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

'Graiya's grace... that gnome's fly is down!'

Chapter 17 – Page 9

on June 18, 2012
Chapter: Chapter 17
└ Tags: Bandit, Byron, E-Merl, Fr'Nj, Frigg, Kon'kr, Kur'ik, Rachel, Syr'Nj
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  1. CloSeph
    CloSeph
    June 18, 2012, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Friends in respectable stances team

    • JK9000
      JK9000
      June 18, 2012, 1:27 am | # | Reply

      I don’t E-Merl is capable of being respectable.

      • zero
        zero
        June 18, 2012, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

        on the contrary, I think E-Merel accidentallied all over the pose.

    • Syncline
      Syncline
      June 18, 2012, 8:58 am | # | Reply

      *cue awesome pose music*

      “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”

    • CloSeph
      CloSeph
      June 18, 2012, 7:23 pm | # | Reply

      HOW COULD YOU MISS?! HE WAS THREE FEET IN FRONT OF YOU!

      Friends
      in
      respectable
      stances
      team

    • Ben Prager
      Ben Prager
      June 19, 2012, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

      Sh*t just got real.

      http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=000509

  2. Strongholm
    Strongholm
    June 18, 2012, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    “Strike a pose!”

    E-Merl knows what I’m talking about.

    • AcadianBacon
      AcadianBacon
      June 18, 2012, 1:41 am | # | Reply

      You just reminded me of Louis-Jose Houde, a comedian. x3 Talking about how his sister was really into Madonna when he was a kid, she’d always put her hand up and yell that. :3 Funneh.

    • Dash Jovis
      Dash Jovis
      June 18, 2012, 4:53 pm | # | Reply

      Is that perchance a Deadpool quote?

      • Gillsing
        Gillsing
        June 18, 2012, 5:49 pm | # | Reply

        No?

        • kagato23
          kagato23
          June 19, 2012, 4:49 am | # | Reply

          • kagato23
            kagato23
            June 19, 2012, 4:50 am | # | Reply

            argh, typed something wrong.. that didn’t work…

            also, yes.

    • Rogahar
      Rogahar
      June 19, 2012, 5:38 pm | # | Reply

      See now, that just reminds me of Roronoa Zoro from One Piece, mocking his equally trapped comrades because unlike him, they had failed to pick a cool pose to end up frozen in when the trap took hold.

  3. Guest
    Guest
    June 18, 2012, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Kon’kr is having a bad fur day.

  4. redo19
    redo19
    June 18, 2012, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Wait a minute, what exactly *is* E-Merl? Is he a sky-elf?

    In any case, there’s only two actual humans in this bunch, and they can both kick your ass.

    • redo19
      redo19
      June 18, 2012, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      Oh, wait, Scipio and Rachel… Hey, they didn’t get to epicpose!

      • Sun-stone
        Sun-stone
        June 18, 2012, 1:20 am | # | Reply

        I request a wallpaper version of the fourth panel.

        • Sun-stone
          Sun-stone
          June 18, 2012, 1:22 am | # | Reply

          Ack, posted to the wrong spot, sorry.

          I posit that Scipio swooned due to blood loss, and Rachel is busy holding him up.

          • Yahtzee
            Yahtzee
            June 18, 2012, 3:50 am | # | Reply

            Scipio ? Swooning because of the blood-loss from his wounded ear ?
            You must be kidding.
            No way, NO WAY a human tank like him would just swoon because a little scratch.
            Well, imo.

            • Sun-stone
              Sun-stone
              June 18, 2012, 3:12 pm | # | Reply

              Yeah, it is unlikely, but it was the only thing I could think of.

              • Andreas
                Andreas
                June 18, 2012, 5:55 pm | # | Reply

                Oh Rach and Scip went behind a tree for a quickie…
                And yes, they too are EpicPosing right now.
                I will leaf that to your imagination.

