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

As long as we're naming ourselves after our most identifying features, Hi: I'm Defecated Pants.

Chapter 28 – Page 18

on January 9, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 28
└ Tags: HAMMERHEAD
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  1. bwernard
    bwernard
    January 9, 2014, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Plus, he knows how to use verbs.

    • Ukstriker
      Ukstriker
      January 9, 2014, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      That’s his most dangerous trait!

    • Rommo
      Rommo
      January 9, 2014, 12:12 am | # | Reply

      He’s got articles down-pat too!

    • Wylf
      Wylf
      January 9, 2014, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      Clearly a gentleman AND a scholar.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        January 9, 2014, 6:24 am | # | Reply

        More like a warrior poet, amirite?

        • Eric
          Eric
          January 9, 2014, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

          Gurney Halleck among the Sharkonnen!

          • zero
            zero
            January 9, 2014, 3:30 pm | # | Reply

            non-official gold star

            • cliffmonster
              cliffmonster
              January 9, 2014, 3:50 pm | # | Reply

              Especially coming right after Jean-Luc.

    • Brian
      Brian
      January 9, 2014, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      Also, articles.

      • mrknifey
        mrknifey
        January 9, 2014, 3:52 am | # | Reply

        was just thinking…”did he just say am?”

        • Jack Vermicelli
          Jack Vermicelli
          January 10, 2014, 4:05 pm | # | Reply

          “Am” amn’t an article.

      • WriterX
        WriterX
        January 9, 2014, 6:36 am | # | Reply

        Anybody else sense he will use “I AM THE HAMMERHEAD, B****!” during every single suitable occasion?

  2. Halvhir
    Halvhir
    January 9, 2014, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Please Hammerhead, don’t hurt ’em.

    • Taxil Necrobane
      Taxil Necrobane
      January 9, 2014, 9:06 am | # | Reply

      too late for that….

  3. Garygolf
    Garygolf
    January 9, 2014, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Mr. Hammerhead, you have a little something stuck between your teeth.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      January 9, 2014, 1:48 am | # | Reply

      No, he has a little someONE stuck between his teeth.

  4. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    January 9, 2014, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    …You make a compelling argument.

  5. Ganurath
    Ganurath
    January 9, 2014, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Well, the new guy certainly tore their arguments apart.

    • Gazetteer
      Gazetteer
      January 9, 2014, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      His intellect is just razor sharp.

    • Gabe
      Gabe
      January 9, 2014, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      Not to hammer the point home, but those other guys bit off more than they could chew.

      • Loyal
        Loyal
        January 9, 2014, 1:11 am | # | Reply

        You sure nailed it there, but I gotta give credit to the guy, nonetheless, for an eye-popping entrance.

  6. GupyF
    GupyF
    January 9, 2014, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    I just realized why I love these guys so much…they remind me of street sharks.

    • Ralanr
      Ralanr
      January 9, 2014, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      Fantasy street sharks! That’s so jawsome!

      • Taxil Necrobane
        Taxil Necrobane
        January 9, 2014, 9:07 am | # | Reply

        my nostaligic meter is over a 9,000!

  7. Ralanr
    Ralanr
    January 9, 2014, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    I have no reason to disagree with this fine gentlemen.

  8. Sharkie
    Sharkie
    January 9, 2014, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    How did no one notice him before? He’s like, three times the size of everyone else ever!

    • snowcow
      snowcow
      January 9, 2014, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      On that note, it looks like HAMMERHEAD could be on the very right edge of last page’s first panel. His head and muscly arm, perhaps? Hard to tell though.

      • holyknight
        holyknight
        January 9, 2014, 5:49 am | # | Reply

        i think you are right, one can see the tip of his head there.

    • Toper
      Toper
      January 9, 2014, 9:23 am | # | Reply

      When he goes adventuring he gives new meaning to the term “dungeon crawl”.

    • Subtle
      Subtle
      January 9, 2014, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

      Gods, I can see it now… He’s always been there. We must have only ever seen his fin sticking out above the crowd of Shark people (Shark-kin? Sharkites? Sharkeans?).

