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

'No, you're not fired. We're going to have to invent a new word for what's gonna happen to you.'

Chapter 37 – Page 22

on July 6, 2015
Chapter: Chapter 37
└ Tags: E-Merl, Frigg, Syr'Nj, WAV
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  1. JSStryker
    JSStryker
    July 6, 2015, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Syr’nj has that classic “What else can go wrong today” look on her face.

    • Matthew
      Matthew
      July 6, 2015, 12:34 am | # | Reply

      Well, at least Payet Best isn’t here to make everything worse.

      • Blake
        Blake
        July 6, 2015, 2:40 am | # | Reply

        God only knows what will go wrong next. Probably because he’s actively trying to make it happen. With lots of human sacrificing. And intensely reflecting light with his glasses.

        • Rodrigo
          Rodrigo
          July 6, 2015, 8:27 am | # | Reply

          Maybe Wav’s statement about “needing the helmet to survive in this alien world” is not so exagerated as Frigg portrays…

    • ThePuck1
      ThePuck1
      July 6, 2015, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

      PLEASE let that face be an avatar for someone! PLEASE!

      • Kobold
        Kobold
        July 6, 2015, 4:50 pm | # | Reply

        This would be acceptable.

    • Killer Klown
      Killer Klown
      July 6, 2015, 3:44 pm | # | Reply

      Or, to put in one of my favorite Shakespeare quotes:

      What fool hath added water to the sea,
      Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy?
      My grief was at the height before thou camest,
      And now like Nilus, it disdaineth bounds.

  2. LockeZ
    LockeZ
    July 6, 2015, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Oh, good, it doesn’t seem like Frigg is going to leave, at least. Which makes sense. She enjoys teamwork the most when she can tell her companions that they’re fuck-ups, loudly, over and over. Now that they actually deserve it, it’s like Axemas!

    • wwlaos
      wwlaos
      July 6, 2015, 8:31 am | # | Reply

      Axemas in July? How novel!

  3. David Liao
    David Liao
    July 6, 2015, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    My Flammable Homeland sounds like the worst band name ever.

    • ppayter
      ppayter
      July 6, 2015, 3:09 am | # | Reply

      *the best worst band name ever

      • l33tninja
        l33tninja
        July 6, 2015, 11:28 am | # | Reply

        it would be better than My Problematic Husband . . .

  4. Kennerly
    Kennerly
    July 6, 2015, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    You’re worse than fired. We’re going to give you a promotion.

    • Jonathan Lang
      Jonathan Lang
      July 6, 2015, 1:48 am | # | Reply

      So true.

    • Rukduk
      Rukduk
      July 6, 2015, 1:51 am | # | Reply

      Normally promotions are only punishments in Sauron or (insert evil overlord’s name here)’s armies if orcs and (insert go to evil fantasy race here). Given what just happened however, I belief an exception can be made to that rule.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        July 6, 2015, 5:39 am | # | Reply

        Not really true…being ‘kicked upstairs’ is a real thing. Generally, it means moving you somewhere where you get no real power, it just looks like you do, but getting assigned to herd cats is a perfectly cromulent way to accomplish it, too.

        • Draxynnic
          Draxynnic
          July 6, 2015, 6:19 am | # | Reply

          Usually, that’s a way of dealing with someone who’s been promoted into their level of incompetance. They’re given a position which is more prestigious on paper, but in practise is tailor-made to get something useful out of them while minimising the potential damage. (If it’s done well, the subject probably enjoys it more than what they were doing anyway and everyone wins, apart from the fact that they’re effectively being paid two grades up from their actual responsibility.)

          • Kamino Neko
            Kamino Neko
            July 6, 2015, 6:59 am | # | Reply

            That’s the most common type, yeah… Getting kicked upstairs because you gained the enmity of someone in the position to kick you. Such as the infamous case of James Buchanan, who was given an ambassadorship just because Andrew Jackson didn’t like him.

        • BaufenBeast
          BaufenBeast
          July 6, 2015, 6:33 pm | # | Reply

          The most notable case I know of being Teddy Roosevelt. He was annoyingly not corrupt as the governor of New York, so the corporations pressured him into accepting the Vice President assignment where he’d ironically have less power. This of course backfired spectacularly as McKinley promptly got himself shot.

          • Kamino Neko
            Kamino Neko
            July 6, 2015, 8:00 pm | # | Reply

            ‘I can’t believe it. That cowboy’s President, now!’

          • Korbl
            Korbl
            July 7, 2015, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

            “Huh. The one person who could do some good is now my nearly powerless VP. Welp, I think I’m going to go get myself shot.”

            • Borg
              Borg
              May 17, 2017, 5:56 pm | # | Reply

              The moral of the story is not to choose a VP you hate no matter how much you know it’ll help you appeal to a wider range of voters. It just guarantees you’ll die.

              I forget if Jackson chose Calhoun for votes, but it doesn’t really matter since Jackson was too stubborn to die.

