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!
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!
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.
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.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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...
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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.
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!
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.
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 End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
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.
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...
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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.
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!
[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.
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.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
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!
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?
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.)
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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!
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.
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.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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".
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.
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.
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!
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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.
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.
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.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
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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They are used strictly as an artistic choice for the set dressing of the comic.
There’s a quick way to solve this. Just google “Fr’nj questline romance” and see if anyone else gets the same results when dealing with her. If they all mention her ‘meaty’ role, then there y’go.
Unless the quests are all unique to each player but the overall questline plot is still interwoven between players and npcs.
So the same results would come up… because each player herd about what happened to character X because… it is a global event that everyone experienced… at least the people that were THERE and ON.
NPC or PC is still indeterminate from the ‘meaty’ role.
Though they must have some pretty hardcore dynamical npc-interactions to make normal people question npcs vs pcs. Yay turing compliant npcs?
That seems to be the case. Hurricane probably has a big advertising campaign about some advanced automated scripting system that allows everyone to have their own questline within the larger plot or something.
It sounds like something they would say, and it’s coherent with the way the players have been talking about their respective quest lines.
“C’mon man, no one’s going to talk about YOUR NPC. Everyone knows that Hurricane randomizes the names of NPCs for everyone to maintain the illusion of uniqueness. Duh.”
“Actually, I think I remember your bot from the Beacon’s Hill raid. It did a good job, unlike mine which was just a mess of pathing errors. I swear I had to put in like four moderation tickets before Hurricane finally fixed it by “killing” him offscreen and giving me a new one.”
No one seem to notice, or care that players have no control over their characters.
Apparently, you forget it’s considered a “Beta” Game. Googling it won’t help. Besides, that crusty old man who made it made damn sure to cover his tracks.
No, when the Tubers joined, that method was in beta.
Kingdoms of Arkerra is fully fledged with multiple expansions. They mention that it’s the world’s biggest MMO at one point. You don’t get that with a beta.
I don’t know… Microsoft manages to do it in the OS market on a regular basis…
There is just a BIT of a difference between those two things.
Warframe, 4-player Online Co-op with persistent world RPG elements, is still technically in Beta despite soft launches on home gaming consoles alongside their actively supported PC client, and an aggressive Freemium item/cosmetics shop. We live in an age of incremental software development and minimal viable products, or in short form… “the perpetual beta”.
Beta or not, it’s still pretty fun. Space ninjas. In Space!
Although, kinda grindy. My friends and I
despairinglyjokingly call it “Warfarm.”Yeah, but Warframe is amazing. And you have to hand it to Digital Extremes, they listen to the community and are pretty damn active
Why is Kaye looking at Chrissie? That’s not how webcams wor- oh.
Oh dear.
Oh… oh very dear. Yep, ok.
It’s all just another layer!
Before you know it we’ll discover there’s a black and white storyline which is the ‘ultimate’ reality.
Your censored username really fits into that theory.
*Gasp* No….
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Or take both, then shit gets real.
Heheheh… Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/566/
You know, on that note… coincidence? Or super-secret hidden truth?
I was going to say panel five makes no sense… but now it does. Horrible, horrible sense.
This is the big reveal for Xan (where he unmasks as being the player behind Fr’nj).
:D
Not
:D
Just because your girlfriend has bloated hp and multiple abilities/scripts doesn’t mean she’s not a bot.
It could just be that time of the arc.
She’s an Auto-Bot
You know, of all the weird nerd fantasies I ever had, having an Auto-bot as a girlfriend was never one of them.
Until now.
Interesting. Maybe we’ll get some real answers soon. I’m still not sure if these “players” actually have any influence on the “characters” they play, or if the “game” merely tricks them into believing they do.
It’s the latter. The only question at this point is how much.
Eh, I don’t really think we have enough info to say this, especially since this whole thing is, in part, a magical construct.
Could be the game somehow synchronizes character with player, so the character “coincidentally” makes all the decisions that the roleplaying player would make. It would start at character creation. The magic matches an already existing character in Arkerra(who would previously appear to be an NPC) with the input given when the player creates a character. Over time the character and player would gradually come to have identical worldviews, or quickly rationalize any discrepancies in the name of roleplaying(“It’s what my character would do, not what I would do.”).
By this token Fr’Nj is a PC whose player maybe just hasn’t created an account yet.
Or the player made an account, then stopped playing and just left Fr’Nj to her own devices. The secret lives of orphaned MMORPG characters…. Why does that feel like a pitch for an Dreamworks animated movie?
Um, because it is a good pitch?…No seriously make that pitch Dorje, I don’t care if your script experience is ~0 just find a writer. Thems PROFITABLE brainstorms yer havin!
Maybe because Pixar already made a movie with a similar concept. It was called Wreck It Ralph. *Animation studio burn!*
Except Pixar didn’t do Wreck It Ralph. Only Disney did it. So I fail. :/
Hmm, I guess Shanna and Xan don’t know yet that Bandit “killed” Byron….
Oooohh… That brings to mind an interesting question. What happens when Chrissie realizes she may have killed the player who plays Byron?
Since Daniel was online for the conversation with Iwatani, he was probably online a few minutes earlier, hanging out with Sundar, Frigg, and WAV, so it’s likely he’s heard that WAV looks exactly like long-lost guildie Payet Best, said to have been killed in-game.
Not sure if the sepia-world people have brought up Best yet, but if they ever do WAV’s existence is evidence that killing a character in the game doesn’t kill the real-life person, so Chrissie doesn’t have to worry about being responsible for anything worse than a character reroll with a cringe-worthy hairstyle.
So could Fr’nj be? The only person who pops to mind is Carol.
Or she’s actually a “bot” and the “bots” aren’t really “bots” at all.
But that would require the game to be powered by SOME SORT OF MAGIC!
(Insert unnecessary drama dun-dun-duuun)
I love how Kaye is looking up and to her right to Chrissie as if that will help her see someone standing behind the laptop.
Uhm… I don’t theeenk so. She’s looking off screen. With, like, last words on her mind, except she doesn’t know they are last words yet.
yeah, she might be looking down the barrel of a loaded handlebar mustache
The alt-text for this one is terrific.
Absolutely. I so had to laugh. ;)
“reading” this for 6 years?
Pffft.
The one who wrote the alt-text is selling himself short, methinks…
;)
Well, we already know that the game does more things than HR expected and even goes against his programming sometimes, so obviously there’s more to it than a mere computer game. Even if she is an NPC, that doesn’t make her a bot (that is, she doesn’t necessarily she follow the code someone wrote).
I mean “she doesn’t necessarily follow the code someone wrote.” Sorry about the extra “she”.
“None of this makes any sense . . . unless . . . logging into the game actually takes you through a trans-dimensional portal into another world created by arcane magical spells cast by the CEO of Hurricane Software who is now currently embedded in his own construct!”
“Now you’re thinking with Portals.”
“Look I’m sorry, but to be honest that idea is so insanely dumb it could only come to fruition in a webcomic or subpar anime desperate for a hook.”