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!
Tove
Severin
The end of the world is coming, and Tove doesn't want to be a hero, but SOMEONE has to look after her little brother.
The Hunter of Insania
Aoi Maneki
Wiol Alkko sells fake magical objects to those desperate for cures. When he tries to scam a real witch, she curses him: within a year, Wiol must learn and respect magic, or succumb to corruption of body and mind.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Kelly Turnbull
A weekly comic celebrating the finer things in life. Like manly men, lumberjacks, and time traveling special ops agents.
Heroes of Thantopolis
Izzy Strontium Hall
A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.
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.
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.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Laws and Sausages
Zach Weinersmith
Your cartoon guide to the American governement!
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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!
Awkward Zombie
Katie Tiedrich
Gags and goofs about videogames and the things that happen in them.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Spinnerette
Krazy Krow, Rocio Zucchi, Pablo Rey
When a lab accident gives Heather Brown spider powers and six arms, she does what any midwest comic geek would do: Become Ohio's #3 superhero!
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.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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 Glass Scientists
Sage (S.H.) Cotugno
A gaslamp fantasy comic about the life and times of a ragtag group of mad scientists and their enigmatic leader, Dr. Henry Jekyll.
Demon Street
Aliza Layne
Two kids explore a world full of monsters and magic trying to find their way home again. But when home has been stolen from you, where do you go to get it back?
Elephant Town
Danielle Corsetto
The long, slow tale of Kris, Paul, Berto and Mirando, four people who live in the same creaky old house, but don't know each other. New chapter updates every 2 months.
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.
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.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Little Red & Wolf
Aoi Maneki
Delve into the daily lives of two famous fairytale characters, and their adventures in this big weird world we all live in.
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?
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
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.
Witchy
Ariel Slamet Ries
In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your hair.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
The Mash
L.F. Garcia, Danigami
In a world shrouded in mystery and threatened by great evil,a young mummy prince will use his new life to unite with other monster children to save it.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
The Din
Karin (Karrey)
The Din changed the world, mankind & its technology. Gregg Emilio dreams of flying in a sky that hasn't carried airplanes in a century.
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!
MASKLESS
kickingshoes
In a world where people can wield the magic of elemental Masks, all Ashe wants to do is help. Maskless and useless, with dreams of fire and smoke on the back of his tongue, he finds himself on a strange, dangerous path to uncovering the secrets of these incredible objects, and the source of the monsters plaguing his home.
Parisa
Ellen K
Two friends, Nolan and Gwen, take it upon themselves to escort the amnesiac spirit Lelief across the world of Parisa.
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".
Helvetica
J.N. Wiedle
This story follows Helvetica's quest to uncover who he was in life, his existential crises, and his struggle to to make death worth living.
No Need for Bushido
Suburban Samurai, J W Kovell
The flash of a blade, the clash of steel! A runaway princess and her samurai companion navigate a fractured country on the brink of war.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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!
Peritale
Mari Costa
A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.
Novae
KaiJu
A historical romance with a touch magic and a dash of astronomy. It chronicles the romantic adventures of Sulvain, a sweet tempered necromancer and Raziol, a passionate 17th century astronomer.
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.)
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Ozzie the Vampire
Eric Lide
Ozzie and her best friend Kimmy are your average everyday normal art students – except one is an immortal vampire with superpowers and the other possesses a magic talking grimoire. Also they have to save their town from a demonic invasion.
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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Bring us the orcs, and wipe away the debt, is it?
I wonder if any of them are missing a finger…
I really feel sorry for the orcs here. It’s like they’re the designated “slave race” and the people around them are hungry, hungry slavers. It’s like their whole destiny is to constantly get shafted and be on the run with that dumb look on their face, never saying anything while wearing ropes for belts and sacks for clothes.
Alas the Prime Directive prevents me from interfering and thus I can do nothing but sit back and watch their plight as I dispense into the void the musings of a bald warrior-poet. Tea…Earl Grey…….cold.
From what “race chart” that Erika (is that her name, right?) did long ago, looks like these orcs are simple-minded but dedicated to that single task, be it fearsome warriors or diligent farmers.
Looks like the so-called-not-so-savage-races want them boyz for “stuff they wouldn’t want to dirty their hands with”, like farming, cleaning and all-around slavery.
I guess Gastonia would want them to be raised as obedient soldiers, instead, given the “war effort” comment. Sure, in a war, both manpower and supplies are useful, but I believe that +4 racial bonus to strength is best applied to axes and maces than hoes and wheelbarrows.
Especially since stupid humes got nothing good to nuke those savages (well, they had Engie, but Sundar intentionaly the whole thing), with the sky elves’ apathy, wood elves’ macguffin capable of inducing RAAGH WHAARGARBL fits of power overdose (otherwise they’re just good to absorb moisture with their taproots), and the best option shit elves had to offer is gone…
… yeah, Gastonia “needed” da boyz’ help badly.
It is a video game setting.chances are they are the designated slave race.
Hungry Hungry Slavers: Play the newly revamped Orc race in this mini-game based off of a classic arcade hit!
Watch it. You could poke an eye out with that thing, buddy.
That’s totally Ardaic under the helm, innit. Ardaic with previously-unsuspected magic powers. This explains much.
(or it doesn’t)
(whatever)
aw you beat me to it i was thinking the same thing :D
His tag is “Silver Centurion”, so I’m doubtful. Seems to be quite the paladin type.
