Annotated 44-4
Byron’s question: honest concern for Best despite it all, or genre-savvy knowledge that a Best out of view is a Best likely to attack him in a jump scare? You decide.
I promise, Best’s bellow here was not a shout-out to my erstwhile collaborator Greg Eatroff, though I kind of wish it had been.
More than any other artist I’ve seen, the Waltrips dabble in minimalism with faces. As in the last panel here, this practice can create expressions that teeter on the edge of abstraction, and I think that adds to the comedy of this moment.
FB: Sadly, renaming the site “Broke-Ass Mountain” did little for the tourism industry. #Hiveworks
Yeah this is where I originally stopped following the series on a regular basis. Just so frickin’ tired of the mindless unbelievable and uninteresting stupidity of Best and how it was stretched out for. so. looong.
How did Best disappear between the last panel of the previous page and the first panel of this page?
He was buried in the snow. You can see his shoes poking up next to Byron in the first panel.
Also asked myself this. The previous page looks as if the avalanche had (mostly?) stopped already, and the two of them were able to keep their heads above the snow and busy themselves punching each other, so how did Best get away from Byron without Byron noticing? It’s not hard to fill in the blanks on that one but it would still have been nice to see him disappear, in order to preserve continuity between consecutive frames.
I don’t believe the avalanche had stopped at all until this very page.
That was the conclusion I came to, as the only explanation that made sense. I agree with Zak, though; it would’ve been nice to have one more panel at the end of the last page that showed Best getting swallowed up by the snow, to make it clearer that the avalanche was still ongoing.
I love that Syr just treats them like a couple of petulant bickering children.
‘Cuz she’s not really wrong, really.
Well even Byron is just holding Best’s face and looking towards what Syr’Nj pointing at like: “Bro, bro. A sec. Got to see… Ah, okay. Our sworn enemies. Carry on.”
I beg to differ. In this case, Byron is not really going beyond defending himself, while Best is clearly the one who can’t let a grudge rest of even a second, even if it gets him killed. I struggle to think how Byron could have handled this situation any friendlier than he has so far, except maybe by simply allowing Best to strangle him to death — directly after gaining the self confidence to not do that.
Also I think you misspelled “Bruh!” on third panel. :D
Those expressions in the last panel are truly great.