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!
Go Get a Roomie
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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.
Between Failures
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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.
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!
Patrik the Vampire
Bree Paulsen
Patrik loves to knit, bake, and help his friends while dealing with his own demons... like his thirst for blood because, oh yeah--he's a vampire.
Folklore
Adam Ma, Colin Tan Wei
A superhuman horror story focused on a small band of survivors trying to navigate a war-torn world in the aftermath of the Federation’s collapse.
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!
Countdown to Countdown
Velinxi
Iris Black is a self-proclaimed inventor with the curious ability to bring his drawings to life, and yearns to find a space where he can use his powers freely.
Solstoria
Angelica Maria
After her brother goes missing, Samantha vows to become a Knight and help those around her in the Kingdom of St. Helena.
Spinnerette
Krazy Krow, Rocio Zucchi, Pablo Rey
When a lab accident gives Heather Brown spider powers and six arms, she does what any midwest comic geek would do: Become Ohio's #3 superhero!
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.
Anacrine Complex
Sae Cotton
A superhuman heist involving probably too many pigeons than entirely necessary.
Demon Studies
Miyuli
Four students summon and study potentially dangerous demons within the walls of the mysterious Summerland University.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Sunshine Boy
Moosopp
New-kid Kelly is sweet but naive. Luckily, he's got his outgoing neighbor Grey in his corner.
The Otherknown
Lorian Merriman
Chandra is a 12-year-old accidental time traveler with a reluctant new dad, who happens to be a member of a feared galactic crime syndicate.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
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.
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.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Drugs & Wires
Mary Safro, Io Black
Dan used to be a VR operator until his brain got fried by malware. Now he's stuck delivering packages in a post-Soviet hellhole all while trying to adjust to his new life and find some answers.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
No End
Erli, Kromi
A queer romance about people attempting to build lives in a cold, post-apocalyptic world ravaged by hordes of undead.
Tove
Severin
The end of the world is coming, and Tove doesn't want to be a hero, but SOMEONE has to look after her little brother.
Fairmeadow
Kendra P. / KP
A wayward soldier finds herself in a pacifist commune deep in the wilderness of a war-weary land. Living in isolation brings her closer to those she was sworn to kill than she could ever imagine - but also threatens to tear the place apart.
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.
Heart of Gold
Eliot Baum, Viv Tanner
A pianist with failing eyesight seeks out a priest with a miraculous healing touch, drawing him deeper into a world of miracles and curses.
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...
Paint the Town Red
Windy, Winter Jay Kiakas
Winona runs a werewolf shelter with partner in crime, Odile in the Gothic city of Merlot. One day they take in an injured vampire, and soon unravels many of the dark secrets of Merlot.
Lunar Blight
Studio CARTRIDGE, Laura Lee
Lunar Blight is a gothic horror story about an elite knight serving a moon cult who must choose between upholding his honoured duty or condemning everything he’s grown to know.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Come Hell or High Water
Jenny/Star, Mori
Prince Gladimir was never meant to fall for a pirate. Swearing off love for duty, the threat of war propels him back into the Captain’s world of high seas and high stakes. Their relationship could be the thing to save the kingdom of Yvoire - or destroy it.
Goblins
Ellipsis
A fantasy RPG as told through the eyes of the low-level monsters.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Far to the North
Allison Shaw
Kelu turns to the monsters of her remote mountain home when her family is held hostage by outsiders.
Obelisk
Ashley McCammon
In 1908 New York, a young woman struggles to put her life back together in the wake of her father's death - until she discovers a vampire in the shambles of her inheritance.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
2 Slices
RJ Morel
After a case of mistaken identity, will awkward Daisuke find help from excitable Mamo, or will his love life be thrown completely off track?
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Clockwork
Chikuto
Cog Kleinschmidt is a diligent, quiet worker at the Mercia Fortress, the world power's leading stronghold. His orderly life is thrown into chaos when an enemy kingdom sends a diplomat for peace talks. This diplomat needs something from Cog - whether he agrees to their terms or not!
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.)
MASKLESS
kickingshoes
In a world where people can wield the magic of elemental Masks, all Ashe wants to do is help. Maskless and useless, with dreams of fire and smoke on the back of his tongue, he finds himself on a strange, dangerous path to uncovering the secrets of these incredible objects, and the source of the monsters plaguing his home.
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...
Shaderunners
Alex Assan, Lin Darrow
A ragtag band of bootleggers open a speakeasy for bottled colour in the greyscale city of Ironwell.
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?
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Killjoys
Flatw00ds
When two disgraced ex-feds fall backwards into trouble with the clown mafia, getting out in one piece is gonna be no joke!
KISMET
Jaki King
As interplanetary war threatens the Perseid system, a scientist ventures to the far reaches of space in her search for the truth: is humanity the master of its own fate, or is destiny truly inescapable?
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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Last panel: BIG NOSE COLLUSION! Just look at that prodigious collection of prominent probosci! All we need is Shanna! Can anyone sniff out where she is?
Smells like a summit is in order.
I wonder who else is gonna poke their snoot into this scene.
I’m sure the writer nose, but ‘snout likely that they’ll tell us anything.
Don’t booger up the scene, I like where this point is looking.
The only one missing is Jimmy Durante.
Theory: Shanna is E-Merl’s player.
You know I love Gravedust.He always gets a pass.
