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

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Chapter 28 – Page 28

on January 23, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 28
└ Tags: Harky, Penk
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  1. Zee Captein, Governor of Captainia
    Zee Captein, Governor of Captainia
    January 23, 2014, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    That was a superb inner monologue! And the lava armor is awesome!

    • Neferius
      Neferius
      September 4, 2015, 5:02 pm | # | Reply

      “A new Generation.” ..with more MERCHANDISING POWER! ^^

  2. biggmac
    biggmac
    January 23, 2014, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Penktonicus?

    • Torint
      Torint
      January 23, 2014, 10:01 am | # | Reply

      The Penkinator.

    • Strongholm
      Strongholm
      January 23, 2014, 10:40 pm | # | Reply

      Harky gave Troll Gem to Penk.

      What? Penk is evolving!

      Congratulations! Your Penk evolved into Penktonicus!

  3. Brigand Brigade
    Brigand Brigade
    January 23, 2014, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    How very Captain America. I hope that’s actually a drum and not a shield in his hand. That other thing could very easily be either drumstick or beatstick.

    • Acrox
      Acrox
      January 23, 2014, 12:08 am | # | Reply

      Do you even vikings?

      (Or whavever, probably more than one, civilization who used to bang on their shields for various effects)

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      January 23, 2014, 8:23 am | # | Reply

      It’s a symbol. And a cymbal.

      • Kokuten
        Kokuten
        January 23, 2014, 8:44 am | # | Reply

        Badum-tish.

        • Loki
          Loki
          January 23, 2014, 8:56 am | # | Reply

          Will Penk make you scream? I scream?

          • wwlaos
            wwlaos
            January 23, 2014, 10:36 am | # | Reply

            I scream. You scream. We all scream for Penk’s team.

    • TBeckett
      TBeckett
      January 23, 2014, 3:02 pm | # | Reply

      I didn’t even notice that’s a drum set! That makes it cooler.

  4. Acrox
    Acrox
    January 23, 2014, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Hooray! We have a cleric!

    • Logos
      Logos
      January 23, 2014, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      Wasn’t that the dwarf?

      • Acadian Bacon
        Acadian Bacon
        January 23, 2014, 1:16 am | # | Reply

        It was the dwarf. -nods-

        • Ganurath
          Ganurath
          January 23, 2014, 1:20 am | # | Reply

          Which makes Penk the paladin, and the anti-Frig. Nothing can stop him.

          • SteelRaven
            SteelRaven
            January 23, 2014, 1:51 am | # | Reply

            …except maybe a paladin/crusader Frigg. Penk vs Frigg, place your bets!

            • Tsapki
              Tsapki
              January 23, 2014, 2:17 am | # | Reply

              In anycase, that puts two party members that draw heavily from the power of Tectonicus, two that work with physical prowess and one for mental prowess.

              Not a bad mix.

              • Aleister Crow
                Aleister Crow
                January 23, 2014, 9:17 am | # | Reply

                Penk and Magda: Power of Tectonicus
                Rana and HAMMERHEAD: Physical prowess
                Goblaurence: Mental prowess
                Auraugu: ?? :(

                • The Indomitable Eric
                  The Indomitable Eric
                  January 23, 2014, 9:31 am | # | Reply

                  Auraugu: Fuzziness

                  • moirla
                    moirla
                    January 23, 2014, 12:41 pm | # | Reply

                    and Machismo. He’s the chatty Scipio, maybe?

                    • kagato23
                      kagato23
                      January 23, 2014, 2:02 pm | #

                      Naw, he’s Anti-Bandit. We got the most evidence for this, he’s the fast guy who steals things, is the one that retreats first (when the job’s done and it makes sense to do so), and most importantly he keeps ending up against her when groups meet.

                      Here’s my breakdown as I see it, though there’s obviously some room for interpretation with most of them.

