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Guilded Age
The Saga of the Working Class Adventurer – New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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?
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.
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.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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?
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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.
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 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.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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!
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.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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.
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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!
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!
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
If you dun like Gastonia, yah can geeeewt oewwwt!
Panel 3 thumb gesture is particularly poignant.
One…two…three…four…I declare a genocidal war!
Five….six…seven…eight….Ardaic is a hypocrite!
Nine… ten… eleven… twelve… Who needs Dwarves? We’ve got an Elf!
Ardaic’s an hypocrite? How so?
“We do not make war on terror, Deserthammer! We make war on drugs! …Wait…”
“We do not make war on terror”… my, how quickly Ardaic forgets 9/11.
Wait – Gastonia hasn’t had a 9/11.
Well, if they keep ignoring the cultists … they will have something similar.
BROTHER TOM DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN GASTONIA
“I dont know where, I dont know when. But something awful is going to happen.”
– Donal Rumpastiltskin
The wars of the future will not be fought on land, or at sea, but out in space or on the tops of very tall mountains!
“Wait a minute.. Desert-Hammer.. that name sounds awfully terror-like..”
Sounds more like a counter-terror plan to me. Operation Desert-Hammer!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War:_Operation_Desert_Hammer
Jeeze I forgot that Gravedust’s last name was Desert-hammer.
I don’t know. In Final Fantasy you make war on Chaos and literally kill him. Given the story setting you might be able to literally fight Terror.
‘stonia!
Gravy: dissed, dismissed, and therefore pissed and feeling like he won’t be missed.
C’mon, that was a slap on the wrist.
(Also, Gravy has never been kissed, or played a game of whist.)
Although his tryst with Frigg was not blissed, he got the gist. Now he’s off to sit on a slab of schist smacking his fist and grinding the grist of his anger into a list while today’s engagement fades from his thoughts like. mist.
[mike drop]
You word-based hedonist.
That’s quite a list.
Now the plot will twist!
I think we all got the gist.
Syr’Nj: Keep your advisors in separate time-slots. It doesn’t do well for them to talk over one another.
Yeah, Gravy. Your people have thrown in with genocidal warmongers. That’s totally different from what you did.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the orchard
I like how the Gastonian is smirking and the elf is frowning.
I’ll be disappointed if the elvish writing doesn’t say something completely different from what is said in Gastonian.
“Beware of Pickpockets and Loose Women.”
That sculptor is obviously a genius. Look how grudgingly the elf is shaking hands!
I like more how they are a full feet apart, their hands hanging in the air. Whoever made those statues knows exactly how much ‘unity’ really is there. XD
The Sepia tease went on further than I predicted. This is a good chapter
My favorite part of this page is how the two statues aren’t actually shaking hands, they just have their hands outstretched. I interpret it as a subtle reminder about how tenuous this alliance actually is.
Dwarves don’t get no respect. Everyone looks down on them.
Except gnomes
What about halflings?
Are there halflings in Arkerra?
It’s why didn’t mention hobbits or kender
They’re just too underground for most people. I myself was into dwarves way back in ’84.
No one has touched on the fact that for a statue that is meant to represent unity, it very obviously shows them apart? Or was that part too obvious?
Low blow, Ardaic. Low blow.
And what about both figures being close eyed? At least, the elf isn`t pinching his nose shut….
Been some interesting things going on in this comic. But the Dull (Ardaic) are just getting too much face time.
Gravedust is good people. Everybody likes Gravy.
Ardaic? Not so much. Think that it is high time the Fightopia flag got dusted off and made to fly high again.
Ardaic needs to run his mouth to Frigg. Just once. But you notice he never does, eh?
Waste the Silver Centurion if he shows his face. Find the Cat People and team up with them. Let Harky wax Gastonia. It’s for their own good, if they are too dumb to adapt, then let evolution take it’s course. All the good people can go to Fightopia.
Then the freak flag can really fly.
Ardaic is more pragmatic.
