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

Hope nobody was using that sheep.

Chapter 28 – Page 16

on January 7, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 28
└ Tags: Gondolessa, Harky, Rana
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  1. Ganurath
    Ganurath
    January 7, 2014, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Crazy, headstrong, romantic issues akimbo?

    I believe we have a bird-Frig.

    • kagato23
      kagato23
      January 7, 2014, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      But does he swear/know memes? That’s the true anti-frigg requirement

    • Tsenzei
      Tsenzei
      January 7, 2014, 4:22 am | # | Reply

      I’d think more the Anti-Byron, actually. Particularly with all the talk of “unhinged” and “madness.”

      • Tsenzei
        Tsenzei
        January 7, 2014, 4:26 am | # | Reply

        Note: I also think he won’t be showing it much outwardly, much like Byron, but that the focus, etc. talked of will be shown more at first, until/unless he discovers his mates body or something. Then it’s frothy-mouth time.

        • Chris
          Chris
          January 7, 2014, 9:23 am | # | Reply

          Like all good crazy heroes. There will be an opportunity to “find” the desired and will thus start the madness on a mission, usually at the expense of all nearby.

          Looking forward to it!

        • kagato23
          kagato23
          January 7, 2014, 8:18 pm | # | Reply

          Oh yes, her execution is soon is it not?

          Doesn’t matter if he gets there before, during, or after. We’re gonna have a show.

  2. Mars
    Mars
    January 7, 2014, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Watch as the winds carry me towards my prey.

  3. CorrTerek
    CorrTerek
    January 7, 2014, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Geez, Gastonia had better not have executed Yalaria. That would just about fill my sadness quota for the year.

    • Loki
      Loki
      January 7, 2014, 3:45 am | # | Reply

      We’ve seen an avian executed (OK technically, seen former-boss-of-Syr’Nj resolve that executing a certain nameless imprisoned avian was necessary). Dramatic conventions suggest that that avian was Yalaria, but we don’t really know one way or the other yet.

      • Psolo Ghoti
        Psolo Ghoti
        January 7, 2014, 9:29 am | # | Reply

        It was Yalaria. I’ve tried to post the link twice, but it won’t show up.

        • Psolo Ghoti
          Psolo Ghoti
          January 7, 2014, 9:31 am | # | Reply

          Ah, well, it’s the first page of chapter 16.

          • CorrTerek
            CorrTerek
            January 7, 2014, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

            Yeah, I know, I went back and checked too. I’m just…really, really hoping that she hasn’t been executed.

            • Ishmael
              Ishmael
              January 7, 2014, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

              Funny how people don’t care about her when she’s gleefully trying to kill the heroes, but give her a few pages in a cell and a lover and suddenly we don’t want her dead.

              • CorrTerek
                CorrTerek
                January 7, 2014, 8:46 pm | # | Reply

                Consider how Frigg acts during battle. Consider how that looks to the other side. Heck, consider Byron while we’re at it.

                I think the whole point is to show that these “savage” races are just as many shades of dark and light as the people on Gastonia’s side.

              • ThatGUy
                ThatGUy
                January 8, 2014, 4:28 am | # | Reply

                Yes its odd how someone who is trying to kill someone you care about can be related to when they are no longer trying to kill them.

  4. 1d4caltrop
    1d4caltrop
    January 7, 2014, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Ewe guys are so punny.

    • Fenlander
      Fenlander
      January 7, 2014, 4:44 am | # | Reply

      baaah, that was terrible

      • Fenlander
        Fenlander
        January 7, 2014, 4:45 am | # | Reply

        that sounded funnier in my head – sorry

        • zero
          zero
          January 7, 2014, 6:38 am | # | Reply

          Acting sheepish are you?

        • Smallfoot
          Smallfoot
          January 7, 2014, 9:20 am | # | Reply

          Don’t feel bad. A lot of things I say out loud sound better in my head. I think it’s the superior acoustics.

