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

I don't get it.

Chapter 23 – Page 2

on May 3, 2013
Chapter: Chapter 23
Characters: Emory, Henry
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Discussion (61) ¬

  1. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    May 3, 2013, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    …Well, the history books will clean it all up.

    • cliffmonster
      cliffmonster
      May 3, 2013, 10:08 am | # | Reply

      They shall remember the great land of Fightopia! A utopia of fighting…wait, that makes no sense!

      • Aurora Moon
        Aurora Moon
        May 3, 2013, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

        That frigg avatar really fits your comment. XD

  2. Marchosias
    Marchosias
    May 3, 2013, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Fire: pretty
    Partisan: idiot

    • Nee Hou
      Nee Hou
      May 3, 2013, 10:21 am | # | Reply

      Partisan: burnt pancake at bottom of chasm.
      He was using IEeeeeee, and it upated too slowly.

  3. Timelost
    Timelost
    May 3, 2013, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    The fire represents immigration reform.

    • Timelost
      Timelost
      May 3, 2013, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      Also the lettering seems to be trying to escape the guy’s word balloon in the first panel.

      • Nathanyel
        Nathanyel
        May 3, 2013, 12:53 am | # | Reply

        It’s a metaphor for not breaking outdated traditions.

        • Nathanyel
          Nathanyel
          May 3, 2013, 12:54 am | # | Reply

          -not

          Dammit, I should reread before submission when I change the phrase…

      • Mujaki
        Mujaki
        May 3, 2013, 4:49 am | # | Reply

        Nah, he’s just trying to throw his voice!
        Or maybe talking out of the side of his mouth?

      • Phil
        Flo
        May 3, 2013, 7:33 am | # | Reply

        Hulahaluahag

        Fixed.

        • centuriancode
          centuriancode
          May 3, 2013, 8:41 am | # | Reply

          Uh, I’m not sure it is. That, or my display is squewy again.

          • Guesticus
            Guesticus
            May 3, 2013, 8:55 am | # | Reply

            Not just you

            • Panthaaron
              Panthaaron
              May 3, 2013, 1:52 pm | # | Reply

              Looked like it was still wrong, so I hit refresh. And viola, fixed version appears. Try that.

              • centuriancode
                centuriancode
                May 4, 2013, 5:47 am | # | Reply

                That worked. Huh.

                I guess it was just a cached page, or some such.

  4. Zombie_Spacer
    Zombie_Spacer
    May 3, 2013, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Heh, love those guys.
    Note though: the text in the mystery-man’s second speech bubble in panel one appears to be slightly misplaced.

    • Zombie_Spacer
      Zombie_Spacer
      May 3, 2013, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Aaand ninja’d by Timelost.
      Although, I just noticed that there don’t seem to be any tags, either…

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        May 4, 2013, 9:21 am | # | Reply

        Text is fixed, still no tags though

  5. sjalexander
    sjalexander
    May 3, 2013, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    I’m assuming you’re aware of it already but if not, first panel third bubble text is off-center

    • wereswine1
      wereswine1
      May 3, 2013, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      Obviously the right words escape him

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        May 3, 2013, 8:42 am | # | Reply

        They left the bubble.

  6. Asfriedhr
    Asfriedhr
    May 3, 2013, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know, I’m not sure what fire has to do with “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.”

  7. ThePuck1
    ThePuck1
    May 3, 2013, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    Like, totally. Gag me with a spatula and see if I, like, flip over your totally prosperous nation.

  8. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    May 3, 2013, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    Is that Sunder with a missing eye or did Solid Snake let himself go?

  9. MichaelHaneline
    MichaelHaneline
    May 3, 2013, 1:40 am | # | Reply

    I’m trying to remember what happened to Sundar the last time we saw him… could that be him?

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      May 3, 2013, 8:43 am | # | Reply

      It was implied that he met a somewhat grizzly end via bayen and brayen.

      • SteelRaven
        SteelRaven
        May 3, 2013, 10:20 pm | # | Reply

        Byron avoids killing other human beings as part of his code; “No one should kill their own kind.”

  10. Carl-E
    Carl-E
    May 3, 2013, 3:00 am | # | Reply

    …don’t burn your bridges before they hatch?

    • cliffmonster
      cliffmonster
      May 3, 2013, 10:09 am | # | Reply

      A fightopia in the hand is worth two in the burning bush….

      • Zombie_Spacer
        Zombie_Spacer
        May 3, 2013, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

        Out of Gastonia and into the bridge fire!

        • coldelectrons
          coldelectrons
          May 3, 2013, 5:10 pm | # | Reply

          All these burning bridges that are falling after me
          Truth and secrets that I’ve learned from Brunhilde
          Emory and Henry I left with a metaphor
          Burning bridges lost forevermore

          • dr pepper
            dr pepper
            May 5, 2013, 5:43 pm | # | Reply

            not a gold star but A for effort. Make that A+ for remembering that song.

      • zero
        zero
        May 3, 2013, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

        I’ve GOT to buy you a book of proverbs or something, cuz this mix and match crap’s gotta go

        • Zombie_Spacer
          Zombie_Spacer
          May 3, 2013, 10:55 pm | # | Reply

          No use crying over spilled chickens calling the kettle into the fire, you know.

        • LockeZ
          LockeZ
          May 4, 2013, 12:11 am | # | Reply

          Yeah man, just build a bridge, and get over it.

