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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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?
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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!
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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.
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.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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 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...
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.
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.
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.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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.
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 End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
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!
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!
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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“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.