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'... but you HAVE to choose NOT TO KILL EVERYONE.'

Chapter 18 – Page 26

on September 26, 2012
Chapter: Chapter 18
└ Tags: Byron, Syr'Nj
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  1. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    September 26, 2012, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    [Reading Alt text]

    …That would be helpful, yes.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      March 31, 2016, 6:20 am | # | Reply

      You have a choice. You must now take that choice.

      [Someone went to the Qunari school of reasoning.]

  2. alicemacher
    alicemacher
    September 26, 2012, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Good parallel there with Syr’nj’s line at the end of Chapter 8. “You all have a choice. Remember that.”

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      September 26, 2012, 4:27 am | # | Reply

      One day, we’ll all look back on this and laugh.

    • Hawk
      Hawk
      September 26, 2012, 10:11 am | # | Reply

      Agreed. I think a lot of the caps-lock yelling was Syr’s anger about her dad talking.

      But she just might choose annihilating everybody anyway…

    • Benedikt
      Benedikt
      April 20, 2017, 10:49 am | # | Reply

      More than four years later I just got this. (Again, probably.)
      Such great storytelling.

  3. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    September 26, 2012, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    I choose……!!!

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      September 26, 2012, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      Ok, this hyperlink tag totally didn’t work out as intended.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        September 26, 2012, 12:30 am | # | Reply

        You meant to choose Jigglypuff?

        • Miyaa
          Miyaa
          September 26, 2012, 1:06 am | # | Reply

          How did I get psyduck instead? And really shouldn’t he be called a platypus?

          • JarrysKid
            JarrysKid
            September 26, 2012, 10:00 am | # | Reply

            I got Shoe.

            • Jean-Luc
              Jean-Luc
              September 26, 2012, 11:42 am | # | Reply

              When life gives you shoes make kicks.

            • banjo2E
              banjo2E
              September 27, 2012, 5:02 am | # | Reply

              I got a Roc.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      September 26, 2012, 4:12 am | # | Reply

      like this

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        September 26, 2012, 6:20 am | # | Reply

        Can you please educate me on which tag to use. Embedding links into words in the comments section is a life long dream of mine.

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          September 26, 2012, 7:14 am | # | Reply

          Replace the square brackets in this example with angle brackets.

          [a href=”http://www.socksandpuppets.com/24hcd/sotr/”]Look! a comic![/a]

          It’ll come out like this.

          Look! a comic!

          • Jean-Luc
            Jean-Luc
            September 26, 2012, 7:25 am | # | Reply

            Thanks!

      • recentlyafish
        recentlyafish
        September 26, 2012, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

        @ahdok

        Stay away from dimensional gateways ahdok.

        I don’t think there can be any debate this time–if you run into yourself you will create a pairahdoks :-p

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          September 26, 2012, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

          Oh man, that is my pun of the week.

  4. James
    James
    September 26, 2012, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    So Byron, I have to ask, how do you stop your balls from going ‘clank’ when you walk? lol

  5. biggmac
    biggmac
    September 26, 2012, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    (continuing alt text) “…well, or choose to kill just Harky. Oh, and the land sharks. Oh, heck, ALL of the savage horde – just kill ’em.”
    “Oh and choose to wear your hair sexy and long from now on – not electrified like now, but not back in your old granny style”
    “Syr? Baby? Love dumpling? I didn’t mean you looked old… now please point that bough away from me, suga-“ZZZAASSSKKK

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      September 26, 2012, 4:56 am | # | Reply

      “…plus, you’re the best lay I’ve had in a long time, and I’d hate for something like this to make it awkward.”

      “…also, you’re the only one who knows how to cook up my anti-zerk serum, and I’m fresh out.”

      • █████
        █████
        September 26, 2012, 6:33 am | # | Reply

        “…haurgh?”

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        December 3, 2018, 9:31 am | # | Reply

        They’re going 50 Shades of Green, with all this bondage stuff, lately.

  6. Llama118
    Llama118
    September 26, 2012, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    Will you take the blue pill, or the red pill?

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      September 26, 2012, 2:17 am | # | Reply

      That depends, what are the side effects of each? Do they have a generic formulation available? Are they covered by my insurance benefits?

      • blight
        blight
        September 26, 2012, 2:25 am | # | Reply

        the blue pill is a suppository

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      September 26, 2012, 4:13 am | # | Reply

      I’, putting the blue pill and the red pill through a double-blind clinical trial, and seeing which one works best.

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      September 26, 2012, 4:42 am | # | Reply

      Mash ’em together and make a purple pill. It’d probably make you just like every other human – walking around in the real world with your head firmly lodged in your own private reality.

