AAaA Bandit 1
Original alt text still reads, “Click the link below for a chance at getting your question answered!”, but ah, well, you’re clearly almost seven years too late for that one. Ask an Adventurer ran throughout 2014 and was sprinkled among regular comic updates, but this is probably the best place to put it in terms of the series’ chronology– all the characters it features have shown up in the main story in some fashion, and none have yet, erm, left the stage.
(Except the one who has left the stage and gets referenced as such. We’ll get there.)
I dunno if I really need to explain this one. Yes, Bandit is makin’ fun of Byron here, and that bothers Syr’Nj more than it bothers Byron. Either he’s clueless about what she’s doing or he’s like, “Look, if she wanted to say something mean about the way my brain works, it’s not like she doesn’t have more hurtful material to work with.” In a way, this is minor foreshadowing of how their dynamic will ultimately resolve.
I guess you really did need to explain it, because it never occurred to me that Bandit was making fun of Byron. But then again, I think we’ve established at this point that a lot of things go over my head.
I’m with you.
Same, didn’t read this as a passive aggressive attack on Byron’s character… Actually kinda bothers me now knowing how the story is going to unfold.
I didn’t interpret it as Bandit mocking Byron, either. Come to think of it, now it reads to me like Bandit is low-key mocking, not Byron’s peculiar idea of naming his weapons, but Linguz in Orlando’s question, i.e. “Yeeeah, I’m also a weirdo that names the weapons I use. Suuure. Doesn’t eeeveryone do that?”
Yup. I thought she was being serious. She seems like the sort to name her weapons an d give them personalities.
Same here. I didn’t get that Bandit was teasing Byron.
Just to not be on the wagon, I got that it was making fun of Byron. “Yep, both my weapons have names, which I have never mentioned in any other context! Now they’re talking to each other!” seemed super overt to me, considering there is a member of her group who does both name and talk to his two weapons.
Yeah, that sounds plausible. I didn’t get it and I’m relieved that I’m with the majority on this one, but yes – we could have gotten it.
Doesn’t even remotely feel like a stab at Byron to me either. Just like “a weird adventurer thing” that Syr’nj doens’t get and Byron finds too “normal” to understand why Syr’nj is getting weirded out.
It does seem to me like she’s not being serious about it, but I never thought of it as a dig at Byron before. Just that she was having fun with the idea.
Then again, her hidden resentment of Byron is hidden well enough that I really never picked up on it before it came to light later down the line. At the time, I thought she was like everyone else – she’d expressed her discomfort with his curse and moved on.
Cuteness and Dose Dimples are the real weapons here.
“Knives Out” is the last movie my wife and I saw in theaters before this pandemic hit.
That reminds me… I didn’t mention it when I originally listed my “cast list” for Guilded Age, but I think Chris Evans would be terrific as Best.
And if I don’t see another, it was an excellent one to go out on. I know work had started on a sequel but I don’t know what’s become of it post-COVID.