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

And here I thought he couldn't get any uglier.

Chapter 20 – Page 22

on February 8, 2013
Chapter: Chapter 20
└ Tags: Don Gobligno, Gondolessa, Harky, Iver, Penk
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  1. kagato23
    kagato23
    February 8, 2013, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    The War Machine business is going to take a bath if spit like this keeps up.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      February 8, 2013, 5:09 am | # | Reply

      That’s not spit… and its coming from the goblin behind Harky. o_O

      • Nathanyel
        Nathanyel
        February 8, 2013, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

        Cut out the right third and it just screams for a “Brazzers” tag

        • Dog
          Dog
          February 9, 2013, 4:56 am | # | Reply

          X-D Gross. Gross, but funny.

  2. Acadian Bacon
    Acadian Bacon
    February 8, 2013, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Awesome possum. :3

    • Acadian Bacon
      Acadian Bacon
      February 9, 2013, 12:05 am | # | Reply

      Wait a minute… I just had a random thought. Whatever happened to the orcs we saw a LOOOONG time ago? I’m surprised we haven’t seen ANY orcs. They’re not part of the Savage Races as far as I can tell…

      • Tsapki
        Tsapki
        February 9, 2013, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

        From what we saw, they were being used as slave labor. But that is a good question as to what has happened to them now…

        • coldelectrons
          coldelectrons
          February 10, 2013, 3:57 pm | # | Reply

          Soup.

  3. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    February 8, 2013, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    *avian facepalm* /jpg

    • Robtimus
      Robtimus
      February 8, 2013, 9:59 am | # | Reply

      Ha! Precisely what I was going to say.

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      February 8, 2013, 11:30 am | # | Reply

      *beakpalm*?

    • zomg
      zomg
      February 8, 2013, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      *beakwing*

      Good name for a band, actually

      • Scrunchy
        Scrunchy
        February 8, 2013, 10:33 pm | # | Reply

        Check out “Hatebeak”

  4. Not a name
    Not a name
    February 8, 2013, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    I actually feel a little bad for Harky.

    Hm.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      February 8, 2013, 12:46 am | # | Reply

      “This Duke is more concerned over his men than the spice! I must admit, against all better judgement, I like this Duke.”

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        February 8, 2013, 1:19 am | # | Reply

        Nice.

      • Dan Irving
        Dan Irving
        February 8, 2013, 8:08 am | # | Reply

        /clap

      • zomg
        zomg
        February 8, 2013, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah well look how well that turned out for Liet, just sayin

        • Jean-Luc
          Jean-Luc
          February 8, 2013, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

          Yeah, but he was a desert creature.

          • Flushmaster
            Flushmaster
            February 8, 2013, 9:27 pm | # | Reply

            So now who’s the hot daughter that winds up sleeping with the messiah, here, then?

            • centuriancode
              centuriancode
              February 8, 2013, 10:07 pm | # | Reply

              There’s always the bird following Iver.

  5. Valdrax
    Valdrax
    February 8, 2013, 1:20 am | # | Reply

    Yes, but where is your god now?

    • Tachyon
      Tachyon
      February 8, 2013, 2:46 am | # | Reply

      Presumably somewhere… on fire.

    • Jokerlope
      Jokerlope
      February 8, 2013, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

      presumably on the back burner for now

      • Kristan
        Kristan
        February 10, 2013, 12:01 am | # | Reply

        hehehe.

  6. alurker
    alurker
    February 8, 2013, 1:53 am | # | Reply

    Note the nonchalant backing-away of the Dwarf and Avian in Panel #1. :D

    • Dog
      Dog
      February 8, 2013, 3:11 am | # | Reply

      Yeah. It literally got me. X-D

      • LockeZ
        LockeZ
        February 10, 2013, 6:14 am | # | Reply

        No, it figuratively got you. If it literally got you, Liam Neeson would have less than 24 hours to rescue you.

        • Dog
          Dog
          February 13, 2013, 3:32 am | # | Reply

          Hmm … fair enough.

  7. Bruceski
    Bruceski
    February 8, 2013, 2:08 am | # | Reply

    He’s all furry. Is that guy… a Grinch?

    • DeathChallenged
      DeathChallenged
      February 8, 2013, 2:24 am | # | Reply

      They said his heart grew three sizes that day. So did his waistline.

