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!
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
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.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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!
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.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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.
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?
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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!
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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.
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.
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 End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
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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Never, ever do what? DO WHAT, SUPER SECRET CAPTION!? D:
Never, ever let a webcartoonist leave a convention with unsold merchandise.
now….to wait for the kickbacks to come rolling in…
Well, sometimes, the wrong people (Read: Not everyone likes everything) are at a convention, which can lead to unsold merchendaise.
Happens even to the best known out there.
Follow anyone after the con, unless explicitly invited.
That makes sense. These people are people, people!
I find that exceptionally hard to believe. :|
Say things like “the tireds” and “the moneys” which I totally agree with. Don’t do that.
Print more books than you can sell, I’d guess? Or maybe just try to sell books at a convention at all.
Never, ever create webcomics hoping to support a family that way?
You have all taught me so much. c:
The cardboard boxes that the unsold books were shipped in are much too small to raise a family in.
Never ever start a family. It isn’t worth it, no matter what the brain-washed fools tell you. DENY THE BIOLOGY.
So JJ followed Joel aaaaaall the way hope from the convention? Kinda creepy.
… He’s a leg-breaker who’s about to threaten Joel’s family to make him pliable, and following him home is what’s creepy?
Regardless of what he’s going to do, following someone home is still creepy.
Threatening someone with violence to their loved ones is reprehensible and manipulative. Following people to their homes is creepy.
It’s not creepy in this context, but it IS terrifying.
Terrifyingly creepy. ;)
Any threat that JJ might verbalize is gonna be redundant, at this point. Joel is already imagining the worst.
“Oh, you’re only gonna kill us in our sleep? That’s a relief. I thought you were gonna threaten to violate us, kill us, and eat us, but not necessarily in that order.”
“Hey! Gimme a little credit, here. I’m a professional problem solver, not some webcomic reading stalker! … You know what? Forget killing you and your family. If you don’t tell me what I need to know, I’m gonna e-mail your home address to each and every one of your readers!”
“NNNOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo…..!!!”
Shouting Frigg, stop arguing with yourself! =P
Joking aside, I don’t remember this mustachioed character. Can anyone link to a page where he was introduced? Or is he new?
Click on his tag and it’ll show you all the pages he’s been in.
How can you not remember seeing Robin Williams before? o_O
New question to ponder. Do you prefer.
“Daddy why is that man holding a gun to your head?”
Nah. Any good (in the ‘skills’ sense, not the ‘morals’ sense) thug knows that ‘Daddy, why is that man holding a gun to my head?’ is far more effective.
He doesn’t need a gun. He can pull of questions like “Daddy, why is this man holding my neck in this fashion?” or worse “Daddy, why does this man stand behind me and holds my shoulders?”
On a more positive note, this may be not a thug, but a benevolent giant, or rather, the Gastoninan Moustache Commander whose name I forgot who liked the heroes. (Or its equivalent/player/coder)
But JJ doesn’t need to make any additional threats. His very presence at Joel’s house is a threat. He doesn’t need to do anything except ask his questions and go, because Joel is almost certainly smart enough to know the score here.
Also, Shanna explicitly told him not to be a hero and that if anyone came looking for her, just tell them what happened and don’t worry about protecting her.
Except for the fact that we already know who this is, and he’s not a benevolent giant.
I’m appalled and a little bit jealous of how quickly you make jokes involving implied violence against children.
Practice makes perfect.
It’s not really a joke, though. I mean, playing off of Sharkie’s comment means the phrasing comes out a bit humorously, I suppose, but my point is serious – the implication, given what JJ says in the last panel, and the fact that this is generally how his type operates (both fictionally and IRL), is that he’s not there to threaten to hurt Joel, but to hurt his family.
I don’t think it’ll literally involve him holding a gun to Gracie’s head – in fact, like Dean says, Joel should be smart enough to get the threat without JJ having to say it out loud, and they’d both probably prefer to finish this without Gracie and Emily even seeing JJ – but, yeah, the bones that JJ’s going to break if Joel doesn’t give him what he wants aren’t likely to be Joel’s.
You’re appalled by the mere suggestion of hypothetical fictional violence performed on a drawing by another drawing, neither of which are representative of non-fictional, non-drawn humans?
