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!
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
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...
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!
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!
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
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Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
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.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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.)
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!
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...
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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!
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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.
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.
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.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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.
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.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
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.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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".
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!
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.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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!
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
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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Dun Dun!
Winter is coming.
When is the winter of our discontent?
“Noooooow something something”. Unforgettable.
Now is the winter of our on-disc content,
Made glorious summer by this software patch.
Hand winter a towel, then.
Oh my sweet summer child… What do you know of fear?
I sense another Kingdoms of Arkerra expansion coming on…
This was my first thought, too!
Should have known that the winter elves would come into play, seeing that they were mentioned before.
Gosh how do you folks remember these things?
The Wood Elf sort of stole the show on that page
http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-1-page-13/
Interesting that they grow beards.
No better way to keep your face warm, than with a good thick beard.
“Guardians of forgotten lore”… You guys must be wood elves yourselves to remember them.
They came up much more recently during the Ask an Adventurer series.
Syr’Nj does not approve WAV.
That look on Syr’NJ’s face in that second panel.
“No shit, Sherlock.”
Yes, but to get there you first need to seek out the Mass Transit Elves and the Ticket Vendor Elves. And beware of the Customs Elves, they can be real dicks.
It’s all good until you get to the TSA elves. I hear Be’end Ovr Un Spr’eadem is a particularly feared chief and he’s very thorough with his inspection process of outsiders.
I have seen him, Syr. He lives within the Arctic circle, and wears huge shaded goggles and a covering that’s like a merging of a parka and his old Las Vegas act suit, spangles and huge white collar and all. His voice is a husk of what it used to be, and he’s got to be pushing 90. So I don’t see how he can help you –
Wait. You did say Winter Elvis, right?
Where the heck are Scipio and Bandit, anyway? Shouldn’t they be skulking around here?
Bandit went into hiding after E-merl freed her from jail and Scipio retired… and then his player got shot.
I don’t expect that to stop Scipio from reappearing. And Bandit went with Fr’nj and Scipio, remember?
Nope. Now we go into a 48-page arc about the new type of elfy elves of elfishness that came with the latest expansion. Because you can’t ever have enough elf breeds. Elves are the RPG equivalent of cowbell.
There will probably be a shift in focus on one of the other factions. It’s going to take time to journey wherever the winter elves are most likely to be. Might as well shift the action to the Savage Races, Altruists, or Sepia World.
Be that as it may, I’m pretty sure we’d be better off not wasting time on the umpteenth elven ethnicity, especially one that’s been entirely removed from the conflict so far. It feels like a wrong choice to pull on that irrelevant thread now that things are so shaken up in every existing story line.
“They are our brothers.”
“So were we.”
– Captain Arkerra: Civil War
Ack the game failed to render Clair’s face in panel four!
Nah, it’s just the new distance filter for low end machines. See they’re looking to expand into the console market and need ways to optimize performance. Not rendering high poly-count models after a certain distance is one trick. They just haven’t gotten the DEPTH OF OVER FIELD implemented to blur everything out so you don’t notice while sitting at couch distances.
I’m betting the Winter Elves know their world was designed to be a computer game. Calling it now.
Oh hey I remember those guys.
I see the plot remembers them too.
And apparently they remember everything.
They remember what you did last summer.
I always wondered about fantasy genres, on why every other race has one generic race (orcs, trolls, dwarves, humans), but elves have these different types of elves (wood elves, sky elves, winter elves; dark elves, etc).
I suppose there are different types of orcs and trolls in some specific fantasy series, but generally, elves tend to be the ones with their own different types.
Well, it usually boils down to Elves being an “ancient” race, with enough millenia to spread into several subraces, often with vastly differing world views.
Warcraft has lots of Troll tribes, because they’re one of the oldest races as well – actually, they’re the progenitors of Elves.
And from the Writer’s perspective, Elves are among the human-like races, and while e.g. Dwarves have a strong identity (alcoholic mountain-dwellers) the Elves are more generic per se, “long-living long-ears”, and offer more room for diverging “tribes” – which the Writer has to fill, sometimes just out of convention ;)
Warcraft Trolls come in different races as well. There’s the Jungle Trolls, which are the most common – the Gurubashi, Amani, Zandalari, and the Darkspear being prominent tribes. Then there’s the Drakkari, which are Ice Trolls, and the Farraki, the Sand Trolls.
