuinely thrilled to see what happens next in *Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank* by Phil Foglio! As a long-time reader of the series, I'm really looking forward to giving a more comprehensive review once the series concludes. Stay tuned for my complete thoughts on the series once I've finished the ...

A steampunk graphic novel sounded amazing, but *Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank* just didn't deliver. The story felt muddled and childish. The main character, Agatha, was all over the place – one minute she's pathetic, the next she's loud and bold. Baron Wolfenbach is a total monster, but his son, Gilgamesh, shows a glimmer of potential to be better than his old man. Honestly, after this, I'm not sure if I'll bother continuing the *Agatha Heterodyne* series by Phil Foglio. Looking for...

So, I checked this one out online (and read it there for free) while I was having a tough time with the 13th volume, which was a 2014 Hugo finalist for Best Graphic Novel. While this story is told from only one perspective – Agatha's – it still feels a bit disjointed and hard to follow. Almost every line of dialogue feels like it should end with an exclamation point. It's high drama, bordering on melodrama. But maybe that's just a hallmark of the mad science genre; I wouldn't know, I'm new to it...

I've been following this webcomic for 5 or 6 years now, and sometimes I binge-read the whole thing again (it's starting to get too long to do this, but who cares? It's fun!). My last re-read was last month (May 2014!) and I decided it's probably a good time to review it. Girl Genius is set in a steampunk society where some people are "sparks" or, plainly speaking, geniuses. The thing is, most of the time when people "get the spark" or become a spark, they also go insane. The kind of insane that ...

Alright, folks. Phil Foglio was creating steampunk comics WAY before it became trendy. *Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank* was published in 2001. 2001! (Yes, it bears repeating.) Anyway... yeah, this is pretty groundbreaking. The library edition I read is printed entirely in brown and white, except for a preview of the next volume at the end. And I know this shouldn't be my first comment, but OMG, this is SO MUCH BETTER in color. Which, I know, is a total *duh*. The Foglios (the name a...

I've been following the 'Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank' series for ages, and honestly, I can't praise it enough. You can read the whole thing online if you want, but I really suggest buying copies directly from their website. Selling books is how Phil Foglio and the rest of the team make a living, after all. It's important to support creators like that. If you're looking for a great steampunk adventure, give 'Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank' a read!

1. 5 to 2.0 stars. I'm honestly not sure why Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank just didn't click for me. I adore steampunk, I'm a total sucker for gaslamp fantasy, and I'm usually all in on graphic novels. But this story just didn't grab me the way I thought it would. It was okay, I guess, but I was really expecting to love it, especially knowing Phil Foglio's other works. As far as steampunk book reviews go, this one is lukewarm.

I had mixed feelings going into this one. Eager because, hello, girl genius steampunk adventure? With rave reviews? Sign me up! Reluctant because, well, you see the cover, right? But sometimes graphic novel covers aren't representative... Oh. No. It is representative. Cartoony and exaggerated, with so many details that I either had to ignore half of them or read way slower than I wanted to. Worst of all, I *really* hated the giant breasts and back-breaking poses of the female characters. I know ...

This series is absolutely *excellent*. It's a graphic novel from Phil and Kaja Foglio (I probably misspelled that, too!). Their artwork is fantastic, and the story is *really* captivating.Essentially, it's set on an alternate Earth where Mad Science is a very real thing. Mad Scientists are said to possess the 'Spark' and are able to build amazing contraptions... unfortunately, there's a good reason they're called 'Mad.' It usually manifests as a complete inability to determine if they *should* b...