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!
Aquapunk
Lo
In an underwater world of unknown coordinates, inhabited by aliens, ghosts, and robots, a young member of a warrior underclass is framed for a crime and goes on the run. Little does he know he is part of a grand design that only gods and ancestors could choreograph.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Darkling Bright
Chris Hazelton
Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG.
At least, he was, and that was the idea...
Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
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.
Barbarous
Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota
A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
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.
Quick$ilver
Crypto
The flirtatious, directionless, and ever disastrous Luci searches for excitement in a life of crime, and finds himself caught in a web of messy romance and bad blood.
The Last Diplomat
Cat Farris
Samma and Tark didn't ask to be stuck together, but now they're partners on the adventure of a lifetime.
Gzhel Guardian
Atla Hrafney, nushanchel
The Railway World is a complex, mysterious network of trains, towns and mechanical monsters. Leo is a Guardian of one of these towns, and although their burn-out and depression has taken hold of them, they have one last job to finish.
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!
How to be a Werewolf
Shawn Lenore
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
Freakshow
Scotty
A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
Ride or Die
Mars Heyward
Ride or Die is an LGBTQ webcomic about two street racers who team up with a demon-possessed muscle car in the search for a missing woman, while being hunted by a deadly religious cult.
The Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Beeserker
TJ Cordes
This comic is about a robot powered by bees, but it's also about the kind of people who think filling a robot with bees is a good idea, and why they're wrong.
Edison Rex
Chris Roberson
The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
Sleepless Domain
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
Nigh Heaven & Hell
Scotty
Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
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!
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.
Not Drunk Enough
Tess Stone
Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
Little Tiny Things
Clover
What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?
Sakana
Mad Rupert
Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
Lies Within
Lacey
Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster
Within
Verena Loisel
A young hitman meanders between a reality that seems to happen without him, and his dreams where he is lost in an endless house. When he makes an accidental friend, his world is shaken up and he realizes there are things he can't remember about himself.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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.
Augustine
Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy
August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
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!
Missing Monday
Elle Skinner
Two girls fall in love through a magic door connecting their worlds. When Monday suddenly goes missing, it's up to Foyle to find her. How she's going to navigate an entirely unfamiliar world is another matter.
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!
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.
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 Weave
Rennie Kingsley
A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black
A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
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.
Scape
Lauren
Sula has always preferred to forge her own path, but before she knows it, she is pulled into the middle of a civil war between man and monster!
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 Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell
A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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!
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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 DUN!
Fun fact: I use this as my ringtone whenever someone from work calls. It’s perfect for when I’m on call because there’s pretty much NO WAY I can sleep through it.
dun dun… oh wait, we already knew this :V
I prefer the Inception sound for this.
Ahem…. BRRRRRRRAAAAAWWWWRWRRRMRMRMMRMRMMMMM!!!
Reminds me of the Reaper noise from Mass Effect 3.
And now all is beginning to be revealed. All of those previous questions are ultimately pointless in the face of what Weo is telling them now.
What I’d like revealed is how the winter elfs know this stuff. Are they the only ones who read the game manual?
They read the webcomic.
They are a species of Deadpool
Hmmm… Do you think they read the comments?
Even more, they read the initial draft-copies that Phil & T write, even as they’ve concieved of the general plotline!
How *else* can they know the future as well as the present & the past?
O.o
The Winter elves are the results of a backdoor program left by the game developers. Initially, the NPCs generated by this program had reading access to the game code and would allow the programmers to test the MMO from the inside, checking the code while moving a Winter elf around to trigger a reported bug.
These NPCs were shunted outside of the gamers’ normally accessible zone after the game release, although the programmers left a path, so they can still use their favorite spiders.
And then the universe took on a life of its own…
tl;dr: the Winter elves are NPCs programmed with reading access to the game’s code.
Your first statement is accurate. The second does not logically follow.
Confirming five players…which means Bandit may be withholding more info than she’s letting on.
Huh?
They’re ALL players, but only The Five are HR’s players, in the tubes. Bandit is just a regular person player whose character is AI controlled when Christie is logged off.
Hmmm… Here’s a question – Are they are really controlled by the AI or are their actions simply “reported”? IOW – if the Sepia World computers went down, would their universe cease to exist or would it keep on running since it’s been created?
I suspect that the “magi-tech” element of Arkerra’s true nature means that it doesn’t need live game servers to remain functional. Players couldn’t log-in, but life on Arkerra would continue. Presumably, the “game servers” are really just relay communications that allow Sepia World to control people in Arkerra.
Actually, the reactions from Magda and Goblaurence suggest that they, at least, are *not* players but “real Arkerrans”. Either that or they’re really serious about not breaking character, even when an NPC unexpectedly breaks the fourth wall.
Or players influence “real” Arkerrans, who then are their PC’s, but the players are not currently online so they are acting on their own. Sort of like Rachel did before she died.
This “autonomous bleed-over” only happened to players who have have frequent gametime with the Group of 5 though. Those who have not spent logged-in time with them don’t have characters that work autonomously. The vast majority of the world has the regular pre-programmed NPC responses & dialogues & the other players get the regular dialogue text choices.
No, the remarkable thing was that Bandit’s player was able to talk to a native Arkerran (Auraugu). The autonomous behavior is referred to as a normal game feature, as are the individual plotlines.
Frankly it’s hard to tell who’s a player and who’s an NPC. I thought Sry’Nj’s sister that Scippio was romancing was another player for a long time up until Scippio’s player (RIP) overtly mentioned that she was RPing with an NPC.
I suspect the core Adventurers and the Champions are all players, just in different “game” factions. Like an Alliance/Horde thing. Side people like Braggadoccio and Harky are probably NPCs.
