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

'I've got your next reading by the way. It's from The Virtues of Noninvolvement.'

Chapter 17 – Page 10

on June 20, 2012
Chapter: Chapter 17
└ Tags: Bibli'Oh, Kur'ik
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  1. kagato23
    kagato23
    June 20, 2012, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Silly girl! You are missing all the history! You should have just page’d him.

  2. Heheh
    Heheh
    June 20, 2012, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    You guys win the character naming award of the year. Every contemporary fiction writer who names stuff with imaginary, context-less, silly sounding, uninspired or otherwise forgettable names will forever feel uneasy in your presence.

    • Krogaladin
      Krogaladin
      June 20, 2012, 1:11 am | # | Reply

      if you’ve ever heard of the anime Read or Die, the main character loves reading and is named Yomiko Readman, so that may come close. also, I wonder if being named Bibli’oh the Librarian is like being named Taylor Smith who taylors and smiths.

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      June 20, 2012, 6:04 am | # | Reply

      I may be showing my age, but I have a request for some cameo appereances – a couple of elves named Gos’ny and Udr’zo

      • Andreas
        Andreas
        June 20, 2012, 6:54 am | # | Reply

        At least give us Kur’Ik’s bard relative Cacfn’Ik

      • MC
        MC
        June 20, 2012, 10:38 am | # | Reply

        Gold star.

  3. MagiciansNephew
    MagiciansNephew
    June 20, 2012, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    … I read that as Bilbo… twice… before I got it right >.>

  4. Carapace (@Carabrains)
    Carapace (@Carabrains)
    June 20, 2012, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    Wait, did Jason draw each one of those scrolls/swirls individually?

    …MADNESS. Glorious madness.

    • eschmenk
      eschmenk
      June 20, 2012, 9:29 am | # | Reply

      Half of them, it looks like. Cool, anyway.

    • John Waltrip
      John Waltrip
      June 20, 2012, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

      no. John did.

      • JarrysKid
        JarrysKid
        June 20, 2012, 2:12 pm | # | Reply

        Who’s he?

      • Andreas
        Andreas
        June 20, 2012, 4:41 pm | # | Reply

        Someone who likes scrolls.
        It begs the question; “Is that a scroll in your pocket, or do you just like scrolls?”

      • Thomas
        Thomas
        August 15, 2013, 4:01 pm | # | Reply

        He must be parched!

  5. Doma
    Doma
    June 20, 2012, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    a scribe named bibli’oh. seems like he didn’t have a choice.

    • Syncline
      Syncline
      June 20, 2012, 8:06 am | # | Reply

      It’s entirely possible that adult names are chosen AFTER the person chooses their career. May cultures on plain old Earth have done this.

    • Jea-Luc
      Jea-Luc
      June 20, 2012, 9:54 am | # | Reply

      We also would’ve accepted Bookrack Librama. Change!

  6. Val Hallen
    Val Hallen
    June 20, 2012, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    Is her first name Ka’ty?

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      June 20, 2012, 6:44 am | # | Reply

      Her first name, obviously, is Kur.
      Kur of the house ‘Ik = Kur’Ik.

      • eschmenk
        eschmenk
        June 20, 2012, 9:31 am | # | Reply

        Yes, but put it all together…

        • Andreas
          Andreas
          June 20, 2012, 3:00 pm | # | Reply

          Do you flail your lapels at an Iwatani?!?
          I see the joke, I really do, but it just didn’t work for me.

          • Andreas
            Andreas
            June 20, 2012, 4:26 pm | # | Reply

            Do you impersonate an Iwatani?!? Guards, take him to my hammertank practice range!!

  7. Halvhir
    Halvhir
    June 20, 2012, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    I… love… that first panel. Must have been a bit time consuming to draw, but the effect of shelves and shelves of scrolls is really nice. :)

    • John Waltrip
      John Waltrip
      June 20, 2012, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

      Thank you, Halvhir, but it wasn’t all that time consuming. eschmenk is correct, I drew half of them, then just flipped them. (one of my little time saving tricks.) You may also notice the scroll shelves in panel two appear again in panels 4, 5, and 6, slightly altered and reversed in places. ;)

  8. Randonimity
    Randonimity
    June 20, 2012, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    This page just fills me with such high levels of “d’awww” and I don’t know why.

  9. Messenger
    Messenger
    June 20, 2012, 2:30 am | # | Reply

    So the Wood Elves are stagnating…

    YES. Evolve or die.

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      June 20, 2012, 6:44 am | # | Reply

      Isolationism does that for ya.

    • Asterai
      Asterai
      June 20, 2012, 8:39 pm | # | Reply

      If that’s an OOTS reference, I give you one bonus point.

  10. Yarrr
    Yarrr
    June 20, 2012, 3:29 am | # | Reply

    This wood be a problem if they don’t root for a good change.

