Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip
Guilded Age
The Saga of the Working Class Adventurer – New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!
The Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
Love Not Found
Gina Biggs
Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell
A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Sakana
Mad Rupert
Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
Ride or Die
Mars Heyward
Ride or Die is an LGBTQ webcomic about two street racers who team up with a demon-possessed muscle car in the search for a missing woman, while being hunted by a deadly religious cult.
Within
Verena Loisel
A young hitman meanders between a reality that seems to happen without him, and his dreams where he is lost in an endless house. When he makes an accidental friend, his world is shaken up and he realizes there are things he can't remember about himself.
Beeserker
TJ Cordes
This comic is about a robot powered by bees, but it's also about the kind of people who think filling a robot with bees is a good idea, and why they're wrong.
Edison Rex
Chris Roberson
The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black
A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Augustine
Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy
August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
Kochab
Sarah Webb
A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.
Scape
Lauren
Sula has always preferred to forge her own path, but before she knows it, she is pulled into the middle of a civil war between man and monster!
Sleepless Domain
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
How to be a Werewolf
Shawn Lenore
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
Gzhel Guardian
Atla Hrafney, nushanchel
The Railway World is a complex, mysterious network of trains, towns and mechanical monsters. Leo is a Guardian of one of these towns, and although their burn-out and depression has taken hold of them, they have one last job to finish.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Missing Monday
Elle Skinner
Two girls fall in love through a magic door connecting their worlds. When Monday suddenly goes missing, it's up to Foyle to find her. How she's going to navigate an entirely unfamiliar world is another matter.
Quick$ilver
Crypto
The flirtatious, directionless, and ever disastrous Luci searches for excitement in a life of crime, and finds himself caught in a web of messy romance and bad blood.
Little Tiny Things
Clover
What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?
Lies Within
Lacey
Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster
Widdershins
Kate Ashwin
A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!
Astral Aves
Moon Cabal
A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.
Barbarous
Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota
A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
Monsterkind
Taylor C
Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.
Star Impact
Jack McGee
A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!
This is Not Fiction
Nicole Mannino
What do you do when the person you're in-love with is an anonymous romance novelist? Get your best friend to hire your worst enemy for help!
Aquapunk
Lo
In an underwater world of unknown coordinates, inhabited by aliens, ghosts, and robots, a young member of a warrior underclass is framed for a crime and goes on the run. Little does he know he is part of a grand design that only gods and ancestors could choreograph.
Alice and the Nightmare
Misha Krivanek
Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.
Nigh Heaven & Hell
Scotty
Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
The End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
Darkling Bright
Chris Hazelton
Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG.
At least, he was, and that was the idea...
Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
Freakshow
Scotty
A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
Not Drunk Enough
Tess Stone
Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
The Last Diplomat
Cat Farris
Samma and Tark didn't ask to be stuck together, but now they're partners on the adventure of a lifetime.
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
The Weave
Rennie Kingsley
A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
Cassiopeia Quinn
Gunwild, Psudonym
A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.
Guilded Age is co-written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn, and illustrated by John Waltrip. Site design by Samantha Kyle. Fonts by Blambot.com.
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Discussion (50) ¬
Children, do you know the story of the Three Little Gastonians and the evil gnoll who huffed and puffed and blew their house in?
Also lol @ trolls.
I was lost there for a second or two with the trolls … then burst out laughing when I got it ;-).
troll description is full of win
I never thought I would see a fantasy book, game, comic, or other source warn of a troll’s specious arguments.
Oh wait, I get it now.
Damn, I know it’s the point, but the gastonians seems like a bunch of racist asshole… My redneck detector is bursting into flames !
Redneck does not necessarily equal klansman. Owning a pick’em-up truck with a gunrack and a coonhound in the bed merely says that you had a rural upbringing or watched way too much CMT.
Besides, cities are chock full of racist folk.
No, Fren! This is one of the Trolls this entry told us about! Do not engage him in conversation! Damn, man, don’t you read your basic instructions?!
