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

You said it.

Chapter 33 – Page 15

on August 18, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 33
└ Tags: Byron
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  1. biggmac
    biggmac
    August 18, 2014, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Do these shoulder pads make me look fat?
    Don’t lie. I know they do. Sigh.

    • Tsarmina
      Tsarmina
      August 18, 2014, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

      Red just isn’t his color.

    • Snowblind
      Snowblind
      August 18, 2014, 2:39 pm | # | Reply

      You are axing me the wrong question.

      • Far
        Far
        August 20, 2014, 12:58 pm | # | Reply

        At least he’s not a sword loser.
        (with apologies to Foglio)

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        January 26, 2015, 7:56 am | # | Reply

        *Twitches*

        I know I’ll never get rid of the puns… but there should at least be some rule about originality.

        • MidnightDStroyer
          MidnightDStroyer
          February 18, 2017, 5:20 pm | # | Reply

          How about this one, concerning the alt-text?

          “You said it.”
          No, Byron sighed it.

          • SotiCoto
            SotiCoto
            May 9, 2017, 11:54 am | # | Reply

            An aside from the text beside it.

  2. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    August 18, 2014, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Ah, don’t read too much into it. He’s clearly just a Jay-Z fan. >_>

  3. Pink Freud
    Pink Freud
    August 18, 2014, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    “You talkin’ to me? Are YOU talkin’ to ME? Nah, you’re not talkin to me….”

  4. Tsapki
    Tsapki
    August 18, 2014, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    Once again, Byron loses the staring contest to his reflection.

  5. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    August 18, 2014, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know why he’s got a wardrobe. He only has, like, three outfits. Four if he takes off the shoulderpads. Unless…

    Holy shit!

    It’s the Armoire of Invincibility!

    • Carl-E
      Carl-E
      August 18, 2014, 1:10 am | # | Reply

      Actually, it’s one of Syr’nj’s relatives, spying on him.

    • Acadian Bacon
      Acadian Bacon
      August 18, 2014, 1:54 am | # | Reply

      It’s okay, I got that reference. c: SWORD CHUCKS, HOOOO~ D:<

    • flevine
      flevine
      August 18, 2014, 6:52 am | # | Reply

      Nah, he’s like Brisco County. He’s got a wardrobe full of clothes–they’re just all the same.

      • Charlie Spencer
        Charlie Spencer
        August 18, 2014, 8:43 am | # | Reply

        I’ve got to get that on DVD. Bruce Campbell’s autobiography (“If Chins Could Kill”) is a hoot.

      • MidnightDStroyer
        MidnightDStroyer
        February 18, 2017, 5:23 pm | # | Reply

        That’s something that Albert Einstein did; kept his wardrobe with a whole bunch of the same clothes. He said that he didn’t want to mentally distract his intellect away by having to decide which clothes to put on in the morning. He’d just grab the next set hanging up without having to think about it.

    • chase
      chase
      August 18, 2014, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

      It could be that this is the room he shares with Syr. I haven’t seen enough of their quarters though to remember if Syr has her own room too.

      • Ishmael
        Ishmael
        August 18, 2014, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

        It looks like a one-person bed to me. Maybe not, though.

        • Snowblind
          Snowblind
          August 18, 2014, 2:39 pm | # | Reply

          Of course it is a one person bed… they still like each other.

          • Ishmael
            Ishmael
            August 18, 2014, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

            Just because they’re having sex doesn’t mean that a two-person bed isn’t more comfortable. Especially when you don’t have air conditioning.

            • MidnightDStroyer
              MidnightDStroyer
              February 18, 2017, 5:25 pm | # | Reply

              Well, lack of air conditioning is why Frigg shaves her armpits. It can get pretty rank in close quarters really fast.

  6. Grenaid
    Grenaid
    August 18, 2014, 1:08 am | # | Reply

    Daaaaaamn that’s a lot of Health Potion. Standard furnishings for Fighter/berserker?

    • Chris
      Chris
      August 18, 2014, 9:37 am | # | Reply

      Well ya kind of need a lot of HP when you pick Woodworking as a craft skill.

  7. Carl-E
    Carl-E
    August 18, 2014, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    *sigh* = “Well, here we go again!”

  8. Joe
    Joe
    August 18, 2014, 2:24 am | # | Reply

    How fitting, Byron’s got a case of the Mondays.

