Annotated 3-22
“O Death, where is thy Sting?”
–1 Corinthians 15:55
“Here he is” (dumps body)
–Gravedust
“Stupid” is a bad insult to aim at someone who’s just outfoxed you. I liked Sting up to now, but if he can’t take one little blinding without entirely blowing his cool, then maybe he’s not the caliber of villain I thought and I’m less sorry about his end.
From the script: “Syr’Nj waves some smelling salts under Byron’s nose, prepared for the usual backlash she receives for just TRYING TO HELP SOMEONE OUT.” Byron’s simple habit of treating everyone with politeness and appreciation moves him firmly onto Syr’Nj’s friendslist, and her bedside manner improves in turn. By now we definitely knew Byr’Nj was going to happen, and you can see Phil starting to set that up here, before Syr’Nj gets over Best. But even so, we’re just building a friendship at this point. Attraction will come later.
This isn’t really related to this page but I feel that by the time it comes up, I’ll forget to ask or miss the update, so here goes:
Is it me or was Syr’Nj’s “bag of holding” never explained at all? I’m probably miss-remembering, but I think when they rescued Frigg she pulled Frigg’s whole set of gear out of her tiny bag and Frigg asked about it and she was all “I’ll tell you later” or something and it just never came up at all.
We dealt with it some in a bonus story for Guilded Age Plus subscribers, which might find its way here eventually.
Alt-text is busted again, I see.
Fixed!
Hmmm… The neck-snapping technique indicated by Gravedust’s hands’ position doesn’t match the motion lines going with the sound-effect.
Also there are usually crackle and pop noises to go with it… I’m surprised you guys missed that opportunity…
I’d have to say that clearly Gravy’s so strong he uses his right hand alone to twistsnap the head. The left hands just used to keep the guy in place.
I didn’t remember Gravedust being so hands-on in battle, this early in the story.
Makes sense he can be hands-on in battle. He never forgot his traditional Savasi wrestling.
In that picture Sting looks like a badass Phil Collins.
*A spoon-full of [berries] helps the medicine go down* (I don’t recall if anyone mentioned the Mary Poppins ref the first time around)
Oh hey, spotted a bit of her tattoos on her neck in the last panel.