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New Comics Every M/W/F - Written by T Campbell & Phil Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

Never let your opponent get a word in edgewise.

Chapter 49 – Page 21

on December 27, 2017
Chapter: Chapter 49
└ Tags: Best, Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, Syr'Nj
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  1. anon e moose
    anon e moose
    December 27, 2017, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    I love the cutscene-interrupting action from our heroes. Forget your foreboding introduction HR, there’s butt ripe for kicking with your name all over it!

    Though I have a feeling this isn’t going to be as simple as it seems, but we’ll see what else is going on Sepia-side.

    • Raznaak
      Raznaak
      December 27, 2017, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

      Well, why wait for the enemy to be prepared? Just nuke him before he becomes a nuisance.

  2. Baba Yaga
    Baba Yaga
    December 27, 2017, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    More like get an EDGE in edgewise, amirite?

    • Lirazel
      Lirazel
      December 27, 2017, 11:31 pm | # | Reply

      Shaaaaarrrrp!

  3. Just_IDD
    Just_IDD
    December 27, 2017, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    I find it immensely amusing that at the bottom of this comic there was an advertisement for skullkickers. You can’t get any more apropos than that.

    • raven0ak
      raven0ak
      December 27, 2017, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

      too bad skullkickers ended ages ago though

  4. Pepe
    Pepe
    December 27, 2017, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    The Glowy Fuck You and the Double Thrown Axe Head Punt.

    What next? The Tectonic Ass Hammer of Dread?

    • q`Tzal
      q`Tzal
      December 28, 2017, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      The Divine Elevator Fart of Death: known to cause targets to suicide just to escape the agony.

  5. HandwashBigpan
    HandwashBigpan
    December 27, 2017, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    If I could just cut in for a second, I’ve got a statement that’ll really make your head spin…

    • Insanenoodlyguy
      Insanenoodlyguy
      December 27, 2017, 1:53 am | # | Reply

      Nobody axe’d you for sharp commentary, you know. S’not slice.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      December 27, 2017, 3:22 am | # | Reply

      Well? Come on. Chop-chop!

    • Wannes
      Wannes
      December 27, 2017, 5:12 am | # | Reply

      Trying to get an edge on us? Cut us some slack!

      • DanH
        DanH
        December 27, 2017, 8:29 am | # | Reply

        As ever, I be-cleave the best puns are already taken by the time I arrive. Well blade, everyone.

        • Insanenoodlyguy
          Insanenoodlyguy
          December 27, 2017, 9:34 am | # | Reply

          Get a handle here, Dan. Out of the chop-box thinking will always let you find ono more or another.

          • ImmortalOracle
            ImmortalOracle
            December 29, 2017, 12:03 am | # | Reply

            The trick is to steel someone else’s pun and slay it louder.

  6. Flyingfrog
    Flyingfrog
    December 27, 2017, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Good work! That probably didn’t work but the very first thing any good adventurer should learn is to NOT let the scary monster finish its transformation before attacking, so at least their experience is showing.

  7. Emily
    Emily
    December 27, 2017, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    He’s just trying to say “Hello!” Jeeze folks, show some respect.

  8. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    December 27, 2017, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    Hhhhheelllll….o, my baby, hello, my honey, hello my ragtime gaaal.

    • Ganurath
      Ganurath
      December 27, 2017, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      Send me a kiss by wire, baby my heart’s on fire!

      • The_Rippy_One
        The_Rippy_One
        December 27, 2017, 1:45 am | # | Reply

        If you refuse me, honey ya lose me –

        • Toecutter
          Toecutter
          December 27, 2017, 9:30 am | # | Reply

          And you’ll be left alone, oh baby

          • zathael
            zathael
            December 27, 2017, 6:21 pm | # | Reply

            Never gunna give you up! Never gunna let you down! Never gunna run around and desert you!

            • zero
              zero
              December 27, 2017, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

              Offsides! Flag on the reference, twenty yard penalty. First down!

              • ImmortalOracle
                ImmortalOracle
                December 29, 2017, 12:05 am | # | Reply

                Score is fifteen-love and Gretzky has the ball.

            • ArvoKatsuya
              ArvoKatsuya
              December 27, 2017, 9:01 pm | # | Reply

              I could use some cake about now.

              • MatthewTheLucky
                MatthewTheLucky
                December 28, 2017, 7:25 am | # | Reply

                Lies, Deception!

          • Pylgrim
            Pylgrim
            December 27, 2017, 9:12 pm | # | Reply

            Ribbit.

  9. Insufferable Nerd
    Insufferable Nerd
    December 27, 2017, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    I’m not sure, Baron, but I don’t think that’s how you help people.

  10. Smallfoot
    Smallfoot
    December 27, 2017, 2:18 am | # | Reply

    ….o, Darkness my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again.

    • Wyvern
      Wyvern
      December 27, 2017, 5:51 am | # | Reply

      Hello, my name is H. R. Dedalus. You killed my eldritch abomination. Prepare to die.

    • Lirazel
      Lirazel
      December 27, 2017, 11:33 pm | # | Reply

      Ooooh-kay, let’s NOT talk about where the softly creeping visions are leaving their seed…

  11. Mujaki
    Mujaki
    December 27, 2017, 2:22 am | # | Reply

    HELLO WORLD

  12. Cutter
    Cutter
    December 27, 2017, 4:06 am | # | Reply

    I see that the Guilded Age crew has more than passing experience with that olde and earnest RPG strategy of “He is trying to say something! Quickly! Kill him!” and proceed to bashing to villain over the head with nuclear bombs strapped to lightsabers…

    I swear every group I ever DMed for has done that so predictably that if I use a decoy for the villain they will always end up spending their best one-shot tricks and resources right off the bat. Case in point Byron has 200% less axes now.