    • Seth
      Seth
      June 20, 2012, 9:48 am | # | Reply

      It really is time that they leaf their old ways and start branching out.

      • maggPi
        maggPi
        June 20, 2012, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

        The new growth is sapping the strength of the old growth— wouldn’t it be better if they stemmed forth from symbiosis?

  11. Nathanyel
    Nathanyel
    June 20, 2012, 3:39 am | # | Reply

    I guess the next strips will be about Bibli’Oh’s take.

  12. Miyaa
    Miyaa
    June 20, 2012, 3:55 am | # | Reply

    So…where’s Con’n the Librarian?

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      June 20, 2012, 6:08 am | # | Reply

      On Channel 8, of course.

      • coldelectrons
        coldelectrons
        June 20, 2012, 6:12 am | # | Reply

        Boy, is my face red. It’s been years, so of course I misremember it. Channel 62.

  13. Mr Never To Appear In This Role.
    Mr Never To Appear In This Role.
    June 20, 2012, 4:10 am | # | Reply

    Virtues of Non-involvment ?
    Is there any ? Sounds pretty much like isolationnism.
    All they need, those wood-elves, is a good ol’ Pearl Harbor to make ’em stop ignoring the world they live in and the dangers that have to be foreseen.

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      June 20, 2012, 4:30 pm | # | Reply

      How about this: Om.
      The world is suffering.
      Om.
      It seeks to draw you in, to enslave you to false perception.
      Om.
      I see the suffering.
      Om.
      I feel the pain.
      Om.
      It does not draw me in.
      Om.
      It fades away.
      Om.
      And only the truth remains.
      Om.

  14. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    June 20, 2012, 6:26 am | # | Reply

    Panel 2 – Bibli’oh’s glasses in profile suggest that they are square, and yet…

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      June 20, 2012, 6:42 am | # | Reply

      Ah, I can see what you mean, but look again.
      Hint: They’re very very very thick!

    • Syncline
      Syncline
      June 20, 2012, 8:09 am | # | Reply

      It’s the shading. It implies a hard edge part way along the circumference, rather than a gradual curve.
      Hard to draw in a smooth graduation in such a tight space.

      • Andreas
        Andreas
        June 20, 2012, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

        No, they’re just about an inch thick. Seen from the side, even a round lens makes a big rectangle if it’s thick enough.

        • plaintextman
          plaintextman
          June 20, 2012, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

          Which is exactly what Syncline just said, but described in a more general sense. I’d say that that specifc piece of the picture could have done with a little more shading to help indicate the cylindrical shape of the lens casing.

          But other than that, you totally rock mister Waltrip artist man dude. Along with the writer mans. You guys all rock.

          • John Waltrip
            John Waltrip
            June 21, 2012, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

            thank you, plaintextman. much appreciated.

          • Andreas
            Andreas
            June 24, 2012, 9:31 am | # | Reply

            Ah, now I get it.
            Those little details don’t even register with me.
            I thought the thing was that the profile was square, because if the glasses had been thin, the square outline would mean square glasses.

  15. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    June 20, 2012, 7:18 am | # | Reply

    He kind of reminds me of Otacon in some shots.

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      June 21, 2012, 11:36 am | # | Reply

      If so, then where’s Uncle Sld’Snk?

  16. Margott
    Margott
    June 20, 2012, 9:10 am | # | Reply

    Seriously love this comic! This story makes me wanna get my game on!

  17. maggPi
    maggPi
    June 20, 2012, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

    I love, love LOVE panel 3! She reminds me of my daughter telling me about her day.

    ….
    I think both Kur’Ik and my daughter should be stand-up comics.
    (pause)
    HAR! HAR!
    (ahem) sorry.

    • JarrysKid
      JarrysKid
      June 20, 2012, 1:36 pm | # | Reply

      Kur’Ik, a.k.a Com’Ik and Mym’Ik

  18. plaintextman
    plaintextman
    June 20, 2012, 7:21 pm | # | Reply

    Already liking this Kur’Ik character a lot.

  19. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    June 20, 2012, 7:30 pm | # | Reply

    …does Kur’Ik looks familiar?

    • maggPi
      maggPi
      June 21, 2012, 11:25 am | # | Reply

      I think I know whaddaya mean… But we ALL think that, don’t we?

      BEEEEESSSSSSTTTTT!!!!!!

      At least; “this week’s forecast of Best with a chance of redemption.”
      Nope. Sorry. I don’t see it myself.

      • SteelRaven
        SteelRaven
        June 21, 2012, 11:01 pm | # | Reply

        I was thinking possibly Carol but I was tilting at windmills.

        • Andreas
          Andreas
          June 24, 2012, 9:33 am | # | Reply

          When H.R. and Carol make their appearance, I expect we’ll notice.

          • maggPi
            maggPi
            June 25, 2012, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

            Yep. Agreed. Whether it’s H.R., Carol or Best, there will be a distinct sign.

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