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

The one where the real villain shows up.

Chapter 9 – Cover

on January 24, 2011
Chapter: Chapter 09
└ Tags: HR
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  1. Lloyd
    Lloyd
    January 24, 2011, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    He has bad glasses. That can’t bode well.

    • OhNoDinosaurs
      OhNoDinosaurs
      January 24, 2011, 8:20 am | # | Reply

      He’s probably a devil and they’re all in adventurer hell. At least, that’s what I did for a campaign (escape from afterlife, only to have more bs)

      • Caitlin
        Caitlin
        January 24, 2011, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

        Looks like a GM to me.

        Then again, adventurer hell might have several of those. . .

        • Aeovis
          Aeovis
          January 25, 2011, 1:39 am | # | Reply

          My thoughts exactly.

    • Amalda
      Amalda
      February 5, 2014, 3:17 am | # | Reply

      Actually, all I could think of when I saw the glasses was Gordon Freeman

  2. Alice Macher
    Alice Macher
    January 24, 2011, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Eyeglasses, huh…a time-skip, then?

    • flevine
      flevine
      January 24, 2011, 4:45 pm | # | Reply

      Syr’nj has goggles, and Frigg speaks in slang and meme, so anything’s possible. Glasses have actually been around quite a long time–though I concede those look distinctly Ray Ban-ish. (Wait, is it Roy Orbison?)

      • ahdok
        ahdok
        January 25, 2011, 3:28 am | # | Reply

        modern suit?

        • flevine
          flevine
          January 25, 2011, 8:30 am | # | Reply

          Hard to tell in silhouette, really. Could just be a plain coat. I dunno. I’ve almost stopped guessing. :-) Could be a “god”, as someone below suggested–the cultist said something about walking unshod before gods, and Gravedust said, in Leafport, that the magic blocking the dead felt old, “like a half-forgotten god.” Could be a Wizard of Oz-style scenario–dude blew in from Kansas, seems like a god or a wizard to these guys, and is now teaching the pirates how to make balloons…

  3. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    January 24, 2011, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Haha, my feverish refreshing has paid off.

    So the real villain is that creep from Sin City?

    • Locke
      Locke
      January 24, 2011, 1:15 am | # | Reply

      It’s Walt from “Breaking Bad”.

      • zero
        zero
        January 24, 2011, 9:15 pm | # | Reply

        wait, the villain is Hal from Malcolm in the Middle?

        epic

      • Nathanyel
        Nathanyel
        March 18, 2019, 9:11 am | # | Reply

        Looking back at this, this was a really good prediction! HR is very similar to Walter White, except we didn’t see his origin.

    • flevine
      flevine
      January 24, 2011, 6:17 am | # | Reply

      It’s HRG from “Heroes”! Or…Are those Phil’s glasses?

      • zero
        zero
        January 24, 2011, 6:25 am | # | Reply

        HRG is my choice as well

    • Doop doop
      Doop doop
      January 24, 2011, 8:17 am | # | Reply

      My first reaction was actually Christopher Walken. Possibly from Fatboy Slim’s Weapon of Choice video this one

      • Locke
        Locke
        January 24, 2011, 6:40 pm | # | Reply

        Walken is the best guess yet. I want to see that HAPPEN.

    • Mike
      Mike
      February 29, 2012, 1:18 am | # | Reply

      It’s Gordon Freeman.

  4. Furetchen
    Furetchen
    January 24, 2011, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Okay, I think this is where I concede I have no idea where this is going to go.

    I’m sure as hell sticking around to see.

  5. Freako
    Freako
    January 24, 2011, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    A video screen? Glasses? A suit? The anachronisms are piling up!

  6. Doma
    Doma
    January 24, 2011, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Um… why am I suddenly reminded of the Illusive man and the Lazarus Project?

    • herpderp101
      herpderp101
      January 24, 2011, 2:58 am | # | Reply

      because you’ve been playing too much mass effect 2…

    • Mossy
      Mossy
      January 24, 2011, 9:11 am | # | Reply

      Exactly my reaction too…

    • Drak
      Drak
      January 24, 2011, 12:29 pm | # | Reply

      Me too..

