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

OK, some of you are DEFINITELY not raiding tonight.

Chapter 33 – Page 17

on August 20, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 33
└ Tags: Astoria Troy, Bandit, Bert, Byron, E-Merl, Fr'Nj, Frigg, Gravedust, Hewie, Isidro, Keeper Kepfer, Lectrus, Pyre, Rachel, Scipio, Syr'Nj
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  1. Wylf
    Wylf
    August 20, 2014, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    The greater good, huh? I guess that explains why he wears red.

    • Joe
      Joe
      August 20, 2014, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      One axe good, two axes better?

      • Neferius
        Neferius
        September 5, 2015, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

        “Has anyone siegn Kyle? He’s about ýea tall…”

  2. biggmac
    biggmac
    August 20, 2014, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    “Now, concerning that greater evil -hey, waitaminit. I can’t see any of you guy’s eyes! What the – awww, nuts. Forgot to put my contacts in!!”

    • phyre
      phyre
      August 20, 2014, 6:42 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, that weirds me out too. Whatever happened to dot eyes?

  3. Pink Freud
    Pink Freud
    August 20, 2014, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Damnit every time he says “The Greater Good” I hear the chanting village elders at the end of Hot Fuzz.

    • Mr Ak
      Mr Ak
      August 20, 2014, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      That and the crowd lifting a hand and shouting “hail” has… interesting overtones.

      • Avris
        Avris
        August 20, 2014, 3:17 am | # | Reply

        Well, he does seem to get pretty führerious in beserker-mode.

        • Logan76667
          Logan76667
          August 20, 2014, 5:52 am | # | Reply

          that avatar…
          boy do i hope he won’t turn this into a holocaust

      • Commiekeebler
        Commiekeebler
        August 20, 2014, 8:32 am | # | Reply

        Overtones? I found the visual similarity to a Nazi rally unsettling.

        Verily, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

        First, the cultists. Then the World’s Rebellion. Then everyone who’s not human. Then humans who felt bad about the whole thing.

        • Borg
          Borg
          April 24, 2017, 7:52 pm | # | Reply

          I think Syr is too smart to let that happen any way other than over her dead body.

          Of course, we could always start step three early.

      • Pink Freud
        Pink Freud
        August 20, 2014, 10:58 am | # | Reply

        Nah, being southern my mind just goes to, “No, YOU go to Hail!”

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      August 20, 2014, 3:20 am | # | Reply

      Nah, it’s only the Tau.

    • Connie
      Connie
      August 20, 2014, 9:08 am | # | Reply

      The Greater Good

      My husband and I cannot hear that phrase without echoing it from that movie.

      • Gristle McNerd
        Gristle McNerd
        August 22, 2014, 6:15 am | # | Reply

        Ha! And I thought I was the only one.

        THE GREATER GOOD

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      August 20, 2014, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

      the greater good

  4. Not a name
    Not a name
    August 20, 2014, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    So many tags…

  5. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    August 20, 2014, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Choirs; “…for the greater good!”

  6. Chaltab
    Chaltab
    August 20, 2014, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    Wow did the game fail to load the textures properly, none of the Adventurers have eyes.

    • Taxil Necrobane
      Taxil Necrobane
      August 20, 2014, 1:56 am | # | Reply

      I don’t know about you, but eye see what they did there as well.

      • Rodrigo
        Rodrigo
        August 20, 2014, 7:46 am | # | Reply

        Youngblood’s disease.

    • Snowblind
      Snowblind
      August 20, 2014, 11:50 am | # | Reply

      Someone needs to upgrade their video card

    • Speedy
      Speedy
      December 28, 2018, 1:52 pm | # | Reply

      No. It’s an illusion that was cast on them. They know the enemy has orders not to fire until they see the whites of their eyes > -)

  7. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    August 20, 2014, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    First, we need to destroy the lesser good and then work our way down.

  8. Oldguy
    Oldguy
    August 20, 2014, 1:38 am | # | Reply

    I’m guessing he’s going to want to implement a gear check before sending some of those noobs raiding.

