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!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
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!
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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?
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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 End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
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!
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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...
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.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.
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.)
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.
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.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.
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!
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
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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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Come on, Knowledge: Engineering, don’t fail me now!
okay, is this a capatalism metaphor machine or a megalomania metaphor machine? i’m getting confused.
I think he’s talking about the political machine. “The Man”, if you will.
but he hasn’t mentioned this machine in reference to his own people. i think it’s to do with greed and power, but its pretty vague.
…it’s a hate machine, it’s a war machine, it is a machine of general dickishness.
Tended by a mechanic of prejudice, and greased by the oils of inequity.
the components of ill will are built by the factory-line of best intentions?
I think it’s analogous to the perceived patriarchy in America. The women are held to impossible standards, but it’s not the men that do it. It might have been at one point, but now men and women (primarily in advertising) share the blame. No majority exists which desires the oppression, but the oppression continues unabated.
Here it seems to be aided by several fringe groups and individuals, and given that we’re operating in a fantasy universe, there is likely a Much Larger Handâ„¢ pulling the strings, but from the point of view of someone like Uris- Uh, Gravedust, that Hand is imperceivable, without a fair amount of hunting and study.
well, is fearing change the same as wanting an ongoing oppression?
i dunno. i think the American people have a much greater control over their government than the Gastonians…i mean, i don’t think i’ve heard mention made of elected rulers or even opposing parties. we’ve got the poor, hardworking proletariat who have their hands full just scraping by, and some kind of unelected ruling class. the real question is- would going into any detail into the politics of the guilded age make the comic awful?
Been listening to a little Pink Floyd lately?
All in all, he’s just another brick in the wall.
No matter how I parse or say it (I even tried holding my tongue and then saying it), I still can’t “get” the reference to Asallah En-Qu’Lara. Anyone else wanna take a shot at it?
I think it’s the Sky Elf city/nation/whatever that the ladies visited earlier.
It’s more we can’t get the embedded pun hidden within the name, coiled like a viper to strike and poison our minds at a moment of agonizing revelation.
reminds me a bit of what they sing in ‘barefoot in the park’, but on the other hand, that tends to be where my brain files unidentified non-english phrases of about that length
I’m incredibly late for this, but just saying that in Portuguese it sounds very much like “the white room” (literally, the room in white), although a bit typo-ish. Pardon me if it is explained somewhere later but that’s where I am atm lol
Fabulous as always.
Though I will admit I am saddened by not being able to see his visual takes on Byron and Syringe.
If I were using Facebook, which I am not, I would create a fan group based on this chapter’s title. Just saying.
that’s the cutest city I’ve ever seen.
Well, technically all you can see is a Big Wall. A cute Big Wall.
But the gate towers are doing Munch’s “The Scream”!
The city wall looks like a li’l fella goin’ “OH HOLY CRAP, ADVENTURERS!”
Damn it- now I can’t see anything BUT that.
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Woah! I guess I’d like to thank the Academy then. :D
Is the alt-text referencing a Freakazoid bit, or is it referencing what that bit was referencing?
…I can never be sure of these things.
It’s from Paul Harvey’s long-running radio spot “The Rest of the Story”.
Oh Gravedust, you cog you…
Remember, with the failure of a cog, a machine can be brought to a halt. That’s why sedition, when done right, works so well!
He is being very cog-nitive in his log. Maybe he just needed to sink his teeth into the business, to get the wheels turning. Soon, though, he’s be running around and around and around…
Aaaaand now we’re caught up to the flash forward bits we’ve seen before?
Also, I <3 the alt text. Even if I haven't listened to a Paul Harvey show since the last time I was visiting my grandmother many years ago.
I, too, vote to see Gravedust's artistic stylings on Byron and Syr!
And yes, the wall does look like it's going "Oh noes!"
Did we get the cell filled with water?
You have to wait for them NOT to put the lotion on the skin, THEN they gets the hose.
Good call. The water-filled room might be a flash-forward, but what’s the tie? Would our intrepid writers and artist duplicate storyline directly? Will the Boy Wonder be cut-up for cat cubes? Stay tuned, same Guild-time, same Guild-station.
Only now does Gravedust realize that people are jerks.
The only people he hasn’t mentioned so far are his own. I have a feeling the Sevasi had, at one point, gotten beyond the politics due to their troubled past.
It will be a sad day when he sees bureaucracy worming it’s way into his own people, I wager.
Called it.
I feel more and more the essence of what makes Gravedust a literal hermit…or is this just an urge to kick his ass for taking too long to notice the world is even more rigged than American Pro Wrestling
Just Great.
Gravedust’s Wisdom score is Godlike.
I really love how the party’s probably got no Charisma pillar outside Byron, while Syr’Nj is the one who’s maxed ranks in Cha-governed skills.
(Bandit would take too many circumstance penalties to those checks even if she had talent.)
My policy is that whenever I get the [i]slightest[/i] inkling that I’m being manipulated as a pawn, I kill all my superiors.
We’ve been worried sick about you.
Don’t ever change, TIT.
Actually, i’ve always thought that would be a good way to start a war– requiring that the soldiers kill their leaders before they face the enemy. Eventually both sides will run out of leaders interested in continuing.
Gravedust needn’t worry. I don’t think he’s become a cog…
… He’s clearly more of a piston, helping drive the engine along. :P
Anyhow, I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I sure am geared up to see where this plot goes.
Welcome to the Machine, Gravedust.
(…and knowing is half the battle)
Channeling a little Paul Harvey when you posted this page?