Annotated 2-23
This may have been around where we started to think of Byron as a coolly competent fighter most of the time and a wild cyclone of axblades and death every now and then. We still didn’t have the curse as such worked out, but there’s no way we weren’t foreshadowing a “real berserker rage” with Frigg in the second panel, there.
Frigg’s last answer here was all Phil: I probably would’ve had her continue to stand over a defeated Byron.
Gravedust, as will later be disclosed, came fairly close to a “life of violence” himself, briefly joining the Savasi warrior class before finding his true calling. But really, a chapter or two from now, the amount of violence in his or Syr’Nj’s lives will not be that distinguishable from the amount in Frigg’s and Byron’s.
Look at that vogue-ass modeling face Gravedust has on the first panel! How this didn’t make Adventurers Illustrated I’ll never know!
He’s basking… in exposition.
Frigg, on the other hand, is not so good with axes that she can be sure of hitting someone with the dull end. Guilded Age came that close to ending right here.
I did love it when Gravedust announced that he was always a warrior. One of my favorite GA moments.
Wait, so what’s going “whack whack” in the last panel?
It comes up in the next panel – it’s someone hammering in a nail.