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!
Peritale
Mari Costa
A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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!
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
Heroes of Thantopolis
Izzy Strontium Hall
A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.
Demon Street
Aliza Layne
Two kids explore a world full of monsters and magic trying to find their way home again. But when home has been stolen from you, where do you go to get it back?
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!
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Elephant Town
Danielle Corsetto
The long, slow tale of Kris, Paul, Berto and Mirando, four people who live in the same creaky old house, but don't know each other. New chapter updates every 2 months.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Kelly Turnbull
A weekly comic celebrating the finer things in life. Like manly men, lumberjacks, and time traveling special ops agents.
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.)
The Din
Karin (Karrey)
The Din changed the world, mankind & its technology. Gregg Emilio dreams of flying in a sky that hasn't carried airplanes in a century.
The Mash
L.F. Garcia, Danigami
In a world shrouded in mystery and threatened by great evil,a young mummy prince will use his new life to unite with other monster children to save it.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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?
Ozzie the Vampire
Eric Lide
Ozzie and her best friend Kimmy are your average everyday normal art students – except one is an immortal vampire with superpowers and the other possesses a magic talking grimoire. Also they have to save their town from a demonic invasion.
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.
No Need for Bushido
Suburban Samurai, J W Kovell
The flash of a blade, the clash of steel! A runaway princess and her samurai companion navigate a fractured country on the brink of war.
The Glass Scientists
Sage (S.H.) Cotugno
A gaslamp fantasy comic about the life and times of a ragtag group of mad scientists and their enigmatic leader, Dr. Henry Jekyll.
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.
Witchy
Ariel Slamet Ries
In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your hair.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Novae
KaiJu
A historical romance with a touch magic and a dash of astronomy. It chronicles the romantic adventures of Sulvain, a sweet tempered necromancer and Raziol, a passionate 17th century astronomer.
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.
Awkward Zombie
Katie Tiedrich
Gags and goofs about videogames and the things that happen in them.
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.
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.
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.
Helvetica
J.N. Wiedle
This story follows Helvetica's quest to uncover who he was in life, his existential crises, and his struggle to to make death worth living.
Speak of the Devil
Moz (M) Lee Lunsford
The rich and powerful of the city are quickly learning... mess with those who have nothing, and Sunday Blackburn shall appear.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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...
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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!
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!
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
The Hunter of Insania
Aoi Maneki
Wiol Alkko sells fake magical objects to those desperate for cures. When he tries to scam a real witch, she curses him: within a year, Wiol must learn and respect magic, or succumb to corruption of body and mind.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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!
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Little Red & Wolf
Aoi Maneki
Delve into the daily lives of two famous fairytale characters, and their adventures in this big weird world we all live in.
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.
Nix of Nothing
Moz (M) Lee Lunsford
The machinations of higher gods have stepped in and ruined Nix's, Demigod of Nothing, plans for an easygoing life. Now they must journey far and wide, meeting friend and foe, trying to get this divine target off their back!
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.
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.
Laws and Sausages
Zach Weinersmith
Your cartoon guide to the American governement!
Parisa
Ellen K
Two friends, Nolan and Gwen, take it upon themselves to escort the amnesiac spirit Lelief across the world of Parisa.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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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Discussion (66) ¬
Wtb *.wav => *.bst converter.
Sure if you want to downgrade your files.
There would be no downgrade. He would literally be converting them to the Best format.
This format sounds a little like “the Best Korea”.
Bst is a flawlessly lossless format. Pure uncompressed victory.
I’ve always found the Best format to be hard to work with, but it is amazing for recovery.
So, this is essentially a Reboot remake? …Cool. Honestly, Rainmaker Studios, though ahead of its time in a way, was behind its’ time in another. Why weren’t intelligent A.I.– “Game Sprites,” allies to the Reboot characters from the start? Why didn’t the user ever play MMORPGs and Adventure Games, or FPS’s for that matter? Why didn’t the characters ever end up in a situation where they had to ally with, or even communicate with, the User? (e.g. “Booker, catch.”) Payet Best/WAV makes more sense to me knowing that he’s Guardian Bob if Bob were a human whose personality and overweaning escapism and ego makes him a huge douche, no matter where he is. I think, though, that this story would’ve been even better as an ongoing FANS! arc. Shanna having more resources could’ve raised the stakes, not lessened them.
actually at one point the user did play a first person shooter. I remember someone being disgusted at the user for shooting humanoids.
