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

We know, Gravedust. They're going to try it anyway.

Chapter 10 – Page 15

on April 29, 2011
Chapter: Chapter 10
└ Tags: Best, Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, Syr'Nj
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  1. Katlamos
    Katlamos
    April 29, 2011, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    This is gonna end well, I’m sure.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      April 29, 2011, 2:11 am | # | Reply

      Eh, this was bound to happen. I (de)cant believe there’s just one science bottle left…

    • Dusty668
      Dusty668
      April 29, 2011, 5:24 am | # | Reply

      Well ain’t that a corker.

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        April 29, 2011, 5:58 am | # | Reply

        Let’s just hope it’s not a screw(top) up.

        • EveryZig
          EveryZig
          April 29, 2011, 7:20 am | # | Reply

          These things happen when you’re on the rebound.

          • Caitlin
            Caitlin
            April 29, 2011, 7:32 am | # | Reply

            Hopefully that potion will allow them to spring back into action.

    • solna
      solna
      April 29, 2011, 3:16 pm | # | Reply

      now you’re jumping to conclusions.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 29, 2011, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

        This precognitive pun panel is leaps and bounds ahead of the curve.

        • centuriancode
          centuriancode
          April 30, 2011, 12:37 am | # | Reply

          Perhaps we should replace Godwin’s Law with Guilded’s Law: no matter what happens, puns will always spring up and jump at you.

          • FreddeX
            FreddeX
            May 18, 2011, 5:14 am | # | Reply

            I say we put it to a vote, anyone against?

            Tiny voice: Me!
            (gunshoot)
            Me holding a smoking gun: Anyone else? (pause) Good!

            • SotiCoto
              SotiCoto
              June 26, 2013, 7:32 am | # | Reply

              *Silences FreddeX with Spetum-through-the-Septum*

              Too many bad puns. Too many bad punners. You must all be… reprimanded.

              • Mojosman
                Mojosman
                November 22, 2015, 7:17 pm | # | Reply

                Hey!
                Let’s not…
                *Puts on sunglasses*
                Jump to conclusions.
                YEAAAAAAAAAAAA

                • SotiCoto
                  SotiCoto
                  March 30, 2016, 6:32 am | # | Reply

                  … That was an unbounded leap of logic. ¬_¬

  2. Thor
    Thor
    April 29, 2011, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    As long as it isn’t Pixar’s Bounding. A potion that causes cowboy poetry can only be used for evil.

  3. Tecani
    Tecani
    April 29, 2011, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Awwwww, look at Bryon and Payet working together!

    I bet they’re going to become BEST friends!

    • kagato23
      kagato23
      April 29, 2011, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      Just as imporantly, Byron is back! The Byron earlier today would have been more “Hey guys. You run. I’ll.. hold em off. Meh.”

      Good to know when the chips are down and the shit’s hitting the fan, he’s less emo and more take charge.

      At least until the chips are really down and he murders everybody cause he’s pissed about it.

      • Warriormon87
        Warriormon87
        April 29, 2011, 2:13 am | # | Reply

        It’s all about have just the right amount of chips.

      • Dragonharper
        Dragonharper
        April 29, 2011, 4:05 am | # | Reply

        Not just working together, either. Byron took command, and Best seems to acknowledge his leadership: “We’ll wait for the word from Syr’nj…” and Best didn’t immediately dispute.

        • Jean-Luc
          Jean-Luc
          April 30, 2011, 9:23 am | # | Reply

          I’m trying to find the part where B took command but I can’t find it. Plz help.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      April 29, 2011, 12:34 am | # | Reply

      Was about to say the same thing. Look at ’em talking and agreeing on stuff like a couple of “buds”. :P

      And GD is just so sick of everything.

    • Doop doop
      Doop doop
      April 29, 2011, 3:38 am | # | Reply

      I don’t know if I’m more amazed that Best is working with Byron, that Byron is working with Best, or that the two of them both somehow seem to know about how golems work.

      I mean come on, neither of them are really magic academy material here. Best…is a Bard so I guess he has some basis in terms of legends?

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        April 29, 2011, 6:01 am | # | Reply

        How about the Legend Lore spell? Or a Bardic Knowledge check? Used correctly, either one of those is basically a license to metagame. Together they give you “Leaf through Mosnter Manual” as a free action.

        • Tachyon
          Tachyon
          April 29, 2011, 4:53 pm | # | Reply

          All very useful – but let’s not discount the value of whatever’s common knowledge for the setting. Not everything useful has to be feats, class features, and magicks.

          To say it a different way – all that glitters is not mechanical :P

          • centuriancode
            centuriancode
            April 30, 2011, 12:38 am | # | Reply

            True, but it may be gold.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 29, 2011, 7:34 am | # | Reply

        Bardic knowledge can be pretty versatile but, more importantly, Best seems to know a great deal about Sky Elves. Even his Axe was crafted by them.