                      Auraugu: Anti-Bandit
                      HAMMERHEAD: Anti-Frigg
                      Magda: Anti-Gravedust
                      Goblaurence: Anti-Syr
                      Penk: Anti-Best
                      Rana: Anti-Byron (this is the weakest one as we have so little, mostly I figure he’s A. the only guy left, B. they referenced madness, and C. To contrast Byron and Syr, it seems Goblawrence has it out for the avian race)

            • gangler
              gangler
              January 23, 2014, 3:32 am | # | Reply

              Frigg’s the more experienced fighter, but her relationship with her patron deity is strained. She didn’t enter into the relationship voluntarily, and it demands more than she’s willing to give. Just recently she’s had Gravedust intercede on her behalf so that she can defy her deity’s wishes, and it wouldn’t surprise me for that to have consequences next time she really needs to squeeze as much as power as she can out of the wolf.

              Penk lacks the fighting experience, but he’s willingly forsaken all personal desires in order to serve his deity. Penk and his deity are very closely aligned, with both being driven by the needs of his people.

              Possibly most noteworthy though is that Tectonicus seems to outrank the wolf. Tectonicus is a well known deity with many followers. It can be assumed that Tectonicus is a powerful deity with great influence over mortal affairs. The wolf is unknown. If the Sisterhood of the Perpetually Bloodshot Eyeball are even his followers they don’t seem to know it, and if they aren’t then Frigg’s literally the only known follower. The wolf’s left so little mark on the world that it doesn’t even have a name. It’s quite possible that Tectonicus just has more juice to give when push comes to shove.

              Overall I think the odds are stacked against Frigg.

              • Chris
                Chris
                January 23, 2014, 8:51 am | # | Reply

                Frigg don’t even give a care.

              • Commiekeebler
                Commiekeebler
                January 23, 2014, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

                He’s the Courage Wolf. Penk’s got nothin’ on him.

                Impossible is a word weak people use to justify giving up.

          • Braden
            Braden
            January 23, 2014, 1:51 am | # | Reply

            everyones the anti-Frig

            • cliffmonster
              cliffmonster
              January 23, 2014, 9:55 am | # | Reply

              Frig is the anti-Frig.

              • Loki
                Loki
                January 23, 2014, 7:54 pm | # | Reply

                A: “Everyone. Everyone. Calm down. Can we just stop talking about anti-this and anti-that, and respect these new characters on their own merits?”

                B: “…You know what? I think Goblaurence’s Cigar is the anti-Scipio.”

                A: “I GIVE UP >:(”

                (Though that is a really good point I hadn’t thought of before: cigar vs cigar! When they fight, who will be defeated!? Their lungs, clearly.)

            • kagato23
              kagato23
              January 23, 2014, 1:54 pm | # | Reply

              Except the White Queen. She’s the fucked by Frigg (in the butt)

              But if Penk is the anti-Frigg, who’s HAMMERHEAD the Anti of? No, Penk is the Anti-Best.

              He’s a musician who thought he was a complete nobody and dreamed of more. Visions had by others identified him as something more, which he’s risen to the challenge of. However, while there’s doubt if best is indeed the subject of the prophecy, there is no doubt Tenk has favor, and it is a role he took reluctantly but for the good of others.

              • SteelRaven
                SteelRaven
                January 23, 2014, 7:40 pm | # | Reply

                Hmmm, if that masked knight with Crusader like powers ends up being a resurrected Best acting as a avatar for the ‘gods’ then I can see fight in the near future.

              • DeePseudonym
                DeePseudonym
                January 24, 2014, 1:14 am | # | Reply

                HAMMERHEAD is the Anti-Byron.

                Byron lives in constant fear of his “berserk” self. He’s made progress true, but not in accepting, just in controlling. HAMMERHEAD however, well, he has internalized the berserk. He has made it part of him. The hunger, the need to feed an dkill, those are parts of him he owns.

                Not without a price though, his intellect (which is VERY high) and his self knowledge have separated him from his family and his kin (maybe because he ate some of them, on purpose), whereas Byron has finally made the connections that HAMMERHEAD, in his isolation and brilliance, would give all his fins for.

