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

Life's a Lich... and then everyone dies.

Chapter 50 – Page 9

on April 13, 2018
Chapter: Chapter 50
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  1. biggmac
    biggmac
    April 13, 2018, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    * to be continued in the JUST ANNOUNCED SPIN-OFF COMIC, “TURN OF THE CENTURION” (occurred just after the g(u)idled age, get it?)! This comic willl be what “AfterM*A*S*H*” was to “M*A*S*H*”!

    • Nathanyel
      Nathanyel
      April 13, 2018, 3:00 am | # | Reply

      Should I be worried that this is the first time I even hear about “AfterM*A*S*H*”?

      • Mr Ak
        Mr Ak
        April 13, 2018, 3:40 am | # | Reply

        It was a graveyard S*M*A*S*H

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        April 13, 2018, 3:55 am | # | Reply

        Not really. It was forgettable. And folded less than halfway into the second season.

        • Minion Oftheempire
          Minion Oftheempire
          April 15, 2018, 12:39 am | # | Reply

          In counterpoint may I submit Trapper John, MD, a formal MASH spinoff which ran for 7 seasons and was by all accounts reasonably successfull in the Medical comedy/drama genre. So heres hoping….

      • Charlie Spencer
        Charlie Spencer
        April 14, 2018, 4:51 am | # | Reply

        Potter, Klinger, and Mulcahy carry on stateside in a VA hospital. Hilarity ensues, or not.

  2. LookieLouE1707
    LookieLouE1707
    April 13, 2018, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Fear isn’t weakness, fear is strength. It’s the adrenaline burst that helps you lift a car with your bare hands. Passivity, resignation,, cynicism, avoidance, those are weakness.

    • Hireling
      Hireling
      April 13, 2018, 12:41 am | # | Reply

      Fear…something something…dark side

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      April 13, 2018, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

      “Can a man be brave if he’s afraid? That is the only time a man can be brave.”

    • Aazen
      Aazen
      April 13, 2018, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

      Fear is a super power. Fear can make you faster and cleverer and stronger. And one day, you’re gonna come back to this barn, and on that day, you’re going to be very afraid indeed. But that’s okay because if you’re very wise and very strong, fear doesn’t have to make you cruel or cowardly. Fear can make you kind.

    • Minion Oftheempire
      Minion Oftheempire
      April 15, 2018, 12:49 am | # | Reply

      Need a different gravatar for this but:

      I must not fear.
      Fear is the mind-killer.
      Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
      I will face my fear.
      I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
      And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
      Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
      Only I will remain.

      (credit to Frank Herbert, 1965 DUNE)

  3. Ganurath
    Ganurath
    April 13, 2018, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    “Striving for the impossible” does not mean “toiling in vain” on roleplay servers. Go back to the power gaming server, achievement hunter.

    • DannyboyO1
      DannyboyO1
      April 13, 2018, 6:43 pm | # | Reply

      Just because entropy will eventually win doesn’t mean I can’t build nice things for my lifetime and a chunk of the next. Shit, just ’cause the planet’s powered by nuclear fusion and massive amounts of radiation doesn’t mean I want skin cancer.

      This lich’s philosophy is like, “these Nazis… they can’t *ALL* be wrong, statistically.” which requires such a fundamental misunderstanding of everything that one must have intended to seek out justification for being bad to the bone, rather than any honest intellectual pursuit.

  4. brasca1
    brasca1
    April 13, 2018, 1:36 am | # | Reply

    No tag so I don’t know who these people are except Skeletor after hours and one of Frigg’s disciples.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      April 13, 2018, 2:41 am | # | Reply

      Looks like she’s a dorf, so Skullface there may be getting a nasty surprise in the form of a reminder that heroic types tend to make use of that ninny “teamwork” business.

    • Olentzero
      Olentzero
      April 13, 2018, 3:05 am | # | Reply

      My guess, based on the crown, is that it’s Taro Iwatani tricked out with a Ronco Lich-O-Matic(TM) Soul Trap Gem to keep him on the material plane.

      • Brasca1
        Brasca1
        April 13, 2018, 3:15 am | # | Reply

        Looks like an adult skeleton and too philosophical. Maybe HR’s essence is trapped in it

        • Mr Ak
          Mr Ak
          April 13, 2018, 3:41 am | # | Reply

          I think the point is more that things both change and stay the same, so they’re maybe no-one we’ve heard of?

          • FoolishOwl
            FoolishOwl
            April 13, 2018, 4:16 pm | # | Reply

            Yep. Back to good old fashioned dungeon crawls on Arkerra.

        • Olentzero
          Olentzero
          April 13, 2018, 8:21 am | # | Reply

          Hence, perhaps, the comment about making “youths into elders, overnight”? I dunno.

        • Varorson
          Varorson
          April 13, 2018, 10:43 am | # | Reply

          Honestly, the wind and fire makes me think it’s E-Merl.

          Which could fit his post-Rachel persona a bit if he went full on dark side. Or his speech is just play-acting as part of training.

          • Olentzero
            Olentzero
            April 17, 2018, 2:19 am | # | Reply

            Hand Clutch of Spot-On Correctness for you!

    • fishamaphone
      fishamaphone
      April 13, 2018, 4:06 am | # | Reply

      Maybe the lich is Rachel?

