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Hey, 'Impale' rhymes! What, too soon?

Chapter 10 – Page 4

on April 4, 2011
Chapter: Chapter 10
└ Tags: Best, Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, Syr'Nj
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  1. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    April 4, 2011, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Bwahahahahahahahahhahahaahaha!

    • Locke
      Locke
      April 4, 2011, 12:06 am | # | Reply

      Ohohohohohohohohohoho!

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 4, 2011, 12:07 am | # | Reply

        And a bottle o’ rum!

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        April 4, 2011, 1:01 am | # | Reply

        Ack! It’s the evil-female anime laugh!

      • Harrowed
        Harrowed
        April 4, 2011, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

        Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

        • Lynxx
          Lynxx
          April 4, 2011, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

          Fufufufufufufufufufufufu

          • Aeovis
            Aeovis
            April 5, 2011, 12:26 am | # | Reply

            Kukukukukukukukukuku

      • Locke
        Locke
        April 4, 2011, 6:53 pm | # | Reply

        UWHEE-HEE-HEE!

        • Freako
          Freako
          April 5, 2011, 4:10 pm | # | Reply

          Hyuk hyuk hyuk!

  2. Thor
    Thor
    April 4, 2011, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Bandit?

    No?

    (sigh)

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      April 4, 2011, 2:28 am | # | Reply

      Whining stopped yet?

      No?

      (sigh)

      • Thor
        Thor
        April 4, 2011, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

        Whining about whining stopped yet?

        No?

        (sigh)

        • Brandon Richard
          Brandon Richard
          April 4, 2011, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

          Mad because people mention the whining?

          Yes?

          Awesome. -high fives-

        • Valdrax
          Valdrax
          April 4, 2011, 6:09 pm | # | Reply

          Whining about whining about whining stopped yet?

          No?

          (sigh)

          [This is the internet. It’s space-wasting whiners and hypocrites ALL the way down.]

          • Locke
            Locke
            April 4, 2011, 6:54 pm | # | Reply

            Whining about whining about whining about whining stopped yet?

            No?

            Okay.

            • Critwrench
              Critwrench
              April 4, 2011, 10:39 pm | # | Reply

              Whining about whining about whining about whining about whining stopped yet?

              No?

              WE NEED TO GO DEEPER.

              • littlebeast
                littlebeast
                April 5, 2011, 4:19 am | # | Reply

                Nope.

      • alicemacher
        alicemacher
        April 4, 2011, 9:16 pm | # | Reply

        Wine being served yet?

        Yes?

        Excellent! Innkeep, I’ll take a jeroboam of your finest red. Put it on Best’s tab. Hm? Yeah, he’s buying the next round for everyone, don’t you know.

        • Jean-Luc
          Jean-Luc
          April 5, 2011, 7:31 am | # | Reply

          Some cheeeeeeese sir?

          • alicemacher
            alicemacher
            April 5, 2011, 4:36 pm | # | Reply

            That’s “madam” to you; and yes, please!

            • Jean-Luc
              Jean-Luc
              April 5, 2011, 7:45 pm | # | Reply

              My apologies ma’am. Please enjoy your acidified bovine secretion.

              • Locke
                Locke
                April 5, 2011, 11:33 pm | # | Reply

                This here is one FAAANCY party! You gots yerselves any of them “whore-dervs” around here? Them are fancy folk food.

                • Jak
                  Jak
                  April 9, 2011, 8:14 pm | # | Reply

                  I’ve got some cheese hidden in me fanny pack. Would ye like some?

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        March 30, 2016, 5:34 am | # | Reply

        At least it isn’t whining about Firsters at this point in the timeline.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      April 4, 2011, 4:19 am | # | Reply

      That’s bandit in the top panel.

      • dr pepper
        dr pepper
        April 4, 2011, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

        agreed

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          April 4, 2011, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

          I mean grey boxes imply that Frigg is unconscious and thinking, buy “Why’m” is a banditism if ever I saw one.

          • SteelRaven
            SteelRaven
            April 4, 2011, 8:00 pm | # | Reply

            Bandit the Berserker… I like it!

    • MrZipangu
      MrZipangu
      April 5, 2011, 6:48 am | # | Reply

      Bandit is just Best double boxing anyway.

  3. Locke
    Locke
    April 4, 2011, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    You know you got issues when somebody asks what your favorite position is and you reply “the fetal position”.