        • Rukduk
          Rukduk
          July 7, 2015, 10:59 pm | # | Reply

          Sorry, should have specified: promotion to field command of a combat squad (as in sergeant or second lieutenant rank) is normally only used as a punishment in the evil overlord’s horde. And normally because the previous holder of said command was killed in an incredibly painful way by said overlord for a relatively minor failure when the odds were stacked against success in the first place.

      • Draxynnic
        Draxynnic
        July 6, 2015, 6:13 am | # | Reply

        In this case: “Worse, you’re promoted. I’m delegating responsibility for dealing with that and anything else that comes up to YOU!”

      • MichaelHaneline
        MichaelHaneline
        July 6, 2015, 4:19 pm | # | Reply

        I got punished with a “promotion” in real life. Got a new title, WAY more responsibility and obligations…. and about the same pay.

      • Korbl
        Korbl
        July 7, 2015, 6:37 pm | # | Reply

        Punishment through promotion occurs in retail, too. Usually by not training a person for the new position.

  5. Ryl
    Ryl
    July 6, 2015, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    And worst of all, Lisa needs braces.

    • Rukduk
      Rukduk
      July 6, 2015, 2:02 am | # | Reply

      And prom is tomorrow!!

      • Ganurath
        Ganurath
        July 6, 2015, 3:28 am | # | Reply

        And you came to the test naked!

      • Armagrodden
        Armagrodden
        July 6, 2015, 5:16 pm | # | Reply

        And Frigg broke Marsha’s nose with a football!

    • Dan
      Dan
      July 6, 2015, 7:25 am | # | Reply

      “Dental Plan…”

    • Nathanyel
      Nathanyel
      July 7, 2015, 3:57 am | # | Reply

      so we’ll march day and night by the old cooling tower
      they have the plant, but we have the power

  6. Kocel
    Kocel
    July 6, 2015, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    “Can ya fly, E-Merl?”

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      July 6, 2015, 11:45 pm | # | Reply

      “No? Then you’re going to fall a long way & land very hard.”

  7. Bliggz
    Bliggz
    July 6, 2015, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    Ahah! Syr’nj’s reactions in this comic. They’re funny cause I’m not E-Merl.

    • Psolo Ghoti
      Psolo Ghoti
      July 6, 2015, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

      There’s a lot of things that are funny because we’re not E-Merl. ^_^

      • MidnightDStroyer
        MidnightDStroyer
        July 6, 2015, 11:47 pm | # | Reply

        And there’s a lot of funny things because HE’S E-Merl & we aren’t.

  8. Olentzero
    Olentzero
    July 6, 2015, 2:20 am | # | Reply

    “And we call this next indescribably painful administrative correction the larch. The… larch.”

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      July 6, 2015, 11:48 pm | # | Reply

      In the Navy, we used to call it the “8-10-12 Attitude Adjustment.” It involves 8 Medics taking 10 hours to remove a size 12 boot from your @$$.

  9. Minando
    Minando
    July 6, 2015, 2:32 am | # | Reply

    *twitch*

  10. Jamus
    Jamus
    July 6, 2015, 3:29 am | # | Reply

    I feel it’s important to share some words of wisdom from another fantasy/rpgish dramedy webcomic.

    DON’T SPLIT THE PARTY.

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      July 6, 2015, 10:53 pm | # | Reply

      Choose a scenario…kupo!

  11. chantelune
    chantelune
    July 6, 2015, 3:54 am | # | Reply

    Perfect timing, E-merl. XD

    Seriously, though, Syrn’j, that was on par with “what can possibly go wrong ?”

    And glad she got put back in her place. Go Frigg !

  12. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    July 6, 2015, 4:01 am | # | Reply

    And we haven’t even gotten to the Best part. :D

    • Chris
      Chris
      July 6, 2015, 8:40 am | # | Reply

      Don’t worry the Best is yet to come.

      • Peter Sadlon
        Peter Sadlon
        July 6, 2015, 2:02 pm | # | Reply

        Oh he’s right behind Frigg. Or did you mean the other way.

  13. DatComment
    DatComment
    July 6, 2015, 5:15 am | # | Reply

    The two faces in the last panel could totally start memes/meme generations.

    • Phil
      Flo
      July 6, 2015, 11:14 am | # | Reply

      Go forth and meme, young ones.

      • LockeZ
        LockeZ
        July 6, 2015, 10:55 pm | # | Reply

        What happens when the gold star needs to be given to Phil? Who gilds the guildmaster?

        • MidnightDStroyer
          MidnightDStroyer
          July 6, 2015, 11:50 pm | # | Reply

          That would be the Master Jeweler. He’s got methods to gild just about anything.

          • Washbourn
            Washbourn
            July 7, 2015, 11:29 am | # | Reply

            Sounds like someone’s going to be walking funny for a while….

            • Speedy Marsh
              Speedy Marsh
              February 23, 2019, 11:09 am | # | Reply

              Just don’t geld the guildmaster!

