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

TECHNICALLY, it's not being an asshole, it's 'tough love.'

Chapter 26 – Page 5

on September 24, 2013
Chapter: Chapter 26
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  1. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    September 24, 2013, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Technically it’s practicing your stealth skills.

    Multi-classing: Not just for fighters!

    • Mr. Mister
      Mr. Mister
      September 24, 2013, 5:46 am | # | Reply

      What surprise4s me is that they had the time to go ahead of her and even order some drinks.

      They’re doing pretty well onsthe steahlth department too, they blend in quite nicely.

      Also, pretty sure the villagers are reacting to the pseudo-swearword “retard”.

      • Mujaki
        Mujaki
        September 24, 2013, 6:19 am | # | Reply

        Now, now. It’s very important to keep properly hydrated when you go out stal… *ahem* walking.

      • Stephen
        Stephen
        September 24, 2013, 8:11 am | # | Reply

        I’d have guessed they were reacting to the sigil of the open heart that rachel is wearing

        • Joe
          Joe
          September 24, 2013, 10:52 am | # | Reply

          Or maybe they just recognize Frigg

          • cliffmonster
            cliffmonster
            September 24, 2013, 11:14 am | # | Reply

            Frigg is the ablest of them all!

        • Mr. Mister
          Mr. Mister
          September 24, 2013, 4:38 pm | # | Reply

          I’m an idiot.

          • Twitcher
            Twitcher
            September 26, 2013, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

            http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/further-materials-toward-a-theory-of-the-man-child/ The Woman-Child tells an ablist joke. It is not funny. It is the fact that the Woman-Child said something ablist that is. The Woman-Child wants you to know that you should not take her too seriously, except when you should. At any given moment, she wants to you to take her only as seriously as she wants to be taken. When she offends you, she was kidding. When she means it, she means it. What she says goes. The Woman-Child thinks the meaning of her statement inheres in her intentions, not in the effects of her language. She knows that speech-act theory is passé.

  2. biggmac
    biggmac
    September 24, 2013, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Nude gator wrestling!?!? How scandalous!
    I only wrestle clothed gators.

    • TBeckett
      TBeckett
      September 24, 2013, 11:58 am | # | Reply

      Well SOMEONE didn’t explain the rules to me.

      • Abcus
        Abcus
        September 24, 2013, 7:11 pm | # | Reply

        Avatar win.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      April 1, 2016, 3:50 am | # | Reply

      The late, great Steve Irwin was always in the habit of giving his shirts to gators… typically wrapped around their faces, but still. Such a generous man.

  3. centuriancode
    centuriancode
    September 24, 2013, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    But has Scipio got the right measure of cruel kindness?

  4. God
    God
    September 24, 2013, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    S’up, home-sizzles. How’s it hanging, my niggles?

  5. FoolishOwl
    FoolishOwl
    September 24, 2013, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    Oh, E-merl, I’m disappointed.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      September 24, 2013, 5:53 am | # | Reply

      Is he wearin’ … a dress??

      • Obakeinu
        Obakeinu
        September 24, 2013, 7:37 am | # | Reply

        Maybe… or he could be wearing an fashionably short wizard’s robe.

        (Suitable for summer-wear, and quick retreats (or access for) from angry, sexually frustrated women…)

  6. randomdude
    randomdude
    September 24, 2013, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    I need panel 2 as my avatar. Stat.

    • Dove
      Dove
      September 24, 2013, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      The fact you currently have dramatically intense Rachel as an avatar makes this statement all the better.

      • randomdude
        randomdude
        September 24, 2013, 10:29 am | # | Reply

        indeed!

  7. Messenger
    Messenger
    September 24, 2013, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    The last panel confuses me. Who’s talking? Scipio?

    • Garygolf
      Garygolf
      September 24, 2013, 1:38 am | # | Reply

      No, Scipio’s Cigar is speaking.

      • Tim
        Tim
        September 24, 2013, 6:32 am | # | Reply

        The cigar IS Scipio.

    • Jake
      Jake
      September 24, 2013, 1:47 am | # | Reply

      That’s clearly far too many words for Scipio to say out loud. E-Merl is just inferring his meaning and using magic to project it in the nearby area.

