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

It's good we could fight this out like adults.

Chapter 23 – Page 25

on June 5, 2013
Chapter: Chapter 23
└ Tags: Byron, Sundar
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Discussion (58) ¬

  1. alicemacher
    alicemacher
    June 5, 2013, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Good use of the Talking Is A Free Action trope.

    • Acolyte Bavette
      Acolyte Bavette
      June 5, 2013, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      And the Aggressive Diplomacy too. I wonder if it all could be averted, but we are talking about an adventurers only nation, so the answer should be no.

      • centuriancode
        centuriancode
        June 5, 2013, 3:51 am | # | Reply

        Likewise tropes about Mirror Fights and Let’s Fight Like Gentlemen.

    • Scrunchy
      Scrunchy
      June 5, 2013, 9:23 am | # | Reply

      That doesn’t even spell FIRST!

      • Mic-Gold
        Mic-Gold
        June 6, 2013, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

        No, but it does spell “guotiafat”, an underused word if ever I read one.

        • SotiCoto
          SotiCoto
          March 31, 2016, 10:40 am | # | Reply

          Guotiafat is the rarest kind of fat.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      February 15, 2017, 8:46 pm | # | Reply

      Heh!
      Aggressive negotiations,” as Anakin Skywalker put it.

  2. thatguy
    thatguy
    June 5, 2013, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Bros before throes? Bros before throes.

    • Mordecai
      Mordecai
      June 5, 2013, 9:16 am | # | Reply

      Bros before blows.

      • thatguy
        thatguy
        June 5, 2013, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

        Nay, sir/madame. What is at stake here is no mere fistfight. A man betrayed by an old friend. A man with nothing to lose. The verge of revolution, perhaps a futile one. A man who has grappled with his ideals versus a man who has to grapple with madness itself. The struggle herein goes beyond your typical tumble. And so, I say unto to you:

        Throes before blows.

        Thus.

        Bros before throes.

        …

        Verily!

        • Plaintextman
          Plaintextman
          June 11, 2013, 3:32 pm | # | Reply

          *applauds*

      • Mordecai
        Mordecai
        June 5, 2013, 5:01 pm | # | Reply

        That fails to disprove my position.

        A (Bros) > B (Throes) > C (Blows)

        A (Bros) > C (Blows)

        • Speedy
          Speedy
          December 10, 2018, 11:40 pm | # | Reply

          You dare logic the word “Bros”? When you mix “Bros” with logic, you sully them both!

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      June 5, 2013, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

      Bros before thrones.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      June 8, 2013, 1:00 am | # | Reply

      I’d say “(throwing) blows before (becoming) bros.”

      Heh, this page is a classic comic trope, even though it’s been seen most widely in superhero comics…Protagonists fighting each other even though they agree.

      The “Aggressive Debate Forum”…Heh!

  3. Dick III
    Dick III
    June 5, 2013, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    And then the bomb dropped.

    And the world changed with it…

    • Lady Dragon
      Lady Dragon
      June 5, 2013, 3:10 am | # | Reply

      Aha….yeah. I was going to say much the same.

    • Amarikah
      Amarikah
      June 5, 2013, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

      Same here.

  4. Tsapki
    Tsapki
    June 5, 2013, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    I would be surprised, but this is the same guy who started a barroom brawl with Braggadocio to cheer him up.

    • Zombie_Spacer
      Zombie_Spacer
      June 6, 2013, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      For some reason, I read that as “bathroom brawl” at first, and was like “Whoa, how did I miss that?”

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        June 6, 2013, 7:17 am | # | Reply

        Nothing tops a Ballroom Blitz, NOTHING!!!

  5. MathMage
    MathMage
    June 5, 2013, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    Well, that’s one less problem to be sworded out.

    • Vladimir Zhivanevskaya
      Vladimir Zhivanevskaya
      June 5, 2013, 1:05 am | # | Reply

      That’s what happens when you stick to the point.

      • Smartkittykhan
        Smartkittykhan
        June 5, 2013, 2:06 am | # | Reply

        It’s a good thing Byron axed Sundar for his opinion.

        • centuriancode
          centuriancode
          June 5, 2013, 3:52 am | # | Reply

          I dunno, it took them a while to knuckle down to it.

        • tejón
          tejón
          June 5, 2013, 3:54 am | # | Reply

          After this they’ll be overflowing with team spear-it.

    • Red
      Red
      June 5, 2013, 8:03 am | # | Reply

      It is a knifes idea they’ve got. Mace’well give it a shot.

      • thatguy
        thatguy
        June 5, 2013, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

        No, no, no. How could you not go for the triple combo? Replace that “give it a shot” with “take a stab at it” right this instant!

    • Hawk
      Hawk
      June 5, 2013, 7:45 pm | # | Reply

      I love all the puns :D

      What a great anniversary present!

