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

'And then, soon... ALL of the birds will die!!!'

Chapter 36 – Page 23

on February 25, 2015
Chapter: Chapter 36
└ Tags: Byron, Scipio
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  1. Random Whatever
    Random Whatever
    February 25, 2015, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    It’ll be all right cult boy, just don’t loose your head.

    • Jack Vermicelli
      Jack Vermicelli
      February 25, 2015, 1:42 am | # | Reply

      It’s about to be loosed for him.

      • Konig
        Konig
        February 25, 2015, 4:46 am | # | Reply

        Darn, and I’ve already prepared this noose.

        • Seggs
          Seggs
          February 25, 2015, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

          well, you know what they thay, no nooth ith good newth

          • biggmac
            biggmac
            February 25, 2015, 9:00 pm | # | Reply

            Reminds me of “Not Brand Ecch” … (Who are you?) -I AM MIGHTY THOR! And thir, you’d be thore too if you thlung a thilly hammer around all thummer.

  2. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    February 25, 2015, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Byron Witch Project?

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      February 25, 2015, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      More like the Evil Dead

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        February 25, 2015, 12:59 am | # | Reply

        Byron Voorhees = in Friday The 13th!
        Well, it was 12 days ago.

        • Sabbo
          Sabbo
          February 25, 2015, 4:15 am | # | Reply

          It’s also next month, and I think November. Aren’t Februaries fun?

  3. Dean
    Dean
    February 25, 2015, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Well, birds, obviously. And the guy selling stones.

  4. biggmac
    biggmac
    February 25, 2015, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    Those guards are gutless. Or at least one is.

    • Cassandra / Loki
      Cassandra / Loki
      February 25, 2015, 4:20 am | # | Reply

      was it fixed?

  5. Dave
    Dave
    February 25, 2015, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    My axe for you hits like a truck, BERZERKER.

    • wolfpax
      wolfpax
      February 25, 2015, 6:30 am | # | Reply

      Would you like some going nuts, BERZERKER.

      • tejón
        tejón
        February 25, 2015, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

        The berserker is just so contagious

        Likes killing people and puts them in rages

  6. herpherp
    herpherp
    February 25, 2015, 4:31 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know if I like where this strip is HEADing.

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      February 25, 2015, 6:38 am | # | Reply

      I have a different point of view.

      Overlooking the puns, is this setting up Byron v. Scipio?!?!?

      • 5-tons-of-flax
        5-tons-of-flax
        February 25, 2015, 8:02 am | # | Reply

        Nope. It’ll be Byron vs Everybody, followed by Scipio vs Byron and his army of undead Berzerkers.

    • Speedy
      Speedy
      January 10, 2019, 7:51 am | # | Reply

      It beheading this way. It beheading that way….

  7. Hatman
    Hatman
    February 25, 2015, 5:32 am | # | Reply

    Scipio, you picked the wrong day to quit smoking.

    • Nicolas Rei
      Nicolas Rei
      February 25, 2015, 6:00 am | # | Reply

      Cigar, you picked the wrong day to quit Scipio.

      • Joke Ruiner Reloaded
        Joke Ruiner Reloaded
        February 21, 2016, 8:51 pm | # | Reply

        Scipio, you picked the wrong cigar to quit cigarring scipio.

        RUUUUUUIIIIIINNNNNNEEEEEDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!

  8. Minando
    Minando
    February 25, 2015, 6:58 am | # | Reply

    Huh, this comic gets darker. Dark red, I mean.

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      February 25, 2015, 9:47 am | # | Reply

      Oh, crap. It’s really gonna be like “Crossed”, after all.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        February 25, 2015, 9:54 am | # | Reply

        Let’s hope it never hits the dolphin fuckery stage.

        • Paddy
          Paddy
          February 26, 2015, 10:46 am | # | Reply

          I’m suddenly very happy never to have read “Crossed”. WTF?

          • Psolo Ghoti
            Psolo Ghoti
            February 26, 2015, 6:22 pm | # | Reply

            Being a schmuck, I speed-read some of the Crossed archives, and for those not schmucky enough to do so, here’s a not-too-graphic description:

            It’s a very gory zombie apocalypse kind of story, where the “zombies” are regular humans carrying a fast-spreading disease that turns its hosts into completely uninhibited, violent and oversexual maniacs. They retain some sentience and ability for teamwork, though (hooray!). Helpfully, they also get a cross-shaped skin rash (to put it mildly) across the face, for easy identification, hence the name of the comic.

            It’s a very bleak story, in that it doesn’t seem to be working towards a cure or even a “repopulate the earth” scenario. The small pockets of uninfected are just postponing the inevitable, trying to maintain some semblance of civilization and sanity.

            For all that, though, the gore and the nature of the “crossed” are so over the top that it often crosses over from horrible into… horribilarious? It’s gross and depressing, but not as horrifying as I expected. I was actually more horrified by Brother Tom’s death/possession scene.

