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!
Lighter Than Heir
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Girl Genius
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In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, Mad Science rules the World...with mixed success.
Sufficiently Remarkable
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Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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 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.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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.
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.)
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.
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".
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
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!
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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.
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!
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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!
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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...
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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?
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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...
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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I really hope that HR learned his lesson from Lord British.
Now that is an arcane bit of trivia. Wonder who else is old enough to remember that.
wasnt there, but learned about it when i played Tabula Rasa (rip). the legend lives on!
I played Ultima Online in 1997.
Assuming the reference is ultima, you CAN kill lord british. If anything, I hope the heroes learned the lesson: if it has stats, it can be killed, even if it takes a gamebreaking bug.
Sure, you can now, but back in the day… And of course, the great infamous incident was when the “god” of Ultima had come down…
Ultima Online. Lord British was usually unkillable, but he forgot to turn on his invincibility after a server reset.
Slightly unrelated note, but for me, the greatest joy of Morrowind was that you could kill Vivec and carry his soul around in Azura’s Star. The greatest disappointment of Morrowind was that, despite having his soul in my pocket, absolutely no one in game would believe that I did it.
That was your greatest disappointment? For me, it was that Vivec’s soul was so valuable that it was effectively worthless. None of the merchants had enough gold to buy it, and it would have been wasted on any enchantment that wasn’t prohibitively expensive.
I take it you never heard of a guy called SR71 … who managed to determine the statistically most powerful enchantments in the entire game.
Some of them practically NEEDED the soul of either Vivec or Almalexia to carry more than a charge or two.
I contributed a few variants myself back in the day too.
Heh, I remember that one. Although all we heard was “Lord British was assassinated!”, and none of the details as to HOW.
Is this the tale that begins with a speech and ends with somebody trapped in between a wall of flame and an assassin? I hope I’m remembering that correctly.
Apparently he properly turned on invincibility.
If he didn’t, that would surely be the ultimate embarrassment, and he might need to make himself a new avatar.
I played UO from launch. I met my other half Online in UO. the 1st thing she ever said to me was “do you want to buy a fishnet?” Lord British is back at it with a new game world Shroud of the Avatar. it’s crowed funded and has a lot of player community backing and input. also lord British has learned many lessons over the years 1. never trust any big company (EA) that shows up offering large bags of money promising “creative control and freedom” 2. all game corps are about what the marketing people want. 3. be good to your players and they will be good to you. 4. never every let go of control of a company you own for any reason ever.
“Frigg, I’m not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I’d enter my own creation if anything in it could harm m–ooh, gettin’ dizz–” *KLUNK*
(I know, not going to happen. But how I wish it would.)
*Syr’Nj. You’d think after seven years I could avoid making a mistake like that. v_v
I did it thirty-five minutes ago. And I’ve been stuck fighting Frigg for thirty-two of those minutes.
Rude like a dude zerking in the nude.
(Syr hops to her left, putting HR directly in between herself and Frigg.)
“Sure, go on ahead – let her loose – I dare you!”
I think he already is in between them?
That was a reference, wasn’t it.
(The punctuation is deliberate!)
All the godlike powers in the world won’t save you from monologing, old man!
The BAIN of all Evil Boss Mobs!!!
(Also the key identifier to a boss fight)
“You sly dog! You got me monologging!”
So Byron’s real name is Eric. Good to know.
(One real name down, and four more to go…)
I could have sworn they released Frigg’s Sepia name, but all I can find is that her last name is Ackerton:
http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-33-page-12/
(Well, maybe it’s Syr’Nj’s, but Mrs. Ackerton looks more like Sepia-Frigg in the next page than Sepia-Syr’Nj)
interesting, it might be Frigg’s Sepia name after all.
– Frigg’s is… Teenage in Rebellious Phase want to be free from her Mother (which perhaps indoctrinate her to be religious?) so she create a character that similar to her… with some twist of course
– ‘more parents’ might be a clue for Syr’Nj. at least we are shown that Syr’Nj got both ‘Father’ an ‘Mother’
– ex-wife might refers either to Gravedust’s or Byron’s, depends on the marriage. (though I’m sure that ‘friends’ refer to Byron’s since some people play to have fun with their friends)
– and bandmates… you know who
but after all, It’s just some assumption
It’s best to wait until Phil tell us the truth ~
Panel two nerd glasses plus discombobulated look FTW!
