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Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

Clearly, Syr'Nj has a hefty steak in the matter.

Chapter 10 – Page 11

on April 20, 2011
Chapter: Chapter 10
└ Tags: Byron, Gravedust, Syr'Nj
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  1. alta lemur
    alta lemur
    April 20, 2011, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    I think she needs to cook up a better idea.

    • Mr Ak
      Mr Ak
      April 20, 2011, 12:05 am | # | Reply

      It is a pretty meaty discussion.

      • SteelRaven
        SteelRaven
        April 20, 2011, 12:12 am | # | Reply

        They need some time to chew the fat.

        • deans22
          deans22
          April 20, 2011, 12:21 am | # | Reply

          We need to worry about the fact that they all still have beef with Best.

          • anonymous coward
            anonymous coward
            April 20, 2011, 12:29 am | # | Reply

            Cut some slack, they did just get ground to chuck not so long ago.

            • Timelost
              Timelost
              April 20, 2011, 12:36 am | # | Reply

              …something, something ribeye.

              God I’m laze, I guess it’s au jus catching up with me.

            • Dean
              Dean
              April 20, 2011, 1:00 am | # | Reply

              Don’t have a cow, man.

              • centuriancode
                centuriancode
                April 20, 2011, 2:57 am | # | Reply

                Why not? They’re on the horns of a dilemma.

                • Lynxx
                  Lynxx
                  April 20, 2011, 3:53 am | # | Reply

                  well, they better hoof it, all this talk is getting them nowhere.

                  • Taxellor
                    Taxellor
                    April 20, 2011, 6:09 am | # | Reply

                    It is time to face the moosic, repay the Best and get the basin

                    • Hawk
                      Hawk
                      April 20, 2011, 6:14 am | #

                      And here I thought perhaps they’d simply chickened out.

                      (I assumed they were eating more of Best’s bird pal.)

                    • Caitlin
                      Caitlin
                      April 20, 2011, 7:20 am | #

                      To-marrow they’ll get to the heart of the matter, one way or another.

                    • Jean-Luc
                      Jean-Luc
                      April 20, 2011, 1:05 pm | #

                      I really love how this is being fleshed out.

                    • JarrysKid
                      JarrysKid
                      April 20, 2011, 1:20 pm | #

                      …And Byron’s turned chicken, and Frig is only interested in porking that ham, Best. Serves Gravy right for serving up leftovers.

                    • Miklanin
                      Miklanin
                      April 20, 2011, 4:51 pm | #

                      They need to stop re-hash-ing the past-ure, and focus
                      on the quest ahead. The steaks are too high to dwell on
                      bygones. No bones about it…they will need to beef on
                      their Best in order to win!

                    • Geigan
                      Geigan
                      April 20, 2011, 8:09 pm | #

                      Yeah, they’re in their prime. Their cause would be best served bygetting to the juicy center of the problem. They just need to ignore their beefs and get on with it.

                    • centuriancode
                      centuriancode
                      April 20, 2011, 8:26 pm | #

                      That said, they’ll probably still stew on it for a while.

                    • Jean-Luc
                      Jean-Luc
                      April 20, 2011, 9:36 pm | #

                      This is becoming hard to stomach.

                    • Justme
                      Justme
                      April 20, 2011, 11:57 pm | #

                      Why the hurry? Best and Frigg still need more time to pork each other.

                    • Warriormon87
                      Warriormon87
                      April 21, 2011, 1:11 am | #

                      Don’t dessert us now.

                    • Geigan
                      Geigan
                      April 21, 2011, 2:13 pm | #

                      “What’s the matter sir? Not enjoying your pork on pun?”
                      “Oh the meat of it’s just a little overdone is all.”

                    • Warriormon87
                      Warriormon87
                      April 22, 2011, 5:40 am | #

                      non-sense. we wouldn’t want to leave this half-baked

    • 1d4caltrop
      1d4caltrop
      April 20, 2011, 7:35 am | # | Reply

      To everyone who posted above:

      Well done at using this medium to generate puns of such rare quality!

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        April 20, 2011, 8:34 am | # | Reply

        Well it’s true, we appreciate our steaks lightly done.

  2. Thor
    Thor
    April 20, 2011, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Is Byron drawing a map?

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      April 20, 2011, 12:13 am | # | Reply

      Looks like a landscape.

