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!
Sakana
Mad Rupert
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Freakshow
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A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
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.
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...
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
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.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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!
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!
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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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History is afoot.
Auraugu’s a gentle sole. He believes in heeling.
Well, that’s just like your épée-nion.
That’s a little on the nose.
And these two puns are just barely scratching the surface. Let’s axe around to find out if others can add to them.
*Looks axeance at that repeated failure of a pun.*
… Nah, it still doesn’t work.
Well one way or another they would have to make him toe the line…
Hip, hip, epee
I thought Auraugu had already completed his heel–face turn, but here he is, turning Jarvis’ face with his heel.
Come on, folks! No “feet don’t fail me now”?
I’d say Auraugu nailed it!
No, he’s got that dance all wrong. It goes, “you put your right foot in, you take your right foot out,” but he’s doing it like “you put your right foot in, you put your left foot in.” He’s doing the second verse before he even finishes the first verse!
One can either march instep to the drum of history, or one can stand in the way.
I say, Auraugu seems to have gotten a leg up on the situation. Both legs, even.
!. Sword is a lousy choice for personal defense. It is inferior to arrows, firearms, or anything other than one – to – one sword attack; add another competent combatant, and it’s over.
2. Yay! Auraugu got a spotlight hit, and his trademark “hyes!”
Auraugu is a bard with the dashing swordsman prestige class (like Elan in OOTS). He gets to substitute his charisma for strength if he says his catchphrase when he attacks.
Hyes please! :D
1. That’s true; compare with spears which are considered common, boring, and weak (untrue). The sword is a SIDEarm. BUT- let’s be fair: HERE, it’s sword versus axes, and Jarvis managed to disarm one from Byron. And Auraugu got his hit, but that’s where it’s a two-for-one.
I mean, swords do beat axes on the weapon triangle. As demonstrated.
Swords typically beat unarmed combatants as well, but obviously it depends if they get the drop on you or not.
…Or, in this case, they get the dropkick on you…
I like swords.
If a commander like this needs to worry about defending themselves in a battle, the battle is already lost.
And his name is AU-RAUGU!
https://youtu.be/5LitDGyxFh4?t=11s
Byron could have been stricken down in panel 4 to be fair.
He’s the beast-riding airship-flying wheeling dealing mask-wearing son of a gun . . . the Fuzzy Boy, Auraugu!
WOOOOOO!
Byron really should know better by now than to expect to ever win a fight against not-a-mook.
He clearly isn’t built for PVP, and why does he never use bloodthirst?
He must be one of them thar hardcore RPers who stick to character even in an instanced battleground.
Because the last time he used blood lust, he nearly killed everyone, friend and foe alike. in a friendly-rich environment, that’s a terrible idea XD
DO YOU SMEEEEEEELL, WHAT AURAGUUUUU IS COOKING?
Yes, I do, and it smells like feet.
Yeah, Auraugu certainly served up a large helping of toejam there…
“You’d be surprised how many people think they’re prepared to get punted in the face.” – Dr McNinja
Hyesssss! Dr McNinja <3
Billy Jack said pretty much the same thing. He was a bit more verbose about describing it though.
“I’m going to take my left foot & plant it on the right side of your face & you know what the funny thing about it is that neither you nor any of your boys here can do a damn thing to stop it.”
OOOOHHH HYEAAAAAH!
Brian: Memo to self; Next time you’re up against a guy with a sword, throw one ax at him and then attack with the other. Those toothpicks can be dangerous.
He thought he was in some fancy sword duel when suddenly a game of Street Fighter broke out.
He has unleashed the Foot of Fury!
*furry
Nice disarm, gotta admit. Jarvis isn’t a bad swordsman. Byron’s a berserker but we’ve seen him fight and he’s actually a very technical fighter. So for Jarvis to be able to do that is impressive.
Also gotta say: it’s nice to see that Jarvis’ rapier is huge. Rapier’s aren’t small- they’re full sized blades just with long, thin(ner than other swords’) blades, specialized for thrusts and lunges. Any small “rapiers” you see or that you think of are actually small swords. Rapier blades have sharp edges and can cut; small swords usually have dull edges and are purely thrusting weapons.
Heeeeere’s BYRON!
I don’t understand why he apologized for not knocking, when he very clearly DID knock…
This guy is a Falcon main, i know its probably been pointed out before but guaranteed he is
tagging in Auraugu for the assist!
Whenever I see Aurugu saying “hyes” from now on:
I always thought of Frank Nelson myself, and I suspect Little Britain did too. :)
There is something inexplicably poetic about this smug jerk getting drop kicked by a hyperactive luchadore. I can’t put my finger on it, but it is deeply satisfying and feels appropriate somehow. Might have something to do with how he acts stoic and controlled all the time but underneath it all is kind of a ridiculous supervillain as revealed by his sudden over-the-top I-am-your-puppetmaster monologue breaking his previous pattern of silently watching the circus.
Did I miss a monologue somewhere? I feel like Jarvis isn’t a terrible dude. He just wants to protect his city, and engages in the absolute bare minimum of politics required to keep doing that.
Jarvis is an active conspirator in all of the Houses of Gastonia/Iwatania’s dirty operations, including the attempt to force Syr’Nj into its inner circle (and likely was among those who authorized the attempt on her life after she hesitated/refused), the elimination of the Adventurer’s Guild, and its continued support of Iwatanai, from his Grace to Taro. Currently, he is willing to have more friendly fire despite the fighting already taking place at the capital’s walls- even if that means civilians will be hit.