    • Devlerbat
      Devlerbat
      August 20, 2014, 1:46 am | # | Reply

      Seriously, you have at least one guy with a gardening rake and another guy with a lamppost. A freaking lamppost! This isn’t League of Legends guy!

      Not to mention the fact that I have a feeling not all of those people wearing cloth armor are casters.

      • Otaking
        Otaking
        August 20, 2014, 4:09 am | # | Reply

        Pink box…of..suspense…killing me.

        • Guesticus
          Guesticus
          August 20, 2014, 8:23 am | # | Reply

          That’s E-Gurls’ repaired hat

      • Olfrick
        Olfrick
        August 20, 2014, 7:40 am | # | Reply

        Pigsy was armed with a muckrake and he was a former Marshall of Heaven….

        • SotiCoto
          SotiCoto
          January 26, 2015, 8:05 am | # | Reply

          The muckrake was part of Zhu Bajie’s punishment… pretty sure. That he happened to weaponise it is pretty much just one of those things that people with farming implements do when they gotta hit something.

  9. The Indomitable Eric
    The Indomitable Eric
    August 20, 2014, 1:44 am | # | Reply

    Well, if they still made 72 man raids, this wouldn’t be an issue, now would it?

  10. Mujaki
    Mujaki
    August 20, 2014, 1:57 am | # | Reply

    My name is Byron Hackenslasher, and I’m an adventurer.
    HAIL, Byron!
    It’s been three weeks since my last raid. I’ve been trying to stay clean, but last weekend I cleaned out a five-man instance with only three people, and I just… the rush of the adrenaline… It’s hard to describe, and harder to resist it.

    • kenneth
      kenneth
      August 20, 2014, 2:12 am | # | Reply

      *Golf Claps*

  11. Hellhound
    Hellhound
    August 20, 2014, 3:21 am | # | Reply

    “oh wait. this is the Greater -good- Group? whooops sorry Guys we are in the wrong place,lets rush to the winning Team” (massive stomp off).

  12. TallStranger
    TallStranger
    August 20, 2014, 4:28 am | # | Reply

    Did…Did Rachel bring a cake? Is there enough to share?

    • Chantelune
      Chantelune
      August 20, 2014, 4:48 am | # | Reply

      I think that’s E-merl repaired hat, considering he’s not wearing it and the box seems to be fitting size for it.

  13. HandOfMystra
    HandOfMystra
    August 20, 2014, 5:42 am | # | Reply

    Here today, we’re here today, for the greater good… here today

  14. BanditoWalrus
    BanditoWalrus
    August 20, 2014, 8:02 am | # | Reply

    They came for the cultists. And I did not speak out because I was not a cultist.

    Byron’s gonna throw the cultists into work camps isn’t he??

    I really hope the Nazi implication was intentional, what with thei “HAIL” and raised right hand. Because if not this is one hell of a screwup.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      August 20, 2014, 8:25 am | # | Reply

      “Hail” has been a greeting since Roman times
      In the majority (if not all) games, which one is the main hand? Correct, the other one

      • Phil
        Flo
        August 20, 2014, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, but in many cultures raising your left hand is seen as a rude gesture as well.

        Perspective.

        • SotiCoto
          SotiCoto
          April 6, 2016, 5:43 am | # | Reply

          In more general terms… in many cultures, being abnormal is regarded as rude… whether it is due to being left-handed or from another culture… or whatever else.

  15. BanditoWalrus
    BanditoWalrus
    August 20, 2014, 8:06 am | # | Reply

    Wait a second…

    Rose to political power advocating Worker’s Rights. Charismatic leader of aforementioned workers. Followed by his loyalists without question. Operating above the law. Advocating the destruction of a minority religious group for “the greater good” and the protection of society from their “evil.”

    Shit. Byron IS Hitler.

    Heil.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      August 20, 2014, 8:30 am | # | Reply

      Yes, the Witness’s are a ‘minority religious group’, and yes, he did actively order their complete eradication (no comfy camps for them)
      Umm, how was he ‘operating above the law’? He was the ‘law’!

