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Guilded Age
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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.
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.
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.
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!
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Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.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 Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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.
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!
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.
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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!
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.
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!
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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...
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.
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?
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.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
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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They are used strictly as an artistic choice for the set dressing of the comic.
They are used strictly as an artistic choice for the set dressing of the comic.
Don’t think they really thought through about where it would crash.
Penk’s fault. He never mentioned that he didn’t want it to crash down on the armies !
He can’t expect Goblaurence to think of EVERYTHING now can he?
…and it’s still full of bombs!
and death… don’t forget about the death part!
Well, I am just blown away by the effectiveness of that maneuver.
…why would anyone make any type of vehicle have four steering ports? Is each propeller controlled separately? How…inefficient. Obviously not German engineering.
Multiple nacelles are actually pretty standard for airships. With all of them on you get more thrust, and by using and angling them selectively, you get decent manoeuvrability. Unlike a plane, which generates lift with wings and therefore cannot fly, let alone turn, without moving, an airship can spin in place while remaining perfectly still otherwise- barring the influence of wind, of course.
As an addendum, it’s useful to think of a plane like a sailboat and an airship like a canoe. A sailboat steers by angling the rudder, but it only turns if it’s already moving forward. You can put paddles in the water on either or both sides of a canoe, however, or even paddle in opposite directions to turn essentially on a dime.
That…was a brilliant explanation.
I don’t think it’s the nacelles that’s the issue being raised by Vlad but that they’re controlled by 4 separate wheels. Given Rendar the Renderer’s engineering genius, you’d think that he’d have linked them to a single wheel and control system under just one operator instead. A 4-wheel setup means it’s necessary to coordinate four steersmen at the same time. That can be done with the captain barking orders and with military training and discipline, but a single wheel control system for the entire airship makes such coordination unnecessary while sparing manpower.
Consider if a steersman is knocked out of action somehow- it can happen, despite the defenses they put on the airship (pretty solid actually- archers and mages). In fact, we now have one going down. Anyway, if a steersman is taken out, who’s going to replace him? For that contingency, they’d need another steering-trained officer. But with 4 of them, they’d need a lot of other people with that extra training.
As I understand it, a lot of early airships had the engine controls mounted directly on the engines themselves; you WOULD need four steering guys, because they would have to be in the nacelles with the engines. Of course, with a wheel-in-cabin setup, four steersman does seem redundant. I would argue that four wheels would still be useful, however, as I imagine it would be very difficult for a single pilot to manipulate individual engines in those cases where such fine manipulation is required- particularly lacking controls more precise than wheels.
The ideal system would be a single master wheel that could be engaged or disengaged as required for full-power steering while still allowing under-steersman to to fine-tune individual engines at their own wheels as required and under the primary steersman’s orders.
It may just be for mechanical advantage. Without servos or some other mechanism to multiply the force, turning all 4 nacelles would take a LOT of stepping down to get the leverage needed to turn them.
It was faster for construction purposes than combining them into a single control.
Or artistic license; it just looks freakin’ cool.
That makes sense, but I can’t think of a good reason you’d have all four at the same angle at the same time as depicted. This would scootch the whole airship laterally against air resistance, but turning the rear two opposite the front two would make a nice tight turn, allowing it to be pointed toward the desired bearing with the full-forward power of then all 5 engines behind it.
If the rudder were engaged, having the engines all pointed that way would turn the ship in an arc, rather than on the spot. As depicted, however, you’re right.
what the hell are you two, physicists or something?
They don’t sound like physicists to me. Sounds to me like they have navel experience or suchlike.
Still, you act surprised and more than a little dismissive.
Keep in mind there are a wide array of people with a wide array of expertise on the Internet, and that such knowledge is a virtue.
Naval.
Not navel… though maybe that too.
Those belly button shots they did in college really helped with their understanding of fluid dynamics.
Could just have a single wheel with an adjustable differential; that’d also rule out any sort of unfortunate accidents caused by improperly-coordinated wheel-turning.
