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!
Fireweeds Moors
Gato Iberico
A cat-headed man and a girl with a sandwich hankering accidentally end up in a myth-infused country where magic chalices are a really big thing.
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!
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hazy London
Scotty
A story about messy relationships. From friendly foes to crazy families. Nothing is black and white, just full of color. But, all colors can get a little hazy...
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
The Automan's Daughter
Mike Stamm
Aisha Osman and her uncle Siddig outwit bikers, spies and kidnappers while gearing up for a showdown with the formidable Widowmaker mecha.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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".
Caramel Corn
Potchimew
Sarah is the only human left in a world full of mythical creatures and monsters. All she wants to do is live a quiet life, but everything changes when she meets her guardian angel, Jacob.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Bybloemen
C.B. McPherson
An infernal plan to corrupt the small town of Stenen Brug at the height of tulipmania is complicated by a pact made between a talented young merchant and a demon looking to change careers.
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!
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Cut Time
Juby
Rel and her trusty avian friend Fugue are on a quest to save a world that's lost track of time. Follow them and their new recruits, in a story written with help from the stars.
Godslave
Meaghan Carter
Edith has been thrown into the dangerous world of modern-day Egyptian mythology. Fighting monsters and dealing with family drama of godly proportions.
The Witch Door
Anni K.
Katariina Lehto discovers her neighbor is a witch called Jousia Muotka. Jousia introduces Katariina to the strange people and places beyond the witch door...
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.
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.
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.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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?
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Bicycle Boy
Jackarais
A cyborg named Poet wakes up in the post-apocalyptic desert with no memory, no limbs, and no idea why he keeps getting punched.
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!
Paranatural
Zack Morrison
Superpowered middle schoolers fight evil spirits in their rural hometown. Come for the jokes, stay for the cast, the creatures, and the mystery that ties them all together!
The Lonely Vincent Bellingham
Diana Huh
Vincent is an unkind man looking to disappear, and finds himself in the care of a vampire and her two wicked children.
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!
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 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.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.)
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!
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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!
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!
Kiwi Blitz
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
Steffi thinks she can use her kiwi mech to become a superhero. This idea turns out to be very stupid.
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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“I don’t understand the question” bwa ha ha…gotta love the Frigg!
That’s one big guard.
“I have a dagger of Ogre Slaying, I want to use that…”
I’m not sure a dagger could reach anything vital on this guy.
That’s just a matter of how man +’s it has on it.
Or if Frigg and Bandit have ever read X-men….
Dagger in eye.
Solves most problems.
When did JourneyQuest come out? Cause this sounds like a ref.
Today, the alt text, I chuckled. Surprise from Byron too.
What is the mouse-over text revering to?
That would be the latest WoW expansion “Cataclysm” where the worgen race was introduced
Seriously? Worgen?
For real?
Worgen were guaranteed to become a player race from the moment some low level first made his way into Silverpine or Duskwood.
I’m sorry, you lost me a “Wolfmen in Top Hats.”
That’s funny, he HAD me at “Wolfmen in Top Hats and Possibly Monocles” different strokes I suppose.
I dug the idea too, then I remembered it was WOW….
Unfortunately I’m playing Horde at the moment. So a goblin it will be. Always kinda liked the idea of a goblin warrior. Booty Bay Bruisers are bad ass.
I’m sorry for replying to this; it has nothing to do with the topic; but I just wanted to see how thin the comment space could get.
I second the previous poster, and wonder if two one-letter words might show up on the same line. a a .
i coulda sworn he was talking about Dragon age for a sec… but i was oh wait worgen…Yeah iam looking forward to being a werewolf DK though…
A Worgen being a Death Knight only exacerbates things.
I dare you to explain how that would make sense like, at all.
The real reason they exist, like the Forsaken Death Knights is that people would complain if they didn’t.
I know you mean from a lore perspective though…I’ll try bullshit.
