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!
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!
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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.
Godslave
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Edith has been thrown into the dangerous world of modern-day Egyptian mythology. Fighting monsters and dealing with family drama of godly proportions.
Nerf Now!!
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A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Phantomarine
Claire K. Niebergall
A ghostly princess must sail across a haunted sea to save her soul from a devious, shapeshifting death god known as the Red Tide King.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.)
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tiger, Tiger
Petra Nordlund
A young noble lady steals her brother's identity and his ship to find love and adventure, and to write a book about the fascinating life cycle of sea sponges!
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...
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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 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.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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.
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...
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Bybloemen
C.B. McPherson
An infernal plan to corrupt the small town of Stenen Brug at the height of tulipmania is complicated by a pact made between a talented young merchant and a demon looking to change careers.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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".
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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!
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
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
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!
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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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Oh god, name overload.
Now I have to go back and retroactively tag them all…ARCHIVE BINGE!
Brooding Ardaic is brooding.
… a couple of these guys are way too happy.
Pardo: I GOTS ME SUM NEW LUMBEEEEERRRR!
Reynolds: Oh thank Cog, a friendly elf. Finally lunch at the Council cafeteria won’t be so soul-shattering.
Not sure you are counting Iwatani, but just in case.
Iwatani: That’s it girl, play right into my hands.
Honestly, I get the idea that Iwatani legitimately likes her.
Doesn’t mean he won’t stab her in the back the second he believes that is the course of action to gain him the most benefit.
(Hopes this post is not remembered if proven horribly wrong)
But he’d fell slightly slightlyyyy bad about it after. Probably skip dessert next meal cause he’s just not feeling it.
Pardo’s sitting there with some lumber, alright. This council was a sausage party until Syr’nj showed up.
Archmage Caneghem (eyebrow #1): Is that country girl still this naive!?
Archmage Caneghem (eyebrow #2): Nooo she isn’t. So what’s her game?
Well, lumber has been trying to get at the elven forests for generations, so, life long dream about to be achieved…? And Agro has been beaten to $#it by the invading army, so new troops are good. The four military guys are aware that the only unit that hasn’t yet failed (nevermind repeatedly and completely botched their missions – army, field marshal), is led by this little…non-human…lady…which would irk any bigoted misogynist, even without her being rubbed in their faces by giving her a council seat.
We’re looking at YOU Jarvis
Miyamoto is municipal services?
So…lawyers, taxes, labor unions and such?
Also, upset council members, you are on the bottom because you are so upset. Deal with it.
I think the Municipal Services thing is a reference to plumbing.
I think Miyamoto’s the only one of them that’s upset. Annunziata looks like a pretty standard soldier, Jarvis looks bored, and Ardaic looks to be lost in thought.
Actually Annunziata probably IS upset seeing as midway through Syr’s little speech, someone (Persson?) implied he hasn’t been doing anything for the war effort.
First – yay Magical Diary! You may be right, Jarvis may be tired of all the speechifying…
Hooray, somebody recognized my gravatar! (I really, really like that game…though I haven’t played it in a while…trying to mostly forget most of it before giving it another go, and try to romance Donald. >_>)
Donald is such a conflicted cutey. I always liked Ellen’s romance storyline, myself…Hope they get the next in the series knocked out in the next two years…
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Argh…HTML fail ate my post…
I <3 Ellen. She’s my default romance, and I always go for her if I’m primarily pursuing a non-romance goal. (Donald’s the only proper romance path I haven’t done, yet – although haven’t been able to get the Big Steve partial romance, yet, and dodged the Grabby wedding. Though I did get a kiss from Pastel!)
And, yeah, I can’t wait for Wolf Hall to finally see the light of day. I’d also like to see an expansion for Horse Hall to allow you to romance all the characters.
And I think people may be looking at us funny. >_>
You might also add Municipal Police Forces. In other words, Syr’Nj’s situation isn’t FUBAR, but with bastards as Miyamoto, Iwatani, Bedard and possibly admiral Annunziata and – I sure as hell hope not – grand marshall Jarvis, I think it’s already SNAFU.
Previous message to Tsapki.
I think that SNAFU is probably a safe assumption…
Yup.
Guildmaster Persson! Of the Mining guild! It’s perfect! Oh Minecraft, you have devoured so many hours of my life.
I’m wondering why all of the heads of houses are now being referred to as His Grace, rather than Don.
Planning to add a House Slick, maybe?
Pardo, Iwatani, and Miyamoto are all dukes. Presson is a guildmaster (obviously). Annunziata, Javis, and Ardaic all have military titles, Reynolds is the dean of the gnomish academy (forgot name), and Bedard has no formal title (thus mister).
