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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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.
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!
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.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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?
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.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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!
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.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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.
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.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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!
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!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
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.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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...
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.
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.
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!
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".
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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 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.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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...
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.
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.)
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
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 (58) ¬
Stickin’ it to the Man!
Up until now you were wanting to stick it to the little boys, weren’t you?
Awww. It’s cute that you have a crush, but maybe you should try PMing him, little boy.
While I doubt it will become as well-known as Godwin’s Law within my lifetime, I generally live by the rule that if your response to someone is to imply, insinuate or outright accuse them of immaturity… you’ve lost. Game over.
Besides… I’m old enough to wish that I was still that young.
As best said: hear hear!
Being an arrogant A$$ when you are trying to hire someone always adds at least 50% to the price.
No no, the first 50% markup is for arrogant, being an arse adds another 50% on top of that.
At least, and lets not forget expenses, and maintenance,.
surely dwarves invented unions..
I’m not sure I understand…why would the dwarf not jump at a payment increase of [i]two orders of magnitude[/i]? The guy just said his name is valued in the thousands, possibly tens-of-thousands! I understand he’s naturally altruistic but good lord! Unless…are the adventurers paying [i]them[/i]? Is there some hidden secret page that shows them somehow ending up on the opposite side of the bargaining table??? So lost.
That “three thousand, thirty thousand” is more like their net worth, or at least the total value they place on their social standing. The 30r is just the job price.
Right. You don’t start working for Bill Gates asking for a billion dollar salary.
well, you could, but it’s unlikely you’d get the job…
or as is more the case you wind up getting stiffed,”hey, why pay 30.000 when i can pay my archers day rate!” vs commerce + not paying up on a goodwill price (30 flat ) = the only paper your name is worth i just wiped my bottom on, good day.
(just found this after work today, no sleep tonight)
Of course, that’s 30 each >b>for those who return with the children. Without the children, nothing. And those who don’t return, don’t need paid…
I find it amazing how quickly Gravedust can shift the pacing of the story from slapstick l33t speak to pragmatic racial views. Bravo for the writers.
I <3 Gravedust. That is all.
The Iwatanni… appetite?
Do I want to know?
My guess is appetite for conflict against them.
Or flesh. That’s my back-up.
Heh heh. Stupid Bard.
What the bard lacks in STR, DEX, CON, INT and WIS, he makes up for in shiny charisma.
Wait a minute… As I was hitting reply, I realized there’s an interesting one-to-one match between the GA characters and the six classic DnD abilities. Did you guys plan that or was it just coincidental?
Frigg – STR
Keynes – DEX
Byron – CON
Syrnj – INT
Gravedust – WIS
Payet – CHA
Let’s just say we’re sticklers for having a balanced party.
My guess is for money. Remember, the pirates lured the kids into the sack by promising a tiara that was “rilly, rilly valuable.”
STR: How hard you hit. Important.
DEX: How fast you move/dodge. Important.
CON: How much you can take. Important.
INT: How much gray matter you have. Important(for mages, at least.)
WIS: Like CON for MP. Important
CHR: How good-looking you are while your delving into a 30 level subterranean dungeon full of demons and all sorts of nasty creatures that want to drain your blood and nail your corpse to a wall.
Important. Yeah, right.Trader, let me be the first to say I am in no way surprised that you see so little value in Charisma.
Now that was just mean.
My Pathfinder group uses a homebrewed score called your Beauty Score (BS for short cause we’re punny), which is decided on by a dice roll.
In short, your BS is how people view you right away, which gives you a bonus on your Cha skills. You could have a +8 in CHA with a Nat 1 in BS and completely fail diplomacy and intimidation checks, or have a Nat 20 with a +0 in CHA and woo your enemies into your bed like the silver tongued soon if Lucifer.
It’s made it a bit hilarious, actually, because I seduced a succubus so well she became or group’s healer as well as my character’s wife.
I’m afraid I also have to disagree with rating Charisma as being unimportant. Look back at some of the prior scenes where Payet is getting free food and board, female attention, and all sorts of other benefits based on his bardic abilities and personal charm. And as for benefits in a fight… http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlockes-guide-to-azeroth/episode-14-the-scarlet-hootenanny/689663p1.html
Obviously we’re supposed to ask the demon lord if he would kindly not destroy our plane of existence. You ruffians think that every problem must be solved with critical hits and nuking.
Obviously you let a Sorcerer do the asking.
Charisma is just the Int of your other head.
James Bond proves Charisma is not a dump stat
not to mention some spell casters (like sorceress) work off of charisma. just an fyi.
I have a lvl 2 Half-Bronze Dragon character that was our party’s tank, but she had a negative charisma modifier of 4, and her base stat was 11. She terrifies the townsfolk. But, she does have 59 hit points, and a ac of 23, and is fireproof. Oh, and St is 18. She wields a hand-and-a-half and a tower shield as well. And she is a fighter. She’s also 6’8″.
Forgot to mention she was rolled up using the 2.5 rulebook.
