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!
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.
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.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
Heroes of Thantopolis
Izzy Strontium Hall
A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Three Panel Soul
Matt Boyd, Ian McConville
It's a pretty rigid format but we keep the content loose, you know?
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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.
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
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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...
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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Listening to your words is like watching burger commercials.
The more I hear, the more ravenous I get.
I’ll take the double humansteak with elf greens on the kaiser troll, please.
Careful, if the elf is yellow it’s gone a bit off.
Cause you’re his cheeseburger
His yummy cheeseburger
He’ll wait for you-oo, yeah
He’ll wait for you-oo
Oh, you are his cheeseburger
His tasty cheeseburger
He’ll wait for you-oo
Oh he will wait for you
(from VeggieTales – His Cheeseburger)
Hammerhead can learn… interesting.
Yes, he can. But he seems to choose generally not to.
There’s a strange wisdom in there that serves well a creature such as himself, the ultimate predator with a mind that does very little for him. He’s not wrong, rather, a civilised world where races comingle would be wrong for him. This likely means that he will choose, in one way or another, not to enter that world but die following the laws of his world.
I figure that the winner between Penk & Harky’s “word battle” will let him eat the loser.
I’m more surprised he has a sense of humor.
All shark jokes end the same way: “And then I bit [fill in possessive pronoun here][fill in appendage here] off!”
Bitter? I ate her whole!
Damn, I was right about the frackin’ debate. :P
To be fair, I think most of the arguments about the things it does to the local water table were both clear and compelling and would have been convincing even if they weren’t coming from a starship captain
“In the meantime, I will make use of the ones you would defend as snacks. I don’t think it would interfere in your words for the strongest and loudest of your kind.”
The screams of your lesser kin are like butterfly whispers on the breeze.
It’s times like this I’m reminded that he’s not all brawn and bloodlust. I missed thee, dearest HAMMERHEAD.
“Actually, this is funny to me, and I’m Not Mad At All” -Hammerhead
That went better than expected.
For the moment, yeah.
I’m guessing not so much in the near future.
Yeah, I think he’s cooled off long enough to do the math. Him versus nine champions is not a fight even he could win. But if Penk loses to Harky, Hammerhead will probably only have to worry about five champions. And he will have the support of Harky, his army, and possibly even the support of the remaining World’s Rebellion champions.
He’s definitely not the typical low INT/WIS (Dumpstat anyone?) meat shield, even if he looks like the quintessential example. It would be interesting if he took power over the World’s Rebellion.
Or he could just eat everyone. That works too. :D
Hmmm. I’ve been struggling to grasp Hammerhead’s philosophical perspective. This page may have given me the necessary insight.
I was confused how Hammerhead was willing and able to regard the other “savage races” as not-prey, while refusing to budge in his designation of Gastonians et al as prey.
I’d have assumed that he was motivated by respect for strength. Harky is stronger than Hammerhead himself, so he respects Harky and those who follow him. Yet, if that were all there is to it, I expect the Peacemakers could earn his respect no less – they are quite mighty too, particularly Frigg.
Here, though, I may have my answer. Hammerhead tacitly acknowledges that none of the savage races, Harky’s trolls included, are off of the prey list. So, another interpretation occurs to me. Hammerhead may be operating from a perspective of “join prey for now, eat more prey together”. In other words, he can set aside his desire to eat anybody/everybody else when there is a common target for them to hunt together. So, the savage races are to him one big hunting party, pursuing Gastonian prey.
Note, we have seen Hammerhead eat other landsharks, as indeed all landsharks do. They form hunting parties, and when the prey is caught aren’t above eating each other during the feeding frenzy. So, this may indeed be a core trait of landshark “thinking”.
However, if the savage races make peace with the Gastonians too, then there is no prey to pursue. This, perhaps, is why the idea of accepting the humans and elves is so intolerable to Hammerhead.
(And, we see, that when the designated prey is subdued, the rest of the savage races had better watch out.)
And I’m figuring out whichever he is calling the ‘rot’ is…Compassion? Mercy? Friendship?
And now you gave me the necessary insight. Thank you!
In case you overlooked it — that tacit acknowledgement went both ways. Penk’s comment was about them making prey of each other; i.e. trolls are historically just as willing to eat landsharks. This may also be a factor.
Penk’s use of ‘prey’ there might not be strictly literal, though. (i.e. it’s possible that they made war upon, but did not eat, the land sharks)
Good thought. I think you nailed it.
A further thought. Maybe Hammerhead distinguishes between “hunter” and “prey” according to aggression. The Peacemakers want peace. They want to not fight and kill. THIS, perhaps, is what defines them as prey.
Anybody can be prey, but at least the savage races are assertively pursuing a goal which involves killing somebody. So, Hammerhead can tolerate joining the Savage Races hunting party. But cooperating with entities who want to avoid violence? That is intolerable.
As mighty as a raging bull can be, he’s still prey fighting only for self-defense. He’s not a hunter and never can be.
I like both of your posts on the topic of Hammerhead’s philosophy. Very insightful!
It’ll be interesting to see how he responds to news of the cultist threat, then–I’ve got a feeling that this alliance is going to involve killing a lot of cultists, and even if the official goal is peace with some humans, they’re still probably going to have to kill a lot of them.
Politics? Aww, HAMMERHEAD thought it was going to be sausage making!
Hammerhead is a firm adherent of the belief that all sausage making is local.
Yes, as local as possible. Namely, in his mouth.
There seems to be a distinct lack of tags on this page.
Maybe they decided underlining the page with several links to “Prey” was a bit too confusing.
Sorry, guess HAMMERHEAD ate them all.
i wasnt worried . Magda can cool this guys jets with the big stone hands. Ivar is going to be a bigger prob. Dont underestimate young Iwatani. Even more dangerous if Ardiac is on board which I doubt.
Amusing that the trolls around Hammerhead seems even more dumbfounded and worried Hammerhead NOT going into a savage frenzy here and being all willing to watch and listen. XD
I like the one immediately to the right of Harky with the relief sigh face.
ER, Penk*, not Harky.
This panel somehow made Hammerhead even scarier. Nice work.
Agreed. It’d be bad enough if Hammerhead were just a nearly unthinking eating machine like the rest of the land-sharks. But he’s smart, patient (when he wants to be) and even powerful than he looks.
“To be fair, *all* of politics is a complete joke.”
Something I think most people on every side can agree on… and it might even be a funny joke if the punchline wasn’t always a body count. All that varies is “who” and “how many”.
“Politics is the art of saying, ‘nice doggie,’ until you can find a rock.”
I kinda feel for Hammerhead, though. He’s defending what he believes in, the same as Penk is. Other than the fact that Penk’s beliefs were clearly established because he was open to new ideas and beliefs, but still!
What happened to good old ‘You see it= You eat it’?
Young landsharks nowadays…
{Crotchety voice}
In my day, we ate the closest thing that moved, and we liked it! We liked it just fine!
Sure, there were a lot of stomach aches, particularly after the gnomes invented those automatons, but it were good enough for me grandpappy so it was good enough for me!
You young whippersnackers and yer ideas! What’s the world coming to?
I never should have sent to you ! They teach you these weird social rules!
Well, Diplomacy Step 1 went well.
Does anyone remember what the page Meme gods are one?