I’m not questioning why they have a different title than the others present, I’m questioning why they have a different title than they had before.
Their Graces Pardo, Iwatani, and Miyamoto were previously referred to as Don Pardo, Don Iwatani, and Don Miyamoto. Now they’re being consistently referred to as His Grace, or simply Grace. (Don Pardo, Don Iwatani, and Don Miyamoto are all names of real people, thus my comment about Don being replaced with Grace being a prelude to bringing in House Slick.)
Any one else misread Pardo as Lardo on the first pass?
No? Just me?
OK.
Also, I think he likes her outfit. All wood products…
Quite sorry, cannot find where they are referred to as such. Who called them that? In an informal setting, I can see Don being appropriate.
Yeah, this one’s a new one on me as well.
The only Don we have is Gobligno. Sorry if you’re confused.
I must have walked in from an alternate universe or something…
Ahh yes… there’s few things more satisfying than artfully calling out the screw-ups, and blockheads in a meeting.
Iwatani looks waaay too amused…
(Bets on who goes into a frothing rant and storms out of the meeting first…?)
All my bits, all my internets on Miyamoto.
I think Miyamoto need to drink a little less coffee.
C’mon, fellas … are you going to sit around and take that from an elf? A FEMALE elf?
Ray, a drop of golden sun?
Me, a name I call myself.
Great composition on this page. In a text format this would fill anywhere from 2-3 pages. Syr’nj and her scribe entering the concil hall. Noting all the councillors present and their demeanors.
Syr’nj walks to the speakers well and does what she does best. Try to bring conflicting factions together for the greater good.
Now there’s a leader worth following!
Yes, that’s what strike me most about this page : Syr’nj looks like the strong monarch addressing its – admittedly powerful – council. Wonder how many of the councilors are picking up on that vibe given their prejudices … and how many are already planning their own pseudo-regicide as soon as they can get away with it.
Merriam-Webster:
I think they meant the modern slang meaning, but it’s interesting to think that maybe they didn’t.
Teach me how to bougie, teach teach me how to bougie.
Actually… don’t.
The burly gentlemen with the rubber gloves will be ringing your door shortly.
I’m a burly gentleman with rubber gloves.
… This is gonna get hairy.
Literally and figuratively.
*snerk!*
Also, right before I lettered this page I was watching Lincoln.
Felt good, man.
RHETORIC! 1-Luv.
Be honest. Guildmaster Persson. You couldn’t think of a name, could you?
Not that I’m complaining. Got a laugh out of it.
All of our names are deliberate, I’ve gotta say.
Answer me this: Is Iwatani a distortion of Iwata, as in the CEO of Nintendo? Pardo is from Blizzard, and Miyamoto and Persson are pretty self-explanatory. Care to rattle off where the rest come from, or do I have to use my Google-fu?
Ed Annunziata – Ecco the Dolphin (hence, navy)
Jon Van Caneghem – Might and Magic (hence, magick)
Brian Reynolds – Zynga/IGDA
Renaud Bedard – Capybara Games/Fez (hence, press; look at all of it surrounding Fez)
Rob Pardo – World of Warcraft (a clear influence on the series)
Markus Persson – Minecraft (hence mining)
Shigeru Miyamoto – Mario (hence municipal services)
Eugene Jarvis – Defender (Arcade title) (hence defense)
Toru Iwatani – Pac-Man (how does agriculture fit here?)
The only one I can’t figure out is Ardaic, but everyone else is pretty clearly drawing from video game developers.
Man, for politicians, these guys have AWFUL poker faces.
Iwatani’s smuggeriffic face makes me want to giggle, though.
I LOVE Dean Reynolds expression! It’s excited without being to creepy.
I, too, have an August body.
Maybe more a November. After thanksgiving dinner.
Hah!
Jarvis, eh? New boy on the block (never been tagged before anyway). What do we know about him? *rubs chin pensively like Ardaic*
OH AND ALSO are they implying that Harky got away? Graiya didn’t get his ugly ass? INTERESTING
AHH WHAT THE HELL DIFFERENT FORMAT CHANGE SCARY.
NO! NOT THE GRAVATAR! ANYTHING BUT THAT! COME BACK TO ME
Oh, there we are. Ooh, an Avian!
I don’t think I really like the new format either. It doesn’t really have that seamless, single-document look that the previous version did, and while the comments always were a bit to the left of the comic image, this makes it stand out more as disjointed looking. (Might be an effect of NoScript, though.)
I think it’s actually that shape, although I also use various things to mess around with page layouts. (I’m not doing noscript though)
Oh, I should also say that I’m digging the new banner, it’s so awesome – however, I tend to run adblocker (as I hate animations in my webpages) – and it does horrible things to the new layout.
