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

Always try to be the bigger man.

Chapter 49 – Page 36

on January 31, 2018
Chapter: Chapter 49
└ Tags: Best, Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, HR, Syr'Nj
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  1. Moneymancer Marklew
    Moneymancer Marklew
    January 31, 2018, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Something Sephiroth this way comes…

    • Pat
      Pat
      January 31, 2018, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      Reminds me of Zeus.

    • Walcuray
      Walcuray
      January 31, 2018, 10:10 am | # | Reply

      BELLS FROGS BING CHERRY

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      January 31, 2018, 6:50 pm | # | Reply

      DAE-DA-LUS​!

    • Pylgrim
      Pylgrim
      February 1, 2018, 8:36 am | # | Reply

      One-winged CEO

    • Illia, Gastonian Icemonger
      Illia, Gastonian Icemonger
      October 18, 2020, 8:42 am | # | Reply

      Eh, my JRPG final boss comparison of choice is Zanza.

      His theme sounds preeeetty perfect for this.

  2. David Liao
    David Liao
    January 31, 2018, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    BroDedalus Awakens

  3. biggmac
    biggmac
    January 31, 2018, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Thanks be to thee, O god.
    For wearing pants, that is.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      January 31, 2018, 10:34 am | # | Reply

      I guess that spring break look really is for ‘tards.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      February 4, 2018, 4:57 pm | # | Reply

      Seeing something like http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1543 on the (roughly) human scale was bad enough, but on the same scale that HR is?…

      I’d need a whole gross of Brain Bleach™ & a palette-load of Inter-Cranial Sandpaper™

  4. Dave
    Dave
    January 31, 2018, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    I’ve played enough MMOs to know you can just gather up around his feet and swing away at the hitbox and eventually stab the little toe enough to kill him.

    • maggPi
      maggPi
      February 1, 2018, 11:07 am | # | Reply

      That’d be one nasty toenail infection!

      • MidnightDStroyer
        MidnightDStroyer
        February 4, 2018, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

        Impale him under the toenail, just like bamboo splinters. Hope the resulting infection kills him quickly enough.

  5. Cubanpep
    Cubanpep
    January 31, 2018, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Bye Falicia!

  6. brasca1
    brasca1
    January 31, 2018, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    For a time I considered sparing your wretched little Akerra, but now you shall witness… it’s DISMEMBERMENT!

    • zero
      zero
      January 31, 2018, 6:07 am | # | Reply

      well said

  7. Alice Macher
    Alice Macher
    January 31, 2018, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    “With any luck, he’ll be ticklish.”

  8. MatthewTheLucky
    MatthewTheLucky
    January 31, 2018, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Quick, stab the crystal on his back!

    • asmanel
      asmanel
      January 31, 2018, 8:24 pm | # | Reply

      Useless, it only is an image. No attack on it can hurt or kill him, even if it’s an huge nuke.

    • maggPi
      maggPi
      February 1, 2018, 11:12 am | # | Reply

      “Bake the hall in the candle of her brain!”
      “Whut?”
      “Her brain! Her brain! The candle of her brain!”
      “Uhhhhh…..”

      Points to those who get the (paraphrased) reference.

      • Arthur Frayn
        Arthur Frayn
        February 1, 2018, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

        I saw that, it starred Kermit! I just don’t remember the exact name of the show.

        • maggPi
          maggPi
          February 4, 2018, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

          The Frog Prince, and it was Princess Melora speaking “wackbird talk.”
          ⭐✨🌟💫🌟✨⭐
          (Those are little gold stars for you, my friend.)

      • Psolo Ghoti
        Psolo Ghoti
        February 1, 2018, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t get that reference, but it reminded me of this reference:

        “He found he could no longer recall whether people had candles in their heads or not. He knew that there was a world of difference between these two notions: one was sane and the other was not, but he could not for the life of him remember which was which.”

  9. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    January 31, 2018, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    We’ll see how HR likes it when this gets reported to human resources. It’s gotta go against company policy.

    • asmanel
      asmanel
      February 1, 2018, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

      It isn’t a problem… Human brains are so easy to hack for someone like H.R.

  10. Lexible
    Lexible
    January 31, 2018, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Well at least HR is taking the purple high ground.

  11. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    January 31, 2018, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    God of War moment in 3…2…

    • asmanel
      asmanel
      February 1, 2018, 12:31 pm | # | Reply

      1… 0 ! (instantly derez all remaining ennemies at this 0)

      (luckily, it’s highly improbable)

  12. random whatever
    random whatever
    January 31, 2018, 1:47 am | # | Reply

    The Salvadore Dali mustache looks good on HR

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      January 31, 2018, 9:03 am | # | Reply

      That mustache is indeed spectacular.

      • Lirazel
        Lirazel
        January 31, 2018, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, I think (hope) we’ve hit Ultimate ‘Stash here.

    • Andreas Geisler
      Andreas Geisler
      February 1, 2018, 3:42 am | # | Reply

      Seems to me the Dali stache is pretty much the exact opposite of this one.
      The Dali is extremely narrow, and extremely controlled, going up into absurdist points just so.

      This moby dick of a stache is more like a Mark Twain overdrive. Marktwaintythousand.

  13. Narratorway
    Narratorway
    January 31, 2018, 2:12 am | # | Reply

    That smoke hangs all the way down to his knees!

  14. Zappa d'Killa-Kloon
    Zappa d'Killa-Kloon
    January 31, 2018, 3:46 am | # | Reply

    “BEGONE, THOUGHTS!”