Okay, worgen are humans afflicted by a curse, right? Well okay imagine if human soldiers fighting against the scourge were afflicted by said curse, and in the heat of battle the change was triggered immediately prior to their deaths. Or you know, a wizard did it.
At first I figured, “Okay, they escaped Gilneas, went up to Northrend, and found themselves in deep crap with the Lich King REALLY, REALLY QUICKLY.”
But the new patch just destroys that idea.
It isn’t any stupider than Dranei DK’s.
Worgen Death Knight makes more sense than Undead Death Knight at least.
Yeah that does seem to get a little redundant, doesn’t it.
I always wondered how Undead could be Priests, myself…
Something about worshipping The Shadow.
Presumably it’s a reference to the Deadmines in WoW too, a mine filled with wannabe pirates.
I still don’t understand how they got the ship in there in the first place. I didn’t see an opening anywhere in that cavern for it to sail through.
Huh…that seriously never occurred to me…
They probably built the ship in the mines just for the sake of having a ship. You know how pirates are…
And besides, they have to have those goblin lumberjacks in that mine for a reason.
Joe: There’s a gigantic double door in front of the ship. You can see the other side in northwestern Stranglethorn Vale.
Sweet layout in the third panel.
It’s like they have the perfect height for standing like that :) Posing!
Nice one!
This page isn’t linked from the previous page, btw.
Nonsense.
Alright, some heads bashed in, Byron’s philosophy revealed. What was Gravedust’s tone when he asked, “You believe your species lives to /valuable/?” Sarcastic? Curious?
And just what the hell is “Ontology”?
Ontology is a term used in philosophy to refer to the study of being, of how things exist. Syr’nj is referring to the problem of how exactly that big guard guy exists, whether as a human or an ogre. Or a celestial body.
A more interesting question is whether Payet and Syr’nj share the same ontology or not. Are they both elves in the same way?
Seems more like a problem of taxonomy to me, since ontology is usually more a question of whether categories exist (and if so what kind) and less about which category a particular thing falls into. But hey, it was fun dialogue either way.
Well, Syr’nj is a wood elf, and appears to actually be made out of plant tissue, judging by the way she speaks.
Payet, on the other hand, is a Shit Elf, so it’s logical that he would be made of…
Wait…
Wait a second there…
THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING.
Perhaps they are called that because they are best at turning food into shit.
I know a few humans like that too.
Oh, it makes me feel sad that the slightly philosophical humour is under-appreciated here.
Given that Wood Elves are actual plants, and that other elves seem to be animal in nature, I doubt that they are related, unless the wood elve3s either changed themselves or were changed by their gods at some point in their history. I suspect that elf in this language just means pointy-eared, the same way dwarf just means short. I love having a player with a dwarf character come to the realization that humans are all mocking his height by calling him a dwarf, when he thought it was like Amercians calling those of Nippon Japanese, just a corruption of translation.
Pirates in a shaft eh? I can dig it.
just a side note, what would shit elf do if he found the crossroads, and mr. I’ll tune your guitiar?
Play Tribute.
Pirates in a mineshaft, this from the minds who gave us demonic vampire elves. More on the topic of the comic, I love how the sound effects are weapons in and of themselves.
could the alt text be a reference to the temple in Gemmel’s White Wolf?
“I couldn’t find ye a parrot cap’n – all they got was these.”
“Canaries? Ye plundered us a hundred canaries? What can we do with a hundred canaries?”
“We could be plunderin that mine over there cap’n.”
A merciful Berserker and a Pwn happy Crusaders, great mix.
The guard’s name is Pluto. He used to be a planet, but he got himself demoted.
ROFL! I have been greatly enjoying today’s discussions. This is the first comic I’ve started reading at the begining and it is fun to see how the comments section grows as more people discover it! As a wow player, I am NOT looking forward to Cataclysm, since I still haven’t “caught up” in wrath. My DK is still only 76! Before you call me a slacker, consider I have just graduated college, have two kids, and a full time job that is sometimes an over time job. :-P
How can you let college, children, and a job get in the way of raiding?
