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

Handy and/or heavy objects are a problem, but you gotta watch out for the guys who hurl exotic feathers. They've got problems.

Chapter 7 – Page 9

on September 27, 2010
Chapter: Chapter 07
└ Tags: Byron, Syr'Nj
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  1. Joe
    Joe
    September 27, 2010, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Say it with me now:
    D’AWWWWW

    • Gotthammer
      Gotthammer
      September 27, 2010, 3:45 am | # | Reply

      D’AWWWWWWW :D

      Loving Syr’Nj in this one. Panel two is one of my favourites :)

      • Joe
        Joe
        July 25, 2013, 8:42 pm | # | Reply

        gotta love them cheekbones, never see them in comics for some reason…

    • Gwydion
      Gwydion
      September 27, 2010, 8:44 am | # | Reply

      I third this D’AWWWWW, most definitely. I particularly liked the awkward blushing in panel 4. Also, Byron kinda looks like Marty McFly with the clothing-wise, pulls it off too.

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        September 27, 2010, 9:57 am | # | Reply

        AWWWWWWWWWW! :333

        • Hawk
          Hawk
          September 27, 2010, 11:44 am | # | Reply

          D’AWWWWWWWWWWW
          to the Nth power!

    • Yahtzee
      Yahtzee
      September 27, 2010, 9:47 am | # | Reply

      D’AWWWWWWWWW

      I sooo like the 4th panel.

      By the way, I wonder why Syr’Nj says what she says in the 2nd panel.
      “Nothing they can do to me can diminish what I do for them”
      What’s yer point, Syr’Nj ? You like working for people (and risking your life while doing it) and let them hate you or throwing stuff or hitting you ? Are you a masochist or what ? ^^

      • Benedikt
        Benedikt
        September 27, 2010, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

        No, it’s just that she defines herself not by the way she’s treated but by her own actions. Neat.

    • zack of hiskatana
      zack of hiskatana
      August 4, 2011, 3:57 pm | # | Reply

      D’awwwwwww

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      June 25, 2013, 8:56 am | # | Reply

      W’NNNNNDDWWWW

  2. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    September 27, 2010, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Awkwaaaaard

    • Gravedigger
      Gravedigger
      September 27, 2010, 2:04 am | # | Reply

      Very yes.

  3. Joseph
    Joseph
    September 27, 2010, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Looks like good writers…ship.

    • Nate
      Nate
      September 27, 2010, 6:47 pm | # | Reply

      YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

  4. Meirnon
    Meirnon
    September 27, 2010, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Go for it. Out of the 3 choices, probably the best one, Byron.

    • khavren
      khavren
      September 27, 2010, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

      threesome with bandit and Syr

      • Meirnon
        Meirnon
        September 27, 2010, 11:36 pm | # | Reply

        Bandit’d take off before it was Byron’s or Syr’s turn. :P

  5. Hypothetical
    Hypothetical
    September 27, 2010, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    So, wood elves turn red when they blush? I bet they’re real pretty in autumn.

    • justchris
      justchris
      September 27, 2010, 11:40 pm | # | Reply

      Probably hard to rouse in the winter though.

    • Erica
      Erica
      September 28, 2010, 11:40 pm | # | Reply

      Wood elves have blood too, you know.

      • The Prolific Mr. Anonymous
        The Prolific Mr. Anonymous
        September 29, 2010, 6:21 pm | # | Reply

        I just figured their sap would be more brownish or something.

        It’s magic~

  6. BarGamer
    BarGamer
    September 27, 2010, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Syrn’j would be cute here, but DANG, she needs some more meat on her bones. Or more meat in her diet, period?

    • Dojang
      Dojang
      September 27, 2010, 1:40 am | # | Reply

      i dunno. there’s a difference between anorexic and just naturally *willowy*. frigg’s meaty enough to compensate.

  7. SaltyKracka
    SaltyKracka
    September 27, 2010, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    I swear to Frog, if that prophet’s name is Cassandra, I am going to kill something.

    • Locke
      Locke
      September 28, 2010, 2:25 am | # | Reply

      Why? What if she doesn’t even tell the Truth?

      • Dusty668
        Dusty668
        September 28, 2010, 6:36 am | # | Reply

        She does tell it, but you won’t believe it.

        HA! HA!

  8. Moe Lane
    Moe Lane
    September 27, 2010, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Well.

    OK, then.

  9. kagato23
    kagato23
    September 27, 2010, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    Hmmm. Know what? I don’t think Frigg gets more then her one chance. Guess she blew it.

    On the plus side, we can now imagine horrible euphemism confusion between these very different races if it goes that far. I’m imagining something about pollination and axes being mentioned and it all going hilariously wrong but sexily resolved.

    • G@T0R
      G@T0R
      September 27, 2010, 9:13 am | # | Reply

      Fine, I’ll be first… Syr’nj is just doing what’s in her nature. She gave byron some wood. (horrible but too exhausted to think of better).

      • Phil
        Flo
        September 27, 2010, 9:17 am | # | Reply

        Gold star.

      • Hawk
        Hawk
        September 27, 2010, 11:47 am | # | Reply

        Augh, and now when I read panels 3 & 4 I notice the slight difference in the lines of Byron’s pants!

