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

'I NEED ENGRAVINGS! ENGRAVINGS OF DOUCHE-MAN!'

Chapter 50 – Page 30

on June 1, 2018
Chapter: Chapter 50
└ Tags: Ashok, Caneghem, Clair, Reynolds, Ulak
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  1. Zero
    Zero
    June 1, 2018, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Is it just me or is nothing loading on this page?

    • Jason
      Jason
      June 1, 2018, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      Not just you.

      • Iron.Hare
        Iron.Hare
        June 1, 2018, 12:22 am | # | Reply

        Well ain’t that ironic?

    • Fairportfan
      Fairportfan
      June 1, 2018, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      nope. Nothin’ here, either.

      • Fairportfan
        Fairportfan
        June 2, 2018, 3:00 am | # | Reply

        Oh, look – there’s a PICTURE there.

        Who’d’a thunk?

  2. Cubanpep
    Cubanpep
    June 1, 2018, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Welcome to the darkness

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      June 1, 2018, 3:06 am | # | Reply

      That is a disturbingly apt avatar for that comment.

  3. Ganurath
    Ganurath
    June 1, 2018, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    So… page isn’t loaded yet, but judging by the cast lineup I’m guessing that Clair and Ulak are mourning their respective dead friends while Reynolds… I dunno. Plays a dirge on a keytar?

  4. Blake
    Blake
    June 1, 2018, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    The page is now up
    But should not panel three say
    “I don’t /think/“ instead?

    Also since the “pictures of Spider-Man” joke is one of my favorite, this is now my second favorite page thanks to the alt-text

    • Aula
      Aula
      June 1, 2018, 3:37 am | # | Reply

      Douche-Man! Douche-Man! Does whatever a Douche can!

      • Bruceski
        Bruceski
        June 1, 2018, 10:12 pm | # | Reply

        He’s a jerk! Any size! Self-esteem built on lies!
        Look out! Here comes the Douche-Man!

    • Benedikt
      Benedikt
      July 25, 2018, 9:27 am | # | Reply

      Yes. Panel two. One of the few typos that haven’t been fixed after being pointed out.

  5. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    June 1, 2018, 1:06 am | # | Reply

    I love this more and more as it goes on.

  6. Brasca1
    Brasca1
    June 1, 2018, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    Ulak is still a troll so it’ll be quite the challenge indeed

    And I hope the press is under different management. I doubt Bedard would get a pardon after being Gastonia’s propagandist until the very end.

    • Zalocin
      Zalocin
      June 1, 2018, 2:13 am | # | Reply

      They may have to let Bedard keep his position as head of journalism. They are trying to make a fair and free society so free press should probably be a part of that.

      • Nathanyel
        Nathanyel
        June 1, 2018, 2:15 am | # | Reply

        I agree, but why Bedard?

        • Tsapki
          Tsapki
          June 1, 2018, 3:02 am | # | Reply

          Because he’s the only one who knows how to run that blasted contraption? Also, it may not be clear how involved Bedard was. He was always pretty low key.

      • Draxynnic
        Draxynnic
        June 1, 2018, 7:24 am | # | Reply

        Gotta say, I’d question how free the press under Bedard could be. He always seemed to be reasonably involved to me. It’s possible he was being blackmailed or otherwise controlled, though.

        • Beroli
          Beroli
          June 1, 2018, 10:15 am | # | Reply

          What Dean Reynolds said on the subject didn’t strike me as ambiguous: The “altruists” were all selfish war criminals. If Bedard isn’t either in prison, executed, or self-exiled one step ahead of being arrested already, I would be surprised.

          • brasca1
            brasca1
            June 2, 2018, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

            I gathered that Pardo and Adric were granted pardons because the former was effectively removed from the worst decision making while the latter stood down upon realizing he was fighting for an unjust cause, but Reynolds was still bitter about that. Bedard wasn’t mentioned and he ran a smear campaign against the adventurers and savage races who are now running the government so at best he lost his seat at worse he’s incarcerated. In the end the bigoted admiral got the last laugh. He was banished by many of the same people who are now either dead or imprisoned and he’s sailing the seas saying I told you so to any human he finds.

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      June 1, 2018, 8:56 am | # | Reply

      Something tells me Ashok has all the time he needs to practice trolling Ulak. And as an added bonus, Ulak needs to sleep. Ashok doesn’t.

    • Ishmael
      Ishmael
      June 1, 2018, 9:32 am | # | Reply

      It’s the scribe elf. Katie Couric.

      • Jason
        Jason
        June 1, 2018, 10:57 pm | # | Reply

        Ah! So THAT’S the pun in her name!

