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

 It's certainly a race to the bottom with these two.

Chapter 22 – Page 2

on March 22, 2013
Chapter: Chapter 22
└ Tags: Ashok, Ulak
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  1. biggmac
    biggmac
    March 22, 2013, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Fanged
    Unwieldy
    Rotten
    Stupid
    Troll

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      March 22, 2013, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      FURST??? Oh, forget it.

      • Marble Gargle
        Marble Gargle
        March 22, 2013, 1:15 am | # | Reply

        At Animal House, Flounder got very excited. But then, a single tear rolled down his cheek after reading your second comment.

    • MichaelHaneline
      MichaelHaneline
      March 22, 2013, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      Seems like the troll was the smarter one here. He’ll live, his opponent won’t.

      • Dog
        Dog
        March 22, 2013, 3:47 am | # | Reply

        The troll would survive such a fall ? Really ? They’re tough, not invincible. Besides, this one here isn’t Harky.

        • Jean-Luc
          Jean-Luc
          March 22, 2013, 4:07 am | # | Reply

          Well, they don’t need to be invincible to survive a fall. Just tough with regenerative powers which they are/have. Even humans irl can survive some pretty nasty drops though not without 3rd party medical intervention. Trolls are their own ambulance.

          • Somebody
            Somebody
            March 23, 2013, 10:19 am | # | Reply

            If the faller is the 1st party, and the medical personnel are the third party, who’s the second party? Is it the ground, or was the faller thrown?

            • SotiCoto
              SotiCoto
              June 28, 2013, 7:58 am | # | Reply

              And why wasn’t I invited to any of these parties?

              • MidnightDStroyer
                MidnightDStroyer
                February 15, 2017, 10:22 am | # | Reply

                A lot of people (of all kinds) won’t wake up after this kind of party. I would think that waking up again AFTER the party should be a consideration before you attend it.

      • MidnightDStroyer
        MidnightDStroyer
        February 15, 2017, 10:19 am | # | Reply

        …And THAT’S how you troll your enemy…

  2. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    March 22, 2013, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    “…And now, together, they fight crime.”

    • randomdude
      randomdude
      March 22, 2013, 9:05 am | # | Reply

      MAKE IT SO

  3. CloSeph
    CloSeph
    March 22, 2013, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    You fight like a dairy farmer!

    • OtioseNexus
      OtioseNexus
      March 22, 2013, 6:48 am | # | Reply

      That’s good, because you fight like a cow!

      • wwlaos
        wwlaos
        March 22, 2013, 9:28 am | # | Reply

        Gravy, quit arguing with yourself.

      • Plaintextman
        Plaintextman
        March 22, 2013, 9:53 am | # | Reply

        I am rubber… uh…

        • Nicolas Rei
          Nicolas Rei
          March 22, 2013, 11:19 am | # | Reply

          You are what you wear?

      • Amarikah
        Amarikah
        March 24, 2013, 10:11 am | # | Reply

        “You’re as repulsive as a monkey in a negligee.”

  4. WJS
    WJS
    March 22, 2013, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    I wouldn’t have thought trolls could regen broken bones.

    • MichaelHaneline
      MichaelHaneline
      March 22, 2013, 2:55 am | # | Reply

      If they’re anything like D&D trolls, unless you hurt them with acid or fire, they regenerate anything, even being diced into tiny bits…

      • Thrift shopper
        Thrift shopper
        March 22, 2013, 3:50 am | # | Reply

        O_o You serious ? Survive being diced into tiny bits, with those tiny bits being set yards apart ?

        • Acolyte Bavette
          Acolyte Bavette
          March 22, 2013, 11:19 am | # | Reply

          D&D trolls have had many incarnations and degrees of “regenerability”. Lately, the common accepted tale is that written and propagated by R.a. Salvatore (writer and creator of Drizzit) who specify that trolls behave like sea sponges. This way they can become a hundred different entities by slicing them to bits. There is even a part of the books that mention dogs and carnivores avoid troll meat because the new trolls can grow inside of them and rip them to shreds from inside-out.

          I doubt those trolls are like that, with the amazing exception of Harky who can come back from the dead.

