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!
Sleepless Domain
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
Scape
Lauren
Sula has always preferred to forge her own path, but before she knows it, she is pulled into the middle of a civil war between man and monster!
Barbarous
Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota
A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
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!
Gzhel Guardian
Atla Hrafney, nushanchel
The Railway World is a complex, mysterious network of trains, towns and mechanical monsters. Leo is a Guardian of one of these towns, and although their burn-out and depression has taken hold of them, they have one last job to finish.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
Aquapunk
Lo
In an underwater world of unknown coordinates, inhabited by aliens, ghosts, and robots, a young member of a warrior underclass is framed for a crime and goes on the run. Little does he know he is part of a grand design that only gods and ancestors could choreograph.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Sakana
Mad Rupert
Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
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!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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 Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
The Last Diplomat
Cat Farris
Samma and Tark didn't ask to be stuck together, but now they're partners on the adventure of a lifetime.
Nigh Heaven & Hell
Scotty
Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
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.
Freakshow
Scotty
A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black
A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
Not Drunk Enough
Tess Stone
Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
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!
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.
Darkling Bright
Chris Hazelton
Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG.
At least, he was, and that was the idea...
Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
The Weave
Rennie Kingsley
A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Quick$ilver
Crypto
The flirtatious, directionless, and ever disastrous Luci searches for excitement in a life of crime, and finds himself caught in a web of messy romance and bad blood.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Augustine
Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy
August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
Missing Monday
Elle Skinner
Two girls fall in love through a magic door connecting their worlds. When Monday suddenly goes missing, it's up to Foyle to find her. How she's going to navigate an entirely unfamiliar world is another matter.
Lies Within
Lacey
Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster
Within
Verena Loisel
A young hitman meanders between a reality that seems to happen without him, and his dreams where he is lost in an endless house. When he makes an accidental friend, his world is shaken up and he realizes there are things he can't remember about himself.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
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.
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.
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Ride or Die
Mars Heyward
Ride or Die is an LGBTQ webcomic about two street racers who team up with a demon-possessed muscle car in the search for a missing woman, while being hunted by a deadly religious cult.
The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell
A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
How to be a Werewolf
Shawn Lenore
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
Beeserker
TJ Cordes
This comic is about a robot powered by bees, but it's also about the kind of people who think filling a robot with bees is a good idea, and why they're wrong.
Little Tiny Things
Clover
What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?
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!
Edison Rex
Chris Roberson
The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.
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.
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.
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.
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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Harky is unimpressed at the gnomes’ appropriation of his culture.
Dwarves. I meant Dwarves. v__v “Now who’s being insensitive, Alice?”
It’s gnome problem.
Gnomebody knows the trouble they’ve seen…
Gnomenclature can be tricky.
This is gnome time to be making puns!!
I don’t know why, but you remind me of myself in some small way.
And you’ve compounded your sin by calling the Savasi that vile human slur!
The secret to writing good bad guys is that nobody views themselves as a villain, and everyone can justify their motivations.
So, who isn’t a bad guy in this comic then?
Those who don’t attack the civilians, I guess. *rubs chin, thinking stuff*
The loser of the war is usually histories villain. After all, History is decided by the VICTOR.
Whether they have “reasons” or not doesn’t mean they are or are not villains. However, having “reasons” and “justifications” makes a villain more relate-able, more understandable, and often more tragic. In some cases, it also makes them more terrifying.
Consider the Cultists. They are evil for the sake of being evil. Yet there aren’t any that could be considered particularly memorable (except maybe as comic relief), not even the leader guy. Iwatani makes a much greater impression.
Of course, this isn’t always necessary, sometimes other things can carry it through, but it usually adds to it. And also it is very much not necessary to actually justify their “reasons” to the audience. Kefka of FF6 is a great villain, and his motivations (nihilism, wanting to stave off boredom, lust for power) are explored, but his actions to achieve those are not exactly “sane” or reasonable to most people. On the other hand FF5’s Exdeath is hardly memorable at all (in fact I had to look it up to make sure I got the name right)…
Exdeath wasn’t unmemorable because his motivations were unclear or because his actions weren’t explained. He was unmemorable because he didn’t appear until halfway through the game, and had no personality, and then you killed him a few hours later. But he came back to life later because he was SECRETLY A TREEEEEEE and gave you a splinter during the fight.