    • JarrysKid
      JarrysKid
      April 4, 2011, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

      Well, his “Fatal Position” didn’t go over so well…

  4. Dean
    Dean
    April 4, 2011, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Aww, she’s a drooler. :)

    • Locke
      Locke
      April 4, 2011, 12:06 am | # | Reply

      Hope that beetle knows how to swim.

      And I bet we all drool a little when heavily sedated.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 4, 2011, 12:08 am | # | Reply

        Pretty sure the beetle is drinking the drool. Yet another tiny bit of awesomeness which is already so abundant on this page.

        • Jean-Luc
          Jean-Luc
          April 4, 2011, 12:08 am | # | Reply

          You could say Frigg’s drool is “beetlejuice”.

          • Locke
            Locke
            April 4, 2011, 12:29 am | # | Reply

            Beetlejuice?

            • Locke
              Locke
              April 4, 2011, 12:36 am | # | Reply

              (Come on people, one more time!)

              • SotiCoto
                SotiCoto
                March 30, 2016, 5:38 am | # | Reply

                Hastur?

            • FistFingers
              FistFingers
              April 4, 2011, 12:41 am | # | Reply

              betelgeuse

              • Timelost
                Timelost
                April 4, 2011, 12:46 am | # | Reply

                Mango Juice.

                • tejón
                  tejón
                  April 4, 2011, 1:50 am | # | Reply

                  And on your left is a naked pig.

                  • Meirnon
                    Meirnon
                    April 4, 2011, 2:33 pm | # | Reply

                    Th-th-th-th-that’s all, folks.

                    • Jean-Luc
                      Jean-Luc
                      April 4, 2011, 2:56 pm | #

                      What are you people, I don’t even…

                    • Locke
                      Locke
                      April 4, 2011, 6:56 pm | #

                      WE WERE SUPPOSED TO SUMMON MICHAEL KEATON. YOU RUINED IT. ALL OF YOU RUINED IT.

                    • Meirnon
                      Meirnon
                      April 4, 2011, 10:01 pm | #

                      Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse, Michael Keaton has better things to do.

                    • Michael Keaton
                      Michael Keaton
                      April 5, 2011, 3:00 am | #

                      Sorry I was stuck in traffic. Am I late?

                    • Meirnon
                      Meirnon
                      April 5, 2011, 6:38 pm | #

                      : |

                      Nope.

                    • Locke
                      Locke
                      April 5, 2011, 11:31 pm | #

                      Michael Keaton! GASP. Wow. First Start Trek characters, and then Michael Keaton? Who’s next? Charlie Sheen?

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          April 4, 2011, 6:05 am | # | Reply

          This kind of reminds me of the little red bugs in OotS you know? the little beetle is doing it’s own thing entirely independant of the actual characters.

          • Hawk
            Hawk
            April 4, 2011, 10:54 am | # | Reply

            I thought the little red bugs were demon cockroaches?

      • Thom
        Thom
        April 4, 2011, 10:46 am | # | Reply

        The large mammal collapses from the sedative venom injected by its plant-like companion. Saliva from the mammal pools on the ground, sustaining a young sand beetle for yet another day. This is the great Circle of Life, rolling ever onward.

        • JarrysKid
          JarrysKid
          April 4, 2011, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

          The Piss Ants are off panel.

  5. Steneub
    Steneub
    April 4, 2011, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    WHAT IS THIS I DON’T EVEN

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      April 4, 2011, 2:26 am | # | Reply

      I love how Frigg’s brain is so oversaturated with memes that he just come as natural reactions at appropriate times.

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        April 4, 2011, 2:27 am | # | Reply

        “He?” That was a weird typo for “they…”

  6. Hoo-ya
    Hoo-ya
    April 4, 2011, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Byron looks kinda like a muppet in that last panel.

    I approve.

    • BarGamer
      BarGamer
      April 4, 2011, 12:44 am | # | Reply

      Syrn’j the Frog here, with breaking news! Byron has Berserker’s Remorse. Leaders are trying to keep back Frigg-ing agitators, but most people are concerned about the status of rogue bandit forces… Popular musicians are already commemorating the event, with the CD out next month.

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        April 4, 2011, 1:03 am | # | Reply

        Most of the major players are sitting down to a discussion. It seems one of the forces have some heavy weight on her shoulders (and back and waist…)

    • Doop doop
      Doop doop
      April 4, 2011, 5:06 am | # | Reply

      Now requesting a Byron the Berserker plushie.

