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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
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.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
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.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
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 Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
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 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...
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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 Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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!
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 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?
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!
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.
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.
I guess that rules out Archimedes.
i Think Platon, i vaguely remember hearing he was a wrestler champion or something
Plato?
Platon (meaning “Broad”) was his wrestling name, which apparently was his coach’s way of poking fun at his huge forehead.
Or alternately, as we know they wrestled naked, he was drawing attention to something remarkable. Maybe to distract the opponent?
Kinda like how Meat Loaf came about
Platon is how we Eurotrash call him, yes.
Now, before the academy … temporally or spatially?
“before” is always spatially. In this case, it has to be anyways – the academy was much farther away from the Acropolis (Ακρόπολη Αθηνών) than depicted here.
definitely plato, he was socrates student and founded the academy, after socrates and before the academy.
also that beard is very plato-like.
MY EYES! THEY BURN!
Those coniferous upthrusting pines are not native to the Mediterranean region!
Those aren’t pines, they’re cypress trees. And yes, they are native to the Mediterranean in several forms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupressus_sempervirens.
Time to exercise my gravatar!
“OOOOOOOOOOOH!”
Yeap, cypress. Very important trees in Provence, one of their main purpose is as wind barrier around here.
OK, I went from nerdy shouting guy to angry silent bard/lava god avatar. Not bad an upgrade.
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
I think you got burned alright…;)
We can’t let children see this! They’ll grow up thinking they spoke English in Classical Greece! What am I supposed to tell them?
Wha?
“Are you not entertained?” –Wait, wrong civilization.
Could be worse, I thought “No, this is Sparta.”
TONIGHT WE DINE IN..
Sepia world?
Strength? Um… well it’s *hot* at any rate.
A fitting avatar, Lexible.
OH MY.
pray for the wrestlers pray hard and long.
Hard astern, Mr Sulu!
OH MY!
“WHO WANTS TICKETS TO THE GASTRAPHETES SHOW?”
hmm… Not where I expected to be. Or when, for that matter.
Strength…!
THIS! IS! ATHENS!
…oh come on, he looks JUST like him.
I did in fact read that in that voice.
Complete agreement.
Agreed.
Are…they…
Naked? Yes. That’s how sports worked in ancient Greece.
Naked AND oiled up! Ancient Greek sports were pretty kinky by today’s standards.
That is the best kind of sport. to bad its not common anymore.
Eh. While there certainly are athletes I wouldn’t mind seeing that way, there are also plenty I would. Bit of a mixed bag, really. Plus things’d probably get really sticky and disgusting really quickly.
hey, at least its not boxing, ancient greek boxing was one of the bloodiest sports in history, with some boxers gutting their opponents with tiny blades hidden in their “gloves”
It has changed with the times. It used to be men and oil, now it’s women and mud :-)
Sadly not really as sexy.
Yeah, the mud covers everything up.
Nothing kinky about it. Clothing was very minimal. It is perfectly natural that possibly the only cloth you own, or at least is very valuable, is tossed aside when starting to do sports. You wouldnt want to ruin it, or in this case, be entangled with it as it is only a piece of cloth wrapped in certain way.
Wasn’t it to prevent one to grab clothing ? This way is much fairer in that regard, as there can’t be “clothing malfunction” giving one some advantage in the fight.
Yeah, but just remember what is left to grab hold of, and oiled up requires multiple grabs, with both hands…
Are you saying it was a Goat.se contest?
Have heard that term, but have never bothered looking it up
Also, ripped clothing could get stuck in scrapes. I’m not sure if this was a concern for the Greeks, but I remember reading that it was one for later swordfighting cultures. Back in those days, clothing stuck in a wound meant that it festered. And then you died.
The root of the word gymnasium is the Greek gymnos, “naked.”
Fact of the day!
OK. After Socrates. Before the Academy. Sepia World before purple neckties. Somebody tell me that isn’t Ashok on the losing end of the wrestling match.
So, are we going to be juggling not only two worlds but a second timeline in one of them as well?
