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!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Folklore
Adam Ma, Colin Tan Wei
A superhuman horror story focused on a small band of survivors trying to navigate a war-torn world in the aftermath of the Federation’s collapse.
Patrik the Vampire
Bree Paulsen
Patrik loves to knit, bake, and help his friends while dealing with his own demons... like his thirst for blood because, oh yeah--he's a vampire.
Heart of Gold
Eliot Baum, Viv Tanner
A pianist with failing eyesight seeks out a priest with a miraculous healing touch, drawing him deeper into a world of miracles and curses.
Anacrine Complex
Sae Cotton
A superhuman heist involving probably too many pigeons than entirely necessary.
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.
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?
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!
The Otherknown
Lorian Merriman
Chandra is a 12-year-old accidental time traveler with a reluctant new dad, who happens to be a member of a feared galactic crime syndicate.
Clockwork
Chikuto
Cog Kleinschmidt is a diligent, quiet worker at the Mercia Fortress, the world power's leading stronghold. His orderly life is thrown into chaos when an enemy kingdom sends a diplomat for peace talks. This diplomat needs something from Cog - whether he agrees to their terms or not!
Goblins
Ellipsis
A fantasy RPG as told through the eyes of the low-level monsters.
Far to the North
Allison Shaw
Kelu turns to the monsters of her remote mountain home when her family is held hostage by outsiders.
Sunshine Boy
Moosopp
New-kid Kelly is sweet but naive. Luckily, he's got his outgoing neighbor Grey in his corner.
Shaderunners
Alex Assan, Lin Darrow
A ragtag band of bootleggers open a speakeasy for bottled colour in the greyscale city of Ironwell.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Solstoria
Angelica Maria
After her brother goes missing, Samantha vows to become a Knight and help those around her in the Kingdom of St. Helena.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Demon Studies
Miyuli
Four students summon and study potentially dangerous demons within the walls of the mysterious Summerland University.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
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.
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.
No End
Erli, Kromi
A queer romance about people attempting to build lives in a cold, post-apocalyptic world ravaged by hordes of undead.
2 Slices
RJ Morel
After a case of mistaken identity, will awkward Daisuke find help from excitable Mamo, or will his love life be thrown completely off track?
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!
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Lunar Blight
Studio CARTRIDGE, Laura Lee
Lunar Blight is a gothic horror story about an elite knight serving a moon cult who must choose between upholding his honoured duty or condemning everything he’s grown to know.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Paint the Town Red
Windy, Winter Jay Kiakas
Winona runs a werewolf shelter with partner in crime, Odile in the Gothic city of Merlot. One day they take in an injured vampire, and soon unravels many of the dark secrets of Merlot.
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.)
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.
Countdown to Countdown
Velinxi
Iris Black is a self-proclaimed inventor with the curious ability to bring his drawings to life, and yearns to find a space where he can use his powers freely.
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!
Obelisk
Ashley McCammon
In 1908 New York, a young woman struggles to put her life back together in the wake of her father's death - until she discovers a vampire in the shambles of her inheritance.
KISMET
Jaki King
As interplanetary war threatens the Perseid system, a scientist ventures to the far reaches of space in her search for the truth: is humanity the master of its own fate, or is destiny truly inescapable?
Come Hell or High Water
Jenny/Star, Mori
Prince Gladimir was never meant to fall for a pirate. Swearing off love for duty, the threat of war propels him back into the Captain’s world of high seas and high stakes. Their relationship could be the thing to save the kingdom of Yvoire - or destroy it.
Fairmeadow
Kendra P. / KP
A wayward soldier finds herself in a pacifist commune deep in the wilderness of a war-weary land. Living in isolation brings her closer to those she was sworn to kill than she could ever imagine - but also threatens to tear the place apart.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Killjoys
Flatw00ds
When two disgraced ex-feds fall backwards into trouble with the clown mafia, getting out in one piece is gonna be no joke!
Drugs & Wires
Mary Safro, Io Black
Dan used to be a VR operator until his brain got fried by malware. Now he's stuck delivering packages in a post-Soviet hellhole all while trying to adjust to his new life and find some answers.
