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!
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.
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.
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Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
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!
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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?
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.
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!
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.
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.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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!
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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!
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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".
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.
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.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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 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.