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!
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always 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.)
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 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.
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.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
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.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
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!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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.
Phantomarine
Claire K. Niebergall
A ghostly princess must sail across a haunted sea to save her soul from a devious, shapeshifting death god known as the Red Tide King.
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.
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.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
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".
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!
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.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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!
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...
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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.
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!
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.
Bybloemen
C.B. McPherson
An infernal plan to corrupt the small town of Stenen Brug at the height of tulipmania is complicated by a pact made between a talented young merchant and a demon looking to change careers.
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!
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!
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.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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.
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.
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?
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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...
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Wow, Best is actually being non-jerkassy.
Also Frigg’s reaction is hilarious.
Well, yeah. He’s finally hearing someone with the power to see the future affirm that he has a critical role in saving the world from a great evil.
He was told that just after showing up. But since his destiny didn’t include fame, he refused to believe it.
He just didn’t realise how many famous people have graves that get forgotten. Kind of makes you wonder what kind of bard he is when he doesn’t even stop to think how many people who get sung about in famous bardsong actually have a well-known gravesite.
Aw, calm down, Frigg. This just means you have plenty more chances to kick some really serious ass.
Frigg’s raspberry is Opus-worthy. :)
Nice Bloom County shout-out, I grew up reading those (at a way too young age for them)!
It’s only gotten better since! Plus it’s back on Facebook!
Yeah and don’t get me started on that ancient evil that’s rising again. I mean it’s the third time this weak! It’s like take yer eldritch horror and just fuck off, ya know?
Let the tentacles sooth you.
Trigger warning!
Then don’t watch any hentai on the web.
;)
Why am I not surprised Best was EBayed?
He’s Best and Wav and his human. Not that he’s two humans.
Wow. No one likes to be called Second Best.
Thumb-up-icon.
So … this makes me wonder anew about the other “player characters” like Bandit and E-Merl and probably the other guys in this room. If they are not “bound by two worlds, by two souls”, then what is the relationship between them and their players … if any?
Also: Good news, WAV had his own soul! Maybe that means he can be brought back somehow?
Magical Best Transformation Sequence?
Best Magical Transformation Sequence.
My impression is that the other players are “tapping into” the character souls, so to speak, while the 5 are spiritually present in Arkerra.
*I just found out the world if fake, I’m from a different dimension, and I’m one of they only people capable of stopping a god-like being who created the reality I currently exist in? I hate Monday.”
Extra points if you made this comment without knowing what your icon was.
And now everyone except Frigg is questioning everything about their own existence.
Frigg knows who she is — I get the sense that the core personality is the same regardless of the world she’s in. As we saw with WAV, this may not be the case with the others.
It seems likely to me Frigg’s player is one of those players who made/makes their in-game avatar as much an extension of themselves, or a more perfected version of themselves, as they can, and thus as Matthew Davis says above me, her core personality in reality is likely quite similar to her character.
Of course, in reality she is probably not a powerful and tough warrior, so she’s likely quite unhappy with her lot in life, thus finding her joy in role-playing in online games, where being “herself” is a credit to her success, instead of a detraction.
How very Snarlbear.
Frigg was just told her destiny was to become a deity. Considering she denied them in the most Frigg-like way possible, I think it makes sense that’s she’s blowing off this new “destiny” as well.
Yes.
Also, the bit where she’s offered divinity struck me as the kind of moment in a story in which the hero is offered something that seems valuable but is really buying them off cheaply. Sometimes that’s meant as a test, sometimes it’s a gambit by an adversary, sometimes it’s a straightforward and sincere offer from someone the hero has surpassed in understanding.
I think the last is the case. But in context, it’s kind of hard to imagine what could be more desirable than what she was rejecting.
In another context — in old-school MUDs, some early MMORPGs, and such, admins would appear in game as “gods”. Sometimes the admins were volunteers, recruited from the players. Players would often joke about wishing they had god-powers in the game, but playing a “god” was usually very constrained, even thankless or boring; in any case, the game’s about player/heroes, not about “gods”.
I’m guessing the “gods” are not admins, but the gods of this world — but they’re similarly constrained, and limited in their vision. The Five are actually more important than the gods to this world.
This also reminds me a bit of an element from R. Scott Bakker’s novels, in which the gods were completely unable to perceive in any way the beings that were plotting to destroy them, even though humans could; the gods were blind and stupid.
Frigg is fed up with being your savior.
#notyourtank
I don’t quite get the title text.
Best ignored the feeling of a third thing inside of him, in favor of trying to kill Byron.
I wonder if the first world was a video game server? Weo, not having ever played a video game and probably having a very limited perspective on things, might interpret the game as being another world.
I’m roughly 10000% positive that it was an actual real world which H.R. discovered and turned into a video game.
Eh, maybe. I kinda think all the worlds in the comic are video game worlds.
HR doesn’t know that he’s not a real boy.
Weo knows that he’s not a real boy, but thinks that HR is.
Both HR and Weo think Arkerra 1.0 and Sepia World are real.
Don’t believe in the you before you were this you! Believe in the you who believes in keytar!
MINE IS THE KEYTAR THAT SHALL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!
Gravedust, Syr’Nj, and Byron are all still trying to process. Also you can just hear Syr’Nj and Byron asking “But what dose that mean about us, and our love / marriage ?” (Are they married in the Wood Elf cultural and societal norms? I know that when Byron was dead and Caneghem told her to stop playing the grieving widow. http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-38-page-17/) It seems to me that they are rather concerned that there may be something in this “other world” of Weo’s that might force them apart.
… and that’s when I fell in love with Frigg…
It took you this long? I am disappointed.
This pissed frigg off.. but then what doesn’t piss frigg off…
Pwning yer dudes doesn’t liss Frigg off. In fact it kinda makes her day.
Frigg is like, “I’m not going back out there with my tail between my legs, and telling the god squad I have’ta join ’em after all, dammit! … I’m not! …… Daaaaammiiiiiit!”
“Wait… Will I even get to say Dammit, without damning someone to Hell? Ffffuuuuu- Shi- … ARRGH!!! WILL I BE ABLE TO TALK AT ALL?!?!”