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!
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.)
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.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
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!
The Automan's Daughter
Mike Stamm
Aisha Osman and her uncle Siddig outwit bikers, spies and kidnappers while gearing up for a showdown with the formidable Widowmaker mecha.
Paranatural
Zack Morrison
Superpowered middle schoolers fight evil spirits in their rural hometown. Come for the jokes, stay for the cast, the creatures, and the mystery that ties them all together!
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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.
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...
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Bicycle Boy
Jackarais
A cyborg named Poet wakes up in the post-apocalyptic desert with no memory, no limbs, and no idea why he keeps getting punched.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Godslave
Meaghan Carter
Edith has been thrown into the dangerous world of modern-day Egyptian mythology. Fighting monsters and dealing with family drama of godly proportions.
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!
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.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Fireweeds Moors
Gato Iberico
A cat-headed man and a girl with a sandwich hankering accidentally end up in a myth-infused country where magic chalices are a really big thing.
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.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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!
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.
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".
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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...
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.
Cut Time
Juby
Rel and her trusty avian friend Fugue are on a quest to save a world that's lost track of time. Follow them and their new recruits, in a story written with help from the stars.
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!
Caramel Corn
Potchimew
Sarah is the only human left in a world full of mythical creatures and monsters. All she wants to do is live a quiet life, but everything changes when she meets her guardian angel, Jacob.
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.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
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?
Kiwi Blitz
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
Steffi thinks she can use her kiwi mech to become a superhero. This idea turns out to be very stupid.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.
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.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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!
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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!
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.
Bybloemen
C.B. McPherson
An infernal plan to corrupt the small town of Stenen Brug at the height of tulipmania is complicated by a pact made between a talented young merchant and a demon looking to change careers.
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.
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!
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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 wonder if Gravedust’s hesitation before he confirmed Rachel was gone lament something.
“Jesus christ, the blood! Oh, god! There’s intestines everywhere! The eyes? WHY THE EYES?”
“Is she…gone?”
“Uh…yes. Just yes. No details. Just yes.”
He had to confirm that she was “gone” euphemistically, metaphysically, and physically (not sure if his scrying works digitally).
Gravedust can only sense life and death. I imagine he was trying to find something, anything, of Rachel.
Rachel nooooo :(
Kinda lacks emotional punch when you know the sepia world” Rachel” is perfectly okay. Context is a buzzkill. Unless her computer exploded like some sort of early 90’s movie hacker plot.
Or a large hairy man with a handlebar mustache shows up at her house…
He’s stated he only kills if he has to. And unlike his prior targets, it’s entirely possible she has a real life to go with the one in Arkerra.
Maybe the player’s not dead, but the character is, and the character is entirely real to Byron, Gravy, Frigg, and Syr’nj. Rachel’s player could make another character, but it wouldn’t be the same person to the Main Four.
It would be the same person if she told them that she reincarnated in the other character (wich would technically be true).
Character wipe, mang! Character wipe.
Nasty business.
Sepia-world-wise, ‘Player Rachel does not exist’ at login, ‘we’re not liable for data loss’ and other yadda-yadda at Arkerra Online TOS.
And assuming that even ‘regular’ players are puppeting the actions of real Arkerrans, someone somewhere bited the dust fo’ realsies.
Either way, E-Merl’s getting the short end of the digi-destroyed stick.
Kinda remind of one big demon of the manga Yureka.
This manga has a background somehow a bit like Guilded Age : it’s a virtual reality game. At the end of a world event, there’s a big demon attacking the city, and so far, player needed to pay lot of XP to connect again after being defeated. Yet, this demon had a more evilish way to wound players : it erased part of their code, meaning : if the player were killed by it, his character was completly deleted.
As a big world boss, Greeny here remind me of that.
This was all just an elaborate plot by the mages college to confiscate something else from E-merl to cover his debt.
“She gave you her heart? We’ll take that, too.”
Student debt is the real monster. Even death won’t stave off collection. They’ll take the life insurance money that was reserved to purchase your coffin & funeral services.
90’s hacker movies were the best hacker movies.
They’ve deleted her character. This isn’t just some MMO death where you wake up in the graveyard with a bit less XP or whatever. Her character, her progress, the works… completely erased.
That is kind of a big deal.
Well, Penk, we been waitin’ for 3 weeks for you to get into the fray. What’s another 72 hours, I guess?
Thoughts …
-Dam monster. Won’t even allow one the time to grieve.
-Ditch the Keytar, WAV. Get a ’68 Fender Strat and blow its skin off with the first chords of “War Pigs”.
-Coma Frigg looks so childlike, so angelic … I know, I know, it won’t last.
-What a privilege it is to view such excellence 5x/week.
I bet he makes one hell of an entrance, though:
Rachel is NOT allowed to be Really Truly Most Sincerely Dead.
SOMEbody better fix this.
I’d like to point out that no one ever said ‘dead’. The word was ‘gone’. The hesitation could have been Gravedust thinking a moment, and realizing that is indeed what happened. Rachel was gone… Because she is no longer there. But not dead, necessarily. If we hypothesize the monster is attacking because it is eating, and that the monster is in fact eating the code of what it touches, then we can assume that, somewhere within the beast, is Rachel’s code. And everyone/everything else it’s touched as well.
Theory: The monster is digitalized Destructive Chaos. Ever-growing, ever-feeding. The thing which can defeat it, its anathema, is Order. This is why music – sounds, ordered together to Create – can harm it when nothing else seems to.
That’s some serious wishful thinking there.
