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New Comics Every M/W/F - Written by T Campbell & Phil Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

This seems like it was a lot of work just to discover a bunch of Ship-In-A-Bottle enthusiasts with higher ambitions.

Chapter 3 – Page 24

on February 26, 2010
Chapter: Chapter 03
└ Tags: Best, Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, Syr'Nj
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  1. Iocane
    Iocane
    February 26, 2010, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Beddle-bleep! Best gets more douche points.

    • RJPugh
      RJPugh
      February 26, 2010, 9:37 am | # | Reply

      Hopefully his swimmers won’t find a parking space.

      • Emimi
        Emimi
        March 9, 2010, 1:48 am | # | Reply

        Ugh! Can you imagine? Half best, half frigg…

        A rhyming meglomaniac!

        • Twigs
          Twigs
          March 21, 2010, 5:34 pm | # | Reply

          She would probably kill it before birth by drinking too much anyway

          • FreddeX
            FreddeX
            May 9, 2011, 3:11 pm | # | Reply

            Also her life style would probably be enough, even without the drinking, to prevent any pregnancy. Women who excersice too much stops being fertile and continues to be so until they cut down on the workout and return to an averange/semi-averange condition (or whatever).

            That is what i have heard at least. :)

        • SotiCoto
          SotiCoto
          June 21, 2013, 6:38 am | # | Reply

          Meh. She probably wouldn’t even notice she was pregnant. She’d assume it was something she ate…. then one day she’d just squat down, pop one out… and leave it by the side of the road.

  2. Tamren
    Tamren
    February 26, 2010, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Hmm. So what would be the best part of waking up?

    • Carapace
      Carapace
      February 26, 2010, 1:23 am | # | Reply

      Tamren, I think we can all guess the answer to that, and CURSE YOU for making me think of it ever.
      Gad.

      I will instead focus on my painful envy of the textures, here. How do they DO that?

      • Erica
        Erica
        February 26, 2010, 9:45 am | # | Reply

        It is just Blend Mode tweaking in Photoshop.

  3. Michael Ezra
    Michael Ezra
    February 26, 2010, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    Man, the look on Syr’nj’s face in the third panel. “Don’t bloody patronize me…”

  4. VioletArrows
    VioletArrows
    February 26, 2010, 2:05 am | # | Reply

    Well as long as a Minotaur doesn’t come running down the deck screaming, you still have time to apply any buffs and elixirs.

    • Em
      Em
      February 26, 2010, 2:18 am | # | Reply

      I’m just disappointed they didn’t fire the cannon.

  5. Jim_Deets
    Jim_Deets
    February 26, 2010, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    Ha! This is like my first run of deadmines. wtf is a boat doing underground. I don’t know either, lets kill every living thing on it(Parrots included).

    • Nathanyel
      Nathanyel
      February 26, 2010, 11:04 am | # | Reply

      I’d flame you for not thinking of Monkey Island first, but I have to admit, I thought of Deadmines first, too, even though I’m Horde…

      • Fantasy Reader
        Fantasy Reader
        February 26, 2010, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

        What, boats underground AREN’T normal? besides Deadmines and Monkey Island, I can think of a lot of other games that have them – less well known ones of course.

        And even if you’re horde doing Deadmines isn’t that rare.

        • SotiCoto
          SotiCoto
          June 21, 2013, 6:39 am | # | Reply

          Skyrim, for one.

    • Monkey
      Monkey
      February 27, 2010, 2:17 am | # | Reply

      Don’t forget the Goonies!

  6. The Indomitable Eric
    The Indomitable Eric
    February 26, 2010, 2:37 am | # | Reply

    These landlubbers are tougher than I thought.

    • Phil
      Phil
      February 26, 2010, 2:50 am | # | Reply

      I’ll have to improvise.

      • TheTokenShadow
        TheTokenShadow
        February 26, 2010, 6:06 am | # | Reply

        D’ah! Now you’re making me angry!

        • Krieg
          Krieg
          February 26, 2010, 6:30 am | # | Reply

          No, you idiots, attack the ninjas first! No! Gah! See what you did? Now our healer’s dead.

          • The Indomitable Eric
            The Indomitable Eric
            February 27, 2010, 5:47 pm | # | Reply

            I never even broke stealth. Have fun with that. I’m out!

  7. Barnaby Jones
    Barnaby Jones
    February 26, 2010, 5:09 am | # | Reply

    Once you experience Best Time,
    You crave it for the rest (of) time.
    OH!

  8. Buzzard
    Buzzard
    February 26, 2010, 6:40 am | # | Reply

    Highly impressed that Erica is remembering that Syr’nj’s mantle didn’t get any healing potion. Detail!