Having good intentions won’t save you from being a terrible dude if you’re willing to commit callous, dirty, and indiscriminate cruelties to achieve them.
I have no reason to believe he was really “active.” When they gave him the speech they gave Syr’nj, he just agreed to their terms and didn’t try to stop them. Which was the far more sensible answer, at the time, really.
If someone in power is going off the deep end, and they’re willing to delegate to you, you take that opportunity. You try to minimize the damage they do in your department. You don’t walk out.
Jarvis and Syr’nj faced the same problem. Jarvis’s solution caused the removal of two heads of house who didn’t deserve to be forced out, and Syr’nj’s solution caused a war which has killed thousands.
(My original reply doesn’t want to show. Trying to re-enter it returns a message of “Duplicate message detected.” What’s going on? :-()
LockeZ:
guildedage.net/comic/chapter-38-page-20/ Jarvis wasn’t merely the narrator of the revelation of the Gastonian “altruist” conspiracy to Syr, he was very much a part of it and identified himself as so (“We”).
For that matter, I think you’re confusing Jarvis with Miyamoto here: guildedage.net/comic/chapter-42-page-3/ They didn’t give any speech to Jarvis; rather, it was Jarvis who presented and even pressed its point on Miyamoto. His tone, that he was in accord with it and its forcing upon Miyamoto means he was NOT some guy passively accepting it but with it from the get-go.
As for “You try to minimize the damage they do in your department. You don’t walk out.”, if you’re referring to the current battle and how friendly fire or sacrificing most of your men or even the citizenry has become acceptable to him, that’s NOT “minimizing the damage”. If that’s acceptable as far as protecting Gastonia/Iwatania is concerned, then that means they only consider themselves- the heads of Houses/the altruist conspiracy- as “Gastonia”, and not the ordinary soldier or citizen that forms it.
Lastly, as for your third point/paragraph- WHAT? War between Gastonia and the Savage Races began even before Syr became a recognized head of a House, nor did her defection make any difference than to spare her people from being used by the Gastonian war machine towards the support of a conspiracy that not only focuses power, wealth, and freedom in the hands of an elite (and mostly human) few but who have no qualms about manipulating or outright crushing anyone in their way, even innocents. Putting the deaths of thousands by war on Syr doesn’t follow the story. Do you even remember that Syr was a field medic serving in the Gastonian army in the same war?
And let’s make it clear: if you’re comparing THAT to “Jarvis’ solution”, then you’re pretty much admitting that Jarvis is indeed “active” in the conspiracy you’re trying to clear him from. He’s not the “not terrible dude” you think him to be.
(Figured it out- my links to pages in the archives is what kept my original reply from showing. The reply directly above shows because I removed “http” from the links.)
“Minimize the damage”? If that really was Jarvis’ intention, then he’s done a piss-poor job of it. He ended up with a kingdom ruled by Taro, where the populace was flat-out ready to rebel (as proven by all the willing and eager defections to the “Savage” rebellion) and the leader didn’t particularly care because it gave him an excuse to get more violent. And now, he (Jarvis) is overseeing a battle in which said leader is outright killing his own forces, and Jarvis basically just shrugged that off with a rather blithe statement that amounted to: “The king’s doing it, so whatever.”
Anyway, when the top guy “goes off the deep end” as you put it (never mind that Taro wasn’t going off the deep end because he had already done that a long time ago), you’re not going to minimize the damage by being the whack-job’s underling. You’re just going to get dragged along over the edge with him. The ones who left, Syr’nj et. al., were the smart ones (or at least the lucky ones, if they were forced out unwillingly), because the best way to deal with this kind of shit is to be on the outside pushing back, rather than on the inside futilely trying to clean up the mess.
If Jarvis really did think he was going to “minimize the damage” caused by the various Iwatanis’ ambitions, then he was an idiot. Though I don’t believe for one moment that was what he had in mind. Far more likely, this was his own powerbase that he’d built up over decades, and he wasn’t willing to give it up.
This is probably my favorite image of Auraugu
Boot to the head!
Say it with nez Fuzzy People’s!!!
AWWWWW-WHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOO!!
So damn satisfying.
That’s what you get for bringing a weedy little rapier to a wrestling fight.
Can I just comment on the Comments about how many Glorious Wrestling Jokes are flying around and how much they fill my heart with glee?
TRW he gives you just the tip.
DYNAMIC ENTRY!!!!
HOLY CRAP! That’s the champion of the fuzzy people coming in with a mean double drop kick. Jarvis is going to feel that one in the morning, Stan!
…That depends on whether or not he’ll be able to wake up in the morning…
I am having many love for blue man!
There’s just something about combining raw Luchador spirit with one of the best of the fuzzy peoples. Auraugu should have his own comic, TV show, and underwear line. Hyes!
… and suddenly I am seeing a whole new line of Garanimals(r).
Underwear line? Keeping your fuzzy so close to a furry? That’s ummm…errr…I just don’t…uhhh…
…Have the words for that.
Furry foot-in-the-face beats fancy fencing any day.
You might even say it foils fancy fencing…
♫ Drop kick me, Tectonicus, through the goal posts of life! ♫
Auraugu dropkicking someone in the face is the best birthday gift I could ask for.
I love Captain Falcon!
Lets get ready to rumble!