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!
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.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Goblins
Ellipsis
A fantasy RPG as told through the eyes of the low-level monsters.
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.
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!
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
Demon Studies
Miyuli
Four students summon and study potentially dangerous demons within the walls of the mysterious Summerland University.
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...
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.
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?
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.
Sunshine Boy
Moosopp
New-kid Kelly is sweet but naive. Luckily, he's got his outgoing neighbor Grey in his corner.
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.
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.
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.
Anacrine Complex
Sae Cotton
A superhuman heist involving probably too many pigeons than entirely necessary.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.
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.
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.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
No End
Erli, Kromi
A queer romance about people attempting to build lives in a cold, post-apocalyptic world ravaged by hordes of undead.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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!
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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?
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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.
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.
Far to the North
Allison Shaw
Kelu turns to the monsters of her remote mountain home when her family is held hostage by outsiders.
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.
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?
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.)
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.
Shaderunners
Alex Assan, Lin Darrow
A ragtag band of bootleggers open a speakeasy for bottled colour in the greyscale city of Ironwell.
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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No sugar-coating things here, huh?
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I’m pretty sure “tried to” is the sugar-coating part.
Sugar may be maybe a crystalline structure, but it’s plant origins are nott solid enough to build on… and it tends to erode rather quickly.
Well, yeah…In its most natural form, sugar is pretty sappy.
Most sugar is made from the sap of Sugar Cane or Sugar Beets: http://www.sucrose.com/lref.html
Sugar-coating? Useless. Counter-productive. At least, that’s how I see it in many, many cases. Maybe even most.
YES FINALLY!!!
“It was a very toxic relationship.”
Iver’s not a tyrant? So why do you all have to eat without utensils?
Who ever heard of “Slicing bread with the enemy?”
pretty sure if you are eating with the enemy, it’s hands only; all the utensils are hidden away for safety;)
“In fact, he DID kill me. I got better.”
“Now that I think of it, should I really be drinking this?”
He turned me into a corpse!
A corpse?
…
i got better.
BURN HIM!
How do you know he’s a corpse?
If he had planted some acorns on your grave, he could have turned you into a copse.
If you want all remorse, take your body to a corpse.
A bunch of well-maintained sod, and he could have turned you into a course.
No he didn’t! You were just resting!
I got better
Well, maybe you were just pining for the fjords?
Now that that piece of information is on the table, how is Magda going to take it? Surely she’s been wondering why her dear uncle hasn’t contacted her in months. Now I guess it’s going to come down to whether she trusts Gravedust more than she trusts Iver.
What she said is still true though. Ivar killed the Mystics to make those things true. Leading your people on the path to damnation definitely warrants death.
The question to me, is whether Ivar or the Mystics were right. Pacifism is the ideology of suicide. I can’t say much more since we don’t know enough about the Mystics (or I just forget), but so far I see nothing definitive to indicate Ivar is bad and Gravedust is good.
Gravedust may be good. Gravedust may also be bad through stupidity (as the story does show us enough to indicate he is not malevolent in nature and therefore would not be bad on purpose). Ivar may be bad. Ivar may also be good and just know how to achieve greater goods.
This isn’t World of Warcraft as we know it. The Gastoanian humans (are there other kinds?) are pretty awful. We’ve all killed people for less in RPGs, based on some flimsy notions given to us by green people with yellow exclamation marks over their heads.
I suspect the writers wish to write Ivar as evil, and the world doesn’t exist until they create it, of course, but I wonder if Ivar really is evil, and I can easily imagine that he is not. And that Gravedust is at best a fool or at worst a villain.
I can’t really see a scenario where Gravedust is either a fool or a villain. He’s obviously not a villain. He has a well developed moral code which most people would agree with which he follows scrupulously. He’s been shown repeatedly to be brave, loyal to his comrades, and strongly inclined to protect the weak. Pretty definitively a heroic character.
As for being a fool… Doesn’t look like it to me. He is very aware that his people have no good options available, and is trying to find the least bad path. He may turn out to have been wrong, but he’s facing some very difficult issues.
Ivar, on the other hand, has been shown to be murderous, cruel, scheming, and untrustworthy. He may also turn out to be an effective leader for his people, but that seems like it would be almost incidental.
Would also like to point out the look of disgust on Ivar’s face when a certain troll and avian were seen holding hands…
The possibility of flying trolls disgusts me too.
Okay yeah, the straight up old school bigotry is also a factor. I was giving it a bit of a pass because I don’t think Gravedust’s position on the issue has ever come up, but it definitely doesn’t make Ivar a more sympathetic character.
