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

And then Byron lost his appetite again.

Chapter 10 – Page 12

on April 22, 2011
Chapter: Chapter 10
└ Tags: Best, Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, Syr'Nj
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  1. alicemacher
    alicemacher
    April 22, 2011, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Once again, kudos on the loltastic alt text.

    • Thor
      Thor
      April 22, 2011, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      I’m with Byron on that one. Eww.

      • Hawk
        Hawk
        April 22, 2011, 9:26 am | # | Reply

        Thirded.

        • zack of hiskatana
          zack of hiskatana
          August 4, 2011, 8:53 pm | # | Reply

          wait because of frigg or best?
          i agree with the eww for best. hes a douche.
          but friggs am grrl an i know ya all arent dissin ma grrl
          >_<

          • SotiCoto
            SotiCoto
            June 26, 2013, 6:06 am | # | Reply

            *Kills*
            *Loots corpse*
            *”Grrl” get*

  2. Thor
    Thor
    April 22, 2011, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    I still say it looks like Byron is making a map.

    A path to the mountains for sure.

    • Thor
      Thor
      April 22, 2011, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      Or a river. Path or river. With people on either side, or possibly just good Cingular Wireless connections. And there’s a coastline, or possibly a more meandering river. And what looks like whirlpools.

      If this isn’t a map, I’ll eat my hat. Which I shall make out of lettuce.

      • Aeovis
        Aeovis
        April 22, 2011, 1:17 am | # | Reply

        You can make sugar out of lettuce?

        • Thor
          Thor
          April 24, 2011, 8:09 pm | # | Reply

          You can make hats out of sugar?

          • SotiCoto
            SotiCoto
            June 26, 2013, 6:12 am | # | Reply

            Yes.

    • swordsister
      swordsister
      April 22, 2011, 5:48 am | # | Reply

      It doesn’t look like a map to me. It looks more like a ilustrated berserking face with fierce fangs and three bodies lying before it’s face. Imho they’re brayen bayern (?) and maybe bandit. The zigzag line in the middle looks like an opening in it’s chest but eh…mine is just a wild guess.

      By the way i kinda find it realistic for him to have creative tendency after bringing destruction.

      • Hawk
        Hawk
        April 22, 2011, 9:30 am | # | Reply

        But why are there swirls and wriggly lines?

        Also, the X’s might not be people. I’m not sure what else they might be – I mean, usually X marks the spot and all, but the number of X’s would seem to not be an indication of “yarr, treasure!”

        Maybe it’s some kind of memory – Byron’s first finger painting looked like so, back in the nice days before his first “episode” … when he killed Bayen and Brayen… you know, the good old days right?…

        • Whatev
          Whatev
          April 23, 2011, 1:40 am | # | Reply

          Nonsense. He’s just diagramming some plays!

      • John
        John
        April 22, 2011, 10:58 am | # | Reply

        hmm… very interesting, swordsister. go on.

        What else could the zig-zag line be?

        • flevine
          flevine
          April 22, 2011, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

          OK, John, I know you won’t answer this (or perhaps you would but then they’d have to kill you)–but could it be that this drawing keeps getting bigger and by the end of the chapter, if we pull back as our heroes are leaving, we might see from a higher angle just what it is? Hmmmmmm??????

          • 1d4caltrop
            1d4caltrop
            April 22, 2011, 7:33 pm | # | Reply

            All work and no play makes Byron a dull boy.
            All work and no play makes Byron a dull boy.
            All work and no play makes Byron a dull boy.

        • Animaniac
          Animaniac
          April 24, 2011, 3:59 am | # | Reply

          a separation, perhaps? Maybe he’s morbidly keeping score: “Enemies I’ve killed while berserk… Friends and family I’ve killed while berserk”

          Or drool, blood, the main street of his village, showing where those bodies lay to either side of it… hmm

    • Harrowed
      Harrowed
      April 22, 2011, 5:18 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe a battle plan?