      • Locke
        Locke
        April 4, 2011, 6:58 pm | # | Reply

        It’d be priceless if the plush was in the fetal position. I’d buy it for all my kids and young relatives. “See, this is what life does to you when you grow up!”

  7. Timelost
    Timelost
    April 4, 2011, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Berserker’s remorse.

    Been there, done that, bought the Hallmark card.

    Did you know they have a “Sorry for Disemboweling Your Uncle” card now?

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      April 4, 2011, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      Actually they only have “Sorry I ACCIDENTALLY dissembled” card but I guess it’s close enough.

      • Thom
        Thom
        April 5, 2011, 5:24 pm | # | Reply

        Sorry I accidentally dissembled your Uncle. I didn’t really have a headache that night. Not sure why you are demanding an apology.
        Love, Auntie

        “I could have had cousins!!”

    • Locke
      Locke
      April 4, 2011, 6:58 pm | # | Reply

      It’s not as bad as the “Hey, honey, sorry that I seduced your grandmother” card. That one’s just awkward.

  8. gangler
    gangler
    April 4, 2011, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    It just occured to me that when Byron went Berserk, Syrnj was the only member of the group who seemed to know what was going on. I bet she’s studied the condition or something. That might even be why she had a syringe full of knockout tonic handy when the moment called for it.

    • Timelost
      Timelost
      April 4, 2011, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      Or it might just be that a dose of sleepy juice is a handy thing for a resourceful young lady to have in her personal inventory.

      • Tachyon
        Tachyon
        April 4, 2011, 3:57 am | # | Reply

        Yes. It keeps the fuzzy brain demons away.

      • gangler
        gangler
        April 4, 2011, 12:41 pm | # | Reply

        True, it’s a useful thing to have in general. She could just as easily have had it just because it’s a good thing to have.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      April 4, 2011, 4:22 am | # | Reply

      I think Frigg knew what was going on. It was “RWARWARWAR, ARGHLEBARGHLE Anger management issues.”

      • gangler
        gangler
        April 4, 2011, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

        Frigg knew the situation after Byron killed bandit and started foaming at the mouth. It’s a bit different.

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          April 4, 2011, 3:21 pm | # | Reply

          That could be described as “RWARWARWAR, ARGHLEBARGHLE Anger management issues.” yes.

          • gangler
            gangler
            April 4, 2011, 10:32 pm | # | Reply

            Maybe I phrased myself poorly. Syrnj knew what was up Byron first went berserk. Frigg clued in after Byron killed on of their comrades and started foaming at the mouth. The difference is that Syrnj already knew the dangers of berserking prior to this. Frigg found out after they were displayed before her.

            • ahdok
              ahdok
              April 5, 2011, 3:54 am | # | Reply

              I’m pretty sure he was all “RWARWARWAR, ARGHLEBARGHLE” from the get go, to be honest, and while I agree that teh anger management issues weren’t apparent immediately I think Frigg was aware that anger management issues form a vital part of any RWARWARWAR, ARGHLEBARGHLE Anger management issues. Without it, it’d just be like being on drugs.

              • gangler
                gangler
                April 5, 2011, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

                http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-8/chapter-8-page-21/

                When Syrnj displays an understanding of the situation. It’s the next page when Frigg first displays understanding, but at that point the situations had been laid bare for all to see. If you don’t get that he’s not an ally right now after he kills one of you, then I don’t even know what to say to that.

  9. Bake
    Bake
    April 4, 2011, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    so, what any suggestions for the “Fail” rhyme?

    • Timelost
      Timelost
      April 4, 2011, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Rail, stale, wail, whale, bail, bale, frail, snail, pail, pale, rail, kale, hail, hale, trail, braille, sail, nail, flail.

      • Timelost
        Timelost
        April 4, 2011, 12:28 am | # | Reply

        Quail, grail, tail, tale, sale, Yale.

        • Locke
          Locke
          April 4, 2011, 12:30 am | # | Reply

          Male.

        • Timelost
          Timelost
          April 4, 2011, 12:31 am | # | Reply

          Gale, dale, mail, mail, female, ale…and that’s all I can think of right now.

          • Locke
            Locke
            April 4, 2011, 12:34 am | # | Reply

            Entrail…

            • Timelost
              Timelost
              April 4, 2011, 12:35 am | # | Reply

              Oh yeah, that’s a good one.

