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!
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!
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.
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.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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...
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!
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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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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 ?