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

Moustache vs Goatee, FINAL ROUND.

Chapter 43 – Page 9

on July 8, 2016
Chapter: Chapter 43
└ Tags: JJ Berten, Xan
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  1. Sumgai
    Sumgai
    July 8, 2016, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    That youtube comments thread is going to be a riot.

    • Nice
      Nice
      July 9, 2016, 11:09 pm | # | Reply

      Can you see an “old school”like him trying to hack YouTube?
      HE-larious.

  2. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    July 8, 2016, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    No country for old hitmen.

  3. Oldguy
    Oldguy
    July 8, 2016, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    Dude, it’s not even a contest. I don’t care if goatee is packin’ a tactical nuke, moustache is ALWAYS gonna win that fight.

    • ArvoKatsuya
      ArvoKatsuya
      July 8, 2016, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      Even if its the goatee… CHOSEN BY TECTONICUS!?!

      • Nathanyel
        Nathanyel
        July 8, 2016, 3:48 am | # | Reply

        For some reason, I only now realized Penk looks like Xan and is thus likely his avatar…

        • Insufferable Nerd
          Insufferable Nerd
          July 8, 2016, 4:36 am | # | Reply

          Actually, I was thinking Goblaurence.

          • Charlotte
            Charlotte
            July 8, 2016, 5:40 am | # | Reply

            I was on board with him being Penk at first, given his attitude when we first met him- but dang. Xan does seem like a really effective Goblaurence.

            Then again, Xans’ appearance in ‘ask an adventurer’ does open up the question of “Could he be both?”

            • DeusExCeteri
              DeusExCeteri
              July 9, 2016, 2:20 am | # | Reply

              Could he be all of them, could he be simultaneously playing as the entire group of champions?

              • MDude
                MDude
                July 9, 2016, 10:15 am | # | Reply

                He was just trying to run a gold farming business this entire time.

                • Speedy
                  Speedy
                  March 6, 2019, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

                  Trapping the Five in their tubes was Xan’s most lucrative scheme ever!

                  Until he trapped HR in a tube, that is. ;D

                  Xan has the difficult task of explaining to JJ that he just bought controlling interest in Hurricane Software, so JJ now works for him.

                  “So… you’re paying me to shoot you, now?”

    • Kennerly
      Kennerly
      July 8, 2016, 2:09 am | # | Reply

      And we’re not just talking any old mustache. Its a handlebar, the king of mustaches. How Berten resists the urge to twirl it when he’s doing something particularly evil speaks volumes about his willpower.

      • Armagrodden
        Armagrodden
        July 8, 2016, 2:30 am | # | Reply

        As Xan devastates JJ’s sense of professionalism and destroys his self-confidence, his mustache will begin to droop. By the time the police come, he’s going to have a Fu-Manchu.

        • The Gorram Batguy
          The Gorram Batguy
          July 8, 2016, 2:47 am | # | Reply

          It is a shame I cannot “like” this comment.

      • Psolo Ghoti
        Psolo Ghoti
        July 8, 2016, 4:30 pm | # | Reply

        His moustache is so powerful, it twirls itself.

        • Iron Hare
          Iron Hare
          July 9, 2016, 11:51 pm | # | Reply

          While that would be funny, I am under the impression that it’s the breeze that twirls his mustache while it flutters his black cape.

  4. Talewinds
    Talewinds
    July 8, 2016, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Live streaming.

  5. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    July 8, 2016, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    Check it out. You have a YouTube channel. Well, it goes to Twitch first, because the live thing is their thing.

    • Rules Lawyer
      Rules Lawyer
      July 8, 2016, 1:55 am | # | Reply

      Youtube Poop: My friend’s murder

    • wolfpax
      wolfpax
      July 8, 2016, 7:56 pm | # | Reply

      If the live thing is their thing, shouldn’t it not be on there since it’s dead?

      …hey-o? I dunno, I’m trying to make a joke when it’s entirely too hot.

      • MDude
        MDude
        July 9, 2016, 10:16 am | # | Reply

        Just like the evidence!

  6. Swagner
    Swagner
    July 8, 2016, 1:16 am | # | Reply

    Now, he should be streaming this and putting it on youtube as well.

    • Draxynnic
      Draxynnic
      July 8, 2016, 9:29 am | # | Reply

      He probably is.