I completely agree – great expression! – though I’m going to guess it’s a deadpan look of, “I’ve seen this rambling ‘Hahah! I am death, destroyer of worlds!’ schtick before and I don’t have time for it. Have a tranquilizer, villainboss23841.”
:D
So I can’t tell, did he get hit or did he stop it just before it hit?
As he looked surprised, and then angry, and it’s still in that spot in the last panel, I assume it hit.
Yep. It’s still sticking out of his neck. Side note: that’s gotta hurt.
“Do you have any idea how impolite it is to tranq someone while he’s threatening your life with a friend that he just turned into a mindless killing machine? And while I was giving you my best ‘sleazy guy at the bar’ expression, too!”
Silly Syrnj! You can’t interrupt his cut-scene monologue.
And now we are all thinking what kind of tragic backstory Eric could have had that placed him in the tube of his own free will.
HR means that character creation for the game has players choose a background and Eric chose “tragic” for Byron, I think.
H.R. seems like the kind who’s much too articulate and competent to use “than” instead of “as.”
I missed that one… was still reeling from “watching all of your every move.”
This is what I get for making comics instead of sleeping.
You should really get come comic before you start working on sleep.
*some comic
No, the fans take care of the come comics. >_>
The Tedd (Tess?) avatar gets you +1! >_<
The correct grammar is “watching y’all’s every move.”
Time passing slowly in the home world means HR would have less of it, surely? You get the benefits of time to plan and observe if your hour is only five minutes in Arkerra, i.e., your time passes quicker.
Actually HR is right. I’ts just like Inseption, time pasing slower in the real world means something like 1 day in sepia equals 1 week being colored.
But in the sepia world the five are in tubes, safely under his control. Why would he need a time advantage to deal with them? The active adventurers, making plans, disrupting cultist activity, etc., are the ones he needs to keep ahead of.
It’s possible that he’s still looking to get them out, in the hopes that if he (or rather his assistant) can produce them outside the tubes before an investigation comes around, it’ll be less inconvenient than if a search warrant finds them still in tubes.
Which is why he needs to be in Arkherra. You can’t get ahead of somebody who’s moving at a significant clip more than you. By the time he’s fully figured out what they’ve altered about one storyline, they’re already most of the way through screwing up his next plan.
To make things more concrete…
Let’s assume the ratio is Skyrim’s 20:1.
For every hour of planning and acting the Peacemakers get, HR, until moving into Arkherra, had 5 minutes. By the time HR’d had his full hour, the heroes would have had most of a day. The hours that HR spent sleeping (given his sanity slippage, I think we can assume that was maybe 3 or 4 a day) would give them several days. They were out ahead of him from the start, and the gap was widening.
(Later thought: This is complicated a bit by the fact that when dealing with regular PCs, they’d necessarily be slowed down to sepia-time, but this merely blunts the advantage they have, it doesn’t shift it to HR.)
At least he wasn’t monologuing with his back turned, like Dr. Wily in ye olde Bob and George.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvagVOwH1nbtEI6v0HI5Qg
“Foul!” – said Othar Tryggvassen
“Jeez, lady, can’t you see I am monologuing here? It’s rude to just interrupt people like that!”
Heehee, I was hoping she’d do that.
Monologuing… gets them any time as a proper Villain should!
Everyone hates a villain monologue.
Reading one in a book based on a role playing game, and I was thinking “If I was playing this I would tell my GM, ‘Wait! I’m shooting the guy now. You can finish your monologue first, if you wish, but he didn’t *actually* get to say it as I shot him before the end of the first sentence.'”
In panel 2, Syr’Nj has the typical expression of a serious RPG player sitting next to a metagaming abuser.
Which is that she and HR are, respectively.
Engaging the metagamer in PvP is also a typical reaction, in those circumstances.
>>Implying one cannot “powergame” and roleplay…
And the flaw in that (which we are likely to see next page) is that metagaming abusers are absurdly hard to kill due to being metagaming abusers.
I’m pretty sure HR is Not invincible. Why was he worried that Frigg turned on him and kept her behind the barrier? Because she can seriously put on the hurt.
