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Guilded Age
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Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Hazy London
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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...
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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...
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.
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.
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.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
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.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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.
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?
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".
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.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.
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!
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 End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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!
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.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
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.
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.
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.)
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
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!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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.
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.
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!
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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I hope Supreme Chancellor HAMMERHEAD makes an appearance.
Yes, I think he would love to be part of the executive department.
Honestly, that made me think of something.
If Caneghem and the Sky Elves decided to come back and say they wanted in on this, what should the Council say to them? Thoughts?
Er… ahem.
The last panel of http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-47-page-12/ sums it up pretty well.
Yeah… That whole page is full of win. I especially love the jeering dancing by all in the last panel, as you pointed out.
Well, Caneghem wouldn’t. He was only ever a reluctant ally of Gastonia and made his dissatisfaction loudly known.
I think the council’s reaction would be confusion and a demand for why they’d backpedal from their isolationism now. Because there had better be a very good reason for this. If not, there’d be a curt but professional refusal.
Caneghem doesn’t seem the sort to make frivolous demands or come back hat-in-hand. So it’s not going to happen. If nothing else, his pride would prevent him from working with Clair and the “Street Elves.” Sky Elves are just powerful enough independently that they can carve out their own niche, even if means being less-than-nice about it. (Conjuring is theft, but there’s no question they’re fully capable of it.)
You wouldn’t conjure a carriage.
Somebody call me?
… body shots?
Berserkerism shots. Gotta be ready in case someone tries to revive the Cult!
I wonder what’s making Clair more depressed. Death of her best friend or being a politician?
I thought he was her brother?
Both. :(
It’s the position. I mean, do you remember Caneghem?
I expected Caneghem to still be in charge of the sky elves, really. I mean, he was part of the conspiracy, but only to the extent that he ignored it because it was human bullshit and just he didn’t care.
Do you not remember Caneghem and most of the Sky Elves decided to just entirely relocate rather than deal with the Gastonia problem? Only a few dozen Sky Elves elected to stay and help.
If they didn’t come back when the war ended, then why do the sky elves have a representative on the council?
Hmm. Maybe Clair represents the shit elves too. Maybe the sky elves who stayed behind are just shit elves now.
No. The shit elves are the ones who flew off to live in total isolation. These are the earth elves. Or the high elves – because they’re definitely tops when it comes to morality, by comparison to the old farts they flipped the bird to by way of goodbye.
Considering their contributions to the war they earned that chair and maybe their infusion of magic can revive what the “shit” elves originally had.
Clair represents the City Elves, which is what her faction of Sky Elves call themselves, now, since they’re urban rather than airborne.
Crochety as he is, I did like Caneghem and sympathize with his motives. When it came down to it, he disliked Gastonian corruption and just wanted to stay out of the wars.
And if he’d been less selfish and cynical and more willing to help the Peacekeepers, he would be where Clair is now, and have what he told Syr’nj she was cruel for encouraging Reynolds to think he could ever have.
I find it hard to hold that against him seeing as how he never wanted Clair’s job. Then the selfsame Peacekeepers switched sides and then tried to tell him, “No, no, don’t worry, THIS time will be different.”
Hard sell. I think his just pulling up stakes and leaving was a reasonable response given the information he had.
The sky elf archmage never wanted to be the archmage? Or he wanted the title but not the responsibilities that went with it? One implausible, one inspires no sympathy from me.
Either way. Beyond that, I just checked his tag. It appears, unless some early tags were missed, he made his very first appearance as a Gastonian Head of House. You appear to have filled in a lot of details of his off-panel life and how he came to join the Altruists; that is, of course, something you have the right to do for your own reading, but when you’re talking about things that were not actually presented in the comic, you have to be prepared to get the answer “what I would fill in off-panel is radically different from what you’re asserting,” as you are here.
Firstly, Caneghem was always “Archmage” before he joined the Heads of House. In the same way that Reynolds was always Dean and Gobligno was always Don. He possessed the title long before he ever joined the House.
Secondly, this is all on-panel. You make it sound like Caneghem wants to be part of the coalition and have a seat in the House. He’s warned both Syr’nj and Reynolds that Gastonia. Even Iwatani noted that Caneghem did not care if he crowned himself king.
He was reluctantly persuaded to join the Gastonian coalition simply because he was persuaded that either World’s End or Gastonia would eventually develop the capability to invade their city. So they might as well side with Gastonia to head-off that possibility.
Well he tried that, and Iwatani was assassinated by his son. And then our heroes try to tell them that things will be better and different with the World’s End.
I can sympathize with Caneghem’s perspective here. That all looks very suspicious. Our main band of heroes look like they have fluid loyalties, so why would you trust them? Weren’t you telling us that the World’s End was the mutual enemy? And now they aren’t? Well that’s awfully convenient. And Gastonia has gotten taken over by a mad child king after his dad died under suspicious circumstances.
If you’re Caneghem, you already think the Gastonian humans are duplicitous, warlike and greedy. So none of that improves your opinion of your “allies.”
So no, he wants nothing to do with Clair’s coalition. She’s welcome to the seat in the House. He tried it her way, and as far as he knows, it didn’t work.
I never picked up that Canaghem had any proclivity for yarncraft.
And now the council is the leader of each race.
The four panels on the left side have the former World’s Rebellion races, and the right side the former Gastonian Alliance races.
