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Guilded Age
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Katsucon XX
(National Harbor, MD 2/14-16)
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(Arlington, VA 3/8)
AwesomeCon, D.C.
(Washington, D.C. 4/18-20)
Yessssh. My favorite girl… back in the action. Finally!
Oh, wow, and also, First!
Congrats, have some yaoi.
WAHOO! My Frigg is back, and they’re gonna be in trouble
(Hey-la, day-la, my Frigg is back)
If I were them I’d cut out on the double (Hey-la, day-la, my Frigg is back)
Hey, they’re gonna get a beatin’,
Hey, those avians are good eatin’!
Hey-la, day-la, my Frigg is back!
Frigg’s second-last sentence reminds me of a certain scene toward the end of Superman II (the theatrical cut).
Wait, there was Superman: the Musical?
Well, it couldn’t possibly be worse than Spiderman: the Musical. Or Sailor Moon: the Musical. I’m going to need some brain bleach now.
All those are just sad ripoffs, trying to ape the outstanding success of Popeye – the musical.
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Also, really, really really nice shading lighting and swirling patterns in the dungeons — the art looks great!
Thank you, Soirbleu. That’s a real knotty wood grain pattern there… from real knotty wood!
oh come on, its not knotty, its just really misunderstood..
I noticed it. It’s a nice effect even as a texture across the whole pic.
Frigg, Fr’Nj was *right there*. She probably could have unlocked it with a key.
If she’s exactly one Ka-Smite short of single-handedly winning this battle, I’mma be disappointed in her.
My Holy Mace IS my Skill List.
Random icon assignment: FLAWLESS VICTORY.
+1
“When all you have is a hammer…”
“…everything looks like something to be ka-smited.”
Clearly, “Frigg Justice” is the mace-wielder’s version of the Improved Lockpicking Feat.
Or it could also be the strike “Mountain Hammer”
Tome of Battle says F your hardness!
Also Ka-Smite has been my new favorite sound effect for a while
Or, maybe, “Frigg Justice” is “If it’s hard, you gotta beat it.”?
I need to get to her gym.
To work out, or to breathe in the heady odor of Frigg-sweat?
Same thing, surely?
Who gives a Frigg about justice?
MOVE FRIGG FOR GREAT JUSTICE
WHAT YOU SAY!?
SAVAGE RACES SET UP US THE BOMB!
KA SMITE!
KA SMITE!
FOR GREAT JUSTICE KA EVERY SMITE!!
ALL YOUR MACE ARE BELONG TO FRIGG
And off in the distance we hear Rachel:
“Squeeeeeeee”
I love the last panel lineup: 8-| :-/ :-) :-| :-(
>:-(
Maybe that there is his evening shift replacement, Ya’Wn
95% of explosive sound effects sound better with a KA as a prefix. True fact.
I’ve always thought so.
That guard is way funnier than one would expect him to be.
Also, that reminds me. Time to polish my ironwood.
Um, make sure Frigg don’t get near it…..=O
I think most people won’t mind if their ironwood goes off in their hand. Even better if you have a hot, able-bodied woman to help. ;)
Rachel has all of the happy in the whole grove right now.
That and everyone else is busy dying.
Well, SOMEONE’s determined to be a Debbie Downer today.
Actually, Fr’Nj should have at least half the happy – she’s got herself a MAN.
Smite-gasmic!
Alright, here is the plan. Everyone fights the Army while Byron finds Harki and scares him off. Critiques, suggestions, thoughts?
See my lengthy last entry yesterday, especially step 10.
Great minds think alike!
(on page 7)
Taking a look, be right back….
Heh, nice work there.
Frigg! Fuck yeah!
Here to save the motherfuckin’ woods, yeah!
Savages, your game is through, cause now you have to answer to…
Love Byron in last panel.
“…meep”
I’m smitten.
Appropriate, as she’s smiting.
“It’s Clobberin Time!”
Ironwood doesn’t really sound THAT sturdy. It can both burn AND rust!
No, ironwood is like a vampire-lycan hybrid. It’s half-iron, half-wood but stronger than both.
Yes, but if you wanted to kill that vampire-lycan hybrid, wouldn’t you need to stake it in the heart with silverwood?
So to destroy ironwood, you have to burn it and rust it at the same time? Or you could just KA-SMITE it.
No, just stake it in the heart with a metaphor for silverwood, and it wood(would) be over quickly enough.
I…..don’t know what to say.
..just like Steel?
A minor point, but ironwood is the only species of wood that doesn’t float.
In Eskrima, it’s referred to as kamagong… and *not* used for sparring.