    • VexingVision
      VexingVision
      January 24, 2011, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

      Fourthed.

  7. Dinji
    Dinji
    January 24, 2011, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    William H. Macy is the real villain?!

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      January 24, 2011, 12:07 am | # | Reply

      You know what? He just might be: http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news_img/20642/william_h_macy_20642.jpg

      • Dinji
        Dinji
        January 24, 2011, 12:09 am | # | Reply

        He has the glasses from Wild Hogs.

        …not that I’ve watched that movie or anything. At least not while not taking heavy cold meds.

        • Locke
          Locke
          January 24, 2011, 1:14 am | # | Reply

          Am I the only person that comes from a part of the country where that movie isn’t mocked? I mean, what’s up with-

          *looks up, sees big neon sign that says ‘Texas’*

          Oh. Right.

          • matt w
            matt w
            January 24, 2011, 7:54 am | # | Reply

            Ha. I was just about to mention seeing a literal line out the door for Wild Hogs while I was living in Lubbock.

  8. Moses Jerusalem
    Moses Jerusalem
    January 24, 2011, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    So… The real villain is Noah Bennet?

    • Lunitaire
      Lunitaire
      January 24, 2011, 8:01 pm | # | Reply

      YES. And then the Guilded Age-verse converses with Heroes! Oh god, the horror!

  9. Anymouse
    Anymouse
    January 24, 2011, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Oh hello there, Gordon Freeman! What are you doing in Middle Earth?

    • Miklanin
      Miklanin
      January 24, 2011, 6:09 pm | # | Reply

      Heh. I knew I should have read ALL the posts prior to posting more or less the exact same thing…but good to know I wasn’t alone in my thinking.

      • Harrowed
        Harrowed
        January 24, 2011, 11:57 pm | # | Reply

        Seconded!

        • Far
          Far
          January 25, 2011, 8:23 am | # | Reply

          All in favor, say AYE!

          (Those stupid portals are so hard to control)
          “And the science gets done.
          And you make a neat gun
          for the people who are …
          still alive.”

  10. Angry-buddha-88
    Angry-buddha-88
    January 24, 2011, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    IT’S KIM JONG IL. THE GANG IS GOING TO BE RESURRECTED IN THE REAL WORLD AND WILL FIGHT NORTH KOREA.

    • Locke
      Locke
      January 24, 2011, 1:13 am | # | Reply

      THEIR MENTORS SHALL BE JOSEPH STALIN, FIDEL CASTRO, THE GHOST OF THE PREVIOUS POPE, AND THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

      • CjRayn
        CjRayn
        January 24, 2011, 2:08 am | # | Reply

        THAT WOULD BE POPE JOHN PAUL II. HE WAS AWESOME AND TOTALLY NOT CREEPY LOOKING LIKE THE CURRENT POPE. THE CURRENT POPE REMINDS ME OF EMPEROR PALPATINE.

        • Lynxx
          Lynxx
          January 24, 2011, 2:52 am | # | Reply

          I LOVE LAMP!

    • Dusty668
      Dusty668
      January 24, 2011, 4:55 am | # | Reply

      JIM JONG IL, THE DEALMAKER! SAY IT WITH ME!

      • barsukthom
        barsukthom
        January 24, 2011, 8:44 am | # | Reply

        HE’S IL, HE’S IL, HE’S KIM JONG IL!
        GLORIOUS FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY,
        HE’S KIM JONG IL!

        • Locke
          Locke
          January 24, 2011, 9:18 am | # | Reply

          THEY WOULD DEFEAT HIM IN AN EPIC GAME OF MAJHONG.

          • Freako
            Freako
            January 24, 2011, 5:44 pm | # | Reply

            IS TODAY ALL-CAPS DAY OR SOMETHING?

            • Locke
              Locke
              January 24, 2011, 6:42 pm | # | Reply

              I DON’T KNOW. I CAN’T TYPE IN ANYTHING ELSE RIGHT NOW. I THINK I MAY HAVE A PROBLEM, GUYS. EITHER THAT OR I’VE BECOME TERRY PRATCHETT’S DEATH. CERTAINLY, THOUGH, I’D KNOW FOR CERTAIN IF THAT HAPPENED, BECAUSE I’D HAVE A CRAVING FOR CURRY.