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...
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.
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.
They are used strictly as an artistic choice for the set dressing of the comic.
Syr’nj has that classic “What else can go wrong today” look on her face.
Well, at least Payet Best isn’t here to make everything worse.
God only knows what will go wrong next. Probably because he’s actively trying to make it happen. With lots of human sacrificing. And intensely reflecting light with his glasses.
Maybe Wav’s statement about “needing the helmet to survive in this alien world” is not so exagerated as Frigg portrays…
PLEASE let that face be an avatar for someone! PLEASE!
This would be acceptable.
Or, to put in one of my favorite Shakespeare quotes:
What fool hath added water to the sea,
Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy?
My grief was at the height before thou camest,
And now like Nilus, it disdaineth bounds.
Oh, good, it doesn’t seem like Frigg is going to leave, at least. Which makes sense. She enjoys teamwork the most when she can tell her companions that they’re fuck-ups, loudly, over and over. Now that they actually deserve it, it’s like Axemas!
Axemas in July? How novel!
My Flammable Homeland sounds like the worst band name ever.
*the best worst band name ever
it would be better than My Problematic Husband . . .
You’re worse than fired. We’re going to give you a promotion.
So true.
Normally promotions are only punishments in Sauron or (insert evil overlord’s name here)’s armies if orcs and (insert go to evil fantasy race here). Given what just happened however, I belief an exception can be made to that rule.
Not really true…being ‘kicked upstairs’ is a real thing. Generally, it means moving you somewhere where you get no real power, it just looks like you do, but getting assigned to herd cats is a perfectly cromulent way to accomplish it, too.
Usually, that’s a way of dealing with someone who’s been promoted into their level of incompetance. They’re given a position which is more prestigious on paper, but in practise is tailor-made to get something useful out of them while minimising the potential damage. (If it’s done well, the subject probably enjoys it more than what they were doing anyway and everyone wins, apart from the fact that they’re effectively being paid two grades up from their actual responsibility.)
That’s the most common type, yeah… Getting kicked upstairs because you gained the enmity of someone in the position to kick you. Such as the infamous case of James Buchanan, who was given an ambassadorship just because Andrew Jackson didn’t like him.
The most notable case I know of being Teddy Roosevelt. He was annoyingly not corrupt as the governor of New York, so the corporations pressured him into accepting the Vice President assignment where he’d ironically have less power. This of course backfired spectacularly as McKinley promptly got himself shot.
‘I can’t believe it. That cowboy’s President, now!’
“Huh. The one person who could do some good is now my nearly powerless VP. Welp, I think I’m going to go get myself shot.”
The moral of the story is not to choose a VP you hate no matter how much you know it’ll help you appeal to a wider range of voters. It just guarantees you’ll die.
I forget if Jackson chose Calhoun for votes, but it doesn’t really matter since Jackson was too stubborn to die.
Sorry, should have specified: promotion to field command of a combat squad (as in sergeant or second lieutenant rank) is normally only used as a punishment in the evil overlord’s horde. And normally because the previous holder of said command was killed in an incredibly painful way by said overlord for a relatively minor failure when the odds were stacked against success in the first place.
In this case: “Worse, you’re promoted. I’m delegating responsibility for dealing with that and anything else that comes up to YOU!”
I got punished with a “promotion” in real life. Got a new title, WAY more responsibility and obligations…. and about the same pay.
Punishment through promotion occurs in retail, too. Usually by not training a person for the new position.
And worst of all, Lisa needs braces.
And prom is tomorrow!!
And you came to the test naked!
And Frigg broke Marsha’s nose with a football!
“Dental Plan…”
so we’ll march day and night by the old cooling tower
they have the plant, but we have the power
“Can ya fly, E-Merl?”
“No? Then you’re going to fall a long way & land very hard.”
Ahah! Syr’nj’s reactions in this comic. They’re funny cause I’m not E-Merl.
There’s a lot of things that are funny because we’re not E-Merl. ^_^
And there’s a lot of funny things because HE’S E-Merl & we aren’t.
