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!
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?
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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".
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.
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.
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
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.)
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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.
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.
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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!
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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...
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.
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...
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.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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!
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.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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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Excuse me, waiter?
My Gravy is running.
Gravedust has definitely crossed the line into “bad-ass”.
ABSOLUTELY! And I love it!
Also, Super Ghost Arrow >> Ghost Rider’s Flaming Chain.
Yeah, I’m pretty much about to go look for a D&D prestige class that would allow my cleric archer to do shit like this, just because it’s that damned awesome…
There is a feat in 3.5, that slips my mind at the moment, which lets one add WIS bonus to ranged attack rolls. I played with someone who built a cleric as such a couple years ago.
Zen Archery.
There needs to be a divine version of the arcane archer.
Liberace the Archer. Simply divine.
Looks like Bandit gets to ride the Gravy Train.
you….
you……..
you BEAUTIFUL bastard. +1 and you owe me a replacement lager for the one that i snorted into my sinus…
Is this confirmation that coldelectrons is Best’s alt?
All Hail the Gravy Train!
(starts playing Pink Floyd’s “ride the gravy train”)
“I’m goin’ off the rails on a Gravy train!”
Man, my dog (RIP) used to love Gravy Train dog food. That and Gaines Burgers.
Yes, yes he is…
Also, seconding jiynx’s “beautiful bastard” <3
The Gravy train’s capable of ressurecting himself and his teammates. Are we surprised that he also has a soul nuke?
That blast is hardly ‘nuke’ level. One soul == 1 pound C4?
21 grams of high-yield shaped charge.
This dwarf is brandishing HEAT arrows.
spirit bomb?
Do you smell deer?
more epic would have been a single arrow that whipped through the attacking force, disabling the named characters and outright slaughtering the nameless.
or an atomic arrow.
He hasn’t reached the enemy forces yet, that was just a vine-wall.
Now it is de-vine…
You’re brambling incoherently…
Indeed, your speech is in tangles.
Seems like a knotty problem.
You’ve got to admire his spirits :)
…Okay, wow. How did NOBODY remark on the irony that back when he got killed, Gravedust was done in by spirits?
Bring out your dead and pass the ammo
I demand that he says this when he gets to the Circle of Elders.
And Naror’nj leads the charge.
Pretty much sounds like “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition” …
Hmm … one should make a guilded Age/Gravedust-themed version of this song. :-)
How about (adapted from chap 13, pg 15):
“Finger lickin’ good, ya tardfuck!…..Amen.”
Groooan. Posted too hastily – I gave you neither a song lyric nor a gravedust themed statement. Sorry.
No biggie, man. ;-) It’s alright.
On another subject, it’s strange the dead Elven guards aren’t even armed. It’s not like the gnoll luchador took it all. So what ? Were they even armed, in the first place ?
“Keep killing my allies, I’m reloading.”
This!
Dusty gets up top, kicks ass, takes names, and still has enough souls left over to hand out Philosopher’s Stone(tm) Rock Candy to his teammates on the way home.
FINALLY, elven guards prove useful for SOMETHING.
Soul-powered weaponry and…(deep breath) mulch, speed bumps, door stops, boat anchors, (pun not intended) body pillows, planking world record, sandwitch meat, piñatas, saw horses, archery practice, minefield sweeping, filling potholes, (ahem) real doll, scarecrows, bear bait, unwelcome solicitor repellent, pike decorations, mannequinns for fall fashions, soup bones, practice partner for stabscotch…
…and if suitably rendered, SOAP.
I’ve heard of sandwitches. Don’t they hang out at beaches and enthrall radical surfer dudes?
elf, ham, eggs and elf… elf spam ham eggs bacon and elf… elf elf ham eggs and elf…
/elf elf elf elf…
Funk Soul Brothers
Ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-rapidshots.
Someone finally uses Ghost Shouting.
Wow, event-driven, unique classes are so OP.
Want.
Awww, how sweet – Bandit’s noble, brave stand finally completely won over Dusty – he called her “friend” for the first time.
If Gravy’s like me, he found he had underestimated her, and responded by boosting her classification one full level.
“He’s using our dead foes against us!”
“What, you mean like zombies?”
“No–as ammunition!”
“Shit, you mean like throwing the corpses to spread disease?”
“No! As in absorbing the restless spirits of the dead into his arrows, and firing said arrows so that they detonate into a explosion of equal parts ectoplasm and pure hatred!”
“Shit.“
Explanation accepted, the only possible response is “RUN”
Beautiful…just beautiful
Looks like gravedust is about to channel his inner ghost rider…
“Greetings. My name is Gravedust. I see that in your party the position of… “Bad Ass”–seriously? are these the naming conventions we’ve come to? disgraceful–has been woefully unfulfilled for some time now. I would like to correct that oversight before further tragedy can occur.”
do not mess with the mystic
Gravedust presents himself as a mystic. That’s what he calls himself, and others who prefer to be his friend instead of his enemy also use this term. He also dresses the part, clothing coloured with neutral earth tones appropriate for one that habitually engages in meditation which coincidentally camouflages well with desert sands and dry vegetation. But it’s all devotional, and this is a plausible story on its surface.
His actions call him a necromancer, and this is a lot more scary.
if he were a true necromancer, then his horde of skeletons would be lagging out the game and the barbarian would be blaming him every time he got killed
epic was taking part in a 40-DK raid on Orgrimmar in WoW. with all 40 armies popped, framerates were a bit chunky at times but we rolled into town like a hot wind. the equivalent of a batallion of ghouls and their controllers was devastating. very few people could even recognize what was happening, the rest had their frame-rates drop to at best 1fps.
we also had a fun time lag-bombing stormwind…
A necromancer isn’t necessarily evil though.