Too bad that the losses already occurred, when he was converted from .bst to .wav.
Converting back would just give you a perfect reproduction of a badly corrupted file.
Uranium Star.
Now what are all those scowls about, exactly?
Well even normal elves are kind of a drag on Gastonian society but now that you’ve got a hobo-elf, steampunk-elf and a cyber-elf walking around it’s sure to ruffle a few monocles.
Look at how ratty our heroes are. Patched clothes. Battered armor. Shaved head.
Now look at the people in the background and foreground. Fur coats. Gold chains for their watches. Hats with feathers.
You’ve got a bunch of subhumans and bums wandering around the high-class district. You’re gonna have the classist racists of Gastonia shooting some dirty looks.
Might also be that word has gotten around about the events at Beechmill, and the reputation of adventurers has hit a particularly low point.
Aye, that would be my guess. A huge loss of trust in the Adventurer’s Guild, to say nothing of their membership and general power, translates to a pretty steep drop in respect.
Also, the adventurers went berserk and killed each other… they’re a menace, a menace I tell you.
Besides, the human heads of houses have been busy while the cat was away.
I suppose. Those folks in the background don’t look so high-class though.
Well given the low technological level and the Societal structure. Yeah those are the well to do High class. They can afford shoes, fur, jewelry and unpatched clothes and cloaks with no rips, stains, or aparent darning.
I’m thinking it’s a combination of all these things: (1) most Gastonians probably don’t really like the adventurer’s guild to begin with, (2) they must have heard rumors of the cultist events by now (possibly even some of the less-than-awesome events involving Braggo and others), (3) some kind of classishness, although this looks like a farmer’s market or something in a mid-range income district (up and coming nobles and military types); and (4) Jean-Luc’s comment on the elvish races vs. humans (Gastonians aren’t exactly fans of inclusion, right?)
I’m pretty sure the scowling in the foreground’s because good ol’ E-Merl is a pickpocket and they’re in a rich neighbourhood.
Give in to the weirdness, WAV. You know you want to.
Best. Alt-Text. Follow-up. Ever.
I don’t know, it has a lot of competition here.
It’s more of a Sundar alt-text follow up, if anything. To Best. By which I mean Wav.
That is more precise, yes.
I knew that when I posted, but in my recent memory at any rate. And it so fitting.
Best. Alt
As I’ve been saying all along.
Attn gamers: I just got word that Nintendo CEO, Satoru Iwata, died 10 days ago. In the 1970’s, Nintendo manufactured paper playing cards. Iwato made the company what it is today and blazed the trail for Sony and Xbox. I can still remember when the first National championships were held for Space Invaders. (Yea i know that was Taito and later Atari) But I’ll never forget the first time I went into my fave Pizza Parlor and there was the Donkey Kong machine and it was a new world. Couldn’t believe it. I also heard today that there will now be drug testing for all video games tournaments. Contestants are taking Adderall to concentrate. Sheez. Could immersion tanks full of Shanghaied gamers from gaming conventions be the next big thing?
The FDA is about to allow it, so yes.
Correction: Satoru Iwata was the fourth president of Nintendo Company which is 126 years old. He is responsible for the DS and the wii. He didn’t come on board til way after Donkey Kong. Nintendo worked with Magnavox on their video system the Odyssey in 1972. Shigeru Miyamoto whipped up Donkey Kong and Gunpei Yokoi designed the hard ware associated with Nintendo games. Iwata began doing contractor work for Nintendo in 1980 and was an influential executive beginning in 2000 becoming CEO two years later.
It might seem gauche, but I feel this are appropriate to respect his passing, and to celebrate his roll as well as many others in the growth of Nintendo, respectively.
http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2015/07/13/tribute-to-mr-iwata/
http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2012/04/11/400-the-history-of-nintendo/
As soon as it gets institutionalized, it can be corrupted. Gaming is no exception to this.
