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

'Oh good, he remembers us now!'

Chapter 43 – Page 22

on August 8, 2016
Chapter: Chapter 43
└ Tags: Best, Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, Syr'Nj
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  1. Dave
    Dave
    August 8, 2016, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Gonna be the “best” avalanche if they keep yelling like that.

    • Dotcom
      Dotcom
      August 8, 2016, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      But he has the Best rageface! Besides they just want to axe each other a question.

      • Fiaryn
        Fiaryn
        August 8, 2016, 1:44 am | # | Reply

        I don’t think Byron’s even really capable of mustering malice towards Best right now.

        Or, really, any feeling other than confusion.

      • tejón
        tejón
        August 8, 2016, 6:24 am | # | Reply

        Seriously, that face… “shit elf” was never so apt.

      • Resulli
        Resulli
        August 8, 2016, 10:20 am | # | Reply

        This comic seriously cannot go a single update without a string of puns and I love it. lol

        • Fishbulb
          Fishbulb
          August 8, 2016, 10:25 pm | # | Reply

          Is there always such a flurry of commenting?

          • Oddyseus
            Oddyseus
            August 10, 2016, 1:53 am | # | Reply

            We like to Payet forward round here.

        • SotiCoto
          SotiCoto
          May 23, 2017, 11:17 am | # | Reply

          This comic can’t go more than a few updates without someone substituting “axe” instead of “ask” despite the fact the two words don’t even sound remotely similar.

          Seriously… it is one of the worst puns because it just doesn’t sound the same at all.

          • NotASnowman
            NotASnowman
            May 24, 2017, 1:09 am | # | Reply

            Well, “can I hatchet you a question” makes even less sense. “Axe” is the lesser of two evils.

            • SotiCoto
              SotiCoto
              August 6, 2019, 3:37 am | # | Reply

              If you have a plan you can hatchet, but axing a question sounds more like choking on it.

    • Loyal
      Loyal
      August 8, 2016, 6:47 am | # | Reply

      0.5 seconds back in action and already bringing a mountain of trouble down on their heads. Payet Best is snow slouch.

  2. Samuel
    Samuel
    August 8, 2016, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Ugh. He’s back.

    • Kennerly
      Kennerly
      August 8, 2016, 12:22 am | # | Reply

      Yay!

      • Alan Steenhouwer
        Alan Steenhouwer
        August 8, 2016, 11:46 am | # | Reply

        No.

        • aseariel
          aseariel
          August 8, 2016, 11:32 pm | # | Reply

          Those icons/faces are perfect.

          • Alan Steenhouwer
            Alan Steenhouwer
            August 9, 2016, 4:44 pm | # | Reply

            So is that one.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      August 8, 2016, 12:38 am | # | Reply

      I just hope Best can kick ass like he used to.

      • Alan Steenhouwer
        Alan Steenhouwer
        August 8, 2016, 11:48 am | # | Reply

        You mean like he was captain? Because Wav was way more useful than Best ever was.

        • Jean-Luc
          Jean-Luc
          August 8, 2016, 6:14 pm | # | Reply

          Hardly, Best was awesome until he flipped out in the end: http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-11-page-11/

          • Alan Steenhouwer
            Alan Steenhouwer
            August 9, 2016, 4:43 pm | # | Reply

            We all know how competent he was, but he proved the flipping out was a regular thing captain. Besides his self centered attitude from before was the real problem

        • Kobold
          Kobold
          August 9, 2016, 1:41 pm | # | Reply

          Best was far more competent then people gave him credit for.

          • Alan Steenhouwer
            Alan Steenhouwer
            August 9, 2016, 4:45 pm | # | Reply

            As I said to the captain: Competent? Yes. Stable? No.

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      August 8, 2016, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      That’s funny, I’ve never seen a butterfly turn back into a caterpillar before.
      (Yeah I’m repeating myself.)

      • Beroli
        Beroli
        August 8, 2016, 10:52 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, drat. I was hoping he’d stay WAV.

    • Softy
      Softy
      August 8, 2016, 10:12 am | # | Reply

      At least he’s conveniently shirtless in the middle of a blizzard.

      Exposure has never been so helpful!

    • Dotcom
      Dotcom
      August 8, 2016, 4:16 pm | # | Reply

      Awwwww… They missed one another.

      • Smallfoot
        Smallfoot
        August 9, 2016, 9:11 am | # | Reply

        Don’t worry. Their aim has improved since they were last together.

  3. biggmac
    biggmac
    August 8, 2016, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    So, that was a Thor thing he did with his axe – kind of a “to me, my hammer” thing. Didn’t know he could do that.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      August 8, 2016, 12:15 am | # | Reply

      “I am Thor! I’m tho, tho thor at you, thtupid Byron, that I thtarted talking with a thtupid lithp!”

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      August 8, 2016, 12:28 am | # | Reply

      I’m guessing he takes more after Val Hallen than Thor.

      • Lingo
        Lingo
        August 8, 2016, 5:55 pm | # | Reply

        More like Van Halen.

