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

'Every group of adventurers has an Asshole and Goddammit, you're OUR Asshole!'

The Last Axemas – Page 11

on January 18, 2017
Chapter: Extra Bits
└ Tags: Best, Byron, Frigg, Gravedust, Syr'Nj
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  1. Steel Resolve
    Steel Resolve
    January 18, 2017, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Yet he dies at a lonely grave… I feel like fate is either shifting, it’s cruel.

    • Devlerbat
      Devlerbat
      January 18, 2017, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      Maybe he simply outlives the rest of the team, who where the only ones that would have visited him?

      • Devlerbat
        Devlerbat
        January 18, 2017, 12:20 am | # | Reply

        ….though I suppose that doesn’t exactly rule out the “fate is cruel theory.” :P

      • Sahara
        Sahara
        January 18, 2017, 12:48 am | # | Reply

        Or maybe he chose to stay in Arkerra when the others left back to Sepia World

        • Burgerz
          Burgerz
          January 18, 2017, 9:42 am | # | Reply

          I support this. 100%. I can imagine it. They’re all happy. They saved the world. They found out how to get back to themselves. They’re all ready to go, then Best says, you go on ahead without me. I’m staying here. And then stuff happens, but Best ends up happy.

        • Kirjath
          Kirjath
          January 18, 2017, 10:38 am | # | Reply

          Or maybe the lonely grave under a tree is *in* Sepia World.

          Just sayn’

        • chase
          chase
          January 18, 2017, 12:31 pm | # | Reply

          That’s been my theory all along. Or very close to it. I think it’s something more tragic; that Best somehow DIES in the game world but only after choosing to do so, maybe somewhat sacrificially. And then, of course, the others make it out of the game, but Best has already died.

    • anon e moose
      anon e moose
      January 18, 2017, 3:41 am | # | Reply

      I still think of that as a metaphor for the eventuality of death. Think 10000 years in the future, where all our current graveyards will likely be untended and forgotten. Maybe not, but it’s very likely.

      Supposedly the Winter Elves see EVERYTHING so I imagine this is a concept they’re extremely used to. Best wants/wanted to have his legacy live literally forever, but that’s not possible. After long enough time erodes a lot, and I think that’s what the Winter Elves are trying to express.

    • Timelost
      Timelost
      January 18, 2017, 10:26 pm | # | Reply

      Every grave is lonely, if anybody puts me in one it’ll be over my dead body.

      • MidnightDStroyer
        MidnightDStroyer
        February 23, 2017, 1:43 am | # | Reply

        Just give it several decades…It’ll happen somewhen between now & then.

        I just try to not take life *too* seriously, because no one gets out of it alive.

  2. Not a name
    Not a name
    January 18, 2017, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Best has really been doing his best turtle impression these last few pages.

    • wolfpax
      wolfpax
      January 18, 2017, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

      But is he turtly enough for…

      No, I won’t do it. I have enough self respect not to quote that movie again. *walks out muttering and slams the door behind him*

      • Vishamon
        Vishamon
        January 18, 2017, 10:56 pm | # | Reply

        your gravatar works for this comment.

  3. Alice Macher
    Alice Macher
    January 18, 2017, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Pleeeeeeease Best do not fuck this up

    • Dave
      Dave
      January 18, 2017, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      I feel like Weo would have said something if the gift giving turned out badly. Even if he knows it can’t be prevented.

      • Mujaki
        Mujaki
        January 18, 2017, 1:33 am | # | Reply

        “No, don’t give him the white suit. While the matching glove is quite shiny with sparklestones, it’s missing one from the pair. Go with the yellow one with all the straps.”

    • Jordan
      Jordan
      January 18, 2017, 1:56 am | # | Reply

      This is Best you’re pleading with. Asking him to not fuck something up is like asking water to not be wet or fire to not be hot.

      • Mike C.
        Mike C.
        January 18, 2017, 8:56 am | # | Reply

        Triethylborane has an autoignition temperature of −20 °C (−4 °F), so maybe he’s got a chance!

        • MidnightDStroyer
          MidnightDStroyer
          February 23, 2017, 1:48 am | # | Reply

          And there’s also such a thing as “Dry Ice” too…
          ;)

        • Borg
          Borg
          June 15, 2017, 5:06 pm | # | Reply

          Yes, but I bet once it gets started it’s quite energetic.

