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!
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Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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...
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.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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!
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!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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...
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!
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.
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!
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.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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.)
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!
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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.
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.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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.
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!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
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.
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".
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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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Yeah, that place is boring.
‘Tis a silly place.
Let’s not go there.
I… Have… To Push… The Pram A Lot!
Bravo, brave sir knights.
I have a riddle: Who’s bald, loves death, and just got played like a fifty cent kazoo?
The guy with the bloody dagger in his hand?
*hurk*
Cyberia, home of the Googlag.
I see what you did there, comrade.
Well it’s certainly not full of a bunch of Yahoos, that’s for sure.
Although, if the Players have other characters there (like, say, Best), you could possibly call it the Alt-a-Vista. Either way, it’ definitely an Excite-ing moment.
This throwback to 90s web brought to you courtesy of ….. ahfahgeddabouddit…
All I could think, with people punslinging like crazy over a path many need to travel is “Duck….Duck….GO”
I don’t get it. Should I go Ask Jeeves?
I think Brother Tom may have pushed Byron’s HotBot-ton…
I don’t know what you guys are talking about. I guess I’ll just Bing it.
They’re talking about an animal, I’m quite sure. Spotted one on my last Safari if I recall.
Y’all sure know how to Dogpile on this.
my suggestion is to go assault the giant cyberspiders, those webcrawlers are rather slow.
It looks like a lovely location, a great place for some father and son phishing.
Beautiful Altavista of Cyberia through the portal there.
With your body of internet knowledge, you just may be a real Prodigy.
This thread has more fails than the .com edition of Monopoly.
Guess the expansion pack, “The Countless Abyss,” isn’t due for another few months.
Nah, that comes later after this most recent patch, Rage of the Machines.
Thought that’s who it was…
Looks like the black berserkerspirit got banished to Cyberia.
Next: Cyberzerkers!
I don’t think that black stuff is his berserkity. I think it’s just his life force and/or soul.
What do I know though? They obviously had a reason for wanting to de-neutralize his berserker condition, so maybe you’re right.
i read it as the “dark tainted energy” built up in him by having the berserker side. bit like an infection or a tumor, it’s just been fed and nourished so it can be extracted later for devilish purposes:)
but that’s just me;)
Mind-Blown… maybe Homon (HR) just saved Cyberia by sending it the berzerkousness so that the berzerkerouness could cleanse the realm of the chaos that is clearly infesting it right now.
It is not far from Kamenberia, where the Kamen Bear roams.
Come on, counts as special cut scene. Hero gains new ability. Controlled Rage.
Whoa, whoa, guys. You better be careful. Panels are getting wobbly, over here. Ya’ll better strap yourselves in or something!
…my gravatar is certainly interesting.
… this is going to end well
It always does.
Aaaahhhh… The magic is PURPLE. Methinks closed-eye-guy beckons from the Sepia World.
Well, it was a homunculus made by H.R. Puffnstuff.
I totally missed that! Do you have a link to it?
It’s at the end of chapter 27.
Woof. miniHR sure just killed Tommy’s buzz.
Well, hello neighbors.
And so, the Betrayer has become… the Betrayed.
I should carefully consider my next step
[beat]
*grabs Tequila bottle*
I really think H.R. is overplaying his hand here. What’s to stop Tom from killing Homon/H.R. and reverse engineering H.R.’s spell so Tom himself can enter Sepia World, possibly by hijacking H.R.’s own body? It won’t be hard for Tom to dupe somebody who actually believes he’s God.
Free Gengars and Red Kryptonite for everyone!*
*Only players who log in every day in the month of February, sacrifice their firstborn, and sign their soul over are eligible to participate. Only the top 500 ranked players will be allowed to keep the prizes past March.
**Soul not available for refund
Does that mean we can get our firstborns back? Not that I’d want it… Who knows where that thing’s been now!
This isn’t your kids’ “Cyberspace.”
