His Grace Iwatani – Guilded Age http://guildedage.net The Saga of the Working Class Adventurer - New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:09:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.29 62169866 Annotated 45-9 http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-9/ http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-9/#comments Wed, 18 May 2022 03:30:57 +0000 http://guildedage.net/?post_type=comic&p=17357

FB: LAW AND ORDER: GASTONIA seemed like a sure thing, but Ardaic kept solving the crimes before the first commercial break.  Taro does understands that it’s important to mix some truth in with the lies. He really did want that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...]]> http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-9/feed/ 11 17357 Annotated 45-4 http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-4/ http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-4/#comments Thu, 12 May 2022 07:44:29 +0000 http://guildedage.net/?post_type=comic&p=17336

Taro’s a psychopath. So he doesn’t interact normally. But pure indifference to others isn’t that much fun to read about. What sets the Joker off from a typical killing machine is that he has some recognizably human traits: quasi-romantic obsession […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...]]> http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-4/feed/ 12 17336 Annotated 45-3 http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-3/ http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-3/#comments Thu, 12 May 2022 03:10:21 +0000 http://guildedage.net/?post_type=comic&p=17334

FB: “Oh, I’m sorry, Father, I guess you said bring in the BOYSENBERRY juice for breakfast. Honest mistake.” Spoilers for a twenty-year-old set of novels: these moments owe a debt to a striking passage at the end of S.M. Stirling’s Nantucket […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...]]> http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-3/feed/ 9 17334 Annotated 45-2 http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-2/ http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-2/#comments Wed, 11 May 2022 03:05:11 +0000 http://guildedage.net/?post_type=comic&p=17332

Misa may not be Taro’s mental peer, but she’s at least sharper than Iwatani Sr. about the most pressing issue. We mentioned “appetite” when we introduced the Iwatanis, which is a bit of a nod to their name’s inspiration, the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...]]> http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-2/feed/ 3 17332 Annotated 45-1 http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-1/ http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-1/#comments Mon, 09 May 2022 08:55:18 +0000 http://guildedage.net/?post_type=comic&p=17303

FB (written on Halloween): “Trick or treat! The trick is when we threaten even more of your civil liberties, and the treat is when we don’t! Or is that the other way around? Do you like our costumes? [cracks knuckles] […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...]]> http://guildedage.net/comic/annotated-45-1/feed/ 7 17303