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Guilded Age
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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.
Sleepless Domain
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In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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!
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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!
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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?
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.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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!
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.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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 Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
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...
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?
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.
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.
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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And then Harky gave Penk ‘How to Cook Humans’ for Traal.
I believe that book is actually called “To Serve Man”.
The book you saw must have been covered in Space Dust. The full title is “How To Cook For Forty Humans”
no, no you mis-read that. it’s how to cook forty humans.
Hang on, I’ve discovered more dust on the book! It’s actually “How To Cook For Forty Humans And Then Eat Them”.
Is this a long line of “miss the joke and then make almost the same joke except more and more contrived”, or am I missing some reference or layer of meta-humor?
Simpsons did it.
They kinda did it…rough. I don’t remember it like that, but hey, I’m too lazy to google and see if they did it right or not.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxI7B758XBQ[/video]
This is what they are referencing.
if you post the link without the http:// then it auto links the address. keeping the http:// imbeds the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxI7B758XBQ
The thing about that skit that bothered me was the complete disregard the aliens had for sanitation. That was a LOT of dust on that cookbook…
;)
“They are the ENEMY. They are not just wrong; they are EVIL and must be UTTERLY DEFEATED. Better for us all to die at the hands of some terroristic monster – and no longer exist – than to be found consorting and compromising with … THEM (ugh!).”
Am I reading GA, or listening to the current campaign rhetoric of Dems and Repubs?
I thought I was reading a treatise on politicians, actually.
Harky didn’t say they should never cooperate against a mutual enemy. He’s just disappointed that they didn’t kill them when the monster was vanquished.
And if you have reason to expect that you would be turned on the second a common foe is defeated, why would you ever cooperate as opposed to just saying “Good luck with that!” and walking away.
Common enemies should be a sign of common ground, a way to find an end to the war that doesn’t involve unending slaughter.
I thought it was more like “It was ok in this case, but we’ll have deserters if anyone thinks I support working with humans”
Yeah. In short, Harky was teaching Penk some POLITICS.
http://www.dramabutton.com/
Fiction often makes commentary on the real world, and they GA is apparently drawing parallels between their war and The War on Brown People.
or just…pretty much any war. during the US war for independance…Christmas comes around and the British and Rebels hold a ceasefire…middle of the night comes and Washington storms in and kills everyone. Best time to kill the enemy is when they think you are going to honor your word to not kill them.
The trouble with that kind of thing is that it only works once.
And if it doesn’t work thoroughly enough, it seriously ups the ante for acceptable behaviour.
It’s an Ideology war than a war on brown people.
“So…would it be okay if I made them only mostly dead?”
You know, so they can come back? Like they did when you killed them?
Oooooooooh. Slick.
Ha! I bet even Harky can’t regenerate that kind of burn.
Burn!
Anybody else curious about what Harky intends for the non-Trolls of the World’s Rebellion, should they prove victorious?
That’s a war to be planned for another day.
These avatars, I swear.
And I hadn’t thought about that… I figure Harky just sees Gastonia as an existential threat. Which there is justification for. I wouldn’t even assume he wants to exterminate humanity, necessarily, just make the world safe for trolls (and other non-humans (particularly avians)).
Though yeah he’ll probably keep going, such is life.
Given what we’ve seen it does seem like Gastonia certainly needs to be destroyed, either literally or philosophically through massive political change. Unfortunately an army of dispossessed nomads is really only good at one of those things.
I don’t think he’s explicitly saying he’s going to kill or subdue all non-troll races though. I mean Gondolessa is RIGHT THERE and that’s the sort of thing that leads to awkward, unwanted conversations at night.
Gravatar + comment = perfect combo
Sure. Gondolessa and Iver are plenty curious about it, for starters.
I was initially disgusted, but then I thought about it; honourless as turning on them may be, the Adventurers were still their enemy. Sparing them then could cost their soldiers’ lives later.
If ethics were applicable to this war, there wouldn’t be a war.