                • DeePseudonym
                  DeePseudonym
                  January 24, 2014, 1:16 am | # | Reply

                  That being said, I don’t think this ANTI stuff is gonna go anywhere. I think they’ll (mostly, barring a few introductory fatalities) wind up working together.

  5. That guy
    That guy
    January 23, 2014, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    It looks like Penk is on fire for Tectonicus

  6. Smartestmoronx19
    Smartestmoronx19
    January 23, 2014, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    So is Penk a WarBard now?

    • Devlerbat
      Devlerbat
      January 23, 2014, 3:33 am | # | Reply

      That’s my hope.

    • Torint
      Torint
      January 23, 2014, 9:12 am | # | Reply

      Ugh, prestige classes.

  7. Lhurgoyf
    Lhurgoyf
    January 23, 2014, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Cry Tectonicus, and let slip the drums of war.

  8. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    January 23, 2014, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    He’ll finally get laid now if nothing else.

    • Tsenzei
      Tsenzei
      January 23, 2014, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      I dunno about that. He might be too hot to handle.

    • Messenger
      Messenger
      January 23, 2014, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      Maybe not.

      You will forget who you once were.
      As an avatar of Tectonicus… You will not know life as once you did.
      You will be a new being, and not a person.
      You will exist as a symbol… A fiery example which all others must follow, or perish.
      You will never be what you want.
      You will always be what we need.

      He may not even care about getting laid anymore as much as serving Tectonicus, the trolls and the Savage Races.

      • Acadian Bacon
        Acadian Bacon
        January 23, 2014, 1:17 am | # | Reply

        Honestly, that’s what I’m hoping. c:

      • CorrTerek
        CorrTerek
        January 23, 2014, 1:32 am | # | Reply

        Not sure if I’m comfortable with Tectonicus overwriting/modifying Penk’s personality. Let’s hope that’s not the case, and it’s just a matter of gaining new perspective.

      • zebra
        zebra
        January 23, 2014, 2:50 am | # | Reply

        You will always be what we need.

        what if some troll ladys need to get laid XD

        • Korbl
          Korbl
          January 23, 2014, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

          The troll race will always need to reproduce, I’m pretty sure Penk will get some at some point.

      • Fenlander
        Fenlander
        January 23, 2014, 4:03 am | # | Reply

        It’s a good job that only Penk and Harkey have been changed. The troll race would be in trouble if none of them wanted to get laid :-)

        • Jacquerel
          Jacquerel
          January 23, 2014, 4:28 am | # | Reply

          Well if they were also all immortal it might not be too bad!

    • Karishi
      Karishi
      January 23, 2014, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      Lookin’ for some hot stuff baby this evenin’
      I need some hot stuff baby tonight
      I want some hot stuff baby this evenin’
      Gotta have some hot stuff
      Gotta have some love tonight
      I need hot stuff
      I want some hot stuff
      I need some hot stuff

  9. JeffEpp
    JeffEpp
    January 23, 2014, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    He-Troll

    “By the power of orange rock…”

    • Fenlander
      Fenlander
      January 23, 2014, 4:26 am | # | Reply

      Sing along at home kids..
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yeA7a0uS3A

      Tek-Penk and the World’s Champions.

      I am Penk, drummer of the Trolls and guardian to the secret of the fireseye.
      This is drum, my.. err.. drum.
      Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the day I leapt into a volcano and said “am I dead?”
      Tek Penk!
      “ALL ENEMIES BURN!”
      My drum became an awesome shield and I became.. TEK-PENK! The most powerful troll in Arkerra.

      Only 3 others share this secret. My god Tectonicus, Harkey and Strulk
      Together we protect the worlds rebellion from the evil forces of Gastonia.
      *Iwatani laughs evilly*
      Tek-Penk.

  10. Dinra
    Dinra
    January 23, 2014, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    FLAME ON!!

  11. MonkeyMadness
    MonkeyMadness
    January 23, 2014, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    . . . ladies.

