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!
Awkward Zombie
Katie Tiedrich
Gags and goofs about videogames and the things that happen in them.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Heroes of Thantopolis
Izzy Strontium Hall
A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.
MASKLESS
kickingshoes
In a world where people can wield the magic of elemental Masks, all Ashe wants to do is help. Maskless and useless, with dreams of fire and smoke on the back of his tongue, he finds himself on a strange, dangerous path to uncovering the secrets of these incredible objects, and the source of the monsters plaguing his home.
Witchy
Ariel Slamet Ries
In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your hair.
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!
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Novae
KaiJu
A historical romance with a touch magic and a dash of astronomy. It chronicles the romantic adventures of Sulvain, a sweet tempered necromancer and Raziol, a passionate 17th century astronomer.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Nix of Nothing
Moz (M) Lee Lunsford
The machinations of higher gods have stepped in and ruined Nix's, Demigod of Nothing, plans for an easygoing life. Now they must journey far and wide, meeting friend and foe, trying to get this divine target off their back!
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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.
Elephant Town
Danielle Corsetto
The long, slow tale of Kris, Paul, Berto and Mirando, four people who live in the same creaky old house, but don't know each other. New chapter updates every 2 months.
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.
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.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
The Glass Scientists
Sage (S.H.) Cotugno
A gaslamp fantasy comic about the life and times of a ragtag group of mad scientists and their enigmatic leader, Dr. Henry Jekyll.
Tove
Severin
The end of the world is coming, and Tove doesn't want to be a hero, but SOMEONE has to look after her little brother.
The Mash
L.F. Garcia, Danigami
In a world shrouded in mystery and threatened by great evil,a young mummy prince will use his new life to unite with other monster children to save it.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
The Din
Karin (Karrey)
The Din changed the world, mankind & its technology. Gregg Emilio dreams of flying in a sky that hasn't carried airplanes in a century.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Kelly Turnbull
A weekly comic celebrating the finer things in life. Like manly men, lumberjacks, and time traveling special ops agents.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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.
Parisa
Ellen K
Two friends, Nolan and Gwen, take it upon themselves to escort the amnesiac spirit Lelief across the world of Parisa.
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".
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
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.
No Need for Bushido
Suburban Samurai, J W Kovell
The flash of a blade, the clash of steel! A runaway princess and her samurai companion navigate a fractured country on the brink of war.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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!
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Peritale
Mari Costa
A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.
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!
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.)
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Little Red & Wolf
Aoi Maneki
Delve into the daily lives of two famous fairytale characters, and their adventures in this big weird world we all live in.
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 Hunter of Insania
Aoi Maneki
Wiol Alkko sells fake magical objects to those desperate for cures. When he tries to scam a real witch, she curses him: within a year, Wiol must learn and respect magic, or succumb to corruption of body and mind.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Helvetica
J.N. Wiedle
This story follows Helvetica's quest to uncover who he was in life, his existential crises, and his struggle to to make death worth living.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Demon Street
Aliza Layne
Two kids explore a world full of monsters and magic trying to find their way home again. But when home has been stolen from you, where do you go to get it back?
Speak of the Devil
Moz (M) Lee Lunsford
The rich and powerful of the city are quickly learning... mess with those who have nothing, and Sunday Blackburn shall appear.
Spinnerette
Krazy Krow, Rocio Zucchi, Pablo Rey
When a lab accident gives Heather Brown spider powers and six arms, she does what any midwest comic geek would do: Become Ohio's #3 superhero!
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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.
Ozzie the Vampire
Eric Lide
Ozzie and her best friend Kimmy are your average everyday normal art students – except one is an immortal vampire with superpowers and the other possesses a magic talking grimoire. Also they have to save their town from a demonic invasion.
Laws and Sausages
Zach Weinersmith
Your cartoon guide to the American governement!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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 (55) ¬
OH SHIT!
Hey, CBS changed their logo, too! Just like the Gap!
Oooohh! Looks like SOMEONE didn’t get it the last time they were clobbered!
Panel 2 and 4 have the best drawn version of byron imo. Also, recurring symbols about crazy cults always = foreshadowing. unless the fortune teller only accepts payment in knick knacks.
You know, it’s not so much that this stuff never makes sense until after it happens; it’s that a local magic-capable economy still supports fortune-tellers who can’t give you a straight answer. Where are the researchers seeking to make divination more reliable and less ambiguous? Don’t tell me that they couldn’t get funding, either: the payoff from that particular R&D project would be spectacular.
Two possibilities; one, it could be actually impossible to discern anything solid about the future, and masking fortunes in rhymes and whatnot either is a side effect of piercing the mysteries of time or a proven way to increase the amount your clients are willing to give as thanks.
