Chronology

The graphic novels in the canon currently consist of twenty-four complete volumes and one that is currently ongoing. Twenty of these have been published in printed form and the twenty-first in in the process of being printed. The completed twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fourth volumes, as well as the ongoing twenty-fifth volume, are available on the web for free, as are all of the previous volumes that have print editions.

The chronology pages describe the comics to assist scholars in finding the page on which something occurred. For each page of the comic, the chronology pages identify the characters that appear, actions taken, significant quotes, and other things of interest. Page numbers from the website are zero padded to three digits and in parentheses, for example: (005), (061), (113). Page numbers from print volumes are neither, for example: 5, 61, 113. Section titles are from the canon unless otherwise noted.

For historical reasons, volumes 1 (I) through 13 (XIII) are usually identified with Roman numerals on the Girl Genius chronology pages and elsewhere in the wiki. From volume 14 on, the story entered a new "act" and the volume numbers started over, in Arabic numbers, proceeded by a "2-". For example, overall volume 15 is given as volume 2-2 on chronology pages.

For a partial timeline of the events in the comic, see Internal Chronology.

Chronology Overview         Internal Chronology
Key	= First page of volume                 = chronology                 = cast
Act 1	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Act 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12

Journey	Prose Novel		Graphic Novel
	Prose Novel Title	Chapters	Volume	Overall Volume	Graphic Novel Title	Starting	Chronology	Cast List
First	... Airship City	1-3	Volume I	1	... Beetleburg Clank	November 2002 ✣	Volume I	Cast I
		4-6	Volume II	2	... Airship City	May 2003 ✣	Volume II	Cast II
		7-10	Volume III	3	... Monster Engine	December 2003 ✣	Volume III	Cast III
	... Clockwork Princess	1-4	Volume IV	4	... Circus of Dreams	October 2004 ✣	Volume IV	Cast IV
		5-9	Volume V	5	... Clockwork Princess	May 2005 ✣	Volume V	Cast V
		10-13	Volume VI	6	... Golden Trilobite	March 2006 ✣	Volume VI	Cast VI
	... Voice of the Castle	1-3	Volume VII	7	... Voice of the Castle	February 2007 ✣	Volume VII	Cast VII
		4-6	Volume VIII	8	... Chapel of Bones	February 2008 ✣	Volume VIII	Cast VIII
		7-10	Volume IX	9	... Heirs of the Storm	January 2009 ✣	Volume IX	Cast IX
		10-11	Volume X	10	... Guardian Muse	December 2009 ✣	Volume X	Cast X
	... Siege of Mechanicsburg		Volume XI	11	... Hammerless Bell	October 2010 ✣	Volume XI	Cast XI
			Volume XII	12	... Siege of Mechanicsburg	November 2011 ✣	Volume XII	Cast XII
			Volume XIII	13	... Sleeping City	December 2012 ✣	Volume XIII	Cast XIII
Second			Volume 2-1	14	The Beast of the Rails	March 2014 ✣	Volume 2-1	Cast 2-1
			Volume 2-2	15	The City of Lightning	January 2015 ✣	Volume 2-2	Cast 2-2
			Volume 2-3	16	The Incorruptible Library	November 2015 ✣	Volume 2-3	Cast 2-3
			Volume 2-4	17	Kings and Wizards	September 2016 ✣	Volume 2-4	Cast 2-4
			Volume 2-5	18	Queens and Pirates	July 2017 ✣	Volume 2-5	Cast 2-5
			Volume 2-6	19	Sparks and Monsters	September 2018 ✣	Volume 2-6	Cast 2-6
			Volume 2-7	20	The Exorcism Engines	July 2019 ✣	Volume 2-7	Cast 2-7
			Volume 2-8	21	An Entertainment in Londinium	April 2020 ✣	Volume 2-8	Cast 2-8
			Volume 2-9	22	The Chronometric Lantern Expedition	May 2021 ✣	Volume 2-9	Cast 2-9
			Volume 2-10	23	Escape from the Island of the Rat Queen	April 2022 ✣	Volume 2-10	Cast 2-10
			Volume 2-11	24	Volume 11 of Act 2	January 2024 ✣	Volume 2-11	Cast 2-11
			Volume 2-12	25	Volume 12 of Act 2	October 2024 ✣	Volume 2-12	Cast 2-12

See also

• the secret comic database for Girl Genius. As of October 2013 the database was last updated June 2012 with dialog up to February 2010.

• Notes on Girl Genius by Damien R. Sullivan.

• Girl Genius Annotations by David Salley.