  11. Alma
    Alma
    January 24, 2011, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Is this going to start getting meta on us?

  12. Frank
    Frank
    January 24, 2011, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    It is Adam Savage of Mythbusters!!

  13. Alechsa
    Alechsa
    January 24, 2011, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Oh SHIT…. is this about to pan out Gamers Style to a room full of geeks with dice and character sheets?!?! >.>

    • Legault
      Legault
      January 24, 2011, 12:56 am | # | Reply

      “And that’s it. TPK. What the hell, dude? That encounter was totally unwinnable!”

      • Moe Lane
        Moe Lane
        January 24, 2011, 1:09 am | # | Reply

        “…Well, it was totally unwinnable. I mean, dammit, we weren’t even trying to blow up the GM’s plot or anything; everybody kept talking about ‘diplomacy,’ so we were trying that.”

        “Actually, I found it to be very refreshing, in a meta-narrative sort of way: we were being punished in a traditional fashion for non-traditional gaming behaviors. Very subversive. Elegantly so, even. I can’t wait to get my Tuesday seminar’s remote analysis of the memetic inversions!”

        “…Whatever, Frigg.”

        • jast
          jast
          January 24, 2011, 1:22 am | # | Reply

          I collapsed :DD

        • derf
          derf
          January 24, 2011, 1:48 am | # | Reply

          Ha! /salute Moe

        • Solna
          Solna
          January 24, 2011, 3:07 am | # | Reply

          +1

        • Zizek
          Zizek
          January 24, 2011, 3:53 am | # | Reply

          Well played.

          • Moe Lane
            Moe Lane
            January 24, 2011, 11:06 am | # | Reply

            Thank you all. No applause, just throw money at the site store.

            • Phil
              Flo
              January 24, 2011, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

              ^

        • Phil
          Flo
          January 24, 2011, 7:20 am | # | Reply

          Gold Star.

        • VexingVision
          VexingVision
          January 24, 2011, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

          I continue today’s trend and join the row of people cheering. Well done, Moe. Very very well done.

        • Locke
          Locke
          January 24, 2011, 6:43 pm | # | Reply

          I’m going to play the Salieri role here and sit in the corner looking jealous and unhappy.

          “It was not Moe laughing at me. It was GOD.”

        • Aeovis
          Aeovis
          January 25, 2011, 1:55 am | # | Reply

          I, like many others, applaud you for this.

      • Setarcos
        Setarcos
        January 24, 2011, 8:38 am | # | Reply

        I think there is a certain webcomic character out there, a certain “perfect warlord” who would scoff at the idea of the encounter being unwinnable. question is can this one be cheated?

        • blakhart
          blakhart
          January 24, 2011, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

          If by cheating, do you mean could Syr’nj conjure up a science type volcano to swallow up all the bad guys, then yeah, they could cheat.

          Also, golf clap and hat’s doffed to Moe.

        • Abcus
          Abcus
          January 24, 2011, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

          Erfworld Reference!

          Nice!

          Cheers,

          Cote

    • Jim
      Jim
      January 24, 2011, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

      I REALLY hope not.

  14. RJ
    RJ
    January 24, 2011, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    funny how many of us were refreshing to see this…

    • Mark
      Mark
      January 24, 2011, 3:32 am | # | Reply

      Darn it. I told you! I told you all!!!!!!

  15. Rigenstein
    Rigenstein
    January 24, 2011, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Nobody mentioned GMan?¡ SHAME ON YOU¡¡

    • CjRayn
      CjRayn
      January 24, 2011, 2:13 am | # | Reply

      You kidding me? It’s Aizen! It’s Aizen! He’s about to take his glasses off and kill everyone!

  16. Grug
    Grug
    January 24, 2011, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    ILLUSIVE MAN?

    Damn stupid cover. Now I have to wait another 2 days to find out what happens.

