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

The sheer volume of hand moisturizer Hestia must go through...

Chapter 26 – Page 21

on October 16, 2013
Chapter: Chapter 26
└ Tags: Hestia, Rachel
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  1. RougeMagenick
    RougeMagenick
    October 16, 2013, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    She is a bloody wingnut, the blasted woman was probably loopy in the first place

    • Ganurath
      Ganurath
      October 16, 2013, 12:12 am | # | Reply

      Hestia is blowing things out of proportion with that fiery temper of hers. It must be burning her up to have her convictions confronted. Hopefully, she’ll see the light and simmer down.

      • girode
        girode
        October 16, 2013, 2:05 am | # | Reply

        …You took all of the hot ones you blasted scoundrel.

        • RougeMagenick
          RougeMagenick
          October 16, 2013, 8:46 am | # | Reply

          She did the warp-worshipping witch.

      • Phil
        Flo
        October 16, 2013, 11:00 am | # | Reply

        No one likes a pun-hog.

        • ahdok
          ahdok
          October 16, 2013, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

          I like pick the one I like best, and just fire it off early.

          • Cliffmonster
            Cliffmonster
            October 16, 2013, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

            That way you don’t flame out before your time.

        • Karishi
          Karishi
          October 16, 2013, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

          I’d be angry about it, but mathematically, pun-hog + fire-pun = (pun)(bacon)!
          This being the internet I find it difficult to remain angry with a producer of bacon.

          • maggPi
            maggPi
            October 16, 2013, 8:02 pm | # | Reply

            Admit it; You are all a bunch of hams.

            …
            …Honey-glazed, fire-roasted hams…

            Damnit! I just finished supper, and now I’m all hungry again!

            • Random Guy
              Random Guy
              October 17, 2013, 4:49 am | # | Reply

              You’re such a pig…

  2. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    October 16, 2013, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Inb4 Hestia gets backstabbed.

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      October 16, 2013, 10:50 am | # | Reply

      Unlike Blair, who got frontstabbed.

      • maggPi
        maggPi
        October 16, 2013, 8:07 pm | # | Reply

        You stick your sharp blade in,
        You pull your sharp blade out,
        You stick your sharp blade in,
        And you shake it all about;
        You do the Hokey-Pokey…

        • Guesticus
          Guesticus
          October 17, 2013, 7:11 am | # | Reply

          Mmmm, Hokey-Pokey is very tasty *hands out Crunchie bars for everyone!!*

  3. HURRDURP
    HURRDURP
    October 16, 2013, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    MORE BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
    SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

    wait..

    • Mrknifey
      Mrknifey
      October 16, 2013, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      or “FIRE FOR THE FIRE GOD, FIRE FOR THE FIRE THRONE!!!”

      “WEDONTNEEDNOWATER, LETTHEMUTHAFUKABURN…BURNMUTHAFUKA…BURN!!!!”

      • Tachyon
        Tachyon
        October 16, 2013, 10:52 am | # | Reply

        Wait… fire god?

        Tectonicus?

    • Fenlander
      Fenlander
      October 16, 2013, 7:57 am | # | Reply

      I feel the sisterhood of the unyielding open heart overtake me…. it is a good pain!

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      October 16, 2013, 9:38 am | # | Reply

      Ummmm…ow, my spleen?

    • Tyris
      Tyris
      October 16, 2013, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      MORE DEATH! MORE SACRIFICES! MORE GLOOOOORIOUS CAAAAAAAAAAAARNAGE!

    • Tazman3002
      Tazman3002
      October 16, 2013, 5:16 pm | # | Reply

      The Warhammer references are making me giddy.

  4. Loyal
    Loyal
    October 16, 2013, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Open on one side, and Unyielding on the other. Truly the two greatest devotees of their order.

    • Chris
      Chris
      October 16, 2013, 9:31 am | # | Reply

      This is clearly a case of And – Or, with Or taking precedence. Unyielding OR Open. Seems the clear message was lost in translation.

      And is always better than Or.

    • sjbutler2
      sjbutler2
      October 16, 2013, 10:49 am | # | Reply

      I saw it as Selfless Charity vs. Righteous Indignation, although truly Rachel has a little more balance than that.

  5. MichaelHaneline
    MichaelHaneline
    October 16, 2013, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    You know, it’d be kind of funny if after saying “burn the evil” she went up in flames.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      October 16, 2013, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      Given the second to last panel, I’m pretty sure that’s where this is going.

      • DDDragoni
        DDDragoni
        October 16, 2013, 12:32 am | # | Reply

        Yup, her plans are definitely going up in smoke.

      • Devin
        Devin
        October 16, 2013, 1:55 am | # | Reply

        Yeah. I was just about to say it’s looks like spontaneous combustion time.

      • Benedikt
        Benedikt
        October 16, 2013, 7:22 am | # | Reply

        Thought the same: Flame on.