  16. Kennerly
    Kennerly
    August 20, 2014, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    Greater Good? I came because I was lead to believe there would be punch and pie!

  17. wolfpax
    wolfpax
    August 20, 2014, 9:00 am | # | Reply

    “Greater good?’ I am your wife! I’m the greatest *good* you are ever gonna get!”
    – Mrs. Frozone

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      August 23, 2014, 7:59 am | # | Reply

      I’d almost bet that Frozone finally got his supersuit this way:
      Not shown in the movie itself is how Frozone convinced Honey that her evening (which was in the planning for 2 months) would *certainly* be ruined when that giant robot crashes through the restaurant where they’re going to have dinner…

  18. Carl-E
    Carl-E
    August 20, 2014, 9:23 am | # | Reply

    Awright, I recognize two of the extras, but who are the girl with the stripes on her tabbard and the guy with the lamppost?

    • wwlaos
      wwlaos
      August 20, 2014, 10:34 am | # | Reply

      Stripes on her tabbard? I think you mean Astoria Troy.

      As for the guy with the lamppost, my Best guess is Lectrus.

  19. Xangotron
    Xangotron
    August 20, 2014, 10:06 am | # | Reply

    Am I crazy, or did anyone else see Wonder Woman in the crowd two spots behind Rachel?

    • wwlaos
      wwlaos
      August 20, 2014, 10:28 am | # | Reply

      You’re totally crazy, but yeah there is a WW look-a-like back there.

      • TBeckett
        TBeckett
        August 20, 2014, 3:05 pm | # | Reply

        That should help even the odds in the adventurers’ favor.

  20. Bloodvork
    Bloodvork
    August 20, 2014, 10:41 am | # | Reply

    And Rachel made cake for the occasion.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      August 21, 2014, 8:52 am | # | Reply

      A cake shaped like E-Gurls’ hat

  21. Arn23
    Arn23
    August 20, 2014, 10:50 am | # | Reply

    My gaming group has a standing order to kill anyone who talks about the greater good. It’s ususally someone covering an atrocity. ;)

  22. Aslandus
    Aslandus
    August 20, 2014, 10:55 am | # | Reply

    Before you start judging him, he’s a berserker, not a public speaker

  23. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    August 20, 2014, 10:59 am | # | Reply

    And now Byron has the army Brother Tom predicted for him…

  24. chickpeas
    chickpeas
    August 20, 2014, 11:30 am | # | Reply

    I’m now going to start calling my penis the ‘greater good’. and of course, you know what greater evil it’ll be doing battle with every night to vanquish.
    which now makes this whole speech hilarious.

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      August 21, 2014, 8:53 am | # | Reply

      You call your hand ‘the greater evil’? o_O

  25. nekobun
    nekobun
    August 20, 2014, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

    For those who apparently can’t tell the difference between adventurers and National Socialists, this should clear things up: a nice side-by-side comparison.

    PS: Read a book or learn to Google. I know the Nazis aren’t still well documented or anything; it’s not as if the History Channel alone based the first four or five years of their existence on WWII documentaries and speculation…

    • Guesticus
      Guesticus
      August 21, 2014, 8:55 am | # | Reply

      Those ‘nazis’ look more like russians to me (something about the hats)

  26. Thomas
    Thomas
    August 21, 2014, 2:57 am | # | Reply

    Meh, the Greater Good is nothing compared to the Elder Goods – Cthulhu, Yog Sweettooth, Shub Cigarette and Nearlylatefortea.

    • Freako
      Freako
      August 21, 2014, 10:44 pm | # | Reply

      Cthulhu? You mean Cuddleyou?

  27. Don J
    Don J
    December 16, 2015, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

    Re-reading the archives, this comic FINALLY revealed to me what “HAWM” stands for. Been meaning to ask, and now I don’t have to! (I’m sure it’s been made clear long before this, I’m just slow.)

  28. Speedy
    Speedy
    December 28, 2018, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

    The skies grow dark. Large clumps of ice begin to fall on the group. Byron is struck with the realization that his greeting must be changed. When speaking to groups including magic users, his new greeting will be, “Howdy, and well met!”

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