I don't know it, but I can reference how it's similar to your dream. XDDD

WOW, so much meta on one page :D

Most of us wish we didn't know, either.

Oof, I need some help holding up the fourth wall.

will the characters at some point realize they live in a comic?

Annie? Annie. Annie! ANNIE!!! ... Heya, Anni3

I like that the mention of Harry Potter implies that Zimmy has some kind of awareness of our outside comic world. feels like a mini fourth wall break :)

Maybe do that, Annie. After all, it made Jo Rowling a multimillionaire!

Since this is all an illusion made by Zimmy, that means there's a nonzero possibility that Zimmy/Gamma know what Harry Potter is

Looking at the previous page and Page 3026: it seems a school policy to not wear suit jackets during class but to wear it otherwise. Also it is the first time we clearly see faces of non-real people in the inner world.

A world with no JKR? Sign me up!

? Anything you can do, I can do meta... ?

No way. A reality where you can get rich by just plagiarizing harry potter. Go for it annie you fool.

A comic about a magic school? It'll never take off.

LMAO people joked about Annie making a comic or book of it

Magic? Check. Boarding school with four houses with funny English names? Check. Robots? ...Eh, close enough.

Forgot to add: You're a wizahd, Annie.

Harry, Harry, that sounds familiar... Harry... Met Sally? Harry... and the Hendersons? No, I know, Harryhousen! No, he didn't make pots, he made skeletons and dragons and dinosaurs and stuff.

Dang, Harry Potter's worldbuilding so bad it's breaking the verisimilitude of other works of fiction now.

Oh no! IP Infringment! Won't anyone please think of the poor starving lawyers?

It is always a little weird to me that Harry Potter gets all the credit for a magic school. I mean, probably one of the best executions for its time, but there's examples dating back to the 70s at least. LotR and the Hobbit could be considered the grand daddy of epic fantasy, but no one says "Isn't that just the Hobbit?" when someone pitches an idea for a new epic fantasy story.

I laughed

Also I feel like Anne's eyes are casting a "DO NOT SUMMON JK ROWLING'S LAWYERS" spell at Reynard lol

How does Reynard even know about Harry Potter?

A gap in the script.

I think you mean Barry Trotter. The copyright lawyers are flying in a black helicopter as we speak !! ????

I'd read that comic

This is the best meta

A comic about something like that? That'd never work! Readers would drop off immediately! You'd never get to the hundreds of chapters required to really do the story justice!

Called it, I can't wait to see her artwork and if Kat looks like Kimiko Ross and/or brunette glasses-less Agatha Heterodyne (it'll be the messed-up low-rez Kat which is probably what Kat looks like now) • Careful Zimmy and Coyote, the Main Character and her familiar now have 2 odd things to think about. • Daisho: I wanted to reference a bunch of webcomics especially Digger, which also has a no-nonsense heroine who meets a god or several and helps a little shadow creature and a guy who was cast out of his clan. That was the best: GC and Digger every other day and Homestuck whenever for pages at a time.

Meta going, are we?

Kat 100% made Renard binge hp with her a lot. Or he pretended he hated it and watched on his own several dozen times.

Incredible meta commentary, chapeau! XD

Make a comic about it.

I can list at least 2 other fictions involving magic schools set in a modern setting that are infinitely better than Harry Potter..... and this is one of them!!!!!

Ahahah, I love it! Breaking walls! Self-irony! Soo cool!

So varying amounts of memory retention? Or Annie just doesn't know Harry Potter at all?

I wish we lived in a world people would ask what is Harry Potter ;u;

I know people do this accidentally all the time, but I do hope going forward you don’t refer to JKR’s work at all. She considers people engaging with her franchise an endorsement of her personally using her wealth to fund transphobia and think tanks. Best we can do is give her 0 attention. Breathe deep, you’re loved, pointing it out doesn’t change that. Gunnerkrigg Court is the magic school for us.

IT'S HARRY POTTER FROM FORTNITE

You can just make it into a webcomic Annie, I’m sure it will get lots of views;)

If Zimmy isn’t familiar with it then it’s not part of her world, I’m betting, and she’s not much of a reader.

I wonder if these memory leaks can erode enough of Zimmy's memory block to finally allow Annie (or anyone, really) to break through. That might be a way to break free the rest of Annie's Rescue Rangers.

O boy the walls are REALLY coming down around here, this place is DANGEROUS

Actually, Harry Potter was like THIS, not the other way around.

Ooh, metatextual!

Harry what??? Who dat? :|

Ha-HAH! Cheers to Tom having fun with both making a feint at the groan-some "it was all a dream" trope --without the safety net of the witches already showing us otherwise, I might be leaving, Right Now!-- and also (arguably, though I guess nothing to prove it's not in the Gunnerkrigg reality) a brief left-turn breaking the wall into the readers' reality of literary Potterdom... . Anything particular about 20th May or (page number) 3260 that we get served this just now?

