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New Comics Every M/W/F - Written by T Campbell & Phil Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

Time to drop it like it's hot.

Chapter 23 – Page 19

on May 28, 2013
Chapter: Chapter 23
└ Tags: Braggadocio, Byron, Gravedust, Rachel, Rendar, Sundar, Tamara
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  1. Fodr
    Fodr
    May 28, 2013, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Oh yea. That’s a perfectly sane thing to do

    • Averant
      Averant
      May 28, 2013, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      Just ooooone flaming arrow and we get pretty sparklies! Gravedust, E-merl, you’re up!

      • TheGrumpyBear
        TheGrumpyBear
        November 12, 2015, 10:38 pm | # | Reply

        …..yeaaaaahhhh. You do NOT want THOSE sparklies, if that is what I think it is. Wiley Petey is not your buddy.

    • The_Rippy_One
      The_Rippy_One
      May 28, 2013, 2:07 am | # | Reply

      Sane? He’s a fighter, who didn’t bump stat either charisma or intelligence. He’s got to have rock-bottom Wisdom at this point…

      • Seth
        Seth
        May 28, 2013, 2:19 am | # | Reply

        With that setup, better wisdom than dexterity.

    • kenneth
      kenneth
      May 28, 2013, 7:28 pm | # | Reply

      Looking at his set-up, it wouldn’t surprise me if he isn’t the world’s first rocket-assisted, gnomish suicide bomber.

      • Joe
        Joe
        July 27, 2013, 8:50 pm | # | Reply

        A little inconvenient since they’re supposed to be rescuing him…

  2. Acrox
    Acrox
    May 28, 2013, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Wait, phosphor bombarding? That’s sick and wrong on so many levels (phosphor burns look especially nasty on survivors after an year or so, like a cursed wound that never closes).

    And people thought rabies was madness.

    Oh, and Braggadocio is back on his feet and ready for some dwarf tossing, apparently OK after a golem-busting blow.

    If Frigg is the meat shield, Bragg is the beef gate.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      May 28, 2013, 1:34 am | # | Reply

      So far we’ve seen Bragg beat a bunch of drunks, a griffin (OK that’s pretty OK) and throw a dwarf. Meanwhile he’s been beaten by 4 dwarfs and a girl.
      He’s supposed to be impressive?

      • beige
        beige
        May 28, 2013, 2:54 am | # | Reply

        Well, the first was for on one, which is pretty steep odds. The girl you mentioned is Frigg, and I’m sure you can tell her she’s just a girl and not very impressive. I’ll get the mop ready :p

      • Harr0wed
        Harr0wed
        May 28, 2013, 9:31 am | # | Reply

        beige said everything I was going to, but I will say this…he isn’t wearing shoes. I’m sure BAndit has something that could put Bragg on the wrongfoot.

        • Obakeinu
          Obakeinu
          May 28, 2013, 10:17 am | # | Reply

          Consider it proof positive that Bragg’s pretty damn tough… Frigg blasted him out of his boots, and he’s coming back for more.

      • MichaelHaneline
        MichaelHaneline
        May 28, 2013, 3:22 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, nothing says wussy like being beaten by a girl, since all girls are all so weak and all. None of them could possibly be good at fighting.

    • Obakeinu
      Obakeinu
      May 28, 2013, 10:21 am | # | Reply

      I too am wondering about the phospor grenades… those puppies are NOT for tossing into a grand melee.

      ‘Cause once you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is nobody’s friend…

      • Snowblind
        Snowblind
        May 28, 2013, 11:00 pm | # | Reply

        “Acceptable casualty rate…”

  3. Dean
    Dean
    May 28, 2013, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    It even has a tiny clockwork orchestra that plays ‘Ride of the Valkyries’.

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      May 28, 2013, 7:13 am | # | Reply

      I like this. ^^

      It will not end well. Sad to see the inventor go. Would have liked to see more of him.

  4. Iocane
    Iocane
    May 28, 2013, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    …Why is the inventor, the guy who’s maybe single-handedly responsible for Fightopia’s existence, strapping a rocket and packs of prosperous grenades to his irreplaceable body?

    • Acrox
      Acrox
      May 28, 2013, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      To void the warranty of the other people’s irreplaceable bodies, of course!

      But only when Sundar’s watch ends, which will be in 3… 2… 1…

    • Devlerbat
      Devlerbat
      May 28, 2013, 2:02 am | # | Reply

      Because he is insane. Was that not obvious?