And that’s why Ivar is going to die.
Is Gastonia rotten to the core? Certainly this is so.
That doesn’t mean the Savasi rulers aren’t as well. They are. We’ve been shown the workings of Ivar and his cronies.
We’ve also seen the genocidal history of the Gnolls. The slaver culture of the World’s Rebellion as a whole. We’ve seen HAMMERHEAD refusing to consider anything but slaughter, even in the face of a greater enemy.
Gastonia stinks, but the Rebellion smells strongly of garbage, too.
Both factions need a good wash and a restart from the ground up.
Unfortunately, it looks like it’s going to come at the hands of the Cultists and HR, rather than from within, but…whatever does the trick.
I’m thinking that the best case scenario is going to be the champions on both sides joining forces to try to take out the Cultists and drag their respective cultures to the table. And if they refuse, maybe we’ll see Fightopia v. 2.0
Given that they’re just barely keeping the tides of battle in the Rebellion’s favor now, if they allied with Gastonia instead they’d have tilted the battle so far in their favor that I’m pretty sure they’d be even better off. Maybe even getting their old lands back in exchange for taking troll lands or whatever. And trolls can probably use volcano magic to make new land out in the ocean or something.
The thing that sells this is your name is Garithos.
The only good non-human is a DEAD non-human.
Pacifism isn’t the ideology of suicide. Some who have sought peace have been murdered, but a) the responsibility for those murders rests with the murderer, not the murdered, and b) by the numbers most people, beings, and cultures who seek peace just plain succeed at living peaceful lives; Your view that pacifism is somehow a bad plan is biased by a few prominent stories.
And in the case of several of the most prominent stories, the pacifist’s ideals won out even when the pacifist died. As a notable NON-pacifist put it: Ideas, Mr. Creedy, are bulletproof.
+1
It depends on what you mean by “pacifism.”
“I refuse to be the first to resort to violence” is viable, and is the foundation of most societies.
“I refuse to *ever* resort to violence” is not particularly viable. While it’s not the “ideology of suicide” per-se, absent other factors it will result in the individuals who practice it being killed and enslaved (not necessarily in that order) by the first group to come along who doesn’t mind initiating the use of violence.
When you think you’ve found a group that subscribes to the latter living perfectly peacefully with no outside interference, examine it closely. In most cases you will find that the group in question relies on another group (e.g. the police) who are ready, willing, and able to dispense violence to protect the peaceful people. (In many cases this erodes over the course of generations until it becomes the violence-capable group enslaving the pacifist group, just without the pacifist group realising it.)
The second model of pacifism only ever “wins” because the first model of pacifism is the best way so far devised to run a society and results in the best standard of living for everyone, and it’s occasionally possible to convince those who are inclined to violence that it’s the best way to get what they want. (Which it is, but primitive primate social instincts are hard for some people to overcome.)
“Why hate on the guy, he’s not a jerk or anything”
“Ok but he did kill a bunch of people, I mean that’s totally a thing that happened”
Well, ok, but he did it for the greater good. No offence meant. Speaking of which, let´s jump from the nearest cliff.
Did he though? I mean, he might honestly believe his actions are for the best, but did he do them for his people, or for himself?
I think a big tipping point is the mystics here. As Gravedust said, all signs pointed to war back in the day as well. Why specifically did all the Mystics need to die? Because “Too many of our people still listened to them”. That’s generally not the actions of the good guy, “well, they might ruin that whole war thing I’ve got planned, so instead of seeing if I can convince everybody otherwise better just be the only opinion.”
You must die so I can live?
Gravedust: *mic drop*
Truth Hurts, a lot, in fact it practically kills.
“…… Like ONE time!”
“…but the did build a lot of Autobahns!”
(I can say that, I’m German)
“Not everything is bad under his rule”
…
I should not say that, I´m German
:-)
Wir lieben es die Moralkeule zu schwingen.
For a split second, I read Gravedust’s reply as “I’ve killed your uncle” and I was like “Mmnooo, I’m pretty sure that’s not what happened?” ^_^
You’re not the only one, regarding “I’ve killed your uncle”. Did your brain, too, then go “…prepare to die”?
No, but that takes my brain in a new direction:
“My name is Inigo Montoya. I killed your father. Prepare to die.”
“…My father isn’t deadAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!”
“Also, he killed your dog.”
“and he flushed your goldfish”
“Even though the fish was still alive prior to the flush”