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Guilded Age
The Saga of the Working Class Adventurer – New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!
Novae
KaiJu
A historical romance with a touch magic and a dash of astronomy. It chronicles the romantic adventures of Sulvain, a sweet tempered necromancer and Raziol, a passionate 17th century astronomer.
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.
Monster Pulse
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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.
Demon Street
Aliza Layne
Two kids explore a world full of monsters and magic trying to find their way home again. But when home has been stolen from you, where do you go to get it back?
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
The Din
Karin (Karrey)
The Din changed the world, mankind & its technology. Gregg Emilio dreams of flying in a sky that hasn't carried airplanes in a century.
The Glass Scientists
Sage (S.H.) Cotugno
A gaslamp fantasy comic about the life and times of a ragtag group of mad scientists and their enigmatic leader, Dr. Henry Jekyll.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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?
Nix of Nothing
Moz (M) Lee Lunsford
The machinations of higher gods have stepped in and ruined Nix's, Demigod of Nothing, plans for an easygoing life. Now they must journey far and wide, meeting friend and foe, trying to get this divine target off their back!
Peritale
Mari Costa
A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.
Elephant Town
Danielle Corsetto
The long, slow tale of Kris, Paul, Berto and Mirando, four people who live in the same creaky old house, but don't know each other. New chapter updates every 2 months.
No Need for Bushido
Suburban Samurai, J W Kovell
The flash of a blade, the clash of steel! A runaway princess and her samurai companion navigate a fractured country on the brink of war.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Kelly Turnbull
A weekly comic celebrating the finer things in life. Like manly men, lumberjacks, and time traveling special ops agents.
Laws and Sausages
Zach Weinersmith
Your cartoon guide to the American governement!
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.
Phantomarine
Claire K. Niebergall
A ghostly princess must sail across a haunted sea to save her soul from a devious, shapeshifting death god known as the Red Tide King.
Speak of the Devil
Moz (M) Lee Lunsford
The rich and powerful of the city are quickly learning... mess with those who have nothing, and Sunday Blackburn shall appear.
Awkward Zombie
Katie Tiedrich
Gags and goofs about videogames and the things that happen in them.
Tiger, Tiger
Petra Nordlund
A young noble lady steals her brother's identity and his ship to find love and adventure, and to write a book about the fascinating life cycle of sea sponges!
The Mash
L.F. Garcia, Danigami
In a world shrouded in mystery and threatened by great evil,a young mummy prince will use his new life to unite with other monster children to save it.
The Sanity Circus
Windy
Magic, monsters and mysteries await in the odd city of Sanity. It's up to Attley and a colorful group of characters to find out just what is going on.
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.)
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!
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Helvetica
J.N. Wiedle
This story follows Helvetica's quest to uncover who he was in life, his existential crises, and his struggle to to make death worth living.
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.
Ozzie the Vampire
Eric Lide
Ozzie and her best friend Kimmy are your average everyday normal art students – except one is an immortal vampire with superpowers and the other possesses a magic talking grimoire. Also they have to save their town from a demonic invasion.
The Hunter of Insania
Aoi Maneki
Wiol Alkko sells fake magical objects to those desperate for cures. When he tries to scam a real witch, she curses him: within a year, Wiol must learn and respect magic, or succumb to corruption of body and mind.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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!
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Little Red & Wolf
Aoi Maneki
Delve into the daily lives of two famous fairytale characters, and their adventures in this big weird world we all live in.
Heroes of Thantopolis
Izzy Strontium Hall
A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.
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.
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.
Devil's Candy
Rem, Bikkuri
A lush fantasy about boy genius Kazu Decker, the girl he constructed for his 9th grade science project, and the world of devils and monsters they live in.
Witchy
Ariel Slamet Ries
In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your hair.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Ghost Junk Sickness
Studio CARTRIDGE, Laura Lee
Two hunters try to survive and end up being pushed to pursue a deadly bounty dubbed "The Ghost".