  5. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    May 28, 2013, 1:46 am | # | Reply

    I’m getting a strong Wile E. Coyote vibe here.

  6. Guesticus
    Guesticus
    May 28, 2013, 2:00 am | # | Reply

    Wait wait wait, “She Believed In Me!”, as in, past tense, as in, she is now dead? Because of him?

    • The_Rippy_One
      The_Rippy_One
      May 28, 2013, 2:06 am | # | Reply

      good catch Guesticus. Maybe dead. It could be “She expressed belief in me at some point in the past,” as well as speaking of the dead.

      • SteelRaven
        SteelRaven
        May 28, 2013, 3:17 am | # | Reply

        …who is Brunhilde again?

      • Manly Bowler
        Manly Bowler
        May 28, 2013, 5:25 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, but before that he said “Brunhilde does!” Not “did”. Wouldn’t that be a sign that she’s still around or is he simply inconsistent with his words?

        • Guesticus
          Guesticus
          May 28, 2013, 7:09 am | # | Reply

          Yup, noticed that as well, but his line in the first panel (“Brunhilde Does!”) doesn’t make sense as a reply to what Byrserk said

  7. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    May 28, 2013, 3:16 am | # | Reply

    Notice the Grenades only contains the phosphor powder, pulling the pin simply releases the powder. The ignition would have to come from a secondary source… is E-merl still throwing fire balls?

    • Thrift shopper llama priest
      Thrift shopper llama priest
      May 28, 2013, 4:40 am | # | Reply

      Well, the flying engie isn’t supposed to know that a fire-ball launching half-elf is in the combat zone.

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        May 28, 2013, 7:13 am | # | Reply

        Isn’t Phosphor supposed to react to oxygen? As in, expose it to the air and watch it explode? (kinda remember a MacGyver episode where some nutter set up some phosphor boobytraps using plastic milk containers with holes in them filled with phosphor and some liquid: the plan being that when the liquid ran out the phosphor would explode)

        • Slack One
          Slack One
          May 28, 2013, 9:28 am | # | Reply

          Yeah, powdered phosphorus will ignite in oxygen. Though just opening a box of it would mostly just reward you with a hell of a lot of thick smoke. My guess is that the powder has a secondary explosive, like gunpowder, mixed in to cause the burning phosphorus to blow up into a pyroclastic cloud.

          Either that, or “Gather three wood. Gather 3 phosphorus. You have crafted a phosphorus grenade!”

        • Acrox
          Acrox
          May 28, 2013, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

          Or that’s just a purposely bogus blueprint.

          Sure, he just has tiny satchels full of powdered phosphorus… in an oxygen-free room. Surely he could tinker something like that. And the wooden boxes are made air-tight with something else (wax, varnish, tar, etc).

          So anybody trying to copy the scheme by directly looking at this blueprint will burn harder than Count Orlok trying to get tan lines.

          Or maybe it’s even detailed, but a less savvy would-be-engineer or alchemist would say “oxygen?” “oxireduction?” “covalent bonds?” What this sorcery is doing in my science?

          Or if they are a goblin, “why wouldn’t I want stuff to blow up in my face?” I by myself wanted that one; On a certain RPG I played, Goblins got a nice stacking bonus to explosions, falls AND damage from their own devices); I’d build a balloon, have it blow itself afterwards, then fall with style with all the inherent “I’m used to that” bonuses.

          I guess those are just as fragile as match boxes, he would drop then whole, then they would either break from the fall, or broken in all the ruckus or just “Ooh, a flying fire fairy riding a shooting star just dropped those tiny, well crafted wooden boxes! It must be gifts! Let’s open!”.

          (Right now I’m imagining the Million Hare episode, Daffy gets another shot at the million box and get this)

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      May 28, 2013, 8:27 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps the pins merely release them from the vest, and as they fall they are ignited by the flaming exhaust of the rocket-powered flying machine. A secondary source, as you mention.

    • PlaintextMan
      PlaintextMan
      May 28, 2013, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

      The view on the design document there may very well just be a partial snapshot of it. This is most likely a form of phosphor that is reasonably stable in the presence of oxygen. I suspect there is a friction-based ignition mechanism that ignites the powder once the pin is pulled. Phosphor can burn all the way down to the ground, make a nice fiery splash, and keep burning for a long while still. I’m actually concerned this mad-ass engineer will start fukken enormous wildfire and burn down everything in Fightopia.