        • Ishmael
          Ishmael
          August 8, 2016, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

          Nah, Val Hallen covers it.

          • NotASnowman
            NotASnowman
            August 9, 2016, 8:31 am | # | Reply

            That picture, and that pun, go perfectly together.

          • Lingo
            Lingo
            August 9, 2016, 8:25 pm | # | Reply

            I recline corrected.

    • JadedDragoon
      JadedDragoon
      August 8, 2016, 5:23 am | # | Reply

      Maybe he can’t do that… just like Daedalus “can’t” do the things he’s been doing.

    • Snowblind
      Snowblind
      August 9, 2016, 11:25 pm | # | Reply

      Stop!

      Hammertime!

  4. JR
    JR
    August 8, 2016, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    This will end well.

  5. biggmac
    biggmac
    August 8, 2016, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    YYOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!! YYYYOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!! YYYOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!
    YYYYYOOOOOO – Damn, it’s cold here!

    • Gristle McNerd
      Gristle McNerd
      August 8, 2016, 8:37 am | # | Reply

      When he swaggers through the woods, his nipples knock down all the trees…

  6. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    August 8, 2016, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    Looks like Best has thrown off his glam rock roots and gone full Iggy.

    • Dotcom
      Dotcom
      August 8, 2016, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      i hope not! Gardenia isn’t the Best song.

    • DS
      DS
      August 8, 2016, 7:21 am | # | Reply

      That was my first thought last page. The resemblance is positively uncanny.

    • brasca1
      brasca1
      August 8, 2016, 8:16 am | # | Reply

      It would be a definite improvement.

  7. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    August 8, 2016, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Let the axening begin: https://youtu.be/gsHeFLL3zGk

  8. Rezby
    Rezby
    August 8, 2016, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Goodbye WAV. You will be missed.

    • Kensou
      Kensou
      August 8, 2016, 2:17 am | # | Reply

      Agreed. And yet, we (re)gain a character that helps to drive conflicts… ARGH, TORN.

      • Kensou
        Kensou
        August 8, 2016, 2:19 am | # | Reply

        Also, I’m worried there’s a sudden increase in the danger of an avalanche…

    • Chris
      Chris
      August 8, 2016, 2:48 am | # | Reply

      Man; and here I was hoping that Best, when he came back, would “Have Learned an Important Lesson” about not being an asshole.

      Still can happen I guess.

      • Rolan7
        Rolan7
        August 8, 2016, 2:07 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, here’s hoping…
        I actually liked him in general, but his head was just far too big.

    • Dotcom
      Dotcom
      August 8, 2016, 4:20 pm | # | Reply

      Don’t worry. He’ll probably come back after Best dies after the avalanche caused from his indignant shouting kills him.

      • HandwashBigpan
        HandwashBigpan
        August 9, 2016, 9:59 am | # | Reply

        And the award for “shortest lived resurrection” goes to…!

  9. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    August 8, 2016, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    Nothing good ever comes from saving a bards life.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      February 22, 2017, 2:39 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, back then, Best screwed up anybody else’s chance to use the oracle. How bad is he going to mess it up for them THIS time?

  10. Dataweaver
    Dataweaver
    August 8, 2016, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    Echo… Echo… Echo…
    Avalanche… Avalanche… Avalanche…

  11. Nightsbridge
    Nightsbridge
    August 8, 2016, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    Why is he so mad?

    • Capnris
      Capnris
      August 8, 2016, 2:42 am | # | Reply

      Well, the last time Best saw Byron, it didn’t end well.

      • Rolan7
        Rolan7
        August 8, 2016, 2:08 pm | # | Reply

        Good way of putting it. Byron didn’t drop him, but failed to save him (amusingly, probably due to those silly armbands).
        He shouldn’t be mad, but I guess I can see why he might be.
        I’m more curious as to what Byron thinks about this, heh.

      • Pat
        Pat
        August 8, 2016, 4:16 pm | # | Reply

        And yet the doom that befell Best was the result of Best’s own impetuous actions. Of course Best won’t see it that way since all good things are his fault and all bad things are other peoples’.

    • Constable
      Constable
      August 8, 2016, 8:08 am | # | Reply

      Byron dropped him. Apparently, Best is still nutters after seeing his destiny in the basin, and going through the vortex. Also doesn’t seem to remember or consider the fact that Byron tried, at risk of his own life, to save him.

      • Jack Vermicelli
        Jack Vermicelli
        August 8, 2016, 6:30 pm | # | Reply

        And lost a glove for it, to boot.

  12. Armagrodden
    Armagrodden
    August 8, 2016, 2:31 am | # | Reply

    You you you,
    I’m in love with you you you,
    I could be so true true true
    To someone like you you you.

  13. Nathanyel
    Nathanyel
    August 8, 2016, 3:06 am | # | Reply

    Byron’s like “You want to do this NOW?”