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      October 16, 2013, 10:32 am | # | Reply

      Yep, a full-blown Phoenix meltdown.

      • MidnightDStroyer
        MidnightDStroyer
        October 19, 2013, 4:37 am | # | Reply

        Looks like Hestia is about to make an ash of herself.

  6. biggmac
    biggmac
    October 16, 2013, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Liar. LIAR!
    EYES ON FIRE!

  7. DDDragoni
    DDDragoni
    October 16, 2013, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    This Nun is on fire! (fire…) (fire…)

  8. JSStryker
    JSStryker
    October 16, 2013, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Come on baby light that fire, try to set world on fire!

  9. nathanyel
    nathanyel
    October 16, 2013, 1:53 am | # | Reply

    Who’s the Firestarter?

    • Stormcrow
      Stormcrow
      October 16, 2013, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

      Twisted Firestarter!

      … sorry, I’ll get my coat.

    • Speedy
      Speedy
      December 14, 2018, 6:20 pm | # | Reply

      Drew Barrymore.

      Firestarter (1984)
      https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087262/

  10. Ghola
    Ghola
    October 16, 2013, 2:22 am | # | Reply

    I’m going to be sad if no one brought marshmallows…

    *Fire related pun goes here*

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      October 16, 2013, 2:56 am | # | Reply

      Hestia started a flame war under the motto “Hate the sin, love the cinder”.

      (There, you asked for it).

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        December 14, 2018, 6:32 pm | # | Reply

        One guy tried to take her up on that offer. The months in the burn ward, getting painful foreskin grafts, dissuaded others from trying.

  11. Acrox
    Acrox
    October 16, 2013, 2:28 am | # | Reply

    CRAWLING IN MY SKIN
    THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEAL

  12. My2Cents
    My2Cents
    October 16, 2013, 2:36 am | # | Reply

    Based on the eyes in frame 5 I think Hestia is a channel for Tectonicus, and she is getting ready to blow.

    That’s going an eye opener for the others. How many crisis of faith can those poor nuns handle?

    • Chantelune
      Chantelune
      October 16, 2013, 5:08 am | # | Reply

      Considering their history, they’ll probably switch their fandom other Rachel, who will “open their eyes”, then make another little cult, then outgrow rachel, rinse and repeat ad nauseam.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        October 16, 2013, 7:19 am | # | Reply

        I dunno – with Hestia (presumably) and Blair dead, and Tamara already expressing doubt that they were on the right path, the cycle may be broken – it’s possible the novices will follow the same arc they did, but I doubt it. I expect the novices to end up in other established orders, and Tamara to return to adventuring with Rabbit, Sundar and their lot again.

        • Guesticus
          Guesticus
          October 16, 2013, 8:11 am | # | Reply

          Possibly two of the Noviates will continue worshipping at the foot of Frigg: the one who got yakked on, and the one who didn’t run (depends on why she didn’t run though)

          • Cliffmonster
            Cliffmonster
            October 16, 2013, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

            …but if you spew, and she comes back, it was meant to be.

            • Fren
              Fren
              October 16, 2013, 1:57 pm | # | Reply

              I suppose that could be construed as anointing…

              • MidnightDStroyer
                MidnightDStroyer
                October 19, 2013, 4:40 am | # | Reply

                Baptized in Holy…er, water? Well, some kind of liquid anyway.

            • Speedy
              Speedy
              December 14, 2018, 6:41 pm | # | Reply

              Remind me not to visit their church on Communion Sunday. :p

      • kagato23
        kagato23
        October 16, 2013, 8:41 am | # | Reply

        They might switch over to “Frigg is a god of destruction. We must supplant her by being invisible wingwomen, getting her laid so the world is spared her holy wrath”

        • wwlaos
          wwlaos
          October 16, 2013, 9:34 am | # | Reply

          That would be amazing.

  13. Oddities
    Oddities
    October 16, 2013, 3:57 am | # | Reply

    I don’t suppose anyone else notices that the seemingly torn last four panels, fit together like jigsaw pieces? Also, I foresee a rather swift stake-burning for this fiery nun-job.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      October 16, 2013, 10:17 am | # | Reply

      I think it’s flamey.

  14. WriterX
    WriterX
    October 16, 2013, 5:37 am | # | Reply

    Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition?

    • maggPi
      maggPi
      October 16, 2013, 8:32 pm | # | Reply

      I love that your avatar is laughing helplessly.

  15. Aleister Crow
    Aleister Crow
    October 16, 2013, 6:12 am | # | Reply

    BURN THE EVIL!

    -accidentally sets herself on fire-

  16. Guesticus
    Guesticus
    October 16, 2013, 8:13 am | # | Reply

    Self-immolation, not as fun as it sounds

  17. Death
    Death
    October 16, 2013, 9:10 am | # | Reply

    If Hesta doesn’t cool off quick she is going to burn out.

