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!
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.
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.
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.
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Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
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!
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...
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.
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.
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
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
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.
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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
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.
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.
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.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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 End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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?
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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 see Auraugu, Bandit, Magda, and Fr’nj have challenged each other to the traditional pushup contest to decide the fates of their teams…
…And boom goes the dynamite.
Excellent gravatar quote combo, my fellow twitch frowner.
Beat me to it :-)
@Robtimus your avi is just what you needed to hit the damn ship and get away.
Allofasudden, I’m hungry for a hamburger made from beef hindquarters – a HINDENBURGER
Too soon!
Funny, I think I can smell one cooking.
You get those at Blimpies, right?
Did Magda trip? It really looks like she tripped.
Rana missed a great opportunity to say “Fire in the hole!” but then I guess he’s not the most verbal type.
He likes his words to have gravitas.
Also, falling off the very front of the blimp – NOOOO! PATRICK! SPONGEBOB, STRETCH OUT AND BREAK HIS FALL!
Well, if the airship crew doesn’t learn how to fly quickly, they’ll be forced to learn how to land softly…Or die trying.
Dang guess bad guys win this round. Shame did wanna see Peace versus rebels straight up fight
How did they win? At best they’re going to convince the other airship to fall back into a defensive position, and now they’ve played their hand.
Really, this is probably going to end in a draw.
Goblaurence did already mention that part of this plan hinges on the fact that the Gastonians don’t know they can’t do this again. Same way that the United States got Japan to surrender after bombing them with two nukes and leaving the threat of a more such bombs hanging in the air even though they were fresh out.
This is for one thing a huge blow to morale. Just about everyone on that blimp is pretty much dead either from the explosion or the incoming fall and it is in a very visible location which we can all assume the entire Gastonian army thought was entirely safe from this sort of casualty rate. The thing that must be running through every single person’s mind on the battlefield is fear from not knowing how the hell that happened and if it will happen again.
That said, a draw is reasonable, though it depends on what the terms of the battlefield are. The Gastonian’s are the defenders, since they are actually trying to hold the position of their fort and the World’s Rebellions are the attackers since they came right up and started this battle. Victory for the Gastonian’s probably means being able to hold their position while victory for the World’s Rebellion is either forcing them to retreat or to a lesser extent causing enough damage to stop any advance the Gastonian’s may have been planning.
dirigible not blimp
How dare you, my mother was a dirigible.
Like mother, like son.
I believe the correct term is rigid airship.
So, a rigidible? :)
With enough viagra, sure.
It’s a blimp, note the harness that is used to suspend the gondola from the bag.
notice that the structure that carries the hydrogen also has a visible frame it is not just a bag of hydrogen with a gondola suspended. The gondola is not suspended at all but is attached to the frame with framework not a harness , this is how the motors can be mounted on long struts away from the main body. Also note the rudder is mounted on a structure which is part of the back bone of this rigid air ship
dirigible=zeppelin=rigid air ship. not a blimp
No, I get that it’s a big bluff. Probably should’ve rethought the bit about them having played their hand.
Basically, I see Gastonia withdrawing to a defensive position and the Savage Races falling back. They don’t have the resources to take on the other airship, and as long as the other airship is still there it’s going to be rough to make any kind of headway.
The United States didn’t get Japan to surrender by dropping the bombs. Japan already was willing to capitulate a few days before, the bombs were merely dropped to scare the Russians.
Erm, the atomic bombs did encouraged Japan to capitulated, the acts showed the Emperor that there were no other option (other than ‘total annihilation’) now but to announce to the staff about accepting unconditional surrender. (which in turn made some hardliners attempt a failed coup attempt on Emperor)
I believe it’s uncertain. Japan was at least considering surrender before hand, but it wasn’t decided. The US made it certain with a couple of nukes, because they needed to test them on humans and buildings at some point, but I think the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan and the possibility of an invasion of Japan were also factors in the surrender.
As with most wars, it’s much more complex than it seems at first. I don’t think it was a simple as “nuclear warfare was the only way to end it”, but it wasn’t “lets nuke them just to see what happens”.
The Japanese wanted peace, certainly, but not at the cost of their empire–Japanese leadership was divided on several issues and several leaders wanted to hold out and get a deal that retained some of their WWII territorial gains. Meanwhile, the Allies wanted Japan to cede that territory as well as their pre-WWII protectorates like Korea and Taiwan. So there may have been a bargaining table setup bu t neither side was willing to actually cut a deal yet.
There was another factor: THe imperial Japanese propaganda had been too successful in convincing the Japanese people as a whole that they were invincible Samurai committed to death before dishonor. So successful that even after the nuclear weapons had clearly demonstrated futility, there was significant protests and thousands of ritual suicides over the surrender. Those bombings were needed to force the population to surrender, not the leadership.
In fact, it was bad enough that a group of junior officers actually attempted to capture or assassinate the Emperor himself in order to prevent the sacred emperor from dishonoring himself by surrendering.
If we had had to execute a ground invasion, there may not have been any Japanese people left. They were that fanatical.
