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!
Peritale
Mari Costa
A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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.
Elephant Town
Danielle Corsetto
The long, slow tale of Kris, Paul, Berto and Mirando, four people who live in the same creaky old house, but don't know each other. New chapter updates every 2 months.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
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.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Spinnerette
Krazy Krow, Rocio Zucchi, Pablo Rey
When a lab accident gives Heather Brown spider powers and six arms, she does what any midwest comic geek would do: Become Ohio's #3 superhero!
The Glass Scientists
Sage (S.H.) Cotugno
A gaslamp fantasy comic about the life and times of a ragtag group of mad scientists and their enigmatic leader, Dr. Henry Jekyll.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
Tove
Severin
The end of the world is coming, and Tove doesn't want to be a hero, but SOMEONE has to look after her little brother.
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!
Speak of the Devil
Moz (M) Lee Lunsford
The rich and powerful of the city are quickly learning... mess with those who have nothing, and Sunday Blackburn shall appear.
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.
Helvetica
J.N. Wiedle
This story follows Helvetica's quest to uncover who he was in life, his existential crises, and his struggle to to make death worth living.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
Demon Street
Aliza Layne
Two kids explore a world full of monsters and magic trying to find their way home again. But when home has been stolen from you, where do you go to get it back?
Little Red & Wolf
Aoi Maneki
Delve into the daily lives of two famous fairytale characters, and their adventures in this big weird world we all live in.
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.
Parisa
Ellen K
Two friends, Nolan and Gwen, take it upon themselves to escort the amnesiac spirit Lelief across the world of Parisa.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Awkward Zombie
Katie Tiedrich
Gags and goofs about videogames and the things that happen in them.
Raruurien
Ann Maulina
To maintain a peaceful life without her husband, a witch has to assimilate with the villagers, become a role model for her sons and also keep a low profile by confining her powerful magyx in public.
Ozzie the Vampire
Eric Lide
Ozzie and her best friend Kimmy are your average everyday normal art students – except one is an immortal vampire with superpowers and the other possesses a magic talking grimoire. Also they have to save their town from a demonic invasion.
Nix of Nothing
Moz (M) Lee Lunsford
The machinations of higher gods have stepped in and ruined Nix's, Demigod of Nothing, plans for an easygoing life. Now they must journey far and wide, meeting friend and foe, trying to get this divine target off their back!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
The Mash
L.F. Garcia, Danigami
In a world shrouded in mystery and threatened by great evil,a young mummy prince will use his new life to unite with other monster children to save it.
Phantomarine
Claire K. Niebergall
A ghostly princess must sail across a haunted sea to save her soul from a devious, shapeshifting death god known as the Red Tide King.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.)
Tiger, Tiger
Petra Nordlund
A young noble lady steals her brother's identity and his ship to find love and adventure, and to write a book about the fascinating life cycle of sea sponges!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Novae
KaiJu
A historical romance with a touch magic and a dash of astronomy. It chronicles the romantic adventures of Sulvain, a sweet tempered necromancer and Raziol, a passionate 17th century astronomer.
MASKLESS
kickingshoes
In a world where people can wield the magic of elemental Masks, all Ashe wants to do is help. Maskless and useless, with dreams of fire and smoke on the back of his tongue, he finds himself on a strange, dangerous path to uncovering the secrets of these incredible objects, and the source of the monsters plaguing his home.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
The Din
Karin (Karrey)
The Din changed the world, mankind & its technology. Gregg Emilio dreams of flying in a sky that hasn't carried airplanes in a century.
Witchy
Ariel Slamet Ries
In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your hair.
Laws and Sausages
Zach Weinersmith
Your cartoon guide to the American governement!
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!
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".
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.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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!
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Kelly Turnbull
A weekly comic celebrating the finer things in life. Like manly men, lumberjacks, and time traveling special ops agents.
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?
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.
No Need for Bushido
Suburban Samurai, J W Kovell
The flash of a blade, the clash of steel! A runaway princess and her samurai companion navigate a fractured country on the brink of war.
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.
