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

You're going to have to smile on your own from here on, though.

Chapter 19 – Page 13

on November 9, 2012
Chapter: Chapter 19
└ Tags: E-Merl, Rachel
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Discussion (63) ¬

  1. Bob
    Bob
    November 9, 2012, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Last panel: Chick, you look creepy as hell.

    • Bo Lindbergh
      Bo Lindbergh
      November 9, 2012, 12:07 am | # | Reply

      And she wants everyone else to look just as creepy too.

      • Kensou
        Kensou
        November 9, 2012, 12:40 am | # | Reply

        Just what I was thinking. Really pointy ears, sorta long goatee, that grin (however forced)… It’s Merletopheles!

      • Seggs
        Seggs
        November 9, 2012, 2:04 pm | # | Reply

        overly attached clericfriend?

    • tejón
      tejón
      November 9, 2012, 1:52 am | # | Reply

      Why so serious?

      • Karishi
        Karishi
        November 9, 2012, 9:51 pm | # | Reply

        “Do you know how I got these scars?”
        “Yeah, I was there when you did that training thing with Frigg.”
        “…Oh. Right.”

  2. CloSeph
    CloSeph
    November 9, 2012, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    If you were smiling around that many corpses you’d look creepy too

  3. OamuTheMonk
    OamuTheMonk
    November 9, 2012, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Does everyone in Arkerra abandon a weapon in each enemy they kill? There’s a pretty wide variety of usable polearms, swords, and axes sticking out of those bodies.

    It’s totally a nitpick, but it is a little weird.

    • QAlchemist
      QAlchemist
      November 9, 2012, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      …where else would the undead get their weapons when they rise from their grave and start shambling about? I mean, when was the last time you saw an /unarmed/ skeleton or zombie in a fantasy world!

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        November 11, 2012, 8:55 am | # | Reply

        I think those are most likely the weapons of the slain.

    • HLY
      HLY
      November 12, 2012, 8:42 am | # | Reply

      from the barbed shape and the fact they look metally, I’m guessing those are the weapon of the dead. don’t forget they’re currently cleaning the attleground of all the corpses

      it’ not like they’re just gonna despawn. XD

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      June 28, 2013, 3:50 am | # | Reply

      Maybe their inventories are all full already.

  4. Miyaa
    Miyaa
    November 9, 2012, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Well, not Refuse. More like Obsolete. Maybe Beta?

    • Jokerlope
      Jokerlope
      November 9, 2012, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

      betamax perhaps

  5. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    November 9, 2012, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    She is adorable when she’s not Frigging out.

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      November 9, 2012, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Looks hella disgruntled in the penultimate panel, though. That should be a Gravatar.

  6. Thor
    Thor
    November 9, 2012, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    Someone just got righteously tossed into the friend zone.

    Nun-chucked, even.

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      November 9, 2012, 12:49 am | # | Reply

      I dunno, she still seems a little smiten

  7. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    November 9, 2012, 12:55 am | # | Reply

    Maybe we should start calling E-Merl to E-Mo after this page.

    • Scrunchy
      Scrunchy
      November 13, 2012, 8:10 pm | # | Reply

      The juggling is over, now only pantomiming

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        December 4, 2018, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

        With all the spirits lingering here, it’s more like phantom-miming.

  8. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    November 9, 2012, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    So which chapter does Rachel die in again?

    • JamesRustle
      JamesRustle
      November 9, 2012, 8:40 am | # | Reply

      Chapter Never, I hope.

      • Timelost
        Timelost
        November 9, 2012, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

        Killing off characters just for dramatic effect is a bad habit, and I’ll have nun of it.

        • FoolishOwl
          FoolishOwl
          November 9, 2012, 1:40 pm | # | Reply

          Joss say “No” to killing off major characters!

          • Radio Silence
            Radio Silence
            November 10, 2012, 2:12 pm | # | Reply

            The leaf you save just might be your own.

          • The Indomitable Eric
            The Indomitable Eric
            November 10, 2012, 3:16 pm | # | Reply

            Yeah, leaf Rachel alone!

            • The Indomitable Eric
              The Indomitable Eric
              November 10, 2012, 3:18 pm | # | Reply

              Bah, that’s what I get for not refreshing before posting. I wind up missing the point.

          • HLY
            HLY
            November 12, 2012, 8:42 am | # | Reply

            thats a lie and we both know it

  9. Fairportfan
    Fairportfan
    November 9, 2012, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    Somebody – possibly TWO somebodies – could profit from the vigourous application of a clue-by-four.

    • Miyaa
      Miyaa
      November 9, 2012, 3:44 am | # | Reply

      Wood they plank you for the not-so-subtle hint?

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        November 9, 2012, 6:39 am | # | Reply

        Hopefully their response would have a mature timber.

        Incidentally, I am now somewhat terrified by the thought of Guilded Age planking.

        • coldelectrons
          coldelectrons
          November 10, 2012, 7:54 am | # | Reply

          How would that even work?

          • Bliggz
            Bliggz
            November 10, 2012, 1:10 pm | # | Reply

            see all them corpses lying about?

  10. biggmac
    biggmac
    November 9, 2012, 4:15 am | # | Reply

    E-merl. Man. You missed the bliss of kissing the miss! She wasn’t gonna resist!