      • Joe
        Joe
        July 27, 2013, 6:18 pm | # | Reply

        And thus, Axemas was saved thanks to the brave troll and his mighty fist

  8. Mutterscrawl
    Mutterscrawl
    February 8, 2013, 2:39 am | # | Reply

    I like to think the sideline goblin in the last panel is frowning because he sits more with Harky on this issue.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      February 8, 2013, 5:04 am | # | Reply

      He’s trying to work out if he should explain what a Don uses the word ‘family’ to mean to Harky. The survivalist instincts in him suggest that this is really not the time to be correcting the angry troll. The toadying instincts are screaming that he ahould be helpful right now.

  9. biggmac
    biggmac
    February 8, 2013, 3:07 am | # | Reply

    WHUDD?
    Whudd id the soud dat a puch bakes whed hiddig a face? Souds bore lyg I’b tryig to asg “Whud?” wid by dose stubbed ub.

    • Logos
      Logos
      February 9, 2013, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      Whud the hell are you even saying.

      • Rune
        Rune
        February 9, 2013, 2:35 am | # | Reply

        “What is the sound that a punch makes when hitting a face? Sounds more like I’d be trying to ask ‘What?’ with my nose stuffed up.”

  10. hjlkasf
    hjlkasf
    February 8, 2013, 4:51 am | # | Reply

    the grinning shark dude in the background of the last panel is possibly the best thing ever

    • Chris
      Chris
      February 8, 2013, 9:17 am | # | Reply

      What is he doing behind that speech bubble?

  11. ahdok
    ahdok
    February 8, 2013, 4:56 am | # | Reply

    Nw Harky’s speaking my Gob-lingo!

    • Fren
      Fren
      February 8, 2013, 8:21 am | # | Reply

      Laying down the real gobstopper.

      • JamesRustle
        JamesRustle
        February 8, 2013, 10:53 am | # | Reply

        Popped that guy right in his gob, he did.

        • JarrysKid
          JarrysKid
          February 8, 2013, 5:01 pm | # | Reply

          He did not expectorate so low in his opinion.

          • Dog
            Dog
            February 9, 2013, 4:57 am | # | Reply

            Harky is a real spit fire.

            • Darchias
              Darchias
              February 9, 2013, 8:59 pm | # | Reply

              I’ll admit, when I saw how Iver and Gondolessa wisely stepped back I did a spit-take.

  12. taweja
    taweja
    February 8, 2013, 5:11 am | # | Reply

    That landshark looks immensely pleased in the last panel.

  13. Thomas
    Thomas
    February 8, 2013, 6:19 am | # | Reply

    Great page today, in every aspect. Panel 4 is super effective!

  14. Octane
    Octane
    February 8, 2013, 7:51 am | # | Reply

    Last panel: Apply cold water to burned area

    • Gillsing
      Gillsing
      February 8, 2013, 9:02 pm | # | Reply

      Apply directly to the forehead!

  15. Xero01
    Xero01
    February 8, 2013, 7:57 am | # | Reply

    The oddest thing about this series… is that it’s so hard to cheer for the supposed ‘good’ side and their defence of such a bigoted and human-supremacist system. It’s easy to respect Harky from the things we see of him, he honestly cares for his people and wants better for them.

    • Fren
      Fren
      February 8, 2013, 8:31 am | # | Reply

      “Good” and “bad” are social constructs. “Good” is “us”. “Bad” is “them”. Nobody walks into a war thinking that they are the “bad guys”. They’re just the poor saps that are dying for their country. If you really look at it, every group in the World’s Rebellion has suffered under Gastonian expansion. That’s rather much the reason that they sounded the drums of war in the first place, to fight back against the colonial invaders that wish to strip the resources from their lands. Think, if you will, of the Empire from Star Wars. Sure, they were bigoted and human-centric. They repressed aliens. Did they do it for the sake of it? Sure. But the Emperor also had the motivation of trying to harden up the galaxy against an invading force that he KNEW was coming. Evil committed in the cause of the aggregate good and such. Doesn’t make it LESS evil, mind. Just that everyone has their own motivations, and doesn’t view themselves as “evil” or “bad”. The world’s just more gradient than that.

