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

'But enough about my sex life...'

Chapter 41 – Page 7

on March 14, 2016
Chapter: Chapter 41
└ Tags: Carol, Chrissie, Daniel, JJ Berten, Shanna, Xan
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  1. Dave
    Dave
    March 14, 2016, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    “Kitten in a ball of yarn complicated”, or “Killed someone and taunted her friends on-camera with my face in full view” complicated?

    • Rules Lawyer
      Rules Lawyer
      March 15, 2016, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      Enough about his sex life.

  2. biggmac
    biggmac
    March 14, 2016, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Magical corporatist boss creating, then infiltrating, a make believe world where 5 other real people are in total immersion and deal with magic, trolls, talking doggies, and lava golems? Hey – I can buy all that.
    A parking lot where everyone is properly parked in between the lines? GIVE ME A BREAK!

    • Ganurath
      Ganurath
      March 14, 2016, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      If it helps, the van by that very first word balloon parked a bit too far forward, forcing the car opposite to park on the rear line of their own parking space.

      • Bryan
        Bryan
        March 14, 2016, 9:24 am | # | Reply

        *Breathes sigh of relief*

    • Twitcher
      Twitcher
      March 14, 2016, 2:51 am | # | Reply

      Technically, H.R. opened a door to no less than two alternate dimensions, enabled people to take partial control over their alternate universe selves, and due to a misinterpretation of Plato’s the Cave and a heretofore incipient case of malignant narcissism, now believes he’s God. It’s like if Cortez believed he created the Aztecs because he found their civilization.

      • TxGator
        TxGator
        March 14, 2016, 9:37 am | # | Reply

        Maybe he did create the actual world of Arkerra? He is using magic afterall.

        Maybe the game was just a blueprint for the world. And he found a way to treat the thousands of players out there as mana generating worshippers. The software could act a guide for all that mana and the output was a new world.

        • Fiaryn
          Fiaryn
          March 14, 2016, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

          It is possible, but that is not a read that the text supports at the moment. The references to Plato’s world of Forms and Ideas coupled with prior musings by HR that Arkerra was not so much created as it was the archetypical form waiting to be released beneath the marble suggests that Arkerra is not HR’s creation as such.

          That and the fact that characters in the game appear to be fully sapient beings.

      • Bounces
        Bounces
        March 14, 2016, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

        Wait, so Cortez didn’t create the Aztecs? Man…there goes that awesome AU storyline.

    • Anarchyant
      Anarchyant
      March 15, 2016, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

      Ah but there is the give away! In reality they are ALSO in a game thinking they are in real life with a Magical corporatist boss creating, then infiltrating, a make believe world where 5 other real people are in total immersion and deal with magic, trolls, talking doggies, and lava golems. Its the Russian Dolls of total immersion gaming. The question is though……..will you take the red pill or the blue pill?

  3. Cubanpep
    Cubanpep
    March 14, 2016, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Complicated bodes well for the good guys.

    • Arrkas Zek
      Arrkas Zek
      March 14, 2016, 1:05 am | # | Reply

      Not necessarily. It just means JJ is that much more determined, and willing to go that much further, to get the job done. I get the sense that he is a ‘get the job done’ kinda guy.

      • Cubanpep
        Cubanpep
        March 14, 2016, 11:47 pm | # | Reply

        I get where you are coming from… But my thought is that he’s the kind of guy that really doesn’t seem to have too much “kick-back” in the jobs he’s undertaken just based on the hubris he operates with. The fact that a band of “easy marks” has made things “complicated” for him tells me that he is bound to make a huge mistake. He’s so used to easy treading, that this job will be his undoing. Just a hunch.

  4. Ganurath
    Ganurath
    March 14, 2016, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    “What sort of complications are we talking about?”

    “Foreshortening, ma’am. It’s hiding the full splendor of my facial hair.”

    • DS
      DS
      March 14, 2016, 2:00 am | # | Reply

      He can rest easy. It still looks pretty splendid from this angle.

  5. Mujaki
    Mujaki
    March 14, 2016, 2:07 am | # | Reply

    Better safe than sorry, better safe than sorry…
    Has it been an hour? I must be immune!
    Better safe than sorry, better safe than sorry…

    • Fo Ren G
      Fo Ren G
      March 14, 2016, 3:06 am | # | Reply

      Is that from L4D’s Dead Toll?

      • Stabbers N' Shankers
        Stabbers N' Shankers
        March 14, 2016, 5:31 pm | # | Reply

        Sounds like it to me.

        *Rings church bell*

        Horde time!

      • Mujaki
        Mujaki
        March 15, 2016, 6:17 pm | # | Reply

        It’s actually the “Death Toll” campaign. And the voice actor for the Church Guy also can be heard as the Scout in Team Fortress 2.

  6. Armagrodden
    Armagrodden
    March 14, 2016, 2:29 am | # | Reply

    Dammit JJ, she hired you specifically so she didn’t have to worry about “complications.”

  7. metaceryn
    metaceryn
    March 14, 2016, 4:57 am | # | Reply

    Welcome to Panel 6, for another thrilling episode of Regretting My Life Decisions!

