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WTB [Potion of Landing] PST

Chapter 10 – Page 17

on May 4, 2011
Chapter: Chapter 10
└ Tags: Best, Byron, Frigg
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  1. swordsister
    swordsister
    May 4, 2011, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    I didn’t know that Payet had the Pickof Destiny…

    • Steneub
      Steneub
      May 4, 2011, 10:06 am | # | Reply

      I thought he was the prick of destiny.

      • The Occupant
        The Occupant
        May 5, 2011, 1:24 am | # | Reply

        He probably THINKS he has the Prick of Destiny.

        • Locke
          Locke
          May 5, 2011, 8:10 am | # | Reply

          Then, instead of “Master Exploder”, would Best sing “Master Debater”?

  2. Faceless Minion
    Faceless Minion
    May 4, 2011, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    FIGHT THE POWER!

    • Van
      Van
      May 4, 2011, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

      Row Row Fight Da Powah?

  3. Nivella
    Nivella
    May 4, 2011, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    It’s not the “to” that matters.
    It is the “from” that is important.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      May 4, 2011, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      Rincewind would be proud…

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        May 4, 2011, 2:19 am | # | Reply

        But Byron is still wearing his shoes.

  4. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    May 4, 2011, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Frigg: CANNONBAAAHHHHL!

    I knew Best was gonna do something awesome. He knows how to have fun. 8-) ROW, ROW…

    • Sortelli
      Sortelli
      May 4, 2011, 4:00 am | # | Reply

      Best needs the shades.

    • Van
      Van
      May 4, 2011, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

      …FIGHT DA POWAH.

  5. Alechsa
    Alechsa
    May 4, 2011, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Annnnd…. now I’m hearing the track from my Power Puff Girls CD…

    • swordsister
      swordsister
      May 4, 2011, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      i’m hearing super mario theme. bouncing effect included.

      • Katlamos
        Katlamos
        May 4, 2011, 1:14 am | # | Reply

        I can just hear Row Row Fight the Powah now, thanks to Best

    • Tyris
      Tyris
      May 4, 2011, 2:22 am | # | Reply

      With that YEAAAAAAAAH how can anybody, ever, possibly be hearing anything other than “Won’t Get Fooled Again”?

      • Lestantes
        Lestantes
        May 6, 2011, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

        I was definitely hearing that too. Only Horatio himself could have pulled off that one-liner better.

  6. Fairportfan
    Fairportfan
    May 4, 2011, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    It’s Rincewind!

    • Locke
      Locke
      May 5, 2011, 8:09 am | # | Reply

      Naw, Byron isn’t wearing a dress. Nor a pointy hat.

  7. Masterof7s
    Masterof7s
    May 4, 2011, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Alt text win.

    • Hawk
      Hawk
      May 4, 2011, 10:12 am | # | Reply

      Indeed.

      • Lynxx
        Lynxx
        May 5, 2011, 12:17 am | # | Reply

        Lynxx (whisper): LOL nub buy from vendor in dalaran.

        • Phil
          Phil
          May 5, 2011, 6:16 pm | # | Reply

          Do people still hang out in Dalaran or what’s the new Portalhub/Neutral City?

          I’d really hate Dalaran to become just another whatsitsname. You know. The Outlands one.

          • Lynxx
            Lynxx
            May 7, 2011, 3:26 am | # | Reply

            no clue. i stopped playing since Wrath.

  8. Rognik
    Rognik
    May 4, 2011, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    1. Byron looks like a deformed muppet in panel 1.
    2. Payet just destroyed one of his precious book shields against the golems.
    3. You mean landing isn’t included in the bounce? Defective potion.

  9. Tecani
    Tecani
    May 4, 2011, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    I really love what direction the drawing style is going in.

    FIGHT THE POWER!!!

    • Catbus
      Catbus
      May 4, 2011, 7:13 am | # | Reply

      Uff. I don’t. Manga overload, esp. in the first and last panels. Does GA have to go in that direction?

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        May 4, 2011, 8:41 am | # | Reply

        It’s not a direction, just a lulzy “pit stop”.

        • Hawk
          Hawk
          May 4, 2011, 10:13 am | # | Reply

          I agree, I think it’s a choice made because of the slightly ridiculous tactics being used. Also, we’ve done the “watch the party scramble desperately” done in “serious style” art. Now it’s time for “desperate scramble Bugs Bunny style.”

          • JarrysKid
            JarrysKid
            May 4, 2011, 10:56 am | # | Reply

            “Here’s the plan: You run around to draw their fire, and you jump on them. I’ll be over here playing the “Benny Hill” theme.”

