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!
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?
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.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 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...
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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!
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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.
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.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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.
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.
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!
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 (80) ¬
It’s hard to believe that no one questioned the building they were being “herded” into.
Yeah, both Gravedust and the rest seem uncharacteristically naïve and careless in this chapter.
Doesn’t seem too far fetched. The main party had been at least partially recognized as a diplomatic delegation. The rights of messengers and diplomats to be safe from harm most likely exists in this world; forcing them into what looks like a gladiatorial pit for execution would be “poor form” to say the least.
And if this Harky is the same one responsible for the slaughter at Leafport, it’s well within this organization’s power to sever the connections between a mystic and the dead, and any omens and forewarnings he might receive from them. Gravedust had no reason to expect to be poisoned and betrayed within his own people’s camp, especially while under (admittedly, assumed) diplomatic protection.
I’m not saying it’s perfectly clear, but the rationale certainly exists for our heroes to be a bit off guard here.
The ol’ Divide and Suckerpunch. Works every time!
What divide? Aside from Gravedust going to the dwarves, they’re all together in that death trap.
So they win the bloodsports, get recognition as tough motherfuckers from the beasties, and succeed in their mission. Score.
As an added bonus, when they’re all done they can all call themselves Spartacus.
Bandit is a little quicker on the uptake than the rest.
Not enough quicker, mind you … but a little bit…
Run Bandit, run Bandit, run run run.
Here’s come’s old Harky with his fun fun fun.
Opposing oppressive, racist empire of humans… With brutal, slave-driving monster-races. It’s almost like this setting isn’t black and white anymore!
Or quite carefully and intentionally never was to begin wi…oh wait. I see what you did there.
Could this “Death Pit” be… some sort of pit… of death?
Actually, long, long ago, before the races of man learned the arts of painting themselves blue and hitting each other with sticks, a giant peach fell from the sky. When the survivors of the cataclysm arrived, they found this, the Peach Pit of Death, in the center of the crater.
Doesn’t really look like a pit, looks more like a stadium
Sorry, Bandit, you’ll have to exit throught the gift shop, just like everyone else.
“Oh, sorry, he has a speech defect. He meant ‘Deaf Pit’. This is where we care for all our hearing-impaired citizens. We’re big into charity.”
It looks like a giant chocolate fountain. DEATH BY CHOCOLATE!
If I were a guild adventurer, and were faced with death by chocolate, I think I’d lose my fighting spirit pretty damn quick. “Chocolate, you say? Oh well, if you gotta go, you gotta go…Nom nom *huuuuurk* *klunk*”
“Now, ROLL FOR INITIATIVE!”
I’d ask how the bird-man was supposed to get out, but I figure he’d fly. Unless they shot an arrow into him.
How do you feel about this situation, Mr. Ackbar?
That’s Admiral
to you sir (my hand slipped hence double post)
“They call me ADMIRAL FISHY!”
I believe the words you are looking for are: “It’s a Trap!”
And yes…that would be ADMIRAL to you.
I just love calamari.
I’m guessing Bandit saw them playing basketball with human skulls in the first panel.
I think she did — look at her expression in the second panel.
Ooh, nice detail. I didn’t see that either, but Bandit did. Good spot.
Byron has back
story.
Never ask why it’s called a “Death Pit” a “Void of Terror” a “Forest of Rending Agony” or a “Gorge of Painful Insertion”.
Sometimes it’s better not to know these things.
also, never stand next to a sign that reads ROODPART or a box that reads SEL CAT NET
SEL CAT NET? What? It’s three AM and I’m too tired to get it. I’d have to be dead not to get the first one, though.
Tentacles.
Rule no. 8 – Never put Player Characters in a ‘death pit, arena, great hunt, or bloodsport’. They will just level up and hurt you more later.
A lot more.
aw man, why bother giving a tour in the first place if you’re just gonna kill them?
What better than a tour to keep the guest stars occupied while the whole camp has to get seated for the big event?
I wonder if time or teleportation will have permitted these savages to bring a drugged Gravedust to the party? A guy can still hope, right?
And if it wasn’t for flevine’s recent link to an earlier page, I would never have recognized “Harki”.
The tour means they’ll appreciate the irony of their deaths more. Right?
Or that was the most slick bit of villain monologuing ever :P
the monologue certainly kept most of them too busy to realize where they were going.
Looks like betrayal is the hot gift item this Christmas.
of blood anguish? or perhaps now…
The First Rule of Ring of Blood is You Don’t Talk About Ring of Blood
blood *and anguish
They don’t call ’em Savage Races for nothin’. Never trust a talkin’ owl, I says. The last talkin’ owl I ever met ate my Tootsie Roll Pop.
