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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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!
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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!
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.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.)
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!
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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!
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.
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!
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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!
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...
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.
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?
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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!
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!
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...
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
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.
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 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.
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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Aw c’mon Frigg! Gratitude is a bit much perhaps, but you could at least reduce them to only quarter-sucking!
Gratitude?
You don’t understand, do you?
You only do a favour for a Chaotic Neutral if they requested it (or sometimes if you owe them)… THEN they’ll thank you.
Try doing a favour for a Chaotic Neutral unbidden… and it will be treated like you’re trying to collar them… and nothing will make a C/N hate you quite so much as trying to collar them, so to speak.
Byron is right, looting is a totally different thing from stealing.
Technically, I believe he’s pillaging.
Normally I’d disagree, but Frig torched the Number One Nun; and pillaging is, by requirement, accompanied by FIRE.
Boss-looting is different from both of those….
Meeh, according to me it isn’t stealing since he killed them first so it is his by the right of might! :)
lewt whores FTW!!
You know, I do see Frigg’s point. Syr’nj is apologizing for a drunken insult, when right now her biggest concern as a healer should be the fact that her patient is beaten, fatigued, and probably dehydrated/malnourished. Besides, I’m sure Frigg’s been called worse than ‘knothole’. She’s definitely called people worse things XD.
Heh. Never looked at it that way. :)
Certainly she’s even more bad tempered when injured than she is when kicking ass.
Interesting to see what the rest of the group does now. If I had a player reacting that way, there’d be a “therapy session” as the player explained (again) the difference between roleplay and actually being pissed at the other players. Most of the time my players don’t bother with this kind of outburst even though at least one of the characters would react just this way!!
Byron better leave the new shoulder gear at home if he spends a night at the Roxbury. He’ll wind up with a splitting headache.
Now all he needs to do is get a hold of Payet’s guitar and he’ll get the set bonus.
let me axe YOU a question, GA team. for about 20 min before this page went up, i was unable to get here. page kept timing out. not an issue at my end. something you might want to look into. y’know. mix up a magic potion in your html POULDRON.
Sound like Byron needs…
…Moar Daxeka. *Shades* http://brachinus.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/csi_yeah_skyline.jpg
Also, can you smell friendship moment? I can totally smell friendship moment.
What’s “Daxeka”?
I have a feeling he used Artistic License for this TV Trope: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoreDakka
What SaltyKracka actually means is “more choppa.”
And we all know ladies love a man who wears axe.
Get some shoulder action!
Since we’re talking about the differences between looting and theft, I’d like to say that I’ve always had trouble reconciling myself with paladins looting. Am I alone here?
Also ax math is the best math
Well if $DEITY didn’t want you to have the wealth, they wouldn’t have helped you kill the creature and/or they’d stop you from looting, right?
Also, since the guy died it’s not theft since no one owns it anymore. It might be graverobbing, but that’s probably not so bad in their world?
It’s only grave robbing if there’s a grave involved. Taking loot off a dead but not buried body = Fair game. That’s even how it was in real life Medieval Times (not the attraction) You’d always get the local peasants picking over the fallen warriors after a battle for trinkets to pay for their next meal beside the ravens pecking the corpses for the best meat.
Its not theft because it’s spoils of battle. Spoils of battle aren’t theft.
“Spoils of battle aren’t theft.”
Of course, they are. I mean, when you pick up, say, a beret, or any other item from captured enemy troops, it’s not like you ask them to sell it to you or something like that.
Not to mention when a city is taken over by the army you fight in, breaking into civilians’ houses and taking stuffs like silverware isn’t spoil of battle either, but plain theft.
That’s just my opinion, though. I’d like to know what the military laws say about this.
Theft implies ownership. You can’t steal something no one can lay claim to. If possession is nine-tenths of the law, then a corpse has no legal right to anything let alone an empty suit of enchanted armor.
Technically, possession is nine points of the law, not nine tenths.
That thing you smited was evil. It did not deserve those gains, which, even if not ill-gotten, were certainly undeserved.