Even if you’re a homonculus forged from the very flesh of the universe’s creator, I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to betray a nihilistic cultist who’s hyped up on bloodlust. At least, not while a dagger’s in his hand.
Yeah, I foresee “consequences” real soon now.
Somehow I doubt “longevity” is among Brother Homon’s aims. He is a tool to serve HR’s purposes in Sepiaworld, not a being of his own motivations.
Two froms in the final speech bubble? That doesn’t read right.
No no, he’s saying he comes from the land of From.
So . . . . . did Hurricane get bought out by From Software in this universe?
Hellberia? I dunno, I feel they should take another stab at it.
If that’s Hell-beer-ia, then I guess Sigh-beer-ia would actually be an improvement.
So, Humon just sent Byron’s soul and/or berserker-stuff into Cyberia? Is he still trying to wake the tubed players up? (Sorry, I sometimes have a really hard time following it all)
Is Cyberia made by a competitor’s company? Maybe he’s trying to destroy it?
No, “Escape From Cyberia” is the next game released by Hurricane Software, following their smash hit “Kingdoms of Arkerra.”
http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-9-page-6/
That part I do remember; I think it’s also where that WAV guy said he was from.
I’m just confused about why Humon sent Byron’s… stuff, into Cyberia.
Eagerly awaiting the next page!
Or, wait a minute… now that I take another look, it kinda seems like he only needed that stuff to help him OPEN that gateway? Rather than sending it into that world…
I have a feeling shit will truly go down when “Brother Homon” finally opens his eyes.
Called it.
“Where you come from? What in the name of the Countless’ endlessly groping fingers do you mean ‘where you come from?!”
Next t-shirt idea: “Human Sacrifice: it’s the gift that just keeps on giving!”
That’ll just encourage AETP to run ads saying “I’d rather go naked than wear skin.”
Well don’t go there yet, they haven’t finished the texture work!
Brother Tom is now making that face we made when you guys said, “Oh man, you should see your face.”
You know, I’m just now noticing that Homon there has Sepia World Hair. No one else in Arkerra has hair that detailed.
He bought the optional Hi-Res Character Pack. Only $9.95 + tax!
Tom looks like the kid that was just got told his birthday party was cancelled.
*GASP*
I really don’t get how people are only just now realizing the connection between Brother Homon and Sepia World, as if it was ever meant to be a secret.
H.R. said he was sending a homunculus into Arkerra. We saw the homunculus — an exact miniature clone of H.R. — being created and sent through a portal. The significance of H.R. successfully putting an agent inside Arkerra was as clear as it possibly could have been. And while this could, at the time, have been written off and forgotten as probably yet another futile attempt by H.R. to gain control of “his” world, the memory should have resurfaced when a guy who looks exactly like H.R. appears in Arkerra, working together with the leader of the cultists!
It happened quite a while ago, we never see a connection between them afterwards, and—I’m not sure how it is for others—but for some reason I just don’t get as engaged in the Sepia World parts of the story. They’re cool, but still feel pretty separate from Arkerra up to this point.
And all that is overshadowed by the fact that Brother Homon is an exact copy of H.R. — the single most important Sepia World character in terms of influence on the plot, at least until Shanna started rocking the boat. Apart from face blindness or skipping the Sepia World scenes entirely, I can’t imagine any way to forget H.R.’s face, or miss the similarity with Brother Homon. Sure, Homon doesn’t have the glasses, but we’re not in Metropolis.
The Homonculus first popped up just over a year ago in realtime, “Brother Homon” a bit less than half that, and in the comic’s five-year span that’s not a huge length of time. People have had no problem remembering things like Payet Best’s ambiguous fate which well predate that. Homon’s always had an incredibly distinct look that separates them from other denizens of Arkerra, from how detailed his features are right down to his very proportions. The very first feature we see of him in Arkerra is HR’s unmistakable moustache.