That said, Swagner’s suggestion that it was an anti-hijacking strategy in response to the warmech incident seems like the coolest explanation, if not the best.
There are presumably situations in battle where you’d want to maintain a constant orientation relative to either your target or attacker.
As far as the staffing is concerned, it appears they only need two scripted characters and and a couple of Redshirts (or Stripeshirts) anyway.
A good story must always have 2. Otherwise you just have a monologue.
No one likes a monologue.
Unless it’s a Samuel L. Jackson monologue. You’ve gotta love a Samuel L. Jackson monologue… unless you’re a shark.
I’d venture to guess that turning then moving would take more time, and they’re mainly worried about getting the remaining airship somewhere not-directly-above-the-imminent-fireball.
And, as far as possible away from whatever the heck caused the other ship to go BOOM.
Even load balancing. Blimps are friggen fragile. Point the engines in the wrong direction and they can rip themselves apart.
Well, without power steering, you have to rely on the strength of the person turning the wheel, it might have been too much. (Anyone noting that a setting with warmechs that failed to invent power steering would be crazy should be reminded that they invented warmechs before railroads, and therefore the level of technology is schizophrenic.) Or maybe they didn’t want one person to be able to fly (or hijack) it? Again, the warmech incident may have taught them their lesson.
Requiring that it be controlled by multiple pilots, each likely having to be trained in order to properly coordinate their efforts, would be a brilliant anti-hijacking strategy. I’m blown away by your revelation.
Actually, based on my experience, German engineers don’t necessarily do things because it’s efficient; To me it seems that they do stuff simply because they can, to show the world how clever they are.
Friggin’ van doors that need special tools and a eight-armed anti-gravity monkey…
Or trigger units that use 27 parts instead of 12.
German engineering isn’t always the greatest. Take a look at the Tiger tank for example, a gas guzzling maintenance nightmare that broke down more than actually fought. They did a lot of impressive stuff throughout history (back in the day everyone was raving about German steel and they were exporting sword blades like crazy, they built the first jet fighter, first assault rifle, night sights, etc), but still ended up failing on some rather strange things (couldn’t make a good diesel engine to save their lives, or their tanks’ lives to be more accurate, only came up with a working semi-auto rifle after being “convinced” by the Russians that they were actually useful, etc).
Long story short, the Germans have been and still are pretty amazing in the technological and military fields, but they weren’t always the best and still aren’t. The myth that they are amazing innovators with the best tech is just that: A myth.
Um the diesel engines in their fighters were pretty amazing! Also, the 1915 Automat Federova was likely the first assault rifle ( intermediate cartridge, detachable box magazine, selective fire shoulder arm). Sorry, don’t mean to pick nits, I agree with your overall statement.
Which fighters do you refer to? A quick internet search does not support your claim.
One airship down, one to go, from the looks of things.
Reminds me of Mal at the beginning of the first episode of Firefly.
You mean the opening scene in Serenity Valley?
Looks like a complete loss for the good guys. Lost airship and lose base spells bad times for the Peacekeepers unless they kill the Champions. Morale destruction might balance loss of base and sho…but figuring how story goes they survive and probabbly complete loss
Hey everybody whats the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?
Well one of them is a flaming Nazi gasbag and the other is a dirigible.
Wait, did you just call Limbaugh a socialist? (Also, what does this have to do with the price of rice in China?)
Fascism is not mutually inclusive with socialism. Don’t they teach you kids anything in school?
They taught me that the name ‘Nazi’ was short for ‘National SOCIALISM’. (Nationalsozialismus in the original German). The fact that they were fascist and not socialists (at least, by modern definitions) doesn’t change their name.
Well, actually, politicians taught me that. The one who accidentally spoke at an American National Socialism party dinner without realizing it was celebrating a certain infamous individual’s birthday…
The Nazis were not in any sense socialists by the time they were in power. It’s actually possible to have something in an organization’s name without it being an accurate description of the organization.