  3. CarnivoreJJS
    CarnivoreJJS
    April 22, 2011, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    I guess that’s one way to wake the dead.

    • Tachyon
      Tachyon
      April 22, 2011, 3:22 am | # | Reply

      When the earth moves, that’s just the topsoil settling. ;D

  4. 1d4caltrop
    1d4caltrop
    April 22, 2011, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    So we know someone’s been eating meat. We’re just not sure it’s Byron.

  5. Tatsu
    Tatsu
    April 22, 2011, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    Dear Lord..ugh..Naked Best and Frigg..ugh…brain…bleach..NOW

    • Pikey
      Pikey
      April 22, 2011, 1:10 am | # | Reply

      Single malt, or 100% agave anejo?

      • ...
        ...
        April 22, 2011, 6:45 am | # | Reply

        I think both will be necessary. ^^

      • Harrowed
        Harrowed
        April 22, 2011, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

        Malt, please!

  6. TheGreyJedi
    TheGreyJedi
    April 22, 2011, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    Mmmmm, hatefrigged by Frigg.

  7. Larissa
    Larissa
    April 22, 2011, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    Oh god, that last panel. . .

    The image I saw in my mind cannot be unseen. *shudders*

  8. Tecani
    Tecani
    April 22, 2011, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    Byron demonstrates his master Tic-Tac-Toe skills.

  9. Aeovis
    Aeovis
    April 22, 2011, 1:20 am | # | Reply

    Byron’s behavior right now reminds me of a little kid. He’ll just quietly do what he’s told because it’s easier– the poor thing.

    Also, I hate to say it guys… But I ‘ship it. I think Frigg and Best may honestly make a lot of sense, even outside of casual sex if given the chance.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      April 22, 2011, 1:26 am | # | Reply

      Gooood Byron, now fetch the stick boy!

  10. soulsource
    soulsource
    April 22, 2011, 1:20 am | # | Reply

    Uh, well, had to eat my mount and stuff. You know, there’s a reason why we ride those beasts, instead of eating them….

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      April 22, 2011, 1:25 am | # | Reply

      Let’s not forget mingling with those land sharks. The only thing that smells worse than a fish in water is the one on land. Plus the desert sun.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      April 22, 2011, 1:33 am | # | Reply

      Almost forgot:

      Payet and Frigg, on a sandy sea,
      F-U-C-K-I-N-G

      Because there’s no childish euphemism for what they’re doing.

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        April 22, 2011, 1:50 am | # | Reply

        kissing is a… naive way to describe it. But truthfully? Your method preserves the rhythm pattern nicely without repeating the original.

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        April 22, 2011, 3:05 am | # | Reply

        Oh come on, stuck between a rock and a not-quite-so-hard place? Unarmoured grapple check? Preserving body heat? There are plenty of childish euphemisms, just as long as your childhood was somewhat sleezier than normal.

        Otherwise, though, kudos for finding a way to keep the rhythm – works well!

        • Geigan
          Geigan
          April 22, 2011, 3:33 am | # | Reply

          Do puns count as childish euphemisms? Because we’ve made plenty of those at their expense. Even just last thread rifting off pork and meat alone.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      April 22, 2011, 1:48 am | # | Reply

      Honestly, I thought there was more than one reason why they were called “Shit Elves”…

      • ...
        ...
        April 22, 2011, 6:47 am | # | Reply

        Eeeeew … ^^

        • Hawk
          Hawk
          April 22, 2011, 9:31 am | # | Reply

          ohmygod.

          • Riotllama
            Riotllama
            April 22, 2011, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

            Ass to mouth.

            • Jean-Luc
              Jean-Luc
              April 22, 2011, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

              • flevine
                flevine
                April 22, 2011, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

                I am not going to click on that.

                • Jean-Luc
                  Jean-Luc
                  April 22, 2011, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

                  C’mon, would picard post a video of people going a-t-m?