Like an experienced fighter who breaks low-level sorcerers before they can cast cone of cold, he would doubt that those guys who could barely cast cantrips without sacrificing thirteen virgin firstborns now are able to summon horrors that would make Acererak shiver just sacrificing the loser of a duel (and shoehorning rabies immunity in the same ritual, how efficient!).
Until he sees the void staring back at him… let’s do what worked 80% of the time based on “reliable” information and dismiss the possibility of The Snarl taking a (relatively) low-fantasy realm as a snack.
The best symbol of unity: two men in robes five feet apart refusing to move any closer together or even to extend their hands further.
Yeah, the
dwarves(seriously? ‘dwarves’ isn’t in the spellchecker? o_O) Savasi joined with ‘Genocidal Warmongers’ after they were almost wiped out, in a genocidal war, ironic, don’t you think?Right, because the plural of “dwarf” (i.e. persons or organisms with dwarfism) in English is “dwarfs.” “Dwarves” is a Tolkien-derived plural describing the fantastical short humanoid creatures originating in Germanic myths. See the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarfism#Terminology
We know next to nothing about what the history actually was between Gastonia and the Savasi. Certainly there’s no evidence for genocide.
Yep; that sculpture speaks volumes.
Maybe I’m paranoid, but isn’t Ardaic protesting a bit too much about the cultists..? I’d like to believe he’s not one, since I kinda like him, but…This is a cult of people who have people everywhere, it seems.
The other alternative is that he’s unsettled by how poorly the recent battle went. I don’t think they were anticipating the Rebellion to be able to take out their airships. And he was clearly rather concerned for Syr’nj’s well being.
I’d hope it’s the latter as well. But who can say for sure?
Well, I guess one indicator would be if Gravedust starts having near-“accidents” after today.
Recall that awhile back, Iwatani did deal with Brother Tom, exchanging what were basically favors. Perhaps there are oyther arrangements as well…
As his entry on the cast page says, he serves Gastonia, not the Peacekeepers or the concept of justice. From the standpoint that only Gastonia matters, it makes sense to insist on focusing on the group which is opposed to Gastonia, not to Everybody–particularly when he’s addressing people who he knows would think Gastonia should make all sorts of concessions if Harky indicated willingness to discuss peace.
Time for a conspiracy theory: Ardaic’s a cultist. Calling it now.
You disappoint me, Ardaic. It will take more than a glass of brandy and a stealth pun to make up for this.
He is on the side that just lost a major battle and had a bunch of people, most likely including some friends, slaughtered, and now somebody wants to turn their back on the enemy he knows and hates to deal with a bunch of evil hippies, based on a mere snippet of a conversation in which Gravedust didn’t really say a whole lot about why and how, and gee, look at that run on sentence…
Seriously though, the guy is a bit stressed right now and every muscle in his body wants to strike back at the bad guys he knows are dangerous.
Gravvy never said to ignore the Rebel Alliance, he just said that the Cult of Personality was not something to be ignored
Ardaic does not seem to be taking it that way…
I agree with your evaluation, Bob. For lack of a better term, Ardaic is nothing if not pragmatic. He has to deal with the logistics of mobilizing all of the military and civilian assets of a nation, which necessarily means that once he is committed to a course of action (the Rebellion invaders), he cannot easily redirect or reallocate assets to meet another threat. Furthermore, without actionable intelligence, he would be negligent in his duties to siphon resources from the defense of Gasontia. As with most stories containing this sort of plot, he will have to give tacit approval to the Peacemakers to handle the Cultist threat using resources not critical to the war effort.
I’m guessing that the Peacemakers and the Adventurers Guild will have to take on the Cultists on their own, without the support or approval of Ardaic or the Gastonian Houses.
That’ll cause a lot of friction, and will test the Guild’s independence from the Gastonian Army.
“We don’t make war on terror, we make war on armies.” Smartest bloody thing I’ve heard in a long time. Smack the US government in the face with that factdick, please!