The Hunter of Insania
Aoi Maneki
Wiol Alkko sells fake magical objects to those desperate for cures. When he tries to scam a real witch, she curses him: within a year, Wiol must learn and respect magic, or succumb to corruption of body and mind.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Heroes of Thantopolis
Izzy Strontium Hall
A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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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Odd. I was thinking that Penk was a player, and Harky wasn’t. I know Harky thinks he’s talking about Tectonicus, but… maybe there are players who control the leadership on both sides, too? Like those hybrid RTS/FPS games, or even a classic MMORPG where guild leaders might be more administrators than players.
It would depend on what kind of setting we’re looking at. Is the world of Arkerra purely a creation of Giger and Hurricane? Are these characters who think they’re real actually just ones and zeroes? Or, did Giger build a game but somehow tap into a *real* world out there? Are players creating people out of the game’s mechanics or are they taking over or riding along the experiences of people native to this demesne? AFAIK, I don’t think we’ve even figured this out yet. :-\
Even more questions. If Arkerra is a real world and the game is only a gateaway to it, are the players been there for all their characters life?, I mean, were they born as their characters or they took their bodies and memories?. If it’s the fist, that could mean that next players have been there all the time. It’s difficult to say at this point what it’s real and what not.
Just wanted to say I’m happy to know there are others here who associate the initials “H.R.” with the last name “Giger” above anything else.
but that means….. Hammerhead could also be a player.
Someone, somewhere, write an MMO where I can play a giant hammer headed shark warrior… NOW!
Champions online. I had a character named Carcaradon- essentially a mashup of a Street Shark and The Everlovin’ Blue Eyed Thing, with a bit of Hulk mixed in. Most fun I ever had playing that game- and there’s Hammerhead cosmetic options too.
Little quips like this are what remind me that the PCs had lives before this, nice touch.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong here but: Tectonicus is kinda your classic destroy/burn the world and all in it old god right? He doesn’t care, but kinda wants everything burned to the ground.
Harky is fighting for the creation of a nation of the outcast and beast people, but is also the Avatar of Tectonicus. Is Harky duping Tectonicus to gain his power, but in the end wont destroy the whole world as Tectonicus plans?
I see Tectonicus rather like an elemental fire god. He doesn’t really have inherent intent or plan, like world destruction. I think it’s more like he IS fire, that consumes whatever it touches and constantly needs fuel to go on. But fire can be tamed to, say, heat a boiler. Inside Harky, Tectonicus’ power seems pretty tightly controlled, doesn’t it ?
I see it more as a righteous fury myself. fire god, check. head on destruction and rebirth cycles, check. burn the world…well sorta…more like burn anyone who defies Tectonicus’ will;D
I really, really, really get the feeling Harky was just like Penk when he was younger- or that Penk, for all his fears, insecurities, and weaknesses, is going to gain Harky’s strenths and bravery once he becomes champion.
Which means we’ve got to expect Harky dying sometime soon so that the avatardom can pass onto Penk
Maybe we’ll get some touching scene where Harky reveals that being Tectonicus’ avatar consumes you prematurely and that passing down the role of avatar to Penk is hardly a favor he’s doing him but more of a necessary curse that Penk in turn will have to bear for the good of his people…
All in all, these last few pages have made me love those two guys.
Agreed
Definitely.
Huh. I wonder if Harky means that.
You know, we’ve assumed all this time that Byron and co are the five, but what if they aren’t?
Means HR has been wrong this entire time; he has never had control.
Since the attack on the Wood Elves, I always assumed the Champions and such were “Players” like Bandit and E-Merl and such.
Also, I think we can assume that HR never had control regardless.
But then again I like to pretend the HR tank-people story-line doesn’t actually exist, mostly because I think it’s kind of lame (sorry, just how I feel, really good comic otherwise though).
I tend not to like counterpoint stories either, Tales of the Black Freighter comes to mind which seemed pretty disposable in Watchmen.
I especially don’t like stuff that cheapens or provides an escape from the ‘world’ like Star Trek holodecks and Assassin’s Creed office drone segments.
