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!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Sleepless Domain
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In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
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!
The Last Diplomat
Cat Farris
Samma and Tark didn't ask to be stuck together, but now they're partners on the adventure of a lifetime.
The Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
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!
Aquapunk
Lo
In an underwater world of unknown coordinates, inhabited by aliens, ghosts, and robots, a young member of a warrior underclass is framed for a crime and goes on the run. Little does he know he is part of a grand design that only gods and ancestors could choreograph.
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.
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.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Ride or Die
Mars Heyward
Ride or Die is an LGBTQ webcomic about two street racers who team up with a demon-possessed muscle car in the search for a missing woman, while being hunted by a deadly religious cult.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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?
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...
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!
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.
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.
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 End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Scape
Lauren
Sula has always preferred to forge her own path, but before she knows it, she is pulled into the middle of a civil war between man and monster!
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
Quick$ilver
Crypto
The flirtatious, directionless, and ever disastrous Luci searches for excitement in a life of crime, and finds himself caught in a web of messy romance and bad blood.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Beeserker
TJ Cordes
This comic is about a robot powered by bees, but it's also about the kind of people who think filling a robot with bees is a good idea, and why they're wrong.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
Missing Monday
Elle Skinner
Two girls fall in love through a magic door connecting their worlds. When Monday suddenly goes missing, it's up to Foyle to find her. How she's going to navigate an entirely unfamiliar world is another matter.
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?
Within
Verena Loisel
A young hitman meanders between a reality that seems to happen without him, and his dreams where he is lost in an endless house. When he makes an accidental friend, his world is shaken up and he realizes there are things he can't remember about himself.
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.
Gzhel Guardian
Atla Hrafney, nushanchel
The Railway World is a complex, mysterious network of trains, towns and mechanical monsters. Leo is a Guardian of one of these towns, and although their burn-out and depression has taken hold of them, they have one last job to finish.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
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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“Gods…I can feel the power of the bough without even touching it.”
That’s what she said.
Don’t be too impressed. See panel 3? It’s just an implant.
Worse.
Look again and squint.
It’s a suppository!
At least he’s not Champion of the Muzzy people.
“What GAMES are the gods playing with us?”
I think we all know the answer to that one.
Lessee, what game… “from beyond death itself”… Resident Evil 4?
Nobody crying “HEEEEELLLP!”, is there?
52 card pick up with only 51 cards?
Hungry Hungry Hippos!
Uno!
Texas Hold’Em !
Let the Game Naming begin …
Snakes and Ladders, withy greased rungs.
Perhaps a rousing variant of Blind Troll’s Bluff?
Cripple Mr Elven?
Ha Ha Herman.
Candy Land – Fuzzy Peoples Edition
Pokemon Pogs. Gods are always a little behind the trend.
I’d say a little more behind than that. Ugg Ugg Goose?
Could be a lot of games, but we have it on good authority that it isn’t dice.
“Stop telling God what to do, Albert.”
I dunno, we’ve had a lot of storms recently, and Thunder keeps rolling. Usually a six.
Well, we all know that this isn’t the game he wanted to play. :)
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
– from Good Omens, by Pratchett and Gaiman
OMG! Your avatar… it’s so beautiful!!!
Calvinball.
(Derf’s avatar at this time being “angry, screaming, full-face, Elf King with green fire in his eyes” —‘”LUMBERJAAAACK!!!!”‘ — for future reference after the avatar’s changed several times.)
“Nerf Gastonians”?
Heh.
Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down…
“What games are the gods playing with us?”
Well that depends are we using third edition or fourth edition rules?
It can’t be fourth ed – we wouldn’t need to nerf Gastonians.
It’s called “Kingdoms of Arkerra” Harky.
*wink!
Mmorpg is (often) an angry, many-faced demon.
Female knoll in panel 2 is sportin’ a ‘tude. Probably ’cause she was the one who wuz s’posed to get to steal the stick (chap 15, p.23). Glass ceilings exist even in monster alliances.
It’s OK. She’s hot, she’ll do well enough if she’s willing to play the occasional game of fetch.
