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Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

'This IS exactly why I didn't wear my shoulder-axes in the first place, though.'

Chapter 17 – Page 15

on July 2, 2012
Chapter: Chapter 17
└ Tags: Bandit, Byron, Gravedust, Sc'wl
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  1. Fairportfan
    Fairportfan
    July 2, 2012, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    ‘Guard? Standing right here? Hello?”

    • Timlagor
      Timlagor
      July 2, 2012, 6:55 am | # | Reply

      well how much fun is it if they aren’t watching for you?

  2. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    July 2, 2012, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    G-dust obviously hasn’t seen “Minority Report”.

    • Syncline
      Syncline
      July 2, 2012, 9:11 am | # | Reply

      Minority report was conviction by probability, rather than intent.
      THESE jokers are equating desire with intent
      Both are equally wrong, but desire equaling intent is really the inquisitions’ playbook. Catholic elves? Whoda thunk it?

  3. randomdude
    randomdude
    July 2, 2012, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    Zen Byron looks high.

    • gangler
      gangler
      July 2, 2012, 1:47 am | # | Reply

      He may be. Could be a side effect of the anti-zerking meds.

      • JarrysKid
        JarrysKid
        July 2, 2012, 11:27 am | # | Reply

        Nah, when elves arrest someone, the first thing they do is get them so baked they can’t/don’t want to run away.

        • Mic-Gold
          Mic-Gold
          July 3, 2012, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

          They do have access to potent mushrooms as I recall.

  4. Strongholm
    Strongholm
    July 2, 2012, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    It completely looks like Bandit is just sporting a ponytail instead of her traditional pigtails until the last panel. It kept messing with me as I read the page.

    Also, I feel for that guard, but Bandit could totally take him. She didn’t even need to whisper.

    • Riotllama
      Riotllama
      July 2, 2012, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

      so if Bandit is HR, he’s trying to spring Byron to bring things back in line with his programming? I don’t see how that outcome would result. I’m having a hard time buying his motivation as Bandit.

  5. Timelost
    Timelost
    July 2, 2012, 1:38 am | # | Reply

    Seems like Bandit still has a bit of an axe to grind about the whole trifurcation whoopsie.

    • MoodyDK
      MoodyDK
      July 2, 2012, 8:50 am | # | Reply

      I don’t know…I think she’s pulled herself together very well.

      • JarrysKid
        JarrysKid
        July 2, 2012, 11:29 am | # | Reply

        Yes, a seamless effort.

        • eschmenk
          eschmenk
          July 2, 2012, 1:57 pm | # | Reply

          What else would you expect from her? She’s no hack.

          • tryntu
            tryntu
            July 2, 2012, 3:44 pm | # | Reply

            she was really busting the guard’s logs though.

  6. coldelectrons
    coldelectrons
    July 2, 2012, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    Bandit sneaky-face is. SO. CUTE. She can steal from me anytime.

    I hearby dub anonymous guard elf to be named Sc’wl. I hope Bandit continues to antagonize him.

    • coldelectrons
      coldelectrons
      July 2, 2012, 1:48 am | # | Reply

      It seems to me like they’ve thrown Byron into a re-purposed hobbit hole.

      Does this mean Byron is going to come to a Bag End?

    • Phil
      Flo
      July 2, 2012, 7:59 am | # | Reply

      Sure, why not?

      ALAKA-CANON!

      • coldelectrons
        coldelectrons
        July 2, 2012, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

        Such wizardry!

        I understand you guys are making the guards anonymous and expendable…but I’ve had waaaay to much fun playing the Thief games to disregard guards – half the fun was sneaking up on some of them and listening to the triggered dialogue.

        If you had put two guards on Byron’s cell, I would have dubbed them Frw’nr and Dw’nr.

  7. tecani
    tecani
    July 2, 2012, 1:56 am | # | Reply

    For some reason I suspect stealing something is Bandit’s initial reaction to everything, whether good or bad.

    • Syncline
      Syncline
      July 2, 2012, 9:18 am | # | Reply

      To everything, steal, steal, steal.
      In every season, steal, steal, steal.
      And a theft for every purpose under Heaven.
      Love? Steal present.
      Hate? Steal weapon.
      A time to embrace? Steal your wallet.

      Bandit loves listening to the Byrds. Every verse has the same refrain.

      • maggPi
        maggPi
        July 15, 2012, 8:08 pm | # | Reply

        omg! Gold star!

        So’s ya c’n STEAL it, coz it’s GOLD!

        And, and, and..! Are the Byrds magpies? Coz they like SHINY things like GOLD!!

