Gunnerkrigg Court is (or was, before Agatha took possession of the town) an inn in Mechanicsburg which advertised clean rooms and stable, free breakfast, and indoor plumbing ✣ .
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In fact, this is one of many shoutouts to other webcomics. Gunnerkrigg Court is a work with many similarities to the present history:
- age: started April 2005, the same month Girl Genius became a web comic
- format
- one page published on Web MWF (since 2006; twice-weekly before that)
- collected as graphic novels
- protagonist
- female student
- parents dead or missing
- extraordinary powers
- story: mysteries slowly being revealed
- setting: dark
- overall excellence
Moreover, a card game entitled Legendary Showdown: Machines and Magic was published in 2016. This game includes characters and artifacts from both works.