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!
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Kiwi Blitz
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Goodbye to Halos
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Real Science Adventures
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Awaken
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Hazy London
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The End
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Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
El Goonish Shive
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Widdershins
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A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!
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!
Between Failures
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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.
This is Not Fiction
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Never Satisfied
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Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Fireweeds Moors
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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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
Kochab
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Stand Still, Stay Silent
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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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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.
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...
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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.
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".
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.
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.
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!
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!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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.
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.)
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.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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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Discussion (86) ¬
5 pawns on the board, hmmmmmm
WHOEVER COULD THEY BE?!
Like heroes are ever anything other than pawns in some game or another. I swear, having the boss turn out to be the bad guy is very nearly cliche.
Implausible chess position is implausible. =P
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.â€
also, checkmate in three moves. ^^
tecnicly its possible. there is a chess move called “en passent”, french for “in passing”. i forget the exact details but the pawn moves diaganly and takes the pice it was beside so…
i hate it when people don’t know that move. you take the peice and they’re all “what the hell. that’s not a real move.” then you have to go dig up the rulebook.
I’d bet money that at some point it was a “house rule” that somehow got promoted to International rules along the line.
Bandit took the black bishop “en passant”.
The impression I got from wikipedia is that it only works against another pawn on it’s initial move
I said ‘implausible’, not ‘impossible’. It doesn’t make sense as a chess position; that’s not to say it couldn’t happen.
Also, none of you know what en passant is, apparently (except Schlock). None of the pawns in the current position could have taken en passant, because they would be on the sixth rank (or third for black’s pawns).
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the lack of a king means that it’s impossible for white to lose.
I see no black king, either. Just a black queen…
The black king is at e8, right? The black queen is at f8 for some reason. The white king could be offscreen, though I think it’s more likely that Frigg threw it at someone.
I mean, offscreen at h1 or so.
It looks like the K and Q are shifted one space to the left, the Queens Bishop has moved into a redoubt position where the Queen’s Rook should be. Or is that a Rook and the piece at F4 is the Queen’s Bishop?
I wish we could see White’s F-H spaces, and knew who’s turn it was.
For shame, creative team. You should have known the D&D crowd rolled with Tha Chess Club Playaz :-P
Geeks of a feather….
You’re wrong, if you don’t have a king then you’ve already lost. :)
Only in Blitz; in OTB it means you’ve won!
Actually, wouldn’t that mean they already lost?
DURR HURR I’M AN AUTHOR AND I’M USIN’ CHESS MOTIFS DURR HURR
THEY BETTER GIVE ME SOME FUCKIN’ PRIZES FOR THIS SHIT CAUSE THIS IS MOFN’ ORIGINAL GENIUS RIGHT HERE
I MEAN GODDAMN, NOBODY BUT NOBODY EVER THOUGHT OF USING CHESS MOTIFS BEFORE I DID CAUSE I’M SUCH A GODDAMN GENIUS
HUGO AWARD RIGHT HERE
dude, what? who cares, it works. i wish more authors had chess motifs in their stories, just because you need a pretty good story to use a decent chess image like this.
Obvious troll is obvious.
Ooooooooh, this is an exquisite example of blatant anti-subtle trolling! Observe: the permanent capitals, the sarcastic imitation of the author in order to enrage on a personal level, the
passiveaggressive attack on apparent perceived lack of originality. I particularly enjoy the lack of punctuation save for the apostrophes, often used to replace “G” in present participle verbs. Such craftsmanship, such elegance, such dipsomaniacal flair! It’s comparable to a fine, aged brandy that somebody spat in while you weren’t looking.i dunno, the style lacks subtlety. sarcasm is at it’s best when calmly delivered in well crafted, punctual and seemingly complimentary paragraphs. the way our troll has capitalised his comment feels a little less like mockery and more like a personal cry for help… maybe because in the perceived misuse of a visual metaphor here, he sees his own lack of creative potential.
More like a wine that someone pissed in in front of you.
Nobody knows if you spat in the brandy.
Not immediately…
I love how the community here immediately jumped the troll and metaphorically beat him to death. This happens a lot on the forums I’ve seen, but I’ve never witnessed it done with such class.
Well played guildies!
Cheers,
Cote
PS I personally think this comment was more like a hot pepper found in a piece of chocolate cake: Irritating, but essentially forgettable, though it does leave an unpleasant taste behind.
You would be surprised how well peppers go with chocolate.
Looks like a double-bluff to me.
Usually the things that look most blatantly like trolling aren’t trolling at all.
But then given that the average Internet commoner loves to form lynch-mobs against anyone they can possibly label as a “troll” (read: almost anything with a negative tone that they personally disagree with), it isn’t surprising to see it thrown around here.
It really ought to be kept in mind that real trolling has a very particular purpose in mind, and without that explicit intent to rile emotional reaction the label is wrong. Neither is it a reasonable approach to any opposing situation to automatically throw that label out there by default.
In the case of the above all-bold comment… I expect it is just unsubtle complaint. Not trolling.
I’ll bet the troll wouldn’t have even recognized the chess motif without others’ pointing it out.
