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!
Kiwi Blitz
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
Steffi thinks she can use her kiwi mech to become a superhero. This idea turns out to be very stupid.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
Cut Time
Juby
Rel and her trusty avian friend Fugue are on a quest to save a world that's lost track of time. Follow them and their new recruits, in a story written with help from the stars.
Cassiopeia Quinn
Gunwild, Psudonym
A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.
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.)
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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!
Godslave
Meaghan Carter
Edith has been thrown into the dangerous world of modern-day Egyptian mythology. Fighting monsters and dealing with family drama of godly proportions.
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.
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.
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.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
Paranatural
Zack Morrison
Superpowered middle schoolers fight evil spirits in their rural hometown. Come for the jokes, stay for the cast, the creatures, and the mystery that ties them all together!
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.
The End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Bybloemen
C.B. McPherson
An infernal plan to corrupt the small town of Stenen Brug at the height of tulipmania is complicated by a pact made between a talented young merchant and a demon looking to change careers.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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?
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Astral Aves
Moon Cabal
A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.
Love Not Found
Gina Biggs
Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
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...
Star Impact
Jack McGee
A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Bicycle Boy
Jackarais
A cyborg named Poet wakes up in the post-apocalyptic desert with no memory, no limbs, and no idea why he keeps getting punched.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
This is Not Fiction
Nicole Mannino
What do you do when the person you're in-love with is an anonymous romance novelist? Get your best friend to hire your worst enemy for help!
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Monsterkind
Taylor C
Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.
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.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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...
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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".
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Caramel Corn
Potchimew
Sarah is the only human left in a world full of mythical creatures and monsters. All she wants to do is live a quiet life, but everything changes when she meets her guardian angel, Jacob.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
The Automan's Daughter
Mike Stamm
Aisha Osman and her uncle Siddig outwit bikers, spies and kidnappers while gearing up for a showdown with the formidable Widowmaker mecha.
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!
Tiger, Tiger
Petra Nordlund
A young noble lady steals her brother's identity and his ship to find love and adventure, and to write a book about the fascinating life cycle of sea sponges!
Fireweeds Moors
Gato Iberico
A cat-headed man and a girl with a sandwich hankering accidentally end up in a myth-infused country where magic chalices are a really big thing.
Alice and the Nightmare
Misha Krivanek
Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.
Widdershins
Kate Ashwin
A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!
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.
Phantomarine
Claire K. Niebergall
A ghostly princess must sail across a haunted sea to save her soul from a devious, shapeshifting death god known as the Red Tide King.
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!
Kochab
Sarah Webb
A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.
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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They are used strictly as an artistic choice for the set dressing of the comic.
They are used strictly as an artistic choice for the set dressing of the comic.
how is a minor cut and near organ failure the same?
Gravedust is a PC.
I dunno. That looks like a fairly deep cut in a particularly important organ for an archer like Gravy.
Yeah, disabled arm versus disabled stomach – for combat specialists it’s basically equal.
It’s just a difference of magnitude. No one cares about that, right?
Meh, I think “near organ failure” is a bit of hyperbole.
Anyway, it’s more of a “I hit you, you hit me, we’re even” sort of thing than a “whose grief-penis is bigger” sort of thing.
“Grief-penis” conjures disturbing imagery.
Yet excellently wrought nonetheless and perfectly in keeping with Valdrax avatar; it absolutely sounds like something Frig would say.
“Grief-penis”, heh, classy.
Would “phallus of sorrow” be more appropriate?
Misery cock.
miser-ection?
Misdirection.
Missed erection.
Though, that might be more penis-grief than grief-penis.
Hmmm..think Gravedust made a friend. Least she left a mark on him their first encounter
I get the joke, but I wonder if the writer’s regret the yardstick-swords. It wasn’t particularly funny to begin with, and sometimes a lame joke sticks around far longer than you expect it to.
It’s to so we could tell she was one of ‘those’ nuns before she said anything. It also shows whats left of the order has changed after Frigg and crew burned their club house down.
Anyway, it’s a quirky weapon that identifies her. Even if at some point is ceases to be funny, it doesn’t detract from the story, so why bother to change it?
