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!
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.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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!
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.
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.
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.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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
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 End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
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.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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...
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!
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.
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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Penk will either horribly regret this decision… or make the best friend he’ll ever find.
My money’s on the latter, and it’s not because of plot armor. ;-)
Time for Penk to cut his teeth. Hopefully his jawing off won’t come back to bite him in the ass.
It’s possible he’s bitten off more than he can chew, but I feel confident that soon he and HAMERHEAD will be chewing the fat like old chums. Of course, asking HAMMERHEAD to lend an ear might be unwise. They probably shouldn’t play cards or pool, either.
Penk’s got guts.
But not for long if he doesn’t get out of Hammerhead’s range quickly.
Penk, you have balls…which may have just caused your death.
To the tune of “Pinky and the Brain”
They’re HAMMERHEAD and Penk
Yes, HAMMERHEAD and Penk
One is a drummer
The other’s like a tank
A land shark and a troll
Out for Arkerra’s soul
They’re HAMMER, they’re HAMMERHEAD and Penk
Penk, Penk, Penk, Penk
Penk, Penk, Penk, Penk
Penk: “Hey, Hammerhead, what are we going to do tonight?”
Hammerhead: “The same thing we do every night, Penk. Try to take over the world!”
ROFL to the pair of you.
Bravo! :D
Applause!
Narf!
That face! Lol!
I like how HAMMERHEAD’s name is written in allcaps, like MONOCULUS! minus the exclamation.
Definitively the loudest.
(Knowing how to use commas and being articulate enough to warrant their use is always a plus)
You know, this right here would probably have gotten Penk laid back at the dance party. Here it’s liable to get him laid out.
Or worse, laid by a landshark.
On a person note, I wish I lived where you do, where women enjoy being told they’re wrong.
I think he’s going for “Women enjoy you having the stones to tell the biggest toughest guy in the room HE’S wrong”
That would be it, yes.
Okay, I was wrong. This might be the right land shark after all… though he seems smaller.
In other panels he was compared to other Land Sharks. Due to their hunched-over posture, Land Sharks are surprisingly short. Compared to the tall Harky, of course he would look a bit shorter.
Whoops, wrong e-mail a sec. Above is also my comment
how did I get above your comment???? I assume you refer to Loki as that was above this comment before I put mine in.
ok, ignore that – my screen seems to be fully messed up as that was a reply and it’s put it as a normal comment.
Yeah, but his hands were big enough to wrap around an entire normal-sized land shark and squeeze. And unless those deer were really tiny, that means his hands are pretty big (and look big on this page as well)
I should clarify though… I stated last page I wasn’t sure hammerhead could be the champion shark because that guy’s hand looked much smaller, about the same size as the rest of the hands on the chapter cover page. Whereas his should be notable larger. Of course, the chapter isn’t done, or mabe decisions have been made during the cover.
Wow… All this writing out makes it look like I care much, much more about this then I actually do.
He was compared to other land sharks before. Land sharks are actually kind of short compared to a troll as tall as Harky.
“when all things are prey”? makes me wonder just how renegade the cultist landsharks really are….
Alas, gifted with intelligence and self-awareness…and unable to be a part of the great hive-mind.
HAMMERHEAD will carefully consider your statement, Penk…while he eats.
Has it been confirmed (maybe in Guilded Age Plus?) that Land Sharks have a Hive Mind?
I think it’s a case of when one shouts something the others either shout it as well (like a shark feeding frenzy) or just kill the guy that shouted.
So when Hammerhead shouts something the others don’t have many options, they just shout as well as they can’t take him down.
Best referenced a hive-mind back in Chapter 9, ep 10. But the alt-text there suggested that they just think the same thing because the sharks have five or six thoughts to choose from.
With all due respect to those who are concerned for Penk speaking so boldly: I think you underestimate Hammerhead. Perhaps Hammerhead may have misunderstood his brothers, but he’s not just above mindless but wise enough to see the limitations of his people. If so, he may be wise enough to admit his error and respect what Penk said. Ripping Penk limb from limb will not make him better than his brothers whom he sees as mindless.
Similarly, you may also underestimate Penk. Perhaps he sees this and that’s why he spoke out so bravely.