  9. Loyal
    Loyal
    January 9, 2014, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    Well, so much for “The one quiet reserved member of the lot.”

    • kagato23
      kagato23
      January 9, 2014, 5:37 pm | # | Reply

      Actually I’m not buying this. I think we’re about to see the guy come along who can take on this guy, and he’s the champion.

      For one thing, the shark in the panel had a normal sized one.

      • kagato23
        kagato23
        January 9, 2014, 5:40 pm | # | Reply

        The opening chapter page I mean.

  10. Thinker
    Thinker
    January 9, 2014, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    This… Really doesnt look like they have a hivemind. Hammerhead seems too individualistic.

    • Thinker
      Thinker
      January 9, 2014, 1:22 am | # | Reply

      Not saying thatsbad, mind you… But it is a tad unexpected.

      • Denita TwoDragons
        Denita TwoDragons
        January 9, 2014, 4:31 am | # | Reply

        A hive mind would still conceivably have standout members. He’s probably the reason the entire population of shark men isn’t so reduced in intelligence as to eat their own limbs off. (He does it for them, LOL ;-) )

        Think of bees. A hive of bees functions as an organism, but each bee needs to have some autonomy or else they wouldn’t be able to forage effectively for pollen and nectar. They’d be (bee?) helpless the moment they fly too far from the hive, or else the entire colony would have to leave en masse to search for food. Instead, each member has enough individual thought in their teensy little ganglions to make judgement calls apart from consulting the colony. And astoundingly savvy ones at that, for an insect with a brain the size of a quinoa seed. Given that sharkman brains are probably comparable in capability if not size, maybe that explains the existence of Hammerhead?

        Or maybe, Hammerhead is not a dude but the queen of the group? It’s not like shark ladies have breasts, and maybe they simply use the collective pronoun of “guy” for both male and female?

        • Dusksworn
          Dusksworn
          January 9, 2014, 9:17 am | # | Reply

          …

          You’re thinking about this all wrong.

          If Hammerhead were the Queen then he/she would be getting a lot more respect from the little guys.

          Now, going on how the other guys don’t really seem to like Hammerhead here, isn’t it possible that he/she’s a mutant of sorts? One who isn’t really part of the hivemind of “Guys”.

          • Thinker
            Thinker
            January 9, 2014, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

            Right. He identifies his ‘self’ it seems, as ‘strongest’ and this causes discord in the hivemind which is kinda odd.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      January 9, 2014, 6:25 am | # | Reply

      Landsharks probably aren’t an actual hive mind, they’re just kinda…fuckin’ dumb, ya know? :P

      • Whatev
        Whatev
        January 9, 2014, 11:21 am | # | Reply

        They end up being in agreement so often by virtue of their very limited selection of thoughts.

        • Thinker
          Thinker
          January 9, 2014, 5:06 pm | # | Reply

          Yeah I think I’m inclined to agree at this point. Otherwise, I feel, when Harky asks who is the strongest, it would be hundreds of Sharkmen turning to him in sync and saying in unison “I am the strongest” not the current scene which started off as a reminder to the “NO I AM SPARTACUS” scene

          • kagato23
            kagato23
            January 9, 2014, 5:45 pm | # | Reply

            Too many people think “hivemind” = Borg.

            They aren’t necessarily telepathic, at least on on that level. Most insect hive minds use phermones. Even if we assume telepathy, it’s clearly not one overarching brain with multiple bodies. still individuals with their own thoughts.

            Those thoughts (specifically moods) however, would be contagious. So mob mentality is an apt comparison, it’s easy for the mood of one shark to get momentum and shift the whole group (that’s why everybody’s all “I’m awesome” after a hunt.) Hammerhead might well be a mutant with m ore individuality, but I’m not so sure his existence disproves the hive.

        • Tachyon
          Tachyon
          January 9, 2014, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

          I believe you’re correct. I think something like that was stated on the race’s introduction page, actually.

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      January 9, 2014, 3:47 pm | # | Reply

      yea, like the other replies say, i really dont think the sharkmen are a hive mind.

      i think mob mentality is probably closer to what they have going on.