          • Random Guy
            Random Guy
            January 7, 2014, 6:26 pm | # | Reply

            Echo-cho-cho-o-o-o

        • HURRDURP
          HURRDURP
          January 8, 2014, 12:41 am | # | Reply

          So this is why Jarvis never speaks. Everything simply sounds better in his own head.

  5. Ralanr
    Ralanr
    January 7, 2014, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    Is she still alive? I mean I remember some mention of an execution but I don’t remember mention of it happening.

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      January 7, 2014, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      I think Syr’nj may have been her saving grace but that may have changed after the death of her father by another Avian.

  6. Loyal
    Loyal
    January 7, 2014, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    Dude’s got some jaw strength.

    • Garithos
      Garithos
      January 7, 2014, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      He must love Maxibon.

  7. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    January 7, 2014, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    About the floating text… using the sheep for what? … never mind, I don’t want to know.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      January 7, 2014, 6:41 am | # | Reply

      Any Scots in the area?

      • Tsenzei
        Tsenzei
        January 7, 2014, 4:54 pm | # | Reply

        If the world is a game, and some of the Savage Races characters are players, then… maybe?

    • MOTW
      MOTW
      January 8, 2014, 9:14 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe the ‘savage’ races play buzkashi.

  8. davesignal
    davesignal
    January 7, 2014, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    Motion to call the bird dude Hurricane Rana, or Hurricanrana for short.

    • Gabriel
      Gabriel
      January 7, 2014, 1:31 am | # | Reply

      Rana’s missing his better half.

      Rana ½.

      • Tsenzei
        Tsenzei
        January 7, 2014, 4:55 pm | # | Reply

        Maybe he’d feel better if he used Shampoo?

        • Acrox
          Acrox
          January 7, 2014, 10:16 pm | # | Reply

          Breaking the pun chain, but it reminds me of why some people find it weird that the city of “Ranma” was localized as “Dalaam” in Earthbound.

          “Da” doesn’t work as “the” sometimes?

          Maybe the localizing crew read that as “da ranma” among the text which would leave “darama/dalaam” as an acceptable romaji substitute.

          Anyway, even avians should feel better after some mousse.

  9. Strongholm
    Strongholm
    January 7, 2014, 2:47 am | # | Reply

    Am I the only one here extremely bothered by the fact that he used his mouth and not his talons? haha

    • Denita TwoDragons
      Denita TwoDragons
      January 7, 2014, 2:51 am | # | Reply

      Maybe he grabbed with his talons, then switched to his beak? Hmm, still would leave him a lot less balanced flight-wise than using his feet. Well, he IS unbalanced after all… :-D

      • Strongholm
        Strongholm
        January 8, 2014, 2:25 am | # | Reply

        Hehehe :D

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      January 7, 2014, 2:54 am | # | Reply

      The seven-foot sapient bird-of-prey diving at 175 mph to catch a sheep can use whatever he damn well pleases.

    • Maelax
      Maelax
      January 7, 2014, 3:41 pm | # | Reply

      No, you’re right – raptors kill with their feet and use their beaks for tearing their prey into chunks they can swallow.

    • Observer
      Observer
      March 14, 2015, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

      Perhaps when a bird of prey gets that insanely pissed it channels a t-rex ancestor a little.

  10. Loki
    Loki
    January 7, 2014, 3:53 am | # | Reply

    Hm. I get the impression that Rana’s going to be very single-minded and absent of personality, except for said single-mindedness.

    Can you be single-minded and still be an interesting character? Theoretically I don’t see why not, but I suppose I’ve yet to see it.
    …Hm. Actually, I take that back. The dragoon-character in Fortuna Saga and Hymns of the Apostate was pretty awesome, and…perhaps single-minded. Certainly an extremely effective killing machine that spoke hardly ever, and yet certainly had motivations (though what those were exactly is kind of unclear).

    Curious? http://www.fortunasaga.com/ (Note that Fortuna Saga precedes Hymns of the Apostate, so if you want to start at the beginning, I suggest starting at the beginning of Fortuna Saga, and only after finishing it moving onto Hymns.)