Seriously, the more Byron talks, the more he becomes my favorite character. Best and Frigg can jump off a cliff for all I care, but Byron roxxor.
If Frig tries to bash that guy, he’ll think it’s a come on.
Frig might think so too. . . They might get along those two. . .
I got to say, Frig is *tough*. Nothing unusual for a setting like this, but swinging that mace while in plate mail, with what looks like a tower shield on her back? All while carrying on a conversation? That’s even more impressive to me than bending the bars (: She’s not just strong, she has endurance (constitution?).
Wait. The flashforward starting chapter 2:
Byron: “Dusty says there’s five cultists inside…”
Frigg: “Oh, NICE! Wait, who’re YOU fighting?”
I assumed she meant, “five for me, because I’m dope.” And she probably meant that, but now it seems it was also “five for me, because you won’t kill your own kind.” And he didn’t have his axes out in the ensuing fight, which I never really thought about.
Not that I’m surprised that all the details are planned out or nothin’.
All I can say is: Nifty.
No really, thats it! What, dont believe me? Dont give me that look!
(Great work as always, its a joy to see updates)
I’ve been reading this comic since around the third week, so obviously, I think it’s very well done. I have to say though, so far, Byron is one lousy berserker. Don’t get me wrong–he’s a great character, just not a berserker. If he calmly narrates and makes horrible puns while fighting kobolds, contributes strategy but little actual damage against other monsters, and has to be careful and not kill anyone when fighting humans, when DOES he ‘zerk out?
Just because you have an ability it doesn’t mean that you have to use it for every tiny little thing.
I don’t know much about berserkers, but it don’t think it is something you can just turn off and on. Going berserk means going into a blind rage and losing control, it looks more like a mental illness then an abillity.
Byron seems to be the down and out strategist for the group as well, and foaming at the mouth doesn’t leave room for much strategy. Each situation we’ve seen Byron in has been about him maintaining control off the situation as well, like Paul said the moment he berserks is the moment he’s lost control. ;) so be patient at wait for that wonderful little apex like the rest of us.
A GOOD berserker knows how to turn it on and off. The idea behind that fighting style is that they harness their rage and use it to kick ass. They wouldn’t be very useful if they couldn’t control it.
The thing about a berserker, in my opinion, is that the ability only activates after enough damge, physically or emotionally, is dealt that they ‘zerk out.
Y’know… I used to play the Baldur’s Gate games a lot… and not once did I ever have Minsc go berserk outside of scripted events (where he had to).
It just isn’t necessary.
…On kobolds, apparently.
It seems to have sailed right by everyone that this is a fantasy RPG setting where they know what planets are, AND THAT IS IMPORTANT WORLD-BUILDING, PEOPLE.
This reminds of the time I and my friends were playing a D&D campaign that our GM had made. We were exploring an ‘abandoned’ fortress. Abandoned as in: Full to the brim of Kobolts, goblins, traps and an Ogre.
Unfortunately for us the first time we saw the ogre it was sleeping so we decided to let our rouge try to sneak attack her. He was successful, though sadly not successful enough. He hit the ogre in the eye doing a good amount of damage, too bad for him she awoke from that, with us just outside the room.
The Ogre starts screaming from pain, but it was a weird sort of screaming, not that our rouge could care, seeing as he was being squished like a small tube in her arms. But what the rest of us heard was, “Who dares! Who dares wake a lady like me up in such a rude manner! I am a lady ye know! A lady!”
We managed to calm her down and give us back our half-squished rouge back after we healed her eyed.
What we learned from this was that never ever sneak attack a sleeping ogre, and most of all. Never attack a lady, especially when she is 3-4 meters tall and has muscles bigger than your head.
Looks more like a half giant maybe.