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      November 9, 2012, 6:40 am | # | Reply

      Don’t diz the wiz, man – he knows hiz biz.

  11. Carl-E
    Carl-E
    November 9, 2012, 4:25 am | # | Reply

    Remember, you’re nev-ver fully dressed without a S-M-I-L-E!

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      November 10, 2012, 9:34 pm | # | Reply

      Smile, darn ya, smile!
      You know this old world is a great world after all!

  12. A random human
    A random human
    November 9, 2012, 6:32 am | # | Reply

    What does E-Merl say, in the third panel ?
    I just can’t figure it out.

    • zero
      zero
      November 9, 2012, 8:20 am | # | Reply

      He says “This one right here?”

  13. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    November 9, 2012, 7:24 am | # | Reply

    He thinks he could have done more in the fight, despite what Rachel’s saying. That’s all.

    Unless you mean his garbled “This one right here?”

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      November 9, 2012, 7:24 am | # | Reply

      …That was supposed to be a reply to A random human. Smooth.

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        November 11, 2012, 8:56 am | # | Reply

        Which random human?

  14. Aazen
    Aazen
    November 9, 2012, 7:39 am | # | Reply

    Sigh. No more ‘Will they or wont they?’ Please.

    • plaintextman
      plaintextman
      November 10, 2012, 3:13 am | # | Reply

      There kind of is more important things to do right now.

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      November 10, 2012, 8:10 am | # | Reply

      Nooooooo, I don’t think so. There’s going to be more “WTOWT?” – lots more.

      Because we love it.

  15. zero
    zero
    November 9, 2012, 8:21 am | # | Reply

    panel 2 is drawn epic

    • John Waltrip
      John Waltrip
      November 9, 2012, 11:33 am | # | Reply

      Thanks, zero.

      zero… my hero.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        November 9, 2012, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

        Now that you gave a lil’ extra rhymin’ luv to zero, you gotta do it for the rest of your admirers!
        But don’t say “biggmac is a jiggy wac”.

      • zero
        zero
        November 9, 2012, 3:50 pm | # | Reply

        not only a rhyme, but a trope, AND an unintentional reference to the Slender Man Mythos

        • John Waltrip
          John Waltrip
          November 9, 2012, 4:24 pm | # | Reply

          and an intentional reference to School House Rock!

  16. Connie
    Connie
    November 9, 2012, 10:03 am | # | Reply

    I want to commend the artwork on panel 3. That look on his face is beautiful. It captures a mixture of emotions so complex I can’t find words to describe them.

    I think I need more coffee.

    • John Waltrip
      John Waltrip
      November 9, 2012, 11:30 am | # | Reply

      Thank you, Connie. Drawing subtle emotions on faces is hard enough, but when the face is tilted down(or up, or some other odd angle), it’s even harder. Thanks again.

      enjoy your coffee.

  17. Talon88.1
    Talon88.1
    November 9, 2012, 10:49 am | # | Reply

    Im more curious about who the hell made a standard for juggling that there even is a technical view for it…
    Damn it. Now Im picturing drill sergeants shouting at clowns trying to keep live grenades in the air.

    • Connie
      Connie
      November 9, 2012, 11:03 am | # | Reply

      You should see my friend Phil Johnson aka Moonie – http://youtu.be/8JSs6PWMMTE Now there is a technical juggler…

    • UrsusArctos
      UrsusArctos
      November 9, 2012, 4:08 pm | # | Reply

      I imagine technical juggling includes not dropping the balls. I think E-merl dropped one or two of those “balls”. In the enemy’s face.

    • dr pepper
      dr pepper
      November 10, 2012, 2:55 am | # | Reply

      When i was in college there was a computer science professor who juggled. He had written a paper on the parallels between juggling and some programming subject, which i can’t remember just now. He had a club called SIG-Juggle.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      November 11, 2012, 9:04 am | # | Reply

      I have, occasionally juggled professionally for proper money. You can juggle “well” or “badly” while doing exactly the same things. Good juggling should (in general) look effortless, fluid. You don’t want to snatch at the catches or scrabble to fit things in. Ideally, you should make it look like the whole thing is really easy.

      If you’re good, you can mesmerise your audience even with only three balls.

  18. Dredogastus F
    Dredogastus F
    November 9, 2012, 4:22 pm | # | Reply

    Dammit sir! Not another scene where our “comic” characters speak and act like people with hearts and souls.

  19. dr pepper
    dr pepper
    November 10, 2012, 2:56 am | # | Reply

    Attention Rachel: There is a whole nation here of people who are just desparate for religious reassurance. Now’s your chance for some easy converts.

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      November 10, 2012, 11:03 pm | # | Reply

      Are you suggesting she should take up a mission from God? Guess it’s time to get rollin’, rollin’, rollin’.

  20. maggPi
    maggPi
    November 10, 2012, 10:51 am | # | Reply

    ****!!!!????
    Oh, crat. Emerl? That guy? Well… He always looked a bit goofy to me until this page. Now he’s… ummm… I say we should cast David Tennant as Emerl in the live action adaptation of Guilded Age.

    Oh, crat, again. That takes me out of the running for the role of Syr’Ng and contesting firmly for Rachel. Ah, well. It’s a funny old business.

    • Darkening
      Darkening
      November 11, 2012, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

      Man, I should really look up what tennant’s been up to since doctor who…

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