Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip
Guilded Age
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Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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!
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.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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!
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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 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...
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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?
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!
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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LMAO @ the alt text
+1
So perfect.
+2 (Because my addition is more important then rocjawcypher’s addition)
+3 (Oh, it’s on now)
+5 THE DALEKS CARE NOT FOR THIS SORT OF THING
+G64 (cookies for anyone who gets the joke)
I always delete my cookies.
I suppose that’s better that tossing your cookies.
Every pvp battleground match in WoW, warsong gultch…temple…Alteric valley…
I thought it was a league of legends reference >.>
It’s ALWAYS mid! This is why I don’t pvp!
“OMG WTF all the textures suddenly turned purple I can’t see shit!”
“STFU noob, it keeps the framerate stable.”
A Gastonian does not retreat!
because if they do they’d be impaled on their own lances.
whoa, what a killing field, though i don’t think the savage races are sticking to their battle plan
No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.
Unless your battle plan is to repeatedly hit your enemy until they stop twitching. That plan is near impossible to fuck up.
Unless your enemy hits you first.
Infantry charging in front of the armor?
Yeah, I was wondering about that. Also, don’t the Gastonians have similar armor?
The winner of any war is the one who supplies armor and weapons to both sides.
Spoken like a True Neutral.
now i’m just thinking about marcus in borderlands 2:)
cheeky bugger had sent the same recording to both sides offering his weopons to wipe out “their enemy”
The Silver Centurion just hacked his way through three dwarves. Something tells me the next four in line won’t fair any better…also from the look of it the savage races don’t seem to have a front line hero to take him on.
So this Silver Centurion isn’t using sparkly light weapons in pitched battle. Commence speculation on whether it’s because A) it tricky to do and being on a horse doesn’t help, B) its a tactical decision to avoid drawing too much attention too early, or C) this is a different Silver Centurion who isn’t also a crusader. Or others!
I’d guess right now D) theres no point using an ability that has been shown to be draining (from both frigg/rachel) against foes you don’t need it against.
Yeah, that’s my assumption. No need to waste it on anything less than Penk’s crew.
FORTH EORLINGAS
Can’t help but feel this battle could’ve been over very quickly only if the troop order on a certain side would’ve been a tad different. But I guess they’re called “not-civilized” for a reason.
I suspect that the Humans, etc sallied forth so quickly, that the Savages didn’t have enough time to get into formation. Or maybe the Savages decided on a different plan? Maybe the Hammertanks are going to start flanking.
This would mean that the Gastonians were sitting around in formation long before the Savage Races even mobilized, though.
On the Gastonian side, I’m going to assume that the multiple phalanxes in back are the “real” front line, while the guys who ran ahead are working to break/prevent the enemy formation, before retreating behind the shield wall. The Savage races who ran ahead are attempting to do the same while the Hammertanks (and the formation presumably offscreen and behind them) are getting into position.
I have absolutely no idea what purpose the Autolancers are supposed to serve (mostly because I don’t know how they work; area denial for the Hammertanks maybe?), nor why the musket-gnomes are charging along the front lines (except perhaps the fact that they are too short to fire OVER their allies’ heads), nor where any archers on either side are hanging out.
LEEEEROY JENKINS!!!1
Did the Silver Centurion just run in there? Quick help him. Stick to the plan! Am I lagging, I can’t hit anything?
Fix the damn Savasi running animation already!
It looks retarded!
No wonder Savage Races always lose, when their models are so unattractive no-one plays them!
*Prance Prance Prance*
Come on boys! Stay in tempo!
*Prance Prance Prance*
I got coffee up my nose from your comment + avatar, Chris.
prancegasm
Well it’s clear where the edge of the battlemat is.
That’s Old Man McGee’s land. He gets really annoyed with tresspassers.
Ah, a melee; Great time to be a landshark.
“Hey hit that guy!”
“Hey there’s a guy! Hit him!”
^In-melee conversation among pretty much any race.
Filthy casuals always trying to deathmatch in a domination map.
What happened to that Savasi wedge formation? It must have had a short half-life.
Heh heh, loving the groups of 3 midgets from both sides :)
“Hup! Hup! Hup!”
“CHARGE!!!”
And, is that dust cloud about a 1/3rd of the way up from the bottom of the 3rd panel, frowning? o_O
Certainly looks like a face to me O_o
Alright, I’ve searched around the internet, seeing a lot of references to fighting at/in mid, but not a single one actually explaining what it is. Anyone care to clear that up for me?