    I’m really hoping it’s not just a game on a table. I always liked how they skirted the line (I got a 9 in lock picking!), but embracing their RPG status would kill this comic for me.

  17. DarkSpiral
    DarkSpiral
    January 24, 2011, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    So…the gang was all a video game? Or something.

  18. timbo
    timbo
    January 24, 2011, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    zomg the villain is my dad?

    • Kenkins
      Kenkins
      January 24, 2011, 5:39 am | # | Reply

      I was thinking the same thing.

      … Brother?

      • timbo
        timbo
        January 24, 2011, 11:30 pm | # | Reply

        ;_; /tearfulreunion

  19. Snowblind
    Snowblind
    January 24, 2011, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    My theory:

    The Smoking Man.

    • centuriancode
      centuriancode
      January 24, 2011, 2:14 am | # | Reply

      If this takes that many years (and two movies) to still not resolve anything at all…
      …we’ll probably still be reading.

  20. phyre
    phyre
    January 24, 2011, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    IT’S NEW ART GUY!!!!

    Just look at his avatar! :D

    • Nekropancser
      Nekropancser
      January 24, 2011, 5:13 pm | # | Reply

      You blew my comment… I was too late.

    • RJ
      RJ
      January 24, 2011, 9:56 pm | # | Reply

      right! how did i miss that?

  21. Arky
    Arky
    January 24, 2011, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Time skip? “All just a game” – the newest product of All Just A Dream Enterprises Inc? High-tech humans invade the Guilded Age planet? A non-representative cover image to drive us all nuts with theories until Wednesday?

    Guilded Age: We illustrate, you decide!

  22. Legault
    Legault
    January 24, 2011, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Real villian, eh? The GM?

  23. swordsister
    swordsister
    January 24, 2011, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    Evil DM! He has to be evil..cause he glasses and all..yeah..

  24. Locke
    Locke
    January 24, 2011, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    Commissioner Gordon? Quick, call Batman! Our heroes need help!

    And please, oh please don’t let this be all that goes up for Monday; I can’t remember how the start of new chapters works. Still, even if it is, oh well, as long as this comic keeps updating.

    • Fren
      Fren
      January 24, 2011, 8:34 am | # | Reply

      Thunder: stolen. I, too, saw Commissioner James Gordon. From the newer Batman films, of course.

    • athief
      athief
      January 24, 2011, 8:36 pm | # | Reply

      I as well, Locke.

      Now… Joker is RPing Bandit, Batman is letting off some steam as Byron, and Robin is trying not to be in the backseat as Frigg.

      Apparently Robin has some gender issues. (see: that dungeon with Best)

    • Kilroy Quartermaine
      Kilroy Quartermaine
      January 28, 2011, 1:22 am | # | Reply

      Oh yes. I almost did a search, because my first thought was “Gary Oldman? what is he doing in my webcomic?” Then I couldn’t remember got the life of me where I’d seen him with a ‘stache and glasses.

  25. CatOfEvilGenius
    CatOfEvilGenius
    January 24, 2011, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    Wasn’t there a shadowy figure in the last Preview’O’Mystery? Is this the same guy or not?

    • swordsister
      swordsister
      January 24, 2011, 1:00 am | # | Reply

      that guy did not have glasses.

      • Locke
        Locke
        January 24, 2011, 1:11 am | # | Reply

        Yes he did. Same ‘stache, too.

  26. swordsister
    swordsister
    January 24, 2011, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    Just noticed, look at the perspective. Is he watching behing a screen/glass/window?

  27. minion
    minion
    January 24, 2011, 1:02 am | # | Reply

    OMG OMG OMG
    *tears out what little remaining hair in frustration*

    What did we do to deserve this suspense?
    Appease! Appease!
    Whay cant wednesday come faster?

  28. Rocco
    Rocco
    January 24, 2011, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    Okay, now you’re just fucking with us.

  29. Guy
    Guy
    January 24, 2011, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    Commissioner Gorden?

    It didn’t have to be this way, you were a good guy once!

    • Guy
      Guy
      January 24, 2011, 1:13 am | # | Reply

      Gordon* I really, truly wish I could edit that.

