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!
Demon Studies
Miyuli
Four students summon and study potentially dangerous demons within the walls of the mysterious Summerland University.
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.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Patrik the Vampire
Bree Paulsen
Patrik loves to knit, bake, and help his friends while dealing with his own demons... like his thirst for blood because, oh yeah--he's a vampire.
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.
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...
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...
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
MASKLESS
kickingshoes
In a world where people can wield the magic of elemental Masks, all Ashe wants to do is help. Maskless and useless, with dreams of fire and smoke on the back of his tongue, he finds himself on a strange, dangerous path to uncovering the secrets of these incredible objects, and the source of the monsters plaguing his home.
Drugs & Wires
Mary Safro, Io Black
Dan used to be a VR operator until his brain got fried by malware. Now he's stuck delivering packages in a post-Soviet hellhole all while trying to adjust to his new life and find some answers.
Goblins
Ellipsis
A fantasy RPG as told through the eyes of the low-level monsters.
Sunshine Boy
Moosopp
New-kid Kelly is sweet but naive. Luckily, he's got his outgoing neighbor Grey in his corner.
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.
Come Hell or High Water
Jenny/Star, Mori
Prince Gladimir was never meant to fall for a pirate. Swearing off love for duty, the threat of war propels him back into the Captain’s world of high seas and high stakes. Their relationship could be the thing to save the kingdom of Yvoire - or destroy it.
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!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Anacrine Complex
Sae Cotton
A superhuman heist involving probably too many pigeons than entirely necessary.
Folklore
Adam Ma, Colin Tan Wei
A superhuman horror story focused on a small band of survivors trying to navigate a war-torn world in the aftermath of the Federation’s collapse.
Shaderunners
Alex Assan, Lin Darrow
A ragtag band of bootleggers open a speakeasy for bottled colour in the greyscale city of Ironwell.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
Paint the Town Red
Windy, Winter Jay Kiakas
Winona runs a werewolf shelter with partner in crime, Odile in the Gothic city of Merlot. One day they take in an injured vampire, and soon unravels many of the dark secrets of Merlot.
Spinnerette
Krazy Krow, Rocio Zucchi, Pablo Rey
When a lab accident gives Heather Brown spider powers and six arms, she does what any midwest comic geek would do: Become Ohio's #3 superhero!
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.)
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
KISMET
Jaki King
As interplanetary war threatens the Perseid system, a scientist ventures to the far reaches of space in her search for the truth: is humanity the master of its own fate, or is destiny truly inescapable?
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.
Fairmeadow
Kendra P. / KP
A wayward soldier finds herself in a pacifist commune deep in the wilderness of a war-weary land. Living in isolation brings her closer to those she was sworn to kill than she could ever imagine - but also threatens to tear the place apart.
Killjoys
Flatw00ds
When two disgraced ex-feds fall backwards into trouble with the clown mafia, getting out in one piece is gonna be no joke!
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!
No End
Erli, Kromi
A queer romance about people attempting to build lives in a cold, post-apocalyptic world ravaged by hordes of undead.
Far to the North
Allison Shaw
Kelu turns to the monsters of her remote mountain home when her family is held hostage by outsiders.
The Otherknown
Lorian Merriman
Chandra is a 12-year-old accidental time traveler with a reluctant new dad, who happens to be a member of a feared galactic crime syndicate.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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?
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Solstoria
Angelica Maria
After her brother goes missing, Samantha vows to become a Knight and help those around her in the Kingdom of St. Helena.
2 Slices
RJ Morel
After a case of mistaken identity, will awkward Daisuke find help from excitable Mamo, or will his love life be thrown completely off track?
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.
Obelisk
Ashley McCammon
In 1908 New York, a young woman struggles to put her life back together in the wake of her father's death - until she discovers a vampire in the shambles of her inheritance.
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!
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.
Clockwork
Chikuto
Cog Kleinschmidt is a diligent, quiet worker at the Mercia Fortress, the world power's leading stronghold. His orderly life is thrown into chaos when an enemy kingdom sends a diplomat for peace talks. This diplomat needs something from Cog - whether he agrees to their terms or not!
Lunar Blight
Studio CARTRIDGE, Laura Lee
Lunar Blight is a gothic horror story about an elite knight serving a moon cult who must choose between upholding his honoured duty or condemning everything he’s grown to know.
Heart of Gold
Eliot Baum, Viv Tanner
A pianist with failing eyesight seeks out a priest with a miraculous healing touch, drawing him deeper into a world of miracles and curses.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Countdown to Countdown
Velinxi
Iris Black is a self-proclaimed inventor with the curious ability to bring his drawings to life, and yearns to find a space where he can use his powers freely.
Tove
Severin
The end of the world is coming, and Tove doesn't want to be a hero, but SOMEONE has to look after her little brother.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.