Chapter 12 – Page 18
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The Saga of the Working Class Adventurer – New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
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.
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!
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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?
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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.
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.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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.
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.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.
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!
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.
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...
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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".
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T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
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Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
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...
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.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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!
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.
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.)
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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!
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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Dum dum dum….theory is right….the world exsistants…bang! Also..Scorpio guy is probabbly Arkerra’s godly overlord with that awsome cigar
Does that mean there’s some guy in arkerra looking into a screen watching some other guy looking into a screen watching HR and his secretary?
HADOKEN!
Oopsie.
anyone play star ocean: till the end of time?
… Mind = Blown.
I got to that point in the game and kinda stopped playing then. I can;t remember why
Dunno, but given my own experience I’d wager it was the item creation system. :\
This game title comes up a lot here in the comments. Besides what sounds like remarkable similarities between it and GA in terms of plot… is it a good game?
It’s similar to Final Fantasy in many aspects. I like it, although I never finished it.
Well, it is made by Square Enix… they don’t rock the boat in terms of game format.
Still, the story was very good, and honestly, I never saw the twist coming. Much like with Guilded Age, it basically blind-sided me and came out of nowhere.
its actually one of my favorites. i loved the item creation. also, the battles are avoidable by avoiding the map sprite, and the fights are action based, unlike a lot of RPGs. which means a bit of skill and strategy can get you through with minimal grinding.
well, i was AFRAID this plot twist was coming. but when it did i decided that i would keep reading….
I never made it to the twist. I thought it was alright, honestly, but not as good as the previous Star Ocean games.
It was decent, but had many faults, including the previously mentioned item creation system. What I mainly didn’t like about it, though, was the structure of the plot. It’s a two-disc game, so you’d think the plot would be fairly involved. Actually, they reveal just enough to hook you in the first hour or so of gameplay, and then the whole thing gets completely derailed. The result is that most of disc 1 feels like a long and kind of irrelevant detour while you’re playing it. It later becomes apparent that disc 1 exists primarily so that the protagonist’s actions in it can serve as a ridiculously overextended analogy for something his dad did. By the time the plot gets back on track, there’s not a lot of game left.
It is an utterly atrocious game. So terrible.
I know someone called it.
I wonder if she’s going to quit on H.R. for playing with/possibly murdering real people like this. Up until now, she thought it was a game.
…I wonder if Best will end up in a cyberpunk universe and end up with an AR axe with a laser blade. :|a
Might be too early to call that. After all, she left the question hanging for the next strip. For all we know, he could answer with, “No, of course not. Don’t be stupid,” and then explain.
True enough.
I hope HR doesn’t do that. I rather like the idea of the multiple world theory as opposed to the stuck in a video game theory.
I am most interested in how the sculpture analogy fits with the multiple-universe theory. What did HR remove from Arkerra to make it compatible with his virtual reality simulation?
Nobodies died yet, even Best.
ohey the tanks are backwards. The chairs and screens are on the other side from the spell book. right.
Whew, the green pod is still infact occupied. Existential crisis averted.
Why is the green pod significant? Isn’t that the one with Syrn’j in it?
Yeah, we noticed that the Green pod seemed empty, but that didn’t make sense because we think it’s Syrn’j’s pod. It was especially odd because yellow, which we’re fairly sure is Best’s was still occupied.
Phil said John forgot to draw it in and it would’ve been a pain to edit her in.
…Huh. My little avatar’s different on my laptop. :|a
VINDICATION!!!!
“I’m not a God, I just like to Play God.”
I’m just borrowing this universe from the guy down the hall.
*Kratos walks in*
“Damn it Hank, I told you to stop paying with my stuff!”
“No, hold on, he’s just having a stroke.”
This may put a dampner on my theory of Best and Bandit being the same “player”.
Then again, the reason he’s still in the same state as the other is due to the fact that he -is- Bandit now. But then again (Yeah, second “Then again”) H.R. would most likely know of it if that was the case.
*Brain starts melting*
What if he’s running BOTH and they don’t know it?
Now that Best has departed it might explain how Bandit survived since her body wasn’t buried like the others… for all we know…
In the meantime, Syr’Nj makes pink lemonade in her lab.
I’m pretty sure that what she’s mixing up there is actually the Medieval Fantasy equivalent of Pepto-Bismal…
“Only You Can Save Mankind” brought to a higher level
Brain…hurts…arrrgh!
