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Guilded Age
The Saga of the Working Class Adventurer – New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!
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...
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.
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?
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.
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.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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?
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
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.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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!
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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 End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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!
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.