Guest Week – Jason Meador
Welcome, Guildies, to Guest Week! Our first installment was submitted by Jason Meador, who intends to establish a running gag out of Byron’s horrifyingly traumatic past.
(Prints of this Guest Strip are not for sale)
Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip
Discussion (24) ¬
Is moose artillery like launching a cow out of a catapult at a bunch of knights?
I sorta pictured it as a moose pulling a carriage full of javelins, and a guy riding the moose who attaches a big rubber bowstring to the outside tines of the moose’s antlers and pulls it back with a winch far enough to rest a javelin on the moose’s head. Then he dangles a piece of fruit or a tuber or something in front of the moose until it lifts its head to the proper azimuth, and TWAAANNNG!. It doesn’t matter if you hit the moose in the head with the javelin, because moose are so thunderingly stupid they don’t actually need a head to survive.
…Or, if you have sense enough to type in the correct firing solution, “…lifts its head to the proper elevation“.
Yeah… But that wouldn’t be very efficient. Rubber bands, even large ones, don’t produce effective long-range artillery. They’re also not very durable. Bows and Crossbows don’t get their power from the string; they get it from the wood/fiberglass/steel bow.
A moose artillery would basically amount to antler-mounted slingshots. Not very effective against any kind of armor, really.
Catapults with moose as the ammunition, though? Hilarious AND effective. At long distances, the velocity of a moose (often weighting in excess of half a ton) is enough, that on impact, will cause biological shrapnel – bits of moose – to go everywhere. As a diversionary tactic, it works wonders. As a psychological tactic… well… I’m sure you can imagine.
gah… way to ruin a perfectly good joke dood…..
btw, i love how frigg uses internet speek….
thats mah laydy….
In the 1800’s, the Persians had cannon designed to be fired from the backs of Camels.
http://greatestbattles.iblogger.org/Persia/19thC/Persian_19th_Century_Soldiers.htm
I assume Moose artillery works similarly. Not to say that I don’t get a sick kick out of the idea of launching moose from trebuchets. :-)
… Moose artillery is about half the Canadian armed forces.
Best. Running gag. Ever.
That middle panel is pretty awesome. Nice composition and color usage.
AAARGH. Looks like I sent the wrong version- it was supposed to have some minor texture over the middle panel, ‘cuz the texture overlays Erika puts on the pages are one of the coolest things about Guilded Age.
Thanks, though. It looks a lot more animated onscreen than it did in my head.
Ya Herr Byron lie down on zee couch bitte und tell me about zein hacking mutter.
You know Herr Byron, sometimes ein axe is just ein axe.
PTSD=LOLZ
I love that silhouette panel with Byron’s crazy “demonic anime background character” eyes. And they all look cuuuuuute, especially Frigg!
and then byron bought a ship called “Battleshire” and brought together a rag-rag crew, including a priest with an agenda, a highly born doctor and a disturbed…young…woman…who has uncanny fighting abilities and was captured by a state organisation as a child? is it weird that i suddenly want to go watch firefly again?
uh…you guys might have a link problem…i can get here from anywhere in the archives except twig’s page…where both the ‘next’ and ‘latest’ links are ghosted.
Well done. Rex for the win.
Dude, I like your style.
Wow! Very nice page.
I love the contrast between the peaceful forest walk and the chaotic battle scene.
Byron just got 65 years old in the fourth picture.
By the way, Frigg looks much more beautiful in this page.
what is moose artillery?
I believe TexasNinjaBuzzard explained it quite clearly in his reply to the first post. And since TexasNinjaBuzzard seems to be the talented person who made this guest comic, I’d say his explanation would have to be canon, and not just some wild guess by a random reader.
Then again, I’m sure no one would mind if he presented a detailed image of a typical moose artillery. Though for the sake of accuracy and sparing the moose’s head, might I suggest a crossbar between the horns on which to rest the javelin? And then a couple of pointy things in the middle, which could keep the javelin from sliding around on said crossbar? Or am I being too technical in this age of magic and wonder?
There is nothing I do not like about this.
Looking at recent developments. This guest comic is quite accurate.
Harsher in hindsight, for sure.