              • SteelRaven
                SteelRaven
                April 4, 2011, 12:49 am | # | Reply

                You know that you hail failed when that pale looking male now holds you entrail(s)
                You know if you had bailed you would be drinking some ale with some young female
                But now a rail has impaled your chain mail and you have come to end of your tale.

                • barsukthom
                  barsukthom
                  April 4, 2011, 8:21 am | # | Reply

                  (chunka-chunka-chunka-chunka)

    • Da Amron'ed One
      Da Amron'ed One
      April 4, 2011, 12:29 am | # | Reply

      “kick some ass and get some tail?”

      • Locke
        Locke
        April 4, 2011, 12:31 am | # | Reply

        “Kick some ass and get some grilled quail.”

        • Timelost
          Timelost
          April 4, 2011, 12:34 am | # | Reply

          “Kick some ass and then post bail.”

          • Mr Ak
            Mr Ak
            April 5, 2011, 12:12 am | # | Reply

            “Kick some ass and then read braille.”

            • Freako
              Freako
              April 5, 2011, 4:13 pm | # | Reply

              “Kick some ass and have a bake sale.”

    • Timelost
      Timelost
      April 4, 2011, 12:41 am | # | Reply

      Jail, curtail, entail, contrail.

      • Eykee
        Eykee
        April 4, 2011, 3:23 am | # | Reply

        flail the snail?

        • Tachyon
          Tachyon
          April 4, 2011, 4:00 am | # | Reply

          Rhymes are words that’re set on rails.
          When you repeat a word twice your rhyme’s derailed.
          If that happens, fission mailed.

          • Hawk
            Hawk
            April 4, 2011, 10:56 am | # | Reply

            I like that.

            I can’t think of ANY couplets for the fail :(

            • Mr Ak
              Mr Ak
              April 5, 2011, 7:23 am | # | Reply

              Which is a shame, as there’s some on sale.

      • Timelost
        Timelost
        April 5, 2011, 3:02 am | # | Reply

        Scale, retail, and wassail occurred to me during the day, then I remembered wassail was pronounced more like “wassel”.

        So only scale and retail.

        • SotiCoto
          SotiCoto
          March 30, 2016, 5:41 am | # | Reply

          No more to regale us with?

    • JarrysKid
      JarrysKid
      April 4, 2011, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

      Farthingale. Monorail. Bacchanale. Holy Grail. Pint o’ ale. Final sale. The doughnuts are stale. Jump, jive, and wail. Chromium . Parasail. Habitrail. Ha, ha, we’re sitting on yer freakin’ tail!

      • Hawk
        Hawk
        April 5, 2011, 10:46 am | # | Reply

        Nightingale, martingale, chippendale…

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      April 5, 2011, 3:55 am | # | Reply

      You all forgot “Fail” – which is the only rhyme you’d need to make the song if you were Best.

  10. Locke
    Locke
    April 4, 2011, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Also, I almost didn’t notice that best put his jacket back on.

    DOUCHE-IROTH!

  11. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    April 4, 2011, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    The berserker needs a hug.

  12. Nekropancser
    Nekropancser
    April 4, 2011, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    She is pretty much pinned down. Her responsibility weighes heavily on her back.
    Byron need a psychiatrist and a bar of chocolate.

  13. Solar84
    Solar84
    April 4, 2011, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    what if it’s that he lost the berserker in him and now Frigg has it?

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      April 4, 2011, 1:30 am | # | Reply

      I’m sure Byron still has it, it’s not the first time hes gone berserk and it shows.

      Though the Troll did order the archers to cut Byron down befor his “madness” spread so it’s good chance that the voice Frigg hears now is the same that tells Byron to kill.

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        April 4, 2011, 6:08 pm | # | Reply

        I was wondering if someone else was going to mention that.

      • Thom
        Thom
        April 5, 2011, 5:41 pm | # | Reply

        Voice/Voices, yes I thought this as well – not sure if that translates to Berserkerism or if they are just nassty little voiceses taking up residence.

      • KZero
        KZero
        April 5, 2011, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

        I’ma have to call ‘ignorance’ on thinking the berserking will spread. But we’ll see.

  14. Connie
    Connie
    April 4, 2011, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    I think Byron just needs a big hug.

