Annotated 15-4
On this day in history, I learned that Phil preferred tiny type to dotted-line balloons as an indication of talking under your breath like in panel one here.
Best comment from the original page: “3 Why do you look at the dire honey that is in your berserker’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your berserker, ‘Let me take the dire honey out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the dire honey out of your berserker’s eye.”
We needed the silence in this sequence. If we’d gotten any sort of running commentary from Byron here, it would have ruined the note of encroaching suspense as we see less and less of his face and begin to wonder, just a bit, if his eyes will be pools of white when we see them clearly again.
Yeah, there was no way we could’ve done this fight in one page.
Hey look, he defeated the bear without his axes after all!
Haha, I had a feeling someone would jump on that. Yeah, he did in his final move, but if he had STARTED without his axes…
Continuing the fight without his axes? He went out onna limb branching out like that.
At this point it felt like the berserker stuff was done, but someone it took over the majority of the comic afterwards. Was the berserker planned to be a big deal already or was that a later thought?
We didn’t have every detail plotted out yet but definitely knew that the Cultists and the berserker curse would continue to be going concerns. At this point, for instance, we knew that there was an all-Cultist chapter coming up.
I’m amazed his arm wasn’t bitten off. Did Syr’Ng inject Byron with something in additon to the berserker suppressant?
That said it seems pretty shredded up
Chainmail does a good job on it’s own.
It’s be a shame if he did not convert the fur into a bear-sark.
You know in hindsight, I’m surprised that we didn’t see the bear make a final appearance as a rug in the final chapter. A sort of homage to this scene.
Trying to find the page with the cottage to see if I missed a rug
http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-50-page-6/
I don’t see a rug, but the cottage is big enough that it could possibly just be in a different room.