Weaponized rulers are a bit too far on the silly scale for me to take this character seriously, yet here she is having a serious conversation. The dissonance is detracting from my story experience, anyway.
Best’s axe was an electric guitar.
Would be cool if the rulers had a special button that unsheathes the blade (which would normally be retracted) so they can be used as a traditional disciplinary tool during peace or as a weapon when need be. Plus it would have that cool switch-blade effect.
I’ve been saying “cool” too much, that’s not cool.
You’ve been saying many things too much. “Cool” isn’t even in the top 20.
Byron has axes on his *shoulders.*
Run with the rule of cool, man.
Reality is a ruler of thumb around here. Nun of this is to be taken seriously
Indeed. Taking this seriously would be a Grave mistake, and there might be a Dust-up.
in japan, they weaponize umbrellas. An edged ruler isn’t nearly as silly.
We do that here in America, too. Penguin, anyone?
And heaven help you if you even think about tangling with Mary Poppins.
Genis proved to us years ago that the ultimate weapon is in fact the handpainted wooden ball in a cup.
*Bop* INDIGNATION!!!
The Bulgarian Secret Service weaponized an umbrella, and it was anything but silly. They used it to shoot a tiny, ricin filled pellet into the leg of Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov, on a London street. He died four days later.
The weaponized yardstick is probably a lot more believable for old people, like me. We remember when getting spanked with a yardstick wasn’t child abuse.
Once, when my Mom was spanking me with one, it broke into 3 pieces. I remember laughing and crying at the same time.
I actually love the ruler swords.
i second that! i mean it was funny at first, then it wasn’t. but i still smirk every time i see one.
They are necessary to meter out justice. (Inchustice will not be tolerated.)
Cool backstory sis
Love the ruler-swords.
I was about to say the same thing. The Ruler-swords are awesome.
Indeed. They rule with such power one might say that no other weapon can measure up!
Now, now, nun of that!
Sorry, bad habit. *rimshot*
Terrible nun-puns are becoming too conventional around here.
Any more of this and they’ll reach the same echelons as the whole ask-to-axe fiasco.
So a cut on the arm is equivalent to punching someone in the stomach hard enough to screw up their innards.
Wonder what the equivalent of cutting off a finger is.
Keep in mind she was probably trying to chop that arm off completely. Also, she’s giving ‘Dust props for being the tougher fighter in the brawl.
Or two fingers and an ear…
Oh, they’re totally square for that. Harki got prevenge for those extremities with a good chest-impale.
…at which point Byron and Harki had the ultimate male bonding experience.
Wow, I just (over)interpreted some Alien-esque sexual imagery from that. Apologies in advance because it’s probably not what you meant, but Harki penetrated Byron and Byron penetrated Harki in return. ::shudder::
To my shame, I confess my brain went there too. They shared a wood shaft.
In my defense, my brain went there after I wrote it. This was not premeditated smut.
You have an auto-smut function? Awesome!
Is there anyone who doesn’t?
pfft! yes. i find those people to be strange and indecent…
Oi.
I resemble that remark.
So, I wonder if she has heard the same voice Frigg has?
The insignia on her sleeve, is it a heart supported by cupped hands or being uplifted on wings?
Because I can see both, and both make sense.
Or it could be, and this is a long shot, a heart sprouting two upside-down alligators.
It’s actually just a stylized moose.
But, I mean, those were some good guesses.
Neither. It looks like the heart has the hands reaching out from it. If they were wings, the heart’d be upside down and the odd gap in the feathers would mean that it couldn’t fly.
Almost reminds me of the Claddagh, but the hands turned outward instead of holding.
I’m liking the Sisters of Battle-esque semi ecclesiastical phrases she shouts while fighting
The Heretic and Blasphemer can offer no excuse for their crimes. Those who are pardoned merely live to further shroud Humanity from the Light of the Emperor with the Darkness of their souls
I look at your icon and I can’t help but think…
“Heeeeere’s Johnny!”
…Well, now we know where the ‘Deserthammer’ part of his name comes from. Punching someone so hard that they can’t eat for a full day after? Damn. Though I do like the fact that the authors realize that, well. Archers aren’t just sissies if you take their bows away. Bows have a surprising amount of draw weight to them. If you’ve ever practiced archery, you know what I’m talking about.