      • Derf
        Derf
        September 27, 2012, 11:56 pm | # | Reply

        Heheh.. reminded me of this XKCD strip

    • dr pepper
      dr pepper
      September 28, 2012, 2:44 am | # | Reply

      problem is she took the green pill.

  7. Jonesman64
    Jonesman64
    September 26, 2012, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    “you have a choice!”
    “AND MY AXE”
    “Get out of here Gimli!”

  8. Iocane
    Iocane
    September 26, 2012, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    It’s bad to kill. Puns kill ! And you don’t have to be a pun!

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      September 26, 2012, 2:01 am | # | Reply

      Puns don’t kill people…

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        September 26, 2012, 4:23 am | # | Reply

        I was in the supermarket yesterday and I picked up some lemonade from a promotional stand. As I did so, the entire thing collapsed, and I ended up fleeing down the aisle pursued by a torrent of lemonade.

        I was almost Schwepped away…

        • GupyF
          GupyF
          September 26, 2012, 5:10 am | # | Reply

          That’s quite the bitter ale you just told. You certainly don’t lead a Dole life do you?

          • centuriancode
            centuriancode
            September 26, 2012, 8:07 am | # | Reply

            I was really hoping for a response along the lines of “lawnmowers do”, but I guess that got turfed.

        • Charlie Spencer
          Charlie Spencer
          September 26, 2012, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

          Did you get up gingerly, or just lime there?

      • Charlie Spencer
        Charlie Spencer
        September 26, 2012, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

        I had a pet rock once, a piece of sandstone. It ran away, but I’m still sedimental.

        I thought i saw a rainbow, but it was just a pigment of my imagination.

        I’m here all week.

        • biggmac
          biggmac
          September 26, 2012, 8:32 pm | # | Reply

          Syr: Honeydew you love me? Lettuce leave here today, or tomato!
          Byr: Olive you, my radishing beauty, but we canteloupe until I get a raisin my celery.
          Syr: Oh, asparagus your excuses! Why I artichoke you!
          Byr: Can’t we live in peas and hominy?

          • Logos
            Logos
            September 27, 2012, 4:46 am | # | Reply

            clap…clap…clap…clap…clap

            • centuriancode
              centuriancode
              September 27, 2012, 9:27 pm | # | Reply

              Your slow clap suggests you wish to clap the punners in irons.

  9. Psychotic_Serpent
    Psychotic_Serpent
    September 26, 2012, 1:56 am | # | Reply

    No Byron! Don’t take away the shiney! I love the shiney!

  10. Sir Exal
    Sir Exal
    September 26, 2012, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    “Or be Batman. Always be Batman.”

  11. King of Zeroes
    King of Zeroes
    September 26, 2012, 2:24 am | # | Reply

    But… but… my Kill Count ;_;

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      September 26, 2012, 4:23 pm | # | Reply

      When you put it like that, how can you not kill everything.

  12. Whipstitch
    Whipstitch
    September 26, 2012, 3:54 am | # | Reply

    Syr’nj should stick to her decisions or else Graiya’s bark will appear worse than her bite.

  13. ahdok
    ahdok
    September 26, 2012, 4:14 am | # | Reply

    Syr… your ears are getting out of hand again…

    • eschmenk
      eschmenk
      September 26, 2012, 9:13 am | # | Reply

      Well, they belong on her head, not her other extremities.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        September 26, 2012, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

        Captain Literal strikes again!

        • Psychotic_Serpent
          Psychotic_Serpent
          September 27, 2012, 2:27 am | # | Reply

          Who did he attack?

  14. alphieus
    alphieus
    September 26, 2012, 4:30 am | # | Reply

    You are not a gun!

    • JSStryker
      JSStryker
      September 26, 2012, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

      Ooohh an Iron Giant reference I love it!

    • Zat
      Zat
      September 26, 2012, 5:49 pm | # | Reply

      Epic. Awesome movie :’)

  15. Loki
    Loki
    September 26, 2012, 4:52 am | # | Reply

    This reminds me of the climax of Paranorman.
    In case you’re now interested in it: I’d say it’s generally a mediocre & formulaic-feeling movie, although the immediate aftermath of its climax is rather nice.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      September 26, 2012, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

      Really?
      Wow! What they allow with a PG rating these days!

      • Logos
        Logos
        September 27, 2012, 4:48 am | # | Reply

        “Was it as good for you as it was for my 9-year-old daughter?”

        There’s no way to make this joke without it sounding TERRIBLE.

        • Loki
          Loki
          September 27, 2012, 6:18 am | # | Reply

          the climax, you mean?
          [made it sound worse, and wouldn’t be too surprised if this comment gets deleted]

          • Logos
            Logos
            September 27, 2012, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

            Almost tempted to keep going to see how close to the arbitrary “deleted comment” line.