What makes you think that she was supposed to steal the stick? Are you referring to how the kobold silhouette sorta seems to have breasts?
You bet. That’s either a female gnoll (not kobold) or Auraugu in drag.
Given Auraugu…drag is not unlikely…
Honestly I was hugely surprised. I thought the male gnoll was female. Female hyenas on Earth are larger in size, and have larger members, than males. So i’m super super surprised to see a true “female” human looking gnoll. Where is my female arnold swartzenager gnoll standing next to a diminutive boy-band male gnoll?!!!!
Safely tucked away in my fucking nightmares.
Pssst! Phil, did that guy just say the female hyenas have larger members than the male hyenas?
How do they then make sandwiches (out there on the dance floor)?
The same way multiple guys do?
I chuckled.
Well, it’s incredibly painful for the female hyenas to give birth the first time and I think it can be fatal. But the ones who survive the ordeal are fucking badass ever after. XD
Also, it’s only a pseudo-member on female hyenas but the dimorphism does lean towards RL female hyenas being larger with more prominent pseudo-members and all the others bowing down to her.
All that said, I kind of assumed either the female was bigger and it was just hard to tell in the shot or she wasn’t a gnoll and just a humanoid wolf-brand fuzzy people, rather than a humanoid hyena-brand fuzzy people. Either way she was given breasts to verify her gender for a human audience (with either tucking of the pseudo-member or just humanoid genitalia to keep things simple.)
Are we sure that much thought goes into this comic?
Of course! Phil is a genius. He has surely thought of all these things. This is why he has such…creative…nightmares.
Oh good, just so long as we’re sure.
I imagine Phil’s mind’s internal creative processes as being quite close to the video for the Detroit Grand Pubahs’ “Sandwiches”.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-25142313/detroit_grand_pubahs_sandwiches_official_music_video/
Dunno if the mayo/pickle ratio is quite right, though :D
its really difficult to compare actual sizes but it appears that the female gnoll is quite a bit taller than Auraugu. in panel 2, she is standing up stage of the orc and still appears to be 3 or 4 fingers taller than he. i dont remember exactly where, but at some point i got it in my head that auraugu is about the same size as the male orc.
What games, indeed.
Listen, it’s not the GASTONIANS’ fault that you didn’t camp their spawn point.
But they’re playing on a hardcore server! The admins are playing favorites!!!
The Admins won’t let them camp you guys either. Cry some more~!
I’m a bit confused. In http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-13/chapter-13-page-16/ , Auragu says “I am not a MAN!”. But here, they’re clearly referring to Auragu as “he”.
Was Auragu saying that they are not a HUman, but rather a kobold?
I am not a man! I am a free gnoll…ber!
Doggy!
well, Gnoll, but yes. he was saying he was not a (hu)man, not that he was not a male.
Correct.
Oh that’s…
actually kind of disappointing to me for some reason.
He = male (not human). Jeez.
Actually, I think we need some more controversy in this strip… how about a Gnoll shemale? Or a gnome ladyboy. Either way is good.
Or both.
Fun fact, the peacekeepers stop Tectonicus from being summoned in chapter one. It’s the first thing we see them do.
Peace Makers. Sorry.
well, we see them batteling it. not nececarilly stopping it ;)
That was all in the past, Hatman.
Specifically, it was during the interlude between chapters herp and derp. It’s canon and everything.
I don’t think they’d have the same luck here. They’re more powerful, but Syr’nj isn’t exactly able to do science to it now.
Why do people always try to summon things that require appeasment? If I had to summon some being, I’d do some background and work history checks first, pick the dark lord with the best work ethic and safety record, and make a tenative offer with a competitive wage package.
If they thought that far ahead, they’d have been able to win without needing to summon a god. Clearly, the A.I. never read the Evil Overlord List.
I had never read the Evil Overlord List. I am ordering large, tasteful, and motivational poster prints of it now, and will have my office redecorated shortly.
I will now ask my boss for an “appeasement package”. Wish me luck.
@JarrysKid: I lol’d!
I’m sorry, but… aren’t the concepts of “work ethic and safety record” and “DARK LORD” kind of diametrically opposed? If they mean to muse about minimizing the amount of mangled minions, wouldn’t that push them towards the “good” end of the spectrum?