Kat's absence continues to grow ever apparent.

Uh-oh, extradimensional shenanigans?

hm... no, doesn't ring any bells

Harry who ? Isn't that The Worst Witch ?

How long have you been sitting on that gag, Tom?

This page is mostly joke, I imagine, but it would be SO COOL if Annie were functioning on a meta level of her own narrative, "Save the Princess" style.

Hah! It all comes full circle! "Hello, my name is Antimony Carver, and I'd like to..." Very nice

this is the funniest thing you've written so far, Tom

this is the funniest thing you've written so far, Tom

That's the best joke about the comic I've ever heard. Years of reading were worth it.

Don't feel bad. The book series sucks.

feel like you could've gone without referencing the massive transmisogynist's trash book in this one dude

Niche context there.

Lol.

Wow, haha, the most meta page we’ve ever had, by far!

After 20 years of following this comic, the gorilla-sized wizard hat in the room is finally poked.

Holy lampshade batman

St. Elsewhere ending incoming.

I'm going to write the great American novel! Mine is about a futuristic amusement park where dinosaurs are brought to life through advanced cloning techniques and I call it "Billy and the clonosaurus"

Just a vague memory from before Zimmy's Infinite Tsukuyomi...

Hehehehe your haters have been ROASTED

This is gonna end with Tom revealing he's actually Annie ????

Leakage.

Oh, this is getting quite meta

i'll take 'gunnerkrigg court' for 100, alex

A hairy potter has to be careful not to get his beard covered in clay.

There's a bug in the Matrix, Zimmy.

Breaking the forth wall!

ah, a world without harry potter. what a dream

This story shits all over Harry Potter.

Uh oh, the fourth wall!

Self Deprecating humor at it's best

J. K. Rowling, the creator of the series you've referenced, has used her considerable earnings from Harry Potter to lobby for anti-trans legislation and to exclude trans women from a women's shelter that she is on the board of. It would be better not to reference her work at all, since she takes it as a tacit endorsement of her anti-trans bigotry, and keeping her work relevant to the public by mentioning it will eventually lead to more sales for her. Why not instead reference The Worst Witch here, which was the direct influence for Harry Potter?

And I will call it *title card*

...kinda crossed with "Professor Xavier's School", yes.

Lmao, truly.

what's harry potter?

Don't worry about it

Oh, so Harry Potter is canon in the Gunnerkrigg verse. Good to know.

Don't worry about it

I don't know what it is, but the writer is probably really trans phobic for no reason.

it was better than harry potter. there was a magic system that was explained, and the characters (for the most part) aren’t impulsive, and take like 50 chapters to do anything, but those 50 chapters are absolutely full of character interactions and development like people actually are.

Wish I didn't know too.

It s plagiarism from better books, done by a transphone

Ah, so this arc is Tom's origin story

you know, harry potter, the series of books written by hatsune miku

nah, this is much better.

A dark thing that *should* be forgotten.

"the dream about me being in a magic school, where you had the hots for my mom and were imprisoned cause you killed some guy over it, and then you tried to kill me but failed and i had complete magical control over you for the rest of the dream. thats all cool to keep in, right? we were still friends and everything"

jk rowling never was real

Harry potter could never

Harry potter could never

A glimpse of a utopia... they can't be allowed to dispel the distortion, Red was right!

HSSSSSSSSSSDS

I would love to respond to every instance of Arch TERF’ JKR’s franchise with “what is that?” and “isn’t that just Gunnerkrigg Court?” Alas the TERF has flooded the zone with her IP and her hateful views and it’s difficult to convince anyone I don’t know what it is, sigh

I’m a harry potter fan!????

TOP 10 GKRIGG PAGES???

a glimpse into a better, more beautiful world... where nobody knows what harry potter is, and jk rowling falls into obscurity

Ahh, a picture of a much better world.

Reynardine hearing about how his friend dreamt that he was a magical demon that killed a guy to try and get with said friend’s hot mom that doesn’t exist: •_•

“Hello, my name is Mr. Burns. I believe you have a letter for me.” “Okay, Mr. Burns, uhhh what’s your first name?”

Meta, very meta.

lol. lmao even.

They have terf books in the Court? A shame.

Honestly, not worth thinking about - Also, feeling the 4th wall getting chipped away.

Your leaning on the fourth wall there, and I'm *really* not so sure about its structural integrity.

Miau miau miau miau miau

Tom, it’s never too late to remove the TERF-backed media reference and replace it with the actual Romanian myth of The Scholomance. It would suit these two characters especially since Annie has always been more aware of myths and legends than the average student. And it would also give your readers a cooler Google search query.

Lmao. Wow, two decades later, a Potter joke.

..a little meta, but after 100 chapters I can respect it

For the record I think Gunnerkrigg Court is infinitely superior to Harry Potter in both story and quality of author. Keep being awesome with fascinating stories and good LGBT representation, Tom!