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!
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.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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.
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.
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...
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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!
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.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.
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.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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.
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.
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?
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!
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!
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.
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!
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!
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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.
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.
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.)
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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 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.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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!
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.
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!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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".
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.
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.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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.
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.
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!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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...
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.
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!
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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 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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They are used strictly as an artistic choice for the set dressing of the comic.
They are used strictly as an artistic choice for the set dressing of the comic.
That alt text is almost worse than the link in my name.
Almost.
xkcd ftw!
Though it’s worse than the character in the link in mine.
Looks like an interesting sort of webcomic. I’ll bookmark it and Archive Binge later.
Jesus Christ, Joe, what the fuck is wrong with you! Stop that!
All we’re doing is playing God! Just playing!
Ha!
Cause it’s D&D.
Which is a game.
Ha..
Whenever I feel bad about having had a hand in the fates of fictional characters, I look over .
… the end of One over Zero: http://www.undefined.net/1/0/
Sorry, I’m not good with HTML.
… Meh.
I’ve gone on a murderous rampage loads of times in loads of games, killing all the innocents in sight and most of the guard… only to then reload from an earlier save and “do things properly”.
But despite my reboot to last save, I still remember it. It still happened.
And it doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
Killing fictional people doesn’t even come close to bothering me.
NOT being able to watch them die one by one however, leaves me disappointed.
I’m pleased! Little hint to Byron’s past, nice.
I hate nitpick such good artwork but it took me awhile to relies those brown spots where bodies and not rubble, wouldn’t something a little more red be fitting?
Not if it weren’t recent. Blood dries brown. And maybe there wasn’t a lot of blood – we don’t know what happened yet!
I only suggest red to make the bodies more apparent in panel 6 though I want to not that I do think panel 5 looks great.
Damn, just….
Somebodies gonna get axed.
Panel four had me confused for a moment, but my little brain puzzled it out.
Agreed, I had a little trouble figuring out that those brown swatches were, in fact, corpses.
Who knew you got +10 to Hide when you’re dead!? YES! -self-high-five-
This page makes me want to give Byron a big hug ;^;
I thought it would be fun to make a pun or two for each page going forward after the pun fest a few pages ago but this page has ruined that… way to go.
That’s quite a body of work you’ve undertaken.
This page just reaffirms how much I like your comic.
Soooo…where is Byron from then? ( Heh, as if we could know…)
Look again folks. Panel four is a major Flashback. ( Compare it with panel 5..you’ll get it.)
Friday is going to be awesome with a capitol AWESOME.
Oh, and panel 2….nice Shock look on Gravies face.
The sepia tone in panel four was probably some sort of hint on that tip, yeah. Friday should be interesting!
Battleshire, probably.
Sheeeeeeit.
Where do I sign up for this job?
I first thought that Gravedust was using his mystic powers to question Byron about his past. But, yeah, these panels really work for me. (and great alt-text)
what’s that behind Gravedust in the last panel… a mop?
The thing behind Gravedust is his Hawk, you can see it on his right hand in earlier panels. I actually missed the bodies in panel 5, I was looking more at the ruins and Byron’s posture and comparing them to panel 4.
Wow, Byron’s kept the same axes since he was just a lad. Durable sons-a-bitches aren’t they?
I guess that’s why he doesn’t believe in intra-species murder.
It looks like Byron does indeed deserve the title ‘berserker’, and I can see why he is so careful to remain in control.
I have to agree with the others who stated that the bodies in panel 5 really don’t work. Even having realized that they are bodies, they still look more like mud puddles to me. It took me a minute to realize what was going on because the image didn’t make sense until I figured out what it was supposed to be, at which point I could find the parts of the image that previously did not make sense.
What is with you people? They have faces, feet, limbs – they’re clearly bodies.
And I can barely see!
[harumphs at the underappreciated eyesight of others]
I hear ya. I see the bodies just fine, because mud puddles don’t look like that.
Also, my right eye is completely worthless. One of these days I’ll just remove it altogether so all the blood wasted on it can go to my left eye and make it super-powered!
I’ll be THE MONOCLE
Get a Eye-patch Trader, then you can ether go by Snake or Nick Fury.
YES
I like the way you think.
You can see everything fine in panel 5, panel 6 it gets a little more cluttered with both Gravedust and Byron inn the forground. My eyes keep goeing to the village first, Byron and Gravedust second, then the bodies.
I still love the page, panel 5 makes the whole page for me.
The bodies are much more visible in panel 5. In panel 6, they have no depth to them, making them look like a part of the ground, which is why I compared them to mud puddles.
I like that the alt-text is getting all Scott McCloud on us.
I was thinking that it was going very Schrodinger
If we had not observed that the massacre had taken place, then it is uncertain that the massacre did indeed take place. By observing the massacre we have now fixed it as a localized temporal-spacial event.
It makes me feel kinda godlike.
Just think of all the other webcomics that, despite their unquestionably large followings, have stories that never happened simply because I don’t read them.
Mwahahahaha
Actuaslly that’s mor Bishop Berkley than Erwin.
“I created a town, called it Leafport. I filled it with towns people, hard working farmers, crafty merchants, full hardy adventures, laughing children. Then I killed them all and left their bodies in the streets as the town I created then burned to the ground. Why did I do this you ask? I needed a plot device.”
Heh, didn’t see the bodies in panel five at first, and I got the impression that Byron went through a vivid flashback every time he walked into a town.
What does gastonian mean?
Context implies Gastonian is a term for people from a location in the comic world. Similar to American or German.
Archive binging to find this page. I can’t help but wonder what hand Byron had in the destruction of (what I assume to be) his childhood home?
Every time I find myself upset about a fictional death, I take solace in the literary present. Even though the first time we encounter Leafport, it is destroyed, I’m good enough at rationalizing to consider
a.) In order to have a corpse-strewn path, a town must have citizens available for slaughter.
b.) If a town has citizens available for slaughter, it has some sort of life as a town.
c.) In a well-written story, characters are often allowed some autonomy to lead the authors in the right direction.
d.) This is a well-written story.
e.) Therefore Leafport could have led a fictional life quietly to itself in the background while we were watching Pirate ships and things.
f.) Literary present steps in and says “Because this is a work of fiction, which is read and re-read, it exists in a constant state of flux. So, even though for me, right now, Leafport is destroyed, for many other fledgling readers the town still exists, if only in potentia. And considering this IS a work of fiction, potentia is good enough for me!”
And ta-da! The guilt I briefly felt for bringing about the massacre of Leafport can safely resume business as a fraction of the random generalized guilt making up approximately two fifths of my psyche.
Either Byron survived his village getting wiped out Conan-style, or the last time he lost his temper he killed off his entire town and didn’t wake up until two days later when the fires finally died out.