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!
Goblins
Ellipsis
A fantasy RPG as told through the eyes of the low-level monsters.
The Lonely Vincent Bellingham
Diana Huh
Vincent is an unkind man looking to disappear, and finds himself in the care of a vampire and her two wicked children.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Drugs & Wires
Mary Safro, Io Black
Dan used to be a VR operator until his brain got fried by malware. Now he's stuck delivering packages in a post-Soviet hellhole all while trying to adjust to his new life and find some answers.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Clockwork
Chikuto
Cog Kleinschmidt is a diligent, quiet worker at the Mercia Fortress, the world power's leading stronghold. His orderly life is thrown into chaos when an enemy kingdom sends a diplomat for peace talks. This diplomat needs something from Cog - whether he agrees to their terms or not!
Paint the Town Red
Windy, Winter Jay Kiakas
Winona runs a werewolf shelter with partner in crime, Odile in the Gothic city of Merlot. One day they take in an injured vampire, and soon unravels many of the dark secrets of Merlot.
Between Failures
Jackie Wohlenhaus
The low stakes adventures of an assorted group of 20 somethings trapped in the declining years of American retail. They are naughty and say lots of swears.
Anacrine Complex
Sae Cotton
A superhuman heist involving probably too many pigeons than entirely necessary.
Lunar Blight
Studio CARTRIDGE, Laura Lee
Lunar Blight is a gothic horror story about an elite knight serving a moon cult who must choose between upholding his honoured duty or condemning everything he’s grown to know.
Killjoys
Flatw00ds
When two disgraced ex-feds fall backwards into trouble with the clown mafia, getting out in one piece is gonna be no joke!
KISMET
Jaki King
As interplanetary war threatens the Perseid system, a scientist ventures to the far reaches of space in her search for the truth: is humanity the master of its own fate, or is destiny truly inescapable?
Folklore
Adam Ma, Colin Tan Wei
A superhuman horror story focused on a small band of survivors trying to navigate a war-torn world in the aftermath of the Federation’s collapse.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Demon's Mirror
Harry Bogosian
Based loosely off of "The Snow Queen", a story by Hans Christian Andersen, we see things take a different turn as the demons become central characters, and the side characters stick around. Yup, that's the only differences. Enjoy!
Hazy London
Scotty
A story about messy relationships. From friendly foes to crazy families. Nothing is black and white, just full of color. But, all colors can get a little hazy...
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Solstoria
Angelica Maria
After her brother goes missing, Samantha vows to become a Knight and help those around her in the Kingdom of St. Helena.
Patrik the Vampire
Bree Paulsen
Patrik loves to knit, bake, and help his friends while dealing with his own demons... like his thirst for blood because, oh yeah--he's a vampire.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Countdown to Countdown
Velinxi
Iris Black is a self-proclaimed inventor with the curious ability to bring his drawings to life, and yearns to find a space where he can use his powers freely.
Shaderunners
Alex Assan, Lin Darrow
A ragtag band of bootleggers open a speakeasy for bottled colour in the greyscale city of Ironwell.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.
Wychwood
Varethane
When Tiara's pyrokinesis is finally noticed, she is captured by a magical research organization for study. If she cooperates, she could be helping to save humanity from a dire threat - but can she trust them?
Girl Genius
Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, Mad Science rules the World...with mixed success.
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!
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.
Heart of Gold
Eliot Baum, Viv Tanner
A pianist with failing eyesight seeks out a priest with a miraculous healing touch, drawing him deeper into a world of miracles and curses.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
The Otherknown
Lorian Merriman
Chandra is a 12-year-old accidental time traveler with a reluctant new dad, who happens to be a member of a feared galactic crime syndicate.
No End
Erli, Kromi
A queer romance about people attempting to build lives in a cold, post-apocalyptic world ravaged by hordes of undead.
Tove
Severin
The end of the world is coming, and Tove doesn't want to be a hero, but SOMEONE has to look after her little brother.
Spinnerette
Krazy Krow, Rocio Zucchi, Pablo Rey
When a lab accident gives Heather Brown spider powers and six arms, she does what any midwest comic geek would do: Become Ohio's #3 superhero!
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.
Fairmeadow
Kendra P. / KP
A wayward soldier finds herself in a pacifist commune deep in the wilderness of a war-weary land. Living in isolation brings her closer to those she was sworn to kill than she could ever imagine - but also threatens to tear the place apart.
Monster Pulse
Magnolia Porter Siddell
Four kids run afoul of a creepy secret organization's experiments, which turn their body parts into fighting monsters. Part sentimental coming-of-age story, part monster-training shonen manga, with just a bit of sci-fi body horror.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Come Hell or High Water
Jenny/Star, Mori
Prince Gladimir was never meant to fall for a pirate. Swearing off love for duty, the threat of war propels him back into the Captain’s world of high seas and high stakes. Their relationship could be the thing to save the kingdom of Yvoire - or destroy it.