      • Talisaerin
        Talisaerin
        June 18, 2012, 11:28 am | # | Reply

        It takes 4 people to hold the spotlight for the Epic Halo. Budgets are tight so the crew was too short handed. To keep the resource costs to a minimum, and keep the members of the original team in the Epic Freeze Frame, the producers had Scipio, who counts as three men on his own, and Rachel hold up the spotlight. Initially they were going to use E-merl instead of Rachel, but they found that he would bring a whole heck of a lot to the scene..comic relief wise…

      • Andreas
        Andreas
        June 19, 2012, 4:16 am | # | Reply

        Read back one page; Syr tells Scip and Rach to stay with the Grand High Druid (sis).

        Apparently, there’s a bit of distance between where they were talking to Fr’Nj and where ear-armor-guard intercepted the lynch-mob.
        That might be why the approaching elves only now realize that the humans look different; they just now arrived to strike a pose of their own.

    • Dotcom
      Dotcom
      June 18, 2012, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      I was just wondering that myself. I don’t know why, but my brain seemed to block out his ears until just now. What a pose! Hoping he’s no a shit elf. :)

      • Colesloth
        Colesloth
        June 18, 2012, 12:57 am | # | Reply

        Shit elves have lost their magic, but E-merl is clearly a magic user. Winter elf maybe?

        • gangler
          gangler
          June 18, 2012, 9:40 am | # | Reply

          Has E-Merle used magic? I’m pretty sure he uses magical trinkets exclusively.

          • centuriancode
            centuriancode
            June 18, 2012, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

            Periodically he does some form of independent prestidigitation. And Best (also a shit elf) had some basic magic that he could channel through his guitar. It looks like shit elves have some for mof lingering magic, but nothing like the hugely powerful arcana of sky elves, or the (as yet unidentified) nature magic of the wood elves.

            • gangler
              gangler
              June 19, 2012, 11:39 am | # | Reply

              See, I thought it was the guitar that was magic, not Best. No different from any warrior using a magic sword.

              Looking back though it does seem to be indicated that E-merle knows at least a few minor cantrips.

              • centuriancode
                centuriancode
                June 19, 2012, 10:44 pm | # | Reply

                It’s quite possible that Best was just using a magic guitar – I’m not sure if it’s ever fully explained what the limits/source of his Bardic magic are. I suppose it’s also possible that, just as humans can learn to do cool magical(?) tricks (see Frigg channeling her belief), shit elves could learn magic as well. That would explain why E-Merl has basic cantrips, even though shit elves are supposed to have lost their magic.

    • JK9000
      JK9000
      June 18, 2012, 1:31 am | # | Reply

      Cast page says he’s half-elf.

      • James Rye
        James Rye
        June 18, 2012, 6:52 am | # | Reply

        Doesn´t that actually make him a Shit-elf? Till now i thought all half-elves are called Shit-elves cause unlike Winter, Sky and Forest they got human blood mixed in their veins.

        • Dove
          Dove
          June 18, 2012, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

          It might be that Shit Elf is the term for a Half Elf Asshole. In other words, you don’t say it about them or to their face unless you hate them because it’s just insulting slang. I know that Best used it earlier on (or it was used around his introduction, definitely) but I’m pretty sure that was applied because of the way he acts or ironically? I might be wrong. XD

        • Timelost
          Timelost
          June 18, 2012, 3:23 pm | # | Reply

          No, Shit Elves are a race of elves that lost their elf-magic.

          Payet Best is just described as “Elf” in the cast page where E-Merl’s entry says “Half-Elf”, so there’s a distinction there.

          The only real question is what kind of elf he’s half-and-half.

          • Phil
            Flo
            June 19, 2012, 3:04 pm | # | Reply

            You are all basically correct here.

            Shit Elf is essentially a catchall term for any non pure-blooded Elf, someone who’s lost their “Elf-Magick” due to being mixed. The term can also apply to exiles.

            “Lost their elf-magick” is meant to be more figurative than not. Like, they lost that thing that makes them truly a member of that elf faction: the purity. Something “magickal.”

            • centuriancode
              centuriancode
              June 19, 2012, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

              So, does the yellow skin actually signify shit elf status, or do Best and E-merl simply originate from a yellow race of elves?

              • Andreas
                Andreas
                June 24, 2012, 9:34 am | # | Reply

                I think they just smoke too much…

    • Timelost
      Timelost
      June 18, 2012, 1:35 am | # | Reply

      I believe E-Merl is a Shit Elf, all the magic we’ve seen him do involves items.

