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!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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!
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!
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!
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.
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?
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
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.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
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.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
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.
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.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
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.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
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.)
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.
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!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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...
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!
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".
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
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...
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.
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.
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 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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Discussion (53) ¬
The brown haired gnome in the 3rd panel looks like Byron and Gravedust had a baby. Just saying. *cough cough*
HA! He totally does.
He doesn’t squint enough. Obviously Gravedust abandoned him due to this.
Oh the implications…. sooooo horrible
Frigg might start liking it. If she gave it a spin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing
I don’t like either of those. I don’t suppose Articulate-Lacrosse exists?
This is brilliant. Old boxers aren’t always that much slower, but they are that much more brain damaged! Clash of the Titans type matches must be hilarious.
OHHHHHH MYYYYYY GOD. I JUST FOUND MY NEW SPORT.
I thought of that too! Strange minds think alike, I suppose.
Come on Frigg, do it! Rage Quit!
Hey, maybe beneath Frigg’s anti-intellectual, brutal, combative exterior she’s a real Beth Harmon.
But probably not.
Given how short they are, I suppose they’ve got to have some way to distinguish the children from the adults.
so how do the horsies move again?
In a big L shape! *Glances in Frigg’s direction*
Reminds me of Marlowe’s line in The Big Sleep with a chess problem on the table and a naked girl problem in his bed.
This isn’t a game for knights.
Wow, it took the Lollipop Guildmaster an entire minute to checkmate Frigg? What, is he drunk or something? Frigg hits things. She’s a thing-hitter. A simple Fucktard’s Gambit should CM her in, like, two moves.
She might have more success with Extreme Chess(tm). Instead of players making one move per turn, each player rolls a d6 for each turn, and whoever rolled higher makes as many moves as the difference. Black 6, White 4 = Black moves twice. Black 4, White 1 = Black moves three times. Black 1, White 5 = White moves four times. You can force checkmate without your opponent ever moving if you roll right, and even a lousy player can demolish a master if they have better luck on the die.
Well…either now she loses her cool for real, and trashes the joint…forcing the tower to be rebuilt to the gnomes’ delight and the boss’s despair…
Or, she sit there and plays chess until she figures out all the tactics, and beats the guy soundly.
Chess is, technically, a war-game…it’s all about tactics and troop movements, boiled down into the simple pieces and moves.
Tactics = fighter (and crusader) … right?
Sorta. But does Frigg strike you as tactical or meat-shield? Her tactics seem to invole “beat it ’til it don’t move no more”. I’m not implying that she’s stupid, just not schooled in that arena. It’s why we have Byron.
Involve. Not invole. Whee. Need coffeeeeeeee.
She strikes me as a tactical-nuke.
“Or, she sit there and plays chess until she figures out all the tactics, and beats the guy soundly.”
Nah. Warfare is often ultimately about logistics and decisiveness. Timed chess is very reactionary and depends a lot on pattern recognition and the ability to consistently recognize and avoid disaster. That’s an oversimplification, of course, but I think it is telling that Napoleon is reputed to have been a third-rate chess player.
I’m curious to how she’ll react, this is the first time we’ve seen Frigg lose and not be restrained quickly after. (Unless the gnomes have some rhino net firing…gun…yeah.)
Are you sure, are you COMPLETELY sure, she lost?
From the details that doesn’t seem to be (her) king; although it could be a rook that he just captured, placing her into check. And mate.
generally it’s the winner who says checkmate.
Yeah…
I heard Frigg’s a member of the Chuck Norris chess club: http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/4549/chucknorrischessclubbyp.jpg
best two out of three?
I don’t know if the timing was intentional, but Saturday was National Chess Day (in the United States).
Capturing the opposing king is an illegal move.
Chess is more strategy than tactics.
Chess often relies heavily on psychology.
The hilarious part is that nobody seems to be noticing how utterly idiotic the use of chess as an adulthood ritual is. For one thing, say some chess prodigy kid comes along and wins a game. Is he a man, then? WIth almost no life experience? For that matter, win a game? Against whom?
Yes. As opposed to all of the perfectly rational real life adulthood rituals.
Like… I am just turned fourteen. Therefore, Today I Am A Man. Send in the whores, Uncle Ira!
Good enough for me!
He said AT LEAST one game. That implies that there are circumstances beyond a single game of chess.
they say that you’re not a man until you bed a woman.
or buy your first car.
or start shaving.
or kill a laser shark.
Of course, a big problem with the laser shark is that their first attack is to shoot off their foe’s genitals.
The objectives are chronological because of this issue. :P
I like it, it means only the smart people get to be adults.
No, it means only the people who are good at chess get to be adults…
@ SaltyKracka: I figured since it involved gnomes, logic was right out.
Frigg hasn’t needed to use much strategy in the past, it’s true. But since chess is not just tactics but psychology as well – bluffing and intimidation seem to be something she’d be OK at. Perhaps better at poker than chess…
*shrug* Still fun to read
Am I the only one to notice that, as Frigg states it in the second panel, she only has to PLAY chess to make the gnomes quit their bitchin’, not necessarily WIN?
I don’t think Frigg is the type to use words to weasel her way through problems. :\
I do see her trying to brute force her way IN chess… to no avail of course.
I don’t think Frigg is trying to weasel out of anything. She could have summed up the agreement accurately. Maybe one of the gnomes is a lousy chess player, and by beating her, he can finally become an adult.
Finally someone else sees the obvious.
Chess is about Tactics, something that Frigg, as a Crusader, should be awesome at.
She lost on purpose, to end the argument.
“Tramplable” is a fascinating word.
I heard this in your voice…. Epic :3
it’s not nice to label tramps.
Hm… here’s a wacky idea: Frigg falls in love with chess, impressing the gnomes with her tenacity and enthusiasm, if not her wit. Thus, she ends up smoothing diplomatic relations after all.
Or not, but it’s fun imagining!
Especially once she realizes that chess actually represents a bloody battle between two armies.
I have a question: what if Bandit won a chess match?
Or are gnome women not allowed to play chess?
And if they aren’t, how come Frigg’s allowed to? Because she’s human, or because she has biceps big enough to pop their little gnome heads like melons if they’re put in a headlock?
If Bandit won a chess match she would be considered no longer a child in the eyes of Gnomish society.
Males tend to use male-specific pronouns when talking about non-specific hypothetical people.
Then has Bandit “stolen” a victory? :D
Don’t hit me.
That’s all? Wow, if I was a Gnomish child, I’d rig up a game against someone mentally deficient. Or I’d spike my opponent’s drink. Or I’d bring one of those funny Venezuelan horns and play it while they planned their move. Come on, Frig! When at a loss, cheat!