Obelisk
Ashley McCammon
In 1908 New York, a young woman struggles to put her life back together in the wake of her father's death - until she discovers a vampire in the shambles of her inheritance.
Sunshine Boy
Moosopp
New-kid Kelly is sweet but naive. Luckily, he's got his outgoing neighbor Grey in his corner.
The Witch Door
Anni K.
Katariina Lehto discovers her neighbor is a witch called Jousia Muotka. Jousia introduces Katariina to the strange people and places beyond the witch door...
Far to the North
Allison Shaw
Kelu turns to the monsters of her remote mountain home when her family is held hostage by outsiders.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Sam & Fuzzy
Sam Logan
Troubled by gangster rodents, lovesick vampire stalkers, or confused ninja assassins? Don't panic! Sam and Fuzzy are here to help. (For a reasonable fee.)
Go Get a Roomie
Clover
Experience the queer journey of an upbeat hippie and the friendships she makes along the way! A tale of self-discovery and love of many forms.
MASKLESS
kickingshoes
In a world where people can wield the magic of elemental Masks, all Ashe wants to do is help. Maskless and useless, with dreams of fire and smoke on the back of his tongue, he finds himself on a strange, dangerous path to uncovering the secrets of these incredible objects, and the source of the monsters plaguing his home.
2 Slices
RJ Morel
After a case of mistaken identity, will awkward Daisuke find help from excitable Mamo, or will his love life be thrown completely off track?
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Demon Studies
Miyuli
Four students summon and study potentially dangerous demons within the walls of the mysterious Summerland University.
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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What, no achievement?
I think she’s got a faint glimmer of a smile in the last panel. I’d call that an achievement.
They forgot to log in before completing the mission.
They will have to do it over again next year.
Made this just for this comment. xD
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I’m sorry. I’ve been playing MMOs since I was in highschool. Hell, I’ve been roleplaying (first on forums, then later in MMOs) since I was old enough to realize I could lie about my age to get onto the neopets forums. I just can’t fathom any group of people being this obsessed with an online game. It’s actually kind of creepy.
Man, YOU’RE kinda creepy.
Maybe, but also remember magic.
It’s less ‘We’re just MMO buddies’ and more ‘We met each other through an MMO, and now we’re all really good pals’. People doing things like dropping a few bucks here and there to commission artwork and such really isn’t that rare when you’re dealing with roleplayers, and these guys seem to just be using any reason as an excuse to hang out together.
And, like they keep reminding us, Rachel was eight months old. That’s almost a year of getting to know each other, $120 if subscription fees, and suchlike. Some people won’t make connections that easily. These four are the kind that do.
I think they might really have become close real life buddies, since they seem quite comfortable to use each others real life names.
I’m with my WoW guild since early 2008, and while my best friend within the guild and me are using our real life names when communicating, with the others it just feels somewhat strange not to use the character names I use every day on voice chat, even when meeting them in real life. :)
I’m not saying them being friends is creepy. I’m saying them mourning a lost character as if someone had legitimately died is the weird thing.
The level of role playing they seem to be participating in is not like me jumping on my druid to blast a few when I’m bored. They actually invested a piece of their soul into creating a fully fleshed out person with a history, friends (old friends, new friends, lost friends) family, ideals and goals that have changed over time as they learned more about how the world works and their place in it.
I’d of been a little sad if someone took that silly druid from me before I was done with them and I never roleplayed out the little story I had for them in my head during the creation process even a little. If she invested infinitely more into her nun and was apparently using her to work out some old issues I could definitely see the huge loss that would be.
As far as commitment it would probably feel like the creators of this comic would feel if I could somehow erase one of the main characters from existence on these pages and prevent them from ever using that exact character again or completing their part of the story. Sure they could fill the gap with a different character or just bulk up the other’s roles but I bet suddenly waking up to it would bring at least one of them close to tears…
She was like a writer. Rachel was her opus. And somebody came by in the night and burned all her copies of it.
You’ve never mourned a permanently lost character?
You freak!
I think you’re lying. Not about not being able to fathom it. About having done that stuff. Nerds are obsessed by definition or they aren’t nerds.
I’ve met alot of real life friends thru playing various MMOs. I see no obsession involved with talking about a game you enjoy with your friends. I’m sure you know people who do *nothing* but talk endlessly about sports & sports stats with their friends. Its the same drive aimed in a different direction. And at the end of it all;being pissed with a character being deleted is something I’d talk about endlessly.
Please don’t read more into what I said than exactly what I said. A nerd is a nerd. You want the best of both worlds, but you can’t have it both ways. Don’t get defensive about the mere existence of nerds. I am a nerd. The most typical type of nerd who likes orcs and warriors and wizards. Or maybe the better word is geek, but only a nerd cares about the semantics of nerds and geeks anyway.