(See “People’s Democratic Republic.”)
The Nazis considered themselves socialists, if you bother to read their own writings, and their ability to command exactly what “private” industry produced certainly matches.
The whole “they weren’t REALLY socialists” is a convenient fiction, promulgated primarily by socialists, not believed by anyone who actually studies what socialism is.
That’s actually not true. It’s a disputed matter among historians as well as political scientists.
Having complete control over the means of production without actually seizing ownership of it was their M.O. That’s a semantic dance, the effect was the same: governmental control of the means of production is socialism.
Another fun fact: the fascists originaly considered themselves leftists.
The Fascists never considered themselves leftist or rightist. They hated liberal democracy and despised the notion of egalitarianism, and they hated traditional conservatism because it wasn’t nationalist enough. Fascism was viewed as an alternative to both left and right. That said, most historians put Fascism squarely on the far right because that’s who joined Fascist parties and Fascist administrations.
‘National Socialism’ as a title was in opposition to ‘International Socialism,’ aka Marxism. They didn’t much care for the ‘Socialism’ bit, for the heart of Socialism is class identity and Fascism doesn’t give two fucks about that. Instead, Fascism is all about national and ethnic identity; class identity would represent an internal division they simply don’t acknowledge. Their use of the term would be more a synonym of ‘populism.’
Socialism’s enemies would be the rich, no matter which side of the border they’re on. Fascism’s enemies would be anybody on the far side of the border, and anybody who isn’t the dominant demographic on the near side of the border. It should come as no surprise that Fascists killed Socialists whenever they got the chance, from Hitler to Peron to Franco.
No, but being a national socialist does include being socialist. (Also, condemning large government is sorta the antithesis of fascism (“radical authoritarian nationalism”), so there’s that.)
“being a national socialist does include being socialist” – one could think so, historically it’s more often false than true.
Limbaugh’s still on the air? ZING
Love him or hate him, Limbaugh is the most successful and well-known radio personality in history. That’s a “zing” like saying like that about Elvis at the height of his career would be a “zing” – it makes you look ignorant, nothing more.
Note that I have specifically not endorsed any position he takes.
Given all that success, is he now considered “Mainstream Media”?
Limbaugh is (maybe) the most successful and well-know radio personality in the U.S.. If that. Seriously? I highly doubt it.
He’s a douchebag, nothing more.
Sorry for the double post.
The rest of the huge wide world? Doesn’t care about Limbaugh one bit.
Whether or not he is a “douchebag” is completely irrelevant. Name me another radio personality that gets mentioned by US Presidents.
I never said he was “well liked”, I said he was WELL KNOWN, and yes, in the world, not just the US. His politics, and whether or not any of the “right minded” people like him or not do not change any of that.
Someone with politics opposite yours (apparently) thinking the current US President is a “douchebag” will not change the fact that he is the President, either, and sticking your fingers in your ears going “la la la I can’t hear you” doesn’t change it, either.
If you don’t like it, DO SOMETHING about it. Flinging ad hominem is quite pointless.
Still doesn’t change the fact, that NOBODY outside the US cares about him. I suggest you try going somewhere outside of your country for a change. And with “outside”, I mean another continent.
Know and care while from Europe.
Despise, know and care… but still.
Considering how he’s an AMERICAN political commentator (as opposed to an international one), I’d be surprised if many did listen to him. What’s your point? It’s not like many Americans follow French politics, does that mean that French commentators are irrelevant to France?
PS: I only know about Limbaugh, because I work for the US government. Other than that, I wouldn’t care.
BTW, I also know Jerry Springer… wow… does that make Springer as important as Limbaugh? ;)
It’s a “ZING” in that it’s an alternate punchline that defeats the purpose of the intended joke, i.e. instead of marginalizing a figure for radicalism, notes that he’s one of the most listened to figures in America.
One was filled with flammable hydrogen, the other with hot air? Something like that?
*plays “Taps”*
http://blogs.elpais.com/viajero-astuto/2012/02/vuelven-los-zeppelin-o-como-viajar-en-una-ballena-voladora.html
“Magda?”
