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!
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.
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...
Far to the North
Allison Shaw
Kelu turns to the monsters of her remote mountain home when her family is held hostage by outsiders.
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.
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.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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?
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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!
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?
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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?
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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 Studies
Miyuli
Four students summon and study potentially dangerous demons within the walls of the mysterious Summerland University.
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.
Anacrine Complex
Sae Cotton
A superhuman heist involving probably too many pigeons than entirely necessary.
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.)
Sunshine Boy
Moosopp
New-kid Kelly is sweet but naive. Luckily, he's got his outgoing neighbor Grey in his corner.
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.
[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.
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...
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
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.
Goblins
Ellipsis
A fantasy RPG as told through the eyes of the low-level monsters.
Go Get a Roomie
Clover
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.
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.
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.
No End
Erli, Kromi
A queer romance about people attempting to build lives in a cold, post-apocalyptic world ravaged by hordes of undead.
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.
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.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Shaderunners
Alex Assan, Lin Darrow
A ragtag band of bootleggers open a speakeasy for bottled colour in the greyscale city of Ironwell.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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.
Between Failures
Jackie Wohlenhaus
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.
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.
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.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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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What does a CEO need with a starship?
A crew.
And an Orion Slave Girl
A crew of liberated Orion slave girls.
He needs the starship for a PR campaign. I think we can all agree he needs something to compensate for the shadows of ideas coming from his mouth.
What does anyone need from “shipping” stars?
Creepy CEO is creepy.
Also: “shadows” is pinging my Babylon 5-o-meter.
Babylon Five-o?
The second version was just nasty!!!!!!
So some creepy dude came to CEO Guy and asked him what he wanted, and that’s how they all ended up in this mess?
Anyone else have the urge to photoshop panel 3’s speech bubbles with “it was this big” jokes?
THERE WAS A FIRE-FIGHT!
‘Cause he was hung like this.
“So I’ve decided I’m gonna blow my company’s entire R&D budget on this quackery. You want in? It’ll be fun!”
Lol!
Well, hey!
The magic seems real enough, so it can’t all be quackery!
I’m with you, H.R. Let’s go flying off that slippery moral slope!
I feel like, for some religious groups, this sums up the garden of Eden.
I feel like H.R. took a dive into the deep end of the philosophy pool and never came up for air.
Oh, he came back up. Just he came back with the Bends.
H.R. is not just bent…He’s completely WARPED!
GOD created time so everything wouldn’t happen at once.
Grumpy Onry Dinosaurs?
I don’t think they have the power to do that.
By his own argument he’s already there – his shadow of a shadow is what’s stuck in this lower realm.
But a shadow is not the same thing as an object. He is merely a shadow of the form that is human. And the form of human is merely a shadow of…? I Am curious at what will happen when a shadow tries to exist where the light creating him comes from, but I’m gunna have to reread the idea of forms for any of this to make perfect sense.
Also, why does reading webcomics require such an abundance of philosophical references? I’m looking at you, “Strong Female Protagonist”
If he wants to get out of the Shadow Realm, I know a lot of out-of-work Yugioh villains that could probably swing that . . .
You can’t spell megalomania without ‘HR’.
This is giving me unrealistic expectations of video game company CEOs.
All visionaries are!
This whole page is a flashback happening in Carol’s head. She’s thinking: “This is the point where I should have turned and run, and kept running …”
I have decided that from now on, in my mind, H.R.’s new name will be HR NutsNStuf
I’ve been wanting to do that for ages, but with different words. NutsNStuf seems more appropriate though.
Oh hey look, it’s the linchpin of existence. Let’s fuck with it.
sounds like fun, I’ll go get the kangaroos you get the sub ready….
“Lets go to the place where things become things and make them not things any more.”
It’s shadows all the way up.
HR just thought “the cave” to its logical conclusion, in my opinion, given what he knows and what has happened.
But, his train of thought shows some problems, the biggest, in my opinion, is: How does he know, where this plane lies, and where there are just more shadows of shadows of shadows of ad infinit shadows?
Or is it one of the points of the inevitable change of view, to determine this direction?
And to clarify, HR uses what I see as a rethorical question at the end of this panel, which implies, that he would already know this, or at least presumes to.
So he knows the “real world” is an illusion (hence why everything is monochrome), and the world of our heroes is the real one. I wonder when they’re going to unveil the third one.
So H.R. is going to “the Courts of Chaos”
Or to Amber. He would probably prefer to end up in Amber. I’m fairly certain that any human who ended up at the gates of Chaos Would be invited in as dinner.
it’s okay if you want to go into the shadows, but make sure to take your pornstache with you.
Well. My video game concepts professor always said when you make games, you are god.
So he started reading Plato with the Cave Allegory and then simply gave up?
Is he really 100% oblivious of Platonic Idealism and the Theory of Forms? Did he work for 30 years (in the entertainment industry!) just so he could come up with those on his own?
Yeah that’s kinda my reaction here. Surely he realizes he’s mostly just restating Plato’s ideas here?
My guess? He knows the theory behind his work is not original, and he knows that Carol knows that, but he feels the need to explain himself to the readers.
He’s seriously cracking that fourth wall with all the expo.
my question is: is the camera rotating around him, or is mr. creepypants executing a slow spin while he talks?
ooh, even better, perhaps he’s executing an extremely fast spin, but the refresh rate of the panels makes it appear as though it’s a slow spin. HR stands for Helicopter Rotor, I’m sure of it!
I guess it’s too late to suggest he seek professional help?
At the time this was actually taking place? No. A swift intervention to the nuts could have done a lot of good. But in the current, non-flashback timeline? Yeah, you need other methods to deal with him now.
Most involve violence. At least the ones I would recommend.
Oh, come on, HR has gotton so far, so at least let him finish it.
Also, to seek help, you need to know you are too insane to be safe for the public. And about that, I refer to a famous Seven quote.
Did anyone else see HR’s cameo in the latest X Men movie? Sure, Dinklage didn’t look exactly like him, but the resemblance was uncanny, says I.
He looks so earnest and happy in that last panel. For the first time, I can kind of see why Carol is caught up in his quest. Not that I think it’s a good idea.
Looks like someone’s been reading too much Chronicles of Narnia.
OMG… H.R.’s powers clearly now stem from… his mustache.
It speaks verbosely!
It is not a mustache, it is a mind controlling symbiotic alien that lives off mucous, soup dribbles, and CO2
Plato’s wall: if we’re looking at it we’re not only paralysed but sufficiently anaesthetised not be be able to detect our bodies or the space between us and the wall in any way. Escape doesn’t seem likely in such conditions.
‘Neath the trimmed growth, the lip still lurks.
Interestingly enough, the technique used to program nearly every video game these days, Object-Oriented Programming, reflects this Shadows of Shadows idea very neatly. Presumably Kingdoms of Arkerra was coded using this technique. Make of that what you will.
I wouldn’t call objects shadows of classes, and insofar as classes are related to reality at all I’d say they’re more ideals of reality than shadows of reality.
Maybe the programs are the objects and the reality we know is the shadows.
ya nerd! with your nerd hair!
seems like a serious leap of logic.
but he proved he was cray cray along time ago <.<
Dude you are so deep I can’t even see your shadow anymore.
He has it all backwards of course.
In so far as what is a shadow and what is the object… the ideas are the reality and the objects made as an attempt to actualise those ideas are the shadows. They are a poor imitation of the idealised purpose-medium that the ideas were.
I miss the Tie of Badass.
If we’re going to places that don’t exist, could we stop off in Equestria on the way? I’d like to visit.