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

Basically me every time I hit 'Publish.'

Chapter 48 – Page 34

on September 18, 2017
Chapter: Chapter 48
└ Tags: Bandit, Rendar, Sundar
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  1. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    September 18, 2017, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Fire in the asshole!

    • Narratorway
      Narratorway
      September 18, 2017, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      Fire in the…Taco Bell!

      • eldestdawn
        eldestdawn
        September 18, 2017, 1:41 am | # | Reply

        Don’t you mean Taro Bell?

      • Moxie
        Moxie
        September 18, 2017, 8:21 am | # | Reply

        Danger! Danger!

        • Psolo Ghoti
          Psolo Ghoti
          September 18, 2017, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

          High voltage!

          • Lirazel
            Lirazel
            September 18, 2017, 11:30 pm | # | Reply

            Gods, I love it when a plan comes together!

          • maggPi
            maggPi
            September 21, 2017, 7:50 pm | # | Reply

            I guess in a moment we will see whether Taro’s Toy Tank Engine will end up resembling a moose with glowing balls…

    • minando
      minando
      September 19, 2017, 5:06 am | # | Reply

      Sabotaging a working machine is an atrocity in the eyes of Cog.
      Luckily, He has a sense of humor, too.

  2. Dave
    Dave
    September 18, 2017, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    *sees Panel 8*

    LOVE BLOOMS ON THE BATTLEFIELD!

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      September 18, 2017, 12:17 am | # | Reply

      Well, no. That would be incest, which is banned by the Comics Code Authority. See their little stamp in the top right corner of-

      Wait. Do those guys still exist?

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        September 18, 2017, 1:09 am | # | Reply

        Nope. Archie was the last publisher submitting to them, and they stopped years ago.

        • Commiekeebler
          Commiekeebler
          September 18, 2017, 5:25 pm | # | Reply

          Woo! Game of Thrones shenanigans are on the table! And on the couch! And on the carpet! And everywhere else!

      • Dave
        Dave
        September 18, 2017, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

        Wait what, they’re related? Hmmm… damn, guess I’m not keeping track very well.

      • Dave
        Dave
        September 20, 2017, 12:30 am | # | Reply

        Oh, I didn’t realize that. Guess I haven’t kept up with the secondary cast very well. :\

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      November 7, 2017, 11:37 am | # | Reply

      This isn’t CK2. Keep the wincest to a minimum.

  3. Fo Ren G
    Fo Ren G
    September 18, 2017, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Oh no. It’s going to shoot at someone/something important next page.

    • Averant
      Averant
      September 18, 2017, 1:02 am | # | Reply

      It’s gonna go way off course, directly into I.C’s maw.

  4. biggmac
    biggmac
    September 18, 2017, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Obviously, they had not the time to weld those bolts shut, allowing Bandit to remove them.
    They were going to do it this week, but the invasion started on a Monday, and the factory had planned a … Tuesday Weld.

    • Psolo Ghoti
      Psolo Ghoti
      September 18, 2017, 5:56 pm | # | Reply

      I learned something! What an interesting person. And with a name like that, she never played a Bond girl? :D

    • blackgoat
      blackgoat
      September 19, 2017, 10:18 am | # | Reply

      And here I was thinking they probably should have riveted that.

    • Jack Vermicelli
      Jack Vermicelli
      September 19, 2017, 3:12 pm | # | Reply

      I’d think they’re rivets, not bolts, from the technology level and their appearance.

      So apparently the rivets were not bucked, and apparently a wrench is somehow effective in removing them?

  5. LookieLouE1707
    LookieLouE1707
    September 18, 2017, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    Wait … If they can just climb on that thing unmolested, why not blow the hatch and kill whoever’s inside?

    • Zalocin
      Zalocin
      September 18, 2017, 4:07 am | # | Reply

      Not a bad idea.
      I guess they care more about preventing the superweapon from being used than they care about killing the pilots.
      Which is generally admirable, but then again Bandit knows who is piloting it and is anyone not in agreement that it would be nice to get rid of His Shortness?

      • Gorcq
        Gorcq
        September 18, 2017, 6:16 am | # | Reply

        Too bad His Shortness isn’t the only one in there. Bandit isn’t the one who enjoys killing bystanders.

        • aslandus
          aslandus
          September 18, 2017, 2:08 pm | # | Reply

          Plus, he’s got a gun. Why risk your own safety and the success of the mission when you can just disable the weapon with relatively little struggle?

        • The Gorram Batguy
          The Gorram Batguy
          September 18, 2017, 5:54 pm | # | Reply

          Weeeeelll…let’s not forget that these two guys are guilty of selling out Gnometown to the Gastonian war machine (ironically by designing war machines for Gastonia) and as far as I remember they already have tried to kill Bandit (indirectly using deadly traps while she was pursuing them) though I could be misremembering that.
          In any case, she probably wouldn’t consider it unjust to execute these guys along with their physically, emotionally, intellectually, and morally stunted boss.
          Or so I interpret her character. I mean SHE doesn’t know they’re already regretting their role in all this. As far as she knows, they’re 100% on board with what Taro is doing right now.

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      September 18, 2017, 9:42 am | # | Reply

      I suspect that blowing the arm is a quicker solution and has a better chance of succeeding. Lots of moving parts that can be mangled even if the blast isn’t entirely successful. Heck, with the bolts gone and part of levered off by Sundar’s great sword, I wouldn’t doubt if the next blast would rip off the arm anyways.