          • Colesloth
            Colesloth
            March 22, 2013, 8:02 pm | # | Reply

            But since acid is one of the things that keeps trolls down for good, wouldn’t stomach acid prevent that?

            • Tsapki
              Tsapki
              March 22, 2013, 11:45 pm | # | Reply

              Funny story about that in Warhammer Fantasy. Grom the Paunch, a goblin war boss actually eat a plate of troll flesh and spent the next few weeks battling it in his stomach until he finally managed to win out.

              • JasonAW3
                JasonAW3
                March 28, 2013, 12:01 am | # | Reply

                As they say, ‘This too shall pass…’

                Butt, I imagine the troll didn’t come out of that one smelling like a rose..

                Jason

        • Valdrax
          Valdrax
          March 23, 2013, 8:38 am | # | Reply

          Yes. In old-school D&D, where some anal DMs made you actually track your food stores, “troll rations” were a common solution. Take a cut of troll meat and trap it in an iron ration so that it couldn’t grow past a certain point. Open, cut some off, close, cook, eat, repeat.

          Yeah, that’s kind of gross and cannibalistic, but playing racist, genocidal murderhobos (aka adventurers) has always been morally dubious business.

      • Nathanyel
        Nathanyel
        March 22, 2013, 2:46 pm | # | Reply

        Captain Jack is a troll? o.O

  5. King of Zeroes
    King of Zeroes
    March 22, 2013, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    This right here is why Chivalry is the best FPS ever made.

    • dralou
      dralou
      March 22, 2013, 2:32 pm | # | Reply

      Seriously ? it’s ugly, hard as hell to take in hands and even when you actually know how to fight, you die within the first minute because there is too many people in the same map…

      But I must admit I’m a real noob in FPS anyway, and it IS fun to watch.

      • Chris
        Chris
        March 22, 2013, 3:42 pm | # | Reply

        YOU MUST THRUST WITH THE POINTY END!

        • Aeon
          Aeon
          March 23, 2013, 3:39 pm | # | Reply

          No.

        • Marchosias
          Marchosias
          March 23, 2013, 5:02 pm | # | Reply

          It is the only solution. It is every solution.

        • Abcus
          Abcus
          March 24, 2013, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

          “Pointy End goes into the other man!”

          “This is going to take a lot of work . . . ”

          Cheers,

          Abcus

  6. Softy
    Softy
    March 22, 2013, 2:28 am | # | Reply

    I watch them fight, and all I can see is just how similar they are.

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      March 22, 2013, 3:11 am | # | Reply

      That is sort of the point I think. Much as I dislike the Gastonian side seeing as how the World’s Rebellion is made up of races screwed over by humans, it is plenty likely that your average Joe Hugh Mann is just trying to get by and just gets caught up in all the propaganda of “Trolls are murderous liars who want to eat your kids” and etc.

      • Thrift shopper
        Thrift shopper
        March 22, 2013, 3:54 am | # | Reply

        Aren’t troll murderers ? See what they did when they went to that village Byron and Gravy went ? And when Gravedust tried to speak with the souls there ? Or when they went to Elves’ Forest and attacked anyone on sight, soldiers and civilians alike ? Men and women alike ?

        What did the Elves do for that ? SO I think the “murderous part” is right, concerning Trolls.

        • SnaleKing
          SnaleKing
          March 22, 2013, 8:22 am | # | Reply

          I’m under the firm belief that we are all murderers, given a motivation and half a chance. Not saying war is always unnecessary, but with our backs against the wall, we will all kill for what we think is right.
          Given a motivation, a means, and a buddy, we will all raze a city, kill the citizens and loot the bodies while the world burns.

          • dralou
            dralou
            March 22, 2013, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

            People tend to do that, yeah, but in my opinion, war is always unnecessary. It weakens both sides, makes them poorer and creates paranoïa within their population. It only benefits to third parties, the ones that sells weapons or items your war doesn’t allow you to produce anymore, or that you can’t buy elsewhere because of an embargo.

            • Anvildude
              Anvildude
              March 22, 2013, 4:13 pm | # | Reply

              See, in my opinion, War is never necessary for the reasons it’s fought. However, it’s completely necessary.

