Comments on: AAaA Annunziata

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:13:45 +0000

I read this strip as Annunziata re-interpreting his flight as some sort of victory, but really, he’s gone from house arrest in his spacious villa to house arrest on a much less spacious ship, with not much to win but a lot to lose (the ship for instance), as others have mentioned. It’s really just his own hubris keeping him afloat at this point.
But that’s not a part of reality which he’s willing to acknowledge.

By: Beroli

Beroli — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:04:15 +0000

Again–we see him grappling with Gralor at the end of the comic. I’m pretty sure his commupence involves getting eaten. (And if this one strip isn’t canon, well, he had to get back to sea somehow, for the unambiguously-in-plot cameo showing him with Gralor to work.)

By: Mogo

Mogo — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 22:31:26 +0000

I mean, if you take this scene at face value, then yes, it is not a fitting end for such a douche, but it could very well be seen as a "look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" moment in the making. Annunziata may have escaped with some of his wealth abord his fancy ship, and he may still has a crew of fervently loyal mooks, so yeah, things are not too bleak for him for now, but I bet a self-important egomaniac like him has never even heard of living on a budget, and he might still retain a few die-hard henchmen because there hasn't been too long since he was a powerful figure, but eventually it will dawn upon those henchmen that Annunziata has no future. There are no riches or infuence to be gained by serving him. The first of Annunziata's loyalists that says "screw this, I'm out" will surely lead the others. Maybe this noncanonical ending for Admiral Annunziata is just a slower, sadder comeuppance that we don't get to see

By: green

green — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 06:50:59 +0000

my thought was “oh, he’s gone off to become a pirate.” that’s… what a warship without a nation backing it up basically is. they’d have to raid constantly just to keep supplied. a fitting end for him, really… sailing off with grandiose plans, and a decade later, he’s the leader of a ragged bunch of remnants, scrounging for whatever they can find on the seas, and probably, yeah, eaten by Gralor in the end.

By: Sahara

Sahara — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 06:00:59 +0000

That’s an interesting perspective in the annotation. I’m not sure on my first readthrough I had quite figured out that the AaA strips weren’t precisely canon, but this read through it seems really clear to me that they are only very loosely canon (or even not at all). But even that said, by the time we got to this Anunziata strip, I am pretty sure I had it figured out that this probably didn’t actually happen.