      • brasca1
        brasca1
        June 2, 2018, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

        That would be fitting. And all things considered she deserved to be promoted beyond Syr’ng’s secretary.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        June 2, 2018, 4:19 pm | # | Reply

        Kur’ik isn’t tagged, and that doesn’t look like her – her hair has more volume, her usual attire includes long sleeves, and last we saw her (which, it looks to me, was probably a couple hours prior to this), she wasn’t wearing a cape. Also, being in that tower with Claire suggests this is part of Claire’s staff (presumably another City Elf, although the design of their sleeves could be a Wood Elf ‘leaf’ edge), not an unaffiliated reporter.

        • Jason
          Jason
          June 3, 2018, 2:16 am | # | Reply

          Not referring to her.

          • Kamino Neko
            Kamino Neko
            June 3, 2018, 2:54 am | # | Reply

            Oops, I seem to have read this as part of a different conversation. Thought this was in response to the bit below asking if that was Hollister with Claire. >_<

  7. TheOwlduke
    TheOwlduke
    June 1, 2018, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    I swear if we’re getting a sequel following Best and the gang around the world on their airship I’ll squeek from delight!!

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      June 1, 2018, 3:04 am | # | Reply

      Hmm, but what would we call such a sequel? Perhaps if it followed Best and crew, and it turned out it has a link to Sepia World through a tabletop game infused with magic (perhaps a prototype project from HR), we could call it…

      The Rolling Twenties.

      • Nadodan
        Nadodan
        June 1, 2018, 10:02 am | # | Reply

        Payet Forward

      • Bruceski
        Bruceski
        June 1, 2018, 10:14 pm | # | Reply

        They’ve left the Guilded Age behind and need to rely on their skill and might. It’s the Brawns Age.

      • raven0ak
        raven0ak
        June 1, 2018, 11:09 pm | # | Reply

        maybe …the Bested age?

    • Aula
      Aula
      June 1, 2018, 3:36 am | # | Reply

      I think the sequel should be about the adventures of Payet Best’s son Second Best.

  8. foducool
    foducool
    June 1, 2018, 2:44 am | # | Reply

    aww he does care

    • insomniac
      insomniac
      June 1, 2018, 4:34 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, that’s really sweet. And kinda sad.

    • chasey
      chasey
      June 1, 2018, 5:22 am | # | Reply

      He cares just enough to be curious, but that’s it. :(

    • Riotllama
      Riotllama
      June 1, 2018, 8:44 am | # | Reply

      Awww! He still loves his little gnome buddy Dean Reynolds!

    • Thracecius
      Thracecius
      June 1, 2018, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

      It’s kinda creepy, actually. Where and when else is he “watching” them, hmm?

  9. maggPi
    maggPi
    June 1, 2018, 4:07 am | # | Reply

    Rendering striped clothing effectively is quite tricky. You have succeeded beautifully here.

  10. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    June 1, 2018, 5:43 am | # | Reply

    Looks like the site has been infected, I keep getting an ad for an antivirus that replaces the page.

    • Jason
      Jason
      June 1, 2018, 11:00 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, MacKeeper has been plaguing me on this site and other webcomics for weeks. I think maybe I’ve finally solved it by installing the AdGuard AdBlocker Safari extension and blacklisting getmackeeper.site.

  11. Devlerbat
    Devlerbat
    June 1, 2018, 6:42 am | # | Reply

    Damnit Parker! I asked for pictures of Spider-Man, not for selfies of you in your halloween costume!

  12. Draxynnic
    Draxynnic
    June 1, 2018, 7:27 am | # | Reply

    It does seem as if Caneghem at least still cares enough to keep an eye on things. Now that he has the ability to get the cities out of dodge if he needs to, he might have the confidence to re-engage at some level if things seem to be going well enough.

    • Angel
      Angel
      June 1, 2018, 9:38 am | # | Reply

      I doubt he ever will, Probably not until they can pin the Flying Islands and Force them to open their Gates again Admiral Perry Style, but that might not be for years and years.

      Or the Flying Islands population of Elders die out. Do keep in mind a Lot of Sky Elf Youngsters left, and the Elves aren’t immortal, just really long-lived. There’s going to be a Population decline eventually.

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      June 1, 2018, 9:54 am | # | Reply

      I doubt they’d come back. I got the impression that the sky elves society was largely sustained by conjuration magic. So I suspect they’d have a lot trouble dealing with Claire’s restrictions on unauthorized conjuration.

  13. Lord Hideous
    Lord Hideous
    June 1, 2018, 10:40 am | # | Reply

    Ooo, locked in a prison cell, haunted by the friend you stabbed in the back. That’s going to hurt.

  14. Mordecai
    Mordecai
    June 1, 2018, 10:55 am | # | Reply

    *squint* Is..is that Hollister standing next to Clair? Same haircut and hair color, at least. Maybe he was knocked out instead of killed?

