Guilded Age

The Saga of the Working Class Adventurer – New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!
  • About
  • Cast
  • Crew
  • Downloads
  • Guilded Age Plus
  • Store
  • Contact
  • RSS

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

'... Or the dick. Whatevs.'

Chapter 28 – Page 25

on January 20, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 28
└ Tags: Goblaurence, HAMMERHEAD, Magda, Rana
Comments RSS

Discussion (66) ¬

  1. Ralanr
    Ralanr
    January 20, 2014, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    it does indeed

  2. bwernard
    bwernard
    January 20, 2014, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Besides, after House and all the Sherlocks, the genius-asshole is a trend.

    • kenneth
      kenneth
      January 20, 2014, 2:05 am | # | Reply

      All of the certified geniuses I’ve personally met are assholes (like my friend Brett). A good portion of those I’ve seen live footage of are also class-A dicks (like James Woods). Only a very very few are nice sweet people (like Brian Cox).

      • Bruceski
        Bruceski
        January 20, 2014, 4:51 am | # | Reply

        I grew up next to a national laboratory so I know a lot of really smart people, and I found they tend to be a bit apologetic. Humble about their abilities aside from where they’ve focused their knowledge (where they’ll get as mile-a-minute excited about it as any geek), with a tendency to skip ahead in conversations and then have to wait for others to catch up. The main assholes I’ve encountered are the self-proclaimed geniuses who maybe have one aptitude test from when they were a kid but nothing that can really speak for itself, so they use it as a club. It’s the difference between someone who doesn’t mince words and someone who calls themselves a “straight shooter” and goes out of their way to be rude.

        • Bruceski
          Bruceski
          January 20, 2014, 4:52 am | # | Reply

          Though with it being a laboratory, most of the folks I knew are *functional* geniuses. You don’t get away with going lone wolf in those kind of settings, you have to learn to work with other people, whether they’re geniuses or not.

        • Asterai
          Asterai
          January 20, 2014, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

          It helps a lot to put smart people in a community together. Put them together, and they’ll bludgeon or coax or nourish each other into decent behavior. But leave a smart person out alone in a sea of idiots, and it goes horribly wrong. They get lonely, and they get frustrated that no one can push back as hard, and they get tired of always having to stop and explain and not be understood anyways.

          Goblaurence, here, has spent way too long being the hardest hitter in the room for his own good. He’s tired of everyone’s crap, no one puts him in his place when he oversteps, and he has no one to talk to about his ideas. Magda will be really good for him on that front; she may not be technical, but she’s plenty intelligent, and she’ll be willing to call him on his shit.

        • Lorry
          Lorry
          January 20, 2014, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

          +1

        • SotiCoto
          SotiCoto
          February 20, 2014, 4:21 am | # | Reply

          You only wish it were so.
          Growing up next to a building of any sort won’t confer expertise as regards what is or isn’t intelligence. And unfortunately, a lot of people tend to get confused over the matter because at some level they consider it a mere value judgement on par with “niceness”.

          Society as a whole is rather anti-intellectualist though. Among other things a side-effect of the general hostility levelled at anyone “different” for any reason. The average person will, at some level, consider acts of higher intelligence than their own to be a challenge to their position… attacks on them, in a sense. This can generally be combined with the underlying distrust of humanity for anything sufficiently unfamiliar. And with large numbers of people doing this in tandem, it makes for an environment that is rather hostile to those of genuinely higher intelligence.
          So what do you expect someone brought up in an environment of perpetual distrust and low-level hostility to be like? Especially when it seems that everyone else is trying to hold them back and cripple their potential for the sake of petty egos?

          Imagine how different the world would be if the idiots knew and accepted they were idiots, for that matter. Even teaching them what “idiot” means would be a start.

      • LockeZ
        LockeZ
        January 21, 2014, 5:23 am | # | Reply

        I’m an asshole who thinks I’m a genius. That’s gotta count for something.

  3. Mori
    Mori
    January 20, 2014, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Glad to see them at least kinda maybe sorta getting along

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      January 20, 2014, 2:49 am | # | Reply

      They just need to feel each other out a bit. It’s the a-holes who just get on a job with you and don’t interact with you at all that get you killed. The a-hole who actually takes to the time to hammer out who you are and what you can do saves your life.

  4. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    January 20, 2014, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Penk will probably be the mouth. Hehe….mouth.

    • Tsenzei
      Tsenzei
      January 20, 2014, 1:18 am | # | Reply

      As long as he brushes his teeth better than Magda.

      • Seggs
        Seggs
        January 20, 2014, 11:11 am | # | Reply

        i think its just the lighting from the torch that makes her teeth look yellow.

        side note, the fact that anyone over the age of like, 6 has a full mouth of teeth is kinda impressive.

    • bwernard
      bwernard
      January 20, 2014, 5:22 am | # | Reply

      At this point I thought the team would be composed of more members.

