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!
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.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.
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.
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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.
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...
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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.
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!
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.
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!
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
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!
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.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.
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.
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.
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!
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
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!
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.)
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.
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!
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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.
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!
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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".
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...
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
Godslave
Meaghan Carter
Edith has been thrown into the dangerous world of modern-day Egyptian mythology. Fighting monsters and dealing with family drama of godly proportions.
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.
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?
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.
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.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
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.
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.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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!
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?