      • wwlaos
        wwlaos
        February 25, 2015, 10:21 am | # | Reply

        Please… please, no.

        T, Phil, just… please, no.

        • Phil
          Flo
          February 25, 2015, 3:47 pm | # | Reply

          Well we weren’t gonna, buuuuuuuuut…

  9. James Rye
    James Rye
    February 25, 2015, 8:27 am | # | Reply

    I really wonder if this is a cutscene in the game for those who play in the real world or if the NPCs are really answering their questions in realtime when they type/speak them.

    • ArvoKatsuya
      ArvoKatsuya
      February 25, 2015, 9:10 am | # | Reply

      Here’s a thought. All those players who don’t care about the storyline or community of the game… the ‘murder hobo’. The spirits mark the day the game goes mainstream. ;)

      EVE Online amusingly accounts for this in their own lore, in how capsuleers become a little less ‘human’ as time goes by from the technology of alien origins. I miss playing that game.

  10. Chris
    Chris
    February 25, 2015, 9:55 am | # | Reply

    Oh… Alucard guest appearance?

  11. Aslandus
    Aslandus
    February 25, 2015, 10:53 am | # | Reply

    Don’t worry guys, Byron is here now!

    • Captain Nemo
      Captain Nemo
      February 25, 2015, 4:05 pm | # | Reply

      Never fear Byron is he…..oh shit.

      • MidnightDStroyer
        MidnightDStroyer
        February 25, 2015, 9:30 pm | # | Reply

        This reminds me of the old legends of Heroic Age Greece…The regular people/peasants really couldn’t distinguish any difference between a group of bandit raiders & a hero with their entourage. In the end, they wound up with pillaged villages & burnt houses.

        “Head for the hills! The heroes are coming!”

        • Captain Nemo
          Captain Nemo
          February 26, 2015, 5:29 am | # | Reply

          HAH pillaged villages, try saying that five times fast.

        • Captain Nemo
          Captain Nemo
          February 26, 2015, 5:31 am | # | Reply

          I do remember those stories though, I always laughed at them for being so damned trusting, then again I’m one of those paranoya do people sooooo yeah.

  12. AlanSteenhouwer
    AlanSteenhouwer
    February 25, 2015, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

    So Scipio seems to have boots of muffling for stealth, and also now dex comparable to the best DPS. I suspect it comes from that sword… I want to know more about it than it’s pointy, and Scipio for that matter.

    • Bob
      Bob
      February 26, 2015, 4:12 am | # | Reply

      Nah, he just rolled a natural 20 on stealth, not to mention these guys have 1 hit die…

      • AlanSteenhouwer
        AlanSteenhouwer
        February 26, 2015, 7:16 pm | # | Reply

        That’s one in twenty odds. You couldn’t give me the money to place on that, I’d just keep the money. Also I wasn’t talking about damage, but his speed.

        • MidnightDStroyer
          MidnightDStroyer
          February 27, 2015, 12:10 am | # | Reply

          Scipio didn’t even really need to be fast; being so low on the cultist totem pole, they probably count a 1/2 HD enemies, so a Fighter Class could hit up to his own XP Level of them in a single combat round.

          Those robes would only be what? AC9 at best? He could’ve probably rolled a 5 or higher & still hit them & at 1/2HD, any hit would be fatal anyway.

  13. AlanSteenhouwer
    AlanSteenhouwer
    February 25, 2015, 10:42 pm | # | Reply

    Hey did E-merl ever get something out of that grimoire Byron found 20 chapters ago?

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      February 26, 2015, 5:54 am | # | Reply

      A right nasty paper cut, for one…

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      February 26, 2015, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

      It granted him an extra skill point or something, I would guess.

  14. Bob
    Bob
    February 26, 2015, 4:12 am | # | Reply

    HAHAHAHAH!!! I’M COMING FOR YOU ALL!!!

    • Chris
      Chris
      February 26, 2015, 11:58 am | # | Reply

      Oh Crap its the BOB’s!!!!

      Run!

      (old UO cult)

  15. The Gorram Batguy
    The Gorram Batguy
    February 26, 2015, 7:14 am | # | Reply

    Hey, guy-in-the-last-panel, I axed you a question!

  16. Matthew Davis
    Matthew Davis
    February 26, 2015, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

    You know, Scipio is much more talkative when he doesn’t have the cigar. I wonder if it means that his player isn’t online at the moment.

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      February 26, 2015, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

      He’s not usually one to waste time telling his foe that they’re finished, is he? Usually he’d just let them figure that one out for themselves.

  17. Kroenen
    Kroenen
    February 26, 2015, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

    Piss off Scipio enough for him to open his eyes at you?

    You’re gonna have a baaaad time.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      February 19, 2017, 5:08 pm | # | Reply

      “Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes.”
      It’s too bad that, with Scipio, by that time, he’s already in melee range…

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