Guest Comic by Jason Meador (Annotated)
I had a particular approach to guest strips when I composed them. I preferred building up elaborate storylines that could have been accepted into the series’ official canon and occasionally were. (Y’all might be particularly interested in this one, which saw contributions from both of Guilded Age‘s most regular artists.)
My approach was something of an outlier. Most guest comics tended to be short and purely humorous instead of larger and seriocomic. But this strip from Jason “Not Waltrip” Meador feels like an installment of the kind of guest storyline I would do.
This really could have happened sometime around the Flooding Prison Incident. It wouldn’t even mess with the surprise in Chapter 8. Syr’Nj would have worried about this but resisted the worst-case explanation for it, and Frigg, at this point, had never met a dire portent she couldn’t ignore (except for the words “Priestlord Gigundus,” I guess).
Meador had no special knowledge about forthcoming developments; he just guessed right.
Moose Artillery still makes me chuckel
And we never did get to see them.
It actually sounds like a wood elf thing. I’m picturing moose with their antlers set up like huge sling shots.
Why is it that I never realized until now that Gastonia is named after the villain of Beauty and the Beast?
Who does Syr’Nj think she is! That girl has tangled with
the wrong city! No one says no to Gastonia…
No one’s slick as Gastonia
No one’s quick as Gastonia
No one’s military hits hard as brick like Gastonia
For there’s no city-state half as manly
Perfect, a pure paragon
You can ask any Tom, Dick or Stanley
And they’ll tell you whose team they prefer to be on
There’s an alternate universe where Byron’s flashback was just a throwaway joke, but the moose artillery turned out to be absolutely essential to the plot.
It would be more effective to launch moose with a catapult.
Duuuuuuuuude, I remember “The Proof”. I think that was how I found out about Guilded Age.
And it is semi-cannon