  14. Ganurath
    Ganurath
    August 8, 2016, 3:18 am | # | Reply

    MMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

  15. Mr Ak
    Mr Ak
    August 8, 2016, 3:19 am | # | Reply

    Avalanche falls, kills Best.

    Two weeks later Gav shows up from Hurricane Software’s new soccer management game. Everyone agrees that he’s still an improvement, despite the constant drinking and chanting.

    • Rolan7
      Rolan7
      August 8, 2016, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

      Hehe, good on you for not literally calling him chav.

  16. Chasey
    Chasey
    August 8, 2016, 5:22 am | # | Reply

    Well, so much for hoping he’d keep some of WAV’s logical personality.

  17. Meadowbrook
    Meadowbrook
    August 8, 2016, 7:18 am | # | Reply

    Aah… Best. I missed you. Goodbye, WAV, you were cute and all, but I’d take Best over you any day, plus WAV’s fanboy tears are well, the best.

  18. DS
    DS
    August 8, 2016, 7:26 am | # | Reply

    I really hope that 2nd panel gets turned into an icon. Judgy McJudge face. Also I really like how the blowing snow is done. You can almost hear the wind howling. Definitely can hear Best howling. At this rate, the D&D campaign is gonna turn into “rocks fall, everyone dies.”

  19. Alice Macher
    Alice Macher
    August 8, 2016, 7:47 am | # | Reply

    I can’t help but hear Payet’s “YYYYOOOOUUUU” in Ren Hoek’s voice.

    • bokonondeemax
      bokonondeemax
      August 8, 2016, 10:44 am | # | Reply

      Happy axey joy joy

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      August 8, 2016, 5:58 pm | # | Reply

      His face is a perfect fit!

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      August 8, 2016, 6:23 pm | # | Reply

      I hear this song
      youtu.be/XsMja15e_Iw
      Relevant at 2m 10s

      • Seggs
        Seggs
        August 8, 2016, 6:28 pm | # | Reply

        I didnt want it to imbed, but looks like it didnt even auto link
        https://youtu.be/XsMja15e_Iw

  20. Kennerly
    Kennerly
    August 8, 2016, 9:10 am | # | Reply

    YOOOOOOOUUUUU!!!! You bastard! You let me fall! And- holy shit its cold!

  21. Charlie Spencer
    Charlie Spencer
    August 8, 2016, 10:23 am | # | Reply

    KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

  22. Devlerbat
    Devlerbat
    August 8, 2016, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

    Let me guess Payet is not going to realize that Byron tried his best to save him. It is perfectly in character for him, but I still hope that’s not the direction this goes. I am over the “ungrateful asshole” trope.

    • Dotcom
      Dotcom
      August 8, 2016, 4:18 pm | # | Reply

      You forgot to capitalize Best. ;)

  23. Talewinds
    Talewinds
    August 8, 2016, 4:17 pm | # | Reply

    Axemas in August.

  24. wolfpax
    wolfpax
    August 8, 2016, 4:41 pm | # | Reply

    That expression just makes me chuckle. It really is the…Best.

    • wolfpax
      wolfpax
      August 9, 2016, 7:27 pm | # | Reply

      Seriously, I’d buy that on a shirt.

  25. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    August 8, 2016, 4:56 pm | # | Reply

    “I WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAAAAAY BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!”

  26. Seggs
    Seggs
    August 8, 2016, 6:07 pm | # | Reply

    Best pairs his newfound lust for life with some hate

  27. Timelost
    Timelost
    August 8, 2016, 7:02 pm | # | Reply

    Is someone getting the Best, the Best, the BEST of YYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!?

  28. DShim
    DShim
    August 8, 2016, 9:36 pm | # | Reply

    YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU
    Soulja boy off in this hoe
    Watch me crank it
    Watch me roll
    Watch me crank that soulja boy
    Then super man that hoe
    Now watch me you
    (crank that soulja boy)
    Now watch me you
    (crank that soulja boy)
    Now watch me you
    (crank that soulja boy)
    Now watch me you
    (crank that soulja boy)

    is what reminded me of that page

  29. Kr'Nj
    Kr'Nj
    August 9, 2016, 1:53 am | # | Reply

    OOOOU’ve got what I need
    But you say he’s just a friend
    But you say he’s just a friend

    …

    …Did I just Zinyak Best?

  30. HandwashBigpan
    HandwashBigpan
    August 9, 2016, 10:02 am | # | Reply

    “….. How ya been, buddy? Can you believe it’s been five years?”

  31. LadyDragon
    LadyDragon
    August 9, 2016, 2:33 pm | # | Reply

    Are the harpies just gonna stand there? Maybe get out the popcorn?

    • minando
      minando
      August 10, 2016, 6:36 am | # | Reply

      Yuck. I’m not going to eat THIS.
      I hear you. It’s even not green any more. Bah. Let’s get some bagels.

  32. minando
    minando
    August 10, 2016, 3:34 am | # | Reply

    Later, this was known as the Best-foghorn-effect. Summoned the winter elves in no time.

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