      • JarrysKid
        JarrysKid
        February 8, 2013, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

    • insomniac
      insomniac
      February 8, 2013, 11:24 am | # | Reply

      Of course, Harky also responded to a peaceful overture by diplomats by deciding to slaughter them.

      On the other hand, he may well have been right that all Gastonia wanted the diplomats to do was keep the savage races distracted long enough to lay a whuppin’.

      • Xero01
        Xero01
        February 8, 2013, 5:16 pm | # | Reply

        You have to remember though that the peaceful overture was at its best just another attempt to keep the status quo. A system where they have no voice, no real power except to be viewed as monsters to be killed, or to be pushed to the very outskirts of what can be called habitable land. One example being the Savassi, forced to live in the deserts where even dye is an unheard of luxury.

        I love this webcomic simply for the fact that aside from its awesome story, it makes one think. And we get laughs…

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      February 8, 2013, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

      This is a property of a lot of the fantasy stories I read though…

    • Dog
      Dog
      February 9, 2013, 5:18 am | # | Reply

      “The oddest thing about this series… is that it’s so hard to cheer for the supposed ‘good’ side”
      So hard ? No. I cheer for them anytime.

      “and their defence of such a bigoted and human-supremacist system.”
      No one ever said or even just suggested that the “Savage” races would do a better job at ruling the whole shebang and being nice with the other races. For all we know, they don’t even remotely look like democrats either.

      “It’s easy to respect Harky from the things we see of him, he honestly cares for his people and wants better for them.”
      Yeah, and he attempts to completely genocide another race. See what he did to the wood Elves. Was that called for ? No, it wasn’t. During that battle, Harky even had his drummer killing a fleeing librarian, a non-fighter. What a glorious act of resistance against oppression, really. Not to mention they also killed many female wood-elves. Once again, making no freaking difference between on-duty, armed soldiers and non-fighters.
      And way before that, a team of three or four representatives of the Rebellion (I’ll call them that way) attacked a human port and would have summoned a huge kraken-like creature to complete the “job”, if the occasion they had to do so hadn’t been foiled in the nick of time by our heroes.
      It wasn’t even a military port, just a civilian fishing one.
      And again before that, Harky even had an entire (human or elvish, I can’t remember) village destroyed, Lidice style (or Oradour-sur-Glane stlye, for the French people out there).
      Gravedust even tried to have the souls of the dead telling him who did it to them, and barely got the name “Harky” from the screeching ghosts.

      So much for pretending not to be the real savage out there … :-/

      • Slayn82
        Slayn82
        February 9, 2013, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

        Hey, but they actually admit they ARE savages.

        Yes, they are overall less civilizated – it was quite fortunate that the dwarfs and the goblins were pushed to their side. But that doesn’t make them less willing to fight to defend themselves, and as such, they have to engage in assimetric warfare, thus crippling the enemy resources becomes the top priority, so yes, destroy the harbor. Destroy the positions where the enemy could get support and entrench. Steal the wood elves sacred branch and try to get a superweapon – because even if the wood elves could had become allies, they would be very reluctant and overall less usefull than having Tectonicus around.

        It’s a dog eats dog world after all.

        • Dog
          Dog
          February 13, 2013, 3:38 am | # | Reply

          “they have to engage in assimetric warfare”

          Assymetric warfare ? You’re daft ? They had war machines and were more than enough in numbers to engage in conventionnal, head-on warfare.

          “thus crippling the enemy resources becomes the top priority, so yes, destroy the harbor”
          It’s a civilian harbor, still. They’re not even trying to sabotage or rigg a military dockyard to blow, they’re attacking a fleet of fishing boats.

          Now, concerning the Woodies, you say “they could had become”. Is that grammatically correct ? I’m just asking. English isn’t my native language and some subtleties still escape me.

      • insomniac
        insomniac
        February 11, 2013, 12:29 am | # | Reply

        True enough.

        On the other hand, “an army of Savage Races destroys a Gastonian settlement, looting and burning all in their path and slaughtering those unable to flee” is a shocking development that shakes the nation to its core.

        Meanwhile, “an army of Gastonians destroys a Savage settlement, looting and burning all in their path and slaughtering those unable to flee” is, by all indicators, a Tuesday.

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      February 10, 2013, 6:18 am | # | Reply

      Well, neither side is supposed to be good or bad – since players can pick either side when they make a character.