  11. umm
    umm
    May 3, 2013, 3:02 am | # | Reply

    This country is full of very steep cliffs and canyons. Also, bridges of tinder.

  12. Mujaki
    Mujaki
    May 3, 2013, 4:53 am | # | Reply

    Fightopia? More like Myopia.

  13. Tater
    Tater
    May 3, 2013, 6:08 am | # | Reply

    Fightopia, huh? This guy seems like a slightly more intelligent version of fighter fom 8-bit theater. Hopefully this will lead to sword-chucks. *crosses fingers*

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      May 4, 2013, 11:30 pm | # | Reply

      I hope they like swords!

  14. Rolan7
    Rolan7
    May 3, 2013, 6:22 am | # | Reply

    Looks like a metaphor for Zanzibar Land, complete with poisonous Zanzibar Hamsters.
    Or Shadow Moses, or Outer Heaven, or Liquidia… it just reminds me of Metal Gear/MGS.

  15. OamuTheMonk
    OamuTheMonk
    May 3, 2013, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    I like the noodle traders. Good comedy characters, there, like the wood-carriers from Usagi Yojimbo.

  16. Guesticus
    Guesticus
    May 3, 2013, 9:34 am | # | Reply

    So, Patch is someone we have seen before?

    • cliffmonster
      cliffmonster
      May 3, 2013, 10:10 am | # | Reply

      He looks like he took classes at the Scipio school of war, but didn’t learn more than how to don his armor.

  17. Amarikah
    Amarikah
    May 3, 2013, 10:18 am | # | Reply

    Odd thought here while looking through the archives…
    Have we ever encountered character in this entire series?

    • Amarikah
      Amarikah
      May 3, 2013, 10:19 am | # | Reply

      Darn it, bad HTML on my part.

      “Have we ever encountered a winter elf character in this entire series?”

      http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-1-page-13/

      • Mujaki
        Mujaki
        May 3, 2013, 10:31 pm | # | Reply

        Hmm, I would have to say… Not yet. But perhaps someday!

        • LockeZ
          LockeZ
          May 4, 2013, 12:10 am | # | Reply

          Presumably, a few of the cultists at Armageddacon were winter elves. Since it was the joining of “all races” and such.

          • Guesticus
            Guesticus
            May 4, 2013, 9:24 am | # | Reply

            The Winter Elves have just been… Forgotten :P

        • Retired Guard Bee
          Retired Guard Bee
          May 5, 2013, 11:50 pm | # | Reply

          Kingdoms of Arkerra: Guardians of Winter, is currently set for Q3 release once the latest expansion has time to settle in with all hotfixes applied to current servers.

  18. chris
    chris
    May 3, 2013, 11:49 am | # | Reply

    And thus, the great famine of Fightopia did begin with the failed plot to secure the Ramen train.

    • dr pepper
      dr pepper
      May 5, 2013, 5:46 pm | # | Reply

      that was going to be my comment. Secure the food supply *before* you isolate yourself.

  19. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    May 3, 2013, 4:35 pm | # | Reply

    Altruists = Peacekeepers?

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      May 3, 2013, 10:45 pm | # | Reply

      Altruists == secret shadow guys (supposedly) in control of the entire country.
      Peacekeepers == public servants, receiving orders from Field Marshall Ardaic.

      Altruists != Peacekeepers

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        May 5, 2013, 4:58 am | # | Reply

        From the perspective of the common people, especially those prone to conspiracy theories, the peacekeepers might as well be “secret shadow guys” and the text implies that the Altruists serve those who control the country (their secret shadow guys), not control it themselves which is in line with peacekeeper employment conditions.

        Also the words peacekeeper and altruist, while very different, have similar connotations and the whole thing feels like a mix up by someone only half-informed, like these Fightopians for example.

        In any case it’s just speculation.

  20. Sir Exal
    Sir Exal
    May 3, 2013, 11:49 pm | # | Reply

    Let’s burn that bridge when we come to it.

  21. Gearran
    Gearran
    May 4, 2013, 11:37 pm | # | Reply

    Okay, y’see, this is what happens when you let someone who’s had a few too many blows to the head have ideas. Fighters should be kept in proper adventuring parties so they don’t GET things like that. It’s just not healthy!

    Also, “totally prosperous.” Reeeeal convincing there fighter guy. *places a bet on “Fightopia” lasting all of two months*

  22. dr pepper
    dr pepper
    May 5, 2013, 5:48 pm | # | Reply

    Too bad the fightopiator didn’t spend a little more time with the ox drivers. I would have loved to hear them discuss philosophy.

  23. WriterX
    WriterX
    May 5, 2013, 6:31 pm | # | Reply

    Somebody mentioned this already but why do all Fantasy settings have deep chasms? Although, that could just be a server glitch.

  24. Eirikr
    Eirikr
    May 6, 2013, 3:02 am | # | Reply

    I have to say, I was not expecting a Metal Gear reference to just show up. This stuff is hard enough for me to understand and keep track of, if you guys start taking the Kojima route, I don’t know HOW I’ll keep up.

  25. thatguy
    thatguy
    June 3, 2013, 10:45 pm | # | Reply

    Yes, and no, Henry.

    What you are witnessing is literal, and so cannot be a metaphor.

    However, its implications are metaphorical, but you were just talking about the burning bridge, weren’t you?

  26. Taren
    Taren
    April 18, 2016, 1:46 pm | # | Reply

    He burned that bridge as they came to it?

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