He would have probably been okay if he’d had, like, a *single conversation* with one of his henchmen that consisted of anything other than “Henchman, go defeat the Warriors of Light!” or “Henchman, as punishment for your failure, wander for eternity in the X-Zone! Where’s my next henchman? Go defeat the Warriors of Light!”
The fact that this chapter is shown to the reader instead of the savage champions just showing up in a fight later and calling themselves the savage champions is what makes me pay a little more attention to them. They’re characters instead of obstacles.
Yeah, this. Kefka had a lot of character establishing moments, and a lot of moments where he interacted with several protagonists individually, several antagonists individually, several secondary characters…
He had lots of screen time, and he did lots of different things during that screen time.
Sure, but the point, to me anyway, is that establishing motive, developing it and their reasoning, etc. is one of the better ways to establish character. Someone shows up and says: “I want to blow up the world!” Yeah, they’re a villain, but not a well written one. On the other hand, if some of the reason why they want to blow up the world is shown, it gives screen time, but also makes their character more understandable, even if their reasoning is ultimately flawed/wrong/psychotic or whatever.
Well developed motivations, even without screen time, can also give insight into a character that’s introduced later, so long as the connections can be made by the audience. If Magda was just as generic as the other three Savasi Tectonicians, she’d be far less interesting and eye-catching… including in-universe, and part of that “interest” is generated from connections set up before the character was introduced as such.
Basically, it’s the difference of depth. Even a character that gets a lot of screen time, if they aren’t given depth/developed, they end up being unmemorable characters anyway (at the very least, by comparison of other characters).
Ferris.
At least, not YET.
He stole his boss’s keys and entered a restricted area without permission, just to satisfy curiosity. That’s at least a little bit bad.
Depends on how you view authority and ownership, and how much you value curiosity.
To me, “just to satisfy curiosity” sounds a lot like “just for the sake of helping people and becoming a more complete person”.
No, that could be viewed as “snooping” and “corporate espionage”, specially seeing how he did it at the behest of The Nose
Personal gain at the expense of institutional integrity, even in noble ways and toward noble ends, is one of those things that sounds like a great idea until it starts to scale up. If, for example, the building had been on fire, and he’d opportunistically appropriated the keys in an explicit rescue effort, that would be different.
It all depends on your point of view. From Harky and his allies’ perspective, they’re the good guys and Byron is the most evil/dangerous person around. From the Gastonian leadership perspective, humans (meaning humans loyal to Gastonia) are the good guys. To the adventurers and probably to the readers, the adventurers are the good guys.
The secret of writing a good rebellion is that no one side should be outright evil, even if some members would quallify
So, it seems we’re going to have counterparts to the main cast. What are the odds that our favorite drummer winds up the counterpart to our favorite bard?
I guess so, in that Penk is alive and Best is dead, and Best got laid all the time and Penk got no game, that they really would be counterparts, wouldn’t they?
Penk’s mother was probably really encouraging and taught him the value of teamwork. Plus he absolutely LOVES basins and keeping them safe.
Okay, cool. Guess there’s not a con here after all. And I like Magda. She seems nice.
Seconded. And something tells me she won’t be on the side of the Savage Races forever.
Thirded. She’s not in it for herself- she’s doing it for her people. Even if she recognizes how the mystics had “failed” her people, she knows what value they did provide.
Nice to see the avian dude got Arfa’s lesson as well.
They may have failed, but that doesn’t mean what they were preaching/teaching was wrong, just the other side was simply better on the day
And whos to say this new way is any more ‘guided’ than the Mystics were ‘misguided’? Only Time will tell
How could a massive fire god of death and destruction be wrong?
Death… and destruction. Pretty straight forward points.
Rules of Death Cult.
1. Death and destruction is always the best choice.
2. see rule #1
Your response, sir, is full of insightful win.
i’m liking that the anti-heroes are surprisingly normal;D
I’m guessing that they’re rightfully going to be heroes in their own right, the same way the Peace-Makers/Adventurer’s Guild are heroes. Goblaurence looking at slaves as tools and being willing to blow up a couple of Avians may be red flags, but he’s not needlessly cruel, while Frigg’s pretty rough too.
I can’t wait to see the rest of the roster.