Putting it in the hands of the righetous is only necessary. Not only did your god give it to you, but it NEEDS to be used/spent. Now it has serviced the cause of good!
Leaving it there would have risked letting it idle (A sin in itself) or letting it be used for neutral or evil purposes. By taking it, you know what it furthers.
Most Paladin Orders include a vow to tithe. Technically, the paladin is collecting spoils, wealth, equipment, and items so that the order and by default the religious body can propagate its agenda. The paladin keeps only enough to live on and upgrade equipment as needed. The rest goes to the “church”. So looting the bodies is actually a part of her job. Good thing there isn’t a paladin in the party or Byron and the Bandit might have some competition.
I once had a player in a game I was GMing ask me the same thing. I told him to go ahead and try it it, if your deity is unhappy with what you’re doing you’ll find out kinda quick.
Well if we were to take Christianity as an example (since it is the de facto religion upon which any Paladin type class is based) I think very few deities would take offense to looting the dead. There are only a few isolated cases in the Old Testament where people were punished for looting, but in all those cases those people had been given explicit directions NOT to take anything.
Couple this with the fact that the Bible mentions money and prosperity in some 700 instances throughout the text and I’d say that God thinks money is kinda important.
That’s a nice set of shoulder-blades.
Dangit you took my pun! :P
the alt-text took mine… :(
To be honest, I was amazed that 14 comments went by without this pun being made.
Love Byron’s character, tweak away the berzerker barbarian to the core thoughts about the idea. :3
If you know what’s good for you, you don’t get him mad
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Axes are the best weapons
Now a berzerker that wears heavy armor, apparently.
Given that it’s just the pauldrons, it’s not exactly heavy armor, just “Metal bits to guard my shoulders/prevent horizontal swings from severing my sensitive neckparts.”
Frigg reminds me of Leeloo from the 5th Element with her bandage underwear.
Frigg has vastly more meat on her bones.
Hammers are really big lockpicks, but axes are where it’s at.
Looks like Byron took a sAXEton math course.
Wow – those pauldrons really serve to r-hatchet up Byron’s appearance.
For the record, I love this webcomic. Just wanted to put that out there.
A+ would read again
I think panel 3 would make a WICKED shirt.
Seriously, Byron’s face, with hair blowing in the wind, with text just below: “Now with 100% more Axe!”
I’d buy it.
Cheers,
Cote
Yes. That shirt. Will buy.
I’ll buy it too if he ever truly earns the title of berserker.
I said it months ago, and I’ll say it again now: Byron is a great character, but he’s one lousy excuse for a berserker.
I don’t want to hurt the creative team’s feelings. Really. This is one of my favorite webcomics and has been since it was less than a month old. But WHY is this guy called a BERSERKER when he’s NOT ONE?! THIS HAS BEEN ANNOYING ME ALL ALONG!!! AARGH GARRR GRAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHGHGHG!!!!!! *removes twin katanas from back and goes batshit on all and sundry*
I think Byron mentions somewhere that the berserker label is pretty much just a marketing ploy.
Actually I believe that was a wholly independent guest strip where he mentions this
I know we’ve been chastised for the obnoxious amount of punnery but I blame the alt text for starting it. Or is this one of the chicken v. egg type situation?
I think the alt text only serves to encourage the incorrigible.
I only pun when people are doing an exceptionally poor job of it.
It isn’t something I’m proud of, but I hate to see anything done poorly… especially if I can do it better despite not wanting to.
Nawwww, it’s the number of puns. I believe it was the number of POSTS. Some folks might just need to round all their punnery up into one post :P
Naw, thats axe-ing too much of them.
Beating the dead horse isn’t any more acceptable if you happen to use an axe-handle for the task, y’know.
Seriously, no one pointed out the obvious pun? I mean the Priestlord’s “Righteous” pauldrons? -_-
Well, one of them is righteous, and the other is lefteous.
A home is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
it’s actually only 93% more axes