      • Timelost
        Timelost
        June 18, 2012, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

        Somebody pointed out on the cast page it says he’s a half-elf, so this is wrong unless it turns out he’s half-shit-elf, which would be a tragedy.

      • plaintextman
        plaintextman
        June 19, 2012, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

        He has used magic on several occasions without items. Can’t remember the page but he definitely threw fireballs at the insurgents at the docks. I don’t think he has any ‘shit’ in his blood.

        • centuriancode
          centuriancode
          June 19, 2012, 10:47 pm | # | Reply

          The fire is from his band of summer flames, I think. The independent magic is more like the muffins he spontaneously produced from his apparently mundane hat.

  5. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    June 18, 2012, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Ginyu Force! Assemble!

    • AcadianBacon
      AcadianBacon
      June 18, 2012, 1:42 am | # | Reply

      HOKUSEN KAI! HOKUSEN KAI! <:3

      • SMARTASS
        SMARTASS
        June 18, 2012, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

        Its toku sentai, Ginyu Tokusentai

        I think toku sentai means something like: special forces or maybe special fighting forces, something like that

    • minion
      minion
      June 18, 2012, 3:43 am | # | Reply

      also: free set of steak-knives :)

  6. DrPessanha
    DrPessanha
    June 18, 2012, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    the sequence of history in each page is a little… strange… by the way E-merl u just enter in manhood after that pose. Congratz lol

  7. Andreas
    Andreas
    June 18, 2012, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    Ah, the fateful glow of DM fiat!
    And so, it commences…

  8. Miyaa
    Miyaa
    June 18, 2012, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    So the new female elf in the last panel: Mom, Step-Mom, or Mistress?

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      June 18, 2012, 6:22 am | # | Reply

      Her name is apparently Kur’ik so not a direct relation to the ‘Nj family.

      • Joe
        Joe
        June 18, 2012, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

        So… morning talk show host?

        • Andreas
          Andreas
          June 18, 2012, 5:57 pm | # | Reply

          Village Gossip.

  9. The Owlduke
    The Owlduke
    June 18, 2012, 2:47 am | # | Reply

    Sorry E-merl….You still look kinda out of place to me next to all these veterans.

  10. Jea-Luc
    Jea-Luc
    June 18, 2012, 3:06 am | # | Reply

    Oh Byron you sister snatcher. Found yerself a sapling, eh?

  11. Nathanyel
    Nathanyel
    June 18, 2012, 3:34 am | # | Reply

    The dwarf’s fly seems to be down as well :P

  12. minion
    minion
    June 18, 2012, 3:47 am | # | Reply

    I know its been said before but:
    Love very awesomely the leaf-vein pattern and dappled sunlight effects everywhere. That has to be a pain to ink.
    Dont stop!

    • Strongholm
      Strongholm
      June 18, 2012, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

      It is very good. Love the attention to detail, even during humorous panels. Makes it all the more interesting to read.

  13. Obakeinu
    Obakeinu
    June 18, 2012, 7:39 am | # | Reply

    Is it my imagination… or is Bandit wearing an annoyed pout for being called ‘human’?

    • Phil
      Flo
      June 19, 2012, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

      Especially now that she lives in the main part of Gastonia rather than her birth-home of Gnometown, I’d say she gets mistaken for a human child often.

  14. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    June 18, 2012, 7:55 am | # | Reply

    I misread one of his lines as ‘Felch them’. Which added a whole new layer to their display.

  15. Heheh
    Heheh
    June 18, 2012, 8:16 am | # | Reply

    ADVENTURERS, ASSEMBLE!

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      June 18, 2012, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

      epic userpic/comment combo

    • Phil
      Flo
      June 19, 2012, 3:07 pm | # | Reply

      Officially Requesting GA/Avengers Mashup Fanart.

  16. Mujaki
    Mujaki
    June 18, 2012, 8:19 am | # | Reply

    “Use their bones for…
    “.. for, uhm… attachment points for their powerful muscles, and structural support of their mighty bodies, which we will not, NOT be damaging today. Or any other day.
    “Sorry.”

  17. Krogaladin
    Krogaladin
    June 18, 2012, 10:00 am | # | Reply

    “That’s the way team Dai Gurren roles!”