  15. Sineplex
    Sineplex
    April 4, 2011, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    Cheer up Frigg! You can have Tombdirt’s name now if you ask ni-
    ..- with some sort of dipl-..
    .. if you pretend to-
    …
    aww crap.

  16. Lhurgoyf
    Lhurgoyf
    April 4, 2011, 1:49 am | # | Reply

    Frigg’s got The Madness, me thinks.

  17. Ash
    Ash
    April 4, 2011, 2:27 am | # | Reply

    Oh Best you douche.

    <3

    And it looks like Harky was right about the Madness being catching.

    • barsukthom
      barsukthom
      April 4, 2011, 11:35 am | # | Reply

      Unless that’s what always runs through Frigg’s head when she’s asleep. Old hostility programing from her childhood at the COnvent of Perpetual Assholery.

    • Bill Sykes
      Bill Sykes
      April 4, 2011, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

      Actually, I’m thinking this is a Joan of Arc-esque hearing of God’s voice. Byron the Berserker was, indeed, a berserker, though he never appeared to be. Frigg the Crusader is the chosen instrument or champion of an Arkerran deity, or simply of Dedalus.

  18. Tecani
    Tecani
    April 4, 2011, 2:37 am | # | Reply

    Bryon the Berserker clearly needs a hug.

  19. Organum
    Organum
    April 4, 2011, 2:41 am | # | Reply

    D’awwww
    Post murder Byron is adorable!

  20. ...
    ...
    April 4, 2011, 3:24 am | # | Reply

    Oww … Byron seems to be in a shock, huh ?
    Wonder how he will snap out of it.

    • Hawk
      Hawk
      April 4, 2011, 11:00 am | # | Reply

      I said the same thing, a sort of sympathy awwwwww…
      I loves Byron, I want him to feel better. Surely Syr’nj has some happy juice as well as sleepy juice?

      Mead, maybe?

      • barsukthom
        barsukthom
        April 4, 2011, 11:35 am | # | Reply

        Or a little hair of the dog. “Nothing makes me feel better after a TPK than slaughtering a village of beast-people.”

      • Nekropancser
        Nekropancser
        April 5, 2011, 1:25 am | # | Reply

        Women always have the happy juice, if it comes to their loved ones.

  21. machiavelli33
    machiavelli33
    April 4, 2011, 3:32 am | # | Reply

    My guess is whoever was driving Bandit before the party wipe is now outside Frigg’s containment unit, speaking to her directly, or via a submerged headset or something.

  22. Lydia
    Lydia
    April 4, 2011, 3:51 am | # | Reply

    So glad to see the witty comments making a comeback.

  23. ahdok
    ahdok
    April 4, 2011, 4:25 am | # | Reply

    Mr. Byron sir… if you’re so scared that you’re dangerous… why did you bring the axes <emwith you when you went off to sit remorsefully?

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      April 4, 2011, 6:13 am | # | Reply

      Brayen and Bayen are his best friends. They’ll talk him down.

      • barsukthom
        barsukthom
        April 4, 2011, 8:23 am | # | Reply

        And they get a bit tetchy if he’s not close.

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          April 4, 2011, 8:54 am | # | Reply

          Surely you mean edgy?

          • barsukthom
            barsukthom
            April 4, 2011, 11:39 am | # | Reply

            Nope.
            But I saw whut U did thar.
            “Tetchy”; adj; from the High Elven “Tetchanaran’elgedil”, meaning “To kill everyone in sight.”

            • JarrysKid
              JarrysKid
              April 4, 2011, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

              I’m sorry to be a nit-picker, but i think you meant “Tetchanaran’algedil”.
              “Tetchanaran’elgedil” means “To slightly over-butter the toast”.
              High Elven is such a tricky language.

              • Hawk
                Hawk
                April 4, 2011, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

                It was only a Tolkein attempt at humour.

                • ahdok
                  ahdok
                  April 4, 2011, 3:22 pm | # | Reply

                  I don’t know what you’re Tolkein about.

                  • Locke
                    Locke
                    April 4, 2011, 7:02 pm | # | Reply

                    I’d say that you guys are crazy and we’re not on the same boat here, but, in truth, you’re really just a fellow-ship to me- *BLAM*

                    “No sir, that pun was awful and forced! You’re under arrest! Pun Police, take him away! A few years in our pungeon should sort him out!”

                    • Jean-Luc
                      Jean-Luc
                      April 4, 2011, 10:02 pm | #

                      Relax, you’re Tolkien this way too seriously.