    • kingleon
      kingleon
      February 26, 2010, 9:04 am | # | Reply

      Which frame? I’ve been waiting patiently to also be impressed after Syrnj drank the healing potion. But, I don’t see it here.

      • Buzzard
        Buzzard
        February 28, 2010, 12:02 am | # | Reply

        It’s easier to see in panel 2 of page 20 and panel 2 of page 23, but there’s a definite rip in the right shoulder.

        • Thamerlin
          Thamerlin
          March 1, 2010, 8:37 pm | # | Reply

          I think the difficulty is that the “rip” looks a lot like a fold or hem, but given the continuity of that particular… scribble… I’d guess you’re right.

  9. Mark
    Mark
    February 26, 2010, 7:17 am | # | Reply

    Syr’nj was NOT PREPARED.

    • d^g
      d^g
      May 4, 2010, 11:34 pm | # | Reply

      no wipe = retcon to be prepared

  10. TraderInTown
    TraderInTown
    February 26, 2010, 9:57 am | # | Reply

    Huh. Pirates with a ship, what a freakin’ surprise.

    Ugh. Best’s line is terrible. I just want to punch him in the face until his eyes fly out the back of his head.
    Or light him on fire.
    Shoot him.
    Hang him.
    Strangle him with his own intestines.
    Pull out his eyes and shove them down his throat until he drowns in a pool of puke and blood.
    Stab him.
    Shoot him again.
    Stab him again.
    Send rabid ninjas after him.
    Electrocute him.

    And so on.

    • Phil
      Phil
      February 26, 2010, 10:07 am | # | Reply

      Seek help.

      • JarrysKid
        JarrysKid
        January 12, 2012, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

        I will be more than happy to help! Here, Trader, I’ll hold him down while you stab.

    • Hypothetical
      Hypothetical
      February 26, 2010, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      Gee, I think Best is an ass too, but dude, you need therapy. Maybe the super double secret Death Therapy.

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        June 21, 2013, 6:43 am | # | Reply

        The rapey?
        He needs to be raped?

    • King of Zeroes
      King of Zeroes
      February 26, 2010, 2:36 pm | # | Reply

      I must concur with these fellows here. You need help. You’re getting too worked up over this, and it’s clouding your judgement. Clearly you should shove a live badger down his throat and watch it dig its way out.

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        June 21, 2013, 6:45 am | # | Reply

        I don’t know what sort of badgers you’re used to working with, but the badgers I know you don’t “shove” anywhere they don’t want to go. They wouldn’t even fit.

    • J. Teeple
      J. Teeple
      February 26, 2010, 4:33 pm | # | Reply

      Regarding the first part of the comment: I think the surprise is where the ship is. While it’s not uncommon for caves to have waterways, it’s a bit less common for them to be able to get big ships in and out.

      OR I could be completely off and the actual surprise is something that will be more clear Monday.

    • Steel Raven
      Steel Raven
      February 26, 2010, 8:05 pm | # | Reply

      For the last time Cheney, get a new hobby.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      June 21, 2013, 7:00 am | # | Reply

      Making a list of independent actions like does not account in any way for their relative compatibility.
      Better to apply yourself to a contiguous plan of action.

      For instance, have you considered the Intestinal Bungee method?

      I invented that technique years ago, but it remains a favourite. Has to be done quickly though so the subject doesn’t die early.
      It is the one where you take the target to a high bridge or equivalent elevated construction. You then make an incision in the body cavity, cut the digestive tract at the duodenum, then draw it out through the incision.
      You then securely affix the severed digestive tract to the railing… and push the subject over the edge.

      If you’re lucky, you get to see their intestines uncoiling out of their body as they plummet downwards… until the only thing left holding them up is the internal connection of their rectum to their anus. If you’re unlucky… it snaps or otherwise rips. Either way though… very cathartic.

      Then of course there is the Featherhook Technique… but that one is a bit complicated. I’ll explain it some other time.

  11. Michael Ezra
    Michael Ezra
    February 26, 2010, 12:31 pm | # | Reply

    I dunno. The bit about pulling out the eyes and shoving them down the throat, while over the top and gross, at least shows creativity. I give the post an A-minus for inventiveness as well as impeccable spelling and grammar (which, if the poster were truly disturbed, wouldn’t be the case), with a note to the school administration to monitor for possible school-shooter risk.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      June 21, 2013, 6:47 am | # | Reply

      No True Scotsman fallacy.
      Disturbance and spelling / grammatical accuracy are completely independent.

  12. TraderInTown
    TraderInTown
    February 26, 2010, 1:40 pm | # | Reply

    Alright! An A-!

    Grammar is important. If I read a post where someone forgets basic capitalization all I can see that posting person as is a ten year old.

    Seek help? As in seek someone to help you accomplish such tasks? Great idea!

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      June 21, 2013, 6:48 am | # | Reply

      CamelCase is legitimate though, right?