Elves really only come in two flavors: purple and pink. There’s the original Night Elves that also come in Highborne and Nightborne cultures (but not races) and then the High Elves that evolved from them because of arcane energy, with Blood Elves just being addicted/affected to fel energy.
Not to mention Green Orcs and Brown Orcs. And Alternate-Reality Brown Orcs. Dark Iron, Wildhammer, or Bronzebeard Dwarves. Bison-faced or cow-faced Tauren.
WoW actually has a lot of variations of races. Which is either good story-telling or lazy programming.
Mostly both.
you forgot your yak-faced Taur’he from Pandaria. also, even amongst the dwarven progenitors, the Earthen, we’ve got several types: the Earthen, the Frostborne, and the Stormdwarves. And let us not even get started on human progenitors, the vrykul. A lot of the changes can be attributed either to the mutating energies of the Well of Eternity (trolls to elves, and pretty much all subspecies of elves from thence), or to the mutating Old God affliction, the Curse of the Flesh (earthen/dwarves, mechagnomes/gnomes, vrykul/humans, gilgoblins/goblins. Only the trolls, the taur’he, and the aqir species lines can be attributed to natural genetic drift owing to geographic separation. (after all, ten thousand years is a long time. and still no one is prepared.)
It’s a D&D thing. In 2nd edition, Elves were “Better Than You(TM)” and whenever a new race was needed, mechanically, the writers made up a new variety of elf that sort of fit the specific combo of abilities.
I’m gonna guess they will meet Byron 2.0 among the Winter Elves. We already have Payet 2.0, and he’s working out really well.
I think it’s clear the magic is working toward something independent of HR or the crafting a game narrative. Also, obviously, the players have a sort of contractual immortality.
Theory: Perhaps the magic controlling the game universe is railroading out the things that can’t fit the “multicultural band of misfits work together to save the world” narrative? Best couldn’t, by his very nature, work together with the group. The magic forces him out of this dimension and brings him back as WAV.
Byron’s berserker nature meant it was inevitable he would be used against the group. He was turned against the group once and the magic had to resurrect them. They tried keeping it in check with the “cure,” which worked for awhile, but then HR forced his way through that. So the game lets Byron die for real which will allow it to reintroduce him in a form that works.
Nice analysis. I believe that line of reasoning could potentially play out, which makes it even more worth looking forward to once they meet the Winter Elves.
Meh, I hope they don’t go that route. I’m getting my fill of the “Magical Omnipotent Force Railroading the Game” plot from Erfworld.
“What type of elves?”
“Winter elves. Their knights are-”
“No! Never winter knights!”
HAH! Good fun.
There was an Ask An Adventurer about them, wasn’t there?
Ah, no, wait, that was the moon elves.
There actually was: http://guildedage.net/comic/ask-an-adventurer-now-is-the-winter-of-our-elf-content/
There is an Ask An Adventurer about them. One where Syr’Nj hopes that the Winter Elves don’t get involved.
Ask An Adventurer – Now Is The Winter Of Our Elf Content
Mandatory ice level? Mandatory ice level.
Better than a sewer level.
Could be worse. Frozen sewer…
Or an icy mountain where it snows sewage?
It’s going to get frosty… but cold never bothered me anyway…. (please don’t tell Disney corp.
what I just did they have killer lawyers)
*clears throat*
YAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSS
To the north pole!
The winter elves know the past and the future and everything else. They know when you’re sleeping, they know when you’re awake, they know if you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake.
I’m hoping the winter elves work for Santa as well, but it may be too much of a ripoff from Battlepug.
Let me guess. They’re BLUE, and they live in a very big and windy snowstorm?
But what of the cold?
Oh, here, just drink this and I’ll have complete control… I mean you’ll be unhindered by the cold!
Yaaaaay, we’re going to the ice world! (Insert SMB3 Ice World music)
The Winter Elves sound really Cool!
Answer any question (I assume they mean ‘answer usefully’ because I can answer any question to, with total bullshit I yank out of my ass).
The thing about cosmic truths, truly knowing the nature of ourselves, is that those answers probably would drive us completely mad. Which explains why anyone who has found the Winter Elves (not to be confused with Winter Elvis) would be insane.
Finding Winter Elvis would drive you mad too, but for entirely different – and more disturbing – reasons.