                    • ahdok
                      ahdok
                      April 5, 2011, 3:51 am | #

                      Let’s not make a Hobbitout of all this…

                    • Hawk
                      Hawk
                      April 5, 2011, 10:47 am | #

                      There are no hobos and no rabbits here sir. Therefore, no Hobbits for even potential Hobbits.

  24. Timothy
    Timothy
    April 4, 2011, 4:32 am | # | Reply

    Oooohhh. I just realised that he broke his little rule. The one about killing members of his own species.
    That is probably why he is freaking out.

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      April 4, 2011, 6:14 am | # | Reply

      Nah, he laid Frigg out, but he didn’t kill her himself. He skirted disaster, though.

    • barsukthom
      barsukthom
      April 4, 2011, 11:40 am | # | Reply

      I’m pretty sure he may be feeling bad about killing the little blonde puppy. Frigg’s a big girl, she can watch out for herself.

  25. LunarTick
    LunarTick
    April 4, 2011, 4:55 am | # | Reply

    I like that Gravedust and Best are sitting on Frigg. But shouldn’t Gravedust be a tad bigger?

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      April 4, 2011, 5:08 am | # | Reply

      His legs are towards the camera. It’s foreshortening.

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        April 4, 2011, 6:06 am | # | Reply

        Do we need another Science Time?

        • centuriancode
          centuriancode
          April 4, 2011, 6:17 am | # | Reply

          For Science!

          • Slayn82
            Slayn82
            April 4, 2011, 9:25 am | # | Reply

            For cake!

            • barsukthom
              barsukthom
              April 4, 2011, 11:40 am | # | Reply

              The Science is a Lie!

              • Caitlin
                Caitlin
                April 4, 2011, 1:01 pm | # | Reply

                The Cake is a Science! Chemistry, specifically!

                • Hawk
                  Hawk
                  April 5, 2011, 10:47 am | # | Reply

                  I love you Caitlin. That made me snort my coffee.

                • KZero
                  KZero
                  April 5, 2011, 10:31 pm | # | Reply

                  THE BAKE SALE IS SCIENCE!
                  THE BAKE SALE IS SCIENCE!

    • dr pepper
      dr pepper
      April 4, 2011, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

      Best is sitting on the small of her back. In between string plucking he can easily rest his left hand on her bottom. And give it a squeeze.

      • Nekropancser
        Nekropancser
        April 5, 2011, 1:29 am | # | Reply

        If you can squeeze a woman’s ass donning plate, then you are so full of awesomeness… Or wearing a power glove.

  26. Repartee
    Repartee
    April 4, 2011, 6:59 am | # | Reply

    I’m just glad that all of the nay saying about John’s art style previous to his becoming the main artist has been proven biased conjecture and a lot of needless speculation. John, your work is impeccable as always. And Byron’s entire posture in the last panel is quite amusing. Kudos again, I have always and will continue to love this comic.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      April 4, 2011, 9:26 am | # | Reply

      I’d be hesitant about saying that you’ll always love the comic… I hear if John ever quits and nobody else wants to do it, I might have to step in to fill the breach.

      • Hawk
        Hawk
        April 4, 2011, 10:58 am | # | Reply

        God help us all, then. You’ll housecat us all to death :P

        <3

      • Locke
        Locke
        April 4, 2011, 7:06 pm | # | Reply

        That’s if I don’t get the job. I mean, they’d probably give me money just to draw this thing after seeing my magnum opus work of fan-art. That’s high-quality Microsoft Paint work right there. Until then, I’ll allow John to continue his work. Not everyone can be an absolute artistic genius like I am. (What do you mean, April 1st is already come and gone?)

        Seriously, though, great work, John. Not to imply your work wasn’t already great, but, if I’m not mistaken, it has somehow improved since you first started.

        • Whatev
          Whatev
          April 4, 2011, 7:17 pm | # | Reply

          “… how did you make these graphics?”

          “I USED MARIO PAINT”

      • NH4NO3
        NH4NO3
        April 5, 2011, 3:24 am | # | Reply

        That Bandit is so adorable it actually makes me feel bad that she’s dead forever.

      • dr pepper
        dr pepper
        April 5, 2011, 10:16 pm | # | Reply

        Hey what happened to my request for that march project you were doing?

    • John
      John
      April 4, 2011, 11:05 am | # | Reply

      Thank you very much, Repartee.

      looks like my replacement’s all lined up.