People need to pay attention and accept that Sepiaworld is, and has always been, as integral to the storyline as Arkerra. HR sending his body double to exploit the cultists will not be the last time HR meddles in Arkerran affairs.
Forced server transfers suck, but forced game transfers have gotta suck harder.
“But not like from where I come from “?
So this is where the bugs come from.
I’ve reached “the last page” again…
And I see a lot has gone down since my last run through the archives. … I’m not talking about the plot.
Should I be worried? That whole matter of someone being retconned out of existence left me kinda… paranoid. Like I could just be erased from existence and never know why…
.
Anyhow… just looking at page after page of comments just leaves a surreal sense of just how alien everyone else is to me.
Almost all the comments were made yesterday. Most were made within the first hour.
Every page is the same since the beginning. The comments primarily made in the hour, then in the day of its posting… and then nothing. Pages of comments all made in the one day and then… nothing.
I’m posting one day after the page was added, and it is unlikely it will even be noticed…
How do you people do that? How can you only read the plot one page at a time… a mere second of plot activity every two days or so? It would be like trying to watch a tree grow… so slowly you can’t even see it move… HOW can people read webcomics that way?
And yet you all do.
This is your “normal” … while to me it is utterly alien. Incomprehensible.
My normal is to read through the archives… whether from the beginning or some fixed point in the past. Enough to get a sort of momentum… a feeling of continuity… I couldn’t do it otherwise. Then I leave it alone for a few months for more time to progress and plot to accumulate… naturally. This is the way I’ve always read webcomics. It is what seemed most natural.
And yet it is different. What is self-intuitive to me is simply not done by the majority.
I don’t get it. I just don’t get how humans do things. v_v;
… I might drop in briefly tomorrow just in the hopes of catching it while people are in the midst of conversation… or I might not. Either way, I’m done with the January 2015 archive run.
Time to do something else for a few months.
I do the same with (newer) TV series or games. I wait until they are finishes (with games that is until they are fully patched, all Addons and DLC are out and maybe even good mods can be found). I just want to experience them in my own pace. I don’t want to wait for a new season or a patch for a plot-stopping bug. Or start a new game for a DLC/AddOn.
But (for me) webcomics are different. They are little distractions from work. And you are always happy to get one, right? A lot of people seem to have the same ‘problem’, as the vast majority of pageviews for webcomic are from Mo-Fr, even when a comic has weekend updates. In comparison with other formats, updates are regular, so the plot move slowly but surely. You don’t forget half the story between updates. (Who’s that Stannis guy, again?) But you are right, reading a comic from start to finish in a few sessions gives a much better comprehension. I also do that sometimes. But it’s not good for work ;)
I do what I do AT work.
Obviously I’m not supposed to… but given I can get this AND my work done in the time allotted… why not?
In any case, I can’t imagine being able to perceive the progression of the plot in any meaningful manner in page-per-two-day intervals. My memory isn’t exactly stable enough for the task, unfortunately.
Doesn’t help that the updates are in the middle of the night from my perspective… so I couldn’t exactly join in the initial burst of conversation anyway.
It’s basically the same thing you do but in much shorter intervals.
<3
(You are *not* helping my crush on you any.)
Here’s my theory: I think HR was able to tap into Arkerra from SepiaWorld using magic and sticking five people in tubes. He got GodMode in Arkerra, and learned that Arkerra is a true persistant world; an alternate world. But from SepiaWorld, Cyberia was just data and pixels. He needed Brother Tom’s ritual to open a gate to allow HR Prime to get GodMode in Cyberia.
So what’s the next software project from Hurricane? I think, with the increased processing power in a place called Cyberia, he can develop SepiaWorld: The Game, so that HR can close the loop, get GodMode in SepiaWorld. and live happily ever after.
I’m pretty sure the HR in Arkerra is the homunculus HR put in there, and that version of HR doesn’t really have the same kind of powers to manipulate the game that HR does. It can, however, operate from within the game structure.
Who’d ever want to go to Siberia anyway…
Who wouldn’t?