      (Yes, really. Me and Mister Hawk, fifteen years. Booyah!)

  6. FoolishOwl
    FoolishOwl
    June 5, 2013, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    It’s Fightopia. Of course this is how they have a conversation.

    • My2Cents
      My2Cents
      June 5, 2013, 2:02 am | # | Reply

      Or it may be how they hold a vote.

      • Chris
        Chris
        June 5, 2013, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

        HOW DOES ONE TALK SO MUCH YET SPEAK SO LITTLE!?

  7. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    June 5, 2013, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    Let byrons be byrons.

  8. ralanr
    ralanr
    June 5, 2013, 1:53 am | # | Reply

    Best way to work out an argument…EVER

  9. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    June 5, 2013, 1:59 am | # | Reply

    So, who’s going to ruin the moment? Will Rendar try to frag Rachel? Will Frigg try to pop Rabbit’s head like an inflamed zit?

    • Loki
      Loki
      June 5, 2013, 3:09 am | # | Reply

      Well theoretically, things could work themselves out peacefully from here on out…?

      I don’t expect it, but it’d be a refreshing change of pace.

      • Loki
        Loki
        June 5, 2013, 3:10 am | # | Reply

        They could also all turn into rabbits for that matter, if the creators so wish.

        For the record, I expect that even less.

        • Zombie_Spacer
          Zombie_Spacer
          June 6, 2013, 12:38 am | # | Reply

          Although you still expect it enough to have thought of it…

          • Loki
            Loki
            June 6, 2013, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

            Aye. So I guess what I least expect, is what’ll never occur to me, eh? :3

            • MidnightDStroyer
              MidnightDStroyer
              June 8, 2013, 1:04 am | # | Reply

              Yeah, it’s similar to the idea that something you lost was in “the last place you thought to look.” Of course it’s the last place you’d look, because when you find it there, you won’t be looking for it anymore.

  10. Thrift shopper llama priest
    Thrift shopper llama priest
    June 5, 2013, 2:06 am | # | Reply

    Rachel down ! We got a Rachel down. *Black Hawk down Theme*

  11. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    June 5, 2013, 3:54 am | # | Reply

    …and they are still beating each other to death as they apologies…

    • Chantelune
      Chantelune
      June 5, 2013, 4:10 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, but now they smiling, so this is a friendly fight, no longer a real fight.

  12. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    June 5, 2013, 5:11 am | # | Reply

    I wish debates in Congress could be more like this.

    • Smallfoot
      Smallfoot
      June 5, 2013, 5:25 am | # | Reply

      “Are you ready for some Leg-is-latiooooooooooooon?”
      “Yikes, Dan! The speaker just had their filibuster broken by a kidney punch and a bite to the ear! Let’s see the rebuttal in slow motion!”

      • Seggs
        Seggs
        June 5, 2013, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

        you ever watch a session of the british house of commons? robbin williams describes it as “congress with a 2 drink minimum; they yell shit back. its like, ‘my worthy opponent…’ ‘OH FUCK OFF! EAT SHYTE YA BUGGERY BASTARD! MOVE ON!’… ‘will someone please remove mrs thacher from the hall please.’ “

    • Anvildude
      Anvildude
      June 6, 2013, 10:12 am | # | Reply

      Used to be. Then people stopped carrying canes around.

  13. Guesticus
    Guesticus
    June 5, 2013, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    That just shows how much they used(?) to be friends :D

    Now, kiss and make out

    • Zombie_Spacer
      Zombie_Spacer
      June 6, 2013, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      Don’t you mean kiss and make up?

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        June 6, 2013, 7:21 am | # | Reply

        Not at all, they are already ‘grappling’, they just need to stop with the foreplay :P

  14. Chris
    Chris
    June 5, 2013, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

    MORALITY SYSTEM… giving fighters reasons to be nice, with higher tier rewards!

  15. Whipstitch
    Whipstitch
    June 5, 2013, 2:55 pm | # | Reply

    Fighters gonna fight

  16. jokerlope
    jokerlope
    June 5, 2013, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

    nah, they’re trying to talk it out because neither of them wants to wade through the grappling rules

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      June 8, 2013, 1:08 am | # | Reply

      But is this going to turn out with someone making an alignment change & any penalties that go with it?

  17. OamuTheMonk
    OamuTheMonk
    June 5, 2013, 3:35 pm | # | Reply

    Top drawer strip today. TOP DRAWER.

  18. Carlitos
    Carlitos
    June 5, 2013, 9:36 pm | # | Reply

    Now that just warmed my heart.

  19. Anvildude
    Anvildude
    June 6, 2013, 10:12 am | # | Reply

    May I just say…

    Welcome to The Jungle.

  20. dr pepper
    dr pepper
    June 14, 2013, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

    What was that klingon concept? When one warrior gives another a moment of perfect clarity.

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