                  • BriGuy
                    BriGuy
                    April 22, 2011, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

                    Yes, because we all know Picard is a secret dirty old man. Vash only stopped seeing him because of all the tentacle porn she found in his holodeck files.

                    • Jean-Luc
                      Jean-Luc
                      April 22, 2011, 10:26 pm | #

                      http://random-gif.com/gif/Picard%20webcam.gif

                    • Locke
                      Locke
                      April 22, 2011, 10:56 pm | #

                      Picard, you son of a bitch, I’m pretty sure that was my cousin. And she’s sixteen. Say “hi” to Chris Hansen for me. I can’t wait for this scandal to hit the space-tabloids.

                  • Harrowed
                    Harrowed
                    April 22, 2011, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

                    Lol, I did!

      • Sentora
        Sentora
        April 23, 2011, 10:37 pm | # | Reply

        *snicker*

  11. Rognik
    Rognik
    April 22, 2011, 1:51 am | # | Reply

    Maybe this settles the whole “But she’s a vegetarian!” debacle. She’s not a rabid pro-vegan who says that eating meat is murder and must convert everyone. If we weren’t meant to eat meat, our teeth wouldn’t have evolved the way they have.

    Oh, and it tastes good, too.

  12. Snowblind
    Snowblind
    April 22, 2011, 2:11 am | # | Reply

    “Excuse? I was fuckin’ the dead.”

  13. Doma
    Doma
    April 22, 2011, 2:20 am | # | Reply

    “I have every STD known to modern medicine.”

    • miklanin
      miklanin
      April 22, 2011, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      …and very likely some that are as yet UNknown.

  14. miklanin
    miklanin
    April 22, 2011, 2:40 am | # | Reply

    My 02CP… Byron isn’t quite all there. (Understatement, anyone?) Perhaps something the mystic that almost got him to ‘zerk on Syr’nj implanted something in his subconscious that is now being shown via his sand art? Maybe his recent…er…affliction (the death, not the rage) unlocked it?

    • miklanin
      miklanin
      April 22, 2011, 2:42 am | # | Reply

      Yeegads. Kindly delete the “something” that immediately follows perhaps. That managed to sneak in there on me.

      *goes to check the lock on the Cage of Somethings

  15. Locke
    Locke
    April 22, 2011, 2:44 am | # | Reply

    Hellloooo, nude Frig. And Best. Best’s body makes me jealous. And slightly uncomfortable. I’m not afraid to admit it.

    • Jamal K.
      Jamal K.
      April 23, 2011, 11:45 am | # | Reply

      He’s the Best at porking Frigg

    • Sentora
      Sentora
      April 23, 2011, 10:41 pm | # | Reply

      Forgot Katherine already Gabe? She won’t let you walk in on her in the shower again.

  16. Randonimity
    Randonimity
    April 22, 2011, 3:24 am | # | Reply

    I am loving the musculature going on for Frigg *w*

  17. Warriormon87
    Warriormon87
    April 22, 2011, 5:43 am | # | Reply

    I am not sure he’s Byron it.

  18. Mujaki
    Mujaki
    April 22, 2011, 6:05 am | # | Reply

    We’ve seen that Best has been… prolific in the passel of partners he’s done the horizontal mambo with.
    But would it still be considered necrophilia if they’ve been brought back from the dead?

    • ...
      ...
      April 22, 2011, 6:50 am | # | Reply

      Well no. Frigg has been resurrected. So she’s alive again and, in consequence, can no longer be considered as dead. I guess.

      • Jamal K.
        Jamal K.
        April 23, 2011, 11:49 am | # | Reply

        But she’s technically considered a zombie. And he’s doin it with her…the zombie.

        • zack of hiskatana
          zack of hiskatana
          August 4, 2011, 8:59 pm | # | Reply

          no shes not a zombie she was resurrected. her soul and spirit are in there and she is once again a living breathing person. not a soulless rotting corpse.

