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?
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.
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.
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!
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...
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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!
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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.
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!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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!
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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.
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.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
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...
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!
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.
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.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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!
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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 (95) ¬
I hear that regrets, false hopes, petty hatreds and fears all make wonderful fertilizer. Those’ll be some healthy trees.
The tree of liberty is watered with the regrets, false hopes, petty hatreds and fears of patriots!
Also their bodily excretions.
You, sir, (or madam, for that matter), are a epicness and solemnity pooper … ^^
so now, the next panel is everyone taking a solemn poop.
Ch-Ch-Chia
The Scooby-Doo Chia Pet is particularly …WRONG-looking.
I heard a story in which someone decided to water their chia pet exclusively with root beer. It very quickly resembled Don King.
gonna plant a weeping willow
on the bank of the stream, it will grow, grow, grow…
Bastion, “Build That Wall”?
This is necessary.
Life feeds on life.
feeds on life
feeds on life
feeds on life
feeds on dissolved minerals and sunlight
COMBO BREAKER
feeds on butthurt
Except when it feeds of death. Decomposers and scavengers and such.
But death feeds on life. So it still does indirectly.
It’s the Circle of Life, and it moves us all through despair and hope, through faith and love, till we find our place on the path unwinding in the Circle, the Circle of Life.
Awingawhack, awingawhack, awingawhack, awingawhack, awingawhack, awingawhack, awingawhack, awingawhack…
Later in the series, Frigg is given an elven burial just outside Hogwarts.
It took me a second to get that. Well played!
Huh…?
OOOOH
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
I like this guy.
That took me a few minutes as well. Well done! Well done! Also, excellent icon of blue Byron and blue Gravedust to go with it. XD
+1 Uranium Star.
Sponsored by Miracle Gro.
“It ensures that fully-grown trees are spaced at least 2-3m apart, even if the seedlings are placed just next to each other!”
Beautiful.
In life: Naror’Nj
In death: treebeard
This comic needs more Ents. I ask, no, DEMAND that Naror’Nj be reborn as a Walking Weeping Willow.
Pretty please?
Would it be ent’ertaining?
You will be a root in death, for being such a D!@k in life.
So I have no issues with trees aging a few decades in a few seconds, but I do get hung up on saplings that start out a few inches apart that move several feet apart while growing. :P
I think that’s just the game code … if the server had allowed three trees to spawn so close together, the collisions may have crashed the local shard.
The saplings are actually the same distance apart as the trees. They’re just much farther from the camera than the elf’s hand is.
Either that, or those three saplings have nothing to do with that tree, which grew from three completely different saplings. Take your pick.
It’s magic!
and you know,
youre the one
who can put out the fire
Creeping Willows
They drag themselves along the ground by their roots, searching for more sunlight. Normally, it would take centuries for them to spread this far apart.
it’s perfectly logical….
Once more into the beech and all that. :D
Yeah… I had problems with that too. I suppose it is magic.
Oh, don’t pine over it.
Couldn’t resist needling, could yew? What a sap.
Jeez, people will birch about anything here.
It looked oak-kay to me.
I heave a heavy Cy,press my Palm to my head & say: I’ll be Conifer a few days. Don’t Mulberry much over this, I’m not a Poplar commenter, though Acacia-nally I’m clever.
D’aw, my comment inspired a pun-run. I feel so special.
That poem at the end is kind of awesome.
It’s awesomely anti-vegetarian/vegan :D
How’s that? Plants are alive until they are killed for food or die naturally, just like animals.
“It’s life that we eat” – that doesn’t just include plants.
Willow is a pretty crummy tree to be memorialized by… most consider it a “junk” tree because the wood is so soft that any decent storm breaks off large chunks of it.
He was a pretty crummy character, so that jug holds some logic juice.
Logic juice? Is this substance measurable by SI units?
Syllogism : logic in liquid form, often mistaken for water due to similar specific weight and viscosity. Most sapient species have developed an ability to repel this substance.
In an Archimedean screw press, syllogism can be turned into a Platonic solid with a high dialectic constant.
Is Syllogism acidic? If so, could someone literally be…
BLINDED WITH SCIENCE?
Not to be confused with Syllojism, which is a liquid with a much high viscocity. Logicians tend to produce this liquid with emphatic shouts of “Yes! Yes! Yes to within a 0.5% margin of error!”
(Weeping) Willows symbolise mourning and I’m sure them getting damaged by some storm isn’t an issue in this particular comic. They’re good looking trees, symbolically relevant with a good variety of uses irl. Not what I would call junk.
“Edit”: The elves planted willows over all the graves.
What the Captain said.