  11. Gabe
    Gabe
    January 9, 2014, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    “Looks like meat is back on the menu boys!”
    “… but sir, it already was. We just killed these deer…”

  12. Valdrax
    Valdrax
    January 9, 2014, 1:49 am | # | Reply

    Well, something tells me they’re going to have a champion retention problem after hiring this guy.

  13. Skatie
    Skatie
    January 9, 2014, 1:58 am | # | Reply

    Sharkmen: the other other white meat.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      January 9, 2014, 5:30 am | # | Reply

      No, no, no.
      Sharkmen, the great white meat.

      • Taxil Necrobane
        Taxil Necrobane
        January 9, 2014, 9:09 am | # | Reply

        shark meat is rather tasty if you cook it properly. I had some when i was in NYC some years ago.

  14. CorrTerek
    CorrTerek
    January 9, 2014, 2:04 am | # | Reply

    Clearly he’ll be the diplomat of the group.

    • Tsenzei
      Tsenzei
      January 9, 2014, 5:00 am | # | Reply

      Indeed. I mean, the Gastonians used Frigg to great effect, and this guy seems more eloquent, really able to drive the point through.

  15. Messenger
    Messenger
    January 9, 2014, 3:10 am | # | Reply

    I’d pick him simply because he’s the most grammatically correct.

    • Schneidend
      Schneidend
      January 9, 2014, 3:47 am | # | Reply

      Is their grammar incorrect, or is grammar itself just stupid and not strongest?!

  16. Fenlander
    Fenlander
    January 9, 2014, 5:38 am | # | Reply

    He’s the strongest, he’s the loudest he’s Hammerfrigg! (And to counter Frigg he is also the best spoken of the candidates.)

    • HURRDURP
      HURRDURP
      January 9, 2014, 10:55 am | # | Reply

      Nah, more like anti-scipio. He’s big, like scipio, he’s loud, instead of quiet, he’s brutally violent, instead of generally helpful to others, but he’s self-absorbed, like scipio. Also, scipio is fairly intelligent, and he’s dumb as a sack of sharkman intestines.

      • Nightsbridge
        Nightsbridge
        January 9, 2014, 11:14 am | # | Reply

        He might be intelligent, in his own way. Grammar is not indicative of smarts.

  17. holyknight
    holyknight
    January 9, 2014, 5:49 am | # | Reply

    The Hammerhead?
    Wasn’t there more hammerheads out there, I’ve seen some I’m sure…
    or… did he wipe all hammerheads out without us knowing?

    • Timelost
      Timelost
      January 9, 2014, 10:03 am | # | Reply

      There are more, but each of them is a hammerhead, he is The Hammerhead.

      • Dusksworn
        Dusksworn
        January 9, 2014, 10:42 am | # | Reply

        No, no, no…

        You have it all wrong. He isn’t “The Hammerhead”. He’s Hammerhead. Note the absence of “The”. Instead of being referred to as “That Guy”, he has a name. It’s a simple name based on an obvious and not necessarily all too distinctive feature to be sure, but it’s not phrased as a title. So it’s a name.

        There may have been some “guys” with hammerheads, but none of them were Hammerhead.

        That’s important to note here.

        Hammerhead is distinctive in more than just being bigger and stronger than the rest. He has a name and individual identity.

        • LockeZ
          LockeZ
          January 9, 2014, 6:15 pm | # | Reply

          If I have a son, I’m naming him Human.

          • Tachyon
            Tachyon
            January 9, 2014, 7:15 pm | # | Reply

            What if he has a twin sister?

            • █████
              █████
              January 10, 2014, 5:09 am | # | Reply

              Ethel.

              • Benedikt
                Benedikt
                January 14, 2014, 5:33 am | # | Reply

                At first I was cracking up, then I started wondering:
                (LockeZ:) If you’d have a daughter instead of a son you wouldn’t name her Human?

  18. Talon88.1
    Talon88.1
    January 9, 2014, 6:07 am | # | Reply

    The hammerhead using a hammer to fight the lady who has the subtly of a hammer and uses a hammer made of holy hammer.
    Hammer singularity?

