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

And that's how you win an arms race.

Chapter 48 – Page 15

on August 4, 2017
Chapter: Chapter 48
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  1. Dagda
    Dagda
    August 4, 2017, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Oooh, those shoulders look angry.

  2. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    August 4, 2017, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    I love the smell of arcano-fuel in the morning: https://youtu.be/XRU1AJsXN1g

  3. Ganurath
    Ganurath
    August 4, 2017, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    I didn’t even need metaknowledge to know absolutely everyone inside that thing is atypically small.

    • Mujaki
      Mujaki
      August 4, 2017, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      It’s like an anti-tardis. It’s bigger on the outside.

    • Armagrodden
      Armagrodden
      August 4, 2017, 2:30 am | # | Reply

      “At last, the Over-Compensation Engine is ready!”

  4. Big
    Big
    August 4, 2017, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    The deadliness of a tank, the Mach Fie, and those little prize dangling claw machine thingies: all rolled into one!

    • Arvo Katsuya
      Arvo Katsuya
      August 4, 2017, 12:59 am | # | Reply

      https://youtu.be/uFNN5Qf2AR4?t=18

  5. Arvo Katsuya
    Arvo Katsuya
    August 4, 2017, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    I disagree with the alt-text.

    It would have more likely won an arms race if it produced a “KA-THOOO-LOO” sound.

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      August 4, 2017, 3:30 am | # | Reply

      The joke is that the tank has arms. Get it? Get it?

  6. biggmac
    biggmac
    August 4, 2017, 1:08 am | # | Reply

    Throw a grenade down the hatch – boom, it’s over. Works in all the old WW2 movies.
    No grenade? Try Bandit down the hatch. She’ll stab them with her steely knives and (unlike Hotel Cali) kill the beast.

  7. LookieLouE1707
    LookieLouE1707
    August 4, 2017, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    This is the wonder weapon that’s going to save the day? One detachment of troops lures wonderboy into chasing them, everybody else flanks and sacks the city. Anyway, there’s no way he can discriminate between crushing friend and foe in a thing that size, even if he wanted to, so presumably Silver Surfer breaks ranks to save his own guys from getting crushed, probably getting a death by redemption in the process. Bonus points if wonderboy winds up shelling his own city because there are savages near the walls.

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      August 4, 2017, 5:36 pm | # | Reply

      Counterpoint: Taro doesn’t give a fuck.

  8. WriterX
    WriterX
    August 4, 2017, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    Well, I do not know the full extent of the machine’s capabilities… but I hope that despite its wide tracks and “engine” it sinks into a bog.

    • Sumgai
      Sumgai
      August 4, 2017, 11:55 pm | # | Reply

      They’ll just build another one on top of it.

  9. Devlerbat
    Devlerbat
    August 4, 2017, 2:11 am | # | Reply

    Wait…I thought all (or most of) the gnomes were still hiding underground? How is he suddenly running over a bunch of gnomes? Did I miss something?

    • The Gorram Batguy
      The Gorram Batguy
      August 4, 2017, 3:24 am | # | Reply

      There are a few gnomes, yes, but about half of these folks are full size humans or elves. They just look small compared to this machine. I must suppose that a few gnomes remained on the weapons development team even after Gnometown defected.
      Meanwhile, who doesn’t love a tyrant who is lackadaisical about fatally running over his literally most loyal followers?

  10. minando
    minando
    August 4, 2017, 2:57 am | # | Reply

    How cute…baby’s first collateral damages.
    Remind me…why don’t OUR tanks come with sawblades?

    • Ragnarok
      Ragnarok
      August 4, 2017, 8:44 am | # | Reply

      We had something close- google ‘crab flail sherman’.

    • someone
      someone
      August 4, 2017, 11:13 am | # | Reply

      Because machine guns exist in our world.

      • minando
        minando
        August 5, 2017, 2:48 am | # | Reply

        Bah…guns take all the fun out of warfare.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      November 7, 2017, 11:04 am | # | Reply

      They go blunt quickly, then get caught on things.

  11. Talewinds
    Talewinds
    August 4, 2017, 3:25 am | # | Reply

    Must’ve missed a few pages, thought this was a dirigible. Throws self under juggernaut.