            • Thracecius
              Thracecius
              May 6, 2011, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

              Hah! That plan wins hands down. :D

      • Locke
        Locke
        May 5, 2011, 8:08 am | # | Reply

        Whaaaaaat? That’s not “Manga” style. Jeez, Catbus, you see Eastern influences everywhere. You’re worse than McCarthy. (CHINA IS COMMUNIST SO THAT JOKE COUNTS, DARN IT.)

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        June 26, 2013, 7:39 am | # | Reply

        Manga?
        That shit is straight up Warner Brothers style…
        Also Waltrip style. To be quite honest I hate when he starts doing that. It comes across as so camp.

  10. Raitor
    Raitor
    May 4, 2011, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    Every single panel would make an awesome t-shirt. (especially best saying “fight the power”)

  11. Noahkai
    Noahkai
    May 4, 2011, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    Not the books! NOT THE BOOKS YOU DAMN IDIOT! D:

    • Gillsing
      Gillsing
      May 4, 2011, 7:45 am | # | Reply

      Yes, how sure are they that the Basin of Foresight isn’t just another name for a bunch of books? Books can yield knowledge, knowledge can yield a degree of foresight. Wouldn’t be the first time the ‘magical’ treasure turns out to be something rather mundane. Well, maybe it would be for Best.

      • flevine
        flevine
        May 4, 2011, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

        Or, “The Basic of Foresight” could be the title of a book…perhaps one that Best just mangled…

    • Abeo
      Abeo
      May 4, 2011, 8:22 am | # | Reply

      I agree. What a dick.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      May 4, 2011, 9:33 am | # | Reply

      Keep your shorts on, there’s plenty more where those came from.

    • Locke
      Locke
      May 5, 2011, 8:06 am | # | Reply

      I’m hoping that the Basin of Foresight is a toilet. An old, dirty, clogged toilet. It’d explain why the elves didn’t take it with them.

      • Chevalion
        Chevalion
        May 6, 2011, 12:53 am | # | Reply

        Obviously shit-elf handiwork at its Best…

  12. Grug
    Grug
    May 4, 2011, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    I dislike anime byron in panel one >:(

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      May 4, 2011, 11:34 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, where’s the hentai Byron ffs. >:-|

      • Ishmael
        Ishmael
        May 4, 2011, 9:12 pm | # | Reply

        Hentai Byron is busy bottoming to Hentai Gravedust.

    • David Johnston
      David Johnston
      May 4, 2011, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

      What anime? That looks like Sergio Aragones.

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      May 4, 2011, 7:45 pm | # | Reply

      It’s more like Comic Strip Byron

    • Locke
      Locke
      May 5, 2011, 8:05 am | # | Reply

      Dude, that’s classic American comic strip style. It’s as Western as blue jeans and apple pie.

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        June 26, 2013, 7:40 am | # | Reply

        With you on that.
        Where the hell do they get off associating that campy crap with anime? ¬_¬

  13. Kestrel
    Kestrel
    May 4, 2011, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    It was Gummi Berry Juice, wasn’t it?

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      May 4, 2011, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

      Clearly if Blizzard became Hurricane and Azeroth became Arkerra, the Rabid Thistlebear had to turn into something…

  14. Katlamos
    Katlamos
    May 4, 2011, 1:15 am | # | Reply

    Best doesn’t have eyes in that last panel…

  15. Geigan
    Geigan
    May 4, 2011, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    That’s either a really good touch ac or a pretty decent reflex save Byron’s got.

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      May 4, 2011, 2:19 am | # | Reply

      Barbarians don’t usually wear much armour, and instead tend to pump Dex and Str (temporary hit points can easily replace Con), so it’s probably both.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      May 4, 2011, 5:36 pm | # | Reply

      Uncanny dodge obv.

  16. Sam
    Sam
    May 4, 2011, 1:28 am | # | Reply

    I heard the CSI Miami thing at the end there “YEAAAAAAH” half expected best to put sunglasses on

  17. Timelost
    Timelost
    May 4, 2011, 1:30 am | # | Reply

    Best smote the book on distractions.

    • Sortelli
      Sortelli
      May 4, 2011, 4:02 am | # | Reply

      Ugh! That joke should be struck from the records!

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        May 4, 2011, 5:24 am | # | Reply

        Indeed, we’ll have to throw the book at him.

        • Caitlin
          Caitlin
          May 4, 2011, 7:26 am | # | Reply

          Perhaps we should shelve this discussion before it gets worse.

          • centuriancode
            centuriancode
            May 4, 2011, 8:03 am | # | Reply

            After all, the jokes are clearly getting far too wooden.

            • Bloodpuddle
              Bloodpuddle
              May 4, 2011, 9:27 am | # | Reply

              Dewey really need to continue this line of thought?

              • Hawk
                Hawk
                May 4, 2011, 10:15 am | # | Reply

                Yes please stop before someone’s spine gets broken.

