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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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!
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!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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?
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.
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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...
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.
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!
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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.
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.
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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Part of me feels compelled to tell my own story of holiday hell, but a more prudent side is telling me not to air my family’s dirty laundry.
During this year’s Christmas, a friend of mine got mugged and had his nose broken while on the way to buy pot and prescription pills from his drug dealer. I’d have to say his Christmas was a lot worse than anything these guys are talking about.
unless the comic’s current story ends with the father shotgunning the wife, or leading into a spiral of arguing and divorce.
Divorce isn’t so bad. It is practically a tradition in my family.
…Santa could’ve been an alien, bent on the destruction of the human race.
That’s a whole ‘nother webcomic.
Santa could be controlled by an alien and is repelled only by NERF. Why do you think they’re into weapons manufacturing?
This comic COULD use a bit more Bun-Bun. Every comic could.
Premature dewrapallation is a problem for many middle-aged men. The solution is to have a professional wrap your package.
The key is tightness of the knot.
If you’re unable to unwrap your package after three hours, seek assistance.
Aww, that doesn’t seem so bad, but I don’t know if she’s about to continue the story with a sad ending.
If that’s the case, I’d suppose hers is the saddest story so far; you can’t be mad at kids for doing exactly as they always got to do without having been told they were supposed to do differently. Well, you can’t get mad at anyone for that, actually.
I knew it… Santa is a ninja.
waa waa waa, I got all the gifts I wanted and was very happy and someone who was upset hit it from me so as to not upset me. It was the worst Christmas ever.
oops, HID it from me. Typo.
I suspect more drama in continuation of that flashback.
Nah, it’s gonna continue, “I mean, it could’ve been worse, because the rest of that day was actually really awesome and we had Christmas dinner with the family and all was love and happiness. The end.”
But what if that was actually genuinely her worst Christmas? Maybe not everyone has had some huge trauma that happened to fall on a holiday? Maybe normal “bad things” are still bad, and people still deserve sympathy for going through them? And maybe, just maybe, this is a snapshot indicative of a larger unhealthy relationship between a child who just wanted to be a child, and a man who continuously had unrealistic expectations of her?
True. Taking your point into context I can look back and easily say which was my worst Christmas but I have not had any that I could say were bad. If I was playing this game I would feel a bit of a twit having to say what I think of as ‘worst’.
And to be entirely fair, being old enough as a child to be aware of problems between your parents, but not old enough to really understand them, while having to disguise that from your younger siblings… That’s not really a fun thing to deal with as a kid. Is it life ruiningly bad? No. But it’s still a pretty heavy topic to deal with for what, a 10 year old?
Actually, if this is going where I think it might be going… this is probably going to be the winner, I’m afraid.
The stepdad scared Santa off the roof, put on his coat, and was never seen or heard from again?
Stepdad beat the living shit out of mom later.
…I kinda hope it doesn’t go that way. I’d love to see a Stepdad in a story that turns out to be actually a pretty cool guy and he was just unhappy that he missed getting to see that magical moment that happens when the kids first open the present.
If it helps, my stepdad is a great person. So is my real dad. Yay for parents who manage to split up more or less maturely!
Big ups to my stepmom, who reads this comic and the comments every day.
Lucky! I wish *my* mom were a Starfleet captain.
My own personal Christmas Tragedy probably wouldn’t seem like a big deal to anyone who hasn’t lived with birds for years, but it broke the holidays for my family anyway.
Rest in peace, Blubu.
Whew! As soon as I read “stepdad”, I got chills down my spine. Glad it didn’t turn out any worse than this. Sorry, stepdads, I was being prejudiced. (And the “abusive stepdad/-mom” trope is maybe a little overused.)
Funny thing is. Most fairy tales originally used to simply be Mom and Dad, but the evil parent was later changed to Step-parent to make the stories less disturbing and offensive.
Speaking as a stepdad, yeah, it’s kind of annoying that the trope is overused. There is, after all, usually a good reason why the original couple separated. And aren’t most adults likely to be more careful about selecting a new partner who will be introduced to an existing family?
Come to think of it, the “evil step-parent” trope is kind of an implicit argument against ending a bad relationship through divorce.
Many adults are careful. But there does appear to be a very real, statistically-supported “Cinderella Effect”, where stepparents are overrepresented in child homicide and abuse statistics, and children are more likely to suffer abuse and mistreatment from stepparents than from biologically-related parents.
That said, the vast majority of stepparents don’t abuse their stepchildren in any way, and I’m sorry for any attached stigma to you (or other “good” stepparents).
“And aren’t most adults likely to be more careful about selecting a new partner who will be introduced to an existing family?”
Nope.avi
Well, biological parents tend to imprint on their children as babies, and then can go for many years on the don’t-kill-the-screaming-poop-machine hormones. Stepparents come in later when the child is less helpless and thus less cute, and therefore have more choice in how they relate to that child.
In other words, any type of parent can be generally awful to everybody, but biological parents have a hard time being especially awful to their kids, and stepparents don’t have as much of a block there.
Yeah, this doesn’t bode well for the long-term prospects of this family.
Wonder if the hitman will ever drop in on these guys and TRULY give them a Christmas to complain about for years to come… given that they would actually survive the encounter.
what started as possibly my best Christmas, quickly turned into my worst. i was 7 years old and had last seen my father when i was 3. i could barely remember him but on Christmas day when i ran down stairs with my mother my father popped out from behind a couch and shouted “Merry Christmas” i rushed over to hug him not noticing my mother rushing to the phone. apparently he was very drunk, broke a restraining order…and also a window….to get into her house. so not long after seeing my father for the 1st time that i can remember…he was arrested. good times…
On step-parents: My mom divorced my dad, breaking his heart. I was VERY happy to discover he’d eventually remarried. My stepmother loved him til the day he died, probably still does. My biological parents are both dead; she’s still alive, and if/when she finds someone else to love, I wil be happy for her.
tl;dr: My stepmother is my favourite parent.
On worst Christmas ever: if the worst Christmas ever was that you were disappointed because something was almost perfect, but just not quite, that is STILL your worst Christmas ever. Same deal for nonChristmas days. Comparing them with those of others, doesn’t invalidate them, though it invites people to feel it does. It’s also generally depressing talk.
tl;dr: Your worst Christmas is still YOUR worst Christmas. Comparing to others is silly.
Uh, is this as bad as it gets in their world? Not exactly an episode of The Wire.
These aren’t bad stories exactly. And they give insight into the characters which, if I can keep it straight for long enough, could come in handy later on. Buuut I have to admit that after reading some of the stories told in the comment sections of the first page of the characters “challenge” they just pale by comparison to a great degree.