Annotated 1-4
Nice finish. Simple gag, quick resolution, and Morbundi’s last words are natural for him to say, amusing, and lead directly into the next scenes, wherein we find out who these people even are.
Given his powers and his scenery-chewing, Morbundi might’ve seemed like the sort of villain who’d stick around in one form or another for a while, but his name is an anagram for “moribund,” which more or less means “about to die,” so we didn’t really design him with permanence in mind.
The chapter title “Five for Fighting” is my favorite chapter title in the entirety of Guilded Age, even though it did not mesh with the gaming-reference theme that Phil and I (Phil primarily, after a while) would hit pretty consistently after this. Unless you consider hockey to be gaming, and hey, I guess there are hockey video games, so sure. TBH, the band was the only reason I knew the phrase; I didn’t really get to know the sport until I married a fan of it a couple of years ago. (C-A-P-S, Caps Caps Caps!)
It’s not easy tonight
(still love this page, and the set-up in general, even if not everyone is quite at what they’re going to become just yet)
How is it the dwarf is the one out in front?
The others are surprised, whereas he looks resigned. So I’m guessing he got a head start while the others were still getting over their surprise.
It was his arrow, he probably knew that adding the boomsticks had altered the flight characteristics as soon as it left the bowstring.
I’m pretty sure it was a perfect shot. He just didn’t expect the orb to be knocked off in that manner.
Dwarves are natural sprinters! Very dangerous over short distances
I was hoping for that response and you delivered good sir!
This time it’s Gravedust’s turn to be replaced by Best in the tags.
So noted! Corrections soon to follow.
Man, Gravedust’s luck really comes up short far too often. We’ll just say he was feeling his Best on this day since it wasn’t fixed.
I’ve been trying! The system seems to have locked the page– I could create it anew but that would lose all the existing comments.
Everyone is Best’s alt at some point in their life.
Gravedust’s expression! Priceless! And done with only half his face showing. Kudos to Erica.
So had the role that Tectonicus would play in the overall story been pretty much mapped out at this point? Did you guys know at this point that he would become the lead god for the World’s Rebellion races?
There’s a band out there called “Five for Fighting” So I assumed when I first Read this title that it was an tongue-in-cheek reference to aforementioned band, but knowing our characters now… Well just look up any of their songs and laugh along with me at how Unsuitable it is.
The band is named after hockey?!
You learn something every day.
My only objection is the lava splash… lava is rock. Yes, molten rock, but still rock. Unless that orb is made of lead or something, it’s not going to splash into the lava, it’s going to bounce off.
Having Baader-Meinhof about “scenery chewing.” I don’t remember having encountered the phrase before earlier today, when it was the last clue on a crossword that I couldn’t finish.
I’m just now learning “Baader-Meinhof.”
I’ve known about the Baader-Meinhof gang for ages, and I’ve known the phrase “scenery chewing” for many years, but I’ve never seen “Baader-Meinhof” referring to anything other than the terrorist group.
I suspect that I will hear about the “Baader-Meinhof phenomenon” again in the near future. The phenomenon itself isn’t new to me, though. I just call it the “ketchup effect”.
Until just now, I hadn’t heard of the organization. I had figured the effect/phenomenon was named after a pair of psychologists.
What’s the story behind “ketchup effect”?
Also, how is “psolo” pronounced?
Gravedust isn’t tagged here, even though he’s in panel four.
Just as long as our heroes don’t do like this YouTube clip and set the whole mountain on fire OH WAIT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY JUST DID!