                • Tolrick
                  Tolrick
                  May 4, 2011, 10:50 am | # | Reply

                  Or beaten to a pulp.

                  • miklanin
                    miklanin
                    May 4, 2011, 6:48 pm | # | Reply

                    *pubLISHHHH*

                    apologies…all these musty, dusty tomes are aggravating my allergies

                    • Locke
                      Locke
                      May 5, 2011, 8:03 am | #

                      What, there’s a pun-off going on again? Dang it, why didn’t you guys page me and let me know? The worse part: I know that I’m bound to miss the next one, too. I always check these things out when my participation is past-due.

                    • dr pepper
                      dr pepper
                      May 5, 2011, 8:49 am | #

                      Poor Locke, always missing a pull-off, er pun-off.

                  • Timelost
                    Timelost
                    May 4, 2011, 7:02 pm | # | Reply

                    I wasn’t expecting this volume or type of responses, I’m truly sorry.

                    Let us turn the page, the past is prologue.

                    • Rognik
                      Rognik
                      May 4, 2011, 11:48 pm | #

                      Time to turn over a new leaf? Or just book it out of here?

                    • Jean-Luc
                      Jean-Luc
                      May 5, 2011, 12:17 am | #

                      It’s time to shelf this discussion.

                    • centuriancode
                      centuriancode
                      May 5, 2011, 5:26 am | #

                      Never! We must not let anything (Dewey) Decimate or puns!

  18. Bake
    Bake
    May 4, 2011, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    cant believe how cute Frigg looks :)

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      May 4, 2011, 12:45 pm | # | Reply

      Best’s charisma must have, um, rubbed off on her.

    • Amarula
      Amarula
      May 4, 2011, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

      I know, it’s shocking to note that she actually has girly eyelashes showing…

  19. ThatGuy
    ThatGuy
    May 4, 2011, 1:55 am | # | Reply

    yea. not dignified at all.

  20. Doma
    Doma
    May 4, 2011, 3:03 am | # | Reply

    ROW ROW ROW

  21. Locke
    Locke
    May 4, 2011, 3:14 am | # | Reply

    One of the Byrons in Panel one looks like he’s rocking out. XD

  22. Nathanyel
    Nathanyel
    May 4, 2011, 3:29 am | # | Reply

    Why do the golems have giant jockstraps? The star on the belt even makes the top look like… you know :P Are they like Sex Machine and have their main weapon hidden there?

    • Sybarite
      Sybarite
      May 4, 2011, 3:52 am | # | Reply

      I never noticed that before… Do ya spend a lot of time staring at the crotches of statues?

      • Nathanyel
        Nathanyel
        May 4, 2011, 5:08 am | # | Reply

        I checked the previous strips, they just never were that visible yet :P

        • Catbus
          Catbus
          May 4, 2011, 7:17 am | # | Reply

          Don’t watch “The Iron Giant” too closely, then.

          • Hawk
            Hawk
            May 4, 2011, 10:17 am | # | Reply

            I assumed that the *ahem* straps were actually the housing for the gear/socket/motion system for the golems’ legs. They look a lot more like the swivel point systems on robotic arms in factories.

            I wish I knew more technical terms for what that is >.<

            • JarrysKid
              JarrysKid
              May 4, 2011, 11:01 am | # | Reply

              The technical term for those is “Huge Cock”.

      • dr pepper
        dr pepper
        May 4, 2011, 5:13 am | # | Reply

        Someone has to.

        • MYichao
          MYichao
          May 4, 2011, 5:48 am | # | Reply

          Being shot at with lasers from giant robots makes Byron make non emo-faces. Hurray!

      • Hornet
        Hornet
        May 4, 2011, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

        Only if they’re nake Greek-Roman-Hindu ones.
        Actually I think that covers all the groups that actually sculpt naked females, or at least ones that aren’t pregnant?

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      May 4, 2011, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

      They’re actually giant chastity belts. Just the elves doing their part to prevent robots from overrunning the world.

      • Phil
        Phil
        May 4, 2011, 9:45 pm | # | Reply

        Gold Star.

    • Timelost
      Timelost
      May 4, 2011, 6:54 pm | # | Reply

      It’s not actually a jockstrap, it appears to me to be a pelvis analog, rather than being a solid piece of stone the golems appear to be made of five separate pieces, much like the Common Voltron.

      Did you ever own any G.I.Joes as a kid?
      It’s actually a fairly standard action figure set-up, if you look closely it’s actually a semi-circular extension of the torso and the legs connect with a sort of Ball-and-Socket arrangement…rubber-bands may also be involved.

      • John
        John
        May 4, 2011, 11:14 pm | # | Reply

        Micronauts, actually.

