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!
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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!
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...
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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!
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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?
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
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.
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.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
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?
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wow. Way to put them in their places.
Go, Frigg! Psych ’em out. YEAH.
…Wait, what?
I have no idea how to process this page.
Welcome to Calvinball 2.0! Now known as Friggball or Frigg’n Chess.
I’d put in my vote for Frigg’n Chess.
Fizzbin, anyone?
I never learned more than the basic moves for each piece, but I’ve heard that a great deal of chess strategy is psychological warfare. Frigg seems to have figured that out now. And I’m sure she’s already familiar with how a high percentage of the male population can only think with one head at a time… X-D
I’m proud to say that I’m one of the few not in that large percentage of men. If Frigg tried that tactic on me, I’d be amused more than anything else.
I dunno if I can agree with amused. Not at first, anyway. I think no matter which “dominant head” male group one falls into, coupled with knowing Frigg likes to break stuff / people, would cause that brief moment of, “Wait, what? -ness” …and then the amusement would show up all fashionably late n’stuff.
amused, flattered, even overbalanced. neither of which would last long while the game was on.
In that neither of your heads works?
Actually, there isn’t a lot of psychological warfare in chess, you can’t psych your opponent out, because they should just be playing the best move they can.
There’s a lot of psychological warfare in something like poker, where your opponent has incomplete information and you’re trying to mislead them, but you psyching someone out is never part of a game’s strategy when all players have complete information.
Well, recall that part of Chess is seeing more than your opponent. Or pretending you do, It may not necessarily be that your opponent doesn’t have complete information, but that you can make them feel they don’t.
The most iconic, unnerving phrase when you play Chess I think it “Are you sure you want to do that?”
If you’re pretending that you’re better than you are at chess, this isn’t going to actually give you an advantage, because all the game information is public, a game is only ever a psychological game if players are trying to second guess the other players.
Let’s take checkers as a better example. You could use the same arguments to say that checkers is a psychological game, but checkers is a solved game – from the initial position, it’s possible for the first player to always win, so long as they always make the right choice. There is no psychological element to it, because there’s no guesswork.
That is only if you’re playing strictly by the rules… or if the game isn’t serving as a distraction from a concealed purpose.
ANY game can be psychological.
you could even say that all games ARE psychological…right down to 1p games like solitare.
emotional and mental state plays a big part in how well we operate in a problem-solving or reaction-time capacity.
a psychological game is one where you gain advantage from misleading your opponent. You can’t do that in a game where they have all the information. You might be able to intimidate them or psych them into making a mistake, but that’s not part of the game in any way.
You could equally argue that all games are life-threatening because you could always kill your opponent to secure the win, or that all games involve cards, because you can replace the pieces with cards.
you’re missing my point. i’m not talking psych warfare, i’m talking about the role that psychology plays in our ability to play games.
if you’re in a bad mood, your solitare’s unplayable.
If that isn’t “part of the game”, you’re playing an incomplete game.
Ideally, you play the board and not your opponent, but even so it sometimes pays to choose an opening your opponent doesn’t typically favor. And blitz chess can be a different animal entirely. I’ve spent many an evening trying to figure out if my brother is an idiot or just daring in under 10 seconds.
At top levels of play it approaches the pure analytical form, but a LOT of chess is mental. I play well, but I used to go to pieces as soon as I made a mistake. Learning to play through the errors vastly improved my game. In addition, I don’t think very many moves ahead, but I am very good at looking 3-4 moves ahead ALL OVER the board. During my opponent’s turn I quickly spot every possible move and figure out an answer to it, so when they move a piece I have an immediate response. Done properly this is VERY intimidating, and with the right level of haughty sneer can completely throw people off their gme.
Frigg is establishing right now that even if there isn’t psychological warfare in chess by itself, there can certainly be some between the players independant of the game.
And messing with your opponent’s head, no matter what the subject matter, affects their playing.
actually, i’m not sure the percentage is as high as modern sitcoms would have kimberly T believe.
now, women’s attentionspan and proximity to a shoe sale? there’s a statistic.
Whoa, rpgs + webcomics + chess = sexism. Didn’t see that coming.
Yeahhhhhh…..
Modern sitcoms, nothin’… two decades in the USN. I’ve seen boys in uniform do some amazingly idiotic things for the sake of gettin’ some.
And your statistic regarding women and shoe sales would be…?
Unless there are sharp, bladed weapons or new holsters for my guns, I will not go anywhere near a shoe store. Gun store, knife store, farm store, work wear store, or surplus military definately. Shoes=no. Gotta love generalizations that don’t apply to most people
“Oh Dear”
…Wait, what?
She’s licking a queen. Does that count as this comic’s first official sapphic act?
I don’t know. We’ll need to see it drawn again with a more dramatic close-up.
Perhaps the entire comic space.
In slow motion.
While the queen may be female, she also happens to be fairly phallic-looking, which has the desired effect on the gnomes. In the spirit of compromise, we can call this opener a queen’s bi-gambit or a bi-queen’s gambit.
There is something wrong with this page… and I can’t decide what it is.
