Girl Genius x2 – revived – Beyond the Bundle

In August 2025 we resurrected two offers of digital graphic albums featuring Studio Foglio’s Girl Genius, the “gaslamp fantasy” webcomic of adventure, romance, and mad science. The revived October 2020 Girl Genius Bundle had the First Journey of heroine Agatha Heterodyne, and its May 2023 companion, creatively titled Girl Genius 2, launches Agatha on her Second Journey. Together these offers presented more than 2,700 pages of fast, funny scientific-romance comics filled with Sparks, smoke, gears, Clanks, and talking cats, all for an unbeatable bargain price.

(Note: Like all Bundle of Holding offers, these titles were downloadable digital files, not physical albums.)

Created by Phil and Kaja Foglio (What’s New With Phil & Dixie? and many more), Girl Genius debuted as a quarterly comic book in 2000, then became a successful thrice-weekly webcomic in 2005. The series has garnered a Munchkin Steampunk expansion, a Cheapass Games card game, licensed merchandise, a thriving Patreon campaign, and a standalone GURPS RPG and sourcebook.

These revivals helped Studio Foglio as it soldiers through the hard times that have beset comics, games, and small companies across the spectrum. “Things have been going well for a long time, but recently we’ve had a lot of nasty and expensive surprises,” Phil Foglio wrote on his July 17 GoFundMe page, Help the Foglios Through Unexpected Challenges. “What happened? A number of unexpected medical expenses, a flooded basement, and an expensive legal fight to get our novel rights back. Diamond Comics, our main distributor who got our books into actual stores, went bankrupt and is no longer ordering anything from us. Our convention sales have changed drastically in recent years, we suspect because people would rather buy books online than carry them around a crowded con. Who can blame them? All that drama and more has slowed down our traditional ‘one book a year’ release schedule, and our income along with it. We thought we could weather that slowdown, but we were wrong.” The Foglios still run their Patreon campaign and their TopatoCo merchandise page.

1. GIRL GENIUS [from October 2020]

In an alternate Europe in the throes of Industrial Revolution, the inventive scientists called Sparks develop new and interesting ways to smash each other’s castles. Agatha Heterodyne, a hapless student at Transylvania Polygnostic University, discovers her own Spark. As she obsessively pursues her monstrous heritage and birthright, all Europa watches carefully, for fear Agatha may become a monster herself. Follow the start of Agatha’s journeys in the titles gathered in this revived October 2020 Girl Genius Bundle.

There were four titles in this revived offer’s Starter Collection (retail value $26), including full-color “Electronic Edition” .PDFs of the first three Girl Genius albums – Girl Genius Volume 1: Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank (Color Edition), 2: The Airship City, and 3: The Monster Engine – the Girl Genius Secret Blueprints, a 2001 teaser published to mark the debut of the original comic. And we throw in lots of fun freebies from the Studio Foglio website.

Those who paid more than this revival’s threshold (average) price also got this offer’s entire Bonus Collection with twelve more albums worth an additional $102:

Girl Genius Volume 4: Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus Of Dream
5: The Clockwork Princess
6: The Golden Trilobite
7: The Voice of the Castle
8: The Chapel of Bones
9: The Heirs of the Storm
10: The Guardian Muse
11: The Hammerless Bell
12: The Siege of Mechanicsburg
13: The Sleeping City
And we included the first two albums of Phil Foglio’s zany Buck Godot space operas: Buck Godot – Zap Gun for Hire Volume 1 and Volume 2: PsmIth

2. GIRL GENIUS 2 [May 2023]

This May 2023 Girl Genius 2 sequel followed Agatha in her Second Journey as she seeks to free Castle Heterodyne from a time-stop bubble. The 924 pages of full-color comics in these seven volumes take Agatha from the Incorruptible Library under Paris, the City of Lightning, to the submerged city of Londinium and deep undersea. A supplementary volume, Nuts and Bolts, added side stories and silly features from the webcomic’s 20+-year run, and Buck Godot, Zap Gun for Hire returned in The Gallimaufry.