They could go with both, it worked out pretty well for Mantarok.
Well, until the whole getting sealed away with its own magic thing, but that’s unrelated.
Pretty much stop worrying so much or focusing on the Peacemakers… Just carry on with their plans and leave as much room as possible between them and their only real problem, not seeking out a fight.
I give him a pass on the 4th wall-breaking, just because he was literally made as a mechanism to break the 4th wall – so HR could influence this world directly. It’s more redeemable when a character knows there is a 4th wall to be broken, is all I’m saying.
Nah, no one would notice or make the connection even if they do look close enough on a Sprite to see it resembles the boss, could be a homage, kiss-assery, or Easter egg in anyone’s eyes. The old nutter is going Stan lee they might say…
I’m pretty sure breaking the 4th wall IS his evil god scheme. And that he is literally breaking the 4th wall by existing. And that he’s breaking it from the OTHER SIDE, which is normally physically impossible.
Well, I mean, “saving them” from the game by… you know, *killing* them, was a mortal concern back when he was a (mostly) mortal man stuck in the mortal realm. He’s a “proper” god, now. Not a figurative creator “god” stuck in an alternate reality, but an actual in-universe being with godly powers. The mortal world no longer concerns him. Much. Returning the Five back to his former “reality” was a concern based out of wanting to keep the fuzz off his back. A concern he no longer has any use for.
But seriously. Fuck Platonic metaphysics. It’s like Socrates made the whole thing up so he could talk about how everybody else were a bunch of troglodyte rubes and how philosophers like him were inspired visionaries.
Plato, not Socrates. Plato was so sure in justice that he didn’t escape an execution for pissing off the rulers, and the comic gave Ye the psychological explanation behind plato’s elitism as a coping mechanism for the execution of his teacher and best friend (elitism is still fucked up but Plato deserves pity still)
“Plato, not Socrates. Plato was so sure in justice that he didn’t escape an execution for pissing off the rulers” – Is my English failing me here? Or my sense of humor? Obviously Plato wasn’t executed, Socrates was.
I think he likes joining he beta test and wants to have some fun playing his God game. He’s less caring about irl, he got a fun little cave with shadows… Or is the real world his cave?… It’s his choice which is which tbh
BROTHER HOMON. I TAKE ISSUE WITH YOUR “MADE UP” COMMENT. COME TO MY LAVA PIT AND LET ME SHOW YOU WHO’S THE REAL GOD. I SO EAGERLY AWAIT YOUR ARRIVAL. YOURS, TECTONICUS.
I have to say, the purple glowing eyes are my favorite part of this page. This HR feels so much more emotive than his “real” counterpart, and those eyes just make everything XD
Ah, yes, but you see, that time, there was a slight error in the calculations. Hardly noticeable. Obviously, since we didn’t notice it. But you know, the slightest error, chaos theory, *mumble mumble mumble*.
This time, though, it’s definitely happening. We’ve done the research. It’s all documented in a series of hour-long badly edited YouTube videos by various people who have seen the truth. And now I shall be off; there are sheeple to wake up.
I hope said “made up death god” one day eats HR. He’s being way too smug about all this. He’s taking the nature of this “game” he made for granted when he also said that he “keeps adding two plus two and getting orange”.
On a more positive note, this is good for our protagonists. HR deciding to not work on them gives them some breathing space in which to recover.
That’s the funny thing, just like bigoted monotheistic religion teachers (not calling them all, just like how theologians explain so many similarities between so many religions, claiming that they were invented to embody a concept/prominent occurrence in their environment this cult’s God was an embodiment of concept. And specifically with this cult without much embodiment, just praising the concept and attempting to worship it.
Well, he’s rebuilding that portal for *some* reason. Possibly he’s decided that destroying the world would also destroy the Peacemakers as a side effect?
Okay, Okay, okay. I just hit chapter 6 and noticed the copyright for 2010, and thought “oh man don’t let this be a dead comic” and i clicked “Latest” to see when the most recent update was.
CHAPTER 42?!?!? Oh bby i love you, entire Guilded Age team, writers, artists, whatever you have. Count me in! I shall comment again when I have caught up!!!
Fuck ’em all
****’em, **** all. The heck… ****, ****, ****. It isn’t working for me.
Boop.
I can’t decide which censoring scheme is funnier: Parson Gotti in Erfworld or Nick from Skin Horse.
