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!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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.
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!
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.)
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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!
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.
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.
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!
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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!
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.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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?
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 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.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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!
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.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
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.
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...
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!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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!
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.
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.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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.
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...
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
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!
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
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.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.
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.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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.
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.
Yeah, it’s just a little bit of a thing to remember that the Savage Races could be as bad as Gastonia at times.
Well at least Penk decided to free the trolls’ slaves after the revolution was won. Other revolutionaries took their time.
Ah, to be able to “portal” the flotsam and jetsam (and a couple other Sams) out of my life …
I suppose you won’t be needing this… succulent… sammich.
I do not like it, Sam-I-am!
All you need is a little Alaca-sam, and your problems are solved!
A trickling of youths from home. Makes me wonder if the Sky Elves might be cleaning house in the process. Perhaps Jemmington was incarcerated and they gave him the choice of staying in jail or exile. He doesn’t seem like the kind that would’ve left to fight a noble cause.
It does suggest that wherever the Sky Elves have gone, they still have the ability to get back to the land formerly known as Gastonia. What’s the bet some of those “youths” are agents keeping an eye on things?
Had the feeling that the ex-sky elves and the shit elves would end up uniting. Better to do it now, while the ex-sky elves are still a political force and have the potential to lift the group up, then for it to happen through the steady decline of the ex-sky elves until they’re all at shit elf level.
The way I figure it, if I were in their shoes, I’d sympathize with the position that Sky Elves shouldn’t be isolationist, but I wouldn’t want to leave my home over it. I’ve said it before, but I also sympathize with Canegham’s position, as at the end of it all, he’s anti-war and reasonably mistrusts alliances since the Altruists did betray the adventurers and the Wood Elves. I don’t suddenly expect him to expect the World’s Rebellion to be better bedfellows. If I were a Sky Elf youth, I’d much rather build prospects elsewhere and the maybe revisit whether Sky Elves should be hardcore isolationists.
I see they’ve created busts of everyone on the Council.
You might say they’ve been… [sunglasses]… busted.
That’s the giant chess petitioners use to amuse themselves while awaiting an audience.
Now I really want to know which chess piece each of them represents.
Spotted champion of the fuzzy peoples!
(Then realized that they had tagged him as well, and was less impressed with myself).
Cheers,
Cote
“You assume they all want freedom.”
Ugh….the mental state of people who endorse life-time style slavery.
It can be the insidious thing about slavery, though – if you’re not careful with how you go about abolishing it, it’s very possible for people to end up worse off than they were as slaves. Not to endorse Don Gobligno’s slimy attitude at all here, but it’s not as simple as striking the chains – you need a plan to ensure that the ex-slaves will be able to make a decent living as free people.
And to prevent any attempts by the former slavers to sabotage those efforts to attempt to prove that slavery was needed after all.
Forty acres and a mule. And a vote. And obviously, no clause requiring that your grandfather could vote.
And perhaps a payout of wages due, with interest?
Well Gobligno is slimy, but his objection is actually super plausible. He’s a political operator at the end of it all.
I actually don’t think that’s an unlikely view. Sure Gobligno is not a reliable source, but this was a thing with Roman slaves. “Freeing” a slave is often just an excuse to get rid of another mouth to feed. In practice, the master is not required to make sure the slave is well-off.
Practically, if a Roman set up a newly-freed slave with their own business, it made a new Roman citizen who is a freshman business contact to the former master.
The Roman style of slavery was actually why I mentioned life time style slavery, because slavery in the United States was magnitudes worse than slavery in the Roman Empire.
Slavery in Rome was often a set period of servitude, either that a person either willingly signed themselves too or a sentence for a crime. American slavery was more often a lifetime sentence unless your master deigned to grant you freedom. More often though, if a master could not afford to keep a slave, they sold them to a master who could. If Roman slave had a child, that child was not necessarily a slave. In American slavery, that child most definitely was a slave. Breeding slaves was no different than breeding livestock for most masters. It was how they kept slavery alive once the United States stopped buying slaves from overseas traders and such.