“Yes Penk?”
“Please tell me you saved a Fire Shield spell…”
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This exact scenario happened to me in Battlefield 2 after shooting a helicopter down.
That is, if it lands on them and kills them.
Pretty good point here: the Fog of War. The Gastonian Airship Captain assumes the Savages have another anti-airship rocket so he has to save his ship. We know they don’t but we’re the audience. For the duration of the battle, Goblaurence effectively took out two airships with one rocket.
Which is clever–we could see that Goblaurence was banking on it. But it does make sense. Something happened to the other airship, they have no way of knowing it was a desperation move cobbled together out of spare parts.
And unfortunately enough for the Alliance, the next time they send out the airship, the goblins will have been able to mass-produce the anti-ship rockets.
It’ll be a specific mini-arms race at that point. The Alliance will think of some way to counter said rockets, whether by shooting down the launchers or the rockets themselves or a device.
They already shot down two of the three rockets that were sent at them.
To be specific, they shot down the birds the rockets were attached to. The rockets themselves were unmolested.
We know that Goblaurence lobbied for exactly this type of weapons system during his introduction (in lieu of expensive warmechs). Chances are with a working proof-of-concept as Goblaurence has provided, he’ll be given the time and resources to produce rockets that fly faster, further, and more accurately. Perhaps even ones that don’t require an attached rider. SAMs. Or, given its inventor, LAWs with the “A” standing for “anti-air” when needed.
if Goblaurence survives, of course.
Refer to Goblaurence’s problem #4
yeah, they say they wont stop fighting, but watch the truces start to fly as they attempt to get the hell out of the way of the giant falling, flaming airship of death.
Meanwhile in the player chat:
“DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN FARMING FOR THIS BLIMP?! I HAVE WASTED 180 DAYS OF KILLING KOBOLDS FOR THIS?! THIS GAME SUCKS, THE GOBLINS ARE OP. I QUIT THE GAME.”
*after the battle returns to farming for another blimp*
Possible answer from a Premium Player: “You could had just bought it at the Premium Shop, you noob.”
This post makes me irrationally angry just thinking of it.
The truth often does.
Its not a blimp it is a dirigible.
HAMMERHEAD’s “oh noes!” expression is oddly adorable.
I thought that, too.
Love the Gastonian sailor uniforms. :P
… granted, they aren’t polyester jumpsuits …
Hard to port? Am I missing something? It looks like the propellers are turning them starboard, assuming we’re looking at it from behind.
Assuming the rear propeller in front of the rudder is a push prop and not a pull, then they are indeed headed to port.
Did you forget to tag HAMMERHEAD?
I think he put Rendar in them instead of Hammerhead, actually… oops.
No, Rendar’s the guy screaming about wine.
I might just get my wish of thinning out the cast!
Even if Gastonia wins the battle, it looks like the fort will be next to useless after the imminent explosion
Wasn’t that fort recently built anyway?
What fort? Considering Magda essentially created a new volcano there, and an Arkerra-shattering explosion is about to take place, there might not be anything recognizable left of the fort. ;)
You know, after so many people talked about all the characters they wished would die, it would be hilarious if Best ended up being the only character left alive. It’d make a great April Fools story. xD
This is what I imagine what the bridge in a Megazord looks like
Oh, great. Now the Gastonians are just going to have multiple magi casting the cloak. Airships just appearing, dropping bombs, and vanishing again.
I don’t get why they dropped the cloak in the first place. Why not just move into position over the enemy, and then let bombs fall from the clouds? Why give the enemy all that time to figure out a countermeasure? Pride? Arrogance? A feeling of invulnerability? Do they think they’re Romulans or Klingons?
“Drop the bombs!”
“We can’t. Not until after we drop the cloak.”
“Why not?”
“Because the guy who keeps us cloaked is the same guy who says ‘Open sesame’ to the bomb bay doors.”
“…”