    • Captain Nemo
      Captain Nemo
      March 14, 2016, 4:58 pm | # | Reply

      Hah your avatar is perfect

  8. Amir
    Amir
    March 14, 2016, 5:54 am | # | Reply

    Did the site layout change this month? I found a way of viewing the alt text on a mobile browser by tapping a certain area on the screen (previously, top left corner of the white space under the title, then bottom left corner under the ad, right above the brown line…).
    But recently, the box harboring the ads has extended downwards covering the brown line and the area that i tap for alt text.
    Is there anyway we can remedy that?

    • Amir
      Amir
      March 14, 2016, 5:59 am | # | Reply

      That being the top brown bar, that has the buttons under the comic…

    • Blake
      Blake
      March 14, 2016, 2:08 pm | # | Reply

      If you’re using an apple product, then I think you may be in luck. I had found a way around this problem the other day thanks to a nifty script someone suggested here:
      http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100404045906105
      I hope this helps!
      (assuming we can in fact post links here)

      • Blake
        Blake
        March 14, 2016, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

        I may have forgotten to add some instructions on how to do this, as the instructions in that link weren’t completely helpful to me. Basically, the first post in that link there suggests a java script. On my mobile I couldn’t see the whole JavaScript, but to copy it you need to highlight the first word in the box holding the script. You can force highlight the whole string of script by pulling down and releasing on the little highlight extenders on either side of the highlighted word. Once the whole JavaScript is highlighted, “copy” it to your clipboard. Then make a new bookmark (any bookmark will do). Now edit that new boomark’s url, and replace it with your copied script. Save the bookmark that way. Now if you did that right, any time you want to read alt text just tap that boomark, then tap the picture who’s text you want to read. It’ll pop up a window with the alt text inside. Obviously this isn’t the best fix, but it certainly works for me. I hope this made sense, and helps anyone out there having trouble with the alt text.

      • Amir
        Amir
        March 14, 2016, 8:48 pm | # | Reply

        Unfortunately, I’m on an Android.
        I don’t think this’ll work for it?
        But like i said, i can view it by tapping an area on the screen, but that area is currently hidden.
        Thanks for sharing, though.
        :)

  9. Odo
    Odo
    March 14, 2016, 6:18 am | # | Reply

    In the first panel there is an error in the painting on the parking lot. The arrow on the right is pointing the wrong way.

    Yeah, I know, picky picky.

    • Dana Son-of-Bear
      Dana Son-of-Bear
      March 14, 2016, 9:36 am | # | Reply

      I thought that at first, too, but there’s a dashed line to the right of that arrow, so I think that’s some kind of crazy two-way angular parking lot.

      • Aletheia
        Aletheia
        March 14, 2016, 11:24 am | # | Reply

        Even if that’s the case, the arrow’s pointing the wrong way (unless their world is weird and/or they aren’t in the US, hah). American traffic would be going down in that lane, not up.

    • John Waltrip
      John Waltrip
      March 14, 2016, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

      Well… shoot.

      I’m sure you all can tell the background for panel one is obviously from a photo I used as reference. It has also been reversed, which will explain why the arrows appear to be going in the wrong direction. I was going to erase those arrows, but then forgot.

  10. Silensio
    Silensio
    March 14, 2016, 6:19 am | # | Reply

    Just gonna assume alt text actually belongs to Xan and not JJ.

    • Psolo Ghoti
      Psolo Ghoti
      March 14, 2016, 7:18 pm | # | Reply

      I didn’t, but I do now.

  11. Frigg_Fanboi
    Frigg_Fanboi
    March 14, 2016, 7:42 am | # | Reply

    “It’s not paranoia if they’re really after you” “Yeah but what about up to now? They weren’t after you before this” “Dangit Chrissie, quit bringing up logic”

  12. Benedikt
    Benedikt
    March 14, 2016, 11:59 am | # | Reply

    Congratulations on 50 Patrons! At this moment it’s only 194$ per month – here’s to hoping it will become a lot more!

  13. Jack Vermicelli
    Jack Vermicelli
    March 14, 2016, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

    At least five contiguous sunrooved cars? Improbable!

  14. Aslandus
    Aslandus
    March 14, 2016, 6:48 pm | # | Reply

    “Gee, thanks for calling me on my work phone. You know, the one that is being monitored for solicitors and death threats? This is an association I definitely wanted to have discovered.”

  15. minando
    minando
    March 15, 2016, 3:51 am | # | Reply

    Somehow this guy does NOT belong to the sepia world. This guy belongs to Gastonia.

  16. Mark
    Mark
    March 15, 2016, 4:01 am | # | Reply

    Did noone notice how they are in a parking lot and how Moustache Man is in a stationary car?

    • chase
      chase
      March 15, 2016, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

      I might just be missing it, but how can you tell the car is stationary? o.o

      • Mark
        Mark
        March 20, 2016, 11:39 am | # | Reply

        He’s having a phone call.

        Being an assassin doesn’t mean you can phone while driving.

    • minando
      minando
      March 16, 2016, 3:55 am | # | Reply

      Mario cart NEVER stays still.

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