  27. noisyparker
    noisyparker
    April 4, 2011, 7:34 am | # | Reply

    > As opposed to…?

    Is that Best stepping up to handle the ‘lol berserker’ duties? Frigg -has- been having a hard time keeping up with them lately. He does seem to be cut out for the job (but then, so did Frigg).

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      April 4, 2011, 8:56 am | # | Reply

      He’s implying that Byron is unthreatening all the time.

      The implied sentence is something like “As opposed to what? Actually being competent in a fight? Pah, like that’d ever happen.”

      • noisyparker
        noisyparker
        April 4, 2011, 10:35 am | # | Reply

        well, right… that is the ‘lol berserker’ I’m talking about. Frigg used to have that down, before recent events.

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          April 4, 2011, 11:16 am | # | Reply

          I think he’s implying that he’s so god-damned-awesome that even a full bezerk rage would be no trouble for him :D

          • Bill Sykes
            Bill Sykes
            April 4, 2011, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

            lol ahdok

            Doesn’t get ‘lol berserker’

            • ahdok
              ahdok
              April 4, 2011, 3:23 pm | # | Reply

              I think you’re underestimating how absolutely fantastically superlatively awesome Best really is. :D

              • noisyparker
                noisyparker
                April 4, 2011, 10:25 pm | # | Reply

                Nothing is better than Best, after all!! :)

              • MrZipangu
                MrZipangu
                April 5, 2011, 7:01 am | # | Reply

                Only the Best is good enough.

          • machiavelli33
            machiavelli33
            April 5, 2011, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

            Also recall Best hasn’t actually seen Byron in his Berzerker rage, so his view of Byron hasn’t really changed since he last saw him chapters and chapters ago.

  28. Flintte
    Flintte
    April 4, 2011, 8:12 am | # | Reply

    Byron looks so sad and depressing in the last panel, I can’t even bring myself to make a pun.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      April 4, 2011, 9:21 am | # | Reply

      I’m not so sure, he seems to be having a right-old knees-up.

  29. Jedi
    Jedi
    April 4, 2011, 8:41 am | # | Reply

    Best’s song.
    There the five losers set down in the dirt
    did experiance alot of hurt
    Harky called down arrow in rain
    they all died in enormious pain
    They all failed
    until Byron impailed
    set to derail
    Harky’s path of destruction
    succeeded he did in the reconstruction
    of Bandit’s poor neck
    never again to wreck
    havoc on Syrn’j’s hat

    Or was that not douche baggy enough?

    • Slayn82
      Slayn82
      April 4, 2011, 9:00 am | # | Reply

      I’m reading it in my head at the rhythm of Dire Straits “Walk of life”.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      April 4, 2011, 9:13 am | # | Reply

      I want to be, the very Best…
      Like no elf ever was…
      To match them is no real test
      To troll them is my cause.
      I will travel across the land
      Searching far and wide
      My Destiny, I understand
      Is to win and show pride.

      Payet Best!
      Gotta troll ’em all
      It’s me, me, meee.
      I know it’s my destiny!
      Payet Best!
      Ooh, I don’t need friends
      It’s the world I must defend!
      Payet Best!
      Ooh, my heart is true!
      My courage will pull us through!
      You watch me, and I’ll teach you… I’m
      PAYET BEST!
      Gotta troll ’em all!

      …What… I was supposed to be composing a song about Byron? Don’t make me laugh.

      • Locke
        Locke
        April 4, 2011, 7:09 pm | # | Reply

        Bandit, oh, Bandit, Bandit all my life
        For Byron killed poor Bandit
        And then we went and lost her knife
        Bandit’s gone, one more round, Bandit’s gone

  30. Caitlin
    Caitlin
    April 4, 2011, 10:27 am | # | Reply

    I’m glad Frigg and Syr’nj are finally seeing eye to eye on this situation.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      April 4, 2011, 11:17 am | # | Reply

      Well, they’re both pretty down to earth.

      • JarrysKid
        JarrysKid
        April 4, 2011, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

        Syr’nj has sunk to Frigg’s level.

        • Caitlin
          Caitlin
          April 4, 2011, 2:01 pm | # | Reply

          It seems this isn’t sitting well with Gravedust and Best.

  31. VioletArrows
    VioletArrows
    April 4, 2011, 11:22 am | # | Reply

    Aw man, poor Byron. That look… ;_;

    And I agree with Frigg.