    • Jack Vermicelli
      Jack Vermicelli
      July 8, 2016, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

      Or at *least* screencapping it. Silly to rely on someone else trying to recover it from Skype.

  7. Calen
    Calen
    July 8, 2016, 2:09 am | # | Reply

    Really hoping this is going where it sounds like it’s going. This was bugging me since our last time in Sepia world. :)

  8. guest
    guest
    July 8, 2016, 4:37 am | # | Reply

    I really hope that this leads to JJ Berten being completely screwed over, without any actual hitch in that particular part of the plan.
    It would be almost cathartic to see an old dude who does bad things get screwed over by the technology he doesn’t understand, even if it’s only fictional.

    • CorrTerek
      CorrTerek
      July 8, 2016, 7:12 am | # | Reply

      You and me both.

    • Messenger
      Messenger
      July 8, 2016, 10:37 am | # | Reply

      Skype and the cloud aren’t fictional, though. ;-)

      • kruger
        kruger
        July 8, 2016, 7:22 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, the technology isn’t the fictional part. The old dude who does bad things and gets screwed is.

        Not that it is that much fictional though.

  9. Sergei Alderman
    Sergei Alderman
    July 8, 2016, 8:14 am | # | Reply

    “Youuuuu just don’t understaaand…. about the cloooooud.”

  10. Messenger
    Messenger
    July 8, 2016, 9:04 am | # | Reply

    And… GOTCHA. :-)

    It was a question of which kind of battle they were going to fight. Of course Betrem’s going to win in a fight involving force and violence. But our gamers have shifted the contest to one of wits and technology.

    As long as they keep the game there, then they’re going to win.

    But that’s an iffy “as long”. :-/ Fight’s not over.

    • Draxynnic
      Draxynnic
      July 8, 2016, 9:33 am | # | Reply

      Possibly the bigger loss here for JJ isn’t that he was caught on tape killing someone, but that he was caught on tape killing someone _in order to cover something up_.

      He may be skilled enough at staying off the grid that he’ll never be caught, but it might get the police interested enough that they won’t dismiss the possibility that Hurricane is covering something up out of hand… meaning that even if JJ gets away, he’s failed. And that failure being on his proverbial resume may make it harder for him to get jobs that require discretion in the future.

  11. TxGator
    TxGator
    July 8, 2016, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    Very nice. I’m glad they’re calling his bluff.

  12. Belisarius
    Belisarius
    July 8, 2016, 11:08 am | # | Reply

    The right to be forgotten is a thing of the past. And it has its uses that it’s so.

    • Chris
      Chris
      July 8, 2016, 11:15 am | # | Reply

      Quite a bit of paperwork involved to have your records “expunged” from business records.
      Quite a bit of paperwork.

  13. Dotcom
    Dotcom
    July 8, 2016, 12:33 pm | # | Reply

    This is actually pretty timely, isn’t it?

    • Michael
      Michael
      July 8, 2016, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

      how so?

      • Lingo
        Lingo
        July 9, 2016, 6:19 pm | # | Reply

        There are people being killed and their deaths caught on camera. It’s been in the news a lot lately.

  14. BaalBereth
    BaalBereth
    July 8, 2016, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

    The world is changing, and you, my mustachioed friend, have not changed with it.

  15. DeePseudonym
    DeePseudonym
    July 8, 2016, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

    The look in Xan’s eyes is pure ice cold “You are so dead”.

  16. wolfpax
    wolfpax
    July 8, 2016, 8:01 pm | # | Reply

    Just remember what ol’ Jack Burten does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burten just looks that big ol’ storm right square in the eye and he says, “Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it.”

    …I know it’s JJ, but it just doesn’t fit as well.

    • Nice
      Nice
      July 9, 2016, 11:22 pm | # | Reply

      As Cusco said: “Bring it on”
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOrxkGlLDM
      (am I allowed to post https ref here? Sorry if not)

  17. █████
    █████
    July 9, 2016, 9:45 am | # | Reply

    “Oh, hey. So it turns out I was wrong about the Skype thing but that’s okay since we just recorded all of this here.”

  18. SotiCoto
    SotiCoto
    May 23, 2017, 10:34 am | # | Reply

    The Cloud wasn’t even a thing when this webcomic started, was it?

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