    • Tyris
      Tyris
      January 9, 2014, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

      Pentangularity, possibly.

    • █████
      █████
      January 10, 2014, 5:10 am | # | Reply

      Hammertime.

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        December 18, 2018, 9:11 am | # | Reply

        Hammer, don’t hurt me.

  19. Torint
    Torint
    January 9, 2014, 6:20 am | # | Reply

    The only warrior you can defeat by standing directly in front of.

  20. Kennerly
    Kennerly
    January 9, 2014, 8:39 am | # | Reply

    And there’s our anti-Scipio.

  21. Connie
    Connie
    January 9, 2014, 9:18 am | # | Reply

    I must give the other Sharkmen credit for using contractions correctly and knowing ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ are different. They at least get points for that.

  22. Chris
    Chris
    January 9, 2014, 9:35 am | # | Reply

    HEY HEY HEY, IT’S THAT GUY!

  23. shadowhammer123
    shadowhammer123
    January 9, 2014, 10:08 am | # | Reply

    So…I guess we have the anti-Frigg now

  24. Nethernox
    Nethernox
    January 9, 2014, 11:10 am | # | Reply

    GLORIOUS.

    ALSO I LIKE HOW THE TAG FOR HAMMERHEAD IS IN ALL-CAPS.

  25. DeePseudonym
    DeePseudonym
    January 9, 2014, 11:21 am | # | Reply

    Good lord, he’s a shriekback song…..

    “Shout, push, hammerheads, bold and resolute
    Marching, balancing, in too far to go back
    Yes, yes, hammerheads, swimming, kissing
    We are big and clever and we don’t know anything”

  26. Hellhound
    Hellhound
    January 9, 2014, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

    méh. would have prefered a “normal” landshark.but i guess Hammerhead will do.

  27. TBeckett
    TBeckett
    January 9, 2014, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

    I can’t see how this guy would be anything but a liability. All Frigg would have to do is announce that she’ll fight the strongest of the Rebellion adventurers and then pretend to have a hard time choosing which that is. And then watch the fight finish itself.

    • CorrTerek
      CorrTerek
      January 9, 2014, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

      Well, he *did* politely ask the other sharks to step aside. Then they didn’t, and threatened him on top of that. Then they all died.

      • Tachyon
        Tachyon
        January 9, 2014, 7:16 pm | # | Reply

        I gotta admit though, that would be a great strategy.

  28. Dotcom
    Dotcom
    January 9, 2014, 2:46 pm | # | Reply

    Thank you Hammer-Head
    I don’t think I can
    Explain how important it was
    That you ate the shark men

    I will be splattered
    I’d be crushed into teeth
    Thank you sir for consuming meeeeee…

  29. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    January 9, 2014, 5:30 pm | # | Reply

    He’s also the tallest, so if the Irkens are among the coalition, he’ll have their respect.

    • Master Realtor Marklew
      Master Realtor Marklew
      January 9, 2014, 11:10 pm | # | Reply

      And he isn’t far behind the Almighty Tallest in terms of intelligence and subtlety, as well.

  30. Ben Solo
    Ben Solo
    January 9, 2014, 6:17 pm | # | Reply

    I kind thought to myself in the last panel. “There ought to be a hammerhead shark.” “That sounds good, me”

    Well, now I can pat myself on the back and say I saw this coming.

  31. aboulic
    aboulic
    January 9, 2014, 6:50 pm | # | Reply

    Well, we all think we are the strongest when we are hammerhead. Then in the morning we just feel hangoverhead.

    • MOTW
      MOTW
      January 10, 2014, 2:20 am | # | Reply

      +1

  32. Anvildude
    Anvildude
    January 9, 2014, 9:26 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder if Sharkmen gain intelligence as they gain muscle mass?

  33. XMinusOne
    XMinusOne
    January 9, 2014, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

    “Candygram! Candygram for Mr. Hammerhead.”

  34. rune
    rune
    January 14, 2014, 9:12 am | # | Reply

    Jawsome!

  35. Jourell
    Jourell
    August 15, 2014, 4:55 am | # | Reply

    Ironically in reality, most hammerheads are not known to attack people

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