    • Torint
      Torint
      January 20, 2014, 6:07 am | # | Reply

      And Auraugu will be the… bones? Sinews?

      • Aleister Crow
        Aleister Crow
        January 20, 2014, 9:08 am | # | Reply

        The funny bone.

        • Radio Silence
          Radio Silence
          January 20, 2014, 10:00 am | # | Reply

          He’ll be along to humerus.

  5. CorrTerek
    CorrTerek
    January 20, 2014, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Hah, well played, Magda.

  6. Ganurath
    Ganurath
    January 20, 2014, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Leave it to the priestess of the lava god to bring the best burns.

    • Insomniac
      Insomniac
      January 20, 2014, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      And appreciate that Goblaurence didn’t get all snippy about it.

      • Bruceski
        Bruceski
        January 20, 2014, 4:54 am | # | Reply

        When you throw the first punch, it’s bad form to complain when you get hit. Doesn’t stop most people.

        • Spatzist
          Spatzist
          January 20, 2014, 3:12 pm | # | Reply

          There’s two types of people who throw punches: fighters, and cowards.

  7. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    January 20, 2014, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    No one is on fire yet? …Hmmm, this might actually work.

  8. Tybot
    Tybot
    January 20, 2014, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    INVISIBLE CIGAR!

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      January 20, 2014, 6:14 am | # | Reply

      If you mean panel 2, it’s not invisible (and it’s also not a cigar)

  9. Loyal
    Loyal
    January 20, 2014, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    I’m not sure if HAMMERHEAD’s capable of not-a-death-glare, but I feel I’d be even more terrified if he somehow managed a smile.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      January 24, 2014, 2:13 pm | # | Reply

      I actually think his smile would be better than a death-glare to get his point across…After all, his smile ALONE makes a LOT of points.

  10. Messenger
    Messenger
    January 20, 2014, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    Oh snap! They started right off on a sour note yet they’re getting along! :-D

    TBH, I was expecting a fight with the newly avatar’ed Penk arriving to break it up. I’m glad to be wrong, to be surprised. :-)

    • DeePseudonym
      DeePseudonym
      January 20, 2014, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

      Are you kidding? Look at how Magda and Gobbles are grinning at each other, that’s not a sour note, that’s the beginnings of a real friendship.

      • Messenger
        Messenger
        January 21, 2014, 12:47 am | # | Reply

        That’s actually what I said. (The sour note was Goblaurence being rudely frank in his initial response; the getting along was when Magda ran with Goblaurence’s earnestness and turned it back at him, which he appreciated.)

    • MDude
      MDude
      January 21, 2014, 11:42 am | # | Reply

      I was expecting him to show up after the third panel, just to say “You mean someone like me?”

  11. Tsenzei
    Tsenzei
    January 20, 2014, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    Goblaurence: the ass that blows smoke… not one to blows smoke up the ass.

  12. Toast of Doom
    Toast of Doom
    January 20, 2014, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    Now, I may be going crazy, but it appears to me that Hammerhead’s tattoo keeps switching sides.

    • Wolfgang
      Wolfgang
      January 20, 2014, 2:12 am | # | Reply

      Might just have one on each shoulder and we’re not getting an angle where we could see both.

    • Carl-E
      Carl-E
      January 20, 2014, 2:21 am | # | Reply

      He’s got one on each side.

      He’s just too wide to see them both at once.

      Unless you have eyes on each side of a very wide head…

      • Jack Vermicelli
        Jack Vermicelli
        January 20, 2014, 2:59 am | # | Reply

        The one on the right side at least is new since Harky met him.

  13. Villyne
    Villyne
    January 20, 2014, 1:49 am | # | Reply

    This ship is sailing time to write some Magda x Goblaurence fanfiction

    • MichaelHaneline
      MichaelHaneline
      January 20, 2014, 2:14 pm | # | Reply

      Will it be illustrated?

      • Sybarite
        Sybarite
        January 20, 2014, 10:32 pm | # | Reply

        Good lord I really hope not *shudder*.

  14. shadowhammer123
    shadowhammer123
    January 20, 2014, 2:06 am | # | Reply

    And I am already shipping Goblaurance and Magda. Dear me, I’ve allowed this…dark comic to twist my mind until now – until now I’ve become the very thing I swore to destroy.
    A fanboy!

    • JeffEpp
      JeffEpp
      January 20, 2014, 5:27 am | # | Reply

      Yep. They are at the dirty talk flirty talk phase already.

  15. kenneth
    kenneth
    January 20, 2014, 2:08 am | # | Reply

    I am not looking forward to Goblaurence and Magda dying.

  16. Locke
    Locke
    January 20, 2014, 2:40 am | # | Reply

    Every party needs an assbrains.

  17. IgnatiusNobel
    IgnatiusNobel
    January 20, 2014, 3:56 am | # | Reply

    So the next member what will be?, the stomach?, a kidney?,…

  18. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    January 20, 2014, 9:08 am | # | Reply

    Magda used Backtalk. It is very effective. Goblaurence is impressed.