        Oh, oh, oh..! Is Bandit’s Spirit Animal a MAGPIE??? Coz that’d be AWESOME!

        Hey, hey, hey..! I’M maggPi… Does that make ME Bandit’s Spirit Animal?? Coz THAT’d AWESOMER!!

        (becomes so overcome with excitement, maggPi explodes with a ‘pfft!’ and little black-and-white feathers drift gently down)

  8. alurker
    alurker
    July 2, 2012, 4:00 am | # | Reply

    You gotta respect da family. Now make ’em an offer dey can’t refuse. Capish?

    • JarrysKid
      JarrysKid
      July 2, 2012, 11:32 am | # | Reply

      Just see the elf Corly’On.

  9. Softy
    Softy
    July 2, 2012, 4:11 am | # | Reply

    “I’m in pieces”

    Oh Bandit. Never change. Except for level-ups.

  10. Nicolas Rei
    Nicolas Rei
    July 2, 2012, 4:17 am | # | Reply

    Next panel? GD remembering who he’s talking about, and rushing off to stop her before she steals too much.

  11. Timlagor
    Timlagor
    July 2, 2012, 6:57 am | # | Reply

    Pleasing these elves seems to be rather a tall order.

    • Phil
      Flo
      July 2, 2012, 8:00 am | # | Reply

      Heyo!

  12. Ishmael
    Ishmael
    July 2, 2012, 7:24 am | # | Reply

    Don’t steal our puns, Bandit, that’s a little irritating.

  13. Hawksong
    Hawksong
    July 2, 2012, 10:21 am | # | Reply

    Well this is interesting. One wonders if Byron must speak for himself in the trial, or if Syr is allowed to also speak.

    ‘Cos if it’s just him, he’s screwed. :P

  14. Krogaladin
    Krogaladin
    July 2, 2012, 10:37 am | # | Reply

    if those bars are made of wood, then they should be even easier to break out of.

    • Thracecius
      Thracecius
      July 2, 2012, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

      Nah, they’re grown out of ironwood. :D

    • Pat
      Pat
      July 2, 2012, 3:18 pm | # | Reply

      If they have stuff made out of wood, they’re a little hypocritical. Given what he’s in there for.

      • Andreas
        Andreas
        July 2, 2012, 4:08 pm | # | Reply

        Apparently they don’t kill trees to make stuff… look; the whole corridor is made from one piece of wood (actually I think they’re inside a tree, but that counts too!)

  15. Suki
    Suki
    July 2, 2012, 10:40 am | # | Reply

    I have a random question for John: How long does it take you to completely finish a page, on average?

    • John Waltrip
      John Waltrip
      July 2, 2012, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

      Well, Suki, it depends on the complexity of the page. The more complex, the longer it takes, but on average, I’d say about two days, one day to pencil and one day to ink and color. If I had to break it down into hours, it’d probably be about 4 to 5 hours for penciling, 2 to 3 hours for inking, and 6 to 7 hours for coloring, so we’re looking at between 12 and 15 hours or there abouts put into a page, but not all at once.

      • Suki
        Suki
        July 3, 2012, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

        I see! Well thank you very much for your response. You put a lot of work in these pages and they look wonderful. :)

  16. ShadeTail
    ShadeTail
    July 2, 2012, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

    Does anyone else think that in panel 2, Byron’s head looks oddly disconnected from the rest of his body? His head is leaning forward, but the rest of him is still standing upright.

    • Thracecius
      Thracecius
      July 2, 2012, 1:49 pm | # | Reply

      Not really. His head is at least partially through the bars, which means he just stuck his neck out a bit for the chat. Hopefully (?) he can fit his head back through the bars without too much trouble. :D

      • ShadeTail
        ShadeTail
        July 2, 2012, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

        Well, yes, I can see that his head is through the bars, but it is at such an odd angle to the rest of his body on the other side of the bars. It looks almost like he’s Reed Richards from the Fantastic Four stretching his neck out.

        • JarrysKid
          JarrysKid
          July 3, 2012, 10:46 am | # | Reply

          Rubberserker, Arkerra’s newest superhero!

        • Andreas
          Andreas
          July 4, 2012, 3:12 am | # | Reply

          It’s the same pose as in the first frame.
          The thing that’s throwing you is that his lower arm is obstructing view of how he is leaning on the grating.

  17. redo19
    redo19
    July 2, 2012, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

    Looks like Byron doesn’t have a bed in that cage. That’s gotta be bad for the lumber support.

  18. dr pepper
    dr pepper
    July 3, 2012, 4:24 pm | # | Reply

    Naror’nj is easily upset from years of resentment that the bards keep using him whenever they need a rhyme for “orange”.

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