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      January 7, 2014, 6:46 am | # | Reply

      Sounds like you are describing a certain vehicle for a certain sentient cigar

      • maggPi
        maggPi
        January 7, 2014, 10:48 pm | # | Reply

        What? Oh, crap, I *thought* I heard a scream when I lit up…

  11. Lhurgoyf
    Lhurgoyf
    January 7, 2014, 4:49 am | # | Reply

    I’ll trade one sheep for woo—

    Where the fuck did my sheep go?

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      January 7, 2014, 6:04 am | # | Reply

      It’s used to build the largest army.
      They’ll walk the longest road.
      And rally behind Warchief Harky
      To give Gastonia what it’s owed.

      • Lhurgoyf
        Lhurgoyf
        January 7, 2014, 7:48 am | # | Reply

        Great. So Harky took Longest Road from me as well…

        Bloody git.

    • wwlaos
      wwlaos
      January 7, 2014, 9:53 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, sure, I’ve got wood for sheep.

      • Random Guy
        Random Guy
        January 7, 2014, 6:29 pm | # | Reply

        … Scots…

        • maggPi
          maggPi
          January 7, 2014, 10:52 pm | # | Reply

          Ye mean “Greeks,” don’t ye…?

          (crosses arms and looks fierce and fiery)

  12. Zippideedoodah
    Zippideedoodah
    January 7, 2014, 7:21 am | # | Reply

    Rana’s pectoral reminds me of something. Maybe some MotU character…

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      January 7, 2014, 6:43 pm | # | Reply

      Makes me think he’s a high ranking officer of Zeon.

  13. Smallfoot
    Smallfoot
    January 7, 2014, 9:18 am | # | Reply

    Missing dialogue for panel 1, the image of Rana: “You are all weirdos!”

    • Denita TwoDragons
      Denita TwoDragons
      January 7, 2014, 3:47 pm | # | Reply

      Oh dear Lord now I won’t ever be able to get that out of my head…ROFL ROFL ROFL!!!

  14. Torint
    Torint
    January 7, 2014, 9:18 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, Harky, get over that whole madness thing. Nothing like a little berserking between friends.

  15. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    January 7, 2014, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

    I’m guessing we’re taking a trip to landshark town, and that’s the “it” that Penk should see, regarding “the most unhinged of our coalition”.

    • CorrTerek
      CorrTerek
      January 7, 2014, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

      He’s talking about Rana, who is unhinged due to grief.

      • Inigo
        Inigo
        January 7, 2014, 10:18 pm | # | Reply

        You keep using that word.

        I do not think it means what you think it means.

      • Mordecai
        Mordecai
        January 7, 2014, 11:38 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t think he is. We’ll find out, but I don’t think he is.

        • CorrTerek
          CorrTerek
          January 8, 2014, 12:07 am | # | Reply

          And you were right. Well played.

          • Strongholm
            Strongholm
            January 8, 2014, 2:26 am | # | Reply

            +1

  16. maggPi
    maggPi
    January 7, 2014, 10:56 pm | # | Reply

    Is it just me, or does Yalaria rhyme with “malaria?”

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      January 8, 2014, 4:17 am | # | Reply

      Personally, I read it with all long “a” sounds.
      Yah – Lah – Ree – Ah.

  17. Ben Solo
    Ben Solo
    January 7, 2014, 11:15 pm | # | Reply

    Well. I like the leaders of the Coalition better than the Gastonian leaders.

  18. maggPi
    maggPi
    January 9, 2014, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Okaayyy…. I’m confused. Your phonetics read as short “a” sounds to me (which still rhymes with “malaria”). Long ones would look more like “Yay — Lay — Ree — Ay.”

    Am I wrong?

    • maggPi
      maggPi
      January 9, 2014, 12:04 am | # | Reply

      *Sigh*
      This was meant as a reply to Mujaki.

      • Mujaki
        Mujaki
        January 9, 2014, 2:18 am | # | Reply

        So maybe I got my “long” and “short” terms mixed up. Apologies!
        But I’ve always read “malaria” as mah-LAIR-ee-ah, not mah-lahr-ee-ah.

        Let’s call the whole thing off!

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