He wolda been all “WHAT THE EFFS?! WHY DEY USE CHESS BORED FOR COVER? WERE R THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PALYING?!”
“THOSE ARE FUNNY LOOKIN CHECKAS.”
But then if the stupid knew what stupidity looked like, they’d never be able to look in the mirror again.
I’m sayin’!
Where the fuck is my Goddamned Eisner for this shit?
Yo’ Eisner been jacked by Miller, yo?
Very nice speech there, Salty. Did your mother write it for you?
Babby’s first troll
Instead of philosophy, message contained bobcat, would not buy again.
Plus one internet to you for that reference.
I think perhaps I subtract one of my internets for not catching it.
Motifs? Don’t we mean metaphors? I don’t think we’ve seen enough examples for it to qualify as a motif — and I’m not sure utilization as a chapter heading could ever be identified as motif, either. It’s got the wrong literary feel; motif is used to characterize and provide continuity, not to provide additional depth of meaning through comparison to something with specific similarities. (That would be metaphor, or analogy.)
Generally a sign that someone went to TVTropes first and came away with something of a misunderstanding.
A fine piece of +troll artwork+, encircled with bands of masterfully crafted *sarcasm boners*, menacing with spikes of stupid.
Translation: I don’t understand/like what you mean/did. Therefore, you are
superior to mestupid.Wonder if this one will have any flashbacks or not.
I’m assuming not. In which case we get our super level upped party!
i think they are flash forwards, not backs.
Where is the promised hotness??
Obviously Frigg and Banfit are playing Strip Chess.
Looks like Frigg is winning…
Who promised hotness?
Hotness is implied by the lack of denial of impending hotness.
If Not Not A Then A.
i believe that using the cover of a swimsuit edition magazine for the one year anniversary implied we’d be flooded with pinups for the rest of the week.
Are you saying that the fans of this comic should be drawing more scantily clad fanart?
HELL YEAH!!
I’m not saying they shouldn’t do that.
hmm.
I’m away at a larp event this weekend, but give me the week after and I’ll see what I can rustle up.
Better idea: Go to LARP, find female GA fans, start a sexy GA cosplay trend. Actually, see if you can find some guys to cosplay as Byron and Payet too. It’s 2010 we should cater to both sexes (and in some cases the same sex I guess).
I’d suggest looking for a Gravedust, but unless you’re willing to go recruiting in a biker bar or at a ZZ Top concert, I think that’s a quest doomed to failure. Unless you find a homeless guy dressed like him by pure coincidence.
Second.
Hmm. I *do* have a female larper friend who acts a bit like Frigg,wears plate, and often has reddish hair – so one down.
Where’s Christopher Lambert when you need him?
He better be cutting other immortal’s heads, instead of mentoring martial artists in a fight tournament that could change the fate of the world.
I hear they’re remaking Highlander. Maybe he’s involved in that.
My attempt at a joke was actually a reference to CL’s “Knight Moves” movie. You know, because of chess.
Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104627/
I have no knowledge of chess. Except for that song off of the Chess Album. Yes, I am more of a goofball than you guys.
But, I like the cover anyway. I get the metaphor – the party of adventurers as someone’s pawns (the White Queen perhaps?). I also like the apparent polarization of the party vs their opponents – which is actually very ironic considering all the debates about Frigg’s true alignment, etc etc. So from a literary, analytical standpoint, this cover is awesome.
From a doofus standpoint, it’s pretty :D
I don’t know much about chess, but how did that black pawn move backwards?
It didn’t move at all
It’s not a pawn at all, it’s either a Rook or a Bishop. Probably a Rook. ( Look at the height difference compared to the pawns….)
You can’t see the entire board so the two kings could be in ether corner.
Ether way, those pawns could do some damage.
I’m a bit surprised that everyone is assuming that our heroes are the WHITE pieces. My first impression was the opposite, since a set of pawns are way too similar to stand in for the party, in my mind. It also brings up an interesting idea, i.e. which chess piece would each character be? Frigg is clearly a rook (Runs in straight lines and bashes things), I’d peg Byron as a King type (runs the show, and has a perceived lack of utility according to the fan commentary) but I’m not so sure for the others, Gravedust as a Bishop? Syr’ng as a knight? Poor Bandit may be stuck with the pawn, though I suppose it fits with the size and the fact that she can sneak through your lines and wreak havoc from the rear . . .
Thoughts?
There’s five of ’em.
I just assumed it was a random image of a chess-board with randomly placed pieces that had nothing whatsoever to do with the plot because symbolism is for losers.
And should you so choose, you may decide for yourself whether I was being sarcastic there or not.
Bandit as a pawn would make perfect sense.
If she survives long enough to reach the final file she Prestige Classes into a Queen and goes all “Hyper Sneak Attack” on the leadership.
I see Byron more as the Knight ( skilled fighter, can wreak havok if he ever Beserks) and Syr as the second Bishop.
Frigg is more like the starting Queen. Very strong, can strike from long distance at most an angle, and hard to trap unless you are very sneaky.
Frig can strike at long distances?