My guess is that the syringe will have effect, but not fast enough for stopping HR escape.
“Nothing is quite as deadly to you lot as yourselves.” How true is this? Let’s examine.
All of The Five have died (Byron twice). All have come back to life (it remains to be seen whether Byron will again).
Who or what killed them?
Gravedust was killed by Iver.
Bandit was killed by Berzerker Byron, but she’s not actually one of the 5 HR is referring to.
Berzerker Byron knocked the wind out of Frigg, but didn’t actually kill her I think.
Syr’nj knocked Byron out, but didn’t kill him I think.
No, I think Syr’nj, Byron, and Frigg were all killed by the Rebellion’s arrows.
Later, Byron was killed again by the cultists (arguably) and/or Bandit (arguably), who again is not one of the 5.
WAV here has certainly been injured badly by Frigg, but I assume is not dead yet.
Arguably the one case that most supports HR’s statement is Best, who you could say got himself killed — with the other four’s “help” — by his actions in the temple.
So mostly I don’t think HR’s statement is supported, unless you count the 5’s own arguably unwise actions (mostly walking into various traps) that indirectly led to their deaths.
I think that’s exactly what he means. Plus just because the Rebellion’s arrows are what got the final hit in doesn’t mean that they’re responsible for the deadly situation. It could be argued that without Byron zerking all over the place that the team could have easily dealt with that through planning/luck/being pcs etc etc. However the situation got deadly when Byron went berserk causing most of the party to be injured and unable to protect themselves. So yes I would agree with HR’s statement that they are the deadliest thing to themselves.
I’m guessing she just thinks he’s being a bit tad crazy? saying he’s god and all weird nonsense.
Ha, Full House was the first thing I thought of too.
message for you, sir.
branthansen.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/message.jpg
note to self: needs a www. if its going to autolink a pic.
http://branthansen.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/message.jpg
Tranks for the Mummery
HR keeps forgetting that Talking Isn’t a Free Action in this universe.
The other gods think you’re an arrogant a-hole, so nope, no insolence here. From now on, firing arrows at you is part of a holy crusade.
So, I guess HR let the Five create their own backstories, which were then made canon by the Evil Science Magic. The ESM had to warp the existing lore in order to fit this new information, while also conforming to gaming/storytelling conventions.
So Byron’s player created a curse. “He’s a really sweet, intelligent, sensitive guy. But he could snap at any moment and kill everyone he loves without meaning to. So sad. So lonely. So brooding.”
Maybe Payet Best’s player created a ancient prophecy(that actually applies to an NPC, because singular Chosen Ones don’t work in this setting/genre). “Also, I’m a bard who plays rock and/or metal.”
Syr’ng’s player creates a group of *field medics* because elfy-druid-healers are BORING. “I’m a princess who heals with SCIENCE.”
Likewise, the dwarven culture gets tweaked and suddenly there’s shamans! Only they’re all dead, except for Gravedust, so that avoids having to stretch resources on an entire new player class. “A dwarf who doesn’t follow any of the stereotypes!”
Frigg is basically the opposite of a paladin in demeanor(lecherous, hard drinking, and holds nothing sacred except for those first two things), but somehow still gets divine mojo to smite things. “Two words: Hedonist Paladin. And she says fuck a lot.”
This also implies that HR was a lot less consciously involved in the process. Probably acting only as a facilitator. I doubt the magic is going to let him keep up the god facade forever.
Frigg’s clearly a cleric
These look pretty sound to me, though I also woulnd’t be surprised if Payet’s player actually meant to have the prophecy be for another. He’s used to having a lot of personas, and as an entertainer it makes sense for him to put in flaws like that.
Stealing a prophecy could just be his sly way of writing in an acknoledgement that his character was inserted from out of the game. Especially given that so far he’s the only character whose backstory has had pretty much no repercussions, even compared to Bandit’s gnometown, I’d say he was fine with being taken less seriosuly on the OOC level.
-*ooc* FINALLY, a GM! There are so many things I need to tell you *unfolds 20-meters-scrol, starts reading*. For example, there are some things about the last patch I simply MUST complain about…
-What?! No, I’m not a GM! I’m …no one! And I really, REALLY must go now.