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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
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.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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!
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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...
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!
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!
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.
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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damn and DAMN!
I must admit this is a duo for me… I love the comic and the postings. I don’t normally comment but after someone else mentioned it I realized I spend half a day reading all the posts and scrolling back up to the comic… can’t say I’ve done that on any other comic. Thanks all
I do exactly the same thing. Altho’ I did propose to someone one here once. :P
I hope it worked out for you man.
And did you use a pun with it? See, around here, we believe puns are appropriate for all situations. That’s totally true about life, too.
Lol, no. I had just started reading the comic so I didn’t realize how vital puns were. Methinks they are more important than a good push-up bra around here!
In.
Inappropriate.
Those two letters are all-important.
I do the same– I’ve been thinking about posting myself and haven’t really. Looks like you’re a catalyst today. : D
………I just pissed my fiancee off with my giddiness about Byron FINALLY going berserk rage on a bitch….I love you guys, I get an angry conjugal visit tonight =D
Just note, that while foaming at the mouth works for Byron in this situation, it will NOT work for you in your situation. Trust me. They just think you have rabies.
(And then she’ll probably call the cops. And then you get to spend the night in a cell with a guy named “Cliff Bob”. Oh, and Cliff, I don’t know if you’re reading this, but I do NOT want to rob that bank with you, no idea how you got my number, but please, PLEASE stop calling it.)
Absolutely brilliant. Stabbing him with a spear protruding from his own chest. This is the kind of Character moment I play D&D to Experience! Movies and books rarely have the individual focus on a character to evolve in truly interesting and revelatory ways. I’m so glad that Byron is truly a Berserker in the scariest sense. I hope there is a suitably dark and terrifying explanation to come.
Love your work. You guys rock.
Sincerely,
Wulf
That’s not ordinary berserkness. Harki is right, Byron is possessed! He’s the earthly host of a savage war god.
That’s how he can survive being shiskabobbed.
I believe the cultist was just trying to trigger his frenzy, nothing more.
This response we see here is just a mere example of what actually a true berserker is capable of. Quite close to Scandinavian berserkergangr description.
Not referring to the cultist. What he’s possessed by would scare the cultists into getting day jobs.
Finally!
I dont like the Tazmanian-Devil moment on the fourth panel… kinda breaks the feeling of the moment for me. But other than that, yay, awesome to see that the berserker berserking
I also felt that it made for sort of a weird juxtaposition. I honestly don’t know how you’re supposed to portray the whirlwind attack cliche without it coming across as more cartoony than threatening.
Yeah, very challenging, visually. Perhaps a line of freeze-frames (i.e., snapshots in various states of the turn) and some motion blur?
Kinda with you guys on that one.
Also … maybe back off the giant anime mouth expressions a wee bit? I’m seeing Robotech creep. :)
I know it’s tempting to make the anime reference considering the artist, but large, wide open mouths is a go-to move in animation and comics of virtually all stripes. It’s just a bit different seeing it in Guilded Age given that Erica was a bigger fan of the clenched jaw than the wide open mouth.
BTW–that’s just a random idea. Something like that is technically and conceptually difficult, plus the art as a whole has to be done with a quick turnaround on a regular basis. One of my friends was a comic strip/book artist. He ran into a classmate years after graduating who’d been highly dismissive of his work because it wasn’t “real art.” She actually apologized to him because she’d been asked to work on some kind of indie comic or graphic novel, and discovered just how hard it was.
I get the feeling it’s more of a cursed/spell placed upon him by the cult of the lidless eye (did I get that right?).
Like many said, it seems to be more of a command! Didn’t that seer trigger it a way back?
Or maybe his axes talk back.
You know, that would be great. In the end, we find out it’s his darling axes that have been instructing him to kill all along.
Oh shit, he’s using Deathless Frenzy. Heal him up quick before he dies.
HO-LEE-SHIT. I really didnt think I would be able to love this comic any more than I already do. Me = PROVEN THE FUCK WRONG.
I guess he really WAS named Byron the Berserker for a reason.
At first I wasn’t sure the art was right in this page. But I think it’s just that I’m not used to seeing Harki look so concerned and Byron looking so mindless.
I am disappointed. The page should be heroic. Not comical. I was about to withdraw my previous concerns about John and his art, since he usually got things right and beautiful, dynamic, and was about to apologize… but this page does it. Hells! Why that hurricane thing? Rage, possession, or what… why would a warrior turn it’s back on his foe? And so many times… Why would this warrior avert his eyes, while the thing of his hatred is in front of him? When I took a glimpse of the first three panels, I released a gasp. It was cool. Awesome. Then I chuckled… Seriously. You’ve done a great job this far, and only a few things were out of the picture… the fourth picture, and the last being some of them… shit.
I don’t really think your opinion is all that important to the artist, you seem to be the only one with a problem.
“You seem to be the only one with a problem” …
Someone didn’t look down the page.
Hint : No. Other people identified the same problem. It is a shared problem.
You are wrong, and it is made all the worse because you resorted immediately to a clichéd answer without bothering to confirm for yourself that it is blatantly wrong.
FURTHERMORE… the degree to which a problem is shared or not is not legitimate justification for dismissal in any case.
The red rage grips the heart, the blood sings of fire and darkness, a howling echo of savage primal night, SPIN ATTACK!
Oh hells yeah.
Where Harki caught the spear-breaking axe in the third panel, I figured the spinning in the fourth panel was Harki throwing Byron off-balance, so as to effect his escape to that rope. Anyone else see it that way?
Like your explanation Mirefrost00. I just can’t quiet figure out what it is that Harki is holding in that panel in his left hand. I can only describe it as apparently a wooden object made in a double claw form, but seeing that wasn’t there before… what is it?
I also believe Harki’s hand goes the wrong way from panel 2 to three. In panel two his palm faces outward and thumb towards Byron, now if you twist it that way you have to spin the axe around… Which seems odd.
Having said all that, I could not do any better. Just hope it helps to improve an already great comic!
I think the item you’re talking about is just his loincloth thing flapping up as he’s falling.
To misquote an old comedy film:
NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL A REAL BERSERK
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BLADESTORM!
“Hell yeah, it’s about time!” – Alá Tychus Finlay from Starcraft 2.
About damn fuckin’ time! Now you ROCK, By!:D
Hang on, what? The orc just got stabbed straight through his heart – probably in the right ventricle, or in between the ventricles. He shouldn’t even be standing, let alone running around.
Troll… meet Berserker :-)
This whole scene, supposedly a severe and dramatic revelation… is just coming across as downright silly because Byron is spinning like Taz and the troll seems to have a semi-perpetual derp-face.
Hell has broken loose and then some