Having a low charisma is all fine and good assuming you never need to deal with any NPC’s. Which I found out the hard way that having negative charisma modifiers will not endear you to any townfolk you happen to be interrogating.
I had a level 1 Druid that somehow managed to go from quietly asking the barman if he knew something to starting a barfight, almost getting beaten to a pulp by some thugs, getting blamed for the bar catching on fire, and then being chased in the swamp by angry villagers. I later came back only to be kicked out again.
Well given that bardic magic is based off of charisma, I’d say it’s a pretty important stat for a bard to have at least.
Yeah, but isn’t Payet a “shit-elf”? The kind without magicks?
I think he just happens to be a charismatic musical warrior. But, playing music’s good for morale and dealing with pre-TV and internet townsfolk, and lords. The bards were feared, afterall. Ask Alan Moore:
“Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you’d pissed off some witch, then what’s she gonna do, she’s gonna put a curse on you, and what’s gonna happen? Your hens are gonna lay funny, your milk’s gonna go sour, maybe one of your kids is gonna get a hare-lip or something like that — no big deal. You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. And if he was a skilful bard, he puts a satire on you, it destroys you in the eyes of your community, it shows you up as ridiculous, lame, pathetic, worthless, in the eyes of your community, in the eyes of your family, in the eyes of your children, in the eyes of yourself, and if it’s a particularly good bard, and he’s written a particularly good satire, then three hundred years after you’re dead, people are still gonna be laughing, at what a twat you were.”
He doesn’t really need magic to be useful.
And Pali’s, never forget that Pali’s need Charisma too. Also, you get henchmen and followers easier if you can talk it up with them.
Well, he isn’t a Paladin or a Wizard or really anything that’s apparently useful as of yet.
Every other source I’ve happened upon looks down on Spoony Bards and they’re Charisma. If by some miracle Payet proves them wrong…well that doesn’t look likely.
I’d like to point out, just idly that having a massive charisma means that you can pretty much get away with ANYTHING. If you accidentally kill a peasant, who would you rather defend you? The guy with no charisma or the guy who is more suave then James Bond? I dunno about you, but I’d prefer the Charismatic guy, simply because he can convince the judge AND jury that it was all an accident.
Even in battle a high Charisma is useful. I’d like to point out Intimidate is a charismatic based skill… ’nuff said.
As for bards being useless. Yes Totally. They’re TOTALLY useless, like totally. I mean the fact they could mean the difference between you hitting the enemy and being slaughtered. Totally. I mean the bardic music has /NO/ Power at all….
Right… Faced with a horde of rampaging orcs? Inspire Heroics and SUDDENLY You’re harder to hit, meaning the difference between death and glory….
/Rant
That’s my forty platinum… now return to your original programming.
Good lord, i remember these arguments from back when I started playing… out of three little paper pamphlets, back in 1978.
Plus ça change et plus c’est pareil!
Oh yea, I quit playing around the time v.2 came out. You may now begin the debate of the various merits of the different versions while I chuckle from the sidelines…
Who cares about gettin’ hit when your CON is so high it doesn’t even matter? Who needs to persuade someone suavely when you press a blade to their throat? And I’ve never met a Bard with an enjoyable personality, always cocky or stupid. Ugh.
I’ll have a Beserking orc dual wielding war axes over a pretty boy and lute anyday.
“I’ve offended your god, ‘accidentally’ groped the mayors daughters, and punched out three people of various social classes since my arrival. I understand and acknowledge how my actions could have encouraged you all to form an angry mob. I might also note that I probably deserve whatever horrible death you have planned for the finale of this lynching. However, I must respectfully and violently disagree with your judgement. BLOOD FOR ODIN!”
Who needs CHA?
So…which party member is going to have the Luck stat maxed out? Is it Bandit cause thief classes are usually associated with that? Or someone yet to be revealed?
Ugh, I hated it when games added “luck.” Now THERE was a dumb stat. “This is how much fate likes you!” Me arse.
It’s if the GM likes you that you should really worry about. And lemme tell ya, a players Charisma is VERY worthwhile there. LoL
I take it you never met a wood elf called “Gaenor”.
I know right? Luck is the only stat you can have at an obscenely high level…and still have it fail on you.
the point of roleplay is not how much a@@ you kick, it’s the interaction and fun you have. sure, you’re a dynamic and powerful individual, more so than those about you, you’re likely to have developed SOME personality, play it out. have fun with it. when i play my dwarven cleric, i rarely look at my stats, my fellow gamers aren’t much for roleplay, but i speak in character with my accent and points of view and i make the character real for them.
much different from my military espionage tracker in the space game we play who is a tough negotiator on contracts. the background and back story sets who you are and what you do, much more than the numbers on your sheet.
The point of roleplay is not just about how much (whatever) you kick, but also how often and how hard.
But make no mistake. It is all about the kicking. Also spiked chains and tripping.
Ha, Iwata and Miyamoto.
Oh gosh . . . “appetites” . . . “Iwatani” . . .
. . . it’s a Pac-Man joke.