Or perhaps Penk was just being rash in his honesty. But if Hammerhead spares and even respects Penk for his frank truth-speaking, then Penk got lucky and I find being lucky worthy of its own respect.
I don’t know, I think you might be overestimating Hammerhead.
He clearly doesn’t have a strong enough command over his idiot brothers that they don’t try and do what they tried to do in the previous comic (“You’re not strong! Raargh!”) and he didn’t really have any compulsion against eating them for it.
The average landshark is not very bright and works mainly on impulse, not reason. When HAMMERHEAD told his brethren to move aside, they immediately jumped to “challenge of strength – FIGHT!” They paid for their mistake, but they couldn’t really help it: they’re not really capable of thinking ahead on a regular basis. HAMMERHEAD knows this, and so knows there’s really no point in attempting to command them, as they’ll just do whatever flies to mind first, regardless of whether or not they’ve learned before that half of their choices are bad ideas.
That said, if we are to assume that HAMMERHEAD is to become one of the world’s champions, he’s going to need some kind of successor to take his place governing the Land Sharks.
I predict that the next storyline within this recruiting-the-World’s-champions storyline will be HAMMERHEAD establishing a system of government amongst the Land Sharks, to replace him while he’s out championing.
Can Hammerhead, sorry, HAMMERHEAD even *see* Harky in that first panel, with the shark’s eyes being where they are?
If you look at the last page you’ll see his eyes aren’t on the sides but facing foward. So he shouldn’t have a blindspot in front of him.
Depending on how similar to actual sharks Land Sharks are, HAMMERHEAD might not even need to see Harky to know where he is – he’d be able to sense it by the electrical activity of Harky’s nervous system. In hammerhead sharks, this sense is keener than in others squaliforms – some hammerheads can detect prey buried under dirt and mud this way.
Of course, air is less of an effective conductor of electricity than water, so HAMMERHEAD might have to rely on other senses. Like sensing the pressure changes in the air caused by Harky’s presence and/or movement – sharks can sense movement this way in water.
Again, assuming land sharks have a similar range of senses that actual sharks do… :)
That was an awesome education. :D
Or, you know, smell. Sharks have great senses of smell.
Actually, it just occurred to me… the hivemind of sharks could be based on that. I was going with pheromones like insects, but if their senses are equivalent, that’d make more sense. They “see” each others impulses via bioelectrical sensitivity and get caught up in each others moods. That’s why proximity is important.
Better question: where are PENK’s eyes?
Kind of feel like Penk should have eyes visible in the last panel.
And then Riddick joins the adventurer’s guild and Hammerhead is doomed (yes Torint, this is based on your comment last comic)
Hah, so I’m not the only one who thought of that.
Well, it was nice having that arm, wasn’t it, Penk?
Aw, it’ll grow back!
Don’t eat the trolls.
Don’t eat the gnolls.
Don’t eat the stove packed with hot coals.
The avians can’t be et
Nor can the dwarves
The deer you brought could be et
But only when the table’s set
Eat the fish
Eat the meat
Eat a human on a seat
Eat the larder
Eat the stock
Eat the farmer
Eat the peasant with one sock.
Raid the pantry
Raid the store
Raid the butchers
for chicken and bore
Always eat
Always eat
eat, eat the meat
then eat some more.
— Goodnight Food, by Zero
*boar >.>
Some people can be quite the bore…
If that was really by Zer0, it would have been a haiku.
wrong zero, :P
“They don’t knoe the difference between food and each other”.
Well, look who’s talking.
JUST SO YALL NOES THEY NOT EATIN SELVES THEY JUST EATIN THE LEFT OVERS HAMMERHEAD DIDN”T ET.
HEY GUYS THESE GUYS ARE MEAT GUYS LET’S EAT GUYS!
HEY GUY YOU TALK WEIRD.
Nice to see Harky has sentient pauldrons like Frigg has
Can someone license a HAMMERHEAD action figure and get it into production STAT!
Anyone else getting ‘Pitch Black’ flashbacks from the way Harky and Hammerhead are facing off in panel two?
“They know not to eat the trolls or the gnolls, or our other allies.”
Well, of course. Even land sharks have some sense of taste.
Penk is a man after my own heart… because telling people they’re wrong is more important than the consequences of doing so. =)