      • KeiranHalcyon
        KeiranHalcyon
        April 20, 2011, 2:44 am | # | Reply

        A landscape, peppered with nuclear explosions.

      • Thor
        Thor
        April 20, 2011, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

        It seems to be important enough that John has drawn it consistently in each panel, a specific enough that we can tell this.

        • John
          John
          April 21, 2011, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

          seems that way, doesn’t it? ,’~)

    • Locke
      Locke
      April 20, 2011, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      I thought he was trying to catch antlions. “Doodle bug, doodle bug…”

    • Devon
      Devon
      April 20, 2011, 1:22 am | # | Reply

      It looks like latent psychic abilities.

    • LunarTick
      LunarTick
      April 20, 2011, 7:36 am | # | Reply

      I feel like we’ve seen that spiral with the squigley lines before. But I don’t know where and I can’t be bothered to look it up.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      April 20, 2011, 10:25 am | # | Reply

      It’s total gibberish, he’s going berserk again.

    • 1d4caltrop
      1d4caltrop
      April 20, 2011, 7:52 pm | # | Reply

      It’s the sign of Jabal-sag.

  3. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    April 20, 2011, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Byron has regress quite a bit, almost child like with the way he’s drawing in the sand. How old was he when first went ‘zerker?

  4. Fairportfan
    Fairportfan
    April 20, 2011, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Syr’Nj looks like the new leader, doesn’t she?

    • anonymous coward
      anonymous coward
      April 20, 2011, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      She looks to have the appropriate irritated grimace from it in the last panel.

    • Gillsing
      Gillsing
      April 20, 2011, 8:12 am | # | Reply

      Well, apparently she’s royalty, so she should get used to commanding.

  5. Doma
    Doma
    April 20, 2011, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    She could use a few steaks. Honestly, such a thin girl. And she never calls. You’d think she’d call her mother once in a while! Or at least eat right!

    • Rachel
      Rachel
      April 20, 2011, 10:02 am | # | Reply

      And put on a jacket! It’s nippy out there!

      • flevine
        flevine
        April 20, 2011, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

        And date a nice Elfish boy! You know, my friend has a son about her age…

  6. Locke
    Locke
    April 20, 2011, 2:26 am | # | Reply

    Okay, I can stand Sadserker moping a bit and being a little distant. But now he’s kinda acting like a kid who just lost his parents. But you know what could make me tolerate that? A flashback to how he lost his parents/family. Then Byron would have a good reason to be sorta regressive like this, AND we’d know for sure that at some point in the future he’ll turn into Batman.

    • HLY
      HLY
      April 20, 2011, 2:33 am | # | Reply

      oh hell yes, batzerker, the ultimate party leader/dark knight rolled into one single package of awesome

      until he starts adopting little kids, and putting them in spedos…

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      April 20, 2011, 3:24 am | # | Reply

      You think that killing all your friends isn’t a reason to mope?

      • Fren
        Fren
        April 20, 2011, 7:55 am | # | Reply

        Look, honestly … the only one that he really, honestly maybe killed was Bandit. We still don’t have 100% on that, she may come back as an armless wonder that picks locks with her teeth. Byron’s never been much of a fighter.

      • Nightree
        Nightree
        April 20, 2011, 9:58 am | # | Reply

        Listen, friends die. It’s what they do. You can’t let every little thing get to you.

      • Locke
        Locke
        April 20, 2011, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

        Well, yeah, mope. Be horribly depressed. But not regress to childhood behaviour.

        • Sineplex
          Sineplex
          April 20, 2011, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

          Criticizing what the authors’ are saying showing happens to one of their characters, is like calling a painter out on her palette. Sure, you can do it, but it -really- doesn’t make sense if you haven’t seen the whole canvas.
          Locke, also, you’re being insensitive to persons who have actually faced depressive episodes. Over less than manslaughter.