I get the need for drama and gravitas to counter the ‘lol gamer comic’ origins of this comic but a story like the one on this page is wonderful and provides all the weight you need without Sepia World just waiting to go POOF: “and it was all just a dream”.
Playing through Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, I have to agree the office sections are dry, but otherwise I think that counterpoint stories can do a lot to enhance the character and world building of a story.
I liked the Tales of The Black Freighter segments from Watchman. Well not so much the comic within a comic itself, to me it was all about the interaction of the News Vendor, and the Boy. They are street level views of what’s going on in the world, and reflect the views of the average citizens of the world. They are mostly concerned with making enough money to get by, and escaping from the reality of the world by reading comics. The ongoing interaction makes their final scene together all the more poignant, and while you can say the comic doesn’t necessarily need it, I believe Watchmen is all the better for it.
My initial gut reaction to the reveal of the world of Guilded Age being a “video game” (if that’s what it really is) was negative. It was a little bit of “been there, seen that” mentality, there’s been a lot of fiction that have explored the same ideas, albeit for the most part they do it shallowly. However, in the time hence, I have been won over by writing and am really looking forward to the pay off. I really hope there’s an extended epilogue, or resolution, so that the consequences of everything that has happened can be examined in depth. Will the characters have to cope with PTSD after everything that has happened? How do you continue your life when you were in essence two separate people(in the case of Bandit/Best 3 people or so my theory goes), and have two sets of memories. Can you return to real life after that?
If anyone’s still skeptical and wants an example of this idea done well look no further then John Scalzi’s Red Shirts. It’s a funny and thought provoking piece of fiction.
Can you elaborate on your theory concerning Bandid and Best?
I’m intrigued.
How do we know that they’re not both sides?
My guess after this thread (including Thinker’s response below) is that the players in the tubes were usurped by the ‘game’ at/following the ‘Heroes’ deaths.
Think: after their respawning, the ‘good’ guys have largely quit with the adventuring and heroics and are now doing government drudgery, whilst the ‘savages’ are gaining the momentum, and many commenters are noting parallel traits in the new champions.
It’s why H.R. felt he had lost control – the program noticed the heroics of the PCs and has now stolen that moxy and reallocated it for its own purposes. H.R.’s countermove was the addition of the new team members (E-Merl, Rachel, Scip).
Didn’t HR order at least one additional tube? Perhaps there’s already someone in there.
It was a rhetorical question Penk.
“Tell me Penk… why do your eyes keep disappearing like that?”
ironic comment/avatar combo is go
I’m here to serve.
Ow my heart
So… I’m still convinced that all this is just an elaborate setup, the punchline being something along the ways of Penk providing the beat and HAMMERHEAD starting off the rap to “Can’t touch this”.
One day Penk, all that the sun touches will be yours…
Unfortunately for Penk, the Sun only directly touches empty vacuum. That, or highly radioactive space dust. Well, good luck!
Love the alliteration on Penk’s swearing
“Great. Here you go then.”
*rips Fireseye out, shoves it into Penk’s belly*
“Good luck!”
Graphic violence is the only proper way to pass on leadership.
Can it be? Is this strip powerful enough to defeat the punning threads?
Are the landsharks all-male, or are they one of those mono-gender races (i.e. identical except for under the loincloth)? It would be badass if Hammerhead was a female landshark.
Given the sexual dimorphism in most fish and sharks, the hammerhead is most likely female.
Darn them savage races for making have empathy for them…
I’m thinking more like Rudy in Log Horizon.
We have nothing to fear except fear itself! And that shark guy following us. Oh crap I think it’s getting closer!
Dangit! You’re not supposed to like the bad guy! You got me liking the bad guy!!
Eh, at this point I dont think they’re the bad guy they were made out to be early on with the player ‘deaths’ and the attack on the capital of wood elves. Its just cultists now, isnt it? And they have both sides in their ranks
Okay, not sure what Harky was asking Penk
At first, thought H was asking P if he would still be a little drummer troll, but is he asking if he would rather be the leader?
Well, we already knew Penk had giant stones, but to say to Harky’s face that he wants his position just grew those stones into bo(u)lders