Jailbird
Charlie Davis
An all-ages comic about a recently escaped prisoner's struggle to understand the outside world, and vice-versa. Also, a magic cape!
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!
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
Parisa
Ellen K
Two friends, Nolan and Gwen, take it upon themselves to escort the amnesiac spirit Lelief across the world of Parisa.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Raruurien
Ann Maulina
To maintain a peaceful life without her husband, a witch has to assimilate with the villagers, become a role model for her sons and also keep a low profile by confining her powerful magyx in public.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.
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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They are used strictly as an artistic choice for the set dressing of the comic.
“I still have your axes! You should have come unarmed if you wanted me to believe you!”
They could of made/bought new axes that looked like their previous ones.
You don’t just MAKE a new weapon that was an entire symbol of YOU AS A PERSON. Those were THEIR weaposn. One of a kind. Irreplaceable. A part of their body and soul. Byron took them as a way to remember them and feel like they were with him at all times NOT because they were the weapons they had when they grew up. But because they WERE their weapons. They were for all intents and purposes THEM. You do not just remake something like that.
Uh… you’re making a hell of a lot of assumptions there.
Maybe they were irreplaceable. But if we presumed they did come back from the dead, then they came back weaponless. As adventurers, they’d need new weapons. So why not buy/craft new axes? Sure, they won’t be the same extensions of their persona as they were before. But a generic axe is still better than no axe in a fight.
In either case, I guess it’s a moot point now, given the events that unfold in the following page.
They DON’T think you’re stupid, Byron, they think they can make you angry. That was the whole point of bringing the anti-crazy potion.
Yeah, making it personal.
PUNY ILLUSIONS!
BYRON DISBELIEVE!
I disbelieve the walls! And the ceiling! And the air!
Byron: “You two really think I’m that stupid?”
B & B: “Actually – yes, you doofus”
Byron: “Waitaminit. NOW you sound like the older brothers I grew up with.”
That’s because WE ARE! *tears off face masks* just kidding we’re cultists! stabbity stab stab stab!
People in movies fall for this all the time so it was worth a try.
But if this isn’t necromancy, what is it?
Reusing assets.
oh hell… (possible spoiler warning here just in case?) IT’S TIME TRAVEL.
yeah probably not.
Illusions, son.
Also known as “magic tricks” by certain… professionals.
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I vote for shape changers, the axes and clothes are all part of the creatures.
I vote for DreamWorks Animation.
Can’t be DreamWorks – they’re missing that insufferable smirk.
It’s madness.
-waits patiently-
no it’s patrick
Whoa. On one hand, Byron’s justified in his disbelief and anger.
On the other…their names are in the tags for this strip. Too bad we can’t shout, “Byron! Don’t be too quick with your axes just yet.” (Well, we could…it just wouldn’t do any good.)
That’s just the thing. Those might be Byron’s axes now… but they used to belong to Bayen and Brayen… who are very visibly holding them.
You think axes can’t be remade?
Axes are better than swords largely because they’re easy to maintain AND cheap to replace.
Naming their kids “Bayen, Brayen, and Byron” must have been a decision their parents thought was hilarious for a day and then very quickly regretted.
Byron isn’t their real brother, though.
… does the rest of team see the same thing or are they seeing people from their memories? If it’s the later, things are about to get real messy.
How sure are we that they’re dead? The tags are not helpful in finding comics where they were merely mentioned. Did Byron bury them? All I can remember is that “There was a town called Battleshire. Then the cultists came. And now there isn’t.”
I mean, if Byron didn’t bury them, and they didn’t die on-panel, then by movie logic they’re not really dead.
The funny thing is that the only person in this comic who we’re really sure definitely died is Byron!
He’s holding Bayen and Brayen’s axes. So are the two men he’s seeing.
Also Byron’s kinda a big deal name wise, being the leader of the Gastonia Adventurer’s Guild and member of the Peacekeepers. If these two had been alive and looking for him all this time, they’d certainly have been able to find him.
