Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip
Guilded Age
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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...
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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!
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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.
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.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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.
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.
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.
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!
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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 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?
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.
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.
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
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
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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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Wise words fuzzy friend.
For being such a silly shite…dude’s got a lot of wisdom and over all good naturedness about him. Like a fuzzy, non-stoic Gravedust.
I don’t think munch of that chewing pun.
Gnaw, man, it’s a real kick in the teeth.
please, your puns are just gnawful
Well hey, just throwing in my two bits, but I rather like the flavor of this conversation.
I wish you all had better taste in jokes.
Hey, wordplay is our salivation from a boring day.
After all, humour is the spice of life. And everyone likes dishes better when they’ve got some bite.
Careful there, all these comments are starting to get a bit prickly.
this thread’s really dishing out a licking. somehow though, i just want molar.
Me just want cookie!
^ perfect gnawatar for that comment.
Auraugu reveals himself to be surprisingly deep. Hopefully the kid will take a moment to gnoll over his words.
Auraugu, the Love Guru.
The love aurauguru
Yes! My favorite antagonist lives! *leg drops in celebration*
Aw yay! Wolf-guy lived!
Auraugu has game (within a game, within a webcomic).
sounds like Dune – plots within plots within plots.
^ seems like something this character would intone… through his mouth piece that is.
Life sucks when societal pressures go against what you know to be right.
Is it bad I read that in Holly’s voice?
It would have been bad if you didn’t
I think the point is that Penk lacks a full sense of his personal identity. He doesn’t even know what’s “right” yet.
I am expecting him to break out in a heartwarming rendition of “Bear necessities”
Heart warming? Nah. How about heart stabbing!
Look for the bare atrocities
The simple bare atrocities
Forget about your worries and cause some strife
I mean the bare atrocities
Old Tectonicus’ recipes
That help the bare atrocities take a life.
Wherever I wander, wherever I roam
I slaughter what enters my big home
The flies are buzzin’ around the corpse
Of a dead fighter and his hor(p)se
When I look under the rocks and stones
And get a jones from the piles o’ bones
Then maybe make some new
The bare atrocities of life will come for you
They’ll come for you!
Look for the bare atrocities
The simple bare atrocities
Forget about your worries and cause some strife
I mean the bare atrocities
That’s why a gnoll can’t rest in peace
With just the bare atrocities of life
+1
I like to imagine how Auraugu starts with a spoken “Heart warming? Nah. How about heart stabbing!” before he breaks into song… +1 from me, too.
Is there someone who is going to collect all the GA-Lyrics? We could have a GA-Songbook!
When he’s not trying to kill you, that gnoll wrestler… seems like quite a nice, cheerful guy.
He seemed that way when he WAS trying to kill you.
Um, cheerful when trying to kill you isn’t nice. That’s more of sociopathic. He definitely didn’t come off as affable that way.
You know,I yet isn’t smart of him to leaf that mask lying around.
Does anyone else think Auraugu’s words were inspired by / are a reference to Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask”? Guilded Creators, feel free to give the definitive answer.
Even if it wasn’t intentional, it certainly has a resemblance, and I think it’s perfect to share right now.
WE wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
We all wear masks, Mr. Ipkiss; metaphorically speaking.
Great poem! I think originally the idea of using masks as a metaphor for social personifications comes from ancient Greece and their theatrical tradition. Either that, or a Fugees song.
People have been talking about metaphorical masks for thousands of years.
Auraugu is always generous, whether he is handing out love advice or elbow drops.
New one on me, Loki. It’s a nice poem with a sentiment I’ve certainly heard before. But I don’t think Auraugu is crying on the inside as the speaker in the poem seems to be. He feels that one’s mask should actually match one’s soul, and that once Penk’s does, he’ll have more success.
Yeah, masks are typically depicted in prose and fiction as something sorrowful, or a lie.
I sincerely doubt that a Luchador would agree with that.
Thanks for responding. Interesting; this idea that a mask doesn’t have to be a hider-of-sorrow is very new to me. I hope you’ll explore it more (and perhaps you’ve already planned to in this very chapter).
Is it that strange a sentiment?
There is a phrase I’ve used several times when talking to people:
“I did not choose the face I was born with, so I don’t see myself in it. My face is the one I choose to wear.”
The mask, the true mask, is that one that shows us as we really are. That mask is difficult to find, hard to gain, and harder to wear. But is the only one that makes you YOU.
One obviously does not get to be Champion of the Fuzzy Peoples without knowing ahead of time when one’s wisdom is needed, and how to arrange a reason to be there to give it.
Auraurgu’s mask being there wasn’t an accident. It “fell off… in that tree… somehow…” solely as a pretext for him to come over and give Penk advice about being himself.
I already root for these guys as much as I do for the MCs, and I’m guessing this chapter will give me more reasons to do so.
I am guessing it will ultimately be a cosmic team-up with all the characters taking on HR and his godlike magic!
I really hope so. Seems like both sides have some valid points and some real bastards, and it would make me really sad if they ended up killing each other when working together could have been an option.
For season 2 faans fans. Penk is Baxter (and I could say Strulks is Di, but nah).
I choose this mask. Do you guys like it?
Something tells me we’re not talking about people who morphing cars and gratuitious toy sales.. (Oy, I feel old)
I had a bunch of those toys when I was growing up. Heck, I think I still have them in a box in my garage.
I like this guy
Auraugu is just so -HAPPY- all the time!
I can’t stand it, it’s so adorable. And he’s deep, too. Were I a she-gnoll, I’d be all over that.