        Whyyyyyy

        • Meirnon
          Meirnon
          September 27, 2010, 11:39 pm | # | Reply

          Oh. My. God.

          Dx

        • Jean-Luc
          Jean-Luc
          September 28, 2010, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

          Fuuuuuuuuuuu!

        • Erica
          Erica
          September 28, 2010, 11:42 pm | # | Reply

          It’s called not copying and pasting (unlike some comics). Also, haven’t any of you noticed the seam in the front of your pants?

          • Tolrick
            Tolrick
            October 29, 2010, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

            Most of us (repeat, most) are aware of the small differences that crop up when dfrawing each panel by hand.
            Keeping that in mind would have killed a funny joke, however.

        • The Prolific Mr. Anonymous
          The Prolific Mr. Anonymous
          September 29, 2010, 6:23 pm | # | Reply

          I really don’t think the man’s that small.

  10. The Indomitable Eric
    The Indomitable Eric
    September 27, 2010, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    Have I mentioned I’m thoroughly digging Byron’s Han Solo threads?

    • DCB
      DCB
      September 27, 2010, 8:06 am | # | Reply

      Does this mean we’re going to have to start arguing about who swung first: Him or Best?

      • Erica
        Erica
        September 27, 2010, 10:51 am | # | Reply

        Only after the revisions.

  11. Dojang
    Dojang
    September 27, 2010, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    syrn’j seems so much more relaxed. like, even aside from the casual dialogue. her whole body is normally so stiff…it’s good to see her like this.

    ah! soothsaying. because everyone wants to think of their future in terms of smelly animal entrails.

    • Marvelous TK
      Marvelous TK
      September 27, 2010, 1:40 am | # | Reply

      Oh, goodness. I hope that’s actually (/not?) how they do it. How would Syrn’j react to such a thing? Oh me oh my.

      • Dojang
        Dojang
        September 27, 2010, 1:43 am | # | Reply

        pretty sure that was a common method. some people read stones, some people read tea leaves- but back in the bad old days it was all about the animal entrails. mmmm-mmm. i thought your future smelt bad from the outside.

        • alta lemur
          alta lemur
          September 27, 2010, 2:08 am | # | Reply

          Well most fortune telling had to do with the fortune teller reading into their own intuition within random cracks or twigs or bones. But the animal entrails started out as a way for traders to know if a certain province had a disease rampant by investigating animal organs from that area.

          • Dojang
            Dojang
            September 27, 2010, 3:11 am | # | Reply

            that’s interesting- i was thinking about something more like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruspex

  12. Dojang
    Dojang
    September 27, 2010, 1:49 am | # | Reply

    oh snap. an axeman and a tree. how did i not get this before? that’s awesome, T and P.

  13. Locke
    Locke
    September 27, 2010, 2:36 am | # | Reply

    Dear Alt-Text: I don’t get it.

    Also, I want Byron’s hair. I want it. It’s the manliest hair I’ve ever seen. I’d be unstoppable.

    • justchris
      justchris
      September 27, 2010, 11:43 pm | # | Reply

      Exotic things are not handy, and feathers are not heavy, and seriously, people who hurl exotic feathers do have problems. Trust me on this.

      • Locke
        Locke
        September 28, 2010, 2:26 am | # | Reply

        … Wow, that was really forced. I have to say, that feather joke just did not tickle my fancy in the least.

  14. phalex
    phalex
    September 27, 2010, 2:45 am | # | Reply

    Han Solo and Elizabeth Bennett, together at last.

    • barsukthom
      barsukthom
      September 27, 2010, 1:52 pm | # | Reply

      The DreamTeamSupreme!

  15. Silvermane
    Silvermane
    September 27, 2010, 3:31 am | # | Reply

    Awwwww, such a cute innocent comment with an awkwardness chaser.

    @ The Indomitable Eric: Oh my god, he totally does look like Han Solo! ^w^

  16. Doop doop
    Doop doop
    September 27, 2010, 3:59 am | # | Reply

    If only the guys hurling handy or heavy objects combined their logic and started throwing gold coins if not their entire sack of coins at you.

  17. BenjiCG
    BenjiCG
    September 27, 2010, 5:19 am | # | Reply

    ok whoever saw the awkward date scenario, well done.

  18. Guy
    Guy
    September 27, 2010, 6:02 am | # | Reply

    Awwwww, what an adorably awkward first dat…I mean daytime-reconnaissance.

  19. MarkusWolf
    MarkusWolf
    September 27, 2010, 6:44 am | # | Reply

    He Says Sooth Said By The Sea Shore.

    • barsukthom
      barsukthom
      September 27, 2010, 1:53 pm | # | Reply

      She says she sells Said Sooth surely.

  20. TraderInTown
    TraderInTown
    September 27, 2010, 7:25 am | # | Reply

    Something in my cold dead heart stirred when I read this.

    It turned out to be vomit.

    Someone punch something in the face, hurry!

    • Surge
      Surge
      September 27, 2010, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

      Duuuuuuude

      might wanna get that checked.
      don’t think puke is supposed to come from there.