Meh, it’s just a question of symantics. To me, the thing that really sets him apart from necromancers is his character, intentions and other actions. He’s not a power-hungry madman out to inflict suffering and have enslaved souls do his bidding, but much out to inflict some ass kicking in the name of justice (or some such).
“Come unfortunate souls, and be united for our common purpose”
Not a necromancer, QED.
Unfortunately for me as soon as I read your post I got the image of Ursula Sea Witch from Disney’s version of Little Mermaid. Oh you poor unfortunate soulssssss…….
is a symantic a specialist in semantics who works at Symantec?
“Necromancer” is traditionally thought of as evil, but that’s not necessarily true.
In the Guild Wars universe, necros are devotees of the god Grenth – a just and kind, if a bit dour, god of death who allows resurrection and whatnot. Grenth came into his position by deposing a previous god who was not so understanding of the mortal desire to live. Neither Grenth nor necromancers are evil in and of themselves, although they do sometimes creep other people out a bit because, you know, death and shambling minions and all that.
Actually, if you look at the origin of the term Necromancy, it derives from Ancient Greece’s, honestly stunning, variety of forms of divinational magics. Necro- (or nekro-), of course means “death,” but “-mance” basically referred to divination. Necromancy in the traditional sense was talking to the souls of the dead, and has become pretty bad ass as pop culture got a hold of the term and added stuff. Given that Gravedust’s abilities function by literally calling to the souls of the dead, he actually quite literally *is* a necromancer in pretty much the truest and most awesome sense of the word.
Puella Magi Gravedust Magika!
someone is about not to like that he’s angry
Nerf Gravy
YOU WOULD NOT LIKE ME WHEN I AM ANGRY.
Gah, beaten by 30 minutes.
I squee-ed.
“I’m here to unleash the souls of those wrongfully slain upon our enemies in a storm of mystic, eldritch force, and chew gum. And this world doesn’t even have gum.”
Hello. My name is Gravedust. You killed these elves. Prepare to die.
How many fingers does Harky have again?
Eight, I think Byron severed two of them.
“What elves?”
@Darchias: Win.
Was just firing up some metal when I decided to check GA. Only reaction: Holeh shit O_O
Also: incredibly cool alt text.
And: like Gravy’s little incantation there; it’s quite complementing of his character and philosophy.
Precisely. That sort of verse (?) is exactly the sort of thing you’d expect from someone of Gravedust’s profession. He’s normally silent or has little to say, but when he’s provoked, his incantations (?) are proof positive that he means business.
Moments like these ring out forever in your memory, just like King Theoden’s rallying speech before the charge of the Rohirrim at the Pelenor Fields.
I always have loved that kind of hero.
Thanks, Thraceius. Diversity of style in magick users is a major point of focus for GA creatively. Divine magick of any kind, which is to say power bestowed upon you or channeled through you by a higher power, is all based on how it feels when you’re doing it. It doesn’t really matter what you say as long as you’re saying it with the right feeling.
Dusty’s something of a scribe, so his incantations can get pretty lengthy and verbose. So his style matches that, while someone like Rachel needs only a quick blessing or two.
E-Merl’s magick items are arcane-based, which mens they’re magick derived from formula rather than faith, and as such require trigger actions or words.
And so on.
Is this why Frigg’s incantations are basically just expletives?
Pretty much.
What quicker way to get your higher power’s attention than blaspheme?
isnt frigg now her own higher power?
So you’re telling me he could have just said “Thundersouls, ho,” “Transcend and roll out,” “Husks smash,” or “C-c-combined gatebreaker?”
Maybe not for Dusty specifically, but you’ve got the right idea.
Thracecius and Phil: both your comments made me really happy. I play a witch in my current paragon-level D&D game and I made up all these little rhyming incantations for my spells. I was pretty proud of them (initially) but after a while I started feeling like a “real” hero wouldn’t use “poetry”. So I quit. Maybe I was wrong!!!! <3
Roleplay material: crisis of faith (in poetry).
Whenever a fantasy story presents a sylvan glen it always gets burned/destroyed/corrupted. As soon as the elven kingdom showed I was just waiting for it to get destroyed. Three pages was all it took.
Not soon enough if you ask me!
You play Horde, right?
Being the terrible person that I am, I don’t mind at all.
Wow. I feel like someone just woke Gravedust just woke up from a 17.5 chapter nap. And found some kids on his lawn.
I’m going to start doing the same thing whenever I find an unconscious person.
“COME, MY FRIEND, MORE LIVES ARE BEING TAKEN IN THE CIRCLE OF ELDERS, WE MUST NOT DELAY!”
“Wait, where are you going with my Grandpa?!”
“WE MUST NOT DELAY!”
:D
I lol’d.
win.
Ah, a good old fashioned incantation. Awesome.
On a related note: Reminds me of the nice old-fashioned epic incantations of stuff like in Slayers. Although I like the more personal nature of Gravedust’s incantation.
A dwarf, chilling with elf ghosts, carrying a gnome on his back.
Meanwhile, in Gastonia…
So… All those Elf guards failed in their duty.
Now they’re gonna get fired…
Seems fair. *flees*
Their careers are shot, but they’ll still aim high. There may be a drawback, though.
Bwahahaha! You two are a riot! (alurker & coldelectrons in this case, not Waldorf & Stadtler)
Heeheehahaha!!
Love your comic!
Gravedust’s speech I personally feel ranks right next to Shakespeare’s “St. Crispin’s Day” speech in strength, power and passion.
Well done to you all!
You will not abandon me!!!
I don’t think I remark enough on how unique Gravedust’s whole deal is as a playstyle. We’re all used to clerics with maces or staves and fancy robes… I’d never even considered the notion of a divine caster with a bow before this guy. Definitely the product of some mad creativity. =3