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!
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
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.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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!
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!
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.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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.
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.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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!
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.
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?
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!
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!
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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.
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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...
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
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.
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".
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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.
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.
They are used strictly as an artistic choice for the set dressing of the comic.
This is promising.
These transitions are a little jarring, though. In book form, probably more than online, skipping between story-lines two pages at a time without transitions is going to be awkward. Less so when you read in a page-a-weekday-dynamic.
The rapid tone shifts do cause some amount of mood-whiplash. There’s definitely some contrast being drawn here, with these pages being fairly off color. Arkerran pages certainly look to be of an entirely different hue next to these. They’re not exactly as simple as black and white, but they’re not exactly vibrant either. It feels like they’ve got darker undertones, but they’re of a different tint anyway. Some might not appreciate the single tone of the real world narrative and its darkening shades of grey do get a bit dull, but I can appreciate it next to the more saturated fantasy storyline. The value of the story’s overall suspense does feel a bit blurred by the switching, but that might just be due to the wait of serial reading. I suppose we’ll see its true colors soon enough.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepia_(color)"Sepia.
(Tag fail.)
Don’t assail the grisaille.
This kind of transition is actually a pretty common story-telling technique, enough that readers tend to get annoyed when it’s not used. Generally, when a book starts developing multiple story-lines, the author(s) tend to shift between the story lines. As all the story-lines build closer to a climax (and, as in all things, simultaneous progression is better), the shifts between stories and character perspectives become faster. This does several things. Firstly, it helps build the sense of dramatic tension because you get tantalising snippets without quite concluding the action. Secondly, it means that readers don’t get stuck with one story while constantly thinking ‘but what’s happening to everyone else?’
You’ll see this done in books (any decent fantasy apart from Tolkien, which is notorious for pacing problems), films (see any battle scene), TV shows, and quite a lot of other things. It works well, and I’ve quite liked it, here.
Very true and I recognize that it’s a primary bit of color in a lot of stories with multiple plot threads. The only problem I might have with it is that the monochrome nature of the real world seems a very narrow field next to the cast of Arkerra’s palette. The vibrant variety of game events in the foreground make a questionable composition with the stark single tone of the panic tinged “real world” in the background. I find the contrast intensifies the suspense though and paints an interesting picture nonetheless. I just acknowledge that the growing significance makes the ambiguous figure of the two-dimensional story a bit different, though that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Different strokes for different folks I suppose, though I am quite enjoying the story so far regardless.
Simply put, our heroes are not in Kansas anymore.
…and yours gets low when you die.
Oh ho! Touché! =D
As much as I like Carol, I’m kinda rooting for Shanna here. No matter how nice someone is, if they’re covering for a monster, they’re a monster “after the fact”.
I want to root for Shanna, but if she wins the way she wants to win, it’s an end to adventures in Arkerra.
That might not actually be the case, given the attempted witchcraft and programming trying to cause the result you mention.
It strikes me that the protagonists in Arkerra are genuinely trying to establish peace and harmony within that world — in contrast to typical player avatar behavior, in which you’re deliberately looking for fights.
Peace is boring. Conflict brings suffering. Remove consequences from conflict and you have excitement and fun.
Besides, in what you describe, “establishing peace and harmony” is not mutually exclusive with “deliberately looking for fights”. Contradictory, hypocritical or inconsistent as it may be, keeping the peace more often than not needs resorting to force.
That bit about consequences is the key, in that Arkerra differs from typical MMOs in that there are actual consequences other than a chance to get some phat loot off a respawning enemy.
It’d quite likely be the end of the adventurers in Arkherra, given that the whole reason they’re missing is they can’t get them out.
That’s assuming all Arkerra is a video game. What if it’s an actual world and Hurricane’s game is not so much a simulation as it is an immersive portal?
OHH that would be awesome, they try to shut down the game and nothing happens
I’m rooting for Carol and her Dark Passanger. :D
Shanna is a tad … Mary-Sue’ish in all incarnations, at least when it comes to problem-solving.
Unless all five were reported as last seen at the convention I don’t see how she could connect those five to the convention and exclude the other 2300 Americans reported missing every day. It was already a leap to see Shanna somehow gain an interest in the one employee that was murdered, in a successful high tech company that must have thousands of employees.
That’s too damn much intuition.
Intuition? No. Just plot convenience.
The very first page introducing Shanna had her investigating the missing five. Of note is the fact that five players had won a very high-profile contest, and shortly thereafter five con-goers disappeared. Not a difficult connection to make especially if you’re looking for a story.
As for Ferris, there was no leap. He was the person Shanna spoke to the last time she tried to sneak into Hurricane. The fact that Carol stonewalled her last time is no reason for Shanna to lose interest in him now.
But how many of those 2300 are still missing two months and change later? I would think by then in most cases they’ve been rescued/found in a shallow grave by a hiker/got back from marrying a stripper in Vegas/etc.
I suspect it’s only a matter of time until Carol’s defensiveness breaks down. We’ve seen that ever since Ferris’s murder–to an extent, ever since the first signs of H.R. crossing the line from creative obsession into madness–there have been cracks in her unquestioning loyalty. My sense is that Carol and Shanna will end up working together, not as adversaries, to get to the bottom of all this.
Shanna must be one hell of a poker player. I sure wouldn’t want to play against her.
It’s the power of the nose. You can’t help but stare at it and so you miss all the tells that might show on the rest of her face, because when you’re facing her, her nose is her face.
The nose knows.
Bribery? With no back-up plan? I thought Carol would be more careful…
looks like another trip to the beach/desert for carol…
“Lying? No, no, my voice got high because… helium! I ordered the helium latte, its the newest thing, you have to try it especially with a shot of espresso!”
Uh huh yep uh huh. Carol and Shanna. Shanna and Carol. What ever happened to the the floating brown boy, Ashok, from evil cultville con(the Order of Infinite Limbs) that high priest Bro Tooooom sent flying to where? Sepia World? Is that what is got into HR these days? Poker face this Shanna! Yous guys think that there is an ending for this story where the 5 gamers get unplugged and Arkerra story is finished for good?
I’m pretty sure Ashok got exploded as a ritual sacrifice to empower Brother Tom.
Only five missing person cases? Talk about reaching there Proboscus Face
Well, five missing persons who were last seen attending ConceptiCon.
Still doubt there would be only five ‘missing’ from a single mega convention
Shanna might be bluffing here, by the by. For example, if Shanna knows that Carol is lying {or is, at least, convinced}, and leads her to think that it’s a visible cue that gave her out, then Carol is that much more likely to try and consciously suppress her perceived impulse to speak in a higher voice, essentially compensating for nothing.
I.e. by falsely calling out a nonexistent “tell”, she might be creating a real one, which would serve her purposes quite well.
I’m reminded of Martin Schenk (seasoned investigator) from season 2 of Luther, he gets someone to confess by pointing out some “tell” the guy had with how he used a pen or something, and when later asked about it he just laughed and said he’s been using that line for 10 years to get people to confess.
“ConceptiCon” sounds like a conference for people who struggle with infertility. Just sayin’.
Just agreein’. :D
Carol should probably kill her. Yeah. Or sic HR on her.
You think the number of missing persons cases after ConceptiCon is suspicious?
You should have a look at Armagedda-Con, Shanna. That’s where the REAL story is.
Hey, so they’ve only been in there *two months*!
So is time passing faster in Arkerra?
Presumably, yeah. Most games don’t use 24-hour day-night cycles.
In EQ2, a game day passes every 50-70+ minutes (which effectively means the Nights of the Dead lasts for a couple months :P)