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!
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!
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.
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
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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!
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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!
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.
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!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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!
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.
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?
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 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...
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.