People are still people. Go look up stuff such as the Christmas Truce.
But in that example, both sides had things in common, a shared religion. There were no jousting competitions between Christians and Muslims during the Crusades.
And as evidenced by the fraternization directly after, such as with Sundar bonding with the trolls, or Gravedust and Magda talking, they have more in common than either side previously thought.
Maybe not during the first crusade, but during the third there definitely were such levels of fraternisation. Although it did make Saladin famous for his chivalry so I guess it was unexpected.
The fourth crusade in turn caused most of its damage to Christians..
(Also take a look at the crusader kingdoms created after the first crusade, and who the subjects were)
Thanks for pointing this out!
The argument that Christians and Muslims have nothing in common is quite ridiculous.
The ironic thing is that they also burned down Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, which was filled with (Orthodox) Christians, which they were supposed to be aiding.
Don’t we all love the Crusades and the huge (and in the end pointless) slaughters that occurred.
Take me back to Constantinople!
The uh, Christmas Truce was kinda immediately followed by them shooting the hell out of each other again, just pointing that out there. Also, the years afterwards, both sides were explicitly ordered not to do it again.
All of that making it an incredible parallel to the situation above, actually.
Huh. The Truce of Traal. That’s how Penk’s dalliance with sanity will be remembered.
The Christmas Truce was mostly a demonstration of how pointless World War I was. It didn’t take long for the war to stop being about Serbia and Austria and geopolitics and start being about just winning the war. After all, if you lose, all of those young men died for nothing. If you win, they still died for nothing, but you can pretend there was an actual point. When people absolutely despise each other they don’t sit around and play football with each other once the holidays roll around. Didn’t exactly happen with the Soviets and Nazis, did it?
They’re as applicable to this war as they are to any other, or to anything in general. I would say that the value of acting honorably towards your opponents probably correlates closely with how comfortable you are committing genocide. In this particular scene I suspect that there’s some variance in that comfort level.
Applicable, alas, is not always applied.
Harky is just miffed he missed out.
Also that he is becoming obsolete.
Now drop down and gimmie 20…human heads.
biiiitch…
Wow, and then they wonder why the humans call them savages !
Actually I’m pretty sure a human group would have attacked the trolls once they were done with the Beast. The Peacekeepers are more open minded and racially diverse. The humans tends to be just as bad as the trolls about the war…
If not worse. Harky would have simply ordered that the humans were their enemies, and the fighting would have resumed after their mutual truce. I imagine the human council in the same situation, and can’t help but think they’d almost certainly PRETEND there was a truce still on, while plotting to eliminate their enemies with no resistance.
Human leadership would probably have commanded their soldiers to see to saving human lives, but let the “savage” enemy die at the, er, tendrils, of the beast.
It’s not like none of the Peacekeepers pushed to “let the beast eat them,” calling Frigg of all people a “savage-lover” for seeing a problem with this.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, until the time my enemy has been slain, then they become the enemy, and must be slain as well.
To steal from another webcomic, 29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.
Just in case anyone was in danger of thinking the leadership of the Savage Races were somehow better than the leadership of the Gastonians…
I heard something interesting in the RL world, said by every living CIA director: “We can not kill our way out of this.”
Amazing how difficult a concept that is for people to grasp.
Duh Penk! It’s called FACTION WARS for a reason! Go join the care bear server if you want to be all friendly.
Allowing the Peacekeepers to leave in peace after the battle would certainly have been a reasonable and humane thing to do, but honestly I was surprised that Penk invited them to eat and party with the Savage Races. That may have been a bridge too far.
It would have been the humane thing to do. Not the trollane thing to do.
Kind of off-topic, but when will the archive page update? The last few chapters have been great, but it’s getting difficult to go back on an archive binge.
I wonder if Penk is telling Magda all about this, or just remembering it.
Well I guess this vindicates hammerhead’s position.
Looks like Harky’s being a real HAMMERHEAD on the issue.
Unfortunately, seeing how the human-and allies-government works, he has a point.