              War is about the only way the Human Race is allowed to Cull itself. We have no natural predators that keep our numbers in check- aside from ourselves. There’s nothing keeping us from avoiding starvation- aside from ourselves. It’s terrible, but if you think about it, the more depraved and inhumane the actions of individual soldiers when they take a town, or a country, or a continent, the better for the human race as a whole- because those who survive are the strongest we have. Those who survive will learn from what happened, and will pass that down to their children.

              I’m not speaking in the purely physical, either- though that is a large part of it. It’s also Emotionally, mentally, culturally.

              It’s a terrible thing, but Life generally is.

              • insomniac
                insomniac
                March 22, 2013, 10:33 pm | # | Reply

                Except that it’s the opposite of true, and the places in the world with lowest violent mortality rates, the most wealth, and the highest standards of living are the ones with the lowest (or negative) population growth.

                • Somebody
                  Somebody
                  March 23, 2013, 10:31 am | # | Reply

                  Many of those places also control the population by arguably unethical government policies, and most of them completely forbid immigration unless you, yourself, are already absurdly wealthy. In many cases they also charge immense, absurd tariffs and have generally xenophobic and/or nationalistic cultural attitudes and resist globalization to protect their little paradise at the cost of the rest of the world, because, you know, they’re better than everyone else. Just like ancient Greece or Rome (sans imperialism).

        • insomniac
          insomniac
          March 22, 2013, 10:26 am | # | Reply

          Of course, the Gastonians have done the same to trolls for years.

          • Whatev
            Whatev
            March 23, 2013, 1:53 am | # | Reply

            Nobody did anything to anybody before about two years ago, it’s all just coded backstory.

  7. Tsapki
    Tsapki
    March 22, 2013, 3:14 am | # | Reply

    I just got it…Grassy Gnolls…shall I assume that there was an assassination conspiracy of a human leader and the Gnolls were blamed for it and that was the validation for kicking them to the curb?

    • zomg
      zomg
      March 22, 2013, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

      Lee Harvey Ostroll was thought to be the sole killer, but before he could be interrogated about a conspiracy he was killed by the mysterious Jacques Rubatani

    • Nonsensicles
      Nonsensicles
      March 23, 2013, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      Kingdom of Loathing did the joke better, I have to say. That has Degrassi Gnolls. ;)

    • JasonAW3
      JasonAW3
      March 28, 2013, 12:07 am | # | Reply

      At least they weren’t Gassy Gnolls. They can raise such a stink…

      Jason

  8. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    March 22, 2013, 5:16 am | # | Reply

    I hope they both end up in an medical camp in adjacent cots.

    • dr pepper
      dr pepper
      March 22, 2013, 5:37 am | # | Reply

      watching snarky, unshaven doctors in rumpled pajamas racing bedpans down the aisle.

      • zomg
        zomg
        March 22, 2013, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

        ” … choppers!”

  9. Mujaki
    Mujaki
    March 22, 2013, 6:09 am | # | Reply

    Okay, so…. Which one is Ashok, and which is Ulak?
    And will it really matter in later chapters?

    • Ulkav
      Ulkav
      March 22, 2013, 8:47 am | # | Reply

      Pretty sure Ashok is the human, Which makes Ulak the troll.

      Buuuut the point here is the similarities I believe. So the difficulty to tell who is who is kinda the point.

      • Nicolas Rei
        Nicolas Rei
        March 22, 2013, 11:22 am | # | Reply

        Well, I think it is safe to say, both of them are active player characters. The latest expansion is officially IN.

  10. Ulkav
    Ulkav
    March 22, 2013, 8:57 am | # | Reply

    Where did the human’s bag go in the 3rd panel?

    You should sell it. For serious. It’d be an awsome minor Guilded Age reference thats extremely useful.

    How is a bag useful? Watch MacGuyver.

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      March 22, 2013, 10:24 am | # | Reply

      It’s on the far side of his body.

      The bag is on his right. The third panel shows his silhouette from his left.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      March 24, 2013, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

      That’s not just a bag, that’s a handbag :P

  11. Veggieburrito
    Veggieburrito
    March 22, 2013, 9:15 am | # | Reply

    I love the spinning helmets. That is so a Warner Bros. cartoon reference.

