Annotated 49-1
FB: Being an abomination to all living things is thirsty work. So enjoy Sinny Delight’s new flavor, Grave Juice! From concentrate.
Everybody put your hands together for Warlord Gravedust, a character we’ve seen for hundreds of pages but also a character we’re sort of meeting for the first time. This will be the only real battle in which he earns the title—the best warlords are the ones who lead their people to peace. But his year-or-so of experience with our heroes makes him almost overqualified.
I can’t say we were deliberately holding him in reserve. But the way he joins the battle here (and then…dies? Maybe?) gives the scene a fresh shot of adrenaline that you need when you’re doing a climax with back-to-back action sequences.
A better formation would have been a wedge around Gravy, and gravy on an elevated platform… like the shield-bearers provide for the chieftain from Asterix.
„From Concentrate“ you say? Well it‘s a good thing Gravedust‘s being so focused, then!