    • tlhonmey
      tlhonmey
      December 27, 2017, 5:06 pm | # | Reply

      They won’t go far and he’s right there to pick them back up again. As long as he doesn’t stop to gloat it should be fine.

      In fact, it should probably pick the axes up and immediately set about reducing the critter to purple mush, even if it appears to be dead…

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      December 27, 2017, 5:33 pm | # | Reply

      A group I DM set to burning the furniture of the room where the Arc boss was giving his monologue. Definitely got him off of that. The following exchange was priceless.

      Antagonist: “I’d prefer if we did this outside.”

      Gnome Protagonist: “Well, I’d like a pony.” -settles curtains on fire-

    • ImmortalOracle
      ImmortalOracle
      December 29, 2017, 12:06 am | # | Reply

      Bah! In my day, talking was a free action!

  13. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    December 27, 2017, 5:05 am | # | Reply

    The Peacekeepers obviously don’t watch anime. Time is supposed to freeze during a transformation so no one can interfere.

    • Chris
      Chris
      December 27, 2017, 9:48 am | # | Reply

      Uhhhhooohhhhh!!!!! *intensity intensifies*

  14. Wyvern
    Wyvern
    December 27, 2017, 5:47 am | # | Reply

    Flash-bang tag team: Syr’Nj provides the light and Best provides the sound.

    • Lirazel
      Lirazel
      December 27, 2017, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

      I did like that!

  15. 5-tons-of-flax
    5-tons-of-flax
    December 27, 2017, 7:50 am | # | Reply

    Nice natural 20 there, Byron. HR will likely sprout heads until Carol unplugs him.

    • Thracecius
      Thracecius
      December 27, 2017, 1:20 pm | # | Reply

      “Do you have any idea how much that STINGS?!”

      • SomeoneIUsedToKnow
        SomeoneIUsedToKnow
        December 27, 2017, 9:52 pm | # | Reply

        “I want you on the first transport out of the gravity well — or next time I’ll shoot you where it doesn’t grow back.”

  16. Pit Friend
    Pit Friend
    December 27, 2017, 9:59 am | # | Reply

    Get him before he starts monologing!

  17. Eliyahu
    Eliyahu
    December 27, 2017, 10:18 am | # | Reply

    I think he was actually about to say “HELP ME”

    • Talewinds
      Talewinds
      December 27, 2017, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

      I thought so too.

  18. Sentora
    Sentora
    December 27, 2017, 10:45 am | # | Reply

    I love that it looks like he even had the veins form his mustache.

  19. TxGator
    TxGator
    December 27, 2017, 10:55 am | # | Reply

    I love the look of surprise on the H.R.’s spinning head in the last panel. Nice touch.

    • KarmaTheAlligator
      KarmaTheAlligator
      December 27, 2017, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, I don’t think he expected that.

  20. Franz
    Franz
    December 27, 2017, 2:30 pm | # | Reply

    Yeah, this should work, thanks everyone!

    … then again, probably not..

  21. MDude
    MDude
    December 27, 2017, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

    I had no idea the five all had so much speedrunning experience before now.

  22. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    December 27, 2017, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

    Lesson learned: don’t bring a fighting anime-style monologue to a MMORPG battle.

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      December 27, 2017, 5:36 pm | # | Reply

      At least make sure you aren’t flagged as an attackable object yet.

  23. CjRayn
    CjRayn
    December 27, 2017, 5:59 pm | # | Reply

    I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that the monster was trying to say, “Help me.”

  24. Skatie
    Skatie
    December 27, 2017, 8:51 pm | # | Reply

    …LOOOOOO, NURSE!

  25. CorrTerek
    CorrTerek
    December 27, 2017, 9:08 pm | # | Reply

    Gonna be real disappointed if that head in the last panel isn’t an avatar at some point in the future.

    …Though I guess since the comic is ending soon there wouldn’t be anywhere to use it. Kind of depressing, really.

  26. ThePuck1
    ThePuck1
    December 27, 2017, 10:32 pm | # | Reply

    That’s one way to get ahead of the situation

  27. Dave
    Dave
    December 28, 2017, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Gawd these raid bosses get easier every expac.

  28. Jason
    Jason
    December 28, 2017, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    Well that’s the end folks! Final comic on Friday! Got it all in before 2018, good job!

  29. Darkrider
    Darkrider
    December 28, 2017, 8:17 am | # | Reply

    Looks like Byron was trying to give HR a “Heads Up”

  30. maggPi
    maggPi
    December 28, 2017, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

    “Okay Byron, okay.
    One) just coz ya don’t like ‘is facial don’t mean ya can shave ‘im without ‘is permission, see?
    Two) that was NOT a close shave!
    Okay, and Three?) just coz ya missed don’t mean ya should get all pissy an’ boot ‘is ‘ead like yer in the final bloody goal in the World Cup!!”

    “Sorry.”

    “S’alright, we’ve all been there.”

  31. ImmortalOracle
    ImmortalOracle
    December 29, 2017, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Either tomorrow’s the last update or time has made a liar of Phil & T. I’m praying for the latter.

  32. Minando
    Minando
    December 29, 2017, 2:20 am | # | Reply

    Very rude, cutting HR short like that.

  33. Bloden
    Bloden
    December 30, 2017, 10:28 pm | # | Reply

    This is what happens when you reform your mustache before you do your brain.

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