    • Balmar Foghaven
      Balmar Foghaven
      September 27, 2010, 7:04 pm | # | Reply

      You carry vomit ducts in your heart? Man, I heard of heart burn but this is just preposterous!

      • Locke
        Locke
        September 28, 2010, 2:28 am | # | Reply

        Worse yet, the vomit was COLD? Are you sure it was your heart, as in the one you have in your body?

        • The Prolific Mr. Anonymous
          The Prolific Mr. Anonymous
          September 29, 2010, 6:24 pm | # | Reply

          Well, it was a heart he OWNS. That should count for something.

  21. Cote
    Cote
    September 27, 2010, 8:08 am | # | Reply

    I want some of MY sooth said. . .

    ‘course, I’ll settle for Byron and Syr’nj’s (Man, I’m glad I’m typing this so I don’t have to try to say that one out loud), and can I say that I’m looking forward to the foreshadowing?

    Cheers,

    Cote

  22. DCB
    DCB
    September 27, 2010, 8:11 am | # | Reply

    Have fun storming that castle Byron!

    • Locke
      Locke
      September 28, 2010, 2:29 am | # | Reply

      Bow-chicka-wow-wow…

  23. Seanan
    Seanan
    September 27, 2010, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    Is there a reason there’s a white space under Byron’s pants in panels 3 and 4?

    • The Indomitable Eric
      The Indomitable Eric
      September 27, 2010, 10:17 pm | # | Reply

      BOY, IS THERE!

      • Locke
        Locke
        September 28, 2010, 2:30 am | # | Reply

        HERESY. BURN HIM!

    • Kenkins
      Kenkins
      September 28, 2010, 10:43 pm | # | Reply

      Negative-space fore-shadowing.

  24. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    September 27, 2010, 9:59 am | # | Reply

    I had sooth said to me once. It was anything but sooth, lemme tell ya.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      September 27, 2010, 10:01 am | # | Reply

      “Leaves are green, skies are blue, let them stare 4 I have you.”

      • barsukthom
        barsukthom
        September 27, 2010, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

        “Roses are red,
        Hydras are green,
        Nobody believes
        The monsters I’ve seen.”

  25. Nekropancser
    Nekropancser
    September 27, 2010, 2:36 pm | # | Reply

    Well… Miss Medical Instrument maybe an ugly girl, but I bet, that I would love to be in Byron’s place… Of course with muscles.

  26. Rob D.
    Rob D.
    September 27, 2010, 5:45 pm | # | Reply

    The alt-text reminds me of a scene in the 1989 Batman where Jack Nicholson kills a man with a thrown feather. Closest thing to a clip of it that I found was around 0:14 in this youtube vid:

  27. Sineplex
    Sineplex
    September 27, 2010, 6:13 pm | # | Reply

    Four things:
    1. I can’t believe this is happening. BUT there’s a lot to analyze in Byron’s lines.
    2. I take back what I said before, half of the way: Syr’Nj should NOT wear pink. Outdoors.
    3. Byron looks kinda… goofy. In Panel 1. Panel 2 might be the most detail we’ve seen on a skull yet, so I can just take that as further defining his appearance, but panel 1… is off.
    4. The return of the ‘f’-S !

  28. tejón
    tejón
    September 28, 2010, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    The ‘f’-S is called a “long S” and has distinguishing features which Wikipedia can explain at length; in a nutshell, that sign really does say “Fortunef.”

    Incidentally, the end of a word is the one place where a long S was never used. I’ll give the benefit of the doubt and assume deliberate satire rather than compound research failure. ;)

  29. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    September 28, 2010, 11:19 pm | # | Reply

    Now I got thinking about who’ll they run into inside that fortune telling tent. Can’t help but wonder if it’s Best in there running a scam.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      September 28, 2010, 11:19 pm | # | Reply

      Oh ok, it’s not really a tent I guess…

  30. Jack Vermicelli
    Jack Vermicelli
    September 29, 2010, 11:38 pm | # | Reply

    What’s the white thing between Byron’s legs? Is there some inexplicably white and clean piece of backdrop there amidst the sea of smudgy purple, was it a miss with the fill tool, or is there actually some sort of tetrahedral something in front of or in his crotch?

    • Jack Vermicelli
      Jack Vermicelli
      September 29, 2010, 11:59 pm | # | Reply

      Er, crud.

      http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-7/chapter-7-page-9/comment-page-1/#comment-8646

  31. q
    q
    March 9, 2014, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    its like being near animals, most birds and the like know enough to fear humans cause we sorta tended to eat on them until like 150 years ago when our diet really narrowed down. but you bring a non predatory pet(ie not a dog or cat, we hunted with dogs almost as long as we walked on 2 legs and cats still hunt everything in your yard and kill it horribly and slowly for absolutely no reason) out with you and they start showing up. like when I’d be outside with my tame squirrel. suddenly BIRDS. I even saw rabbits just chilling like nothing was wrong about 10-20 feet away.

    woodelves almost only contact humans when they’re slaughtering a village and filling it with willows, but if theres people with them they probably aren’t doing that so the fear reaction goes down a bit.

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