Well they are booped then Skin horse use a similar one to the MOTORFINGER Zodon from PS238
Bryony’s “language” from Battle Pug is fun to read especially through the censoring bars
“Eh, Boss? Do you mean that figuratively or…?”
Literally? I’m gonna have to adjust the chair!
Literally? I’m gonna have to adjust the chart!
Well, you see, he just met this elf. He had been hitting on this redhead, but that didn’t work out. But, this elf…
Cue the sexy saxophone music.
And the cheezy bass guitar riff.
Don’t forget the singular bass drum!
You mean this?
I was imagining something more like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyWDRtMZOow
Welp, my pants are wet.
“If you can’t beat ’em, beat ’em off!”, I guess?
And the was how the cult of death became the cult of…
…errrr…
…Fertility. Yes. Let’s go with that.
They could go with both, it worked out pretty well for Mantarok.
Well, until the whole getting sealed away with its own magic thing, but that’s unrelated.
*Mantorok
Was that an Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem reference? Because if it was, you, sir, are awesome!
Remember me, Alex?
“That’s all Folks!”
What are you up to HR…?
He just told us. Fuck ’em.
Pretty much stop worrying so much or focusing on the Peacemakers… Just carry on with their plans and leave as much room as possible between them and their only real problem, not seeking out a fight.
Thanks everyone, it’s been fun!
Ok, H.R., I know you’ve gone mad and all, but if you want your evil god-schemes to succeed, you need to ease up a tad on the fourth wall-breaking.
I give him a pass on the 4th wall-breaking, just because he was literally made as a mechanism to break the 4th wall – so HR could influence this world directly. It’s more redeemable when a character knows there is a 4th wall to be broken, is all I’m saying.
How is he breaking the fourth wall? He doesn’t seem to address us at any point.
“Someone on my uninspired writing staff” looks like a 4th wall break to me.
I think he means the staff of writers who helped him develop the game.
Not really. He did hire writing staff to help design his games.
I didn’t even consider the possibility of HR talking about the comic writers…
Thinking that way makes it all the more funny.
You know, Carol may be watching their interaction on her computer as they speak….
Speaking of which, I wonder if any of the other employees have noticed their boss running around in the game.
Nah, no one would notice or make the connection even if they do look close enough on a Sprite to see it resembles the boss, could be a homage, kiss-assery, or Easter egg in anyone’s eyes. The old nutter is going Stan lee they might say…
Or less-than-kiss-assery.
“Heh, did you guys see that someone in the art department made the crazy new cultist guy look JUST like H.R.? Someone’s get-ting fi-i-red.”
I also wonder if anyone’s noticed the recent transfer from Cyberia. He tends to stick out like sore thumb.
I’m pretty sure breaking the 4th wall IS his evil god scheme. And that he is literally breaking the 4th wall by existing. And that he’s breaking it from the OTHER SIDE, which is normally physically impossible.
You’re telling a black hole to suck less.
Ohhh wait, you mean the OTHER 4th wall. Would that make it the 5th wall in this case?
Depends on if it’s additive or multiplicative wall breaking.
So would breaking the fourth wall behind the fourth wall be the 8th, 16th, or 256th wall?
“Hey, dawg, I heard you like to go meta. So I’ma let’cha go meta while you go meta.”
HR’s House of (Video) Cards homage is some Spacey stuff!
I think HR may have just given up on getting the peacemakers killed off.
Well, I mean, “saving them” from the game by… you know, *killing* them, was a mortal concern back when he was a (mostly) mortal man stuck in the mortal realm. He’s a “proper” god, now. Not a figurative creator “god” stuck in an alternate reality, but an actual in-universe being with godly powers. The mortal world no longer concerns him. Much. Returning the Five back to his former “reality” was a concern based out of wanting to keep the fuzz off his back. A concern he no longer has any use for.
Eh, when the authorities operate on the same “higher” plane of existence ans your “higher” self, I’d think the concern is very real.
But seriously. Fuck Platonic metaphysics. It’s like Socrates made the whole thing up so he could talk about how everybody else were a bunch of troglodyte rubes and how philosophers like him were inspired visionaries.
Plato, not Socrates. Plato was so sure in justice that he didn’t escape an execution for pissing off the rulers, and the comic gave Ye the psychological explanation behind plato’s elitism as a coping mechanism for the execution of his teacher and best friend (elitism is still fucked up but Plato deserves pity still)
I did notice the typo later. Uhh. Woops.