    Official Phil Kahn Gold Star

  15. foducool
    foducool
    January 31, 2018, 5:02 am | # | Reply

    fools, this isn’t even my final form

  16. chasey
    chasey
    January 31, 2018, 5:15 am | # | Reply

    So does Frigg become a god now to fight fire with fire or does Best do his thang? Or maybe the Cyberia folks show back up? :D

  17. Slayn
    Slayn
    January 31, 2018, 5:30 am | # | Reply

    It’s time for the party to initiate an antitrust action against HR’s aims of Divine Monopoly. I see Frigg already choose playing with the Shoes.

    • Lirazel
      Lirazel
      January 31, 2018, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

      I see many, many lawyers, burying H.R. in subpoenas. As fast as one bursts into flame, another replaces it.

      In fact, that should be yet another alt-verse ending!

    • maggPi
      maggPi
      February 1, 2018, 11:15 am | # | Reply

      Nahhh… If Frig goes for board games it’d be Twister– knock the behemoth down, man!

  18. Bliggz
    Bliggz
    January 31, 2018, 5:30 am | # | Reply

    #DongCloud

  19. DeePseudonym
    DeePseudonym
    January 31, 2018, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    IIRC, didn’t Frigg *JUST* manifest some awesomely big nut-kickin’ boots?
    I mean, that’s one heck of a target.

  20. TxGator
    TxGator
    January 31, 2018, 9:06 am | # | Reply

    Kudos on the artwork on this one. HR is looking both spectacular and menacing at the same time.

    • John Waltrip
      John Waltrip
      January 31, 2018, 9:32 am | # | Reply

      Thank you!

      • Rules Lawyer
        Rules Lawyer
        January 31, 2018, 9:17 pm | # | Reply

        You’re doing great on this arc.

  21. Chris
    Chris
    January 31, 2018, 9:54 am | # | Reply

    Wouldn’t it be funny if HR tripped his own breaker, restarting the servers… and his tube.

    So much effort… and no quicksave!

  22. The Gorch
    The Gorch
    January 31, 2018, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

    Okay, that actually looks pretty epic.

  23. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    January 31, 2018, 5:13 pm | # | Reply

    HR Dedalus, according to Ben Garrison.

    • Korbl
      Korbl
      January 31, 2018, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

      Not enough labels

  24. Angel
    Angel
    January 31, 2018, 7:16 pm | # | Reply

    When I said you should stop being a purple cloud of hands and Yelling this is Not exactly what I had in mind H.R.!

  25. Gristle McNerd
    Gristle McNerd
    January 31, 2018, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

    “Behold! It is me, H.R. Daedalus, son of Brian and creator of Arkerra. Check out my pecs!”

  26. tejon
    tejon
    January 31, 2018, 9:37 pm | # | Reply

    Something just gelled about the last several pages, and now I’m going to be very disappointed if Best isn’t wearing Hendrix next time we see him.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      January 31, 2018, 11:20 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe something Ritchie Blackmore, with all this deep purple smoke on the water and fire in the sky?
      Well, no matter what, if HR wins this (he won’t), he should rock some Prince; Purple Reign, purple reign.

      • maggPi
        maggPi
        February 1, 2018, 11:19 am | # | Reply

        You guys are *way* more sophisticated than I am; I’ve just been craving grape soda. Gotta have that Grappety Grape.

        • maggPi
          maggPi
          February 1, 2018, 11:20 am | # | Reply

          (…I mean really… Can’t you smell it…?)

  27. Some Guy
    Some Guy
    January 31, 2018, 11:15 pm | # | Reply

    Poor HR. Always did have his head in the clouds.

  28. Concerned_DM
    Concerned_DM
    February 1, 2018, 1:57 am | # | Reply

    Boy that looks a lot more sinister due to windows 10 night mode. I love the art in the last few pages, applause the creators. ( for those who don’t know night mode basically just red shifts everything to make sleeping easier)

  29. asmanel
    asmanel
    February 1, 2018, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

    Their purpose is “at its end”… So, H.R. will probably end them somehow, such as :
    * merely kill them
    * derez them
    * delete their free will
    * abandon them (why continue wasting time with them)
    * awake some “hidden memories” (the players will awake in their characters’ bodies)
    * teleport them away in a world like Cyberia (where they probably will die starving)
    * teleport them away to the servers room (probably driving them to kill their doubles)
    * teleport where Daniel, Lia and Chrissie are (who are now, if I understood well, at B’Ial Vezk or near from this city)
    * awake and free the players and do to their characters one of the eight previous possiblities
    * awake the players without free them making they drown (and also do to their characters one of these eight possiblities)
    * do like in the previous possibility except he directly kill or derez the players
    * awake the players with their characters’ memories (about the character’s themselves, it’s again like in the previous possibilities)
    * swap the players with their characters
    * etc…

  30. Commiekeebler
    Commiekeebler
    February 1, 2018, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

    Oh my, grandma, what big tracts of land you have!

  31. Eric
    Eric
    February 1, 2018, 3:04 pm | # | Reply

    Dude, has no one ever told you “don’t monologue”? Biggest mistake of villains.

    Or to quote The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: “If you’re going to shoot; shoot. Don’t talk.”

    In this case, if you’re going to squish them, squish them. Don’t talk about it for an hour.

  32. Minando
    Minando
    February 2, 2018, 2:55 am | # | Reply

    Well, the bigger they are…and toes are very pain-sensitive.
    If I remember correctly, *someone* has brought a hammer.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      February 4, 2018, 5:06 pm | # | Reply

      Well, there’s ten nails there…One on each toe.

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