Someone who is an actual veteran roleplayer, and ergo, a nerd, one of the most typical sorts of nerds, would understand caring about the loss of character and being enthralled by a fantasy story.
I call bullshit. Someone who has “been playing MMOs since I was in highschool” and “been roleplaying (first on forums, then later in MMOs) since I was old enough to realize I could lie about my age to get onto the neopets forums” and then follows it with “making friends with fellow players and being upset that their character was deleted is creepy” is clearly bullshitting.
It’s like someone saying, “I’m sorry. I’ve been playing football since highschool, I got into a team in college, and I’ve been kicking around a ball since I was old enough to stand” then following that with “and I can’t fathom anyone making strong friendships with others through football or being upset when their football signed by [insert famous athlete] was destroyed. It’s actually kind of creepy.”
“guest” just has some asinine opinion about nerds and tries to legitimize it by pretending he is one.
These are roleplay buddies, and Rachel was the medium through which their friendship took shape. Frankly, the idea that someone would find this ‘creepy’ honestly sounds pretty heartless and cold to me.
As an RP writer with role play buddies, true facts; I get cookies in the mail and gifts on Christmas. When you’ve told several hundred pages of story or more with someone and spent countless hours story boarding and the like, you tend to make some friendships that last outside the game.
…No clue how it works in MMO RPs, but I’d imagine it to be similar.
How dare these losers make friends with each other! They are supposed to be in their mother’s basements or at the very least grumbling unhappy under a bridge somewhere!
I don’t know about gaming but I’m a member of a professional IT site, TechRepublic. Due to site changes the membership has deteriorated, but at one point the members were as close as any group could be. Births, deaths, weddings, divorces, promotions and firings were celebrated or condemned as appropriate by hundreds of active users. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the site, the staff organized a member meet-up. Between 30 and 35 of us made the trip to Louisville, KY, some from as far away as the British Isles.
In short, this is easy to believe.
Yes, this is nothing out of the ordinary. Either the OP doesn’t care about the people he plays with, or he never actually played an MMO.
These are the relationships that keep WoW going on… and on… and on….
Obviously, you have never played WoW… (:P)
It could be part of a spell… the more people that think this place is “real” or care about it, the stronger the spell becomes, and the quest for godhood becomes that much more easier.
Achievement: A Guilded Axemas!
“I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of the imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not -”
John Keats
avatar win:)
Quote win! :D
BTW, there is a tagging error: Instead of “Chrissie” it says “Chrisse”.
It’s not an error, it’s the opening stages of a metamorphosis. In a week’s time she’ll be tagged as “Christ”.
I would not oppose this development.
I am not sure why, possibly just some vague facial similarities, but the last panel made me think of Peggy Hill.
I like to think there might be something deeper than just that but I cannot seem to find the words or reasoning for it.
It’s that smile. Peggy has that same smile.
I think it would be nice to put in a link to the page in which we see the people next to their avatars. Rachel is obvious, and Emrl looks like his avatar (sort of) and i think i know who Scipio because i’m pretty sure his was fairly ironic.
And as they are using their RL names its hard to place em ;)
I believe Chrissie is Bandit, Daniel is E-Merl, and Kaye is Scipio.
Wait. Is Sundar a bot? He’s in that last fight.
I’m eager to see how it is explained that, when they log back in, Frigg and Co. are all talking about defeating some huge beast and these guys are all “huh?”. Also, Wav. No one here (outside of the game) mentioned that his character is an oddity, so I’m wondering if all their interactions so far really have been limited to when the players are asleep?… But it doesn’t seem right that ALL of them would be because it’s not like Scip’s player and Fr’nj being in a relationship only while Scip is offline is new to the player.
I guess what I’m confused about is: are they all going to log back in and wonder who the heck this Wav guy is or are they going to continue on without ever having known he or the beast existed? The players have to become aware of all this extra stuff going on sooner or later, right?
The only one who was present for that fight was Rachel, so probably less ‘huh?’ and more ‘you RP’d her “death” without her permission? That’s cold, dude’.
Soooo we can buy those in the GA store, right? Cause I want one.
omgitsproductplacement :[
It´s always nice if guild chat leads to real friendships.
Not that I would ever have experienced such a thing.
But then, I´m no pro gamer.
I’m not a pro gamer. I’m just a gamer. And yes, this can happen. ;)
original creation phhht, looks like Daniel got the idea from your archive button, he must read this comic too
Oh that’s effing brilliant, I didn’t even notice! :D
But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on
darn these onions…
So I will follow you wherever you go
If your offered hand is still open to me
Strangers on this road we are on
We are not two we are one
This “or whatever”… it kills me. I want to hug them all.
So, a bit late, but…
My money says Moustache will arrive at Kaye’s place, then be a butt in such a matter that he’ll use the gift Kaye wants sent to learn Lia’s address.
Cut to Rachel, surrounded by the thumping pulsing chambers of Lia’s heart