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

That's not what we meant when we asked you to put your guard up.

Chapter 21 – Page 4

on February 19, 2013
Chapter: Chapter 21
└ Tags: Bert, Braggadocio
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  1. Nonsensicles
    Nonsensicles
    February 19, 2013, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    I see that the traditional celebration in memory of Burning Heels is to knock one’s enemies off their own heels.

  2. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    February 19, 2013, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Meat’s back on the menu boys!

    • Amarikah
      Amarikah
      February 19, 2013, 12:34 am | # | Reply

      If they’re going to take a mouthful, a bit off the flank, I think he’ll feed everybody pretty well.

      #datflank

      • Campadrenalin
        Campadrenalin
        February 19, 2013, 1:22 am | # | Reply

        I’ve always been a fan of Daft Flank, especially after they did the soundtrack for Tron Leg-o-lamb, but they really did dip in quality during the Bacon After All years, though with the notable exception of one of the album’s singles, Prime Rib of your life.

        #adventuresinmisreading

  3. Amarikah
    Amarikah
    February 19, 2013, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    This chapter certainly started on the wrong foot. He’ll not be seen again.

    • Lady Dragon
      Lady Dragon
      February 19, 2013, 12:53 am | # | Reply

      Unless he ends up being the sole survivor.

      • coldelectrons
        coldelectrons
        February 19, 2013, 1:55 am | # | Reply

        He’ll show up later in the story arch – at another camp, being chewed by some military ossifier for being out of cuneiform; no doubt with a strange tale to talus about how he got there.

        • Actorius
          Actorius
          February 19, 2013, 3:11 am | # | Reply

          geeze these jokes are getting toey

          • Derp
            Derp
            February 19, 2013, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

            They might have just started on the wrong foot.

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          February 19, 2013, 5:56 am | # | Reply

          Still your tongue!

          • biggmac
            biggmac
            February 19, 2013, 5:10 pm | # | Reply

            Burning heels, eh?
            MAY THEIR Soles burn in Heel foreverll

  4. Yashie
    Yashie
    February 19, 2013, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    Love his expression in the last panel.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      February 19, 2013, 6:00 am | # | Reply

      So, Gravatar?

  5. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    February 19, 2013, 1:29 am | # | Reply

    AND THEN THEY MADE HIM KING BRAGGADACIO OF THE BEARDY PEOPLES

  6. Miyaa
    Miyaa
    February 19, 2013, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    I really want the dwarves now trot the big guy off the cliff sounding like ants from those old Tom & Jerry cartoons.

    • Sergei
      Sergei
      February 20, 2013, 9:40 am | # | Reply

      Wow. Are you a wizard?

  7. UrsusArctos
    UrsusArctos
    February 19, 2013, 3:22 am | # | Reply

    I like the way they even had time to hand their axes to the single guy on the right before lifting our big guy.

  8. Fenlander
    Fenlander
    February 19, 2013, 4:09 am | # | Reply

    Shouting that battle cry in a Mexican accent makes a lot more sence. A hill on fire is an upsetting sight.

  9. Loki
    Loki
    February 19, 2013, 5:01 am | # | Reply

    Gulliver’s Travels reference?
    The beard braids are also evocative of Gulliver being tied down by his beard.

    No, I never read it (there’s probably an movie/TV version too), I just know the general idea – some English guy getting beat up by tiny people. And I think he meets giant people too, but the tiny people (Liliputians?) is the most famous part.

    Hmm, that story had Colonialist undertones, didn’t it :/

    • Seth
      Seth
      February 19, 2013, 7:07 pm | # | Reply

      The giants were the Brobdinangians (I’m guessing on the spelling there). There were several other places as well, but the Lilliputians get all the press. It must be a grassroots movement.

    • insomniac
      insomniac
      February 19, 2013, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

      Not particularly. The places he went were less the realms of savage people in need of a civilizing influence, and more a satirical look at the politics of Swift’s native lands. In fact, the Lilliputians specifically represented the British of the time, and made a good deal of mockery of the politics of the time.

    • Inventrix
      Inventrix
      February 23, 2013, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

      He goes to a lot of places in the story, all of which are a satire of some aspect or other of contemporary English society and/or government. Lilliput (tiny people) and its often forgotten neighbor Blefuscu (also tiny people), Brobdingnag (giant people), Laputa (a floating city), Glubbdubdrib (which I never remember), Luggnagg (immortal ever-aging people), and my favorite the Houyhnhnms (horses) and the animal-like Wahoos (who look like humans).

      It’s one of those books where the only part commonly known is the very beginning.

  10. ahdok
    ahdok
    February 19, 2013, 6:02 am | # | Reply

    I bet Bandit will be hot on their heels for this.

  11. Fren
    Fren
    February 19, 2013, 8:04 am | # | Reply

    Revenge is sweet. No more Dwarf tossing contests here, no.

  12. Ariedren
    Ariedren
    February 19, 2013, 8:17 am | # | Reply

    And then: *Crunch* the dwarves miscalculated his weight.

  13. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    February 19, 2013, 9:17 am | # | Reply

    In a moment of desperation, Bragg does the only thing he can to save himself.

    -FfffrrrrrrRRRrrrrrrrrrrt-

    • Adell
      Adell
      February 19, 2013, 10:10 am | # | Reply

      And all the dwarves promptly suffocated and died.

      • Amarikah
        Amarikah
        February 19, 2013, 11:09 am | # | Reply

        Then he’d join the party.

        Too bad it’s not canon. D:

  14. Chris
    Chris
    February 19, 2013, 11:48 am | # | Reply

    Why are their Ewoks in my medieval?

  15. King of Zeroes
    King of Zeroes
    February 19, 2013, 11:55 am | # | Reply

    This page is highly unrealistic. Those dorfs are standing within throwing distance of that stream. They are at terrible risk of CARP.

  16. Veggieburrito
    Veggieburrito
    February 19, 2013, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

    Heave ho
    Heave ho
    This guy is fat we know

    • Zach
      Zach
      February 19, 2013, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

      So we’ll toss him now like a big fat Sow! Hi Ho! Hi Ho!

  17. 4649matt
    4649matt
    February 19, 2013, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

    Is “remember the battle of the burning heels” like “Remember the Alamo”?
    Or is it perhaps more like Guy Fawkes day?
    Either way I suppose that the ‘villain’ of the scenario was set afire.

  18. Locke
    Locke
    February 19, 2013, 2:07 pm | # | Reply

    I’m now imaging the Savasi as Texan.

  19. Dog
    Dog
    February 19, 2013, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

    That doesn’t very bloody, for a battle scene …
    Speaking of that, it’s typical from those pesky midgets : attacking a small outpost, guarded by what seems to be not even 25 men, and calling it a battle … That’s a skirmish. And it’s a generous call. :-3

  20. The Indomitable Eric
    The Indomitable Eric
    February 19, 2013, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

    That dwarf on the bottom left? Yeah, those are all his.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      February 19, 2013, 6:06 pm | # | Reply

      Hmm, if you take attack penalties for dual wielding, I don’t even want to think about the penalties for septuple wielding.

      • The Indomitable Eric
        The Indomitable Eric
        February 19, 2013, 7:36 pm | # | Reply

        Fun fact: There is an epic level character in D&D 3.5 that fights with six swords at once and has +20 or higher with all of them.

        • The Indomitable Eric
          The Indomitable Eric
          February 19, 2013, 7:36 pm | # | Reply

          …a FIGHTER.

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        February 19, 2013, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

        There’s a scene early in One Piece that deals with this.

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