It can be corrupted a long time before that; being institutionalized just means it gets corrupted in the same way everywhere at once instead of each little place having their own different unique corruptions.
“Really it’s about ethics in gaming”… ;p
Frigg has all the flirting skills of an 8 year old boy.
…of an eight year old boy ogre.
Dammit, I just saw Shrek the Musical, so now I can’t get the image of young Shrek trying to hit on various fairy tale creatures.
Shrek is life.
Shrek is love.
i have been a best return believer for many moons. your assertions that you are not him mean nothing [del]best[/del] wav:)
well that didn’t work lol
On another topic, I had to reactivate my adblocker on your page, those animated apps bring my machine to it´s knees. Sorry.
So does Wav resemble Best because the same player made similar characters in both franchises?
No, it’s just because HR told the development team to reuse character models from the other game to save on development costs.
What if Wav. is not Payer… but rather, really an NPC that was created by spawned by Payet, and one of the local player characters. Time may be clocked different in that other realm. If they never called him Payet, and offspring use similar models while retaining a random skill from each parent, it would explain a lot. That’s right.. Payet knocked up the first program that was sent to delete him as an intruder… and every one after that. There are now thousands of “copies” of him.
Negatory: Best is repeating his own nigh-exact words. He has said this before.
It seems that all the characters “played by” The Five (Byron, Syr’nj, Frigg, Gravedust, Best and now WAV) have some physical similarity to their Sepiaworld counterparts, and I’m assuming that this happens automatically. As in, I don’t think the players even have the option of characters that look nothing like themselves.
I agree. In fact, the characters ARE themselves. Their “self” only exists in-game, so the character must look like the “player.” The reason WAV looks like Best, is that it IS Best – the REAL best (not Sepia-world host body). Best was teleported to another universe, and then got back to his real world.
Anyone mind helping out with links to where we left of with Payet? It’s been a while.
he died (lol, not really, tho) in a big hole (that was a vortex to another world)
Chapter 11 page 9.
it’s actually on p19 and p20 . . .
WAV’s “upgraded” helmet so needs to be a gravatar.
Make it so, Number one.
Nooo, WAV, you were doing so good! Don’t unlock the douche achievement! Be better than Best!
To be fair, though, he’s been pretty much shat on by this universe since he got there, and hasn’t complained until now, so I guess he’s entitled to be a bit standoffish.
Random observation: those frowning ladies, especially the one on the right, look kind of Erica Henderson-y. Ironically more so than all the characters who were actually designed by her. Funny how it works.
I have a theory, based upon Payet Best ending up in Cyberia. Due to some sort of identity loss, Wav is Best’s body but his mind is more his core personality but without any knowledge or experiences unrelated to Cyberia.
Come on, WAV! ONE OF US, ONE OF US!
Part of the ship, part of the crew. Part of the ship, part of the crew.
Why are all the people in the street angry/disgusted by them?
I can’t but help keep thinking that Best had been here before, and knocked up everyone’s daughters.
I feel a little bad for E-merl’s player. All of his friends quit the guild and he is left just with two people that are too into RPing to make a personal connection (at least as far as he knows that’s what they are), an NPC (again as far as he knows) and Sundar (I have no idea if he is a PC or NPC.) And given the Christmas story I would say he was close to his friends. I wonder how much of E-merl’s attitude is RPing, how much is Daniel’s own real life attitude, (and how much is the magic inside the game world giving E-Merl a real personality, but that is another discussion).
So far, do we have any evidence that the SepiaWorld “players” have any effect on what the Arkerrans do at all??
Scipio’s player made the decision to pursue romance with Fr’nj. Not to mention that they all made the decision to join the Peacemakers.
OK, that “little buddy” has infected my brain. Somebody needs to draw a Guilded Age Gilligan’s Island scene. The last panel of this comic obligates Sundar the Skipper and Wavilligan. Syr’nj is the Professor. Etc.
is E-merl Maryann?
Frigg as Ginger? Daaang! ;D
Called it :D