Well, don’t run adblocker, I guess.
I, for one, refuse to take responsibility if the site doesn’t look right if you’re blocking the ads (y’know, the things we make money with so we can make comics so you can read them for free?).
Nothing personal.
In all seriousness: I’m not going to entertain complaints about site malfunctions if you’re viewing it through a modded browser. We will only ever make the site to work in a fashion that is compatible with the majority of the viewing audience… which is to say, using the browser in its vanilla form.
It’s like walking into a bar with sunglasses on and complaining that you can’t see well.
Oh no, I’m not complaining, just letting you know about it. (Like, everyone I know uses adblock, so it might be affecting a lot of your userbase.)
Probably way, way too late to be seen or read, but I do like the site design that came up after the one we were talking about here.
Also, thank you for using an ad provider that doesn’t require Javascript to see. I often feel guilty about NoScript’s incidental ad-blocking for harming the sites I care about, but unethical ad companies are frequently the exact sort of adversary that I put NoScript on my system to shut down in the first place. It’s good not to have to risk my security to support the people I like.
AAAAH CHANGE! CHANGE BAD, CHANGE FRIGHTENS ME!! D=
Just kidding =P It’ll take some getting used to but it looks pretty nice. Not as… argh, why isn’t there a good word for “stilren” in English? Simple? Clean? But I kind of like it anyway.
However the flag on the title banner on top looks weird, in fact the entire banner does. Like screen tearing or something.
Never mind, reloading the page fixed the banner issue!
Sooo … let’s how it sounds :
Caneghem : Dutch or Belgian-flemish
Iwatani and Miyamoto : obviously, Japanese
Pardo : A lumberjack … hmm … Canadian.
Annunziata : Italian. From Sicily or Calabria. Other than that, destination unknown.
Bedard : French. Or French speaking Swiss.
Persson : Norwegian.
Reynolds : British (English)
Jarvis : American, from British (English) descent.
Ardaic : American too, but from (northern) German and (or) Danish descent.
Were those the inspirations for the characters’ names, Phil ?
“let’s how it sounds” : Let’s hear how it sounds.
I am Belgian and archmage Caneghem is one of my absolute favorite characters.
YOU my friend, have just made my day.
HUZZAH FOR THE BELGIAN ELF WIZARDS!!!!
I was just looking over the names and after a few moments of checking, when the names were said to be having some meaning, I found the following, because some of the names were familiar like Miyamoto and Persson:
Each is somehow famous in a ‘nerd’ field, most in programming or gaming of some sort. Bedard is a stretch, and I couldn’t find anything for Ardaic (though once I couldn’t, part of me thought about HARDAC, the computer from Batman)
Iwatani: Pacman
Perrson: Minecraft
Caneghem: Might and Magic
Annunziata: Ecco the Dolphin
Pardo: WoW
Jarvis: Defender/Robotron
Reynolds: Various Civ type games
Miyamoto: Nintendo (Municipal Services, Mario is a plumber for example)
Bedard: Comic Book Writer
Ardaic: ?
Everyone give this reader a round of applause for solving such a riddle.
The reason you can’t find anything for Ardaic is because he’s not a Head of House, so he’s not named after a “Nerd Figure of Note.”
He’s simply named after one of the better friends, and rap battle partner, that I had during my time playing WoW.
It was what I had found and thought about adding it when I saw the WoW character, but figured I’d leave that one out. Good to know I was on the right path.
Ah… I had the following:
Iwatani: stereotyped mexican exclamation about pretty body parts (ai! what a knee!)
Perrson: what a cat calls a person they like
Caneghem: a polite cough informing a gentleman that he has accidentally forgotten to collect his cane from the umbrella stand,
Annunziata: famous engrish exclamation and running joke from an anime about finishing schools. (Annunciate!)
Pardo: Cheape knock-off fake of a popular dice game
Jarvis: Common name for Cocker Spaniels
Reynolds: A dimensionless number that estimates of the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces and therefore indicates the relative importance of these two forces for some systems of flow.
Miyamoto: What the Italian gentleman who owns the UK motorway services firm “moto” calls his company.
Bedard: Brother of famous Eastenders acting dog.
Ardaic: A particularly strong form of steady pain.
Well, I feel like an idiot- the only one I had was Don Pardo, the announcer for most game shows through the 70’s (look up “Thank you, Don Pardo!”) and the original man who spoke the words, “Live, from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”
Guildmaster Persson! Of the Mining guild! It’s perfect! Oh Minecraft, you have devoured so many hours of my life.
LOLLLL
Hahah Guildmaster Persson! Where is his hat?