Not to forget, there were some Imperial Japanese soldiers found decades later still fighting (or willing to fight)
Hopefully the Gastonians won’t blow things out of proportion….
Could it be that someone forgot adding the feathered fury that is the one, the only, THE RANA to the tags?
Because he’s clearly flying up there on the lower left.
BOOSH
But not the Mighty.
The falling debris will certainly make for an interesting battle
Champion of the Fuzzy Peoples is out of the fight… so many sticks to fetch!
Ok Rana, you’re looking pretty bad ass right now but ask yourself this: are you bad ass enough to retrieve a fallen wingman’s rocket pack (getting a quick patch from Goblaurence if needed) and go 2 for 2? Well, are you??
The ship has hit the fan…
If you consider yourself to be a fan of this comic, you’d better look up! Right NOW!
Oh, the humanity!
…or whatever you call this loose federation of humans, gnomes and various types of elves…
Missile/Zepplin OTP
Welp. Time to invent the parachute.
Makes you wonder if the Sky Elves are ever going to drop by.
There are certainly elves dropping.
Aren’t they already on the other airships? I thought that’s where the magic missiles were coming from.
look up what do you see?
Hydrogen or Helium? Discuss.
Can’t be helium, it’s clearly burning. Unless Goblaurence jury-rigged some sort of nuclear rocket?
The blimp is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees.
It is the Lembas burning. That stuff is like 99% butter.
Its actually a sack of wind powered by all the Gastonian noble families’ hot air. Powered by politics!
… um, nuclear fission rocket, I should say? Whatever could start a chain reaction of noble gas.
I now so ship that rocket/airship pairing. Their relationship is the hottest out there.
Oh, the humanity
Also, the elvenity and gnomenity.
AND DO NOT FORGET ABOUT THE FUZZY-PEOPLEITY, THE SHARKITEY, THE TROLLITEY, AND THE GOBLINITEY.
OH THE HUMANITY!
Will somebody think of the children!?
They did, kids love balloons and fireworks.
This is what you get for not having a flying protagonist.
I knew Rachel should have taken the Flying Nun prestige class.
Geez. I just don’t get into this whole storyline. I don’t find this particular set of foes compelling at all.
Maybe I’m the only one but I wish these scrubs would die a quick death, including the ones the writers seems to have a fondness for (the gnoll, Goblaurence.)
But there are lots of webcomics in the world. We at least got a cameo from Rendar in this though.
You are right! You are.
F*** YEAH, GOBLAURENCE!
Hang on… I am allowed to cheer for their side, yes?
A + B + Select + Up Arrow + A + B
*wait turn*
So who is the guy in the left binocular panel? I don’t know him at all.
from the tag, i think thats rendar. i forgot his name too. but he first appeared with the adventurers guild group. hes a mechanical engineer.
upon closer inspection, he appears to be piloting the second airship
Judging from the goggles, the levers and the general direction he’s looking, I assume he’s the pilot of the second dirigible.
Aye, Rendar the Renderer. You actually see him when the warships first decloak. Probably directly responsible for the upgrades to the original designs too. Better hope he had the foresight to stash his phosphorus glider somewhere.
Serves ’em right. They should have known this is bound to happen once you start building zeppelins.
Put a giant balloon over the battlefield, first thing that people will do is try to shoot it down…
True, the irresistible urge to pop balloons dates exactly as far back as balloons.
True enough, but you can poke little holes in an airship’s envelope all day and it won’t go down, possibly hours later, but not in a tactical timeframe. Shooting down Zeppelins was actually one of the more difficult things for Allied aircraft during the Great War. Even full of hydrogen, it’s not easy to set them on fire. Partially because Hydrogen simply drifts off into space once it leaks, and the early dopants weren’t as flammable as the high tech coatings on the Hindenburg. Artillery, bombs, and whole belts full of the hottest incendiary tracer ammo available were the best bets, and they weren’t guaranteed.
Also, most Impact-trigger explosive devices (rockets etc.) do not trigger when they hit the hull, because the force of the impact is so small. They will go right trough on the other end. And the fact that some airships have succesfully retreated with as much as a third of their helium/hydrogen missing, as well as the resilience of the bigger ones against bad weather, should underline it.
Yeah, that’s like the second thing that happens right after you launch a dirigible. (The first is someone calling it a “blimp” even if you stick half a dozen propellers and a huge rudder on it.)
Oh hey, it’s Rendar, that guy that’s there sometimes…
To think, this could have been prevented if only they scattered shiny, shiny chaff when they first sighted the Avians …
Somehow I can Jimmy Page playing the intro to “Heartbreaker”
… is that airship still full of bombs?
Cool Birds don’t look back at explosions.
Am I the only one disappointed that the mouseover text wasn’t “Look! Up in the sky!” ?
Sorry, this should have been on the next day’s comic…
Gasptonia :o
The artwork on this page is phenomenal. It’s so moving, that I actually feel guilty complimenting it.
I keep trying to think of ways to rescue everyone aboard.