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

It's about time.

Chapter 8 – Page 20

on January 10, 2011
Chapter: Chapter 08
└ Tags: Byron, Harky
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  1. RJ
    RJ
    January 11, 2011, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    damn and DAMN!

    I must admit this is a duo for me… I love the comic and the postings. I don’t normally comment but after someone else mentioned it I realized I spend half a day reading all the posts and scrolling back up to the comic… can’t say I’ve done that on any other comic. Thanks all

    • Sybarite
      Sybarite
      January 11, 2011, 1:57 am | # | Reply

      I do exactly the same thing. Altho’ I did propose to someone one here once. :P

      • Locke
        Locke
        January 11, 2011, 2:11 am | # | Reply

        I hope it worked out for you man.

        And did you use a pun with it? See, around here, we believe puns are appropriate for all situations. That’s totally true about life, too.

        • Sybarite
          Sybarite
          January 13, 2011, 2:54 am | # | Reply

          Lol, no. I had just started reading the comic so I didn’t realize how vital puns were. Methinks they are more important than a good push-up bra around here!

        • SotiCoto
          SotiCoto
          June 26, 2013, 3:43 am | # | Reply

          In.
          Inappropriate.
          Those two letters are all-important.

    • Aeovis
      Aeovis
      January 11, 2011, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

      I do the same– I’ve been thinking about posting myself and haven’t really. Looks like you’re a catalyst today. : D

  2. JoeDanW
    JoeDanW
    January 11, 2011, 2:10 am | # | Reply

    ………I just pissed my fiancee off with my giddiness about Byron FINALLY going berserk rage on a bitch….I love you guys, I get an angry conjugal visit tonight =D

    • Locke
      Locke
      January 11, 2011, 2:15 am | # | Reply

      Just note, that while foaming at the mouth works for Byron in this situation, it will NOT work for you in your situation. Trust me. They just think you have rabies.

      (And then she’ll probably call the cops. And then you get to spend the night in a cell with a guy named “Cliff Bob”. Oh, and Cliff, I don’t know if you’re reading this, but I do NOT want to rob that bank with you, no idea how you got my number, but please, PLEASE stop calling it.)

  3. Wulfenware
    Wulfenware
    January 11, 2011, 2:48 am | # | Reply

    Absolutely brilliant. Stabbing him with a spear protruding from his own chest. This is the kind of Character moment I play D&D to Experience! Movies and books rarely have the individual focus on a character to evolve in truly interesting and revelatory ways. I’m so glad that Byron is truly a Berserker in the scariest sense. I hope there is a suitably dark and terrifying explanation to come.

    Love your work. You guys rock.

    Sincerely,
    Wulf

  4. dr pepper
    dr pepper
    January 11, 2011, 3:21 am | # | Reply

    That’s not ordinary berserkness. Harki is right, Byron is possessed! He’s the earthly host of a savage war god.

    That’s how he can survive being shiskabobbed.

    • swordsister
      swordsister
      January 11, 2011, 5:02 am | # | Reply

      I believe the cultist was just trying to trigger his frenzy, nothing more.
      This response we see here is just a mere example of what actually a true berserker is capable of. Quite close to Scandinavian berserkergangr description.

      • dr pepper
        dr pepper
        January 12, 2011, 11:33 pm | # | Reply

        Not referring to the cultist. What he’s possessed by would scare the cultists into getting day jobs.

  5. Rykka
    Rykka
    January 11, 2011, 3:41 am | # | Reply

    Finally!

  6. bwernard
    bwernard
    January 11, 2011, 9:19 am | # | Reply

    I dont like the Tazmanian-Devil moment on the fourth panel… kinda breaks the feeling of the moment for me. But other than that, yay, awesome to see that the berserker berserking

    • Whipstitch
      Whipstitch
      January 11, 2011, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

      I also felt that it made for sort of a weird juxtaposition. I honestly don’t know how you’re supposed to portray the whirlwind attack cliche without it coming across as more cartoony than threatening.

      • flevine
        flevine
        January 11, 2011, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, very challenging, visually. Perhaps a line of freeze-frames (i.e., snapshots in various states of the turn) and some motion blur?

        • The Unreal
          The Unreal
          January 11, 2011, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

          Kinda with you guys on that one.

          Also … maybe back off the giant anime mouth expressions a wee bit? I’m seeing Robotech creep. :)

          • Whipstitch
            Whipstitch
            January 11, 2011, 3:50 pm | # | Reply

            I know it’s tempting to make the anime reference considering the artist, but large, wide open mouths is a go-to move in animation and comics of virtually all stripes. It’s just a bit different seeing it in Guilded Age given that Erica was a bigger fan of the clenched jaw than the wide open mouth.

        • flevine
          flevine
          January 11, 2011, 10:09 pm | # | Reply

          BTW–that’s just a random idea. Something like that is technically and conceptually difficult, plus the art as a whole has to be done with a quick turnaround on a regular basis. One of my friends was a comic strip/book artist. He ran into a classmate years after graduating who’d been highly dismissive of his work because it wasn’t “real art.” She actually apologized to him because she’d been asked to work on some kind of indie comic or graphic novel, and discovered just how hard it was.

