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!
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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 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...
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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 Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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.
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?
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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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Well, shit.
Last thing I expected. Now, law of narrative causality implies that the Silver Centurion who killed Brunhilde (one of the most memorable scenes in this comic) is actually Ardaic.
You’d think the Silver Centurian who murdered Brunhilde in order to allow Gastonia to enslave an entire race would probably have been more chill with Taro the Murder Prodigy than Ardaic clearly is. I’m holding out hope he’s not that Silver Centurion, but, yeah….
Shit.
or, alternately, Ardaic is the successor of the original Silver Centurion.
Fuuuuck me.
It all makes perfect sense. And I missed it completely. I feel bad about myself.
Ardaic serves Gastonia. Whether he likes what he has to do on its behalf does not matter.
I mean even Syr’nj even confronts him about this very thing. Ardaic is loyal to a fault. He is a solider who never questions his orders.
As opposed to being a Liquider or a Gasser.
But… But they’ve been in two places at once! HOW DOES THAT-
Wait. If it’s an amulet, I’m guessing he can hand it off to someone else? OR MAYBE HE HAS A TWIN? THE OL’ NEUTRAL GOOD, LAWFUL GOOD TWIN DYNAMIC.
I’m trying to remember, when was the time they were in two places at once?
Never mind, I found it.
http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-29-page-17/
There’s nobody else in that final frame… Could it have happened entirely in Ardaic’s head? Where the Silver Centurion is essentially a secondary personality that Ardaic has cultivated so he can “do what needs to be done”, and then lock away the guilt of what he “has to do” in a secondary personality that doesn’t feel guilt so that it doesn’t bleed into his regular persona?
Something like a Jekyll-Hyde dynamic, and the final panel of C29P17 is basically what happens inside Ardaic’s head when the Silver Centurion is invoked?
Does that mean Ardaic wishes he had blue eyes?
He does have blue eyes in the last panel.
Maybe Silver Centurion is a separate entity, and he was talking to his spirit? The amulet’s incantation does seem like some sort of possession.
Given the phrasing, it could maybe be sort of like the whole thing with the Avatar State.
Ardaic may have been a Silver Centurion…or at the least can use the amulet to call upon previous incarnations of the Silver Centurion into his bodily vessel.
Maybe there are many who can become the Silver Centurion, but only one at a time. And maybe they are linked, thus able to guide whoever is the current Silver Centurion.
You’re onto something. The Silver Centurion is a god like Tectonicus or the defiant Wolf-god that keeps talking to Frigg. He’s a primal idea form that represents Gastonia itself.
Ardaic is holding a “holy symbol” of sorts and donning the persona of Silver Centurion.
He’s basically like Rachel, Harky or Frigg. The difference is that he directs his “faith” towards Gastonia.
Come to think of it, it’s just like when Graiya possessed Syr’nj through the Bough.
I think… there are two silver centurions. One produces magic weapons, the other fights more as a mortal. Ardaic appears to be the one who has the power. Or, it’s a transferable power, like that of any office.
Still, that’s relatively minor… I’m wondering why his paladin-y powers are blue and Frigg gets the gold standard.
Sort of implies their powers are different in nature.
At one point in D&D they expanded the idea of paladins so that they could “worship” an idea or philosophy, rather than a deity. I wonder if Ardaic isn’t a Paladin of Gastonia.
“BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL I HAVE THE POOOOWEEEER… to shut annoying kids up.”
No self-respecting twin dynamic lacks a Chaotic or Evil aspect.
Uninown power of the amulet… Get the kid to shut up!
Crap, the conspiracy theory was true. Now we will never hear the end of it.
Ah, nearly three years after the fact but I’m glad to see I was at least partially right, the Silver Centurion isn’t any one person, it’s a position/title passed around to whoever needs it. Now the question is whether he’s the one involved in the Brunhilde incident or not, my guess is no, but still a bit early to be sure.
Well, someone called it.
http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-29-page-17/#comment-326310
I remember at the time thinking “Man, wouldn’t that be an interesting theory.”
Well whatdoyaknow.
Also, rereading early pages reminded me, they had the ceiling cave-in almost 3 years ago. It’s weird to think that all of this has been running for so long now that /that/ is old news.
How do you explain the Centurion’s appearance at the Fort battle where Ardaic was giving him orders?
I thought Rana might have a vendetta against Aradic for executing Yalaria, but I can see Sundar wanting a piece now.
Oh my GOD he’s the paladin, HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS BEFORE. YEARS. YEEEAAAARS.
AAAAAAUGH.
AUGH IM STUPID.