      • Locke
        Locke
        January 24, 2011, 1:16 am | # | Reply

        Ain’t typos a bitch?

  30. George
    George
    January 24, 2011, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    Gideon Graves with a fake ‘stache?

  31. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    January 24, 2011, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    That’s Phil without his beard.

  32. Twigs
    Twigs
    January 24, 2011, 1:38 am | # | Reply

    Everything I thought I understood about this comic has just gone out the window.

  33. GutlordGrom
    GutlordGrom
    January 24, 2011, 1:46 am | # | Reply

    Even though I like the covers for each chapter, since they do nicely foreshadow the events of the story still to come, I just find it a tad annoying when we’re on the crossover.

    Though it is a good use of suspense to keep us reading. I guess its not really a complaint, but just wanting to see what happens next.

    • GutlordGrom
      GutlordGrom
      January 24, 2011, 1:46 am | # | Reply

      Sorry, meant cliff hanger.

    • GutlordGrom
      GutlordGrom
      January 24, 2011, 1:50 am | # | Reply

      Sorry, to keep talking to myself, but the mouse over text for the cover is interesting.

      • CjRayn
        CjRayn
        January 24, 2011, 2:16 am | # | Reply

        More evidence that it is Sosuke Aizen.

  34. antonio
    antonio
    January 24, 2011, 2:28 am | # | Reply

    what’s with you all: It’s clearly Inspector Gordon!

  35. Corpy
    Corpy
    January 24, 2011, 2:31 am | # | Reply

    G-Man! NO! I can’t even kill you with noclip!

  36. dfacto
    dfacto
    January 24, 2011, 3:50 am | # | Reply

    Assassin’s Creed? Animus?

    I bet it’s Colonel Pornstache: 70s porn version

    • swordsister
      swordsister
      January 25, 2011, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

      ogod i lold to this.

  37. Bear
    Bear
    January 24, 2011, 4:02 am | # | Reply

    You fail to realise that this is Ned Flanders.

  38. Ambrom
    Ambrom
    January 24, 2011, 4:30 am | # | Reply

    They just have been killed.. I’d say it’s God.
    Looking through the window to an infinity of chaos, after all.

  39. Grug
    Grug
    January 24, 2011, 4:38 am | # | Reply

    Wait a sec… I bet that guy is (a) God. Deus ex machina time!

  40. Sauron Bane
    Sauron Bane
    January 24, 2011, 5:13 am | # | Reply

    …. Anyone else see Freeman? From Half-life? Just me? Anyways… Yes, new chapter time! With a villain!

    • BriGuy
      BriGuy
      January 24, 2011, 3:26 pm | # | Reply

      Why did I think you meant Morgan Freeman? o.O

      • Sauron Bane
        Sauron Bane
        January 24, 2011, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

        I do not know… Seriously though? Don’t you agree? From the back, all shadowy-like, it looks like Freeman, doesn’t it?

        • SteelRaven
          SteelRaven
          January 24, 2011, 8:04 pm | # | Reply

          A couple of people said Freeman, I’m guessing this whole comic is really about what he was doing between Half-Life one and two.

  41. coffeecult
    coffeecult
    January 24, 2011, 5:15 am | # | Reply

    This just goes to show us how many bamf guys there are that are just “the dude with the glasses” …so many guesses happened uniquely.

  42. D1SoveR
    D1SoveR
    January 24, 2011, 6:19 am | # | Reply

    Sweet! How did you even manage to get Edward James Olmos into the cast?!

  43. Atnas
    Atnas
    January 24, 2011, 6:27 am | # | Reply

    I think it’s meant to make us thing it is modern by the silhouette, but it might look entirely different when shown properly.

  44. dr pepper
    dr pepper
    January 24, 2011, 6:56 am | # | Reply

    Heh. Reminds me of one staging of the Nibelungenlied i saw. There’s a break in the action and the next scene is set in Asgard where the gods discuss what’s been happening. And it’s the actual producers of the opera, in their business suits, playing the gods.

    • Hawk
      Hawk
      January 24, 2011, 7:44 am | # | Reply

      That…

      Is actually kind of awesome. I would have liked to see that.