“And we call this next indescribably painful administrative correction the larch. The… larch.”
In the Navy, we used to call it the “8-10-12 Attitude Adjustment.” It involves 8 Medics taking 10 hours to remove a size 12 boot from your @$$.
*twitch*
I feel it’s important to share some words of wisdom from another fantasy/rpgish dramedy webcomic.
DON’T SPLIT THE PARTY.
Choose a scenario…kupo!
Perfect timing, E-merl. XD
Seriously, though, Syrn’j, that was on par with “what can possibly go wrong ?”
And glad she got put back in her place. Go Frigg !
And we haven’t even gotten to the Best part. :D
Don’t worry the Best is yet to come.
Oh he’s right behind Frigg. Or did you mean the other way.
The two faces in the last panel could totally start memes/meme generations.
Go forth and meme, young ones.
What happens when the gold star needs to be given to Phil? Who gilds the guildmaster?
That would be the Master Jeweler. He’s got methods to gild just about anything.
Sounds like someone’s going to be walking funny for a while….
Just don’t geld the guildmaster!
Ooo-Wee-Ooooooh-Wa
(Walk, walk, walk, walk)
Ooo-Wee-Ooooooh
Walk like a man
Oh, how you tried
To cut me down to size
By telling dirty lies to my friends
But my own father
Said give her up, don’t bother
The world isn’t coming to an end
He said walk like a man
Talk like a man
Walk like a man my son
No(The right) woman’s worthCrawling on the earth
So walk like a man my son
……………………..At least no one stepped in dog crap. That would make my day worse.
Sooo, guess what happens to be up next in Syr’Nj’s walking path?…
Syr’Nj would probably stop and root her toes around in the dog poop. She likely hasn’t had time to eat a decent meal, lately, so she’d probably savor a nice steamy pile of organic fertilizer. :poop:
I was just thinking she would follow up with. No, not at all. We’ll follow my homeland’s tradition for you. You get the Ax.
E-Merl’s taking this whole shitstorm like a champ
That’s a valid point. Syr’Nj is certainly having a bad day, but E-Merl’s also had a loss (and probably more permanent than Syr’Nj’s, particularly since Rachel’s player isn’t in a tank), has been right in the middle of it all, and doesn’t have the benefit of being on the top of the Chain of Screaming like Syr’Nj is.
I would like to point out that “no one knows this” and “that just means being held responsible for all of the screaming”.
At the rate the guild is losing members, I don’t think E-Merl is in any danger of being fired. But he still may end up unemployed if the guild collapses.
No E-Merl. You’re not fired. I’m promoting you. Congrats, you are now the new squad leader…
Man, that’s cruel and unusual punishment.
With this nice new red shirt…..
…comes the Starfleet Manual of Security Procedures.
Cue thunderstorm.
Is his face scared or hopeful or yes?
“I was made aware that your girlfriend is dead literally a minute ago, and you have already exhausted my sympathy for you!”
Warning: lame joke ahead
“Yes, you are going to be fired. Get in the cannon.”
Good news! You’re going to be canonized!
Well, according to the alt-text, E-Merl isn’t going to be fired. But to make up a new word for what will happen to him, it’ll probably involve some kind of anatomical impossibility being inflicted.
…Wait. This thought just me, as I was rereading the second to last panel.
What if the bag Gravedust was carrying wasn’t (just) carrying Byron’s body, but Bandit?
I mean, I can’t really think of any other way that she could leave the city…well, at least alive.
If that’s the case, the only question, then, would be if Gravedust knew about Bandit being in the bag.
Frigg is kind of a bitch here. Really? Blaming Syr’Nj for worrying about her husband and her country like nothing else matters? Because those aren’t important, maybe?
You’d better be sorry? Seriously?! Dismissing her worries about her husband’s death and her homecountry’s peril? Of all the jackass, least subtle moves she made, Frigg has set a record here.
Alt text: “And that word is ‘extirpation’.”
No, no…That word already exists. The alt-text says that a totally NEW word will need to be made.