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      August 4, 2017, 2:26 pm | # | Reply

      You probably missed this page from a chapter back.

      Chapter 47, Page 1

  12. flibble
    flibble
    August 4, 2017, 6:55 am | # | Reply

    Someones over compensating…

    • Wannes
      Wannes
      August 4, 2017, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

      There is no kill like overkill.

  13. speed
    speed
    August 4, 2017, 7:11 am | # | Reply

    Way to run over and murder your own populace, twat.

  14. Frigg_Fanboi
    Frigg_Fanboi
    August 4, 2017, 7:21 am | # | Reply

    This ain’t a scene it’s a Gorram arms race!

  15. Pit Friend
    Pit Friend
    August 4, 2017, 8:54 am | # | Reply

    Why would you build something inside a building that doesn’t have doors large enough to let it out?

    Alternatively, looks like Taro is seriously overcompensating for some “shortcoming”.

    • Jdorr
      Jdorr
      August 4, 2017, 10:47 am | # | Reply

      I think the building did have large enough doors, but Taro lacked patients or had to much flare to use them

    • MatthewTheLucky
      MatthewTheLucky
      August 4, 2017, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

      Isn’t he like 8?

  16. Loyal
    Loyal
    August 4, 2017, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    Oh, another tank with appendWait a second is that a goddamn Railgun??

    • tlhonmey
      tlhonmey
      August 4, 2017, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

      Can’t be a railgun, the projectile has to draw power from the rails for that to work. The circular piece in the middle would seem to preclude that.

      Might be a gauss cannon though.

      • Alan Steenhouwer
        Alan Steenhouwer
        August 4, 2017, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

        Not necessarily. The rails can be any shape, even two half-pipes, as long as they don’t touch and make the connections without the projectile.

  17. Cornduke
    Cornduke
    August 4, 2017, 11:32 am | # | Reply

    METAL…GEAR??!?

    • David Simon
      David Simon
      August 9, 2017, 8:27 pm | # | Reply

      The Shagohod! You take care of the driving, EVA, but leave the fighting to me!

  18. Chris
    Chris
    August 4, 2017, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

    LET”S GET IT ON!

  19. The Gorch
    The Gorch
    August 4, 2017, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

    I would never condone any violence toward children, but I will be very happy when that kid dies.

  20. beige
    beige
    August 4, 2017, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

    Wacky arm flailing inflatale doom tank!

  21. JH
    JH
    August 4, 2017, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

    Looks like the Kool-Aid Man got a tank

  22. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    August 4, 2017, 5:20 pm | # | Reply

    Pfft. You call that winning an arms race? Our next tank has arms with five joints each.

  23. Joe
    Joe
    August 4, 2017, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

    Isn’t Taro a little young to be overcompensating for something?

    • Ganurath
      Ganurath
      August 4, 2017, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

      Too young for the specific something you have in mind, but there’s something to be said for his lack of access to certain rides at theme parks.

  24. spudwalt
    spudwalt
    August 5, 2017, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    Trench run! Trench run!

  25. Orpheon
    Orpheon
    August 5, 2017, 2:02 pm | # | Reply

    A WEAPON TO SURPASS METAL GEAR…

    • Ganurath
      Ganurath
      August 5, 2017, 2:21 pm | # | Reply

      Doesn’t Goblaurence favor rocket launchers over such massive metal monstrosities?

  26. random_npc
    random_npc
    August 6, 2017, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    what the hell are the saws for? It’s an artillery platform, and they are not positioned where they could be used even if it did get into a knife fight. The arms at least could be used to move obstacles out of the way or something.

    • Letthemhaveit
      Letthemhaveit
      August 7, 2017, 5:16 am | # | Reply

      The saws are for when he invades the elves kingdom, taro is always thinking about the future, such a good leader
      you can see his people waving their arms at him is this picture, a loved good leader.

  27. SotiCoto
    SotiCoto
    November 7, 2017, 11:07 am | # | Reply

    Those arms look particularly flimsy. Like if you extended them out straight they’d probably snap under their own weight.

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