      • PlaintextMan
        PlaintextMan
        May 28, 2013, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

        Uhm, make that an impact-based ignition mechanism. Similiar to the ones old-style mortars used, y’know? I guess the phosphorous compound used as the powder is therefore much more explosivier than the kind that would keep burning for so long.

  8. Quatrain
    Quatrain
    May 28, 2013, 5:06 am | # | Reply

    Two armwidths radius is not very far. That’s not much more than a foot diameter.

    • Zakrael
      Zakrael
      May 28, 2013, 8:10 am | # | Reply

      I was presuming that two armwidths is “stretch out our arms, and the gap in the middle, it’s two of those”.

      Also, note lethal to two armwidths.

      We currently have no upper limit on the “horribly disfiguring” radius, or even the “moderately ablaze” radius.

      • wwlaos
        wwlaos
        May 28, 2013, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

        Moderately ablaze within four Braggadocio’s girth.

  9. LunarTick
    LunarTick
    May 28, 2013, 5:51 am | # | Reply

    I just wanted to point out that Braggadocio hasn’t had the time to put on his boots. I love that.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      May 28, 2013, 9:29 am | # | Reply

      No, no. He lost his boots.
      They’re up someone’s ass, after Bragga kicked that ass most soundly.

      • Mujaki
        Mujaki
        May 28, 2013, 9:38 am | # | Reply

        Actually, factually, he did lose his boots. In yesterday’s update, Frigg ka-smited (ka-smote?) him right outta his boots. Would have knocked the socks off of him, as the saying goes… if he wore any.

  10. The Indomitable Eric
    The Indomitable Eric
    May 28, 2013, 8:44 am | # | Reply

    Everything about this screams ‘High Int, Low Wis.’

    • Chris
      Chris
      May 28, 2013, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

      High Luck!

    • Anonymouse
      Anonymouse
      May 29, 2013, 1:18 am | # | Reply

      As expected from the guy who created the killerbots.
      That said, I wonder why Fightopia hasn’t got any battle automatons yet. Or maybe Rendar doesn’t let them wander around since they’ll attack everything.

  11. Veggieburrito
    Veggieburrito
    May 28, 2013, 9:10 am | # | Reply

    Willie Pete. It’s about to get real.

  12. Chris
    Chris
    May 28, 2013, 9:19 am | # | Reply

    Flaming Rocket Booster… Wooden covered launch shed… Why isn’t everything on fire?

    • Fren
      Fren
      May 28, 2013, 11:33 am | # | Reply

      The thing about wood is that, yeah, it’s flammable. However, just setting a light to wood won’t consume it. The wood has to be heated to a certain temperature before the reaction can sustain itself. Otherwise, you’ll just end up with a charred surface and no real structural failure.

      Kind of how they make charcoal.

      • Chris
        Chris
        May 28, 2013, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

        Absolutely… but a rocket with enough thrust to push something at a horizontal incline with a man weighted payload is not some puny flame.

        I suppose if that shed was made of Iron Wood, it is possible to not catch fire.

        • Anonymouse
          Anonymouse
          May 29, 2013, 1:19 am | # | Reply

          Videogame logic.
          And yeah, they ARE still in a video game.

  13. PlaintextMan
    PlaintextMan
    May 28, 2013, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

    I ♥ Rendar :D

  14. Trevron
    Trevron
    May 28, 2013, 3:00 pm | # | Reply

    Looks like a suicide bomb to me. Rendar is going extremist. Fightopian Fatwah.
    I don’t actually think that’s what’s happening though.

  15. Vladimir Zhivanevskaya
    Vladimir Zhivanevskaya
    May 28, 2013, 4:18 pm | # | Reply

    “We’re gonna win this battle the way battles oughta be won: by bombing the crap outta them!”

  16. DNJ
    DNJ
    May 28, 2013, 8:59 pm | # | Reply

    Phosphorous grenade: for dealing with those unsightly forests or villages. Just one, and watch all of the everything burn away.

    … yeah, this is gonna end bad, especially with a vest made out of them.

  17. dr pepper
    dr pepper
    May 31, 2013, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    I think the Spirit of Death by Insanely Overpowered Fireballs is going to be called back from vacation.

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