  13. Coatillion
    Coatillion
    February 26, 2010, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

    I don’t exactly get the impression that you’re supposed to like the guy… but perhaps you should just choose one method of death and stick with it. All of them together seem a bit extreme :D

  14. Coatillion
    Coatillion
    February 26, 2010, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

    I mean he’s not Rasputin or anything

  15. TraderInTown
    TraderInTown
    February 26, 2010, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

    Oh right. I forgot drowning and poison. Thanks!

    • Coatillion
      Coatillion
      February 26, 2010, 4:42 pm | # | Reply

      No problem

  16. J. Teeple
    J. Teeple
    February 26, 2010, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

    I love Frigg’s expression in the second panel. “Why’d I get stuck with a bunch of cock-blockers?” XD

    • Baldur
      Baldur
      February 28, 2010, 4:31 pm | # | Reply

      That would be “vagooblockers” :P

      • J. Teeple
        J. Teeple
        March 1, 2010, 4:26 am | # | Reply

        There was a cock *involved*. XP

  17. Thejackofspades
    Thejackofspades
    February 26, 2010, 4:42 pm | # | Reply

    Wow, I’m embarrassed to say that took me a while to get. I was like, “Why is there an enema kit? Was he giving Frigg an ENEMA? WTF?”

    Then I remembered enema=douche in French.

    • Erica
      Erica
      February 26, 2010, 5:16 pm | # | Reply

      Well, it’s still a douche in the states, that just refers to lady bits. It’s basically the same equipment for the same basic job, you just use it elsewhere.

  18. ahdok
    ahdok
    February 26, 2010, 7:17 pm | # | Reply

    Eww. Bestiality.

    • Zypher
      Zypher
      February 26, 2010, 7:37 pm | # | Reply

      Nice pun. XD

      @Nathanyal: I did actually think of Monkey Island. I don’t even know Deadmines or whatever so that probably made it easier. XDD

      Awesome game. And thus far this has been an enjoyable comic, abet one I would never let my sister read over my shoulder. Looking forward to the rest of this story.

  19. HarryJ
    HarryJ
    February 27, 2010, 5:45 am | # | Reply

    Wonder if the Frigg-Best affair will go anywhere… (Frigg is obviously the man in the relationship.)

    I’d love to see a Pregnant Frigg beating the crap out of Marauders some time in the future.

    • xXHildyXx
      xXHildyXx
      February 27, 2010, 4:57 pm | # | Reply

      I can only imagine what a prego hormonal frigg could do to somebody…

      • Carl-E
        Carl-E
        February 27, 2010, 10:49 pm | # | Reply

        Problem – can’t tailor plate armor to fit the preggers belly. And she’s not going to let the little warrior spawn go unprotected…

        Gaah, what if it takes after daddy?

        • Buzzard
          Buzzard
          February 27, 2010, 11:59 pm | # | Reply

          Pffft- It wouldn’t even require any extra smithing; just repurpose an appropriately sized crupper from the nearest armorer.

          Although, if anyone is going to wear a crupper, for accuracy’s sake it really should be Best…

  20. DCB
    DCB
    February 28, 2010, 8:04 am | # | Reply

    any child of Best and Frigg would probably self-destruct upon entering the world…there’s no way that much combined ego can be contained in one mortal shell.

    • Stumpy the Paladin
      Stumpy the Paladin
      March 2, 2010, 6:07 pm | # | Reply

      Yes it can. We call them Cavaliers (sometimes i miss 2nd edition)

  21. Scribble
    Scribble
    February 28, 2010, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

    This has probably already been said, but I’m putting my money on Syr’nj falling for Byron. I’m also somewhat embarrassed to say that I only realized what Syr’nj is a pun on while I was typing it the first time…

  22. Baldur
    Baldur
    February 28, 2010, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

    It seems…
    *puts on his sunglasses*
    Syr’nj took too much water over her head..

    • Andras
      Andras
      March 1, 2010, 5:54 pm | # | Reply

      YEAAAAAAAAAH

      • d^g
        d^g
        May 4, 2010, 11:36 pm | # | Reply

        DUNNNNNNNN DUNDUNNNNNNNNN

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      June 21, 2013, 7:03 am | # | Reply

      . . . But the water isn’t over her head. It isn’t even near her head. What the hell are you on about?

  23. Oliveman
    Oliveman
    March 1, 2010, 5:40 am | # | Reply

    He regains a Willpower?

  24. handgunman
    handgunman
    July 31, 2011, 6:37 am | # | Reply

    How did Frigg get out of Full Plate armor that fast?

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      June 21, 2013, 7:05 am | # | Reply

      The same way all fighters do when they take an 8-hour rest without counting the penalty for sleeping in platemail: It just happened, ok?

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