Arkherra’s always been rather like World of Warcraft, so it’s hardly surprising that the Horde-equivalent has its good points and its bad, just like the Alliance-equivalent.
I’m crossing my fingers for an Orc rebellion…
Work, work, work.
Me not that kind of orc…
Since I know the fellow who recorded those voice parts, I find this post hilarious for reasons totally unrelated.
Please tell him he’s awesome!
“Something need doing?”
I don’t know the reference… :(
Warcraft 3 the Orc peon’s :)
Warcraft (started in III?) orc peons would say this when you clicked on them. If you clicked on them too much… you got “Me not that kind of orc!”
started with the first one. warcraft orcs and humans
jobs finished!
I seem to recall she was the only one not smiling like a nimrod last strip. Good eye, Birdman.
Yeah, noticed that as well, and now we see why she didn’t look like she wanted to be there
Gondolessa: also the only general of Harky’s army I like.
Notice his shining halo and beatific expression.
Clearly, he’ll turn out to be the most ruthless and evil of them all in the end.
Some how, don’t believe Head-beard will like the answer to his question
Technically, Iver is in panel one, in the background. Shouldn’t he have a tag?
If it please you.
Iver is like a smarter, more charismatic version of Don Gobligno. Like the Don, Iver is kinda vain, greedy and power hungry but is also much more measured and controlled in his approach. However just as the Don’s “trolling” attempt failed so it seems Iver’s attempt at flattery will also fail to impress Harky or at least won’t have the full desired effect.
I prefer to think of him as like Iwatani, minus a son to act on his behalf, or the resources/connections to back up his ambitions.
I’m not even sure that it’s flat-out flattery. Iver seems really savvy. Yeah, he cherry-picked those four because their chosen deity to worship coincides with Harky’s, but that’s just a smart decision. He picked people he thought his fellow leader(s) would approve of – and he was right.
No way his choice of Magda was an accident. She’s not only the niece of one of the mystics he killed, but she’s decidedly NOT a yes-woman? Hell, I’d bet those are the reasons he chose her. If the other three candidates had a reason to be fleshed out more, I’d expect them to have some large differences in personality amongst each other, too.
Wait…something’s dawning on me…she’s the niece of a Mystic, but where does it way he was actually killed? Could he…oh, I dunno…perhaps…still be alive? I think we know where this is going…
Way…say…blegh. Need more caffeine. Anywho, anyone else strongly suspect her Mystic Uncle might be the last surviving one? :-D
Nahh her uncle looks to be the maker of the best snowpeak’s broiled desert moss!
It’s all ready been established that Gravedust was the last surviving Mystic. I think that was spelled out from his encounter with Iver.
The picture she makes when talking about her uncle is that of Cliff Rockside, who’s confirmed dead. Between that and both Gravedust and Iver independently saying “the other mystics are all dead”, I’m assuming Magda’s uncle is pretty dead.
If her uncle was Gravy, why would she be projecting an image of Cliff?
Ha. I thought it’d be her.
LOL at the bearded dwarf in the third panel background juggling his heat stones. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a faux pas in troll culture.
Was wondering about that myself. Kinda feel sorry for the poor guy — if Magda weren’t the one to be picked, I’d almost want to pick him.
The last couple of days I’ve noticed that the comic has been updating pretty late — I think this page went up at 3 AM for me instead of the usual ten minutes or so after midnight. Is the system working okay, or did the holidays get to you guys?
I’m not complaining, just curious.
Okay, what exactly is sword girl laughing at? I would say it is the juggling but she seems to be facing away from the juggler and towards Magda. Is it something Magda or Gondolessa said or is the mere image of Cliff Rockside somehow humorous to her?
She is laughing at Magda because it is obvious to anyone Magda has none of the qualities needed to be a Champion.
They are picking people who are thinkers and dedicated to their people, not personal glory, as their champions.
Wouldn’t be a riot if they find common ground with the Peacemakers and negotiate a peace treaty that honorable and just, and therefore satisfies none of the leaders on either side.
Magda has instantly rose to favorite character for me. It’s not because I’m biased towards awesome lady Dwarves, I swear! *whistles*
Wait a minute. The other chiefs dissed old dog lady’s ability to lead in war because she’s female, but now they’ve picked a female champion?
It was only the Don who dissed her for being female.