          • Locke
            Locke
            April 21, 2011, 2:26 am | # | Reply

            I’m not being insensitive. Insensitive is “Pft, stupid idiot, being depressed over slaughtering his friends!” No, I’m being somewhat critical of it. I expect Byron to be massively depressed, yes. I’m not surprised that he wishes he was still dead. I’m just a little perplexed by the squiggling behaviour. I half expected him to simply go back to the fetal position.
            And a reader criticizes. It’s what you most often naturally do. If you encounter something that does not make sense in a work and just rubs you the wrong way, do you say, “Well, I’m just being silly! This work is flawless! Hum-dee-dum!” No, if the matter is never adequately explained, you tend to still be a bit bothered by it. By no means am I putting myself above Phil and T., heck, whenever I try to write I really struggle with having characters act realistically myself, and, so far, the characterization in this work has been near-flawless, a level I can only hope to reach someday if I’m very, very lucky.
            Now, like I said above, this is all perfectly warranted if his family was murdered in front of him at a very young age. I can understand the regressive behaviours he’s showing then; he’d be reliving childhood trauma, after all. If I’ve somehow offended you with my opinions, I do apologize, but they’re simply my opinions and you shouldn’t let them get to you. I’m not slamming the writer’s work here, after all. Not at all. If you have a personal anecdote that proves me absolutely wrong and feel secure sharing it, by all means, do so. That might change my opinion. It might not. My opinions are like mules, they move when they want to, with the right motivation, but, without the right amount of prodding, they’re steady as a rock.

            Whew. Sorry, text dump.

            • Locke
              Locke
              April 21, 2011, 2:27 am | # | Reply

              Bah, I split that into more than two paragraphs! Now it’s horrible to look at! Dagnabbit!

            • Kilroy Quartermaine
              Kilroy Quartermaine
              April 21, 2011, 10:51 am | # | Reply

              That’s assuming that your interpretation of it as childlike behavior is even correct. It could be any number of things. I draw in the dirt sometimes when I’m just in my own head.

              • Jean-Luc
                Jean-Luc
                April 21, 2011, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

                Maybe Byron has diabeetus and urgently needs medical testing supplies.

  7. HLY
    HLY
    April 20, 2011, 2:31 am | # | Reply

    well, we see child byron afetr slaughtering a villiage or several in an earlier flashback

    so I’m gonna guess pretty young, and seems going beyond psycho once more has brought back memories of his lost childhood…

    ever that, or he’s really depresed

    • HLY
      HLY
      April 20, 2011, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      or is secrelty arrekoa#s most famous abstract artist, and this is his way of funding he party

  8. ahdok
    ahdok
    April 20, 2011, 3:25 am | # | Reply

    Somehow, I thought Syr would be vegetarian…

    • Forseti
      Forseti
      April 20, 2011, 4:16 am | # | Reply

      What? Eating plants is barbaric!

    • Mr Ak
      Mr Ak
      April 20, 2011, 4:29 am | # | Reply

      That’d just be sappy.

    • Dissent
      Dissent
      April 20, 2011, 5:50 am | # | Reply

      That would practically be cannibalism!

      • Fren
        Fren
        April 20, 2011, 7:56 am | # | Reply

        And what’s the deal with all of these Dwarves? They’re far too sober!

        • Caitlin
          Caitlin
          April 20, 2011, 11:26 am | # | Reply

          After all those Mystics dies of wine poisoning, the Savasi got sober, fast.

      • A passer-by.
        A passer-by.
        April 20, 2011, 11:25 am | # | Reply

        Elves are supposed to be cannibals anyway.

        • A passer-by.
          A passer-by.
          April 20, 2011, 11:28 am | # | Reply

          Wait… Wait a moment.

          Isn’t that a gnome steak?

          And all the party is together again.

        • Kilroy Quartermaine
          Kilroy Quartermaine
          April 21, 2011, 10:52 am | # | Reply

          Yes, but Dwarves are supposed to be naked and covered in vomit, blood, and filth. I just don’t see this comic going that way.

  9. flevine
    flevine
    April 20, 2011, 9:55 am | # | Reply

    Just a comment for everyone who’s been saying “Geez, Byron’s moping so much…why doesn’t he just get on with it…etc.”: Keep in mind that while it has taken us almost a month to get 11 pages into this chapter, in story time,it’s maybe 4-6 hours since they were resurrected, after being slaughtered, and he thinks he killed his friend–I think killing even one person unintentionally is quite traumatic enough. At least give the guy a chance to sleep on things! ;-)

    • Talisaerin
      Talisaerin
      April 20, 2011, 11:13 am | # | Reply

      And who knows, While all we really see is Byron doodling in the sand half-aware, he may be drawing out some super elaborate battle plan that would catch Harki by surprise and wipe out the legion of thousands with a rabble of five.