I’m not sure Paladin is even the right word. The Silver Centurion seems to be the physical embodiment of Lawful Neutral.
Reminds me of the deity Helm from Forgotten Realms.
In Pathfinder, there is the Grey Paladin archetype that allows for alignments of Lawful Good, Neutral Good, and Lawful Neutral and fits in a political intrigue setting.
Does Arkerra even have alignment? Not even all D&D editions and settings care about Paladin alignment.
Because we seen Ardaic and the Silver Centurion in the same room; Chapter 29, Page 17.
Lets pretend that didnt happen.
No, it proves the Centurion is not any one person. Only reason why people guessed Arddiac was the Centurion was the lip of his his visor ‘looks like a mustache’
or it proves that the silver centurion is an entity all its own.
We have no idea what the amulet’s deal is. There may be more than one, or it may not be bound to an individual, or it may be able to project the centurion separately. There’s no telling what the medallion actually serves as a focus for.
Argh, celestial paladin! Rogues HATE those.
– Ardaic is a Green Lantern!
– The Silver Centurion seems to be related to Frigg’s Glowy Hammer Shit and, as such, the Meme Gods.
That oath/command phrase is interesting.
The will of the many, mmm? So, who is it that the many want the silver to polish?
“Let the will of the many guide the hand of one.”
That gets you the Silver Centurion, but what is he/it going to do?
I wouldn’t be at all surprized if Taro was in for a little surprize. If the will of the many is for peace, then…
Fortunately its the hand of the many and not the limb of the countless.
Squash the bug.
I know it’s only magic, but I still want the Inspector Gadget theme to play.
I love Inspector Gadget, but this is throwing more of a “By the power of Grey Skull, I am He-Man!” Vibe for me.
Definitely more He-Man than Inspector Gadget.
So, Ardaic’s eyes change colour when he becomes the Silver Centurion?
Definitely looks that way. Not exactly unusual given the “power-up glowy shit” going on.
His eyes have actually been drawn blue before, but not often. http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-20-page-15/
Got a feeling our boy Brock is about to bite it…
Power Ranger’s theme song or magical girl transformation sequence?
He’s angry that she gnome named him “Trap Meister Taro?” Best not read through this board the last few weeks to see what we’ve all been calling him.
The difference is, we’ve been calling him names. He is now Named. He can never go into gnometown without being known by that again
That would be the best!
I’m missing a puzzle piece here, how would every gnome magically know he’s now called “Trap Meister Taro”?
All it takes is one witness to get back to Gnometown
Did taro’s irises turn red for comedic effect or did his dad place a demon or devil inside him? If not, I wonder if he can shoot Lasers….and if so, does he have to say “Ima firing mah lazors!” to shoot them?
I dunno about the will of the many, but the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
“…Or the one.”
Damn utilitarian Vulcans.
That’s my new band name, btw.
“Call me a useless moustache again, you sniveling twerp.”
I can’t help but think that it would have been wiser of Ardaic not to show Taro that particular trick…
Unless, of course, he has a better one for when the little twerp inevitably tries to take him out.
Your avatar is perfect for your comment.
I can imagine Taro finally deciding to rid himself of Ardaic for any number of nefarious reasons, Ardaic reaching for the medallion and… discovering it’s not there or that he has a fake while Taro has gotten the real one.
I think Ardaic showed Taro that on purpose. The look on his face is like, “Come after me, and I won’t just lay down and die like your father, you impudent whelp!”
Will of many ? Ha ! More like “Man chose, a slave obeys”
Until next page have plot twist we can all agree Gastonia is rotten corpse dancing on Taros strings and needs to go for good ?
Sweet baby fucketyfuck, these plot twists are too many for my faint heart!
What I want to know now is:
1: Who else is taking turns being the Silver Centurion? Are any of them plot significant otherwise?
2: Who else knows about this? Most important, is Jarvis in on it?
3: Is panel 2 the best face Taro will ever make?
1. Other guys, and maybe!
2. Other guys, and probably!
3. Most definitely!
She Gnome gnamed him like one who has gnome-mercy. It gnaws at his soul even gnow.
Ugh, gnomeor puns.
I just now noticed Bandit Mario-jumping Taro’s head. :D
Democracy paladin? I can accept this.
It is indeed an enchanting idea (pun mostly unintended), but sadly Gastonia has never been a democracy as far as we have seen.
I think it is some sort of constitutional republic…
Noble houses decide along lines of laws that they have to have to adhere to, and supposedly their focus is the good of the state and the citizens. Sounds like republic to me.
Can’t believe I never even considered this twist!
“Let the will of the many guide the hand of the one.”
Infinite power at the cost of playing as a Twitch.