This explains why she fangasm’d over Frigg so strongly, though, if she’s following her example.
I saw their exchange like this:
*Rachel activates Pious Defense*
“You were in Bloodshot Eye PVP?”
“Um yeah, other side lol.”
“Nice crit you got.”
“You had crazy unarmed.”
*Gravedust Deserthammer has sent a friend invite.*
*Rachel has accepted.*
Gee, I’m sorry. ;)
I used to be a competitive archer when I was in high school. The recurve I shot had a draw weight of 55lbs. To get an idea what that’s like bend at the waist and grab a full bag of concrete one-handed, pull your arm back to lift the bag and hold it in the air for 10 seconds without support. You get a handle, but it’s a 1/4″ piece of string and you have to hook it around your first two fingers.
I’m reminded of the SCA guy: “Kids, if you think you’re ready to be a knight, try this: Take a pair of phone books, one in each hand. Now clap them together for five minutes without stopping.”
but while you do that put on all your heavy winter coats!
and fill your pockets with change!
…and drink lotsa Gatorade so ur mom wont sue me for giving you heat stroke…
If you’re not using modern boxs it’s even worse. Some longbows had 120lb draw weights.
yep. long-range armor-piercing sniper rifles… medieval style!
um. ever seen a normal person take a hit from an MMA fighter?
they puke almost instantly and cant eat for a while as well.
I’m glad the robo-soldiers have automatic “relevant dialogue” sensors. If they didn’t, the next panel would be Rachel getting her arm chopped off.
haha there’s probably a gnome controlling them in there! ;p
Or the Bots are still attacking her and she’s just too bad ass to let that interrupt the conversation.
Gravey likes ’em humble :)
“Would you like to see my collection of holy writs?”
I’m very bothered that their training uses sharps instead of wood. Sorry, just can’t get past that.
Hey, it’s just more incentive to not get hit. Also I don’t think they’re for training so much as slouching about while you get paid for slaying things when really the robots are slaying things and you’re just slouching about.
You have reached the final portion of your training, Rachel. No longer is it enough that you simply read the flow of battle and follow its demands. And no more can you treat your blade as a mere weapon in your grasp.
From now on in battle, you must become the ruler.
pun… senses… tingling…
Suddenly theocracy.
This may be a bit of a silly question but is Rachel by any chance (ever so slightly) based on the Prioress from “The Canterbury Tales”?
If you don’t know what I’m talking about just ignore me.
It’s highly probable. Even if Phil and T have never read Chaucer, “The Canterbury Tales” has had such an enormous influence on subsequent English literature that it’s almost impossible not to appropriate it in any kind of medieval-esque setting.
For those of use who keep asking about that hart symbol on the new Nun, remember what ‘Dust said about Frigg way back when;
http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-7/chapter-7-page-2/
So wait, it has something to do with a drinking contest?
Nice eyes. There is actually a lot of similarity there.
I wanted to make a joke about the typo and link to an actual “hart symbol” somewhere in the comic – a frieze or tapestry with a deer on it – but in the entire comic there are just two deer/stag animals, and both are the actual animal.
Weirdly, one of them is on Best’s first page. The other is in the guild’s hall of heads, right next to Das UberMoose.
I’m officially putting in my request, John. Background tapestry, for good or evil people, with a hart!
Get yo game on, Gravedust.
Once you gather your harem of ladies, you can ascend to your true form: Pimpdust.
Henceforth, where lesser men might call him Tombdirt, I shall reference Pimpdust Hohammer.
Let’s not be so uncouth – Pimpdust Ladyhammer.
The Ladyhammer is his penis.
Gives new meaning to “laying the hammer down.”
He makes everyone a hero in their own way.
Yes, let us not be uncouth when discussing pimps, the classiest and most considerate of all folk.
but its PIMPDUST were talkin about…
and its HAMMERTIME!
Equal distribution of damage… Damage Socialism will be the death of us all!
I can’t help but compare these “toys” the adventurers are training with, to the Goblin War Machines that are decimating armies.
Whadda you know… some people DO learn by their mistakes :-)