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!
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
[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.
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?
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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.
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.
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.
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.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
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.)
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.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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...
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.
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!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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!
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.
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.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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.
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!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
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.
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.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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.
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.
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!
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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...
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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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They are used strictly as an artistic choice for the set dressing of the comic.
Syr’s faction with Iwatani and Bedard just went up.
There’s no way he won’t betray her at some point but Iwatani appreciates somebody playing the game at this level so well.
“They have nothing to gain…” or “They stand to gain nothing…”
Either will fix the dialog in panel 1.
… My mind automatically read that correctly. Not sure what that says about me.
My mind did that automatically too. Doesn’t want to believe that those words would be in a different order, lol.
There’s a theory that the original adaptive benefit of consciousness is the ability to decide how to interpret ambiguous sense data.
So, this means you’re sentient.
I think, therefore I am.
… I think.
Makes perfect sense to me the way it’s written
Which brings up something said before in The End comics (unless that was one of the posts that didn’t get accepted): “does the English language actually have formal rules concerning grammer? Or is that just something the Pedantics like to toss around to sound smarter than they truly are?”
Damit, there was supposed to be a closed bold after English :(
Also, just to be on the safe side, I dictionary checked “grammer”, since I didn’t want to fall afoul of any of those sneaky words with multiple legitimate spellings.
Fortunately, my concern was well-founded:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/grammer
… You just spelt “grammar” incorrectly.
It does.
It seemed fine to all of us, but sure. I’ll indulge you on this.
I’m with Thor on this one, that’s not a word order that I think makes a valid sentence…
Optionally, you could remove the word “stand” and replace it with “have”. That would also be correct.
Hmm. Also, if she really wanted to play hardball with Annunziata, she could point out that using such a blatant untruth speaks ill of his opinion of the others, his knowledge of his bailiwick, or both.
Screw the holiday, I don’t have money?
And here we have an heroic fantasy of a legislator actually immediately acting on the demands of a mass demonstration.
I wish that happened more often.
Actually he said it would take weeks.
Unless, of course, that would prevent his planned holiday. Got to have your priorities straight, you know.
Bloody filibustering, disrupting the democratic process. ;)
I believe that was her intention. Expedite something by proposing it right before a holiday, so you’re fellow corrupt politicians will approve it quick just to get it out of the way.
She’s taking a page out of the book of modern politicians here, if you want to have your darn vacation, make sure you have everything in order!
Well, you know, you might not miss vacation after all. Knock on wood, Pardo.
Syr’Nj out is always more pleasant than Syr’Nj in.
Now her friend Iv’y on the other hand…
For some reason i laughed so hard at the mental image of an old dwarf saying this because of your icon.
Whoa. That is a pretty decent demonstration our guildies rounded up in next to no time. Does Gastonia really have that many adventurers just hanging around, ready to demonstrate on a moment’s notice? Or are they just folks who came to gawk at the spectacle? Either way, that’s a pretty big crowd for such a small group of activists.
It also seems that the Admiral’s faction could simply propose a draft. They are at war, after all, and need every blade and spell they can get. If the adventurers had no choice but to join the military and fight for Gastonia, there would be no need to set up a guild to appease them. /soulless politician
Well, a chunk of those people are likely former Fightopians, so Sundar was likely to be able to call them up real quick. Beyond that, there might have been other ways to get the word out and some of the crowd might not be actual adventurers. You didn’t need to be black to march in the Civil Rights Movement afterall, you just needed to support it. And we got a good show a few pages back of how the common people are suffering from adventurer’s basically having to join the military just to keep fed and leave them to fend for themselves.
Remember, Arkherra is the setting of an MMO. A particularly popular one, if I remember the Sepia World bits correctly. Even assuming there are more NPCs than an average MMO would have in order to keep it as a real functioning society, a significant portion of the population would of course be adventurers.
More likely they were all hanging around the capital waiting in queue anyways. PCs can be convinced to join into just about anything while waiting for group!
“A demonstration? Cool. How much XP is it? What, only if it’s successful? Alright, how many people do we need?”
Don’t forget, there’s plenty of Joe Average citizenry that have a stake in the prosperity of their country’s adventurers.
Hooray! Validation!
Ok. So, the armed forces get mashed up on all fronts, barely managing to hold position. Then, those adventurers show up, claim one victory and bam ! They take all the glory. Damn civvies …
Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but I do not believe the Admiral is in charge of the land forces? Isn’t he only representing the Gastonian Navy that did not accomplish a single thing from the beginning of the conflict?
Could be a sort of ‘Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff‘ position. Each branch is rep’ed and a singular ‘commander’ is appointed above them to represent all the services to the council. The U.S. has had 5 Admirals hold the Chairman position, the latest being Admiral Mullen.
You are correct.
People who are the least involved in a conflict often have the most to say about it.
Especially in times of war. I recall in Poland there was a small bit of controversy between the military stationed in Afghanistan or Iraq and the Bureaucracy. The soldiers desired to modify their choppers, in order to mount any form of firepower on them. To do this they would have to “workshop” some basic mounts on the choppers, something they claimed could be done easily with the resources available. To this the Bureaucrats responded that the machine guns in question cannot be mounted on said choppers, because there are no regulation mounts on them. Although, to be honest, there have been stories even before that of the Polish army being forced to weld together some armored plating for their patrol cars that lacked almost any protection.
My point being, somebody sitting behind a desk cannot have an honest say on what is “good” or “bad” at the “front” (in this case it’s somebody who might had never seen combat/been an adventurer speaking as if he knew the whole story).
Man, that age is GETTING GUILDED UP!
If adventurers’ organization on the surface has official support from the government – but at the same time are often subject to naïve bureaucratic meddling – then it shall truly be a guilded age for adventurers.
Does anyone else feel today’s comic is pretty special? It’s the closest we’ve ever gotten to seeing the title of the comic in the comic itself!
When you want a bureaucracy to do something quickly that will benefit the people, threaten to take their vacation away or make they actually work.
Guilded Age expansion pack due out later this month, the Bureaucracy pack. Free in game pet “The Bill on capitol hill” special cool down power “Filibuster” and your choice of in game mount, Elephant or Donkey who may, or may not actually go where you tell them.
Ooh. Been a while since I’ve seen one of those.
You know elephant and donkey are quite apropriate. big , remembers every slight will tend to crush you for it. Stuborn and does what it wants unless cajoled with a carrot or threatened with a stick. And the other is a donkey :)
An army of fruity pebbles at your door will get you rethinking legislation pretty quickly.
All she needs is a microphone to drop.
Hmm, what would the magical equivalent of that be, a Wand of Thunderous Speaking?
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