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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
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.
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 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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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...
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!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
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.
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.
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 Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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.
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 Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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.
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.
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.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
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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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Photobomb level: Avian
This image is really a selfie taken by the avian on the top right of the frame.
Dude! Hold my beer and watch this!
CA-CAWW!
Oh man. Those dinosaurs in the back are gonna do some SERIOUS damage. I’m expecting one of the Peacemakers to take one down Legolas-style during this.
Crossbow strapped to wings?
And how do they wind their crossbows after the first shot?
If you look at the Avian in the bottom-left of the image, it has a hand coming out of the wing. So, crossbows are held with hands, and not strapped.
Still, you are right that pulling back the string would either require both wings or a wing and a foot. Not something easy to do in mid-flight.
Of course, no quiver or other container for arrows/bolts is visible. I assume the Avians take one shot with the crossbow and then engage in melee combat.
Actually that looks more like the tickler and less like an Avian hand. You can see the mechanism on the other crossbows.
One would think that from that height they could just drop arrows straight down, no?
Not sure terminal velocity for an arrow would be terribly lethal.
And it may not even get that fast; they’re only maybe 150 feet up.
African or European arrow?
Laden or unladen?
And here i though the avians would be crap shooters.
That might actually have been more effective :P
What they need is something along the line of the Roman Plumbata. Barbed iron head, fins at the back, and a mass of lead in between. Both sides used similar weapons in WWI to attack troops on the ground and zeppelins in the air. Attach them to using loops and a common wire for each row for rapidly sequenced drops.
I find your gravatar disturbing. Every day on my way to work I go by a billboard sporting an anti-abuse AD. And now I’m replacing the women on it with Rachel, and that goofy smile. Now I’m going to feel guilty when I laugh at it each morning. Thanks for that.
I would assume they’d have repeating crossbows when flying instead of single shot. However, you don’t see the clip on it, so these are single shooters.
Easy! Its freaking magic.
+1 to the delicious gravatar/comment combo.
Nobody is winning@
Aw goddamn it hit enter too soon. The second part of that was supposed to be “EVERYBODY LOSES IN WAR”
HUH. Good God, y’all. What is it good for?
For blood and glory, in the name of CONQUEST!!!
A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY. -WOPR
I would prefer; “Whoever wins, WE LOSE!”
War. War never changes.
Charlie Sheen.
Hmm….. those tanks are pretty effective. And there’s no air support for Gastonia. And…um….GUYS! GUYS! ALL THE GUYS LET’S EAT THEM! GUYS! So round one, advantage Savage Races.
Actually, if you look behind the top tank, advantage would be Gastonia: they at least broke through the front ranks of the Savage Races
Based on the fact that there are significantly less robotic lance thingies on Gastonia’s side, and the fact that those were behind Gastonia’s front rank, it would appear Gastonia’s front rank has also been broken by the Savage Races. Although it is hard to tell, since all the Gastonians look the same
Those hammer tanks are too clumped up. The Silver Centurion is in position to hullfuck all three of them in short order. The landsharks are about to crash in an uncoordinated wave into Gastonian shieldwalls, although those will be slightly less effective for want of spears. When the Rhinosaurs come into play, the savages will probably have the upper hand unless Gastonia has something up their sleeve.
In the end, it will come up to the champions, like every well designed videogame should.
The ground troops … remind me of the time I emptied out the animal cracker box and arranged the shapes in rows by animal (yes, I have CDO). (OCD is not in alphabetical order). It was so perfect … until my li’l sis (represented by the goblin tanks) attacked it by eating the center formation.
Not sure why Gastonia is holding so many infantry in reserve in block formation like that, with only a few engaged in the melee up front.
They can’t think of anything better to do with automatic pointy sticks than putting it on the front line just behind the infantry that just got slaughtered…
Right now would be a good time for those Airships…
GUYS KABOB CART COMING LETS EAT THEM!
I HAZ KETCHUP!
i was going to ask where all the bodies are but then i realised – land sharks
where’s the alt text? am i only one not seeing it?
Alt text says: “Who’s winning?”
Here, I’ll quote it for you:
Who’s winning?
I’m going to to with the side that has at least some archers, tanks, and monstrous mounts. If I’ve learned anything from playing Warhammer, it’s that blocks of Empire Swordsmen aren’t enough to win battles on their own. I mean come on, you at least need a Bright Wizard or a Steam Tank.
Also Silver Centurion’s mount looks like it just kicked one of his own men.
No, Silver Cent IV kicked a Silvasi (note the helmet flying off it’s head and the battleaxe beside it)
Not sure if you are being serious about the Gastonian Infantry, but the good thing about blocks of people: they can split and flow around obstacles
Well, technically, with the available details, that helm and axe could have been there from before.
As far as the army, no, I’m not that serious, thus the Warhammer jokes, but I do consider it a major oversight that they don’t have archers at all. They wouldn’t necessarily keep firing into the lines at this point (Avians can do it since they can shoot behind the main battle at the reserves) but they could have helped soften them up. I suppose maybe they left the archers with Bandit to keep the walls of the Fort going if their infantry falls, but…
Otherwise their formation seems solid considering what they face. The Autolances look like they immobilized at least one hammertank (or just got crushed by it, but they slowed it down at least), and the Savasi forces were basically slaughtered. With the forces they brought, it’s fine. It’s just that it feels like they forgot or simply don’t have one of the basic forces of war in the last two pages: ranged firepower.
Follow-up note [spoilers, kinda]: They seem to have been keeping their archers and battlemages in reserve on airships. I still think this is somewhat tactically unsound, given that they’re trying to defend the fort. Going into the field without first peppering the enemy with ranged weaponry is a waste of perfectly good soldiers, unless your ranged weapons need the enemy to be at a very specific location (which, since they are using airships to ferry their archers and such is clearly not the case, that sort of specificity is usually required for em-placed artillery only).
It looks as if almost all the rebellion infantry EXCEPT the land sharks have been routed. I imagine in a weekday or two we’re going to see the Silver Centurion’s holy weaponry as he deals with the hammer tanks.
Yeah, can see some of the fuzzies at the bottom running from the big-pointy-stick-that-only-goes-one-way-and-can’t-turn-or-move-very-fast
…Did the Gastonian lance thingies pin their own guys?
The land sharks would call that “Friendly Fare”
Land Sharks would call that kabob.
I love how only some of the land sharks seem to have weapons. The rest, apparently, realize that they are weapons.
Just noticed something about the Lance-thingies: they are self-mobile now, guess they just needed a push-start
Is this the point where the war machines become sentient? I, for one, welcome our smashy overlords.
“Oh well, who wants to live forever? DIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!”
Oooh, just noticed the self-tpopelled lances doing nice troll-Kebabs. Yummy!
Oops, typo! Meant “self-propelled”.
Huh, reminds me of Flash Gordon…