      On the other hand, he could also be drawing out OMG Ponies!!!

  10. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    April 20, 2011, 10:30 am | # | Reply

    Ok, the server’s overloaded so they’re having a massive PvP bash out and the party needs the basin of OPness to come up with the most broken build for their class.

    Also is that bark Syr’s cooking? What a sapling…

    • Locke
      Locke
      April 20, 2011, 5:06 pm | # | Reply

      Nah, bark would burn. Besides, it must have been something Best brought with him. Probably some prime cuts, or the Best part of a local butcher’s cow.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 20, 2011, 7:40 pm | # | Reply

        Best has some amazing chops.

        • centuriancode
          centuriancode
          April 20, 2011, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

          Not to mention bringing the tenderloin.

          • Locke
            Locke
            April 20, 2011, 11:44 pm | # | Reply

            Hell, he’s tenderizing some meat just this moment. :P

            • centuriancode
              centuriancode
              April 21, 2011, 2:26 am | # | Reply

              He’ll need to be careful not to make it too soft, though. Otherwise Frigg might not be pleased with her serving.

              • Geigan
                Geigan
                April 21, 2011, 1:57 pm | # | Reply

                Pass the spice!

  11. Warriormon87
    Warriormon87
    April 21, 2011, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    Wasn’t Syr’ng a vegetarian before?

    • Locke
      Locke
      April 21, 2011, 2:28 am | # | Reply

      I think that was discussed above; if her race is related in anyway to plants (other than chlorophyll), then that might be considered some sort of cannibalism to her.

      But that’s more of a shot in the dark than anything else. Who knows?

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        April 21, 2011, 6:28 am | # | Reply

        I thought the chlorophyll was just a Fanon attempt to explain why Erica left?

        • Warriormon87
          Warriormon87
          April 22, 2011, 5:42 am | # | Reply

          no that’s chloroform! :)

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      April 21, 2011, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      Go ahead, find her some plants in the desert. Starvation will loosen most people’s morales.

  12. ...
    ...
    April 21, 2011, 6:42 am | # | Reply

    Panel n°2 : You got it right, Syr’nj. Even in medieval fanstasy webcomics, isolationism sucks.

  13. Naare
    Naare
    April 21, 2011, 8:44 am | # | Reply

    For a moment I thought maybe Gravedust would find the truth about the game with his friends mystics when he spoke “we should not be alive” two pages ago.

    Hm, I don’t think Byron’s behaviour is innapropriate. He’s drepressed and silent. The comic hinted in past pages that Byron hates going berserk, probably because something as terrible had already happened before. I’m sure this will be further developed later.

  14. G@T0R
    G@T0R
    April 21, 2011, 11:28 am | # | Reply

    I’m surprised Byron hasn’t gone for the suicide attempt/gesture. Although if that were the case, why would he have even come back to his body in the first place? Unless what gravedust did was a cosmic equivalent of a defibrillator and he had no real choice in the matter.

  15. alta lemur
    alta lemur
    April 21, 2011, 12:31 pm | # | Reply

    Just fyi guys, cannibalism is eating your own species, not eating the same kingdom/phylum/class/order/family/whatever.

  16. dr pepper
    dr pepper
    April 21, 2011, 4:20 pm | # | Reply

    Be funny if another race of humans were to come in form a different direction and stomp everyone, forcing the surviving gastonians to join the rebellion.

    Or another race of dwarves is able to conquer the savasi and haul them away as slaves because they had the advice of a full compliment of mystics.

  17. Geeky35407
    Geeky35407
    April 21, 2011, 10:34 pm | # | Reply

    Cheer up, emo-zerker!

  18. Belisarius
    Belisarius
    October 26, 2015, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    To summarise syrinj’s monoluge:problems between few people are connected to trouble of many.what if existence is a fallible option? One I’m not meant to take, the world might oppose it. The world called me back though, “destiny” might support my endeavours instead of oppose em? I can only do what I can do. Blergh existensialism is for teenagers, gimme that macguffin best talks about

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