    • John Waltrip
      John Waltrip
      March 22, 2013, 11:01 am | # | Reply

      Glad you enjoyed that, Veggie. I’m an old Warner toon fan from way back.

      • Seggs
        Seggs
        March 22, 2013, 11:43 am | # | Reply

        requesting a “mornin ralph.” “mornin sam.” when it fits.

      • MidnightDStroyer
        MidnightDStroyer
        February 15, 2017, 10:32 am | # | Reply

        Well, that & the fact that neither of them fell until they were *both* well over the edge of the cliff..

  12. wwlaos
    wwlaos
    March 22, 2013, 9:36 am | # | Reply

    :/

    This is one of those pages where I really have to question if it was necessary to include it at all. Yes, it’s very pretty and moderately funny and haha we’re all name-calling jerks, but you’ve hammered that in with however many chapters already and this page just feels superfluous.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      March 22, 2013, 10:41 am | # | Reply

      Au contraire… the moments of nothing, they’re like beat panels in regular comics, but on a grander scale. Fleeting and beautiful, they give us a break from constant plot at every moment, which is always a little heavy. :)

      It’s important to make your jokes as well as tell your story.

      • Zombie_Spacer
        Zombie_Spacer
        March 22, 2013, 11:15 pm | # | Reply

        Plus, there’s some exposition in the beginning. We now know for sure that the savage races are attacking an area that is currently human-occupied (there was some confusion about that on the last page), and that the land was originally taken from the gnolls by the humans.

  13. ahdok
    ahdok
    March 22, 2013, 10:39 am | # | Reply

    Once again, we learn that the savage races fight best when they can push people off cliffs.

    • Freako
      Freako
      March 22, 2013, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

      The influence of Tectonicus at work?

  14. JamesRustle
    JamesRustle
    March 22, 2013, 11:33 am | # | Reply

    “You fangless monkey!”
    “Yer momma!”
    “…whoa, hey, dude. That’s uncalled for.”
    “Oh, yeah, uh…sorry. I’m just a little too caught up in the moment.”

    • Marchosias
      Marchosias
      March 22, 2013, 4:16 pm | # | Reply

      We are trying to kill each other, but that’s over the line.

      • thatguy
        thatguy
        June 3, 2013, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

        Killing people is indeed rude, but there’s no need to be a total dick about, I always say.

  15. Hornet
    Hornet
    March 22, 2013, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

    We’ll they can’t be dead yet, they have names.

  16. Chris
    Chris
    March 22, 2013, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

    LET ME HEAR YOUR BATTLE CRY!

    • Marchosias
      Marchosias
      March 22, 2013, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

      WHERE’S MY COFFEE?!

      • Zombie_Spacer
        Zombie_Spacer
        March 22, 2013, 11:16 pm | # | Reply

        BRAINS!

        • Thor
          Thor
          March 22, 2013, 11:27 pm | # | Reply

          NOT IN THE FACE!!!

          • Blackout
            Blackout
            March 22, 2013, 11:32 pm | # | Reply

            FOR PONY

            • Marchosias
              Marchosias
              March 23, 2013, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

              *high-five, melts face*

              • coldelectrons
                coldelectrons
                March 23, 2013, 7:54 pm | # | Reply

                LEEROY JENKINS!!

            • Mrknifey
              Mrknifey
              March 24, 2013, 10:51 am | # | Reply

              *holds out cute little bunneh*FWOOOOOSH!;)

    • Aeon
      Aeon
      March 23, 2013, 3:43 pm | # | Reply

      Rawr.

    • JasonAW3
      JasonAW3
      March 28, 2013, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      RUN AWAY!!!

    • Shteve
      Shteve
      March 29, 2013, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

      SPOON!

  17. Messenger
    Messenger
    March 23, 2013, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    Getting so engrossed in a fight and not noticing the nearby cliff- actually a reality in most MMO’s one way or another.

  18. Hogan
    Hogan
    March 24, 2013, 5:40 pm | # | Reply

    This… is golden comedy! XD
    … and I’ve finally made it through all of the comic, now to put it on my continually reading list :-)

  19. Observer
    Observer
    March 11, 2015, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

    JUST KISS ALREADY!!!

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