      • LookieLouE1707
        LookieLouE1707
        September 18, 2017, 3:23 pm | # | Reply

        But the idea that the thing won’t be able to fire with the arm disabled is only a theory, whereas we know it won’t be able to fire with its crew dead. And disabling the arm is not the quicker option given the elaborate way they’re doing it. Begs another question, nobody inside had heard their elaborate (de)construction project?

        I’m still confident that Frigg and silver surfer are going to play a part in this, which means this attempt can’t be completely dispositive. I suspect it can still fire, or be overloaded, even if it can’t aim. Remember that “probably” when this plan was first floated? That’s a checkhov’s gun if I’ve ever heard one.

        • The Gorram Batguy
          The Gorram Batguy
          September 18, 2017, 5:57 pm | # | Reply

          Well it’s not a mere theory. Rendar is one of the chief engineers who built the thing (under duress). If he says it’s a fail-safe they built into the thing, he’s almost certainly right. He would know.
          Plus, it makes sense. Firing the weapon without stabilizers would pretty much flip the thing over and kill its pilot(s), while the projectile flies off in unpredictable ways, and ultimately would wreck the machine. Making the gun not fire in such a situation is a good feature.

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      September 18, 2017, 3:18 pm | # | Reply

      Hmmm… Come to think of it, in that last panel Bandit is standing next to a metal door. Could be that the explosion will be large enough to take out that door, granting the heroes entrance. Maybe they’re trying to kill two birds with one stone?

  6. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    September 18, 2017, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    I was gonna complain about how shoddy the worksgnomeship is that they could just peel out all the bolts in the few seconds it takes Sundar to climb up but… Eh.

    Slave labor.

    You get what you pay for.

    • eldestdawn
      eldestdawn
      September 18, 2017, 1:50 am | # | Reply

      Actually, Sundar stayed down a bit longer so he could toss up the toolbox for his brother while bandit got a head start on the bolts (see panel 3). Then he had to climb up one handed while carrying the explosive logs. Which he probably had to go up multiple times to get them all up considering how many are wedged under that thing so we are probably seeing him on his last round when they have all those bolts loose.

      • Mujaki
        Mujaki
        September 18, 2017, 9:30 am | # | Reply

        Are they logs, or just powder bags?

        • Dana Son-of-Bear
          Dana Son-of-Bear
          September 18, 2017, 10:37 am | # | Reply

          Looks like powder bags – you can see some pouring out in the last panel.

      • Jdorr
        Jdorr
        September 18, 2017, 10:52 am | # | Reply

        I checked the panel were he is bringing up the explosives and he has only five and since we can see that at least seven are under the weapon arm, that means at least two trips were made

    • The Gorram Batguy
      The Gorram Batguy
      September 18, 2017, 5:59 pm | # | Reply

      The laborers were probably just building the machine according to the example of their glorious leader. He’s got most of his screws loose, so the screws and bolts on the machine are similarly loose.

  7. Messenger
    Messenger
    September 18, 2017, 1:57 am | # | Reply

    Guilded Age: Brotherhood?

  8. Not a name
    Not a name
    September 18, 2017, 3:01 am | # | Reply

    Ha! My Sundar/Rendar ship is rewarded!

    • Jade Galaksylph
      Jade Galaksylph
      September 18, 2017, 3:41 am | # | Reply

      Um. They’re brothers

      • Nathanyel
        Nathanyel
        September 18, 2017, 4:58 am | # | Reply

        Like a little detail like incest stops shippers…

      • Not a name
        Not a name
        September 18, 2017, 5:37 am | # | Reply

        Uh, none of their comments have ever come across literally. The entire ‘brother’ lines all seem to be very much in terms of “Brothers in arms” not literal brothers.

      • Frigg_Fanboi
        Frigg_Fanboi
        September 18, 2017, 7:14 am | # | Reply

  9. Jade Galaksylph
    Jade Galaksylph
    September 18, 2017, 3:40 am | # | Reply

    They’re brothers.

  10. Charlie Spencer
    Charlie Spencer
    September 18, 2017, 6:01 am | # | Reply

    “I love it when a plan comes together!”

    Col. John ‘Hannibal’ Smith

    • Chris
      Chris
      September 18, 2017, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      Good thing plans always end up in flames!

    • The Gorram Batguy
      The Gorram Batguy
      September 18, 2017, 6:03 pm | # | Reply

      Damn it, where’s Scipio and his cigar when you need him!

  11. rbuckalew
    rbuckalew
    September 18, 2017, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

    This, people, is why you do not operate tanks without infantry support.

  12. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    September 18, 2017, 6:23 pm | # | Reply

    Obligatory d’aaawwwwwwww! ^_^

  13. wolfpax
    wolfpax
    September 18, 2017, 8:14 pm | # | Reply

    So many puns about disarming the tank coming with the next page.

    • wolfpax
      wolfpax
      September 18, 2017, 8:15 pm | # | Reply

      And I’d just like to give your web-fu person a big thumbs up on taking steps to stop duplicate comments, something even big name websites can’t even manage to do.

      (b^.^)b

  14. Lirazel
    Lirazel
    September 18, 2017, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

    OK, what’s pouring out of Rendar’s bag with the triple X mark in panel 2?

    • tejon
      tejon
      September 19, 2017, 12:53 am | # | Reply

      Assuming you mean panel 5, I think it’s gunpowder.

      • minando
        minando
        September 20, 2017, 3:12 am | # | Reply

        Breadcrumps for phoenixes.

  15. minando
    minando
    September 20, 2017, 3:14 am | # | Reply

    That makes one very angry sword smith.

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