Possibly see also Argent Crusade.
I thought ‘Silver Centurion’ was an Iron Man reference.
Ajup.
His helmet kinda has a mustache, too
Yeah.. You have to wonder if the strikingly-similar mustache shape was an intentional clue or a simple coincidence.
Well, remember, Ardaic is sometimes called in to handle legal matters within the military, ranks. We don’t really know what Ardaic was like as a soldier; we only know him as statesman and administrator.
Death by glowy stupidlawfulshit at the hands of one of those Lawful Stupid guys.
Ouch.
There’s not enough white phosphorus in Arkerra to fix that.
Sundar did your loss of your eye make you lose your morality?
God damn people why do you need to hurt those other races like that? They don’t deserve it! Damn racist humans and their laziness to plow their own fields.
I guess they wanted them for war, instead.
I was going to quote and link the relevant page, but… all the “fluff” pages (the “outlines on crumpled sepia paper” pages done by Erica) were purged/rearranged/sold to hobgoblins/turned as premium content? I can’t find them anymore. I just barely remember something about “orcs being either diligent farmers or vicious warriors depending on their orders” and the obligatory take that at the Troll description, with a nice, well-toned and gemless (if my memory isn’t failing) Harky lookalike.
Seriously, I just wanted to see the grin of the gnoll entry at that makeshift bestiary again. (Which again I don’t remember if it was just out of context fluff or in-story Gravedust notes)
Now that I remember, is that bestiary the first reference to “shit elves”, right?
Can someone confirm that was turned into Plus content?
As a note: Sundar had two eyes when he was messing with the kids.
He’s probably still got two eyes. He just wears the eyepatch for the charisma bonus.
I really need to reread this stuff…
You might find stuff missing if you did your first archive binge about one year ago. And still not sure if willing to whip my credit card since I got no confirmation that those amusing bestiary doodles are included in the “extra premium with whipped cream” content.
He wields Cluebringer!
Make the lawful, armored, human soldiers appear as the “bad guys/slavers/etc. in disguise” … how conveniently typical …
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumansAreBastards
And it ain’t necessarily false, especially in Gastonia.
Because the guys with the law, money, and military on their side never EVER abuse said powers…
This.
Ja, venn haff the lawfull panzer-soldiers of the Reich ever been anything but the good guys?
*rolls eyes*
When paladins choose “Law” over “Goodness”. :-(
In my opinion, such Paladins should fall. But then again, my biggest inspiration of Paladins is from the Quest for Glory series, where it is made abundantly clear that only Goodness and Honor matter.
I’m pretty sure that a paladin working for Gastonia as a slaver would fall, but I’m not so sure that ‘goodness’ is a requirement for Arkerran Crusaders. It seems to me as if conviction is the key. Conviction and the willingness to tap into the power it can give.
Power through Conviction? So Sundar should manifest these powers now that he has a conviction for kidnapping on his record. ;)
The problem with positing conviction as the source of their power is that conviction is a very personal thing. Frigg’s and Rachel’s experience come from without. In Frigg’s case, much of it is beyond her control and speaking to her as its own entity; Rachel understands and wields it very much in a religious fashion.
Of course, the problem here is that we thus have some sort of Divine Power willing to be used for horrible, unethical purposes. But then, that would go back to how Frigg’s god (I use the possessive form very loosely) demands that where justice fails, punish justice itself. Maybe that’s the very point of Frigg being chosen by this power.
Good page. New characters are being introduced, and they don’t feel like a plot cul-de-sac.
I confess, still find it weird we spent 17 pages at that dopey evil-con, but a story where the main characters are invading a “country” of adventurers is weirdly truncated, and ends with a mystery horse making everyone forget their differences.
Maybe a Dire Horse could be used like Crazy Harry in the muppet show? When you can’t figure out how a storyline should end boom, horse.
“No shame? Enh. I wouldn’t say none, I got some in the back in the back of the fridge from ’12…”
A lot of people are noticing this guy should ‘fall’ as a paladin for his apparant non-goodness. But look at his chest. That’s the Gastonian Crest. He’s not a paladin of a god. He’s a centurion of a Nation. He serves that nation and the laws of that nation.
No other.
So he’s got mentally stable (if grossly misdirected) devotion. Keen mental focus. And a smite stick.
Time for Frigg to lay down the smite of love on his ass.
There’s no reason to think he’s a paladin. He’s summoning a glowy weapon like Frig, and she’s a crusader.
That’s what I’m saying!
To many people, the difference between a ‘Crusader’ and a ‘Paladin’ is nothing but semantics. I understand that these people aren’t paladins, of course. In fact, I don’t think we’ve seen one in this webcomic at all.
That metal moustache demands fair and brutal Fisticuffs!
is it me or does sundar and brunhilde kinda echo Naked Snake and the boss?
Y’know? I can really see that, actually. Only Sundar doesn’t make a very Naked Snake.
Aren’t all snakes naturally naked?
Not if they’re solid.
It’s probably not Ardaic – Ardaic has brown eyes and our jerk paladin guy here has blue eyes.
Pretty obvious this is a flashback. The cape of Brunhilde ending as the flag, the reference to her in the previous chapter, the lack of eyepatch on sundar. Thus rather then Ardaic, we might look to other characters. Perhaps the twist is that it is a now amicable military leader that was talking to plant girl leader of the band?
“Yeah? Well you got a broom on your head.”