Annotated 9-18
I don’t honestly know how subtle Best’s lyrics are, but ICYMI, it’s “too late” for the land sharks because they’ve chosen a life-or-death battle with a HERO OF DESTINY. That destiny means his survival is foreordained. Only he or they can survive. So their doom is foreordained. QED. I do envy his confidence, though even at this point, we knew that confidence wouldn’t last forever.
Hey, if you’re surrounded by primo meat, you may as well eat some of it, and you don’t know where that shark meat has been. But the performative nature of Best’s “grief” probably speaks for itself.
We didn’t show any more bawkbagoks after this. Would’ve been good, maybe, to imply that they were an extravagant kind of mount with a land speed that reserved them for the rich or (in Best’s case) those favored by the rich. The way the golden feathers echo Best’s colors is nice, though.
Bawkbagoks? Is that a reference to The Brack Show when he befriended that big chicken?
Probably. Phil picked the name. I just figured it was onomatopoeia for a clucking chicken, which I guess would be true either way.
Or this is a good example of word association.
In the end of all time, the one true fact shall be revealed…
EVERYTHING eventually tastes like chicken
As one lesbian frog said to the other, “We DO taste like chicken!”
my dear chocobo…
“Your death will not go to waste! It will go to my WAIST! I will gain TWENTY POUNDS because of you, you STUPID CLUMSY OVERGROWN CANARY!”
It’s fun to think of Bawkbagoks as (edible) “lambos” of Arkerra. Definitely something Best would go for.
Lembasghini?
The quest stands upon the edge of a knife, stray but a little and it will fail, to the run of all. So take this bitchin’ ride, you’ll be at Mt. Doom in like 5 minutes dawg.
*ruin, fuck. :/
Wow that typo ruined your post.
Runned it.
I am unduly bothered by someone having added Wile E Coyote’s face to an image claiming Kentucky Fried Ostrich. WEC would probably have a heart attack if he met an ostrich. >_>
This. The roadrunner is a real existing bird and definitely not an ostrich. It’s a species of cuckoo, which seems appropriate in relation to the cartoon.
…a coyote-sized cuckoo? ‘Cause the Roadrunner was definitely around the same size as Wile.
Real roadrunners aren’t nearly as large as real coyotes – about half as tall and nowhere near as long.
Next you’ll tell me they can’t move at supersonic speeds and ignore gravity.
Oh, that they can do.
(Sorta.)
(Seriously…they can fly (though not well) and have the fastest land speed of any bird that can fly at all.)
I would think Bright Yellow Feathers wouldn’t be favored in a Wartime scenario. a little too easy to spot which is probably why the Land Sharks saw Best so easily, I would think Big Bird would stick out like a sore thumb in the desert. I mean even the World’s Rebellion’s mounts are all muted browns and greens.
Apropos of nothing, the “PB” logo on Best’s jacket in panel 5 looks kind of like the Yellow Sign.
It also looks sort of like a squiggly erection. Which I guess is spot on, for someone who’s a bit of a dick most of the time.
Okay. Got to ask. Why does the fine print on the picture with Wile E. Coyote say “Kentucky Fried Ostrich?” Wile didn’t hunt ostriches. He hunted a roadrunner. Granted, a mutant one that might have been the size of an ostrich. But a roadrunner nonetheless.
Not to mention the fact that roadrunners are nowhere to be found in Kentucky. Ostrich farms, on the other hand…
He failed to catch the mutant roadrunner so he pivoted to ostrich farming. Obviously.
Best looks oddly similar to Prompto from FFXV, who loved chocobos…
Considering that they were made up on the spot while fighting several enemies at once, I’d say Best’s lyrics are pretty good. Any lack of subtlety is totally in character for Best, who is not a subtle person. One of the reasons I dislike him so much.