It also indicates being american.
Rural upbringing has other indicators elsewhere.
Don’t be silly, my good fellow. The Author is simply stating the obvious, as revealed by HOURS of scolarly research.
Unless…
You’re not one of those “Elf-Friends”, are you?
you know… i think he is!
I feel like there might be a hidden jab in that description of trolls.
I like how the fishing metaphor has given way to a fantasy monster.
The Orc looks sad. He was working on his farm, trying to save up enough coin to apply for his G.E.D. (Gastonian Education Diploma) until the Gnoll set his barn on fire. And the Troll insulted him for being a dirty dirt digger.
Gnoll= Griefer.
Troll= Troll.
Orc= Ordinary internet user.
You win TEH PRIEZ!
Actually, you do, Fren.
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Aw, man, that’s like, the ultimate in lucky sevens!
That’s going to frustrate a lot of achievement junkies.
I bet he would’ve preferred to get those numbers on a slot machine.
Henceforth, I shall rub all Lottery Tickets, Rabbit’s Feet, and other various Luck Charms upon the monitor. Also, I request to mail you one pair of dice that you may blow upon them before I start up that back-alley game of craps.
The Gnolls sound rather wolfish. Gnoll pun intended, of course,
When i read the orc description i though of warcraft and thought I must “build more farms.” and also
“Yes?”
“Me busy, leave me alone!”
“Me not that kind of orc!”
“Work, work”
“Okie Dokie”
“Something need doing?”
Work work ZugZug Dabu – Work work zugzug Dabu Dabu…
Yeah, I thought that about the orcs too.
A little known fact is that orcs also make excellent soldiers… when led by Human Officers.
Interesting vocabulary for a children’s book. There are adults TODAY that would think the language here is ‘high-fallutin.’
Midevil fantasy public schools must be fucking awesome.
Well, if any children are reading books in this sort of setting, you’d figure they’d be noble-born to begin with. A higher standard of literacy is to be expected.
I thought gnolls were half hyena. And thus not canine? Idk.
You’re expecting biological accuracy from GASTONIANS?
So do they enslave the orcs, or call them “indentured servants” or just exploit them as cheap labor or what? It’s clear what they do, I just want to know what term they use. “We give them purpose and dignity” or some such?
So the Orcs are the Mexicans of the fantasy world?
We all know we were thinking it, but before I am mobbed, I meant no offense to Latinos….well…
Seems to me like you can’t leave your Earth out of it while you’re taking your Erf… FAIL.
No worries, I’m half Mexican and half Irish. And the Irish were (are probably still) considered the Mexicans of the UK. In Germany it’s currently the Turks, I think. I understand that you simply mean the exploited immigrants of Gastonia, whos exploitation doesn’t have to be limited to only occuring on their own lands.
– Qlippoth
@Qlippoth: I guess you’re right about “Anonymous” ‘s intentions.
Been lurking here awhile and get the same fix of joy from the webcomic as from reading all the witty comments here… yet. Just wanted to let know I’d really mind if I start seeing “politico-alegorical” posts here.
Its a free ‘net and all but “In the mornings I like toast & coffee, but not toast IN my coffee”. Now, on with the show!
Ooh, this one changed. :D
Avians, Landsharks and Goblins.
I imagine I just happened to look at the site during the update. ;D
That is, this #4 was displaying the imagery for #5, meaning I checked it at the very tip of the update.
It’s still doing it, and I forgot to check yesterday so I can’t see part IV (except for some reason the alt-text for IV is there!). Something about the update has messed up :(
Hmmm, that might not be so. i can’t seem to look at page # 4 at all! :o(
Yeah… it seems it was replaced by 5. :C
I don’t know what was up with that, but it’s fixed now.
Yeah, it looks like the image of Avians, Land Sharks and Goblins got uploaded to [http://guildedage.net/comics/2010-11-18-gastonian-guide-4.jpg] and replaced the Trolls, Gnolls, and Orcs image that used to be at that URL. Dammit.