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

We don't live in a perfect world.

Chapter 16 – Page 8

on April 16, 2012
Chapter: Chapter 16
└ Tags: Byron, Cultists
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  1. pacientK
    pacientK
    April 16, 2012, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Yeah you gotta learn from the past Y’now.

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      April 16, 2012, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      Speaking of the past, I’m glad he’s finally out of his funk. Mopey, angsty Byron just didn’t hack it.

      • Jack Vermicelli
        Jack Vermicelli
        April 16, 2012, 1:42 am | # | Reply

        *clapclap*

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        April 16, 2012, 1:54 am | # | Reply

        And it’s nice to know that he’s finally learned to cut to the chase when axing questions. I’m not sure how reliable the answers are, and it looks like those kids are still on edge, but at least there’s progress.

        • Geigan
          Geigan
          April 16, 2012, 10:26 am | # | Reply

          Well he got most of the cultists and took their evil cookbook, so even if something goes wrong with the kids I don’t think he’ll be too cut up about it.

          • SprightlyOaf
            SprightlyOaf
            June 27, 2012, 8:25 pm | # | Reply

            Honestly. I think my favorite thing about this site is the puns in its comment section.

            • Smartkittykhan
              Smartkittykhan
              February 6, 2013, 4:26 am | # | Reply

              Quite true, my friend. Quite true.

            • SotiCoto
              SotiCoto
              June 27, 2013, 7:49 am | # | Reply

              Funny. Thas my most hated.

  2. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    April 16, 2012, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    It would have been interesting if one of them said yes.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      April 16, 2012, 1:09 am | # | Reply

      I mean, seriously! What are you gonna answer regardless of the truth?
      (Start interrogating the ones that answered calmly, Byron.)

      • anonymous coward
        anonymous coward
        April 16, 2012, 1:26 am | # | Reply

        “If I was a mistermine or something why would I be in the bag? I don’t understand!”

        • Andreas
          Andreas
          April 16, 2012, 5:33 am | # | Reply

          Yes – well, I don’t know if I’m a MASTER mime exactly, but I whip up an excellent invisible aquarium!!! If’n I say so myself…

  3. Nakama
    Nakama
    April 16, 2012, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Kill them all, just to be sure. Better safe than sorry!

    • zero
      zero
      April 16, 2012, 6:11 am | # | Reply

      bag of kids, bag of rats, same diff

  4. Marvelous TK
    Marvelous TK
    April 16, 2012, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Just kidding!

  5. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    April 16, 2012, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    You gotta give him credit. When he asks a question, he cuts right through the small talk.

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      April 16, 2012, 12:22 am | # | Reply

      Also, third panel Byron needs to be a Gravatar. Just saying

      • Mujaki
        Mujaki
        April 16, 2012, 12:56 am | # | Reply

        “I have many leather-bound books, and my guild hall smells of rich mahogany.”

        • Carl-E
          Carl-E
          April 16, 2012, 3:02 am | # | Reply

          And rrrrich, corrrrrinthian leather…

          (BTW, love the teeth on the book cover…)

          • Andreas
            Andreas
            April 16, 2012, 5:42 am | # | Reply

            The cultists went to Hogwarts, obviously.
            We all knew it was too good to be true.

            • SushiJaguar
              SushiJaguar
              May 18, 2012, 12:01 pm | # | Reply

              I was hoping I wasn’t the only one to notice how familiar that book design was.

      • Heheh
        Heheh
        April 16, 2012, 1:06 am | # | Reply

        Seconded

      • FlyingFish
        FlyingFish
        April 16, 2012, 9:51 am | # | Reply

        So does Fifth Panel.

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        April 16, 2012, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

        I think that the bag of orphans in panel 3 needs to be a gravatar…

        • randomdude
          randomdude
          April 16, 2012, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

          indeed.

  6. Andreas
    Andreas
    April 16, 2012, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Notice how four of them say no instead of no?
    I smell a rat! Or four! :D

  7. The Auld Grump
    The Auld Grump
    April 16, 2012, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    None of you happen to be the secret evil Mastermind, would you?

    No.
    No.
    No.
    No.
    No… well yes, but only a little.
    Yes.
    Yes.
    Yes….

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      April 16, 2012, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      “Mister, wha’s a.. a mistermine?”

  8. Valdrax
    Valdrax
    April 16, 2012, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    Okay, next question. Do any of you like movies about gladiators?

    • Jack Vermicelli
      Jack Vermicelli
      April 16, 2012, 1:48 am | # | Reply

      Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

      • Miyaa
        Miyaa
        April 16, 2012, 3:42 am | # | Reply

        Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

        (I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.)

        • Spitfyre
          Spitfyre
          April 16, 2012, 9:12 am | # | Reply

          And Don’t call me Shirley!

        • Syncline
          Syncline
          April 16, 2012, 2:28 pm | # | Reply

          What’s this? A duplicate Gravitar? Blasphemy!

  9. SaltyKracka
    SaltyKracka
    April 16, 2012, 1:20 am | # | Reply

    Alright. Who wants some candy?

  10. Sir Exal
    Sir Exal
    April 16, 2012, 1:28 am | # | Reply

    Yes. I mean, shit! No! No no no no!

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      April 16, 2012, 1:49 am | # | Reply

      Ye-no!
      Nonono, of course not.
      Why do you ask that?!?
      Look: An elephant!

  11. Tachyon
    Tachyon
    April 16, 2012, 2:35 am | # | Reply

    Oh, Byron. Interrogation is so passé.

    If it’s really one of them you’ll know right off because he will be a palette swap of the first one.

    Duhhhhh.

  12. Doma
    Doma
    April 16, 2012, 3:34 am | # | Reply

    Hey, mister! Knock knock!
    Who’s there?
    Poop!