If they’d wanted to be “insulting” they could’ve planted wisteria…? Y’know, clingy, it just won’t give up, chokes out other plants in its vicinity…
Willow (weeping, or otherwise) is very resilient and flexible. Willow switches remain bendy even after it’s completely dried out and is excellent for weaving (baskets, furniture..). In fact, if one is looking to weave a willow fence, they can put the staves in the ground and they will eventually take root and become a “living fence.” (To prevent this, one must mix a 50/50 pot of turpentine & linseed oil, place the ends of the uprights into this to soak to seal the wood.)
So… For a wood to be able to take root after it’s dead makes it an excellent candiate for magical properties. And beautiful rebirth symbolism at a funeral.
Or pine.
Man I hate pine so much, don’t ask why.
It’s personal.
Why do you hate pine so much?
Did a pine tree needle you in your youth?
Or did you snog some Pine-sol thinking it was bourbon?
Good riddance to a bad character. “He’s carrying handaxes! He must be a lumberjack here to harvest our magic tree! Hur ta Durr!” I might feel a little sympathetic if he hadn’t been immediately established as an ineffective idiot. His only redemption came in dying like a chump to provide pathos for a protagonist. Cheap, dirty, disposable.
His xenophobia and accusatory ways didn’t make him a bad character; it was a part of his character. And I think Syr established that the “lumberjack” thing was more of a petty excuse to lock up Byron, since, you know, he probably was pretty pissed that his daughter had been “sowwing seeds” with a human rather than some nice, elf boy. He is presented in this manner to show why the elves have stagnated as a people and how old mentalities and traditions die hard. Or in this case, die extemely-quickly-because-he-got-shot-in-the-head.
Also, I think that, just moments before his death, he probably was thinking of reconsidering his position after Syr’s display of anger at him.
But then his thoughts got interrupted, of course.
His thoughts: “How did an arrow get in here? I wasn’t thinking about arrows.”
Thoughts about arrows suddenly entered his head!
“And as we forgive those who would seek to do us harm, we hope that they forgive us when we must return the effort in the name of survival.”
I don’t think the Savage Tribes are going to like what comes next… I’m thinking.
Here comes a for serious moment: This is how I’ve always wanted to be buried. Well, I’ve always thought oak, and just one, and not magically accellerated, but hey, three willows would be cool too.
Yeah… If I can get my life together so that I can actually prepare for my funeral expenses (so my family won’t have to) ahead of time, I think I’d like the no-embalming-fluids-stick-me-in-a-pine-box-and-grow-a-big-tree-on-me ecological burial that was the norm 120 years ago or so.
I used to want cremation until I realised that the body’s still embalmed, and the chemicals released into the air are just as bad as the ones that leach into the ground.
We pollute and poison enough in our lifetimes (no matter how hard we try not to), I don’t wanna continue doing it after I’m gone. Blech.
I kinda want to be mummified and put under a granite pyramid. But that’s just me.
I’ve given some though to being decapitated and having my head frozen in liquid nitrogen, while my body is harvested for organs and then burned to ashes or otherwise disposed of.
Oddly, all in the hopes of one day being brought back as some kind anti-vampire apparently…
Whoa..! Is it you? Is it me?
If you are an anti-vampire, does that mean you’re its non-reflection in the
mirror in the bathroom
please don’t break–
the door is locked;
just you and me.
can i take you to a restaurant..?
it’s got glass tables
you can watch yourself
while
you
are
eating
maggPi, call 1-800-TANGENTIALTHOUGHTS…. nice therapist will make you aww betta:)
My organ donor card says use what you can and mulch the rest.
Looking over this entry, I can’t help but picture the Silver Surfer showing up just as those words are said, and deliver an announcement with a rather uncomfortable irony… =/
“…and in conclusion let us join together in the traditional hymn of our people during times of war: Bitches get stitches.”
No.
Only living people get stitches.
Dead people get stitches, too. Mummies, Frankenstein’s Monster, motor vehicle accident victims whose relatives want an open casket funeral…
So wood elves are like Pequeninos?
Oooo! What folklore is that?? I am a glutton for folklore!
It’s actually not from any mythology, but from Orson Scott Card’s “Speaker of the Dead” and some of the following books. They are sometimes referred to as ‘Piggies’.
well, they didn’t ritualistically dissect him and I don’t think his consciousness has moved to the trees and I think they can reproduce in humanoid form instead of needing to be trees, but I guess having their corpse marked with a tree is kinda similar.
Love that creedo. Always nice when you end with a rhyme.
You’re thinking of “credo”. “Creedo” worked for Jabba and Han blew him away.
wasn’t that greedo?
Pretty sure it was Gheed.
That is a very small, clean hole in his head. I would think the arrowhead would tear a bit more, or the brain tissue would be visible.
But that would be hard to draw. And I can’t nitpick, I would have forgotten to draw the hole entirely.
Plus, the people in charge of preparations for an open-casket funeral would have to be pretty shitty to not try and cover up a giant hole in the deceased’s head.
See the arrow flying thru my avatar’s head? Dat’s a biiig hole.
Every decent mortician keeps a large supply of wood putty handy.