  16. Yarrr
    Yarrr
    February 8, 2013, 8:32 am | # | Reply

    You can see why so many people follow Harky.

    • plaintextman
      plaintextman
      February 8, 2013, 6:34 pm | # | Reply

      I’m really gaining respect for him. Besides the whole aptitude for chaotic violence, he seems to be quite the leader.

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      February 9, 2013, 4:05 am | # | Reply

      #WorldsRebellion #TrollBikiniBabes #UMadBro

  17. ChronoWaster
    ChronoWaster
    February 8, 2013, 8:42 am | # | Reply

    Huh, I’ve never noticed that gem on Harky’s stomach before.

    • Chris
      Chris
      February 8, 2013, 9:18 am | # | Reply

      They say it glows when you rub it with your thumb!

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      February 10, 2013, 6:19 am | # | Reply

      It’s basically the troll equivalent of a codpiece.

      • coldelectrons
        coldelectrons
        February 10, 2013, 4:07 pm | # | Reply

        I say it’s a koteka, not a codpiece.

  18. Obakeinu
    Obakeinu
    February 8, 2013, 9:26 am | # | Reply

    “How many of *my* war machines did you destroy…”

    Hmm… ‘his’ clanks were one-offs of the Gnomish model.

    (Since I *don’t* think that was a writer’s mistake, I’m going to regard Don’s statement as a clue.)

    P.S. — Kudo’s to Harky… he resolved a leadership issue, AND raised the spirits of his defeated troops all in the same go.

  19. InquisitiveCoder
    InquisitiveCoder
    February 8, 2013, 11:21 am | # | Reply

    I really like Harky. He reminds me of Wiegraf from Final Fantasy Tactics.

    Also, I hate to be “that guy” but that’s not how you throw a punch. The back of his hand should be facing up.

    • Schneidend
      Schneidend
      February 8, 2013, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

      In boxing, perhaps, and even then what really matters is using your hips and pulling your fist away from the point of impact as quickly as possible.

      Regardless, Harky’s hand is covered in metal and spikes. It doesn’t really matter what technique he uses.

      • JohnC
        JohnC
        February 8, 2013, 2:02 pm | # | Reply

        Not to mention he might have killed him if he hit him that way. The edge of the gauntlet extends past the flat of his knuckles. That punch would have gone through the bridge of nose and into his eyes.

    • Benedikt
      Benedikt
      February 9, 2013, 6:00 pm | # | Reply

      In boxing, perhaps, as Schneidend cuttingly observed. In some martial arts styles you do it as Harky does. (WWHD)

  20. Seggs
    Seggs
    February 8, 2013, 11:44 am | # | Reply

    thanks for the don’s conveniently placed left hand in panel 3.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      February 9, 2013, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

      Ditto!

  21. Bugberry
    Bugberry
    February 8, 2013, 4:45 pm | # | Reply

    Harky’s punches sound like Dub step.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      February 8, 2013, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

      Sound like dub step, look like Gob stomp.

      • Radio Silence
        Radio Silence
        February 9, 2013, 8:31 pm | # | Reply

        Needs more Kwok.

  22. Amarikah
    Amarikah
    February 8, 2013, 11:55 pm | # | Reply

    So many unexpected feels on my part…

    I need to voice this page.

  23. Sean
    Sean
    February 10, 2013, 9:56 pm | # | Reply

    WHUDD.

    I think there could be merch material there :D

  24. Deloras Ducking
    Deloras Ducking
    June 3, 2013, 3:15 pm | # | Reply

    Another key delineation of unarmed martial arts is the use of power and strength-based techniques (as found in boxing, kickboxing, karate, taekwondo and so on) vs. techniques that almost exclusively use the opponent’s own energy/balance against them (as in T’ai chi ch’uan, aikido, hapkido and aiki jiu jitsu and similar). Another way to view this division is to consider the differences between arts where Power and Speed are the main keys to success vs. arts that rely to a much greater extent on correct body-mechanics and the balance of the practitioners energy with that of the opponent.:..*”

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  25. dragon8writers
    dragon8writers
    August 17, 2015, 9:11 am | # | Reply

    ……He does care about his people. Makes it hard to hate him completely.

    But. They would be better off with peace, then war. :/

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