      • Pumpkin_Cake
        Pumpkin_Cake
        September 24, 2013, 8:04 am | # | Reply

        Actually, this gives me a thought. What if Ferris was playing Scipio, and when Ferris died, Laura got “promoted” to control him, but she doesn’t know how to properly role play him?

    • randomdude
      randomdude
      September 24, 2013, 10:30 am | # | Reply

      Everyone in this conversation has the perfect avatars for what they are saying.

    • cliffmonster
      cliffmonster
      September 24, 2013, 11:13 am | # | Reply

      Still should probably modify the speech bubble. Its Scipio, right?

    • Antone
      Antone
      September 24, 2013, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

      E-Merl is thinking to himself and replying out loud

  8. The Indomitable Eric
    The Indomitable Eric
    September 24, 2013, 1:38 am | # | Reply

    This town reminds me of Rohan, except with like, 20 Grima Wormtongues, except the Grimas are kinda hot nuns who like hitting things with rulers.

    I am conflicted.

  9. Kennerly
    Kennerly
    September 24, 2013, 1:58 am | # | Reply

    Scipio just said more in a single frame than he has in this entire comic combined.

    • randomdude
      randomdude
      September 24, 2013, 10:33 am | # | Reply

      e-merl annoyed scipio out of his silence!

  10. Vladimir Zhivanevskaya
    Vladimir Zhivanevskaya
    September 24, 2013, 3:51 am | # | Reply

    “I’m not Ablist, really! It’s just that they have a harder time getting out of my completely indiscriminate wrath!”–BezerkAnon#42

  11. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    September 24, 2013, 7:48 am | # | Reply

    See? Everyone ELSE recognizes them, but not the novice that supposedly worships her as a prophet or something.

    • Stephen
      Stephen
      September 24, 2013, 8:13 am | # | Reply

      maybe the novice was trying to subtly GTFO

    • moirla
      moirla
      September 24, 2013, 8:24 am | # | Reply

      well, assuming they have any written texts with which to spread the word of Frigg, which isn’t likely considering Frigg can barely write her own name, and assuming that text has pictures (snorts at the idea of Open Heart Picture Books), those pictures are hardly going to be photo realistic. For one thing, it’s not like Frigg has ever sat for anyone to paint her portrait, so any images in the text would be based on memory as described by the witness and interpreted by the artist with the addition of visual representations of whatever holy aspects they’ve assigned to her. While she’s not hiding or anything, she’s also not glowing, or 10 feet tall, or whatever.

      I think the villagers are reacting more to Rachel, who is proudly sporting Open Heart regalia.

      (on further thought: if they are all players in an MMO, they just might have the setting turned off that displays her avatar name. Or, more likely, they have their language filter on.)

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        December 13, 2018, 8:48 pm | # | Reply

        She’s probably glowing and TWENTY feet tall, if the church has stained glass windows. XD

  12. moirla
    moirla
    September 24, 2013, 8:28 am | # | Reply

    I like the way you guys use consistent landmarks through a strip to illustrate they are actually moving and not just standing there having a conversation.

  13. Chris
    Chris
    September 24, 2013, 10:37 am | # | Reply

    I too hate being the backup.

  14. ahdok
    ahdok
    September 24, 2013, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

    UNATTRIBUTED SPEECH BALLOON! UNATTRIBUTED SPEECH BALLOON! FLEE FROM THE GHOSTS! FLEE!

  15. MichaelHaneline
    MichaelHaneline
    September 24, 2013, 6:32 pm | # | Reply

    Who ARE those two people in the last panel? Its so hard to tell with those cunning disguises.

    Its Bandit and Byron, right?

  16. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    September 26, 2013, 11:06 pm | # | Reply

    Cloak + shoes + bare legs = Flasher Merl

  17. 2345335
    2345335
    February 18, 2018, 10:09 am | # | Reply

    For someone who is described as “treating everyone as equals”, Frigg sure says a lot of bigoted things.

  18. Speedy
    Speedy
    December 13, 2018, 9:05 pm | # | Reply

    “Well, duh. Everybody is equally retarded, so they’re all’s equals… to each other, of course.”

    “And, I dare you to call my oted ‘big’, to my face!” (Psst… Rach… What’s an oted?)

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