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!
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.
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.
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...
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.
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?
Monster's Garden
Ash G.
Champion pit fighter Kilo Monster was content to spend the rest of his days tending to his quiet garden alone... until he met a curious robot girl and her human family.
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
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
Peritale
Mari Costa
A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.
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.
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?
Three Panel Soul
Matt Boyd, Ian McConville
It's a pretty rigid format but we keep the content loose, you know?
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.
Angel's Orchard
Harry Bogosian
After the events in Demon's Mirror, Gerda has accepted her role as a Demon Hunter, and Cezar has traveled back to the Demon City. Demons have existed alongside humans for millennia, so things begin to return to normal. But an impossibly powerful Relic has been taken by one of the Demon Masters, and a silent war enters its final stages.
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.
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.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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.
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.
The Messenger
indui
In a ruin-abound town cursed with bad luck, Kai and Kalla--a young boy and a fledgling dragonbird spirit--take on a quest in hopes the reward will solve all of their problems.
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.
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.
Heroes of Thantopolis
Izzy Strontium Hall
A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.
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!
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.
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 (74) ¬
predictions!
splande gets shot with an arrow possesed by the righteously vengeful spirit of his dead father and is found hours later sans wallet.
frig makes one too many short jokes and om-gnome-gnome puns, is forced to kill the entire gnomish academy when they finally snap and attack her.
byron and syrnge have a very akward first date, ends with byron oblivious to syrnge’s feelings for him. (yes, i have given up placing that apostrophe)
taking all bets.
I’ll see that bet and raise you the following:
Splande is, after much suspense and a couple crazy plans, dealt with peacefully, but only after much bickering between Gravedust and Bandit, after which the Bandit earns Dust’s trust. (Whoops, rhyme.)
Syr’nj (Damn that hard to spell punny name) and Byron end up helping Frig dress up nicely and prepare for the meeting. She ends successfully learning to act all fancy, only for, in the end, for it to be revealed that the gnomes like her brutish, uncouth behaviour more. Oh, and, of course, while she’s at the meeting, Syr’nj and Byron go on that awkward first date. But Byron’s not oblivious, it’s just that neither of them know how to express themselves romantically.
I counter that with the Splande quest ending up with a chase scene during a bit of theatre that ends with massive explosions and overall destruction *but* it will be enjoyed by the nobles there and they’ll get praises from the nobility as in accordance with the theory of narrative causality.
Frigg talks to the smartypants shorties and helps them bring out the real purpose of science. Making things blow up. Frigg then gets a mechanoexplodoclub that causes explosions whenever she hits things.
Learning the interests of the common Gastonian gets our two leader types totally crunk because one of the interests of the common Gastonian is drinking. Then Byron starts beating the shit out of Gastonians because, y’know, the common Gastonian is kind of a dick to wood elves.
Ideally all three storylines will converge in the finale of the Splande quest.
the splande quest will probably end in an assassination in the theater, and they have the hunting knife and ranged weapon analogs
I totally figured out the joke, and I think Splande is going to get the best of the team, at least initially.
What kind of name is “Splande”, anyways? :P
You know, it’s going to take place at a theatre house, right? There’s always the chance that Gravedust and Bandit will end up on stage and will have to improvise to go along with the show.
aw man, I didn’t think of that, that’s hillarious.
I hope as much of this upcoming scene as possible takes inspiration from final fantasy six.
I like your Lincoln ref. ;)
Hmmm. Something tells me that our dear elf and the ‘zerker are going to have the hardest time of it, what with that innocuous set-up…
Whereas I predict Lord Moustache’s singling out of Byron and Syr’nj for praise will cause dissent within their band.
….He sends the bitchqueen with a mouth to do diplomacy with gnomes…. after she’s had a few nights of short jokes at Bandit’s expense…
Yeah… he hates gnomes…
And he basically just said ‘screw off and go sit on your arses’ to the two with any chance in hell of getting either job done correctly… he obviously wants them ALL to fail miserably so he can write them off/get them killed.
I eagerly await the total and complete refusal to obey orders exactly as given on the parts of all ^-^
looks like someone’s delibrately splitting the party and setting them up to get killed.
Nah, it’s just your standard Sidequest hour in the gaming session. Not every minute can be a dungeon crawl, got to have some R in your PG.
Methinks Byron smells a rat.
Yeah. Something is amiss. I smell setups.
Also, a barbarian with restraint? Byron, you’re the worst barbarian ever. (That was his character concept wasn’t it.)
I think the big twist will be that he isn’t really a full-fledged berserker. He probably became one to avenge the destruction of his hometown, or something. I think he’s more of a ‘fighter’ type than ‘berserker’.
If Byron doesn’t flip out into a barbarian rage at some point, I will.
this is what happens when a fighter multi-classes with a barbarian
Personally, I reckon “Brian the Berserker” is just a name he’s given himself to make it easier to sell his services.
“Brian the Cool, Calm and Collected Axeman” would be a more accurate name, but who would hire an adventurer called that?
Oh shit, Frig does not look happy.
“You lookin’ at my woman?”
I predict Frigg is going to chuck a Gnom
Oof, that’s quite a look Byron’s getting from Frigg. To his credit, he looks about as skeptical as she does. Syr’nj looks a little too happy with the praise, guess she’s not realizing this could be a a problem.
It’s not the praise she’s happy about, it’s getting a chance to get to know the interests of the common Gastonian, since it’s directly related to her personal goals.