The world may never know, indeed.
Gold Star.
Gondoleeza’s givin’ hella stink-eye in the third panel. Not unlike her (possible) real-world equivalent:
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSHZ_LwSclK49QXpu6dYPbUBp0H-ViILk7QfEZyu0UREK10–JS
Gold Star, also.
reminds me of this:
http://scienceapalooza.wikispaces.com/file/view/beeker.jpg/37046495/beeker.jpg
Hmm, just occurred to me that Harky is just an S away from being Sharky, which if I’m not mistaken was what the orcs called Samuran when he tried to take over the Shire near the end of the Lord of the Rings books.
Homage or coincidence? I’m looking forward to finding out.
”Sharky” is also the shark-dog from Eek the Cat.
Just saying, you’re not exactly on stable ground here.
Not to be confused with the PIT OF DESPAAAAAAAAIIIIIR
Oh my fucking god! This is exactly like the one time i played warhammer pen & paper with my homies. We enter this big church of ulric, ready to kick some major ass. Then we found the boss and his gang, beat em up pretty good and just the moment we thought we did it, a fucking lesser demonprince of khorne pops out of the chest of the headcultist. This was the moment our ratcatcher turns round and run for the hills.^^
See, this is why rogues are just better than other people. Not enough people understand this.
However, the Big D*mned Door still stopped her cold.
Joining the team was her downfall, as her Mentor long warned her could happen.
Lol. This is true. Didn’t say they were perfect, just better than their peers;)
Bandit had a bit of a Road Runner moment there, eh?
And those land sharks playing skull-ball are so cute.
I’m such a dope, Just realized something:
Big Boss “HARKI”
http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-5/chapter-5-page-4/
Thank you, you weren’t the only dope. :P
Ah, the classic villain mistake: forgetting that every PC in the multiverse has Rorschach’s maxim* inscribed on his, her, or its heart.
Well. somebody’s heart.
*”None of you understand. I’m not trapped in here with you: you’re all trapped in here with me.”
I wasn’t bothered enough by Dusty’s possibly-too-scared expression to join in the debate on Wednesday, but Frigg DEFINITELY looks too scared in panel 3 here. >_>
Looks a bit more like shocked surprise to me.
Though yeah, I’m thinking we’re not quite on sync between the art and the personalities yet.
Oh, and in panel two, everyone’s looking perfect, except Bandit. She’s looking a bit like she got misplaced from a Doonesbury strip.
Love the new art, but there’s moments….
Yeah, I think New Art Guy is generally doing very well and I don’t want to be an ass, but dude, read the archive and look at everyone’s expressions. <_<
I have. And I did. And I can only be me.
You need to draw yourself a nice avatar for these discussions
Absolutely love the Bandit expressions. I now have Bandit pegged as the comedy relief, which is a great thing. After all, bandits are always comedy relief.
She looks fine! :) She was probably midway through arguing with Byron, and caught with her mouth open, when the shock hit. A little gaping is good for the jaw.
I think the new artist is doing a stand up job, you have to accept a little variation if someone steps in at such short notice for three pages a week – there’s a lot less experience with these characters, and I’m sure the art will blossom with time (not to say it’s bad now, saying that things always improve).
The only thing I find a little jarring is the realistic textures that are coming through a little too strong. The stone wall in the last panel, and the intricate carpets in GraveDust’s betrayal comic just stand out a bit too much as stock images.
Thank you, GBeans. You’re very understanding of the situation. It will take time for all of us to get use to the change.
I admit the realistic textures can be a bit jarring, but I wanted to put in a little more detail in some areas I thought needed it, but lacked the time to do it “by hand”. I reasoned Iver is the drawf leader, he’s going to have the best stuff in his tent. It had to look exstravagant, so I used real rug patterns(although, they may have been too intricate).
Blah, blah. Yes, the New Guy’s art is a little different. Great prismacolor’s ghost, people! It’s nowhere near anything like the Great Art Frellsplosion of “American Flagg” between 1-12 and #13, when they went from Howard Chaykin’s very realistic* style to some staff twit’s cartoony style. WE CAN TELL WHO THE CHARACTERS ARE. DEAL WITH IT.
*For a given value of “realistic”.
Who’s the one on the right in panel 2? Is it Baron Splande?
It might be napoleon solo… Wait, wait, wrong fandom.
Super thiefly spider sense + stubby little gnome legs + fast closing gate = tragic fail.
…I choose to believe Bandit would have come back for them. Eventually.