    • Hitchkok
      Hitchkok
      April 13, 2018, 7:08 am | # | Reply

      These are obviously some random encounter\mini-boss and Rachel’s player’s new character power-grinding

      • Deqing
        Deqing
        April 13, 2018, 9:31 am | # | Reply

        Isn’t Rachel’s player dead as well?

        • TxGator
          TxGator
          April 13, 2018, 9:52 am | # | Reply

          Nope. Lia is doing just fine. Even hooked up with Daniel. (Chapter 49, Page 51).

          I think you’re thinking of Kaye, who played Scipio until she died.

          • Seggs
            Seggs
            April 13, 2018, 11:44 am | # | Reply

            wasnt scip played by the dude at hurricane that gave a hand to HR’s cause? or was that e-merl’s player?

            • TxGator
              TxGator
              April 13, 2018, 11:47 am | # | Reply

              The dude from Hurricane never had an avatar (or at least one acknowledged in the comic). E-merl is Daniel’s avatar (Chapter 33, Page 14).

          • Deqing
            Deqing
            April 14, 2018, 5:39 pm | # | Reply

            Kaye isn’t Bandit’s player? O.o RL is so confusing.

            • Deqing
              Deqing
              April 14, 2018, 5:46 pm | # | Reply

              Omg somethings make much more sense when reading through again. XD

  5. Arcane
    Arcane
    April 13, 2018, 3:36 am | # | Reply

    Is it just me or is this the first time the corporeal undead have been shown? Especially a lich, I mean. That seems like a late point to introduce an entire breed of fantasy creatures. But it’s entirely possible I missed it ages ago.

    • MatthewTheLucky
      MatthewTheLucky
      April 13, 2018, 5:52 am | # | Reply

      With H.R.’s hold on the world broken, it’s releasing aspects of Arkerra that he kept hidden for ‘future updates’.

      • Arcane
        Arcane
        April 14, 2018, 2:14 am | # | Reply

        Was that a thing that was said or are you speculating?

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      April 13, 2018, 9:57 am | # | Reply

      Ghosts & spirits are common enough. Not too much of a stretch to go from incorporeal to corporeal. Plus the undead are fairly standard denizens of fantasy realms as it is.

    • Ved
      Ved
      April 14, 2018, 2:37 am | # | Reply

      I suspect it has more to do with the lingering influence of the cultist religion and whatever mojo H.R. was throwing around. We know Tectonicus died and that . . . various other gods can go dormant, so upheavals of this sort are not unprecedented.

      • Ved
        Ved
        April 14, 2018, 2:47 am | # | Reply

        That seems to be the lingering theme of this chapter really. Seems to have the right smell to it anyway.

        That while some things are better, other problems just mutate into some other form. We know that the Countless Limbs is discredited after HR took over the Cult and started saying he is the One True God, but it’s not like the underlying ideology behind the what the Countless represented is actually gone. That lich’s speech has the same kind of nihilism as the Countless.

  6. █████
    █████
    April 13, 2018, 6:02 am | # | Reply

    Although the lich is probably a bad guy, they’re putting out some bomb-ass speechifying.

    It’s just a shame they’re going to end up Frigged to the sound of a paladin’s “STFU!”

  7. Armagrodden
    Armagrodden
    April 13, 2018, 6:04 am | # | Reply

    Tremble before Arkerra’s latest nemesis: Limbo Lich!

    • Jytrem
      Jytrem
      April 13, 2018, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

      Must be one of Hermes’ ancestors, they’ve got the moves!

  8. davesignal
    davesignal
    April 13, 2018, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

    Xykon’s HD remaster looking good.

    • SteelRaven
      SteelRaven
      April 13, 2018, 1:37 pm | # | Reply

      I was about to ask if that’s whats-his-name from Order of the Stick

  9. Narratorway
    Narratorway
    April 13, 2018, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

    A skull with a furrowed brow. The true mark of a fantasy setting.

    • Lirazel
      Lirazel
      April 13, 2018, 11:17 pm | # | Reply

      Really? I thought it was funny ears and noses. Or is that just sci-fi?

  10. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    April 13, 2018, 4:54 pm | # | Reply

    I get the feeling that somehow, Skeleton Dude is just Frigg roleplaying some bullshit nihilist bad guy as practice for her student(s).

    If that guy’s real, though? Shut up, Hannibal!

  11. Iarei
    Iarei
    April 13, 2018, 6:29 pm | # | Reply

    Shouldn’t be anyone we know. I mean, it takes a heck of a long time to petrify bones.

  12. Blake
    Blake
    April 13, 2018, 8:56 pm | # | Reply

    Old bones of blackness
    What is my true name, you ask
    It rhymes with “just us”

  13. Zero
    Zero
    April 15, 2018, 5:44 am | # | Reply

    You know, I fell off reading GA for a few years for reasons I don’t remember. Been binging it the last few days from the start and… Jesus. I’m glad I got back before the end (and I’m surprised at how many commenters I remember seeing still around!). It’s been a hell of a ride catching up. Can’t wait to see the end with everyone else.

  14. Arthur Frayn
    Arthur Frayn
    April 15, 2018, 4:32 pm | # | Reply

    “That geezer’s cruising for a bruising.” – Spoken female vocal toward the end of Pink Floyd’s “Money”

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