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!
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.
Sunshine Boy
Moosopp
New-kid Kelly is sweet but naive. Luckily, he's got his outgoing neighbor Grey in his corner.
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.
No End
Erli, Kromi
A queer romance about people attempting to build lives in a cold, post-apocalyptic world ravaged by hordes of undead.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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!
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!
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?
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.
Goblins
Ellipsis
A fantasy RPG as told through the eyes of the low-level monsters.
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!
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.
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.)
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!
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.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.
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...
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.
Anacrine Complex
Sae Cotton
A superhuman heist involving probably too many pigeons than entirely necessary.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
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.
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.
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?
Demon Studies
Miyuli
Four students summon and study potentially dangerous demons within the walls of the mysterious Summerland University.
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.
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.
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...
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Far to the North
Allison Shaw
Kelu turns to the monsters of her remote mountain home when her family is held hostage by outsiders.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.
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.
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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Discussion (28) ¬
I just noticed that he seems to have named one of his axes after his brain.
Oh no, they are named after two entirely different things
*groan* Two puns in the span of two panels. Who could axe for any more pun-ishment?
I see what you did there ;) and i approve of it! ^^
sir that just wasn’t even punny
Official rules of the pun game : If you use the term “pun-ishment”, you lose the pun game forever.
… FOREVER.
Seriously. It is THE lowest pun. The lowest.
Umm . . .
I believe that you just used that term yourself . . .
Even if it was in quotation marks . . . I’m afuraid you lose furever by default.
. . . it’s an unspoken rule fur a reason, ya know? : o
Can’t be. It counters the spoken rule that discussing something is not the same as using it.
You don’t lose, just gotta spend a round in the punalty box.
And so the punning that plagues this comic begins.
Ah, yes, the station of origin for the comments pun train. Been a long time since I visited. :-)
So here is where it all began…
Let the third annual Pungeon Master convention commence!
Heehee //w//
The Third Annual Pungeon Master Punvention
Yes I see what you did there.
You bisected two kobolds with your axes, each of which does indeed have an edge… because that is the part that makes them effective.
What you did there besides bisecting kobolds was make a statement that was both true and obvious about axes.
For the record, obvious statements are not the same as puns. Referring to axes as edgy, fire as hot, water as wet, etc… does not qualify as punning, no matter how often said terms are used non-literally in other contexts. They don’t loop back and become clever, they just backspace and become literal.
considering a pun is just playing around with the multiple meanings of a word/phrase, saying that “axes have an edge” would actually be a pun technically, even if you want to go through every page with a pun and claim that it’s not.
They’re hardly “multiple meanings”.
One is derivative of the other.
The very concept of “having an edge” comes from precisely this sort of situation in the first place.
It isn’t a pun. It is a rather old turn of phrase being used in exactly the same context for which it was originally intended.
Pun
noun
1. – the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
2. – the word or phrase used in this way.
In case anyone feels the need to work with this.
Umm —
I liked, how he used the words, and it was funny! : o
(#punny Byron)
Exactly my point. They weren’t different meanings. They were the same meaning.
First straightforward meaning:
The sharpened side of the blade of a cutting implement or weapon.
Second more subtle (not by much due to constant use) meaning:
To have an advantage (over someone or something else)
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And the second meaning probably comes from the idea of a measurement based on the width of the original cutting edge (to edge forward means to creep forward slowly in small increments) rather than specifically the cutting edge itself. The two ideas have evolved apart enough to be considered separate meanings no matter their related origins.
So again it is more of a double entendre than one of the common types of pun. So everybody in this thread of comments and the author above is probably wrong in some technical sense based on the old understandings but the age of the internet seems to be an age where dictionaries change on the will of the mob at the drop of a hat so if everybody (not just the readers but the favored writers of our age apparently [looking at you Phil]) believes a double entendre and a pun are the same thing then very soon now it will be. It wouldn’t surprise me if there aren’t some online dictionaries to support this already.
Yet another reason why it is increasingly pointless to argue the meanings of words once enough people AND the author weighs in. Cause if the mob is not technically right today then they will be a few weeks or months from now. (then multiply that by how many english speaking countries are now all in the mix together cause: internet… ) But I grew up with an ancient granny who would only use a dictionary half as old as she was when I was a kid, a long time back, so I understand the pain of not wanting to tolerate languages shifting at rates faster than they ever did before. But this once you can take solace in the fact that you are not only wrong by current understanding of the word but by the old understanding as well. (though your original statement that it wasn’t a pun has partial merit though not for the reasons you state) And hey everybody else including the author is wrong too, by old definitions anyway, so you are in good company. ;)
This isn’t so long cause I am picking on you by the way. (or not just because… I mean I’m only human. *shrugs* ^_^’ ) Its so long cause 1) I write too much. (don’t have the true author’s knack of getting the same meaning across with minimal words) and 2) You REALLY seem to care about this subject. Even if you are mostly messing with folk for kicks I get the vibe that you care at least a little about what a pun really is and what it isn’t.
The person cares probably in the same way that anyone who keeps pointing out that Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic” isn’t.
And the same way *I* care about “your/you’re”, ‘its/it’s” and “The rouge stole the gem!”
I see the love for puns in this comic starts all the way back at page #12! God damn i love reading the comments section because of this
I am re-reading this whole comic…’cuz it is totally worth it…and I find out that Byron started the pun battles? I didn’t think it could get any more meta than it already is, but I’m glad the peanut gallery ran with the concept. It is one of the reasons I actually read the comments on this site.
That said, I think SotiCoto is really splitting hairs here, but maybe he’s just trying to be edgy.
You know what’s good to use fur splitting hairs?
Axes. : 3
Poor kobolds
Having insane inner monologues like a true sociopath …i like this guy already! ^^