  32. It's Me
    It's Me
    April 4, 2011, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    Best won me over with that comment

  33. It's Me
    It's Me
    April 4, 2011, 11:39 am | # | Reply

    “As opposed to?” I’m still laughing at the irony

  34. Abeo
    Abeo
    April 4, 2011, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

    What I’m still wondering about is his weapons. They were pretty important to him, named them and everything. Then Gravedust went and magicked up a pair of identical axes. Are they the same ones? Did he teleport them with the aide of spirits? Simply copy their forms? Rebuild them from some sort of metaphysical connection with their wielder?

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      April 4, 2011, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

      I think we can assume they all got their original equipment back.

      • Locke
        Locke
        April 4, 2011, 7:10 pm | # | Reply

        Plus loot, as Byron has his shoulder-axes.

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          April 5, 2011, 3:52 am | # | Reply

          That’s Byron’s equipment.

        • Locke
          Locke
          April 5, 2011, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

          It wasn’t his ORIGINAL equipment, though. They’re “on loan” from ol’ Gigundy, remember?

  35. Brandon Richard
    Brandon Richard
    April 4, 2011, 2:08 pm | # | Reply

    If only Best was there when Byron was ‘Zerking, he’d “changing his tune.” :3

  36. Tavis
    Tavis
    April 5, 2011, 1:58 am | # | Reply

    Second Life? Wait… does this mean that Bandit was simply teleported home… or to one of the Welcome Areas? Gotta warn folks about those Combat sims.

    • Aeovis
      Aeovis
      April 5, 2011, 3:15 am | # | Reply

      It more likely refers to the fact they all just got brought back from the dead– a second chance. Or maybe Byron’s mysterious past. Or both.

      I’m really starting to think dear bandit’s gone for good, sadly.

      • The Occupant
        The Occupant
        April 5, 2011, 6:47 am | # | Reply

        Payet better not be a permanent party member now, that would not be Best.
        ***
        OK Author, you have shown Best to be Badass, great, he’s not just a pretty face, we knew that.
        What you haven’t shown him is to be likeable in any way, even through the unique perspective the fourth wall gives us. He was an ass before and by golly, he is still an ass.
        ***
        Oh Gods, remember when the Troll Leader said that Byron was “Infected”? That font we see in Friggs head is the same font used for Byrons Dark Side. Has she been infected?
        Uh oh.

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          April 5, 2011, 9:32 am | # | Reply

          Payet!

          The Best a man can get!

          • Jean-Luc
            Jean-Luc
            April 5, 2011, 9:46 am | # | Reply

            Though Best does appreciate people thinking he’s pretty.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 5, 2011, 7:33 am | # | Reply

        Bandit isn’t gone.

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          April 5, 2011, 9:31 am | # | Reply

          There’s gnome hope for her.

          • Jean-Luc
            Jean-Luc
            April 5, 2011, 9:47 am | # | Reply

            You don’t gnome that.

            • Hawk
              Hawk
              April 5, 2011, 10:49 am | # | Reply

              I’m with the Captain on this one.

              • ahdok
                ahdok
                April 5, 2011, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

                There’s no race like gnome.

                • Tavis
                  Tavis
                  April 5, 2011, 8:52 pm | # | Reply

                  And there’s gnome-atch for this chain of replies.

                  Actually, I was going to blame the Lindens for losing her entire account.

        • The Occupant
          The Occupant
          April 5, 2011, 6:29 pm | # | Reply

          She’s pining for the fjords.

        • Locke
          Locke
          April 5, 2011, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

          Huh, the Captain isn’t rooting for the gnome to be totally gone? And I thought you were short on appreciation for her, man.

  37. thatkid
    thatkid
    April 5, 2011, 9:18 pm | # | Reply

    None of them seem to be at all worried about what might have happened to Bandit.
    How callous.

  38. Locke
    Locke
    April 5, 2011, 11:41 pm | # | Reply

    Man, I hate the suspense of waiting for that new page. It makes me stay up too late on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. XD

  39. FreddeX
    FreddeX
    May 18, 2011, 4:53 am | # | Reply

    Byron basicly looks like me after i saw the Eragon movie, aaaaand i will stop here because if i know myself (and i do) i will soon start to rant about it.

    (grumbles) stupid movie, did they even READ the damn book?…(grumble)

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