    • Aeovis
      Aeovis
      January 25, 2011, 1:49 am | # | Reply

      What is this and where can I find it? Norse mythology and opera combined with a twist like that– I must see it.

  45. Alucardx13
    Alucardx13
    January 24, 2011, 7:32 am | # | Reply

    Looks like TIM from Mass Effect.

  46. Coyote
    Coyote
    January 24, 2011, 7:44 am | # | Reply

    Dr. Freeman, it’s time to wake up

  47. S.
    S.
    January 24, 2011, 7:46 am | # | Reply

    It’s Salavador Allende!

    http://www.elciudadano.cl/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/20_salvador-allende.jpg

    • Zizek
      Zizek
      January 24, 2011, 8:10 am | # | Reply

      The whole comic has just been a really well-disguised anti-Marxist author tract until now.

    • Archwright
      Archwright
      January 25, 2011, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

      I was going to say Gordon Freeman, like everyone else, but the guy definitely looks more like Allende.

  48. Hawk
    Hawk
    January 24, 2011, 7:46 am | # | Reply

    Whoever it is, whatever twisted plot occurs…I’ll be here.

    I might be taking very serious drugs, but I’ll be here.

    He DOES look a lot like Commissioner Gordon, though.

    • Phil
      Flo
      January 24, 2011, 7:49 am | # | Reply

      Share and share alike compadre.

  49. Pathak
    Pathak
    January 24, 2011, 7:46 am | # | Reply

    My first impression was Comm. Gordon, as played by Gary Oldman in Dark Knight.

    But whadda I know?

    • Connie
      Connie
      January 24, 2011, 9:15 am | # | Reply

      Yep. That’s what I was thinking too.

      • blakhart
        blakhart
        January 24, 2011, 6:39 pm | # | Reply

        Agreed.

        Back left, three quarter view of Gordon looking pensively out across Gotham into the red sunset.

  50. Anonymous
    Anonymous
    January 24, 2011, 9:14 am | # | Reply

    IT WAS THE DM ALL ALONG!

  51. DiggerPat
    DiggerPat
    January 24, 2011, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    I’m rather hoping it’s some DM cameo as a peek into the game going on instead of a “Village”-style world within a world.

  52. Blogonomicon
    Blogonomicon
    January 24, 2011, 10:57 am | # | Reply

    With all the interesting guesses in the comments, it’s a bit underwhelming that my first impression was Hank Hill.

  53. JT Petro
    JT Petro
    January 24, 2011, 11:29 am | # | Reply

    It’s Charles Foster Offdenson!

    • Gelegenheitsleser
      Gelegenheitsleser
      January 24, 2011, 12:53 pm | # | Reply

      Fools! it’s the Master and Overlord of Diplomacy…
      …Henry Kissinger!

  54. The Unreal
    The Unreal
    January 24, 2011, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

    It turns out the whole comic was just the fever dream of a different webcomic’s cast.

    Super double in-world meta.

  55. felix
    felix
    January 24, 2011, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

    Commissioner Gordon?

    • Hoo-ya
      Hoo-ya
      January 24, 2011, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

      DUN DUN DUUUUNNN!

  56. PRiegel
    PRiegel
    January 24, 2011, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

    Clearly, he’s head of some sinister organization that’s poor at secrecy– hence, the jacket with the large “CHAPTER 9” printed on the back….

    • GutlordGrom
      GutlordGrom
      January 24, 2011, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

      My Cthulu! It all makes sense!

  57. Soliloquy
    Soliloquy
    January 24, 2011, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

    The characters are dead, and this is a fast-forward in time to later in the same world, where the diplomacy failed, the war happened, mankind won, and mankind has succeeded in creating flying machines.

  58. UberMensche
    UberMensche
    January 24, 2011, 2:13 pm | # | Reply

    Are you guys kidding? It’s Hank from King of the Hill of course.

  59. dr pepper
    dr pepper
    January 24, 2011, 2:58 pm | # | Reply

    How about this? It’s the GM and he’s watching his garage burn down– along with all the maps, sourcebooks, character sheets, sand tables, and miniatures that make up the Erfworld campaign.

