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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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...
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!
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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?
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Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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.
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!
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
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.
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".
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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!
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!
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.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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!
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
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!
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.
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.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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!
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.
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.)
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.
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.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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.
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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!
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...
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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Discussion (63) ¬
Haha, The “smug” killed me on this page, so awesome!
The Home Alone joke sadly took me all too long to figure out. Touche.
I ain’t figured it out yet, and I saw that movie twenty billion times.
I really love this comic more with every strip. It’s wonderful!
Home alone? So give, already.
Yeah, I have no idea what the joke is.
Well I’m not telling you either.
Devious!
You rang?
Okay, Devious! Don’t move!
Took me a while but I think I got it.
I’m denser than lead and if I figured it out you’ve got no excuse.
I think most of us haven’t seen Home Alone since we were seven, and if I’m going to put on a John Hughes movie now I would pick a better one.
Never got into the Home ALone series, so whatever the joke is it’s totally over my head.
Poor, Frigg, always doing things the hard way.
Frigg! Stop trying to take yourself out of the gene pool! We need your crazy for future generations!
Could you see her settling down and having kids? EVER?
I can see her reproducing by accident. Who says you have to settle down to make babies?
A very active lifestyle like that one leads to miscarriage.
Point well made!
Well, I’m sure SOMEONE would care enough to restrain her, perhaps the poor man she’d broken?
Ohay guys what are we talking about in this thre-
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Yepp… Im with Phil on this one… :l
She just needs to be impregnated by someone made of sterner stuff. Someone whose genes see miscarriage as a challenge.
Someone like…Gravedust?
Chuck Norris : 3
Yes. Yes, i see that in my heart almost everytime i read this comic.
I hope you’re underestimating how charming I can be.
And i hope there’s a Frigg out there for me somewhere in the real world *sigh*
It’s Frigg, so I don’t make any assumptions about what’s possible, probable, or even slightly likely. Actually, I don’t even try and predict her actions five minutes into the future.
Non-standard sound and sight effects, removing any doubt the reader has about a character’s expression since 1979.
Go figure Frigg has to go and finish something she starts.
This comic, and this strip in particular , has forced me to acknowledge a deeply unsettling truth: Frigg is my *husband*.
*gives husband a loooong suspicious look*
Although he’s probably a little more feminine.
For a berseker, that man is very calm and collected. He doesn’t solve nearly enough problems with screaming and bloodshed.
Which reminds me of that one Final Fantasy game were you FIGHT A WALL. So don’t you tell me it can’t be done.
Being a berserker doesn’t mean that you spend all of your time flailing and foaming at the mouth. It’s a style of fighting that can be called upon but is extremely dangerous to everyone around you (think PCP).
In fact, in 1015 Norway outlawed berserker fighters.
Because of the drugs? :)
Well, there’s a theory that the Norse Berserkers may have taken drugs to get into their Berserker state, but I was refering more to the fact that people on PCP can go on crazy ramages and beat on things relentlessly because they feel no pain.
I used to do that when I got drunk… and also after kung fu classes when sober (but so pumped on adrenaline that I didn’t really give a damn about pain).
That was long ago though.
That theory’s got some decent legs as far as I know. Classic recipe for breaking a spear wall was to find the biggest dude around, get him liquored up, and throw him at the lines. Step two really shines when you realize that actually having the guy kill anyone is less important than him knocking over a few spearmen and having something to stand on that isn’t sharp.
I see you know as much about the berserk-theory as anyone else does: Almost nothing. From norse stories it seems more like they were just what a pawn would be for chess. But since it also seems like the linguists involved had certain ideological backgrounds and were reading the texts as they pleased (as you may read here, I do the same) it is very hard to say what they really were. I’d say they were choleric men with the believe to be able to obtain the power and spirit of wolves by wearing their furs. But it is – as any other interpretation of partly over 1200 year old texts – just a guess.
People are now thinking that berserkers are mostly the product of epic poems, anyway. But going back to the practicality of berserker rage in this sort of setting- you don’t want someone flipping their shit in a closed space when they should be working on a specific task.
yes, there is a time and place for flipping out, in waist-deep water with only allies around is not that place. “There is no problem that cannot be solved with gratuitous amounts of fire. If you feel the problem has not yet been solved, it clearly needs more fire.” -nobody ever
Bears, not wolves. Berserker comes from Bear-sark, the skin/pelt of the bear that they wore
Good point; I guess we just take what resonates most with us.
