I'm kind of fascinated by Gunnerkrigg Court's decision that the real baddies are an evil magical girl squad whose members have barely been present in the comic up to this point. I wonder if we're going to get a months-long flashback explaining who the fuck this is for every single one of them like we did for the first one?
Gunnerkrigg's main problem is that the hyped-for-years Omega finally appeared and the Court is on the precipice of completing their ultimate plan and Coyote and Loup were last seen rampaging through the Court as time and space collapsed into a singularity and everyone assumed this meant we were approaching final boss time.
Except in actuality it was just the new status quo. Coyote and Loup resolved their fight offscreen, Omega was easily defeated via a plan only revealed to the audience after it happened (and then was killed offscreen), the comic took a detour into the legal implications of robot death, and now we're doing shounen battle manga against some witches. And it's becoming increasingly clear that the singularity is intended not to be an approaching final threat the characters need to deal with urgently, but a plot point being put on the shelf for Gunnerkrigg Court to come back to at some future date. The magical girls maybe aren't the "real" bad guys, most likely we'll defeat them and move on to a story about Annie and Tony or something.
Most of the dissatisfaction people have had with Gunnerkrigg Court these past few years is simply that the "Coyote has trapped Zimmy in a dream and it's causing reality to collapse" seems so obviously important that people literally can not believe the characters aren't racing to fix it, so any arc about something else is ready as "clearly this is the finale" and I don't think it is, or that it was ever meant to be. It was a one-off shakeup to the status quo that was so interesting that it kind of killed everything the comic's tried to do since.
GK has always had some weird aversion to climaxes.
At first I thought Tom Siddell was just bad at paying off his buildup. But eventually I realized he was doing it on purpose. It's his style of storytelling, and on some level I have to respect it. It's admirable for an artist to blaze their own strange trail.
But man, it does not help me enjoy the comic at all.