…Well, Rachel’s an awesome character, who would WANT her to die? D:
Or, “gone” is worse than “dead”. If she were just dead, then Gravy could detect her spirit. I think the pause was Gravy confirming that her life and her spirit have both vanished from Arkerra.
The whole Gravy being devastated by the farmer’s deleted spirit thing was to prepare us for the fact that Rachel’s death is real, and she won’t just respawn like Bandit apparently did.
Good riddance. She was almost as annoying as Penk’s helmet.
“If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honour in one eye and death i’ the other,
And I will look on both indifferently,
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honour more than I fear death.”
Too character are going to be pissed, one is Frigg.
*two characters* (I hate auto correct)
Don’t you mean “autoco-weck?”
;)
Pretty sure Sundar already knew she was dead. He may not be one of the main team. He may not be top tier in battle. But that is a man who knows what a hopeless battle is, and what it is to cut a loss for a future win.
As long as we’re data, the truth we must heed:
It’s bits that we byte; on data we feed.
Data must write, and so we lend grace,
When files delete files, to use their free space.
I’m not good at clever comments, so I’ll just flat-out say that I like this.
Weeell… The routines that delete files don’t really need the extra space to exist, do they? Not in the sense of animals needing other animals for sustenance. Maybe their all-knowing overlords in the “real world” need the space, so they send in the tentacle-things, but their desires are abstract and unknowable.
Ia! Ia! Sys-Adminiggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Interns!
Or, the Beast is sentient, and it needs more data storage space to learn and grow more intelligent.
Player data takes a lot of storage. It’s not just inventory and customization information, but also quest/mission progress, replay data, map revealed info, chat history, guild info, etc…
If the Beast can wipe out a player’s character slot (or entire account?), that frees a lot of storage space for it to grow. Which is why it likes to consume living things.
If the Beast had killed Frigg, it’s possible that it could have accessed Frigg’s player’s brain, giving it an entire human neural network to play with. Imagine the Beast with true human intelligence, sentience, and sapience… Scary.
Maybe that’s what HR wants with the Five, now. Kill their minds, so he can use their brains. Basically, he might be trying to turn them into the Borg. If they’re already subconsciously making Arkerra more realistic, imagine what they could do if they didn’t have to waste so much brainpower being human.
Just pointing out that dead is not dead for ever.
Frig and Gravedust have both been dead and buried after all.
I know they are in tubes in sepia world unlike Rachel but the mechanic for resurrection exists in the game.
Not for this kind of death, surely.
As far as resurrection mechanics go, Bandit didn’t have a clue as to what had happened to her after death. There’s no way any of them have meta-knowledge of a resurrection spell and cost and downtime and whatnot.
They died within game mechanics.
This is outside the death/resurrection cycle for an MMO. WAVwouldn’t have allowed himself to be seen were the situation not extremely FOR REALZ (remember, even divination didn’t show him, implying that WAV works entirely behind the scenes on a game-mechanics level.
Its also worth considering that H.R mentioned at one point that the VR players were rubbing off on everyone around them, allowing them to be more human than would be normal for NPCs or even player controlled characters. There’s a certain level of questioning whether Rachel was entirely the player’s creation or whether that magical influence had given the character life within the machine merely directed by an external player.
There’s also the possibility of a metaphysical connection being channeled by the plugged in players. If characters around them begin to evolve beyond the predetermined mechanics of the game, there’s magical influence. There’s nothing to say that this connection wouldn’t also follow through to the players. There’s the very real possibility for psychological damage if this is the case. Rachel’s player may well become depressed or worse, E-merl’s player may well take the loss as though he had really lost a lover.
Once you get interdimensional magic involved, all bets are really off.
Please enjoy some music while you wait. Your battle is important to us.
*Muzak version of the drum solo from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida plays*
I can hardly imagine that, but then I was pretty stunned to hear a muzak version of “Warchild” (Tull) in an elevator once. Yes, really in an elevator. And what’s up with ELP’s “Father Christmas” in the Jingle-jingle background lately? Clearly the people that put this stuff together have no idea what that song is about. :-)
You mean The Kinks’ “Father Christmas”, I’m betting. :)
;__;7
Excuse me, you seem to have a number on your face.
What that’s an outrageous accusation how dare you suggest such a thing
Morituri Te Salutant – “Those who are about to die salute you.”
“What we do in life, echoes in eternity.”
T_T
I never expected Sundar would be the group’s carry.
He looks well-fed to me…
Well, portage is about all fighters are good for…
While it IS wishful thinking, I do hope something can happen wherein Rachel is somehow brought back… with little or no damage.
S-she’s fine, r-right? She said so herself…
Ask any psychologist – “I’m FINE” means I’m …
F‘d up
Insecure
Neurotic, and
E<motional
I believe that was her player talking. No longer in character. Though the character Rachel is being erased from existence, Rachel’s player will be okay.
I don’t know if Rachel’s player is really as old as she looked on Xan’s screen, but I’m kinda wondering if she’s gonna retire from gaming. I’m older and have had to pretty much retire from gaming for health reasons, and I would’ve loved it if I could’ve gone out in such a heroic way.
I’m expecting an Otherworld scenario here (Or a .hack one for those not familiar)
-_-
“A deep man believes in miracles, waits for them, believes in magic, believes that the orator will decompose his adversary; believes that the evil eye can wither, that the heart’s blessing can heal; that love can exalt talent; can overcome all odds.”
“Armored one”? Just about all of them are armored. She’s armored. I don’t understand why she’d call him that.