antimony carver is a precocious and preternaturally selfpossessed young girl starting her first year of school at gloomy gunnerkrigg court a very british boarding school that has robots running around along side bodysnatching demons forest gods and the odd mythical creature the opening volume in the series follows antimony through her orientation year the people she meets the strange things that happen and the things she causes to happen as she and her new friend kat unravel the mysteries of the court and deal with the everyday adventures of growing up tom siddells popular and awardwinning web comic wwwgunnerkriggcom is here collected in print for the first time