Nah, Lawful Evil. Also, if you’ve read Eric (Faust), you’ll know that bureaucracy is infinitely worse that simple maiming.
Harky is looking RIGHT AT H.R.
Oh, MAN… you’re RIGHT! OK, harebrained theory (+long post) alert-
GIVEN THAT:
-Harky’s now suspicious that something supernaturally fishy’s going on
-And HR’s making 2 more tubes, goin’ to insert 2 more players
I THEORIZE:
-HR’s gonna be one of the 2, to make sure the 5 die right this time
-HR will get in over his head OR run into trouble with Harky
-Harky will learn that this (so far) has been just a vid game
-Harky will realize that a REAL world DOES exist, and can use HR’s link or majik to… INVADE THE REAL WORLD, REALLY
-And it’ll be up to the Guildies to REALLY SAVE THE REAL WORLD!
It always made me wonder that a “this is just a vid game” subplot was being used; I didn’t mind it and found it somewhat interesting (though not as entrancing as Arkerra); so why use it, especially when it made lots of people upset? Well, if fantasy invades and threatens real life (a la The Last Action Hero), then that changes the stakes!
Or, this could just be my conspiracy theory-ish, pepperoni and anchovy altered daymare. If so, sorry, and pass the pepto.
Hrrm. Does that mean Harky is another player? Is there another company with tubs in their cellars with bodies in it that control the savage races? :o
Just throwing it out there, but when the god resurrect your enemies, you might want to reevaluate your life choices.
And when said enemies start using your own soldiers as ammo one must consider what gods they pi$$ed off!
All of them.
No kidding! It would appear that Harky doesn’t know about Gravedust’s little soul-arrow killing spree yet.
Then again, he’s a bit single-minded, so he probably wouldn’t care as long as he accomplishes his latest conquest.
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Bough and shaman’s circle going up TONIGHT, need a death god to kill stinky unfuzzy elves, and filthy Gastonian PEACE-MAKERS! Chieftain impatient!
Right candidate will also get to wipe out evil greedy Gastonian empire, and hang with Auraugu, Champion of the Fuzzy Peoples! Hyes! Also get a prized trophy, a pair of axes signed by Harki, Leader of the Worlds’ Rebellion!
Fuzzy death gods preferred.
Warning, any use of the axes is at the user’s own risk. World’s Rebellion TM is not responsible for any berzerker-crazy contracted while using the axes.
Always send a gnoll when you need the stick fetched. That’s why Harky is so successful … he’s a good delegator.
looks like their ready to stick it to the man.
Auraugu, upon meeting, er, smelling Gravedust, immediately spills that Iver had warned him about Gravedust.
How did Iver know that Gravy had come back from the grave? Did Iver get scrooge’d by ghosts of dwarven mystics past, present, and future?
Dementia alert: uh…. who exactly is Iver, again?
Iver was the dwarf warlord that offed Dusty the first time with poisoned wine.
Thanks. *blushes* I don’t really have dementia. Now, who exactly is Iver, again?
Presumably they have some kind of scouts? Also, post-death, the guildies fought off the kraken (and I believe Auraugu was one of the commandos) which could have given him knowledge that they were still around.
I’m curious, did those runes just appear on the ground when the bough was implanted, or were they what the goblin shaman was drawing with that stick in panel 2?
The latter.
Then is it a problem that the avian appears to be standing on several of them?
I wouldn’t think so.
Yeah. Pentagrams only have to be intact when the GM wants you to fail… the bad guys all have the “quantum pentagram” skill, which means that the summoning will work just fine unless someone *observes* that the pentagram is incomplete.
Such a pity that the fourth wall is a quantum isolator.
This is turning into a major shindig ox-roast, with music by DJ Penk.
A dog fetching a stick. I see what you did there.
Okay, bad guys win. But I’m confused. Nobody knew the branch existed, not even Syr’nj, and the gnoll did? Elves can hear ANYTHING new, but didn’t hear the gnoll kill their cadre of guards? Or the approaching army? Man, I should have walked in and take over years ago.