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!
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.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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.
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.
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!
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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!
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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...
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!
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
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.
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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...
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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".
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?
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.
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!
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!
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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!
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!
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I bet she’s a dog person.
Lassie! Quick! Growl and bark so that the Chrissie and the others know there’s something wro-
Aw, crap. You’re a cat.
Lassie! Quick! Unmute the mic so they can at least hear my blood filled screams!
The cat is not smiling.
Cheshire cats notwithstanding, cat’s don’t usually smile.
nooooooo how did that stray apostrophe get there :'(
It’s a catapostrophe!!!
Not usually, but sometimes- when they’re really happy, cats sometimes pull back their lips in a manner that looks like a human smile; not all cats do this, though, and those that do don’t do it every time they’re happy.
Source: my friendly, lazy tabby.
I sense a CATastrophe coming…
So I guess Scipio and Fr’nj will be NPCs together now.
Even her in-game quest was isolating her from the pack before the predator moved in…
(Also, that is so wrong, oh my but that made me laugh and pout at the same time.)
Well cats can already kill commoners and one belonging to a gamer is bound to be extra violent as well as at least somewhat leveled and geared up, maybe it can take out a hired goon. C’mon kitty, he’s just a big fat rat.
Anything terrible happens to the cat, and I’ll deliver your pizza, Bud!
The cat will be fine.
The cat had better be fine… or I will personally force my way into speculative fiction to fuck JJ’s shit up.
That seems awfully fast for JJ, assuming that is him. Did he just grab her when she opened the door?
That would be my guess. Awful convenient that she muted right before she got up (though I guess if you’re used to that sort of thing, you probably would).
Better hope no one driving by/across the street/the actual pizza guy saw it happen, JJ.
If it really is JJ, my bet he replaced the pizza guy and/or killed him.
And took the pizza for himself. Hey, hired goons have to eat too.
He probably met the pizza guy at the door of the apartment building, tipped him well, and held the pizza up to Kaye’s peephole.
That does seem awfully fast for a guy whose modus operandi so far on this job has be to start out acting friendly-but-implicitly-threatening, and only escalate to actual violence when someone’s uncooperative.
Maybe he’s planning to hold her hostage in an attempt to force Shanna to come to him?
It would at least make more tactical sense than uniting a bunch of previously neutral parties against him and giving them a martyr.
Pleasedon’tbethehitmanpleasedon’tbethehitmanpleasedon’tbethehitman
I’m feline like she should’ve seen this coming. What a catalyst for the plot! I just hope we don’t lose another purrson.
I calico-late she’s about tab-by taking a permanent catnap. Lack of curiosity killed the cat owner. Her sense of self-preservation should’ve been a Little Friskie-er.
And, I’m done. *slinksoffinshame*
This feels familiar…
Wow you just sent me on an adventure laden with hours of entertainment value o.o Thanks mate!
What? Already? Is this truly the end of our tail?
Self-defense Training could save her.
If “Self-defense” and “Training” were the names of two giant Pit Bulls who she also had as pets.
I’m really hoping she not only muted her mic but also muted the speakers on that laptop before she got up from the skype call.
Welp, that Gravatar was more accurate than I thought it would be.
Pretty sure the implication in the previous comic is that she muted the mic only.
Which means most likely that the hitman might have some idea where to go next.
Cats always need to be the center of attention
Fifteen years and three kids later, whenever people ask JJ and Kaye how they met, they can only smile knowingly at each other and remember the day that they startled her cat not with violence, but with passion.
No seriously, that’s all they can do (at least until a couple statutes of limitation expire).
Do you think Love can Bloom… even at a crimescene?
Haha, sweet. Look, she’s trying to impress us ! Silly cat…
Ha ha, yes. Cat. Someone is totally not getting murdered right now by a fake pizza guy. Yep, it is all cool.
It’s been a while since a comic put a knot in my stomach like that.
Well played, you magnificent bastards. Well played, indeed.
This is such a great comic! Maximal tension, while showing a minimum: just the cat’s expression. You guys rock!
She’s gonna die. She’s gonna die and I am going to feel sad.
Sheesh this page is actually stressing me out. Heart rate increased, cold sweat and everything. Way to go guys, i guess?
Ah dramatic irony. You strike again.
Cat scare! Or maybe double-reverse cat scare, because the gang should be scared, yet aren’t.
This is actually kind of horrifying. Kudos, GA crew, for excellent panel work and writing!
Chrissie means Kaye’s laptop, right?
Yeah. It’s usually not a good sign when even the makers of a comic have no idea which name belongs to which character.
(sigh) Seriously guys, you need to make Lia THIS naive/stupid for JJ to be able to take a hostage -__-
Protip on living alone for anyone who cares about survival: You ALWAYS check the keyhole/window. Always.
If you order food and get a brick ***thouse mountain of a man who could easily be using his physique to make a LOT more than delivery wage (extremely unlikely), you slide cash and tip under the door then ask him to leave the food and walk away. Yes delivery boys will do this happily.