But he also isn’t thinking from Adric’s point. Their forces got wrecked, one of their secret weapons knocked down. I’d figure to bring proof that even Adriac couldn’t deny.Heck he coulda even gone nuts, somehow blame Grave for the loss.
He’s tired, everyone’s tired.But it makes for good drama
Sad thing is, here, Ardiac is probably in the right. they’re in open war with the worlds rebellion, and the latter are willing to be the agressors. turning their entire forces to look for a possible threat and leaving their civilians unprotected etc could very eaisly result in a massacare that may, in the end, be fruitless
Ardaic isn’t probably in the right, he’s definitely in the right, though it’s not for sure if that’s because he fully understands the situation or not; Gravedust isn’t approaching the question rationally. Not only can Ardaic not afford to use the army to fight the Cult, the army would be of dubious usefulness against the Cult anyway, being that the Cult is a covert organization–and also possesses mind-affecting magic.
This is a job for your top agents, not for massed troops, and if Gravedust had asked for leave to address the problem in that fashion, he would’ve been much more likely to secure approval (noting that Ardaic did in fact approve his investigation of the Cult site with E-merl and Sundar).
Where did Gravvy say to use the army to fight the cultists? He was just bringing them information that the cultists are someone they should be taking seriously
Ignore the Cultists, and even if the Empire wins, they will be weakened and not be able to stand against a force that will have pretty much infiltrated everywhere (just look at how much trouble an organized standing army has against insurgents who look like the general population until they stick a sharp pointy object in your spleen)
What exactly do you think Gravedust means when he says, “all our resources?”
Finding a way to push for peace so they can all stand together to face the greater threat?
Perhaps, but that’s still a dubious approach, especially since the rebellion just won a major engagement. They wouldn’t be willing to back down now, and most likely wouldn’t even believe them.
Umm, fairly sure they have more resources than just the army
Now I’m surprised Erfworld doesn’t have lawmancers or legalmancers or something. Though I guess carnymancers are similar….
P.S. How did I know it would be Byron who would find and talk to Gravy?
Because rabies.
Because gophers.
Because baby ropers.
I’m… pretty sure that’s exactly what Carnymancers and Luckamancers together can accomplish.
Rules Lawyering HAS to be a legit profession, especially in Erfworld where the whole point is the Hampster knows how to bend them to the point of breaking. And Charlie, well, F charlie.
I didn’t mean mancers dedicated to Rule manipulation, but mancers dedicated to producing/manipulating those contracts that Sides voluntarily enter into, e.g. the ones Charlie uses all the time. When I wrote this post, I was also thinking of ordinary laws within a Side, thinking a Side is like a kingdom, and each must have its own set of Laws that govern its citizens, yes? But today I remembered that Sides don’t really have citizens, they have armies. And they don’t seem to have any use for laws like we do. Good behaviour among persons is presumably enforced by Loyalty to the Side. But now I’m getting way off topic.
You’re forgetting Signamancy. Like a lot of Erf magic disciplines, it follows two meanings. Contract law is Signamancy, though rulers and chief warlords and barbarians can enter into contracts via a form of natural Signamancy.
Oh right. Thanks!
Loopholes: Present only when the plot demands them.
I believe the proper term in-universe is Sky Elf Portal.
Now I’m curious how much of the ‘base’ humans powering these other selves is reflecting through and how much bitterness and regret is based on their own understand of the world around them. Like, if Gravedust’s guy woke up, would he feel this same way about his life in general, or would he have separation between ‘The Game’ and “Reality’ ?
Good question, it does seem Gravvy the character is heavily influenced by the tubed player, as it should be, and probably the rest of the tubies
So the answer here is “a wizard did it” (will do it rather)?
You’re referring to the will-they-or-won’t-they that’s going on between him & Rachel, don’t you?
Great graphic work, it could tell the tale sans dialogue.
The lawyers in many African cultures were storytellers. In a dispute each lawyer/storyteller would tell a traditional tale that had precedents favoring their respective clients.
A good storyteller/lawyer would win by presenting the “set facts” in a new and unexpected way through a story that would win over the elders/jury.
It is appropriate that storyteller E-Merl is the one to put a new spin on the situation.
Interesting! I wonder if there’s a European parallel to this in the bards of the ancient Celts / Gauls? They were the storytellers of their clans & thus preserving their clan’s history.
They seem to have had the role of judge, but examples are scarce according to this source:
http://www.libraryireland.com/Brehon-Laws/Bards.php
More like adjudicators seeing how they were (mostly) impartial
Aww… who’s a sad panda?
I really love the background work in panel 3. Great job!
“I have lived too long.”
Yeah, that statement is a real punch in the gut. Don’t worry, Gravy, things are gonna start looking, if not up, at least sideways pretty soon.
The thing that nags at me is that the familiar trope — and arguably a plausible one — is that adventurers are less disciplined than regular military, but sometimes more highly skilled. So, they’re not much use on the battlefield, but more useful as special forces, deployed to handle small-scale but high-risk problems, i.e., quests.
So I’m kind of finding this situation contrived, since it actually makes sense for Ardaic to send the Peacekeepers to investigate this Cult business, while Gastonia’s regular forces deal with the Rebellion, at least by the conventions of the genre.
Wouldn’t say they were ‘less disciplined’, ‘less prone to following orders’ sure, but that doesn’t mean they are undisciplined
That’s **exactly** what ‘less disciplined’ means in this context.
If one says special forces are less prone to folow orders then isn’t one gravely, very gravely mistaken ?