    • Heheh
      Heheh
      June 18, 2012, 1:37 pm | # | Reply

      Just who the hell do you think I am?

      • Andreas
        Andreas
        June 18, 2012, 6:01 pm | # | Reply

        According to your avatar, you’re the one who just rewrote history…
        This is where H.R.’s spell at the purple servers kicks in; without it the heroes’ reception would have continued like this, going from bad to worse to horrible.
        In the end they’d have had to take the king hostage, most likely.

        Now we’re back on the tic-tac-tectonius track, banquets and all.

  18. maggPi
    maggPi
    June 18, 2012, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

    Hmmm…..
    Is Kon’kr named for the chestnut coz he’s bonkers (ha ha! Bon’kr!), or for victory coz he likes to conquer…?

    (“…Conker’s bonkers, coz he wants ta conquer;
    People’s steeples, make ’em all fall down!
    Humans, hoomins! Kill ’em to make more room in
    o-ur Fo-rest Towwwwnnnn..!”)
    —sung somewhat to the tune of “Jeepers, Creepers.”

    • Andreas
      Andreas
      June 18, 2012, 5:59 pm | # | Reply

      I think it’s because he’s an old conker.

  19. ahdok
    ahdok
    June 18, 2012, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

    use their bones for your grace? Only Byron has that honour.

    • redo19
      redo19
      June 19, 2012, 4:04 am | # | Reply

      WHAT YOU DID THERE,
      I SEE IT

  20. Gram91
    Gram91
    June 18, 2012, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

    Frigg is like, “Bow before our awesomeness bitches!” face.

    • plaintextman
      plaintextman
      June 19, 2012, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      Most supremely “COME AT ME BRO” face of them all.

  21. jjarodurandal
    jjarodurandal
    June 18, 2012, 2:39 pm | # | Reply

    Looks like E-merl might be starting to channel Right Said Fred a little bit.

    • Miyaa
      Miyaa
      June 18, 2012, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

      I’m sorry to make you feel old…but who?

      • Gillsing
        Gillsing
        June 18, 2012, 6:37 pm | # | Reply

        This guy.

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      June 19, 2012, 3:01 am | # | Reply

      Thank you. I have a couple RSF albums, and shall henceforth imagine E-Merl singing them.

    • DrPessanha
      DrPessanha
      June 19, 2012, 10:52 pm | # | Reply

      AUHHUHAUAHUAHAUHAUHAUAUAHUAHAU

      as i said E-merl is just enter the manhood

  22. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    June 18, 2012, 7:01 pm | # | Reply

    Go team ‘NJ!

  23. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    June 18, 2012, 7:01 pm | # | Reply

    One of these poses is not like the others. One of these poses just doesn’t belong.

    • plaintextman
      plaintextman
      June 19, 2012, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

      One of these poses is trying desperately to do just that.

  24. ThePuck1
    ThePuck1
    June 18, 2012, 8:50 pm | # | Reply

    The first panel needs translating.

    “Byron, we have to go” really means “Byron, stop hitting on my sister.”

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      June 19, 2012, 3:37 am | # | Reply

      I think it may be more that Syr didn’t want Byron to (yet) spill the beans on what it is the sisters’ have in common. *coughhumanfevercough*

      Also, Syr’Nj left Fr’Nj and Scipio a chaperone. Nooooooooooo…

    • Soirbleu
      Soirbleu
      June 20, 2012, 4:38 pm | # | Reply

      I was wondering if people read that as “hitting on sister.” His smile seems tense, like “oh, god, meeting the family got-to-make-a-good-impression!” His words and over large smile seem to me like he’s nervous, not like he’s trying to pick up Fyr.

  25. Talon88.1
    Talon88.1
    June 18, 2012, 9:56 pm | # | Reply

    “Aaaaaawkward…”

  26. SotiCoto
    SotiCoto
    June 27, 2013, 9:22 am | # | Reply

    I believe the phrase is “Pose as a team, because SHIT JUST GOT REAL!”

  27. Thomas
    Thomas
    August 15, 2013, 3:57 pm | # | Reply

    The one observing unnoticed from the shadows has to be Ni’Nj.

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