Interests of the Common Gastonian (Homo Vulgaris)
-Throwing rocks at elves
-Cutting down trees
-Distrusting doctors
-Racial insults
-Ear clipping
-General bigotry
Well, the first choice was sound, Sir Facial Hair, but the second one? I hope the gnomes end up being a rowdy bunch, or else you just don’t care about this at all.
Also, of note, is Byron shooting Frig a sympathetic look, or is he checking Syr’nj out? ‘Cause his eyes are aimed straight at the elf’s chest.
Might be a good call. I can imagine the gnomes being mad scientists, with huge emphasis on the mad. Maybe they and Frigg will get along famously.
Or maybe she’ll break their tiny necks. Can’t wait to find out!
Not everyone is as obsessed with elf-boobies as GA’s commenters seem to be.
…He’s clearly keepin’ an eye on Frigg to make sure she doesn’t kick the door off its hinges on her way out to go to her Sensitivity Training.
Frankly, I think he’s watching to see if Frigg will actually open the envelope to read her orders, or if she’s going to ask Dusty once Sir Pen’cyldyck is out of the room.
Haters gon’ hate.
Hey, it’s a very old and honorable Welsh/Dutch name.
Much better than Sir Milord Pornstache, which happens to be a deadly insult in Shit Elvish.
I thought the big insult in Shit Elvish was “we’re a lot alike.”
Anyways, sorry, but Sir Nagsalot hasn’t seemed to endear himself to the reader base yet. I mean, some of us seem to like the ‘stache, but that’s about it. If he ends up doing something badass and redeeming himself for being such a whiny jerk, though, I’ll certainly have no complaints.
I think the idea is to give them difficult tasks rather than easy ones. – If they were going for easy, they’d have given the gnome quest to the gnome and the dwarf, who both show quite a lot of empathy for gnome people, rather than the mad crusader who calls them midgets.
The baron has some splandein’ to do
Baron Splande is the most awesome name that has appeared in this comic yet.
I thought of that pun, too, but had no idea on how well it could be implemented. And whether or not I personally like the name will depend on the Baron’s character. I personally hope he ends up being like the “Most Interesting Man in the World”, off of those alcohol commercials.
I’m detecting Friggish resentment.
We totally made the “dressing sharply” pun already.
Buut… to be fair, we made every pun possible about axe shoulders.
I’d head back to check, but I haft to say I don’t think I could handle that kind of cutting wit.
Eh, I guess taste of humor has this readership split in two. Maybe puns are a bit too edgy for you?
Cut it out guys. I’m pretty sure somebody has already sliced these puns before you.
this is my grandfather’s pun. my father replaced the lead-up, and i replaced punchline, this is my grandfather’s pun.
too obscure?
There’s no such thing as a Discworld quote that is too obscure.
Not Discworld. The axe joke is from “Hercules my Shipmate” by Robert Graves.
I expect Gravedust and Bandit to succeed. They have the proper espionage skills for the task.
I see Frigg’s assignment being a problem, though. Unless, of course, gnomes LIKE getting beaten over the head.
I…await.
Though I can sympathize with Byron a bit, he has that look I used to get when *I* ruined the curve for the rest of the class *wink*
The berserker showed restraint?
Honestly, in this comic, that’s not only plausible, but more than likely… compared to some of our other adventurers…
Putting Frigg in a room full of potentially breakable/exploding objects? This man is off his coconut.
“Thank you, Milord Stache, for solving the Gnome Question so handily. Now, as for the Theatre Problem…”
Frigg’s a Crusader – a holy zealot.
Mixing Hard-Headed-Religion and Mad-Science?
sounds fun.
Byron and Syr’nj conveniently decide that the ideal way to gauge the average Gastonian will somehow take them directly into the paths of both of the other quests. The storyline climaxes at the opera house with all of them geared with some “samples” the gnomes brought to their meeting with Frigg.
Shoulder Axes – though probably just a shout out to how We The Commenters refer to Byron’s Pauldrons of Power – may actually come into play.
Awww shizzz, I seriously lol’d at the alt-text!
Here’s the truth, Syr’nj’s expression in the last panel makes me want to punch her in the face.
You are the average Gastonian!
Hey, no one punches like Gastonians.
No one spits or bites like Gastonians either XD
it was only a matter of time.
I instantly thought of this strip and proceeded to sing.
Prediction: Byron and Syr’nj’s mission ends in enough racism that we actually see Byron go berserk.
Also, the sum total of the after-mission report is “Gastonians are dicks.”
“Gastonians are an Honest People, who believe in expressing their Opinions and Feelings freely. This is based upon their Native Understanding of their Innate Superiority, and their Manifest Destiny to spread their Law, Culture and Rule across the Land.”
“Like I said. Gastonians are dicks.”
Does this mean we’ll see Bandit get all fancy and Gravedust look, um, less like he lives in a boxcar?
A boxcar would be FAR too much luxury for Dusty.
A splintered wooden bench in the park, then.
So the baron is a gnome who works in the theater distrct making special effects. He’s been stealing parts and kidnapping members of the academy to work on his special project, a giant mechanical suit powered by souls of the dead. Queue fight scene!
Oh, and Byron reveals touching personal history about his dead family and Syn reveals that she has trouble telling humans apart
Awww, Syr’s all giddy with contentment. :3
Irrelevant sitely nitpick — I just noticed that the title of the webpage (the thing that appears at the top of the window” says “Chapter 6 – Page 7.”
I wonder if there’s a phantom in that theater.
Oh, someone REALLY wants to have trouble sprout up multiple places at the same time!
I guess the admiral ships those two :))