“Plato, not Socrates. Plato was so sure in justice that he didn’t escape an execution for pissing off the rulers” – Is my English failing me here? Or my sense of humor? Obviously Plato wasn’t executed, Socrates was.
History of errors repeats itself :X
Bingo. At this point, even if the servers were shut down after the cops pick up the trail, it likely won’t matter.
The world he’s built is a living pocket dimension of it’s own accord, now. I doubt it’s possible to pull the plug in the traditional sense.
I think he likes joining he beta test and wants to have some fun playing his God game. He’s less caring about irl, he got a fun little cave with shadows… Or is the real world his cave?… It’s his choice which is which tbh
BROTHER HOMON. I TAKE ISSUE WITH YOUR “MADE UP” COMMENT. COME TO MY LAVA PIT AND LET ME SHOW YOU WHO’S THE REAL GOD. I SO EAGERLY AWAIT YOUR ARRIVAL. YOURS, TECTONICUS.
This comment wins the Internets for the evening. Well played, sir.
Not Homon. This is the real deal.
To be fair, Tectonicus considers the death cult god a rival or even enemy, so he probably wouldn’t mind HR bagging out the death cult god.
You spend all this time trying to kill them, making their lives a living hell and now… damn it HR, make up your freaking mind
He got bored and now he wants to play fantasy Minecraft.
“Fuck ’em.”
-God (the real one)
I’ve had days like that.
His eye looks like a flashlight in panel 5. I swear it’s casting purple light on his forehead.
HRCSI – he comes with his own purple light to spot blood splatter.
I have to say, the purple glowing eyes are my favorite part of this page. This HR feels so much more emotive than his “real” counterpart, and those eyes just make everything XD
I decided our death cult shouldn’t be about death. But you’ll follow me anyway because, eh whatever. Telling a story is hard.
Nah, new leaders come and coup the old ones all the time for all kinds of terroristic organizations, think of it as a crusade with much less effort
did u sea the alt text?
Haven’t we done the comic over thing, thanks for reading just a little while ago?
Ah, yes, but you see, that time, there was a slight error in the calculations. Hardly noticeable. Obviously, since we didn’t notice it. But you know, the slightest error, chaos theory, *mumble mumble mumble*.
This time, though, it’s definitely happening. We’ve done the research. It’s all documented in a series of hour-long badly edited YouTube videos by various people who have seen the truth. And now I shall be off; there are sheeple to wake up.
*grabs THE END IS NIGH sign, walks away*
I hope said “made up death god” one day eats HR. He’s being way too smug about all this. He’s taking the nature of this “game” he made for granted when he also said that he “keeps adding two plus two and getting orange”.
On a more positive note, this is good for our protagonists. HR deciding to not work on them gives them some breathing space in which to recover.
That’s the funny thing, just like bigoted monotheistic religion teachers (not calling them all, just like how theologians explain so many similarities between so many religions, claiming that they were invented to embody a concept/prominent occurrence in their environment this cult’s God was an embodiment of concept. And specifically with this cult without much embodiment, just praising the concept and attempting to worship it.
Just smash some pacemakers instead to make yourself feel better.
Well, he’s rebuilding that portal for *some* reason. Possibly he’s decided that destroying the world would also destroy the Peacemakers as a side effect?
Hmm this makes me wonder if HR could actually go against someone like Tectonicus.
Someone is seriously high on his own hype. More here than IRL.
I think the game is going to suddenly get a new ESRB rating.
There really needs to be angry forum posts in sepia world about this colossal jerk cultist not properly following role play custom.
I just want to say, I love the added touch of purple shading on HR’s eyelid in panel 5. It really adds to the whole glowing purple eye effect.
That alt text made my day. So funny!
Ulak does indeed have active brain cells and more than just the ones needed for self preservation.
So many villains would have benefited from this attitude toward their heroic nemeses.
*cough*Lex Luthor*cough*
Fuck the EU.
What?
Forget it.
Okay, Okay, okay. I just hit chapter 6 and noticed the copyright for 2010, and thought “oh man don’t let this be a dead comic” and i clicked “Latest” to see when the most recent update was.
CHAPTER 42?!?!? Oh bby i love you, entire Guilded Age team, writers, artists, whatever you have. Count me in! I shall comment again when I have caught up!!!
Chapter 6, eh?
Let’s see how you handle… THE PLOT TWIST!!! *lightning strikes, wolf howls from afar*
Though if you’ve read the about page and the cast page, it might be less of a twist.
Oh, well, I didn’t see that coming.