The tricky part is who resurrected her,because it wasn’t grave dust if I remember correctly. Bandit’s always been the odd one out and the most suspicious.
I think the most popular theory is that she could just “respawn” because she is (or is connected to) a video game character that can just respawn when she dies. So when she said she doesn’t know how she was resurrected, I believe her.
I always thought Bandit “not knowing” how she was resurrected was just the player trying to fit in with what she saw as a hyper-elite RP guild.
But Bandit is not Bandit’s “player” (whassername). Bandit is a real Arkerran, right?
At the time her explanation was because Byron killed her with the axes that were soaked in Harky’s blood, his super troll blood mixed with her own and saved her. At least that’s her explanation/theory.
“Troll blood. It does a body good.”
grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2417
Ooops. Let’s try that again with the *full* URL:
http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2417
Wonder if he also will reveal whatever “influence” caused by connection between player and character “in-game”.
Man, singling people out for their ontologically differentiated destiny? That isn’t done in polite society! That’s just gauche.
Things are about to get real… sort of.
Things are about to get virtual.Things are about to get actual.Nope. Nope.
Things are about to get true?
Things are about to get good.
Things are about to get theoretically plausible.
Things are about to get surreal.
Things are about get complex, and probably irrational.
The Game’s Afoot!!!
All the world’s a stage, and five a’ men and women merely players.
This is the winter elf of our discontent.
I upvote this ^
Performers and portrayers
Each another’s audience
Outside the gilded cage
… Wait. Wrong reference.
(I had to retype “gilded” three times because I kept putting “guilded”)
Well, the guilds of Gastonia are pretty gilty.
“A planet of playthings, they dance on the strings, of powers they cannot perceive”
“…and they all looked at me.”
I just went to the Cast page to look up the names of the Peacekeepers’ Savage Race counterparts. Boy, is that page of date. Payet is still listed as MIA; Rachel isn’t listed as deceased; the characters whose names I was looking for don’t even appear; and neither do the Sepia World gamers.
The names are under the comic, in the tags.
“So it’s your job to go find those five people. I’d say good luck, but I know how it ends.”
Time for everyone to achieve CHIM
Hey, this is a WOW satire! Keep your Elder Scrolls out of it!
You got your World of Warcraft in my Elder Scrolls!
You got my Elder Scrolls in my World of Warcraft!
End result? Several possibilities:
World of Scrolls – A library planet
Elder Warcraft – War reenactments by the elderly, or, Elder of Warcraft – A retired General
World of Elders – Like Australia, but a whole planet, and instead of a penal colony, it’s an old age home
Scrolls of Warcraft – Manuals for military tactics, or else the player’s manual for the original PC game
If that’s the case, somebody should be learning how to use “Fus Do Rah” on HR when they meet up with him.
I don’t even believe in Walls anymore.
This is what you get for using the no_clipping cheats for too long.
Maybe. But I think it’s the only way to counter against HR’s God Mode powers.
I’m not sure how wise it is to infodump this hard.
Well, the reputation of the Winter Elves is such that “people who visit them either never return, or they return as insanely mad.” Weo already pointed out that this is exactly why they have that reputation.
Now that we know the major plot device, it means the end is nigh! THE END IS NIGH!
I’m going to be SO sad when this series ties up!
When that happens, you just have to look forwards to the NEXT series they do!
Like, I was saddened when Dominic Deegan ended, but Star Powered is shaping up to be incredible.
Here comes the mic drop…
Well he isn’t just a very bad man… he’s a very bad wizard.
Or a very GOOD wizard, depending on how you look at it.
Had a discussion like this about a good doctor who was bad (padded his bills for more money, but was actually good at his job). Took me a bit to realize the disconnect the person I was talking to was having, and then determined a simple change of words was in order.
He was a *skilled* doctor but *unethical* man.
In this case HR is a skilled wizard, but a deeply evil man (evil as defined by pursing completely selfish goals at the significant expense of the well-being others).
That goblin has a functional brain, good job.
It is, explicitly, why he was brought in, so, yeah!
Still ornery though.
Needs some comfort.
I’d bet Byll’bb the Wood Elf can help with that.
A functional brain, even after the routine chemical assaults he subjects it to! Most impressive.
Maybe it’s all Sapho Juice and Geriatric Spice?
I must not laugh. Laughter is the Mind-killer. Laughter is the little death that brings about total obliteration…*
Nah, cannot be, Goblaurence doesn’t have eyebrows like paintbrushes.
* with credits to Questionable Content
The truth bomb… It has been dropped.
Judging from the look on the looks on the faces of the five we may be in for the stages of existential shock. And this may have a rather profound effect on the savage races champions as well.
Penk: “…You gotta be shitting me.”
Auraugu: “Holy glorious pseudopenis of the Great Alpha Bitch in the sky!”
Best: “Huh?”
Frigg: “HUUUHHH?”
Gravedust: *internal screaming*
HR: “WHY DIDN’T I REMOVE THE WINTER ELVES?!”
HR: What do you mean they aren’t just unimplemented flavor text?!
I think that is explicitly why the Winter Elves went into hiding – it was the only way they didn’t get cataclysmicly bombed by HR while he had the full awareness to do so.
Very perceptive deduction by Goblaurence.
So, who is it that says “It really isn’t”? Magda, or Penk?
Seems to be Penk. Magda speaks in the standard font-face.
I actually thought it was Weo.
Nah, wrong font.
Nice job on the subtle framing of “the five” in that last panel with the dialog that refers to them. I almost missed it altogether.
Gods save Gastonia.