Journey to the Deep, Dark Woods

Gunnerkrigg Court is one of my most favorite webcomics of all time. Tom Siddell has managed to spin a wonderful story about school, and robots, and and friendship, and talking to dead people. It's a world in which gruff, eyeless girls from another dimension accidentally pull you along when their mind gets yanked into a scary place, and the Big Bad Monster gets bound into the stuffed wolf doll your mom made you, and the forest at the other end of the bridge really is full of living shadows and faeries and even Coyote himself. It's a world of myth and weird science and all the things I love. I wish I could write these things half as well, never mind drawing the story, too.

As always, I'm loving the current storyline. Coyote has taken an interest in the main character -- a young school girl who also happens to be a spiritual medium -- and has invited her to visit him in the dark forest. There is tension between the denizens of the forest and those of the school, so Annie, brave girl that she is, must leave her escort at the bridge and undertake the journey alone. (As is only right and proper.)

The echoes of the mythic hero quest invoked by Siddell has been a delight since the comic began, and now I find myself anxiously awaiting the new pages to see what happens next. How will the journey change her? (As all such journeys do.) And how will our heroine change the deep, dark wood?