    • Naare
      Naare
      April 22, 2011, 11:55 am | # | Reply

      I hope Frigg didn’t used “fuckin’ dead” as a discription of the actual situation.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 22, 2011, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

        :]

        • Geigan
          Geigan
          April 22, 2011, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

          :D

          • Jamal K.
            Jamal K.
            April 23, 2011, 11:47 am | # | Reply

            XD

  19. flevine
    flevine
    April 22, 2011, 6:30 am | # | Reply

    I think…I think I just threw up in my mouth a little…excuse me…

  20. dr pepper
    dr pepper
    April 22, 2011, 7:00 am | # | Reply

    Once you’ve had a revenant
    There’s nothing else you’ll ever want

  21. dr pepper
    dr pepper
    April 22, 2011, 7:03 am | # | Reply

    As for the drawing, perhaps it’s like zen gardening. As part of his anger control regimen, Byron has been taught to express his emotions symbolicly.

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      April 22, 2011, 8:24 am | # | Reply

      Ah, so the nuclear bomb theory was right! Grats to whoever picked that one.

  22. BriGuy
    BriGuy
    April 22, 2011, 1:20 pm | # | Reply

    It’s weird, but I just don’t see Frigg being someone who would kiss Best, or really putting her mouth on any part of his body, even during a hatefuck.

    Now someone’s going to link a page where Frigg kisses someone, that I didn’t remember because the coffee is still traveling to my brain.

  23. KiZeR
    KiZeR
    April 22, 2011, 6:49 pm | # | Reply

    Of course he tastes terrible, he is a shit elf.

    • Locke
      Locke
      April 22, 2011, 11:02 pm | # | Reply

      Tin Star Made In China To Resemble Phil’s Star, Complete With Lead-based Gold Paint.

      Because I found it pretty funny, but I just can’t afford a precious metal to make a decent counterfeit with which show my appreciation. Sorry, man.

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        April 24, 2011, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

        Now, see, that’s what I meant way up there. Everyone had to go the gross-and-corrupt way. SHAME ON YOU GUYS!

  24. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    April 22, 2011, 7:43 pm | # | Reply

    Best poking a dead body.

  25. Katlamos
    Katlamos
    April 22, 2011, 8:51 pm | # | Reply

    Best has a nice body. Not gonna lie.

    But Best and Frigg?! None of that makes any goddamn sense. And to be honest, I always figured Frigg would end up being a lesbian or something.

    • Locke
      Locke
      April 22, 2011, 11:00 pm | # | Reply

      Just because she’s a self-empowered woman who breaks our stereotypical gender-roles she has to be a lesbian? And don’t point out the previous hinted-at experience with Syr. You went straight to “lesbian” when you very well could have went to “bi”, after all, she was shown with Best before.

      And I’m not angry, for the record, I’m just in a college lit. class which has made me extremely aware of gender roles in literature. I’m just having fun with your comment. Nice cat avatar, by the way, used to own a cat just like that. :P

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        April 22, 2011, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

        Just wait until a lecturer insists that Twilight supports feminist ideas of female liberation and the end of bad stereotypes, forcing you to give it a positive analysis from a feminist perspective.

        We all figured she was crazy.

        • Locke
          Locke
          April 23, 2011, 1:52 am | # | Reply

          No, I’m not talking about “Dumbing Of Age”. I’m talking about a real professor. Come one, Centurian, not everything is about webcomics.*

          *(Only about 58% of everything is.)

          • Animaniac
            Animaniac
            April 24, 2011, 4:02 am | # | Reply

            I’m pretty sure he was referring to an actual professor, Locke… Dumbing of Age only mentioned Twilight in reference to the Bechtel Test, which has nothing to do with bat-sh*t crazy assignment he’s talking about.

        • Sentora
          Sentora
          April 23, 2011, 10:43 pm | # | Reply

          I would walk out the class and get an F before agreeing with that.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      April 23, 2011, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      While Frigg may not be very feminine she still has needs. She is also a pragmatist. Frigg wants to get laid, Best is hawt, can you put two and two together?