  23. Caradin
    Caradin
    May 4, 2011, 6:06 am | # | Reply

    So.. typically I hate payet.. but.. today I think he looks pretty awesome.. and he’s having way too much fun dodging all the pew-pew

    • cairea
      cairea
      May 4, 2011, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

      I think that’s been Best’s main redeeming feature for me: he has so much fun doing what he’s good at.

  24. Nacho Grande
    Nacho Grande
    May 4, 2011, 7:07 am | # | Reply

    Sonic BOOM!

  25. 1d4caltrop
    1d4caltrop
    May 4, 2011, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    The Byrons in the first panel should be made into avatar-type icons. :-)

  26. Abcus
    Abcus
    May 4, 2011, 10:40 am | # | Reply

    I love Byron’s dry exposition / voiceover as he’s frantically dodging all the pew, pew, pew. Especially his reaction to Best’s music: “Really? *exasperated sigh*”

    Makes me think he’ll be out of his funk soon. =D.

  27. flevine
    flevine
    May 4, 2011, 12:41 pm | # | Reply

    re: Top center panel: Thank you, Byron, for expressing what I’ve been thinking since Chapter 9…

  28. Karishi
    Karishi
    May 4, 2011, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

    The desire for Potion of Landing reminds me of that super-jumping scroll from Morrowind.

    • Locke
      Locke
      May 5, 2011, 7:59 am | # | Reply

      Well, to be fair, those things were useful for reaching that giant meteorite/moon before you should. Or climbing really tall towers that belonged to mages who wanted to keep you out. Or for traveling, provided you could fall in a deep body of water.

      Otherwise you’d just make a player-character pancake.

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        June 26, 2013, 7:44 am | # | Reply

        You realise you could use one Scroll of Icarian Flight for launching and another for landing, right?

        And you realise that you could use that set-up to jump from where you get the scrolls and land slap-bang in the middle of Balmora, right? The scrolls were placed there explicitly as a shortcut to get to Balmora, and provided just the right amount of Acrobatics for the job.

        Using them to reach the Ministry of Truth is pointless. Heck, anyone should have already bought Tinur’s Hoptoad or Levitation by the time they go to Vivec anyway.

  29. Tatsu
    Tatsu
    May 4, 2011, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

    I do love Byron..haha he’s more fun when he looks like..he’s having somewhat fun

  30. Naare
    Naare
    May 4, 2011, 5:49 pm | # | Reply

    I think I just found Best’s theme song. Has anyone ever heard “A Perfect Day”, from Freedom Call? First thing that came into my mind while hearing the song today was this strip, I just HAD to share it with someone!

  31. Freako
    Freako
    May 4, 2011, 7:27 pm | # | Reply

    Ok, so what I got from this strip is that Byron’s player watches Burn Notice, and Best’s player watches CSI: Miami.

  32. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    May 4, 2011, 7:46 pm | # | Reply

    Frigg= DEATH FROM ABOVE!!!

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      May 5, 2011, 5:29 am | # | Reply

      She fights for the Emperor, now?

      No wonder she was with the nuns – she’s a Sister of Battle!

      • Locke
        Locke
        May 5, 2011, 7:58 am | # | Reply

        She must be from a chapter that the Angry Marines helped start.

  33. Lynxx
    Lynxx
    May 5, 2011, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Looks like rock beat paper.

    • Phil
      Phil
      May 5, 2011, 6:19 pm | # | Reply

      Gold Star.

      • Lynxx
        Lynxx
        May 7, 2011, 3:26 am | # | Reply

        :D yay!

  34. Keairan
    Keairan
    May 5, 2011, 3:30 am | # | Reply

    Looking at the golems text, does it make anyone else think of French?

    • G@T0R
      G@T0R
      May 5, 2011, 10:30 am | # | Reply

      Why? Does it say surrender?

  35. Locke
    Locke
    May 5, 2011, 7:55 am | # | Reply

    Also, Best, you forgot the shades, man. Come on.

  36. Pashakitty
    Pashakitty
    May 5, 2011, 10:37 am | # | Reply

    Only thing I can say about this is that it’s FREAKING HILARIOUS!

  37. Thom
    Thom
    May 5, 2011, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

    Allan Dant: Please report to the front desk.

  38. Amaster
    Amaster
    May 5, 2011, 11:16 pm | # | Reply

    I am reminded of a DnD Lord of the Rings one-shot where the cave troll was hugely overpowered and the only way to do major damage was for the hobbit Merry to use himself as a cannonball and do a called shot to the troll’s nadgers. Since he was bloodied at the time, we called him a “bloody Merry”. After the shot, he saw under the troll’s loincloth and became a “dirty bloody Merry”.

  39. FreddeX
    FreddeX
    May 18, 2011, 5:16 am | # | Reply

    I love this comic so much! :D

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