      • Tachyon
        Tachyon
        April 29, 2011, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

        Byron has said before that he’s been through a lot. All we’ve seen of him is everything that happened after his intro (not counting the scenes outside of Arkerra, in his interview, and in the tube), but he already had his axes and equipment beforehand and was therefore logically adventuring successfully long before we met him. The Byron we all know today is just working with a guild, now – hence the title of the comic :P

        Continuing on, the Sky Elves I’m sure left tons of ruins behind, presumably with functional (or dysfunctional) automatons; this group certainly wouldn’t be the first group of adventurers to happen upon them and make them angry. Likewise, Gastonia’s market sells used cogs and other machine parts at a considerable markup – of course there’s bound to be everyday adventurers who are knowledgeable about golems (or at least how to hack them to pieces, which could arguably be the source of the used machine parts).

        And then there was Sundar’s brother with his mechanical warrior idea, and gnomes with their tinkering, making it obvious there is a progressive push for being technologically competitive with the Sky Elves among the civilized races. And finally, there was that whole diplomatic mission to their floating city. Plenty of occasion for our heroes to have picked up some know-how about things that go “tick tick tick RAWR” in the night.

        On a related note, throughout the story thus far I have enjoyed the fact that, for a Berserker, Byron is endearingly competent, what with his adventuring experience and leadership qualities and respectable level of intelligence. So do I think he can break it?

        Yes he can!

        • TachyonCode
          TachyonCode
          June 15, 2014, 12:14 am | # | Reply

          Wow, I totally forgot about Priestlord Gigundus. They did hack that one to pieces, I should have pointed that out.

  4. plover
    plover
    April 29, 2011, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Parts… pills… pipe cleaners… POTIONS! All artifacts apparently alphabetized.

    As an aside, gorgeous golems.

    • Mic-Gold
      Mic-Gold
      April 29, 2011, 9:36 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks for piping in plover.

  5. plover
    plover
    April 29, 2011, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Silly Syrn’j! Don’t discard diphenhydramine!* Musty manuals and grimy grimoires activate allergies.

    *(plummeting pink pill)

    • alta lemur
      alta lemur
      April 29, 2011, 12:48 am | # | Reply

      Looks like a Benadryl to me.

      • Iocane
        Iocane
        April 29, 2011, 1:24 am | # | Reply

        Benadryl is a brand of diphenhydramine.

        • alta lemur
          alta lemur
          April 30, 2011, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

          Ah.

    • Abcus
      Abcus
      May 4, 2011, 10:22 am | # | Reply

      All Aboard for Awesome alliteration!

  6. Locke
    Locke
    April 29, 2011, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    “I’m going to have to resurrect us all AGAIN, aren’t I? Damn it….”

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      April 29, 2011, 6:04 am | # | Reply

      Oh quit your whinging – one glyph and you don’t even have to use reagents. Anyway, it’s been at least ten minutes since we last had you killed. You’ll be fine.

  7. kenneth
    kenneth
    April 29, 2011, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    Sentinels! That’s what they remind me of. Didn’t get that vibe last update, but I probably should have.

  8. SaltyKracka
    SaltyKracka
    April 29, 2011, 3:48 am | # | Reply

    I really like the texture in this one. It just suits the background perfectly.

  9. Nekropancser
    Nekropancser
    April 29, 2011, 4:22 am | # | Reply

    Frigg is bein friggin concerned… Look at her face in the last panel. She reminds me of a certain looney toones character.

  10. Doma
    Doma
    April 29, 2011, 4:44 am | # | Reply

    It’s actually bounding as in leaping and jumping. Shit’s gonna get even more hilarious.

  11. Berserker Rage
    Berserker Rage
    April 29, 2011, 6:38 am | # | Reply

    Now sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down,
    When you find that you’re down well just look around:
    You still got a body, good legs and fine feet,
    Get your head in the right place and hey, you’re complete!

    Bound, bound, bound and rebound….

    Sorry, I’ve just got this image of Frig bouncing off the walls like a superball decapitating those things

  12. banjo2E
    banjo2E
    April 29, 2011, 7:04 am | # | Reply

    I GOT IT!

    The golems are the librarians, and they’re trying to smite everyone because they’re running around, shouting, and generally being obnoxious in the library.

    • Fren
      Fren
      April 29, 2011, 7:53 am | # | Reply

      That, or they’re quite cross that nobody’s wiped their feet before entering.

    • Thracecius
      Thracecius
      April 29, 2011, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

      Actually, considering they’ve been dead for months, I bet they have overdue library books, and golems have very specific programming, so I bet they have orders to terminate violators on sight. :D

  13. Randonimity
    Randonimity
    April 29, 2011, 7:17 am | # | Reply

    The golems remind me of the sentinels from X-Men *0*

    • FoolishOwl
      FoolishOwl
      May 1, 2011, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

      One of the few X-Men comics I’ve read involved sentinels. The X-Men had an attack worked out in which Colossus would throw Wolverine, who had his blades extended, at the back of a sentinel’s head.

      Bounding? Axes?

      • Phil
        Flo
        May 1, 2011, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

        You are, of course, referring to the timeless Fastball Special.

