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

They look very different today.

Chapter 49 – Page 50

on March 5, 2018
Chapter: Chapter 49
└ Tags: Chrissie, Daniel, Lia, Shanna, Xan
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  1. JSStryker
    JSStryker
    March 5, 2018, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    With all those city lights you’ll be lucky to see any.

    • q'Tzal
      q'Tzal
      March 6, 2018, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

      Seriously.
      Find a light pollution map and drive to the closest middle of nowhere with no light pollution to just stare up. 15/10 Excellent waste of time.
      Bring food and warm clothing because it’ll be hours before you realize that you’ve been standing there staring in wonder at what you’ve never seen.

  2. brasca1
    brasca1
    March 5, 2018, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Shanna was holding up so well, but if she has to break down this would be the best time.

    • Messenger
      Messenger
      March 5, 2018, 2:48 am | # | Reply

      But the thing is: no one’s going to believe her. She has a duty to speak the truth and to seek justice, but it will come to naught. That’s what’s going to break her even as she’s breaking down now.

      Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Shanna sought truth and found more than what she was expecting, more than what anyone was expecting.

      • Chris
        Chris
        March 5, 2018, 8:51 am | # | Reply

        There is a way to make it believable. Stating the events as exactly they happened is beyond most peoples acceptance of reality.

        However cults and satanic worship is believable, so if she frames it as HR being some crazed cult leader (which he was!) and that he was holding people against their will for insane experiments, it can be believable.

      • DannyboyO1
        DannyboyO1
        March 5, 2018, 9:47 am | # | Reply

        Cultist with mind-altering substances is not hard to believe. The camera couldn’t have caught the weird shit when the gravity failed, nobody could orient. So “It got trippy.” Also, nobody in SepiaWorld knows dick about the altercation in Arkerra. So nobody’s got any idea what all was going on. Just the antigravity and purple glowy shit and that might be related.

      • Brasca1
        Brasca1
        March 5, 2018, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

        Yes and as I wrote last week it’s probably why Carol will be committed to a psychiatric hospital instead of prison. Perhaps she was trying to warn her.

  3. biggmac
    biggmac
    March 5, 2018, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    Things seem pretty wrapped up in Sepia World.
    This means the actual comic finale should take place in Arkerra, as it should, in its glorious full technicolor.
    Please let it be so. Pleeeeeze.

    • Kensou
      Kensou
      March 5, 2018, 1:07 am | # | Reply

      I have to say I haven’t been reading the comment pages for the past while, but unless I missed something, isn’t there still a question of whether or not the original gang will ever return to Sepia World? Even if their bodies in the tanks weren’t registering brain activity, there were SOME bio readouts, a link existed while they were plugged in. I won’t be disappointed either way, I’ve been very happy with how things have gone, I’m just not sure everything is actually settled.

      • sparkles
        sparkles
        March 5, 2018, 1:30 am | # | Reply

        Their bodies were ripped apart and dangling from the tubes 2 pages back.

        • Kensou
          Kensou
          March 6, 2018, 3:01 am | # | Reply

          Answers the “unless I miss something” bit. Whoopsy.

      • Retmas
        Retmas
        March 5, 2018, 1:36 am | # | Reply

        their sepia-world bodies were pretty mulched in the last comic. i think their return to their original state is a hard no.

        as for whether they still exist in arkerra, whether arkerra still exists at all.. i dont think so, honestly. Dedalus was, going by the information given in the comic, the creator of arkerra. with him just as mulched as the five.. i dont know. they could go a number of directions here. i dont think the happily ever after trope is going to see much air-time though. they stopped a nascent meta-god with their …essences?, and the writers of GA have rarely shied away from MCs paying a fair price for power.

        whatever happens, i am as excited to see it as i am sad to see the mainstay of my webcomic intake wrapping up. and, if Dominic Deegan taught me anything, it’s that unanswered questions are sometimes the best way to end things.

        and, creators.. whatever happens, thank you for bringing this story to life, to us, and to the considerable level of memorable greatness it stands at. i havent posted much, but i’ve been along for the ride since about chapter five or so, and it’s been wonderful.

        • DannyboyO1
          DannyboyO1
          March 5, 2018, 9:59 am | # | Reply

          Um. Technically, the last we saw from Arkerra was Gravedust firing an arrow armed with all five of their souls. Which was kinda how he’d been sending everybody to their contented afterlives with vengeance fulfilled and whatnot for, like, the entire run, yanno?

          They had all actually died and stuck around. At least once. I’m thinking they’re now together in whatever their afterlife should be. I don’t know if that’s Arkerra or something else.