  9. Nicolas Rei
    Nicolas Rei
    August 18, 2014, 2:38 am | # | Reply

    He’s depressed he hasn’t found any sweet shoulder garb loot in like forever.

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      August 18, 2014, 3:11 am | # | Reply

      More like “I wonder if they’ll ever deliver that axe belt buckle I ordered. It’s been months.”

  10. Radio Silence
    Radio Silence
    August 18, 2014, 7:05 am | # | Reply

    “Times are tough.”

  11. Spike Matthews
    Spike Matthews
    August 18, 2014, 7:57 am | # | Reply

    Wait – what’s going on with the axe handle? The are some crazy reflection things going on. Either the mirror shows things as a left-right inversion, the art is screwy (nah!), or there is a glitch in the game programme.

    I favour the last one.

    • Drraagh
      Drraagh
      August 18, 2014, 10:12 am | # | Reply

      Look at the first frame, he’s got two axes, one on each side. The framing is just cut so half of him and the opposite half of the mirror show.

      • Spike Matthews
        Spike Matthews
        August 18, 2014, 6:18 pm | # | Reply

        Well, crap. I missed the right-hand handle before. It sort of blends in with his (FABulous) hair.

  12. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    August 18, 2014, 9:42 am | # | Reply

    Yes Byron, you’re an axe worshiper living in a wooden house. The irony is not lost on us.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      February 18, 2017, 5:27 pm | # | Reply

      …And you also forgot the significance of who his closest lady-friend is too..

  13. Benedikt
    Benedikt
    August 18, 2014, 10:35 am | # | Reply

    Just yesterday I thought about how much I love the way you guys handle gender stereotypes. This is another great example.

    • wwlaos
      wwlaos
      August 18, 2014, 11:16 am | # | Reply

      I’m probably going to regret asking, but… what? How does this page address gender stereotypes? It’s just a guy looking into a mirror to make sure he didn’t put his armor on backwards or grab the wrong color of arcane glowing necktie before going off to work.

      • Tsapki
        Tsapki
        August 18, 2014, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

        Well, judging from the sigh, I am guessing that there is something bothering Byron, possibly about his appearance or just a general lack of self-esteem. Such concerns are more often considered a female issue I guess, feeling they need to look pretty enough or having some flaw they wish would just go away or that they could cover up. Just a guess.

        As for males, I know I just grab the a nearby set of clean(?) clothes, make sure my hair is reasonable handled, brush my teeth and head out the door.

        • Carl-E
          Carl-E
          August 18, 2014, 2:02 pm | # | Reply

          Guys have self esteem issues, too. Just because you don’t (yet) doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t struggle every morning to put on the “can-do!” face.

          But I’m also not convinced that’s really what this is all about…

          • Benedikt
            Benedikt
            August 22, 2014, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

            Sadly I’m old enough self esteem issues. (And don’t really remember when I had none.) That’s not what I was pointing at – far be it from me to deny that guys don’t stand in front of mirrors. And sigh, perhaps.

            It’s just that it’s not stereotypical behavior and – as such – often not depicted. Instead they do the taxi driver routine (thanks to Pink Freud for a chuckle)…

            So I wouldn’t argue on the basis of “what this is all about” – it can very well be that you’re right. I just wanted to point at what T., Phil, John & Jason show here. Which is a behavior that’s not at all stereotypical for men. (I could have pointed this out oh so often with Frigg, but I especially like how subtle it’s done here.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        August 18, 2014, 2:02 pm | # | Reply

        Byron is sad that his tits are small, you can see his posture in panel 3 where he fantasizes about a bigger rack.

        • Snowblind
          Snowblind
          August 18, 2014, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

          How many kobold skins do I need to pay for pec implants?

          Aw hell, maybe I will just get some landshark collagen injections, they are cheaper.

          • Jean-Luc
            Jean-Luc
            August 18, 2014, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

            He’ll probably just stuff some gnome scalps into his bra.

  14. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    August 18, 2014, 3:36 pm | # | Reply

    Probably just coincidence, that’s how the room looks and all, but after all the recent time in Sepia World, I can’t help but notice that the colors in this scene are rather muted, almost… sepia.

    • Speedy
      Speedy
      December 28, 2018, 11:12 am | # | Reply

      Could it be that Byron didn’t quite see himself, when he looked in the mirror? Maybe he was unconsciously expecting to see his Sepia World self? It’d be interesting if they began showing signs of remembering their real world selves.

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