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!
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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.
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.
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Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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...
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.
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.
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.
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?
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!
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.
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!
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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!
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?
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.
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
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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.
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 Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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 End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
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.
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.
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.
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 (48) ¬
So that explains things from the Sepia World point of view. Your characters do their thing, and you just have to deal with it.
#DunDUNDUNNNNN
Both your gravatars together make it look like Scip pulled a Dramatic Hamster.
I approve.
Every time someone comments on the Gravatars and how appropriate or whatever they happen to be… I always get curious as to exactly what Gravatars the people involved were using at the time… since they’re always different by the time I get there.
For instance, right now… CM and Ganurath are two different pics of Goblaurence… while Chris is Shanna.
So HR has created self aware AI. Be glad it’s stuck in a computer game, the moment it finds out about the real world it will start playing Global Thermonuclear War.
Almost positive that he didn’t create self-aware AI. He either fully created or linked to another world and is able to “jack-in” people from Sepia World into the minds of the people in Arkerra.
If you discovered that you and everyone you know were characters in a video game, would you have the people housing your computer enter a global thermonuclear war, or would you prefer to take an action that doesn’t severly compromise uptime?
1 – “it will start playing Global Thermonuclear War” – eh, maybe it will learn the only way to win is not to play before obliterating all of sepia world. Is any of these gamers good at tic-tac-toe, by any chance?
2 – I wonder if the game hasn’t already found out about the real world and is busy yelling for attention. When you have NPCs cultists invoking an avatar of the game designer, is it solely due to the designer’s meddling or is the game somehow pushing in this direction as well?
For this level of interaction with the world? I might be willing to put up with it.
That’s pretty neat, to be honest. But I have to feel a lot of players would find it frustrating. Maybe it’s because I’m a retro gamer, but we’re used to being able to look up a FAQ about a game and have it be reliable…
Yeah, a game where your character keeps leveling up and adventuring while you’re offline sounds good on paper, but in practice it sounds like you’d come back to a completed quest log full of stories you never got to experience, bosses you never got to encounter. It’d suck all the fun out of the game.
Games that play themselves are indeed terrible and yet the likes of Farmville and a whole genera of flash based “Idle RPGs” exist.
Idle games are terrible because they’re boringly repetitive, linear, and have no incentive to keep playing. Now, imagine an Idle RPG where, whenever you come back, you actually have a good mmorpg: good graphics, huge world, smart NPC’s, tailored-cut quests … sure, your character has lived things you didn’t experience, but hey, you still can make your own adventures (or so you think).
And as it has been pointed out by Chrissie during the “Rachel’s death” incident, there are pretty few rp-ists: most players, I gather, don’t even read the quest log when they come back: they see the xp they gained, they look for the nearest big event newly unlocked, and they spend the evening without a worry. It’s actually pretty easy to not care about what’s happened when you were away… as long as it didn’t have negative repercussions.
I don’t know. Missing stories or plots would be annoying. But if the characters just did basic grinding or crafting, that would be cool.
Character: “Hey welcome back. I hope you don’t mind, but while you were away I killed 38 gremlins , recovered 63 pieces of random loot drops (with 2 rares), and made 3 stacks of leather belts.”
Some games do something like that already. In SW:TOR you can send your companions off on missions that take from a few minutes to a few hours and they come back with either some resources or nothing if they fail.
Pretty sure most RPG games are doing that on some level though.
True. And then there are the bots that people will sometimes run to grind for them.
Check out Progress Quest.
Reading about it on a log is not the same as playing through it.
So… who’s the sixth again? my memory is kinda the nonexistent sort. Unless she’s talking about that Hurricane employee that got murdered and dismembered for sacrificial reasons.
I think Shanna is talking about him, yeah.
Let’s see. Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, Syr’nj, Best, aaanndd…
Good ol’ Ferris O’Leary. Haven’t seen him for a while, but he was maybe going to be Shanna’s contact about the “Bubble” project.
HR saw him last. They were discussing his severance package.
Yes, and he cut him off at the knees during that negotiation.
totally gold star material here :D
It really was.
Darn it. Ah well, I’ve already got… four gold stars now, I think. I’ll get number five eventually. My own constellation!
First rule of Gold Stars, zero! Same as Fight Club!
HR’s a pretty cool dude. He didn’t want to just cut the guy off.
HR’s a pretty cool dude. He didn’t want to just cut the guy off.
…Huh. Both of those were supposed to be replies to Mujaki. No clue why they ended up as their own thing.
They were both replies to Mujaki. They just happen to be under several other replies.
He gave HR a hand with a few things
Thank you for pointing that one out, I was thinking HR since he tubed himself.
No one but Carol knows about that, though.
Ok, so I know we were talking about Kaye’s weird viewing angle last strip, but artistic license discussion aside have we ever seen Kaye on anything other than a screen at this point? I’m not saying that she’s a hyper-itelligent piece of AI designed to keep tabs on the PCs that are closest to the five, but I’m not saying that she’s NOT. That “romance” questline is probably her just trying to form some sort of relationship with the next most sentient piece of software she can find.
We had a few shits of her from her point if view during the Axemas special where we met these four.
I don’t recall that, but that level of …intimacy seems unwarranted.
embarrassing typos are embarrassing?
This page shows here as a *real* sepia world person: http://guildedage.net/comic/axemas-special-2014-page-2/
And so does this page (with her cat): http://guildedage.net/comic/axemas-special-2014-page-3/
[beat]. . . seven.
Phil, you can’t tell us that KoA Creepypasta exists and then not deliver on it.
The glowing eyes COMMAND THIS.
Fourthed
Oh yes. I want this.
I am tempted to tell them they’re part of a webcomic.
Hey guys, guess what ? Colours DO exist.
Kate is “conveniently” off-screen… I want to see what’s happening to her.
I mean Kaye. Sorry about the typo.