Annotated 40-20
It’s good for the state of Syr’Nj’s overall soul that even though she was the one contemplating killing her friend, she’s also the one to ensure her safety as something strange starts to happen to the no-longer-berserking berserker. Frigg’s field separates into its original gold and berserker red, and then dissipates altogether, as the God no one else has seen up to now makes his presence felt.
“We’d better get out of here” feels a bit off, since there’s no one left to attack them, but I suppose there’s a chance HR could come back by and see whether his latest death-trap worked. Still, getting Frigg (and maybe WAV) some treatment seems like a more practical incentive to depart.
I’ll let the alt text stand as it was originally published, but what it expresses is the kind of sentiment that made me…worry about Flo, just a bit.
I’ve got to chime in supporting the alt-text. I haven’t had the need often, but when something wants out there’s a big ol’ rush of endorphins when it gets out of there. Great feeling.
I, meanwhile, didn’t think it was anything but a reference to the way Frigg got over being poisoned by Sister Blair and then over being infected with a berserker spirit by HR.
At some point in the past – at least 30ish years ago – I heard puking refered to as a cosmic reset button. It seemed apt, and has stuck with me.
Funny, I just want the muscles I just (ab)used to stop hurting. Apparently every eight or ten years isn’t enough to build them up.
I used to have regular digestion problems as a kid, every other month or so. It was always horror, and it still is (though much less frequent), to wake up at night and know that I will probably spend half the remaining night feeling extremely uncomfortable, and the other half hunched over the toilet or sink, hoping with each load that it was the last one, please …
…and the next day, to slowly start ramping up the food intake, starting with dry biscuits, then salted potatoes and some pureed apple, hoping they’ll stay in.
Can’t recommend.
Even if nobody else is coming to kill them, this isn’t the best place to care for a sick person (or anyone, really), so a change of location seems like a perfectly fine idea to me.
[Frigg] … Gods make me puke. Good to know.
Frigg looking like a Gorillaz character in panel 1.