  19. Connie
    Connie
    January 20, 2014, 9:15 am | # | Reply

    My father used to say ‘Excuses are like assholes; everybody has one.’ My response was always, ‘And they serve a purpose, otherwise you’re full of shit.’ I typically got grounded for that..

    • Benedikt
      Benedikt
      January 20, 2014, 11:55 am | # | Reply

      Wow, that’s great! Not that you were grounded, I mean, but the response.

  20. moirla
    moirla
    January 20, 2014, 10:02 am | # | Reply

    ha ha, Heart!

    are they trying to call Captain Planet?
    —-

    Nice to see that Magda can roll with it. She asked, he answered, his answer made sense, return volley.

    • moirla
      moirla
      January 20, 2014, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

      I also really appreciate that, while Goblaurence might be an ass, he also realized it was unnecessary and inefficient to belittle (badum ching?) Magda for asking about his hostility. Frigg might have gone with “your mom,” or something.

      • Lorry
        Lorry
        January 20, 2014, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

        “while Goblaurence might be an ass”
        I wonder how he’ll react when force-fed with the same medicine he shoves down the throats of others.

        Methink Frigg could have used a more radical way of expression, like a teeth- and/or jaw) breaking mace blow or punch.

  21. Téléphone banane
    Téléphone banane
    January 20, 2014, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

    “Why do you have to be so hostile ?”

    “Because that’s me. And I ain’t about to apologize for it. And you need this etc.”

    Well, you should. Telling things like they are ? Oh please. That’s just another poor excuse to be rude and wantonly mean. That has nothing, nothing to do with being a genius or the brains : this is just about being a complete ass, which has to be kept clean, even if it’s mission is to deal with shit. Literaly.

    Not to mention no one has the need for a class A-ass. It is like saying you need someone to pester you, to annoy you, to be all-around obnoxious with you. What kind of sick weirdo would need that, apart the snotty brats in need of an education ?

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      January 24, 2014, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

      Everybody really does need the truth. How a person feels about the truth is irrelevant, it’s still truth. Truth does not need your emotional support to be truth.

      “It is error alone which needs government support. Truth can stand by itself.” – Thomas Jefferson

      • Lorry
        Lorry
        January 28, 2014, 4:30 pm | # | Reply

        “Everybody really does need the truth.”

        Well, ok. But that is no excuse to be rude and call names. Saying the truth and being a total ass are two independant and different things.

        If I fail a math test, telling me “you failed” and “you failed miserably, you godd-for-nothing limped-brain slob” are totally different. The former is the good, real, fact-stating way of saying things. The latter is the one used by asses who need to learn the difference between truth and wanton aggressivity.

        Just my two pennies, btw.

  22. Denita TwoDragons
    Denita TwoDragons
    January 20, 2014, 1:50 pm | # | Reply

    I already like the dynamic between these two! :-D

  23. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    January 20, 2014, 4:36 pm | # | Reply

    Lets be more non-specific. He’s the cloaca. Just a one-orifice-fits-all kind of guy.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      January 24, 2014, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

      Gahhh…You just gave me a mental image that will require brain bleach to get rid of!

  24. Michael Schultz
    Michael Schultz
    January 20, 2014, 6:58 pm | # | Reply

    I kinda hope these guys stick around for a while. If the dynamic between Goblawrence and Magda is good now…

    And no shipping please :P

    • Sybarite
      Sybarite
      January 20, 2014, 10:38 pm | # | Reply

      Too late. There are at least two shippers who posted before you.

      • Michael Schultz
        Michael Schultz
        January 21, 2014, 3:21 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, I was kinda talking to them :P

        • MidnightDStroyer
          MidnightDStroyer
          January 24, 2014, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

          Then you should have specified, “no MORE shipping, please.”

          • Michael Schultz
            Michael Schultz
            January 24, 2014, 3:55 pm | # | Reply

            Oh, you and your logic!

  25. Aslandus
    Aslandus
    January 20, 2014, 9:42 pm | # | Reply

    He already seems to have a better sense of humor than the don…

  26. gromire
    gromire
    January 20, 2014, 11:43 pm | # | Reply

    cute couple, ship it.

  27. Jon
    Jon
    January 21, 2014, 11:03 am | # | Reply

    I like the fact that he owns it.

  28. .....
    .....
    June 8, 2015, 9:41 pm | # | Reply

    likeing laurence more each time…

Comment ¬ Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

NOTE - You can use these HTML tags and attributes:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>



Guilded Age is co-written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn, and illustrated by John Waltrip. Site design by Samantha Kyle. Fonts by Blambot.com.
Stay up to date with Facebook or Google+, or use our RSS Feed!
Privacy Policy
Guilded Age does not claim ownership of any of the corporate branding that appears in this comic, nor does it claim any affiliation, partnership, or endorsement of any kind.
They are used strictly as an artistic choice for the set dressing of the comic.