              Ooo-Wee-Ooooooh-Wa
              (Walk, walk, walk, walk)
              Ooo-Wee-Ooooooh
              Walk like a man

              Oh, how you tried
              To cut me down to size

              By telling dirty lies to my friends
              But my own father
              Said give her up, don’t bother
              The world isn’t coming to an end

              He said walk like a man
              Talk like a man
              Walk like a man my son
              No (The right) woman’s worth
              Crawling on the earth
              So walk like a man my son

  14. John
    John
    July 6, 2015, 6:18 am | # | Reply

    ……………………..At least no one stepped in dog crap. That would make my day worse.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      July 6, 2015, 11:52 pm | # | Reply

      Sooo, guess what happens to be up next in Syr’Nj’s walking path?…

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        February 23, 2019, 2:33 pm | # | Reply

        Syr’Nj would probably stop and root her toes around in the dog poop. She likely hasn’t had time to eat a decent meal, lately, so she’d probably savor a nice steamy pile of organic fertilizer. :poop:

  15. Nicolas Rei
    Nicolas Rei
    July 6, 2015, 6:34 am | # | Reply

    I was just thinking she would follow up with. No, not at all. We’ll follow my homeland’s tradition for you. You get the Ax.

  16. MisterCynic
    MisterCynic
    July 6, 2015, 8:28 am | # | Reply

    E-Merl’s taking this whole shitstorm like a champ

    • Draxynnic
      Draxynnic
      July 6, 2015, 9:13 am | # | Reply

      That’s a valid point. Syr’Nj is certainly having a bad day, but E-Merl’s also had a loss (and probably more permanent than Syr’Nj’s, particularly since Rachel’s player isn’t in a tank), has been right in the middle of it all, and doesn’t have the benefit of being on the top of the Chain of Screaming like Syr’Nj is.

      • Sumgai
        Sumgai
        July 6, 2015, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

        I would like to point out that “no one knows this” and “that just means being held responsible for all of the screaming”.

  17. TxGator
    TxGator
    July 6, 2015, 9:26 am | # | Reply

    At the rate the guild is losing members, I don’t think E-Merl is in any danger of being fired. But he still may end up unemployed if the guild collapses.

  18. Aazen
    Aazen
    July 6, 2015, 9:32 am | # | Reply

    No E-Merl. You’re not fired. I’m promoting you. Congrats, you are now the new squad leader…

    • Peter Sadlon
      Peter Sadlon
      July 6, 2015, 2:00 pm | # | Reply

      Man, that’s cruel and unusual punishment.

    • Talewinds
      Talewinds
      July 6, 2015, 10:54 pm | # | Reply

      With this nice new red shirt…..

      • MidnightDStroyer
        MidnightDStroyer
        July 6, 2015, 11:53 pm | # | Reply

        …comes the Starfleet Manual of Security Procedures.

  19. Peter Sadlon
    Peter Sadlon
    July 6, 2015, 1:59 pm | # | Reply

    Cue thunderstorm.

  20. Plan D
    Plan D
    July 6, 2015, 2:41 pm | # | Reply

    Is his face scared or hopeful or yes?

  21. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    July 6, 2015, 5:07 pm | # | Reply

    “I was made aware that your girlfriend is dead literally a minute ago, and you have already exhausted my sympathy for you!”

  22. Aslandus
    Aslandus
    July 6, 2015, 10:59 pm | # | Reply

    Warning: lame joke ahead

    “Yes, you are going to be fired. Get in the cannon.”

    • Korbl
      Korbl
      July 7, 2015, 6:44 pm | # | Reply

      Good news! You’re going to be canonized!

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      February 19, 2017, 11:17 pm | # | Reply

      Well, according to the alt-text, E-Merl isn’t going to be fired. But to make up a new word for what will happen to him, it’ll probably involve some kind of anatomical impossibility being inflicted.

  23. Observer
    Observer
    July 7, 2015, 12:09 am | # | Reply

  24. Llealy
    Llealy
    July 8, 2015, 10:37 am | # | Reply

    …Wait. This thought just me, as I was rereading the second to last panel.

    What if the bag Gravedust was carrying wasn’t (just) carrying Byron’s body, but Bandit?

    I mean, I can’t really think of any other way that she could leave the city…well, at least alive.

    If that’s the case, the only question, then, would be if Gravedust knew about Bandit being in the bag.

  25. Nicky Nick
    Nicky Nick
    July 9, 2015, 4:54 pm | # | Reply

    Frigg is kind of a bitch here. Really? Blaming Syr’Nj for worrying about her husband and her country like nothing else matters? Because those aren’t important, maybe?

  26. Nicky Nick
    Nicky Nick
    July 9, 2015, 5:01 pm | # | Reply

    You’d better be sorry? Seriously?! Dismissing her worries about her husband’s death and her homecountry’s peril? Of all the jackass, least subtle moves she made, Frigg has set a record here.

  27. DetectiveCaillou
    DetectiveCaillou
    August 11, 2016, 8:40 pm | # | Reply

    Alt text: “And that word is ‘extirpation’.”

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      February 19, 2017, 11:19 pm | # | Reply

      No, no…That word already exists. The alt-text says that a totally NEW word will need to be made.

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