Did you know you can just MAKE unadorned axes with plain wooden handles? S’truth.
I didn’t say they were looking for him. My actual suspicion is that they were not killed by the cultists because they joined the cultists.
Ooh, I like that idea. Maybe that’s what HR did, just wrote the two NPCs that were supposedly part of the cult all along, ever since Battleshire. But we won’t know for sure if they’re real until we see the rest of Byron’s team interacting with them.
“I didn’t say they were looking for him”
~Points to the line in the comic where THEY say that they were.~
Anyone else notice that B & B (the illusions, not the axes) are holding the same exact body poses in panels 2 and 3? Like they’re vogueing. Wonder whassup wit dat.
Peasants tied to the trees, glamored with B&B, *just for Byron.*
The rest of the party sees Byron hauling off and slaughtering innocents for no reason. InstaTPK, just add water.
Hopefully he can come back as a blackguard.
Ooh that’d be a nasty trick. And the spells could be set to only work for someone with the madness already in them. We still really don’t know the nature of that condition.
That is uncanny, and maybe it does mean something, but their silhouettes in the previous page were in different poses.
Wonder where this is heading.
… where this is be-heading ?
I can´t help noticing they still have their weapons ready…
How do we know they didn’t just join the crazies?
“Behold, Battleshire. Once a town, then a pyre. Its return will sink cities in death’s endless mire.”
Thing is, their faces look older now.
Older than what? The two flashbacks we saw of them where Byron was a little kid?
Yes. Which shows that they’ve aged.
Since the nature of ‘the madness’ is still a mystery, perhaps the cultists can perform unusual actions with it? For instance: magically control the subjects, subdue them, and revive them?
We’d have to wonder why the cultists hadn’t used the ability on Byron of course, but maybe his brothers were singled out for a ‘special’ form of the Madness.
Could well be the two of them for REALZ. The year-in-preview page showed what looked like the two of them in full-on-frothing-at-the-mouth-Madness-mode. And, as quoted by Mordecai, there’s a prophecy of sorts about Battleshire returning (and bring death and madness with it). So maybe, like Byron, they survived Battleshire’s destruction, but were kept under the effects of the Madness by the cultists this whole time (frothing berserkers used as mindless weapons), now brought out as bait for a trap to repeat the whole affair on THIS town and start a Plague of Madness or something
It was kind of implied (but never outright stated I think) that the Cultists used the Madness to have Battleshire tear itself apart (or maybe just infected Byron and/or his brothers to do it). All we really know for sure at this point was that the town existed, Byron grew up there with his bros (who trained him and whose axes he seems to carry, named after them), then the cult showed up, the town is/was GONE, and Byron presumably got infected with Madness at that point.
Alternate theory: They survived, rebuilt Battleshire, but everyone in it is a sleeper, so to speak, carrying the madness. And now the Guild will be infected by it, Rage virus-style.
ALTERNATE ALTERNATE THEORY: Bear with me here: Brother Tom knew B&B were alive, hunting down cultists, and set up this elaborate bait so that Byron thinks they’re cultists, kills them, realizes they weren’t, and loses his shit so hard that not even Syr’nj’s potion can suppress it. The army that he has raised, as Brother Tom predicted? The new Battleshire. Also infected by the madness. Destruction ensues.
ALTERNATE ALTERNATE ALTERNATE THEORY: Some other thing I haven’t thought of.
Byron’s love for them is like a truck …
“You think I’m really that stupid?”
“Well, we were kinda hoping…”
Crap, I finally caught up to the most recent page. I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed reading this comic up to now. On to the page at hand though, I can’t tell if he’s going to give them the axe or a teary-eyes speech that really cuts deep
Its his allies disguised as his brothers in order for him to believe they are cultists in disguise to make him seemingly go crazy and kill his OWN TEAM-MATES. Calling it!
This is what I came here to say.