  12. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    January 23, 2014, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Not a huge fan of the helmet, but Penk looks ready to kick ass and take names now.

    • Loyal
      Loyal
      January 23, 2014, 1:10 am | # | Reply

      Good-looking gear sometimes skips a tier. That’s what we have transmogs for.

    • Syhkane
      Syhkane
      January 23, 2014, 10:55 am | # | Reply

      He just changed classes, give him a a few runs before he upgrades man.

  13. Guest
    Guest
    January 23, 2014, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    Penk must be like Donnel from awakening, completely useless in his starting class, and practically unstoppable once he gets leveled and reclassed.

    • moirla
      moirla
      January 23, 2014, 12:45 pm | # | Reply

      indeed. Useless, but adorably earnest. Then one day you realize he could probably kick Chrom’s ass.

  14. Smallfoot
    Smallfoot
    January 23, 2014, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    Ding!

    • Dorje Sylas
      Dorje Sylas
      January 23, 2014, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

      Puberty’s done.

  15. llufestsat
    llufestsat
    January 23, 2014, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    Damnit! Why am I rooting for the trolls now! Damn you and your ambiguous “villains”!

    • Torint
      Torint
      January 23, 2014, 10:00 am | # | Reply

      Don’t worry, there’s still the unmitigated and irredeemable evil of the cultists.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        January 23, 2014, 11:27 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, bet the cultists can be hard to not root for to.They just enjoy what they do so much! Cheerful abandon does a lot for charisma.

  16. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    January 23, 2014, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    Penkavity, Penkavity,There’s no-one like Penkavity
    He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.

    • mrknifey
      mrknifey
      January 23, 2014, 3:43 am | # | Reply

      heh, even has the ginger hair;D with that image, he just became a favourite of mine :D

      • wwlaos
        wwlaos
        January 23, 2014, 10:49 am | # | Reply

        That he knows that poem, coldelectrons has just become a favorite of mine.

  17. Loyal
    Loyal
    January 23, 2014, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    Interesting to have confirmation that Harky doesn’t even need the Fireseye and can continue kicking all kinds of ass without it.

    • DeePseudonym
      DeePseudonym
      January 24, 2014, 1:19 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, I was really wondering about that, nicely tied off loose end there.

  18. Villyne
    Villyne
    January 23, 2014, 1:29 am | # | Reply

    Turn off helm graphics you dork

    • wwlaos
      wwlaos
      January 23, 2014, 10:51 am | # | Reply

      Nothing ruins a characters image quite like an ugly helmet over epic hair.

  19. CorrTerek
    CorrTerek
    January 23, 2014, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    Well, I’m not worried about the hair anymore.

  20. Hellhound
    Hellhound
    January 23, 2014, 2:26 am | # | Reply

    i like the helmet. nice overlordish style.

    • cliffmonster
      cliffmonster
      January 23, 2014, 9:57 am | # | Reply

      Domineering with a hint of tyranny?

      • Aslandus
        Aslandus
        January 23, 2014, 10:40 am | # | Reply

        The spikes are required, the face cover is optional

  21. zebra
    zebra
    January 23, 2014, 2:48 am | # | Reply

    i dont know what it is but the last pannel gives me a kid dressed up in dads armour kind of feel rather than a badass troll champion

    • Bob
      Bob
      January 23, 2014, 3:16 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, no offense to the artists, but I’m not feeling it here. (On the other hand, I think if you go back to earlier comments you’ll see I wasn’t too sure about the Champion of the Fuzzy People when I first saw him, and now he’s one of my favorites.)

      • Aslandus
        Aslandus
        January 23, 2014, 10:42 am | # | Reply

        It could be intentional, he may have been accepted, but he still needs to grow into his armor…

        • Benedikt
          Benedikt
          January 23, 2014, 11:44 am | # | Reply

          That’s what I thought and what I really liked – he still looks like Penk! Props to the Waltrip Brothers once more.