I assumed it depended more on what kind of slave you were. Romans still captured slaves from war and *somebody* had to work the salt mines.
If Wikipedia is anything like a reliable source, then summary executions and sexual exploitations were a thing. So . . . on the whole? Pretty awful. I don’t ever remember learning that there was a set expiration for slavery as near as Romans are concerned. It just seemed like they did so if they felt like it or the slave could buy their freedom.
We all seek windows
A pane that faces eastward
Light of a new Don?
Nice play on words there.
“I’m so sick of the authors using their comic to shove their political opinions down our throats!” – Some confederate officer who time-travelled here from the 1800’s.
…
I’m trying really hard to ignore the fact that what Don Gobligno said might as well have been said by a white supremacist today.
Or a frighteningly large amount of pretty much average people.
Or Kanye.
People will go a long way to avoid acknowledging that their ancestors were monstrous people.
It’s easier to develop a warped ideology that the Confederate flag is a symbol of some kind of vague southern pride, or that the Civil War was about “states rights” (what rights were those, exactly?), than to think complicated thoughts about why precisely grandpa and grandma suddenly became so interested in displaying the Confederate flag at *checks watch* oh around the same time the Civil Rights Movement was picking up steam huh what a weird coincidence. The fact that it wasn’t associated with southern pride pre-CRM probably isn’t significant.
Or heaven forbid, consider that perhaps you owe some people a rather massive amount of money…
At the same time though he might be right. He’s probably exaggerating the quantity who don’t want freedom, but do note that being free is hard. There are lots of things a free person has to worry about that a slave just lets the boss take care of. It’s why most of the “free” world has been slowly voting themselves back into slavery over the last hundred years.
“Save for retirement? That’s too hard, let’s just have the government force us to hand over an arbitrary amount of money and hold it for us until we reach an arbitrary age.”
“Pick a good contractor based on their reputation? That’s too hard! Let’s just have the government punish anyone who does that kind of work without a special slip of paper and trust they’ll weed out the bad ones for us.”
The list gets longer every year as people give up more and more of their freedom in exchange (they think) for having less to worry about.
In some places it’s even gotten to the point where the people have given up their freedom to seek appropriate medical care, instead allowing the government to decide who should be allowed treatment and who simply left to die.
And all of this requested, nay demanded, by the “free” people.
But don’t worry citizen! It’s not slavery if you’re not actually wearing chains and being whipped!
That’s an interesting argument, but both of those examples are somewhat flawed. The first has the problem of longevity. How long do you expect to live after you retire? Ten years? Twenty years? Plan for ten and you are in trouble if you live into your eighties. Plan for twenty, and what happens to the money if you die before you hit sixty-five? It’s almost as if some centralized system could be used to subsidize the care of the longer-lived citizens from the excess savings of those who die young.
In the latter, an even poorer example, how does one get a reputation? By working! How does one find work (in order to build a reputation and get more work)? Through one’s reputation! Eventually, a contractor has to start somewhere, and certification can be the foot in the door for those just starting out.
Finally, in neither of these cases is it necessary to rely solely on the government. Want to save more for retirement? You can! Want to check the reputation of certified contractors? You can! Want to gripe that the things that you let others do for you aren’t done to your own standards (for example a contractor that didn’t live up to their reputation)? That is not slavery!
In modern life, people allow many things to be done for them. Do you fix your own house (probably not)? Do you even directly hire the individual carpenter or plumber who does the work (unlikely)? Instead, you contact a contractor. Dozens of other transactions are carried out, not on the level of one individual to another, but through vast intermediaries. Insurance agencies contact hospitals who hire doctors. Investors hire brokers who buy mutual funds that invest in companies. Somehow, when the government gets involved, it’s slavery? How droll!
LOL “shit elves”
Bottom right Auraugu: “Eeeeyyyyy!”