      The two are also more similar than it would appear imo. Best is a very capable fighters, something Frigg respects, it’s how the “hooked up” in the first place. Both are pretty snarky, stubborn, confident and pretty laid back about life.

      Even while they’re jabbing at each other in the last panel the look in their eyes (Frigg’s especially) almost seems to indicate a kind of “closeness”, the kinda that only two such willful individuals can have. I’d love to see this go beyond just a “hatefuck”.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 23, 2011, 12:19 am | # | Reply

        Feckin’ typos.

        *fighter

        *they hooked up

      • FoolishOwl
        FoolishOwl
        April 24, 2011, 2:08 pm | # | Reply

        From what we saw of their players in Sepia World, I can see Frigg and Best having a sexual relationship that would, by default, end badly. Frigg’s player is very insecure; Best’s player is very narcissistic. Best’s narcissism, like Frigg’s hostility and aggressiveness, may be a way to cover his vulnerabilities.

        A “happy ending” would require the two of them learning to trust each other. That will be a challenge.

        Come to think of it, there are a lot of roleplayed romances in MMORPGs, and I wonder how many of them involve people like these two.

    • flevine
      flevine
      April 23, 2011, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t think Frigg and Best would work out, at least not as things stand, but mostly because of Best. I don’t think he’d be capable of having any sort of relationship or partnership of equality–he’s the star, he has to be the center of attention, and he obviously has an appetite for…everything. I get the impression Frigg would shrug off or join in the orgies, but I think in the long run he would see her as a “hot sidekick” at most and she would end up insulted, downplayed, and condescended to like everyone else. I don’t see her putting up with that.

  26. Nacho Grande
    Nacho Grande
    April 22, 2011, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

    Oh my GOD Frigg is disgusting-looking. The eyebrows alone are going to give me nightmares.

    • Thor
      Thor
      April 24, 2011, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

      Wow. If cleanly-drawn cartoon women give you this much problem, I can only imagine your revulsion if you are ever confronted with the flaws and irregularities of a real woman.

      • Phil
        Flo
        April 24, 2011, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

        I agree with this comment.

        • Nacho Grande
          Nacho Grande
          April 24, 2011, 7:43 pm | # | Reply

          @Thor: Number one, you’re really, truly aiming that particular brand of venom at the wrong person. Number two, nice body, but her head’s too big and she looks like a female Mike Doonesbury (it’s’ the eyes, mainly).

          @Phil: I wasn’t expecting a gold star, so okay, I guess.

          (Double posted because I wanted to make sure the reply went to the right place)

          • Jean-Luc
            Jean-Luc
            April 24, 2011, 8:00 pm | # | Reply

            Yeah, Frigg’s a bit of a tomboy but she has one thing going for her and that’s the fact that she’s a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qHX493bB3U.

            • Thor
              Thor
              April 24, 2011, 8:08 pm | # | Reply

              Hunh. Link did not go to the song I was expecting. I was guessing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBx6mAWYPU

  27. Nacho Grande
    Nacho Grande
    April 24, 2011, 7:35 pm | # | Reply

    @Thor: Number one, you’re really, truly aiming that particular brand of venom at the wrong person. Number two, nice body, but her head’s too big and she looks like a female Mike Doonesbury (it’s’ the eyes, mainly).

    @Phil: I wasn’t expecting a gold star, so okay, I guess.

  28. Twigs
    Twigs
    May 15, 2011, 4:29 pm | # | Reply

    MY EYES

    What has been seen …

  29. zack of hiskatana
    zack of hiskatana
    August 4, 2011, 9:03 pm | # | Reply

    oooohhhhh frigg nuuuuuddddeeee…..

    hubba hubba.

    bugger off best and go fuck yourself.

  30. .
    .
    March 9, 2014, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

    well he *is* a shit elf

  31. Neferius
    Neferius
    September 3, 2015, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

    “I’ve been having so many non-stop orgies i haven’t really found the time to bathe. Soo, yea… you might wanna stock up on healing balm.”
    xD

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