To be fair, that last part isn’t strictly true – Joel Watson is a real person, as are his wife, Emily, and their daughter, Gracie. (One of the reasons I’m pretty sure JJ’s never going to have to threaten them directly, nor follow up on his threats – it’d just be a bit too much, knowing that the Watsons are only slightly fictionalized.)
I’m appalled you didn’t read the rest of the comment.
I’m just jealous.
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You should have Joel draw a guest strip where he’s beaten for information. Not every day that you get to draw your own torture scene!
Wow. There are so many “Never evers” in this scene. Don’t follow cartoonists home. Don’t let them leave with stuff on the table. Don’t try to carry it all yourself. Don’t accept that creepy guys help…
> Don’t accept that creepy guys help
Sometimes creepy guys help, and you’ll have to learn to accept that.
Sometimes creepy guys help and there’s no easy way to get rid of them. Sometimes you should really make sure you bring a less-creepy person along to make sure things don’t go from “creepy” to “bodily-harm-y”.
…What I’m trying to say here is that it’s not about social stuff, like thinking a person is weird or awkward. It’s about self-preservation. It’s about noticing that someone is acting… wrong, somehow?… before they escalate, in case that is what they intended all along.
People being socially awkward is fine. But certain types of socially awkward, most notably not respecting (or recognizing) another person’s boundaries, are big, flashing warning signs.
Like Dr. Shelly Cooper (the last part of the second paragraph, not the first part)
Okay, I know that “Hurrican reality” is the designated bad reality, but still, it is not WH bad. (regardless if Fantasy or 40k)
So, I hope that this isn’t going to badly for the author avatar, because I not only respect the authors for not making their characters stu’s, but also, because I do not want to have the Big guy as a more dark than with kinda guy.
Also, the Hurrican reality needs a gentle giant badly.
I don’t think Joel is one of the authors.
That mustache is very familiar.
“I mustache you a few questions, sir”
“Moust of which will involve ache in some shape or form.”
“Sorry to beard you at your home like this.”
how could you NOT trust a man with a moustache that large?
The mustache is Best’s alt.
I love how that joke never gets old, at least for me. Hah!
You insult Gordito Delgado, good sir!
So this is how he turns out when he doesn’t grow up in a world where super intelligent dinosaurs from space invade Earth and enslave humanity…
Joel is seeming an awful lot like Maes Hughes all of a sudden..
Ouch. Good reference, but now I’m even more scared of what’s going to happen.
Wait, does that make Shanna Edward Elric? Mother issues…seeking the truth…getting the Man’s boot up her ass…there are some similarities.
@alt text
You seem to be speaking from experience Phil.
Yeah, that guy is still on his couch.
So long Joel, nice knowing you
So that’s why Hijinks Ensue didn’t update for a week or so!
I keep thinking Big Dan Teague from O Brothere Where Art Thou when I see this guy. John Goodman would be a shoe-in for a live action version.
Hmmm, totally seeing a slightly bulkier Robin Williams personally
I get the feeling that JJ doesn’t do ANYTHING he doesn’t have to if he can get what is needed with the minimum of effort. Joel never spoke about the missing five before now, has shown zero interest in opening that can of worms, and seems perfectly willing to keep his trap shut in the future. If his cooperation can be easily bought, coerced, or even gotten for free thanks to Shanna’s instructions to give them everything they want…I don’t get the sense that JJ will resort to the level of mess that violence/murder/visceral threats that people are worrying about/suggesting.
Maybe that’s what they want you to think. “Yeah, this guy’s a gentleman and a professional.” Then, the sharp instruments come out.
Nah. He’s a pro. He might get kicks from this, but that’s not what it’s about. It’s a job, and you don’t msn messes you have to clean up or whack people for free. If he was messy Hurricane wouldn’t have turned to him. If he does kill them it’ll be because they’re loose ends, but he’s much more likely to say he’s a private investigator and then heavily use intimidation without giving up any information.
Agrecian: he is perfectly capable of doing much harm and inflicting of pain and sorrow, but he would rather not let it get that far, unless the job specifically called for it
dont do what? be a super awesome dude bein helpful?
butseks?
damnit, the fans are breaking his “no creeping” rule by following him home again