    • Fiaryn
      Fiaryn
      June 1, 2018, 6:16 pm | # | Reply

      He ain’t tagged soooooo nah, he’s dead Jim.

  15. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    June 1, 2018, 4:24 pm | # | Reply

    “I-it’s not like I miss them or anything!”

  16. Emma
    Emma
    June 1, 2018, 10:04 pm | # | Reply

    As interesting as this is I’m far more interested in what’s gonna happen to their bodies. If someone isn’t maintaining them, well they all die.

    • Jack Vermicelli
      Jack Vermicelli
      June 1, 2018, 11:31 pm | # | Reply

      …Whose bodies? Either you missed out on major sections of the plot, or I’m not following you at all.

      • Emma
        Emma
        June 5, 2018, 6:07 am | # | Reply

        So their bodies died but their still alive. Well that’s kinda dumb.

    • Aletheia
      Aletheia
      June 1, 2018, 11:45 pm | # | Reply

      The bodies pretty much liquified; that was shown at the end of the main Sepia world arc (before the wrap-up began, in the same scene where HR was shot)…

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      June 1, 2018, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

      Huh? If you’re talking about The Five, their Sepia World bodies are already dead. Very likely since they were first injected into Second Arkherra ( http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-49-page-6/ ), but the very latest they could have died is when the feedback from killing HR apparently destroyed them ( http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-49-page-48/ ).

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        March 22, 2019, 6:54 pm | # | Reply

        I think HR killed them with the tendrils that were coming out of his body, hoping that if he killed the tubed players, it would also kill them in Arkerra.

        I think Shanna and Xan were terrified of the tendrils that were starting to attack them while they were stuck to the ceiling, because they were watching other tendrils devour the tubed players.

    • Beroli
      Beroli
      June 2, 2018, 10:59 pm | # | Reply

      Seems like a lot of people didn’t catch Sepia World’s exit from the comic.

    • maggPi
      maggPi
      June 3, 2018, 10:59 am | # | Reply

      Also, none of the regular, non-tube-immersed players died. They can come and go to the game in the same way we are accustomed to with our current games and their operating systems. (Resolution of H.R.’s necromancer glitches pending, of course.)

      • Beroli
        Beroli
        June 3, 2018, 1:01 pm | # | Reply

        Kingdoms of Arkerra is no longer online and is not coming back: http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-49-page-52/ . Sepia World no longer has any connection to Arkerra. Immersed or not immersed, many of the characters have creators in Sepia World, but none now has a player.

  17. Tsapki
    Tsapki
    June 1, 2018, 11:13 pm | # | Reply

    Mmmmm….

    Sweet vindication. Enjoy the company Ulak.

    http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-47-page-25/

  18. Jason
    Jason
    June 1, 2018, 11:38 pm | # | Reply

    Man, Ashok is reminding me of Anakin Skywalker here.

  19. chasey
    chasey
    June 2, 2018, 2:44 pm | # | Reply

    Sorry Ulak, even though you kinda came to your senses in the end AND you seem to have finally realized life is nice even while probably spending the rest of yours behind bars, you kiiiiinda deserve the forever-haunting you’re about to get.

    It’s obvious you didn’t think of Ashok as a good friend or it wouldn’t have been so easy to murder him with a deadpan expression so I don’t think you’re going to be reasoning with him or giving any apologies he wants to hear either.

    • kammon
      kammon
      June 4, 2018, 4:09 am | # | Reply

      I always thought it was just because Ulak was more clued up about the situation. If neither had killed the other, I reckon he knew the cult would just have decided to kill both of them as sacrifices for refusing to make sacrifices. So if he hadn’t killed Ashok then Ashok would have died anyway, but by Killing him he got to continue to live himself.

      • Beroli
        Beroli
        June 4, 2018, 10:21 pm | # | Reply

        I didn’t think Ulak was real concerned about having to kill his friend or the possibility of dying himself–they were both death-worshipers, after all.

        I do, however, feel no sympathy for Ashok. “My friend and I were members of a death cult, the cult leader told my friend to stab me in the back, and he did it! I am so betrayed!” Pfft.

  20. Ved
    Ved
    June 4, 2018, 4:02 pm | # | Reply

    Neh. I think Claire is being a bit unfair to Caneghem.

    I may be a bit biased, but I don’t see that I’d do all that much different in his position. Isolationism is a means-to-an-end, not an end into itself for him. It’s easy to characterize that as a stodgy unwillingness to adapt, but I think people underestimate just how much work it’d take to recolonize new lands just to maintain national independence.

    I don’t think anything in his personal experience would lead him to believe that the Savage Races wouldn’t just be Gastonia 2.0.

  21. Kennerly
    Kennerly
    June 4, 2018, 5:20 pm | # | Reply

    That’s a nice prison cell than the one I was in, and no cellmate? He does have it good!

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