    • tejón
      tejón
      January 23, 2014, 5:38 am | # | Reply

      It’s because he’s holding the shield by its rim instead of at the center. Makes it look too big for him.

      • Jim
        Jim
        January 23, 2014, 7:26 am | # | Reply

        I don’t think it’s a mace and shield. I think it’s a drum and beater. I guess we’ll see.

  22. Chantelune
    Chantelune
    January 23, 2014, 4:33 am | # | Reply

    Coockies are the best and indeed worth fighting for. Now I know that Harkin’s crusade is rightful !

  23. Guesticus
    Guesticus
    January 23, 2014, 5:10 am | # | Reply

    Harky: “Hey! How come I didn’t get cool armour and weapons?”

    • Samuel
      Samuel
      January 23, 2014, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

      I almost think he did, I think he’s lost pieces of armor progressively through battles, and because of his regeneration, hasn’t bothered replacing them. Like the armor is there to help the avatar get used to fighting with their new powers while their skill and regeneration grows, and eventually they become strong enough that the armor merely slows them down.

      • kagato23
        kagato23
        January 23, 2014, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

        Also Harky’s a different class. “Avatar” is obviously a prestige that multiple Troll classes can get and it manifests differently as a result.

  24. Locke
    Locke
    January 23, 2014, 5:35 am | # | Reply

    WHEN CAPTAIN TECTONICUS THROWS HIS MIGHTY SHIEEELD DRUUUUUUM…

  25. shoon
    shoon
    January 23, 2014, 7:05 am | # | Reply

    Yaaaay I love makeovers!

  26. TsunamiJane
    TsunamiJane
    January 23, 2014, 10:25 am | # | Reply

    I can’t believe NOBODY has commented on the fact that he’s a troll with spiky hair and a gem in his belly button. I collected his kind in my youth.

    • Benedikt
      Benedikt
      January 23, 2014, 11:44 am | # | Reply

      Probably because all these comments were used up with Harky some chapters ago…

      • TsunamiJane
        TsunamiJane
        January 24, 2014, 10:12 am | # | Reply

        Awwwwww. That’s what I get for not reading all the comments!!!!

    • Aslandus
      Aslandus
      January 23, 2014, 2:49 pm | # | Reply

      I could make a comment about how he’s now a “Penkerton” but I don’t know how well it would fit

  27. Aslandus
    Aslandus
    January 23, 2014, 10:47 am | # | Reply

    Well… he looks slightly angrier…

  28. Jokerlope
    Jokerlope
    January 23, 2014, 10:57 am | # | Reply

    HE. HAS. THE POWEERRRRRRRRRR!!

  29. Hammer
    Hammer
    January 23, 2014, 11:29 am | # | Reply

    Penk the Bardbarian!

  30. Denita TwoDragons
    Denita TwoDragons
    January 23, 2014, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

    Looks like someone Took A Level In Badass. :-)

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TookALevelInBadass

  31. Lyndon B. Johnson
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    January 23, 2014, 10:06 pm | # | Reply

    SHAZAM! or when young Penk the Troll utters the magic word “TECTONICUS” he turns into Captain Fireseye!

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      January 24, 2014, 6:52 am | # | Reply

      Not to be confused with his cousin: Corporal Pinkeye

      • Lyndon B. Johnson
        Lyndon B. Johnson
        January 24, 2014, 5:39 pm | # | Reply

        Eye see what you did there.

  32. Observer
    Observer
    March 14, 2015, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

    Captain America has been combined with a Gem Troll. Well done.

  33. Speedy
    Speedy
    December 18, 2018, 9:25 pm | # | Reply

    I have this feeling that when the two sides clash, and everyone is embroiled in battle, there will be a horrendous noise. Everyone will stop fighting, and search for the source of the cacophony.

    Deep in the bushes, they’ll find the naked forms of Frigg and Penk, giving each other an earth-shattering pounding, that’ll set the tectonic plates adrift. No one will be able to go back to fighting. Some will laugh. Some will cry. Bandit will make popcorn.

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