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!
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.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Elephant Town
Danielle Corsetto
The long, slow tale of Kris, Paul, Berto and Mirando, four people who live in the same creaky old house, but don't know each other. New chapter updates every 2 months.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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!
The Mash
L.F. Garcia, Danigami
In a world shrouded in mystery and threatened by great evil,a young mummy prince will use his new life to unite with other monster children to save it.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
The Hunter of Insania
Aoi Maneki
Wiol Alkko sells fake magical objects to those desperate for cures. When he tries to scam a real witch, she curses him: within a year, Wiol must learn and respect magic, or succumb to corruption of body and mind.
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.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
Demon Street
Aliza Layne
Two kids explore a world full of monsters and magic trying to find their way home again. But when home has been stolen from you, where do you go to get it back?
Awkward Zombie
Katie Tiedrich
Gags and goofs about videogames and the things that happen in them.
Heroes of Thantopolis
Izzy Strontium Hall
A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Kelly Turnbull
A weekly comic celebrating the finer things in life. Like manly men, lumberjacks, and time traveling special ops agents.
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.
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.
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.
Peritale
Mari Costa
A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.
The Glass Scientists
Sage (S.H.) Cotugno
A gaslamp fantasy comic about the life and times of a ragtag group of mad scientists and their enigmatic leader, Dr. Henry Jekyll.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
The Din
Karin (Karrey)
The Din changed the world, mankind & its technology. Gregg Emilio dreams of flying in a sky that hasn't carried airplanes in a century.
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!
Jailbird
Charlie Davis
An all-ages comic about a recently escaped prisoner's struggle to understand the outside world, and vice-versa. Also, a magic cape!
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.)
Ghost Junk Sickness
Studio CARTRIDGE, Laura Lee
Two hunters try to survive and end up being pushed to pursue a deadly bounty dubbed "The Ghost".
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.
Laws and Sausages
Zach Weinersmith
Your cartoon guide to the American governement!
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!
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Devil's Candy
Rem, Bikkuri
A lush fantasy about boy genius Kazu Decker, the girl he constructed for his 9th grade science project, and the world of devils and monsters they live in.
No Need for Bushido
Suburban Samurai, J W Kovell
The flash of a blade, the clash of steel! A runaway princess and her samurai companion navigate a fractured country on the brink of war.
Parisa
Ellen K
Two friends, Nolan and Gwen, take it upon themselves to escort the amnesiac spirit Lelief across the world of Parisa.
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.
Witchy
Ariel Slamet Ries
In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your hair.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.
The Sanity Circus
Windy
Magic, monsters and mysteries await in the odd city of Sanity. It's up to Attley and a colorful group of characters to find out just what is going on.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Little Red & Wolf
Aoi Maneki
Delve into the daily lives of two famous fairytale characters, and their adventures in this big weird world we all live in.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Helvetica
J.N. Wiedle
This story follows Helvetica's quest to uncover who he was in life, his existential crises, and his struggle to to make death worth living.
Novae
KaiJu
A historical romance with a touch magic and a dash of astronomy. It chronicles the romantic adventures of Sulvain, a sweet tempered necromancer and Raziol, a passionate 17th century astronomer.
Ozzie the Vampire
Eric Lide
Ozzie and her best friend Kimmy are your average everyday normal art students – except one is an immortal vampire with superpowers and the other possesses a magic talking grimoire. Also they have to save their town from a demonic invasion.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.
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”