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!
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.
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
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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.
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
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 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?
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!
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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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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!”