The points tally in favour of H.R. being Bandit. As for the world being really real? I doubt it. I think Best’s player is just creating an alternate dimension/afterlife in his dreamstate. I think H.R. would be pretty frightened of the idea that players can create a world in his system, just by mere thought.
Could he have made it into a different MMORPG?
And then Best was hacked by gold farmers.
I’d been thinking that Bandit was Carol, but it looks like Daedalus has been at the workstation for an extended period of time — consistent with his playing Bandit — but Carol seems to have been away from the keyboard for at least the previous scene.
Obviously Best did some wallhacks and found his way into the expansion zones.
Well then. I’m stuck between thinking this is like Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, and Mogworld. Maybe a mix of both.
There are apparently a lot of RPGs I need to play.
Mogworld is a book by Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation. :P
Shows what I know.
I’m not sure I could read a book without proper punctuation though.
The book was very well written actually. Kinda like this, takes place in a game and has elements of the real world. Made me look at World of Warcraft in a different light (since yatzee based the novel on his time playing WoW)
It’s supposed to be satirical. I’ve been keeping an eye out, but I haven’t picked up a copy yet.
You should read Matthew Stover’s /Heroes Die/ too.
This revelation seemed to have opened her eyes.
Now we’re just waiting for an event so shocking it opens his mouth.
Gold Star.
I’m getting Tad William’s Otherland series.
*waits patiently for Dread*
I’m betting on cultists.
What I want to know is, how did you get William H. Macy to play H.R.? That’s a casting coup right there.
I’ve been noticing that myself!
Starts to look a lot like “Avatar” to me… :-)
…and why I have a Best Avatar? I want a Byron (or a Scipio) one….
We all can’t be winners, champ.
Anyway, most people would be proud to have the Best avatar.
What if we are all just players of a game, and our real world is full of magic and elves?
… rather likely. our world is digital, not analog, you know.
Oh. It’s THIS guy again. I don’t like this guy. He’s so boring. And brown. He’s boring me with his monotone existence. Go away, Monotone Man. I want more of the colorful tube people!
Best is now keeping the pimp hand strong in the GA version of Hello Kitty Online Adventure.
PROTIP: In the alt-text, T and Phil are talking about themselves.
Why the peace symbol on the panel of our dear berserker in the first panel? Last I remember, that symbol was connected to Syrn’j…hmm.
Just realized H.R. has ‘Syr’Nj’ profile on under the main screen.
That makes more sense. Here I assumed the smiling face was Byron.
The green Peace sign kinda gives it away.
Of course “Just as real as our own” could be going the other way as well. It could be implying that the world they are in isn’t real. That it also is a game, or…or…some sort of visual entertainment for the masses.
Naaah, that’s silly.
Number of the Beast by Heinlein, anyone?
Very compelling page. Just reading this single page, I have decided to read the rest of the comic. Well one, good sir. Well done.
So if Best got sent to the Void, does that mean Exdeath is involved?
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/7586/bitcheslovethevoid.jpg
Best isn’t in Arkerra anymore. So maybe now he needs to Escape From Cyberia.
http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-9/chapter-9-page-6/
My internet’s been down for like 5 days (the horror… 0.o) and when I finally came back online and went to check out GA I thought the last two strips were jokes or really, really elaborate guest strips.
From the mysterious, shadowy C.E.O dabbling in forbidden “sciencemancy” H.R had turned into an unshaven “guy” sitting down, eating chips and waiting for Frigg to say something funny and both he and Carol were being all verbose and up close. Seemed so uncharacteristic.
Now that the daze of my “logging on sickness” has passed I feel a bit more at peace. An interesting development (though not an unexpected one) and it’s nice to see Carol’s lovely visage in full bloom so to speak.
Welcome back, Jean-Luc. Your absence was noticed, and shan’t be tolerated again.
I’ll send you my ISP’s address (the “street” one, like an actual place you can go to) so the next time they decide to fuck with me you can pay them a visit and give their asses a good friggin’.
Have you read Heroes Die? A great series that takes a similar premise and then runs it into the ground in the later books
So who is in the silver colored tube?
I now feel sorry for everyone that stopped reading before this point because of the “just a game” implication.
There are so many walls in this that I fear what will happen whenever they take one down…