It would be more appropriate to say that we are looking at a second timeframe, since Athens as we are seeing it here is quite literally history, and therefore part of the same “timeline” that sepia world exists inside of. A timeframe could also encompass any point on that timeline, and another point on it, or the first point and then a point beyond the endpoint of that timeline (located on any one branching arm of that timeline).
Philosophically speaking, you set up your sentence in more or less the correct way, but your word choice is slightly off.
A separate timeline requires an alternate reality to form after the endpoint of the first timeline, or requires that alternate reality to be extant (or retconned into existence), in the way that Arkerra and Earth and Techno-world exist in alternate realities which were formed at separate times and have their own time-flows.
So, technically we are looking at two time-frames in sepia-world, and then one more in Arkerra and Techno-world each, across three timelines.
Surprise! You’re about to meet the third group of wacky adventurers to be featured in this comic.
Wouldn’t it technically be the fourth?
We’ve got Byron and the Peaceniks, Mini-Harky and the Sharkineers, Long Nose and Lady Grave Digger, and now Greek Hogan and… whoever else they introduce here.
I prefer The Iron Greek.
We have a winner here, folks.
I’m always up for something Greek.
Would you be saying that if it was all Greek to you?
No. This! Is! Athens!
Athens, 398 BCE.
After Dick Johnson.
Before Jaque Strapp.
No, I think this is Sparta.
No, this is Patrick.
Sure as hell ain’t INT, buddy.
CHA and WIS, it most likely isn’t.
DEX is a real possibility.
Don’t be fooled, he’s running a long CON
Oh, COM on.
Better SAN nothing.
Don’t let the MAN keep you down. RES up!
After all that wrasslin’ around, I for one hope it’s EXTRA strength! Pee-yuu! Go hit the showers, buddy!
This was their shower, they would bath, wrestle, then wipe off the sweat with a stick.
Or is that Roman baths I am thinking of?
In any case hot slippery men were all the rage back then.
Well, I sure wasn’t expecting that.
Some might find the image of two naked men grappling to be rather suggestive, but I assure you that in this case it is quite Platonic.
+1
Well done!
winrar
Plato was a badass!
We haven’t see much of his ass yet to determine if it is bad or good
Naked Athenian wrestling… That’s a bit of a shift. Love this comic for that, never quite know where it’s going to go next.
Next on Discovery: Naked and Afraid
Has to be Plato. Plato was a nickname. It meant something like Bulk, cause Plato was a wrestler before he became a philospher.
And now you know!
Can you imagine someone making that transition today?
Although, when you think about all those kung fu monks and so on, maybe physical combat leads naturally to deep, philosophical thought?
Of course, it leads some in the opposite direction, into politics.
So THAT’S Auraugu’s player.
And now for something completely different….
No, that’s the People’s Elbow, if you can smellelelelelel what he’s cooking!
Now commences the ceremonial teabagging.
D’you like gladiator strips, Bobby?
Just popping in checking on my face. Hopefully its goooood?
I think it is the same…
Is it Chapter 31 Page 1 like the title says, or Chapter 20 Page 10 like the comic has in the bottom left-hand corner.
Whatever it is, cool comic today :)
i was gonna post the same thing. would also like to add, “why roman numerals if greek setting?”
They’re probably just placeholders that were accidentally never replaced, so it’s actually just the letter X, not the roman numeral.
This is the case.
And I was GOING to replace them with Roman numerals to be a smartass, but Seggs had to remind me that ancient Greece did not use those symbols.
I suppose that’s what I get for reading the comic without my coffee. Totally didn’t remember what’s written on the bottom of every other page, and that it’s not roman numerals.
I’m getting Uncanny Valley vibes from the last panel. O_O
Now that you mention it, I get it, too. Plato’s eyes seem slightly off, don’t they?
The game world is a kind of Plato’s Cave.
Trying to work out where this is going…
If my teacher looked at me like that, then i’d be just as freaked.
We should bring back this sport to the way it’s shown here. And only muscular youths should qualify.