This comic is great. It reminds me of so many of the campaigns my friends go through.. only you know.. with a lasting quality. Most of the games involve pithy characters that drive the GM crazy and end the game. Needless to say.. I love what you’re doing here and I think the berserker is my favorite.
I ‘think’ I get the joke but I rather wait for confirmation than post the wrong punch line and kill a joke.
Another fan of the berserker, just goes to show you that the guy with the axe is usually right (why I always keep my hatchet handy)
From what I recall about ancient literature and the description of the berserkers, they were men who wore not much more than the pelts of one or two animals, chowed down on some psychotropic mushrooms and ran screaming, half naked, into battle. On top of expendability you have the fact that yes, they’re likely to take down a few people on their way (PCP!), but can you imagine a good forty to a hundred of these guys jogging down a hill screaming bloody murder, manhood flapping in the breeze while six or seven club twenty of your closest friends to death?
I believe the name is actually a direct line of muddying anglicization that came from it’s different parts ber and serker, but I can’t recall the originals.
Ber – bear. Sark – shirt. “Bearshirts”, in that they wore bearhide and supposedly gained its powers. c.f. “Wulfsark”, wolfshirts, who supposedly could change into wolves i.e werewolves.
I only see a Star Wars reference from Gravedust Deserthammer…. :( That said he happens to be my favorite character; the berserker coming in a close second.
Not to discredit anyone’s theory but when it comes to opinions vs. Facts; especially when not much is known as fact; more than one person has had an ‘idea’ on how things should be/were; take the dinosaurs for example.
At first we believed them to be giant monsters. Then we pictured them as dragons. Finally we said oh, they weren’t dragons; and proceeded to missassemble the bone structure. A decade or so after that we reread our clues to how the bones go together and realized we need to reassemble the dinosaur bones correctly.
I think everyone’s been very careful about saying that their ideas on the subject are theories.
“Theory” is stone-cold fact as far as science is concerned.
“Hypothesis” is a bit softer.
Fact: We don’t know many of the facts about berserkers. Fact: All we have are rough explanations by a small group people who find small hints as to what they were by looking at very very very old and run down objects. Fact: What they find was most likely created by the victors of the battles the berserkers were involved in. Fact: The berserker as we see it today is a warrior who was immune to pain, and charged onto the battlefield, frothing and screaming, to maim, kill, injure, and scare the enemy, and occasionally, on accident, his allies.
Conclusive theory: We don’t know jack about the subject, and it could all be lies and propaganda anyways. And thats enough of that.
This is one of the best webcomics I’ve seen in awhile. The art is almost impossibly great for the fact the site gets updated frequently and ON TIME. Then the writing is, well, awesome and hilarious… and the characters are actually interesting, with Bryon and Frigg being my favorites by far.
Also, I haven’t seen Home Alone since… what year is it? So, yeah, no extra joke for me. One last thing… “SMUG!” Hoory for un-sound effects!
i don’t know about 50 billion years ago, but i like my rage powers…. makes car windows feel thin ice and ribs feel kinda, i don’t know, comfortable is pretty close, at least till the day after.keep it under a minute or two & you wont even get sleepy or hurt your friends. yeah, friday was weird.
Fact: Swedish word for going berserk is Bärsärkargång. Fact: I wish you could do lineage research back to the viking era (actual era in Swedish history) and find that berserkers existed and were among my ancestors.
If you have to consult the charmap to type it, the comment system IS going to mangle it.
I think “smug!” should become a verb. =D
No idea what the hidden joke could be, but that sure is one wet Bandit that Syr’Nj is carrying there.
Beautifully accurate and yet semi-cryptic. Bravo
Home Alone aside, it’s interesting that Byron claims to know them all. Could that be some sort of sepia-world residue in his mind…?
What does “more willowy than Keynes” mean?
Okay, I now love Byron to peices. I liked him before, but now I really love him. He has true heart. He knows his team, he trusts them implicitly….this guy is so a ‘Father to his Men’ type.