  18. Ralanr
    Ralanr
    October 16, 2013, 9:16 am | # | Reply

    No matter how hard you try you cannot destroy the evil nor the good because they do not physically exist. They only exist in the minds of people around you and in your mind. To destroy these ideas you’d have to destroy everyone, including yourself.

    Or you can just try and do more good instead of trying to destroy more evil.

    Sorry for stating something obvious. But her thought process made me want to type this.

    • Chris
      Chris
      October 16, 2013, 9:34 am | # | Reply

      For every 2 parts Good you need 1/2 tsp of Evil, otherwise the pie will not rise and will be lacking in flavor.

      • Dorje Sylas
        Dorje Sylas
        October 16, 2013, 10:54 am | # | Reply

        That sounds like a recipe from some giant’s cook book. Two fresh squeezed doo-gooders, one-half spoiled royalty. (Note: use royalty to catch doo-gooders before cutting.)

        • Mrknifey
          Mrknifey
          October 16, 2013, 11:26 am | # | Reply

          well you need a good amount of decent meat, mixed with a little gluttenous fat to make a good pie:D

    • RougeMagenick
      RougeMagenick
      October 16, 2013, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

      The problem is that good and evil are like light and darkness, one can’t exsist without the other.
      Eris in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy put it best

      • Guesticus
        Guesticus
        October 17, 2013, 7:14 am | # | Reply

        Actually, you can have Dark without Light, but you can not have Light without Dark

  19. Ivresse
    Ivresse
    October 16, 2013, 9:36 am | # | Reply

    I love the smell of nunpalm in the morning…

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      October 16, 2013, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

      *slow clap*

  20. Softy
    Softy
    October 16, 2013, 10:45 am | # | Reply

    I suspect that following this exchange, there will be more passion-filled flames between Rachel and E-merl.

  21. Karishi
    Karishi
    October 16, 2013, 10:51 am | # | Reply

    She lives in a house with a garden in bloom…
    Her family knows that anytime soon
    Their little lady Katie…

    • Devin
      Devin
      October 16, 2013, 2:13 pm | # | Reply

      I Miss that show.

  22. Theodemus
    Theodemus
    October 16, 2013, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

    “The nun, the nun, the nun is on fire
    The nun, the nun, the nun is on fire
    we don’t need no water, let the sister Hestia burn
    burn, sister Hestia, burn”

    Wonder if she’ll see the implications when after invoking fire on “the evil” she herself starts burning. (Always assuming that this indeed is what will happen.)

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      October 19, 2013, 4:44 am | # | Reply

      I’ve got that CD of the Bloodhound Gang. Nice reference to the “Fire Water Burn” song. I was trying to figure out how to do that, but you beat me to it.

  23. J B
    J B
    October 16, 2013, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

    Great job as always, gentlemen, with your comics-craft.
    I must say, though, this one is really quite thought provoking, to me.
    We live in a world where there are a lot of people do a lot of unspeakably horrible things for supposedly religious reasons. This page artfully shows us, in context with the previous pages about these characters, just how that can be. The desire to purge evil from the world is a good drive, but when you allow that drive to define you, then there’s no end to the “evil” there is to purge, and so the destruction snowballs and becomes an end in itself and before long you’re a source of evil despite the good intentions you started with and think you’re still following.
    Obviously, there’s more to it than that. Xenophobia, for example, is a big part of it too. But still, this really sheds light on a dark issue in an artful way.
    Bravo!

  24. Tk
    Tk
    October 16, 2013, 2:31 pm | # | Reply

    Is there an RP rule for use of conflagration or general flame abilities in relation to the caster getting hurt from it?

    • Tazman3002
      Tazman3002
      October 16, 2013, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

      Depends on the gaming system and campaign setting.

  25. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    October 16, 2013, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

    Hesty Storm.

  26. maggPi
    maggPi
    October 16, 2013, 8:41 pm | # | Reply

    Boy: “Mum! Dad! Don’t touch it! It’s evil!”
    Mum & Dad look at him, then look at the charred lump in the microwave oven they rescued from their burnt home. They both reach in to touch it.
    *FOOOMP!*
    Microwave oven clatters to the ground.
    —
    from “Time Bandits”

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      October 19, 2013, 4:45 am | # | Reply

      Not just any evil, it’s CONCENTRATED evil…

  27. Ariedren
    Ariedren
    October 16, 2013, 11:52 pm | # | Reply

    PURGE THE UNRIGHTEOUS!
    CLEANSE THE HERETIC!

  28. Ba ba ba ba banana ... (minions' singing)
    Ba ba ba ba banana ... (minions' singing)
    October 17, 2013, 4:04 pm | # | Reply

    Hestia shoulda got laid. Maybe woulda helped.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      October 19, 2013, 4:46 am | # | Reply

      Maybe…One thing for sure, she’d be a real hottie in bed.

  29. Lilith
    Lilith
    June 27, 2017, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

    “I can feel the Warp taking my mind! It is a good pain!

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