  4. tecani
    tecani
    January 18, 2017, 2:47 am | # | Reply

    Byron finally got a Best friend.

  5. Fenlander
    Fenlander
    January 18, 2017, 2:58 am | # | Reply

    Payet Best… I am your father.

    • Chris
      Chris
      January 18, 2017, 8:23 am | # | Reply

      Thank jeebus somebody said it!

    • anon e moose
      anon e moose
      January 18, 2017, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

      *clears throat* UHMMMMMM ACTUALLY THE QUOTE IS “No… I am your father.”

      THHHHHANK YOUUUUU.

  6. Yotz
    Yotz
    January 18, 2017, 3:05 am | # | Reply

    Now – kiss!

    • Gtgtgt
      Gtgtgt
      January 18, 2017, 3:53 am | # | Reply

      These last few pages had my ho yay sense tingling. I wonder who’s the uke and who’s the seme here…

      • Korbl
        Korbl
        January 18, 2017, 8:58 pm | # | Reply

        I could see Best being a power bottom

  7. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    January 18, 2017, 5:22 am | # | Reply

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOUjQ7ehnzM&w=560&h=315%5D

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      January 18, 2017, 5:24 am | # | Reply

      That was supposed to be YT’s embed link, I’ve no idea how this works anymore.

      Maybe https://youtu.be/tOUjQ7ehnzM

      • Jean-Luc
        Jean-Luc
        January 18, 2017, 5:24 am | # | Reply

        Nope. Sorry for the mess.

        • Sergei Alderman
          Sergei Alderman
          January 18, 2017, 11:40 am | # | Reply

          I blame Trump.

          • wolfpax
            wolfpax
            January 18, 2017, 3:33 pm | # | Reply

            Careful, just mentioning his name runs the risk of bringing a political opinionated firestorm of stupidity here.

  8. Devlerbat
    Devlerbat
    January 18, 2017, 6:13 am | # | Reply

    I still don’t think Best was right. Byron says he was, but despite what best might think Byron doesn’t exactly have the highest opinion of himself.

  9. Frigg_Fanboi
    Frigg_Fanboi
    January 18, 2017, 7:11 am | # | Reply

    http://i.imgur.com/woy7cJR.gif All I have running through my head (Yelling bird courtesy of questionable Content Web Comic)

  10. Skatie
    Skatie
    January 18, 2017, 7:31 am | # | Reply

    “I mean, I have an asshole, everyone does. So do you, for that matter, but that’s not the point…the point is, you’re my friend who is ALSO an assh- Uhh…you know what, bad metaphor. Lemme start over.”

    • Chris
      Chris
      January 18, 2017, 8:30 am | # | Reply

      Two assholes make a Richard?

      • MidnightDStroyer
        MidnightDStroyer
        February 23, 2017, 1:51 am | # | Reply

        No, a quasi-undead body & an awesome Fwooosh makes a Richard.

  11. Hentzy
    Hentzy
    January 18, 2017, 5:22 pm | # | Reply

    An asshole does carny out an important function, ana it would be a major bummer not to have one.

    • Hentzy
      Hentzy
      January 18, 2017, 5:23 pm | # | Reply

      Y keynrod is in revolt, it seems.

  12. Jay
    Jay
    January 18, 2017, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

    When Byron is better than most people in the comment section xD

    • MatthewTheLucky
      MatthewTheLucky
      January 19, 2017, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      Always?

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      January 19, 2017, 2:33 am | # | Reply

      Assuming Payet Best has never had a friend and saying so to his face definitely makes me think Byron still thinks he’s better than him. He sounds like an asshole right now.

  13. wolfpax
    wolfpax
    January 18, 2017, 9:54 pm | # | Reply

    “Something I’ve never had before? A friend? You think I’ve never had a friend before you?!”
    Best storms off and Byron swings and misses again.

    • SongCoyote
      SongCoyote
      July 19, 2022, 2:28 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe – though I hope not (this is my first time through these).

      On the other hand, what Payet has never had before is *Byron* as a friend, and that’s significant.

  14. Thomas
    Thomas
    January 19, 2017, 3:53 am | # | Reply

    If Best is the Asshole of this group, I guess Frigg is the Goddammit.

    • Siva
      Siva
      January 19, 2017, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

      Frigg is the phalus.

      • Thomas
        Thomas
        January 19, 2017, 3:16 pm | # | Reply

        Is this meant as a wordplay on “godemiche”? Pardon my French. ;)

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