Two, you either join the rest of the fortune tellers in their vagueness, or… unfortunate things might happen. Fortune huts have such shoddy workmanship these days, prone to collapse or catching fire. You know how it is.
Got a nice yurt there. Be a shame if something happened to it.
Yarrow stalks are a lot more flammable than people think. Just sayin’.
OOPS! I hope that crystal ball wasn’t valuable.
these answers are pretty straight.
Where are the researchers? at a guess, somewhere very well hidden.
According to the observer effect, it is impossible to measure certain phenomenon without changing it. By making a concrete statement about the future, you force a probability to contract into a point, and you cease to predict the future. You’re now directly affecting it. By telling her what she’s going to invent, he in practice invents it. By telling someone how they’re going to die, you change their death. A vague fortune is, rather than observing the phenomenon, giving it a sorta sideline glance out the corner of the eye.
The “Straight answer” guys charge by the hour, and there are always at least three of em all disagreeing. They all know the truth, that the money is in the drama
“One of us tells the truth, one of us lies and one of us is stoned off his face.”
“One of us tells the truth, one of us tells lies, and one of us shoots people who ask tricky questions.”
Gary Larson?
10 – 1 odds, he’s talking about half elves and the ensuing genocidal wars
Wow. I guess that must have been quite the disarming revelation, Byron.
People tend to avoid the straight answer guys because 1) being told “you are going to amount to nothing” is never what people want to hear, and 2) riddles allow more room for wiggling out of unpleasant prophecies. It’s safer, all round, to go to the riddle guys.
Ummm I don’t get it … why is Byron staring at that symbol and where is it from? Did it have to do anything with the sisterhood?
And will it really not blink first? ;)
Look here: http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-7/chapter-7-page-3/
It’s come up before :)
It’s really a red herring. The symbol means nothing, it’s the wall behind it that strikes Byron as sinister.
WHY ARE PROPHECIES NEVER IN FREE VERSE?
Beat prophets.
Elite Beat Prophets?
Elite Meat Beat (Manifesto) Prophets?
I’d buy it.
Prophets. Goooooooooooooooo!
Sing along if you know the words.
Bum, bum, BUM!
It’s murderin’ time!
nrrrgh. the coffeestain texture over the eye in the last panel bugs me. it just jumps out that it’s only on one eye.
I just noticed how many stains and weird little color corruptions there are on previous pages, and only now I realized that’s this art technique that made me fall in love with the comic.
i dig it too, the texture overlay really brings a lot of life into flat colour- but that eye needed some special attention…some kind of opacity mask or something.
I don’t recognize the symbol! Craaaap!
it’s the brotherhood of the countless limbs…go back to the start of the chapter.
Don’t recognize the symbol on the wall? Check Gravedust’s notes at the beginning of the chapter.
Finally! An excuse to kill him!
If down this road
You drive too fast
Your mad career
It will not last
Burma Shave
I’m with Merus on this one.
These prophecies are pretty straight forward. If yall mean “hes not saying exactly how they will do it” I’d like to point you to every prophecy in Greek mythology. The Prophecy effects the outcome. If that King didn’t find out his son would kill him, he wouldn’t have gotten rid of his son, and his son wouldn’t have killed him. The prophecy included his reaction to the prophecy. The only thing this prophecy is doing is telling them they will succeed and blah blah. It will give both a reason to stay on their path. That is its purpose.
Further, I’d like to point out that in Book 3 Harry Potter almost let himself die because he thought something in the future would happen. I’ve seen a few more cases of someone almost screwing up the future because they thought the prophecy was suppose to play out a certian way. Syr’nj will bring about peace between humans and wood elves in the future, that is a (seeming) fact. Now if she will do it through diplomacy, breeding half elves, or destroying everyone who doesnt agree with her…is up to her and the rest of the world.
Sure skipping to the end of a book you find out “who did it” but you still know jack squat about the actual story
“Lord Zetta is stupid. His foolishness has doomed the Netherworld to extinction.”
Oh noes! Stay good, Byron! STAY GOOD!
“BYRON SMASH!!!”
Aaaand cue the berserkering.
Also, though I noticed the odd texture/shading over Byron’s eye in the last panel, I thought it was just the rage building :)
Think thats just the water color effect that the comic has always sported.
I really want to know how to apply this effect.
for potatoshop.
1.find a cool texture. (GA seems to use a really varied range- from stone to paper and everything inbetween…)
2.set above your other layers.
3.set layer blend to…darken. multiply. something like that. play with the opacity a little.
Cultists always make the mistake of tattooing incriminating symbolism on their wrists and such and leaving cultist paraphernalia in plain sight. If only they sold their souls for common sense instead of demonic powers.
Wait, so Byron never gets his other axe back?
Rereading this, I realized he changes his rhyme scheme from AABA to AABB.
What a hack.