In our world ironwood is not a species of wood, but rather a name used for different kinds of wood that has a reputation for hardness… so it’s really just “Hardwood+”.
Most of the ironwoods probably float.
Ebony and Roughbark Lignum-vitae are two species of wood that don’t float. Very dense.
But none of that is relevant to guilded age ironwood, which may be anything those guys claim it to be.
Actually, there are several species that have the common usage name of ironwood. Their botanical classifications vary, but the common usage name lingers.
Pretty sure I said just that :D
It’s a finite set of trees that give “ironwood”, but it’s no species or even a family.
[Sword of Shannara] Stihl? {hahahaha}
grooaaaannnn…!
Frigg is the best, bar none.
I thought it was Byron’s prison that had just become bar none.
Let’s not forget Frigg Logic > Your Logic
Wait, they were upset about axes? It’s the clubs they gotta fear. Quick! Hide your woods!
…and your irons and your putters and your mashie niblicks…
I like the way the prison guard runs away in the second panel, and I like even more Scipio, Rachel and Fr’Nj facial expressions in the last one.
You know what they say… God’s in the details.
Surely only the Satanists say that?
Actually, being agnostic, I’m not really sure…
Actually, to be /truly/ agnostic, I’d have to say /yes/….
Ummm … anyone seen Byron’s axes?
they’re in S’yrinj’s dad’s house, right?
“Axes of Boding, come to my hands!”
Huh, since they have names, shouldn’t call them by that?
“Balen! Bayen! Byron! HUAAAAGGGGGHH!”
hell yes, Frigg is back and she’s pissed….like always
Of course she’s pissed, there’s a major heroic fight going on… and nobody invited her.
I hope the Horde chose the extended warranty option on those axe-tanks…
SHE SAID THE MAGIC WORD
Everbody duck for cover if she says the F-word.
And now we’re going to find out who’s got the biggest can of whoop-ass… Scipio, or Frigg.
Bets anyone?
10 zorkmids on Frigg. Scip may be manliness personified, but he still doesn’t have Smite.
But he does have the Wand of Improved Elven Relations. Bow-chikka-wow-wow!
And now you see why GMs wont allow CN Paladins…
Frigg can smite my ironwood anytime ;) (im so sorry)
Don’t be sorry, just be careful.
If you can’t be careful, be safe.
If you can’t be safe . . . name it after me.
Cheers,
Cote
By the way: Soo many random avatar must-haves!
Specifically: Frigg’s face in frames 2 and 4 PLUS full body shots of BOTH Frigg AND Byron in frame 3 – both poses fit perfectly inside a square!
C’mon, please, those last ones would be so cool!
I used to have an old ironwood tree out in my front yard.
But then you took an arrow to the knee…
win.
I dunno, my Justice is pretty badass.
I’ll bite: Let’s have an example?
He once gave his sister a dutch rub for taking his dolls?
Amazing
Frigg could have just broken the lock and avoided the chance of impaling Byron on some ironwood shrapnel. But Frigg Decisions > Your Decisions.
I’m not sure it’s possible to tone down the KA-SMITE like that.
Most people would have at least given Byron a warning to back up. It is sooo Frigg not to.
To anyone who knows her, “Shut UP” is a pretty crystal-clear warning to find a safe hidey-hole.
Well, I say: If you can see her backswing, it’s time to run.
Frigg has multiclassed to Lock Smith
It’s an act of will, and she hammers out her problems. Also multiclass in Will Smith?
More like Lock Smite.
Wasn’t that guard given a name last time he showed up?
Supposedly so…but if Sc’wl has been duty the whole time, he should really change his name to Slp’lss or Insmn’iak…
s/duty/on duty/
+2 highly caffenienated beverage + 2 scotches after work == what? I’m guessing an altered mind state. Should I be banned from commenting on the work of (allegedly) sober work of reputable artists? :P :-P :-O
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*hic*
*haec*
…which means we’ll either get this again later this month when the 2nd full moon of August occurs, or, we’re safe for oh… let’s say ’til next month, depending on your time zone.
Yes, yes. I know there are also seasonal definitions for the blue moon. I read the same Wikipedia article. There are many variables to the conditions of coldelectrons’ insomnia-driven drinking binges. May a wee dram rest his weary head.
Loving that Frigg seems to be able to use “goddamit” as her means to invoke her god! I guess in some cases blasphemy is pretty close to prayer…
In the case of a paladin (or rather, crusader) it’s not blasphemy, as she actually wields the damning power of some kind of god. It’s simply a brief description of what’s about to happen.
And behold, god did “dam” it, very much.
Twinkle twinkle little mace
how it smites you in the FACE
–Dave