There’s no “BOING!” sound effect coming from the gnomes in the last panel. That’s what’s missing.
“SCHWING!” would also be acceptable, if a bit dated.
I am wondering if the expression worn by the gnome in blue counts as “boing”…the other one looks a touch disturbed, or even alarmed. Blue Boy there seems intrigued at least.
A slow bass beat with mood lighting?
Woah, slow down there! We’re not exactly at the rule 34 point, yet.
Ah… so someone else acknowledges the Porn-Beat.
Well. That sure is a thing.
Grk! *head a-splodes*
Time to break out the Barry White and Jello shots.
Good lord.
This, quite possibly, is my favorite Frigg page. and there are so may to choose from….
Cool! I think she broke the gnomes! Also, if it was your intention to arouse those of your readers attracted to Frigg, it worked.
not jedi?
Ah, Frigg, ever the professional. If she cannot smash their bodies, she will smash their MINDS.
I clearly need to start playing chess more often
I have a sudden urge to play chess.
Start by choking the bishop.
I don’t have the admin privileges to give you a gold star but you sir, have won a free internetz.
Indeed.
Thank you, thank you. It is with great honor that I accept this interwebz award for the lulziest sex/masturbation-related reference made in the past 24 hrs. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my mom, my imaginary girlfriend, the great spaghetti monster and, of course, Sir Patrick Stewart. You guys make it all worthwhile.
It is because, good sir, you have “Seen Everything.”
“Again”. ;)
Luckily, I have the authority needed for the task.
Gold Star.
The alt text did me in.
So do the Gold Stars.
All of them.
Cheers,
Cote
“When it comes to force…” Well that is the job of the tank — exerting force. She’s just be placed into a situation where the force needs to be applied with something other than her favorite axe.
None of the team is totally stupid — they just have modes of operation that are their favorites.
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
I’ll be in my bunk.
I HAVE TRAUMA. YOU HAVE TRAUMATIZED ME NOW.
I have no idea what to think… and I heartily approve. This comic may have made me Frigg’n bi.
“Everyone’s Bi for Frigg”?
Bi-Frigual? Friggsexual? Bi-Frigious?
I don’t know what just happened (or maybe I do) but get the next Frigg page up!!!
wow… i thought it was disturbing when Faye Dunaway did it to Steve McQueen… I suppose if you stood the gnomes on top of each other they’d add up to one Steve McQueen, …. then…..
No! bad mental image! No! BADBADWROOONNNNNGGG!
That’s what I call a Diplomacy check!!!
Check… And MATE.
I see what you did there.
Now would be pretty awkward timing for the gnomes to inform her that they’re gay.
I’m gonna play chess with ya woman, gonna lay ya by the chessboard…
Mwahahahahahaha! /cheer for Frigg.
Does anyone have the urge to play chess suddenly?
You really don’t have to play by the rules to beat someone over the head with them.
Substituting violent unprofessionalism for another kind of unprofessionalism, aye?
Chess will never be sexy. Frigg makes a valiant effort though.
Imagine two sexy librarians playing strip chess. There’s at least four moves left till checkmate, but they’ve run out of clothes and need to figure out a new….. penalty for loosing a piece.
The sexiness there isn’t with chess, it’s with the librarians. You could just as easily say “Imagine two sexy librarians playing strip water polo,[…]” and it would have the same effect.
That reasoning circumvents the possibility of anything that isn’t sexy ever being made sexy, because it’s not the subject itself that’s sexy, it’s X, Y, or Z that’s being sexy.
X+Y*Z = 1Sx
X = Variable 1 (Librarians)
Y = Variable 2 (Chess)
Z = Relevance to sexually formative moments in your upbringing
Sx = Unit of measure indicating degree of sexiness as relative to perception.
Suddenly, Sexy Mustard!
Imagine a massive chess set where all the pieces are pretty men or ladies (as your preference suits.) – and they remove their clothes when they’re “taken”
strip chess.
The strip that started a thousand downloads to My Pictures.
…Did… did Frigg just seduce gnomes?
I think this is one of those mindgames things… they’ve been schooling her ass because they were focused on the game… she’s got them upset/confused/aroused(?) and now the game is the last thing on their minds….
Hahahahahahahahaha!! XD I can’t… stop… laughing at those last two panels!! Frigg is so awesome!!
How many diseases did she just get by tongueing something that generations of filthy filthy gnomes have grubbed over with their filthy gnome fingers? Everybody knows, gnomes are even filthier than Canadians. Ick.
Man, panel four is an absolute triumph of WTF expression. There is not a single thought going on behind those eyes; she has completely destroyed whatever process they had.
She’s the tank, one can assume a good Con save vs. grubby fingered yuck
(to the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it)
If it’s longer than it’s wide, then it’s phallic!
If it’s longer than it’s wide, then it’s phallic!
If it’s shorter than it’s wide,
You can turn it on it’s side,
Then it’s longer than it’s wide, and it’s phallic!
Frigg is best pony.
She’s…
Fecking awesome.
Oh, shit, wait