In World of Warcraft PvP matches, there are defined win conditions–like “capture the enemy flag three times,” or, “Hold the majority of the five bases for long enough to score enough points to win.”
The vast majority of each team, every time, seems to ignore them in favor of randomly brawling with the opposed team in the middle of the field, far away from anything that actually matters to the outcome of the match. Though, to be fair, from a distance (like, if you’re actually guarding your flag, or guarding one of the bases which you team holds), it can be hard to tell the difference between “running to midfield and randomly brawling” and “trying to get to a base to attack it and getting knocked off my mount.”
Reference to DotA / League of Legends, where mid lane is the middle of the map and the shortest route between the two teams’ bases – so when you’re trying to end the game one strategy is to group up and push down that lane.
Of course, sometimes people take it a bit too far and do nothing but blindly charge down mid lane, ignoring the rest of the map (top, bot, objectives like monsters that give you a pile of gold or personal buffs).
MechWarriorOnline, where people, no matter if the objective is “Capture the enemy base” or “Hold cap points to get resources”, everyone always heads out in a big clump straight through the middle of the map (usually called Theta) and starts brawling.
I like that three people have provided three different yet equally valid explanations. I guess we can conclude that fighting at mid is a bad thing regardless of the game.
It’s good in SMITE’s Arena mode! All the important things happen in the middle, but there are goodies to the sides that people constantly get tempted by.
Beroli’s is probably the reference actually being made here. (Also the oldest among them.) The specific terminology of “fighting at mid” was generally used in Warsong Gulch, the capture-the-flag battleground; other BGs had specific names for the middle.
probably can be used in TF2 and CS too, since often the objective is abandoned for “we gotta kill them first” from both sides, clashing in the middle of the map.
When elephants fight the grass suffers. Vietnamese proverb.
Where’s Goblaurance? smartest guy in the room?
At the back with the other smart savages.
I am wondering who thought it would be a good idea to put lances on… those things.
“Sir! I just had this wonderful idea! What if we made a machine that charges down at the enemy with a huge-ass lance, in a straight line, and impales the enemy?”
“Isn’t that called Cavalry?”
“Well, but this is a machine! And it’s-”
“Can it turn?”
“Nope.”
“Fight after it has used its charge?”
“Nope.”
“So you are driving a lance into the enemy formation… and then it’s lost forever? Without any further combat use?”
“Well… and then two people have to still push it…”
“… BRILLIANT! Deploy a whole bunch of them behind our first line!”
Now that I think about it… maybe the Admiral green lit this project?
Not saying they’re a useful invention, but if I had those things, and needed to figure out how to best use them, I would probably set them up exactly like that. Put them behind the infantry and in front of the archers, and not move them forward. They are obviously ineffective against individual soldiers, but they would work extremely well as a mobile spiked barricade to stop the giant enemy robotanks. And since they don’t require trained soldiers, just any farmer who can push a cart, they aren’t diverting any of your human resources from other places.
But still, if this is near the capital city of Gastonia (I’m not sure exactly where this battle is taking place), you’d think they’d have ballistae instead. Which are basically the same thing as this, except you can shoot that oversized lance out like an arrow and then load a new one in its place.
Actually… maybe that’s *exactly* what these are. Maybe the gnomes made them some tiny ballistae the size of fruit carts, capable of being pushed by only two people.
… Speaking of which. Did you notice that the only ranged units (the gnomes) are charging in the first line? And there do not appear to be any ranged units at all? Maybe there was a prelude to the battle that we did not see, but still!
best alt text ever
If I remember the intro to Warcraft 3 correctly, this is the point where the sky turns black and fiery demons start crashing down to the earth, annihilating both armies.
May that’s how Best comes back…after having conquered the Underworld.
Deep breath everyone…and get ready to do The Big No
Outside of a game, this is the stupidest way to fight a medieval battle when there’s a bloody fortification there! The Gastonians should not have sortied outside their walls, instead they should be raining fire on the hapless attackers from the relative safety of the parapets. Preferably with staff slings and ballistae both throwing flammables if possible. Archers at the ready for the aerial units. Only sortie to break the enemies
lines, destroy their engines, or to finish them off. (sorry, never played WOW or the like, just an old D&D gamer who is also a military historian)
Agreed: only the stupid willingly leave a fortified position at the start of a siege
Do you see those hammer tanks? Could you imagine what those would do to the walls of the Gastonian fort? They have to be stopped before they reach those walls, just like in all those ‘defend the fort’ games.
The Gnomes look like WW1 WW2 British Commonwealth dudes. :-)