Gastonia was two (or three, if wood elves weren’t generally playable, which they probably weren’t) races down from the World’s Rebellion the whole time, wasn’t it? That’s a kind of imbalance that’s kind of surprising in an MMORPG, but it makes sense when the game’s premise is that one of the factions is about one race’s perception of its manifest destiny.
Gastonia had 4. Humans, gnomes, sky elves and wood elves, the latter race introduced in the same expansion that made the fuzzy peoples a playable race for the rebel horde.
And possibly 5 if shit elves count.
Humans might have technically counted as two races too, since there was apparently a differentiation between Gastonians and non-Gastonians, like Elder Scrolls with Imperials, Nords, Bretons, Redguards, etc.
First order of business, I propose that we start conspiring against each other until one day one of us (or our children) becomes the absolute ruler of Gastonia, do I hear any Aye?
The way things are, you’d probably hear ‘Ugh, not *again*.
Or, maybe from Don G., ‘Not now’.
I notice that the least well armored/fancy person in the room is our berserk? Maybe it’s a safety measure – if he goes nuts, it gives everyone else a better shot at taking him down at all?
Berserkers eschew protection in favor of aggressive diplomacy.
He’s armed with a t-shirt, a feather and an inkwell.
And a chair and desk. The desk will likely serve as a shield.
You stop this circus right and tell me where in the bloody hell is the Champion of the Fuzzy Peoples before I flip a table!
He’s not ready to lead. Weo said so. I’m actually surprised Don Goblingo survived. I thought he was within reach of the corrupters.
He’s their champion, not their ruler. He’s busy saving the city from some other new threat.
Suplexing society’s problems for a brighter tomorrow, HYES!
With the comic winding down, this is the perfect time to announce The Adventures of the Fuzzy Peoples…
I picture him doing publicity stunts and photo ops for social causes. Like building schools or funding infrastructure for clean drinking water.
Hmm, seeing Gondolessa again made me wonder about Rana. Hope we at least see or hear of what happened with him in the end. Whether he found closure or if it was too much for him to deal with…
Oof, I want to know, too. And Bandit! And the cultist guy. Pretty sure he lived.
I’m actually a little concerned about Clair. She looks… a Little too much like her Elder Predicessor. but War and Loss can Dim people’s outlook on life. Hopefully it’s not as bad as all that.
Welcome to the New Republic!
…why does this sound so familiar?
Ooh, I’d be careful using the word “chart” when you’re at the head of a new government bureaucracy.
However, “shart” would be totally appropriate, no?
Governor Hackenslasher… I just love that name. I want to hear a name like that on the news someday.
“Today, Governor Hackenslasher signed a bill into law that would legalize the open carry of hatchets and swords for personal defense, citing the Second Amendment…”
Specializing in budget cuts, tax cuts, cuts to poverty and bureaucracy, and torsos. DEEP torso cuts.
You wound me, dear sir.
I will choose pen over sword.
Your words cut me deep.
Wait, is Penk in charge?
Is the new leader of Gastonia an orange-skinned, messy-haired troll that no one voted for?
Are we Making Gastonia Great Again?
I feel that does Penk a disservice. He’s actually useful, for one thing.
Yes…a serious disservice.
And he has military experience….
idk bout you guys, but its 42 here in minneapolis now. ive been ready for shorts!
As I posted above, “sharts” is appropo, even if shorts aren’t yet?
Your logic is scat…
“I call this council to order, lets us commence our proceedings with the ceremonial consumption of a bottle of scotch.”
The council doesn’t get a lot done, but they have some really entertaining meetings!
I think that Scotch has the prerequisite of a Scotland.
Clair’s makeup and not-wide-open eyes make her look like an entirely different person.
And Sir Groff is the CUTEST! ^_^
F no, I don’t want to end this with an HR avatar!
And that’s a little too upset…
Nnnnn— hmmmmm. That’s kinda good actually. I shall go out with a Shan.
First red flag:
Don
Goblino’s
*fucking*
_FACE_
He’s the only member of the council who isn’t friends with all the others, so it’s not surprising that he’s grouchy.
And Do note where he’s Sitting. Next to Dean Reynolds. Essentially his Race’s *rival* race. I’d imagine he’s thinking quite a few unkind thoughts about that.
Hey, can he help it if he has resting orcface?
Well, he’s seated next to Gondolessa. And has already made known his disapproval of Gondolessa’s lifestyle choices.
When did he do that? I know Ivar was judgemental about it. But I can’t remember Gobligno caring one way or another. He’s probably more displeased that his war profiteering is now over.
Yeah, last time we saw Gobligno and Gondoleza together, Gobby was sucking up to Gondie.
He seems to be glaring at Reynolds, Syr, or Gravy – the fact that Gravy is looking in that direction suggests him.
In every war, the orcs always lose.
Claire’s gone kinda goth-y and thats cool.
But yeah, wonder if the council will have to deal with the whole Orc enslavement deal, and the maurauding landshark horde.
Yeah I see the main topics being rebuilding and more long term working to smooth over relations between all the races. You have an even more diverse range now then even the savage races had, and a populace on both sides that is coming out of a bitter war. Not to mention yeah various actions each side took against the other that may not be easily forgiven by the general populace. My guess is things won’t be perfect, but at least on a better track then they were before.
Step forward leaders
A twig grows in the ashes
The cycle restarts