        All three of us (and Erica, too) are pretty big X-Fans. So… I can’t promise we’ll never do that.

        • Locke
          Locke
          May 1, 2011, 5:31 pm | # | Reply

          Of course, you’ll have to make it fail epically. It wouldn’t be as entertaining otherwise.

  14. 1d4caltrop
    1d4caltrop
    April 29, 2011, 7:26 am | # | Reply

    Golem vibe? Byron’s into some kinky s***.

  15. Hawk
    Hawk
    April 29, 2011, 8:02 am | # | Reply

    So if that’s her last potion, and IF they survive this (heh)…will we get to see Syr make potions?? That’d be kinda cool to hear about anyway.

    Alos: bounding potion. Either they’ll jump like Jiminy Cricket or the potion will fence in a golem.

    Just one. :P

  16. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    April 29, 2011, 8:09 am | # | Reply

    …And Gravedust abruptly realizes that the rest of the party only promised to never toss the dwarf.

  17. Caitlin
    Caitlin
    April 29, 2011, 9:11 am | # | Reply

    Gravedust *could* be sighing in relief, as he appears to have been concerned about the state of his beard (panel 2).

  18. drakvl
    drakvl
    April 29, 2011, 9:46 am | # | Reply

    This talk of the spell being a “bound as in jump” spell now has me flashing back to the Gummi Bears.

    • banjo2E
      banjo2E
      April 29, 2011, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

      Oh god I loved that show

    • Thor
      Thor
      April 29, 2011, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

      If it means “Bound as in the movie” then we can expect new and surprising interactions between Syr’nj and Frigg.

  19. G@T0R
    G@T0R
    April 29, 2011, 11:02 am | # | Reply

    So did gravy say the word “sigh” as indicated in the speech bubble or did he breath audibly, as from sorrow, weariness, or relief?

    I guess he could have done both.

    • Thor
      Thor
      April 29, 2011, 3:36 pm | # | Reply

      Some of us were so conditioned by seeing the Peanuts cast use it in their speech bubbles that we use it IRL conversations. It’s an interjection indicating that the speaker is a bit let down by, but not truly surprised by, circumstances.

  20. dr pepper
    dr pepper
    April 29, 2011, 5:02 pm | # | Reply

    Frigg: Bounding? Right, i’ll jump on their heads and rip off the crowns– gulp!

    *poof!* (Frigg is now naked and tied up with leather straps and a ball g,)

    Syr (blushes) Er, i thought i used that one at the party last month.

    Best: Great idea, Syr. (unbuckles) Frigg and i will distract them while the rest of you circle around!

  21. Schlock
    Schlock
    April 29, 2011, 10:41 pm | # | Reply

    Monday’s comic will be them being rezzed again

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      April 30, 2011, 12:41 am | # | Reply

      Why, are you suggesting that they have contractual immortality?

  22. Jack Vermicelli
    Jack Vermicelli
    April 30, 2011, 2:25 am | # | Reply

    Why would Gravedust *say* the word “SIGH,” rather than just do it?

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      April 30, 2011, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

      It’s an old comic book tradition. See *gasp* *choke* *sob* and anything else you’ll see in an old Superboy comic.

  23. HLY
    HLY
    April 30, 2011, 3:02 am | # | Reply

    good to see byron leave ‘lil kid mode when he’s in danger, also the Best/Byron pannel made me lol. they do look like such good freinds

  24. zsabar
    zsabar
    April 30, 2011, 5:59 am | # | Reply

    this looks like a part of X-men

  25. Rykka
    Rykka
    April 30, 2011, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

    John, the first panel is pretty much a giveaway for establishing the size of the area, every good scene opener needs something like that and it’s not hard to do with a panel that large.

    But the way you manage to display size and depth so convincingly in the second panel is /amazing/. It’s a cramped, vertical, thin panel already crammed tight with detail and you /still/ managed to convey the outright hugeness of the library in it. While this entire page is tight and well done, that panel is just outstanding. Your work continues to impress and evolve!

    • John
      John
      May 1, 2011, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

      Thank you, Rykka. Establishing shots are important to …um establish… the surroundings around the characters as they move from one place, room, scene to another.

      I like the second panel too. There’s a lot of forced perspective tricks going on in that one, but I think it’s the bit of ceiling fading to black and the little white window on the “far wall” of the room that really lends scale to the place.

  26. Sortelli
    Sortelli
    April 30, 2011, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

    *ZAP* Oh, my bad, it was a potion of GROUNDING. Makes it easier for the lightning to hit us.

  27. SNGS
    SNGS
    May 1, 2011, 7:22 am | # | Reply

    Something about this page… I love the art here. Fantastic.

  28. Pashakitty
    Pashakitty
    May 1, 2011, 9:29 am | # | Reply

    Heh… I wonder if it’s “Gummy Berry Juice”? Adventures…. bouncing here and there and everywhere…. lol.

  29. Observer
    Observer
    March 6, 2015, 1:55 am | # | Reply

    Gummi Bears YAY! Love that show.

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