  7. Atnas
    Atnas
    January 11, 2011, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

    I get the feeling it’s more of a cursed/spell placed upon him by the cult of the lidless eye (did I get that right?).

    Like many said, it seems to be more of a command! Didn’t that seer trigger it a way back?

    • Samuel
      Samuel
      January 11, 2011, 6:28 pm | # | Reply

      Or maybe his axes talk back.

      • Aeovis
        Aeovis
        January 11, 2011, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

        You know, that would be great. In the end, we find out it’s his darling axes that have been instructing him to kill all along.

  8. Samedi
    Samedi
    January 11, 2011, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

    Oh shit, he’s using Deathless Frenzy. Heal him up quick before he dies.

  9. Andee
    Andee
    January 11, 2011, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

    HO-LEE-SHIT. I really didnt think I would be able to love this comic any more than I already do. Me = PROVEN THE FUCK WRONG.
    I guess he really WAS named Byron the Berserker for a reason.

  10. Wendy
    Wendy
    January 11, 2011, 2:32 pm | # | Reply

    At first I wasn’t sure the art was right in this page. But I think it’s just that I’m not used to seeing Harki look so concerned and Byron looking so mindless.

  11. Nekropancser
    Nekropancser
    January 11, 2011, 4:38 pm | # | Reply

    I am disappointed. The page should be heroic. Not comical. I was about to withdraw my previous concerns about John and his art, since he usually got things right and beautiful, dynamic, and was about to apologize… but this page does it. Hells! Why that hurricane thing? Rage, possession, or what… why would a warrior turn it’s back on his foe? And so many times… Why would this warrior avert his eyes, while the thing of his hatred is in front of him? When I took a glimpse of the first three panels, I released a gasp. It was cool. Awesome. Then I chuckled… Seriously. You’ve done a great job this far, and only a few things were out of the picture… the fourth picture, and the last being some of them… shit.

    • Douchebag
      Douchebag
      January 13, 2011, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t really think your opinion is all that important to the artist, you seem to be the only one with a problem.

      • SotiCoto
        SotiCoto
        January 19, 2015, 8:08 am | # | Reply

        “You seem to be the only one with a problem” …

        Someone didn’t look down the page.
        Hint : No. Other people identified the same problem. It is a shared problem.
        You are wrong, and it is made all the worse because you resorted immediately to a clichéd answer without bothering to confirm for yourself that it is blatantly wrong.

        FURTHERMORE… the degree to which a problem is shared or not is not legitimate justification for dismissal in any case.

  12. Guy
    Guy
    January 11, 2011, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

    The red rage grips the heart, the blood sings of fire and darkness, a howling echo of savage primal night, SPIN ATTACK!

  13. BraveNovember
    BraveNovember
    January 11, 2011, 5:29 pm | # | Reply

    Oh hells yeah.

  14. Mirefrost00
    Mirefrost00
    January 11, 2011, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

    Where Harki caught the spear-breaking axe in the third panel, I figured the spinning in the fourth panel was Harki throwing Byron off-balance, so as to effect his escape to that rope. Anyone else see it that way?

  15. GMV
    GMV
    January 12, 2011, 6:19 am | # | Reply

    Like your explanation Mirefrost00. I just can’t quiet figure out what it is that Harki is holding in that panel in his left hand. I can only describe it as apparently a wooden object made in a double claw form, but seeing that wasn’t there before… what is it?
    I also believe Harki’s hand goes the wrong way from panel 2 to three. In panel two his palm faces outward and thumb towards Byron, now if you twist it that way you have to spin the axe around… Which seems odd.
    Having said all that, I could not do any better. Just hope it helps to improve an already great comic!

  16. A hermit
    A hermit
    January 12, 2011, 6:54 pm | # | Reply

    I think the item you’re talking about is just his loincloth thing flapping up as he’s falling.

  17. Wazza
    Wazza
    February 1, 2011, 6:24 am | # | Reply

    To misquote an old comedy film:

    NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL A REAL BERSERK

  18. daed4
    daed4
    May 7, 2011, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

    …
    BLADESTORM!

  19. FreddeX
    FreddeX
    May 17, 2011, 12:58 pm | # | Reply

    “Hell yeah, it’s about time!” – Alá Tychus Finlay from Starcraft 2.

  20. James Rye
    James Rye
    June 15, 2012, 5:37 pm | # | Reply

    About damn fuckin’ time! Now you ROCK, By!:D

  21. Biligum
    Biligum
    June 23, 2012, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

    Hang on, what? The orc just got stabbed straight through his heart – probably in the right ventricle, or in between the ventricles. He shouldn’t even be standing, let alone running around.

  22. Hogan
    Hogan
    March 23, 2013, 3:50 pm | # | Reply

    Troll… meet Berserker :-)

  23. SotiCoto
    SotiCoto
    February 13, 2014, 7:38 am | # | Reply

    This whole scene, supposedly a severe and dramatic revelation… is just coming across as downright silly because Byron is spinning like Taz and the troll seems to have a semi-perpetual derp-face.

  24. Saiyanwolf
    Saiyanwolf
    October 13, 2014, 1:59 pm | # | Reply

    Hell has broken loose and then some

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