  13. hopeless
    hopeless
    April 16, 2012, 4:27 am | # | Reply

    And the funniest part of this is we know WHY he’s asking!!!

  14. hopeless
    hopeless
    April 16, 2012, 4:28 am | # | Reply

    So if they ask him who he is does he answer, “I’m the axeman!”

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      April 16, 2012, 5:40 am | # | Reply

      Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the cart to come
      Guild-issue hauberk, stupid bloody tuesday
      I am the axeman, they are the ax’dmen
      I am the Byron, goo goo g’choo!

      • Hawk
        Hawk
        April 16, 2012, 9:59 am | # | Reply

        Someone give this guy a hundred Internets.

        Also a nice big joint.

        • anonymous coward
          anonymous coward
          April 16, 2012, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

          Don’t get me wrong: I appreciate the riff but can you read that and honestly tell me that they need more? I think they should be sharing with the rest of the class.

    • Whatev
      Whatev
      April 16, 2012, 8:13 pm | # | Reply

      “What, are you dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think I am?”

      • HLY
        HLY
        April 18, 2012, 6:33 am | # | Reply

        why must you quote crazy steve’s attempt to be batman :p

  15. Robtimus
    Robtimus
    April 16, 2012, 6:32 am | # | Reply

    It’s totally the Bieber-cut kid, and he’s probably sneaking up behind you right now Byron. He’s there in panel 1 all the way on the left, then in panel 3 next to the girl in pigtails, but by panel 4 – POOF! he’s gone.

  16. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    April 16, 2012, 7:25 am | # | Reply

    Top row, second from left. I ain’t buying his denial.

  17. Fren
    Fren
    April 16, 2012, 8:08 am | # | Reply

    “Kids, just be glad this ain’t Axe Cop … otherwise I’d be some kind of jackal-shark-gnoll-man hybrid by now.”

  18. eschmenk
    eschmenk
    April 16, 2012, 9:29 am | # | Reply

    Byron knows how to give IQ tests. Nice shadow on the kids, BTW.

  19. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    April 16, 2012, 9:39 am | # | Reply

    Hey, hey kids! It’s Byrney, the purple berserker! Now, how many of you can tell me what hemorrhage is?

    • Data
      Data
      April 16, 2012, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

      Would that not be a “Pain in the…” oh, wait. That is a Hemroid.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        April 16, 2012, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

        Mr. Data, honestly. Is your positronic matrix off the hook again?

  20. King of Zeroes
    King of Zeroes
    April 16, 2012, 9:48 am | # | Reply

    I dunno. They all look a little shifty to me. I think this calls for some Kentucky Fried Interrogation.

    • JarrysKid
      JarrysKid
      April 16, 2012, 11:24 am | # | Reply

      Take them to Detroit!

  21. Loyal
    Loyal
    April 16, 2012, 10:59 am | # | Reply

    Middle row, second from the right. His silence is an admission of guilt. Tag ’em, boys, this mystery’s solved.

    • karishi
      karishi
      April 16, 2012, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

      Another mystery solved by Axe Cop!

  22. Andreas
    Andreas
    April 16, 2012, 11:12 am | # | Reply

    Notice how classy these cultists are… er, were? They splashed out on a Stimpy-brand Stay-Up Sack :D

  23. JarrysKid
    JarrysKid
    April 16, 2012, 11:16 am | # | Reply

    Anybody else count the kids to make sure they matched up with the number of noes?

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      April 16, 2012, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

      They match but kids whose “no” is bolded are trying too hard me thinks.

  24. VioletArrows
    VioletArrows
    April 16, 2012, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

    I’m more surprised none of them are completely traumatized out of speaking at all.

    Also, why is the shark’s bloody nose kinda glued back on?

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      April 16, 2012, 3:00 pm | # | Reply

      I see what you mean, also about the nose… I thought the elongated red thingie was the cross-cut of the shark’s snout, though. But it does look more like it was put back…

      • John Waltrip
        John Waltrip
        April 16, 2012, 4:44 pm | # | Reply

        It’s still a cross-cut. We’re just looking at it at an angle, not edge on, or dead on.

        • Andreas
          Andreas
          April 17, 2012, 3:44 am | # | Reply

          I thought so. What trips up the eye is that the shape of the cross-cut is a bit conical, and so doesn’t deviate from the expected profile of the nose, had the nose still been attached.
          If the cross-cut had been more of a perfect oval, it wouldn’t be confusing at all, I think.

  25. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    April 16, 2012, 2:17 pm | # | Reply

    “Figure out what to do with these kids”? How about TAKE THEM HOME, Byron the Durr-zerker!

    • Mordecai
      Mordecai
      April 16, 2012, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

      Wow, perfect gravatar.

  26. Forseti
    Forseti
    April 16, 2012, 5:44 pm | # | Reply

    Nice thing about going solo is you’re getting all the loot for yourself. What does a bag of kids go for these days anyway?

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      April 17, 2012, 3:46 am | # | Reply

      Demand just went down a notch… someone’s axing their own business.

  27. Yinello
    Yinello
    April 17, 2012, 10:43 am | # | Reply

    I bet they’re behind it. All of them.

  28. flevine
    flevine
    April 17, 2012, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

    Byron’s looking a teensy bit evil in that 3rd panel… ;-)

  29. Squid
    Squid
    July 30, 2012, 4:07 pm | # | Reply

    Byron, extreme party entertainer.

  30. Accursed91
    Accursed91
    May 9, 2014, 3:23 am | # | Reply

    There is an chance that they are lying, kill ’em all! … Sorry, slipped into the mindset of one of my “Dark Heresy” characters there for a while. He and cultists… Don’t get along that well! ;)

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