            Basically, I’m edging.

      • Loki
        Loki
        September 27, 2012, 6:15 am | # | Reply

        [spoilers follow, kind of]
        Specifically: Protagonist is midair where the sky’s all glowy green, trying to dissuade a magically powerful lady – who is trying to kill him and is otherwise predominantly vengeful, but also has increasingly prominent undercurrents of “but I’m just trying to do good”.
        [end of spoilers]

  16. Fairportfan
    Fairportfan
    September 26, 2012, 4:54 am | # | Reply

    Coming down off THAT high is gonna be one hell of a crash.

  17. Fren
    Fren
    September 26, 2012, 7:24 am | # | Reply

    Well, at least he got her to knock it off with the caps lock.

  18. Talon88.1
    Talon88.1
    September 26, 2012, 7:32 am | # | Reply

    “Baby, I know I agreed to try new things in the bedroom, but…”

  19. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    September 26, 2012, 8:30 am | # | Reply

    Time for her to snap the stick like some kind of anti-Nature He-Man, declare eternal love for Byron, and then punch Harky in the dick with SCIENCE.

    • Robtimus
      Robtimus
      September 26, 2012, 9:47 am | # | Reply

      This needs to happen exactly as written.

  20. Aazen
    Aazen
    September 26, 2012, 11:06 am | # | Reply

    Epic Bad Hair Day…

  21. Connie
    Connie
    September 26, 2012, 11:17 am | # | Reply

    1] I’m sorry Byron, Her Will Be Done
    2] You’re right, we can’t do this. Think of all the dead leaves.
    3] [Flirt] We can rebuild the elven race. Make them smarter, sexier, with more epic shoulder pads.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      September 26, 2012, 11:49 am | # | Reply

      Green: A sexy synthesis of men and elves for the betterment of all.

      Blue: Take direct control of the bough and become eternal guardian of own people.

      Red: Destroy the bough and face the uncertain future and repetition of past mistakes.

      Option 4: Log off.

      • Thracecius
        Thracecius
        September 26, 2012, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

        Ouch…just…O U C H. >.<

      • Coatillion
        Coatillion
        September 27, 2012, 4:45 am | # | Reply

        Awesome

  22. GupyF
    GupyF
    September 26, 2012, 2:39 pm | # | Reply

    Sadly the cinematic for these endings are naught but different color variants of the same explosion.

  23. Sun-stone
    Sun-stone
    September 26, 2012, 3:48 pm | # | Reply

    …I just noticed that the lines radiating out from Graiya’s Bough have leaves on them. Nice detail.

  24. Kenneth McNay
    Kenneth McNay
    September 26, 2012, 5:42 pm | # | Reply

    Yes, and it’s a choice of a new generation.

  25. Karishi
    Karishi
    September 26, 2012, 6:14 pm | # | Reply

    Dang. I was hoping that when she closed her eyes beams of light would shoot out of her ears. Guess I lost that pool.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      September 26, 2012, 7:17 pm | # | Reply

      Let’s just say that there are at least two orifices you can’t see in that last panel.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        September 26, 2012, 9:25 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, wood elves have receptacles on their feet that allow them to take in water and nutrients from the soil but you’re totally forgetting about Syr’s vagina and anus.

        • SongCoyote
          SongCoyote
          September 26, 2012, 9:41 pm | # | Reply

          This just totally rocked my “now-with-extra-holes” socks off! I have no comment about the other two orifices.

        • coldelectrons
          coldelectrons
          September 27, 2012, 7:09 am | # | Reply

          Boy, that just kinda takes the magic out of the innuendo.

          • biggmac
            biggmac
            September 27, 2012, 4:23 pm | # | Reply

            In-you-end-o…Spanish term for anus?

  26. Adell
    Adell
    September 26, 2012, 10:17 pm | # | Reply

    Of course, you should kill harky FIRST before you decide to stop. That could be incredibly fucking useful.

  27. Eloi
    Eloi
    September 27, 2012, 6:31 am | # | Reply

    Did anyone else read it Yoda style?
    “A choice… Have… You…”

  28. Arathian
    Arathian
    September 27, 2012, 4:05 pm | # | Reply

    A man chooses. A slave obeys.

  29. common cents
    common cents
    February 11, 2016, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

    Reminds me of Iron Giant
    “You
    have
    a choice”*voice break on choice*

  30. Speedy
    Speedy
    December 3, 2018, 10:18 am | # | Reply

    Possessed by a goddess… That’s one serious staff infection!

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