If you’re wrong about him, what’s the harm done?
Lesson learned, thanks for failing at life so overly trusting readers might succeed, Lia
I believe you mean Kaye, but no worries.
Consider the possibility that 99% of people never, ever do any of that? And so not doing those things does not make Scipio naive or stupid?
Um, may I get a source on that? But really I’m not talking about statistics, I’m stating as fact if you live alone in a city and CARE about long-term survival you always want a way to check the door easily and use it when even a delivery guy comes.
It can be a window by the door, keyhole, sturdyish locked screen door, whatever. A BIG friggin dog can negate the need for this if you want one anyways and are too lazy for this. I’m not talking more than a second of glancing here ok, its not unreasonable and could save your butt. I’ve seen plenty of people do this as a matter of routine and they could easily tell something is a miss when a 1920’s WEIGHTLIFTER Shows up with a generic pizza box (if that) and a bloody knee.
Look for the record I kinda agree with you and I’m not condemning her as dummer/naiver than the average american or average nerd but she’s definitely not meeting the bar for being SCIPIO! Scipio outta be a bit smarter/savier than this is all I’m saying. Pardon if it came off more caustic.
Now Daniel I would believe never thinking to check before letting a giant inside with a big smile XD
I rarely bother using my peephole, and I certainly never use it when I’m expecting someone. It would also be nigh impossible to make out any particular details anyway, such as “this guy looks like he could kill me”. But it’s certainly a handy thing to have if I’d be expecting trouble of any sort.
Then again, I don’t live in USA. I remember one time playing Shadowrun over the internet, I was of the opinion that the probability of having a break-in was ridiculously inflated going by the rules as written. But another player disagreed with my assessment and claimed to have had quite a few break-ins over the years. I’ve had none in 20 years, and among my 70+ neighbours there have been only two break-ins that I know of, although one of those happened to my next door neighbours.
I’m not sure why you’d think it’s NECESSARY for Kaye to open her door without much of a security check here, considering than Xan was about as paranoid as he could be and JJ still gained entry to his place without any trouble at all. Now, yes, some places do have alarm systems and/or better locks, but I’d say that unless he’s facing the kind of security that only one-percenters can afford, a man of JJ’s abilities is getting pretty much anywhere he wants.
(I could say it’s purely hypothetical that JJ has entered Kaye’s living space, but really, whom are we kidding at this point?)
And just for the record, I’ve never heard of anyone taking the level of precautions Danzin suggests. I’m sure people do, especially in rougher neighborhoods, and I definitely am someone who leaves the blinds open to let the sun in even if it means someone can see into my home, so you can take that with a grain of salt. But it’d take a lot to convince me Kaye’s not doing so makes her some freakish outlier.
Ok first please lemme be lazy and say most of what I said to Sergei applies here.
Now to reiterate kinda, I’m not saying Kaye (I dunno why I keep getting her and Lia mixed up, pardon) is truly dumb/naive, that was a bit hyperbolic and I apologize if it caused any offense.
I’m just saying the real life Scipio should be one who takes bare minimal tactics that help your chances of survival. That means a simple habit of quickly glancing at someone before you open your home or car door, learning at least one trick or two for dealing with a stronger bigger aggressor etc. Yes JJ is a professional at this and will likely still get in but doing everything you can to resist and MAKE NOISE is important. You want him to think cops could be on the way, so he needs to leave you alive but scared of him so you won’t make trouble.
It’s just a bit dissappointing, I’d more likely believe Lia or Daniel would be as vulnerable as the rest of us but that Kaye would put up a fight.
I’m sorry it came off whiny and demanding, I truly don’t mean to nitpick and nag and I really love the story as a whole. It’s my love of the 99.9% of awesome that makes me pounce on this stuff. Or maybe I’m possessed by my gravatar’s grump face @_@
Oh, it didn’t come off that whiny! I hear ya, and I do try not to make characters go down like punks (unless they ARE punks, like the average Cultist). I’m just not sure there’s anything Kaye could have done that would make what we saw appreciably different, especially since the muted conversation means that Kaye may have indeed made plenty of noise, but we wouldn’t have heard it. (I suspect today’s installment may answer some of your other issues.)
That’s a big part of what makes JJ scary, to me: we HAVE seen normal people taking sensible precautions against him– Shanna buying the gun, Xan refusing to let him in– and yet suddenly that doesn’t matter and he’s in your house, he’s in your face, he’s blowing a hole in your chest, because he’s thought about the same safety issues you have a lot more thoroughly for a lot longer.
So something bothers me about the last frame.
If that is a hissing, angry cat, why are its eyes wide open and its ears all perked up? Hissing angry cats almost close their eyes and their ears go flat, pointing away from the “enemy”.
Something does not add up there.
Everything but the ears says “hissing cat” to me. I’ve seen plenty of cats hiss with their eyes open, and the ears could simply be an artist error.
…Guys, her cat is clearly just terribly excited and ready to pounce upon the pizza. Really. …she’s not gonna die…
YES! GET SOME!