          • Beroli
            Beroli
            March 5, 2018, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

            I will be surprised–and disappointed–if they’re actually dead, afterlife or no (what is this, C.S. Lewis?).

            To head off the immediate misunderstanding I can see coming: I will be surprised and disappointed if Syr’nj, Byron, Gravedust, and Frigg are actually dead. I know their sepia-world players are.

            • Khyrin
              Khyrin
              March 6, 2018, 2:42 am | # | Reply

              Deep underground, a single arrow comes to rest, buried in H.R.’s God Machine… and Colors begin to spread from it.

            • MatthewTheLucky
              MatthewTheLucky
              March 6, 2018, 8:43 am | # | Reply

              What about Best?

              • Beroli
                Beroli
                March 6, 2018, 11:23 am | # | Reply

                What about him?

                I won’t be disappointed if he’s dead (sorry, T and Phil; you did too good a job of making him repulsive for too long). I will be rather surprised.

        • Jdorr
          Jdorr
          March 5, 2018, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

          From my understanding he didn’t actually make Arkerra so much as he copied and modified it

        • q'Tzal
          q'Tzal
          March 6, 2018, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

          The real question is if The Five were ever “inside” or attached to their bodies …
          For the ENTIRE story.
          It seems reasonable to their “Tron upload” was always a one way permanent trip due to a flaw in “god’s” science and that their bodies have been at least brain dead if not all dead since before we first saw the tubes.

  4. Bo Lindbergh
    Bo Lindbergh
    March 5, 2018, 5:04 am | # | Reply

    Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      March 5, 2018, 8:05 am | # | Reply

      I’ll see your Clarke and raise you an Asimov.

      “Let there be light.”

      • Wannes
        Wannes
        March 5, 2018, 9:13 am | # | Reply

        I’ll see your Asimov and raise you a Pratchett: “If the Creator had said, “Let there be light” in Ankh-Morpork, he’d have got no further because of all the people saying “What colour?”

        • The Indomitable Eric
          The Indomitable Eric
          March 5, 2018, 10:15 pm | # | Reply

          Fuck.

          • Beroli
            Beroli
            March 6, 2018, 11:24 am | # | Reply

            If the Creator had said that in Ankh-Morpork, on the other hand…

  5. Cubanpep
    Cubanpep
    March 5, 2018, 5:10 am | # | Reply

    Starships were ment to fly…

  6. tejon
    tejon
    March 5, 2018, 6:10 am | # | Reply

    FUCK YOU ALT TEXT IT’S STILL TOO SOON

  7. Toecutter
    Toecutter
    March 5, 2018, 7:50 am | # | Reply

    As digital Best sits singing Major Tom in a virtual spacecraft.

  8. Pit Friend
    Pit Friend
    March 5, 2018, 8:51 am | # | Reply

    The stars are right! Cthulhu f’thagan!

  9. Jade G
    Jade G
    March 5, 2018, 9:02 am | # | Reply

    I don’t… I don’t like where this is going…

  10. bokonondeemax
    bokonondeemax
    March 5, 2018, 9:45 am | # | Reply

    So heeeere am I floating in a glass tube
    Faaaar below the world
    Planet earth is sepia
    And there’s signs of schizophrenia

    • Psolo Ghoti
      Psolo Ghoti
      March 5, 2018, 5:55 pm | # | Reply

      Saved me the trouble. ^_^

      (The first line was exactly what I had in mind. I hadn’t really decided on the rest yet.)

    • TaranAlvein
      TaranAlvein
      March 5, 2018, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

      How about just “Planet Earth’s one hue and there’s nothing I can do”?

      • bokonondeemax
        bokonondeemax
        March 5, 2018, 9:02 pm | # | Reply

        I tried to come up with something to go with “sheep ‘ya” but I don’t recall that particular spell being used in Arkerra….

  11. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    March 5, 2018, 5:57 pm | # | Reply

    We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  12. MoronWMachinegun
    MoronWMachinegun
    March 5, 2018, 6:21 pm | # | Reply

    And then the screen comes up…In Technicolor world!

  13. kruger
    kruger
    March 5, 2018, 6:35 pm | # | Reply

    I do love how the photo is just about the right tones for sepia world.

  14. Jack Vermicelli
    Jack Vermicelli
    March 5, 2018, 9:08 pm | # | Reply

    Why was the second word of what Shanna was sob-stuttering out going to be capitalized?

    • chasey
      chasey
      March 5, 2018, 9:52 pm | # | Reply

      I think it was more that the whole word was going to be capitalized because her voice cracked or something, making it louder.

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