  60. Nekropancser
    Nekropancser
    January 24, 2011, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

    He is the Devil himself. Watching as the party members fall and burn. (They all were murderers in a way.) Or he is a sorcerer, enjoying the fires of Gastonia. “And it is all my doing…”

  61. Miklanin
    Miklanin
    January 24, 2011, 6:07 pm | # | Reply

    Hmmm. Does anyone else think that looks like a silhouette of Gordon Freeman?

  62. Locke
    Locke
    January 24, 2011, 6:46 pm | # | Reply

    “Is Theodore Roosevelt gonna have to choke a bitch?”

    *crosses fingers for it to be Teddy Roosevelt*

  63. slayn82
    slayn82
    January 24, 2011, 6:49 pm | # | Reply

    Its Claremont of the “Gods of Arr – Kelaan”. The God of knowledge. (The master of their pantheon is Ronson, the god of drinking yourself to oblivion.)

    Nah, of course not.

  64. ThatGuy
    ThatGuy
    January 24, 2011, 7:07 pm | # | Reply

    Didnt the last one said to see what happens on monday? Its monday and nothing has happened!

  65. Alex
    Alex
    January 24, 2011, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

    Oh mah gaaaaaaahd

  66. gjnii
    gjnii
    January 25, 2011, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Holodeck. this was a star-trek fan fiction comic all along.

  67. Drak
    Drak
    January 25, 2011, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    I can’t believe that nobody else has realized that the villian is really Commissioner Gordon from Batman: The Dark Knight!

  68. Freako
    Freako
    January 25, 2011, 1:57 am | # | Reply

    Hey… does anyone else see the barest smidgen of a silhouette of a moustache on this guy?

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      January 25, 2011, 3:32 am | # | Reply

      we know he has a moustache already.

  69. Brandon C
    Brandon C
    January 25, 2011, 2:26 am | # | Reply

    Christopher…. Walken?

  70. ahdok
    ahdok
    January 25, 2011, 3:32 am | # | Reply

    at least it hasn’t cut to the characters drinking tea, and analysing what went wrong, before dropping us back into the start of the plot again, where events pan out differently to the running commentary of a ghostly form of Byron who’s meta-analysing the whole plot.

    I hate it when that happens.

  71. Frazzle.d
    Frazzle.d
    January 25, 2011, 7:05 am | # | Reply

    Commisioner Gordon from Gotham City and Batman fame at the start of a trailer unvieling Marvel vs. DC vs. Blizzard vs. Nintendo vs. Capcom

    imho.

    They’re testing the effect showing it to the audience of a cult webcomic before unleashing it upon the world, who just may not be ready for such high levels of win.

  72. G@T0R
    G@T0R
    January 25, 2011, 9:28 am | # | Reply

    I think everyone is missing the point. If this is just a tabletop scenario, then its probably a dude playing Syr’nj and a dude playing Byron. This leads me to the conclusion that the DM is a homophobe and initiated TPK when he saw the early signs of a relationship forming between characters.

  73. Andras
    Andras
    January 25, 2011, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

    Michael Douglas, is that you?

  74. Alucardx13
    Alucardx13
    January 26, 2011, 6:59 am | # | Reply

    I say he’s a dead ringer for TIM in the Renegade ending of ME2: Red background, same suit, same haircut… Not sure about the moustache or glasses though.

  75. HarryJ
    HarryJ
    January 26, 2011, 10:25 am | # | Reply

    It’s HRG!

  76. Magistrate of Mediocrity
    Magistrate of Mediocrity
    July 7, 2011, 4:20 pm | # | Reply

    G-Gordon Freeman? Is that you?

  77. SotiCoto
    SotiCoto
    February 13, 2014, 8:26 am | # | Reply

    Oh. This is the bit that seemed like a shark-jump at the time… but was planned from the start therefore technically wasn’t… and yet is still a bit jarring if one didn’t connect the dots.

    And lets face it, there were few enough dots to connect. The minor anachronisms that have arisen here and there so far could all be written off in some form or other, or otherwise ignored without implying significance…

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