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!
Heroes of Thantopolis
Izzy Strontium Hall
A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.
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?
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.
The Messenger
indui
In a ruin-abound town cursed with bad luck, Kai and Kalla--a young boy and a fledgling dragonbird spirit--take on a quest in hopes the reward will solve all of their problems.
Three Panel Soul
Matt Boyd, Ian McConville
It's a pretty rigid format but we keep the content loose, you know?
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Peritale
Mari Costa
A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.
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.
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.
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.
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
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Angel's Orchard
Harry Bogosian
After the events in Demon's Mirror, Gerda has accepted her role as a Demon Hunter, and Cezar has traveled back to the Demon City. Demons have existed alongside humans for millennia, so things begin to return to normal. But an impossibly powerful Relic has been taken by one of the Demon Masters, and a silent war enters its final stages.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
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.
Monster's Garden
Ash G.
Champion pit fighter Kilo Monster was content to spend the rest of his days tending to his quiet garden alone... until he met a curious robot girl and her human family.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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! ^^