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

Next thing you know they'll invent some sort of silly 'horseless carriage.' How DROLL.

Chapter 4 – Page 3

on March 8, 2010
Chapter: Chapter 04
└ Tags: Bandit, Clair, Hollinger, Hollister, Syr'Nj
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  1. DaveBob
    DaveBob
    March 8, 2010, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Yes, excellent.

  2. Hypothetical
    Hypothetical
    March 8, 2010, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    Um, I foresee very bad things happening to very dull people.

    I hope the floor is made of marble, so they can hose the blood off…

    • Hypothetical
      Hypothetical
      March 8, 2010, 1:01 am | # | Reply

      Oh, and I love the way Bandit is looking up at Syr’nj, just waiting for her cue…

  3. The Indomitable Eric
    The Indomitable Eric
    March 8, 2010, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    I sense a great disturbance in the force. As if a million voices cried out, and were suddenly hit with a mace.

    • Joe
      Joe
      March 8, 2010, 9:44 am | # | Reply

      Hush, you’ll interrupt her palping.

      • The Indomitable Eric
        The Indomitable Eric
        March 8, 2010, 11:20 am | # | Reply

        Good point. Nothing’s worse than a ruined palp.

        • Mic-Gold
          Mic-Gold
          March 8, 2010, 4:43 pm | # | Reply

          Her palping may become pulping in very short order!

          • FreddeX
            FreddeX
            May 9, 2011, 3:16 pm | # | Reply

            Hush, i really want to hear the “CRUNCH!” of a skull getting smashed that i hope is coming up! :D

  4. Lloyd
    Lloyd
    March 8, 2010, 1:29 am | # | Reply

    Somehow methinks Representative Frigg might make a bit more enthusiastic use than normal of the ceremonial gavel. On some heads. And a table or two.

  5. Lloyd
    Lloyd
    March 8, 2010, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    A room full of breakable things and people, meet counselor Frigg and her Gavel of Happiness +2. Every time she smacks someone with it who really needs to shut the hell up, she becomes happier. Hopefully she eventually achieves “blissful nirvana’ and keels over asleep…as opposed to ‘homicidal glee’, at which point they’ll need a lot of water to hose down the marble afterwards.

    • Erica
      Erica
      March 8, 2010, 2:44 am | # | Reply

      There aren’t actually that many breakable items. It helps get the strip out on time.

      • Buzzard
        Buzzard
        March 8, 2010, 3:52 am | # | Reply

        You could draw random objects on scraps of paper whenever you have a minute while you’re doing something else, then just drop the same objects into the backgrounds over and over on a separate RANDOM OBJECTS layer and see how long it takes people to notice.

        • T
          T
          March 8, 2010, 9:18 am | # | Reply

          Erica is way, WAY too good to use the same designs for Sky Elf environment as for Gastonian high command or a bar. I can’t see that working.

          Besides, when it’s Frigg, the definition of “breakable” changes.

          • Lloyd
            Lloyd
            March 9, 2010, 12:40 am | # | Reply

            Can we break it? Yes, we CAN!!

  6. Admiral Squish
    Admiral Squish
    March 8, 2010, 3:26 am | # | Reply

    This is about to get eight kinds of awesome.

  7. zach
    zach
    March 8, 2010, 4:21 am | # | Reply

    UT. OHHHHHH.

  8. Carl-E
    Carl-E
    March 8, 2010, 9:40 am | # | Reply

    I think the question “attack US? HOW?” is about to be answered!

  9. Carl-E
    Carl-E
    March 8, 2010, 9:43 am | # | Reply

    BTW, I still get the “Internal Server Error” whenever I post. Everytime. I run IE7 in Windows XP (lousy choices, I know, but it ain’t my machine)…

    • Phil
      Flo
      March 8, 2010, 9:58 am | # | Reply

      This issue should hopefully be resolved soon when we switch servers.

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      March 8, 2010, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

      That’s okay Carl-E. I get exactly the same error when I post, and I’m running OSX 10.5.1 and firefox.

      It’s not you :)

    • ahdok
      ahdok
      March 8, 2010, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

      They’re not laughing with him, they’re laughing at his silly nose, which he’s pointing at.

  10. Terrador
    Terrador
    March 8, 2010, 10:21 am | # | Reply

    Oh! Switching servers! Fun! I get the error, too, but when I go back, my comment is there, so good enough for me. The female sky elf speaking in panel one is so very pretty.

    • Phil
      Flo
      March 8, 2010, 10:36 am | # | Reply

      You can name her Clair if you like.

      • Hypothetical
        Hypothetical
        March 8, 2010, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

        As long as it’s not Barbara, even though Frigg is probably about to be coming to get her.

        ( 10 Geek points for anyone who gets that reference WITHOUT having to use a search engine.)

        • Schiz
          Schiz
          March 8, 2010, 11:24 pm | # | Reply

          Hehehehe…zombies.

          • xXHildyXx
            xXHildyXx
            March 9, 2010, 3:47 am | # | Reply

            “They’re coming to get you barbara…”

            you gained 10 geek points in my book just for making me think of it.

  11. DCB
    DCB
    March 8, 2010, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

    Well I suppose we can rest assured, whatever Frigg has to say will be short, sweet, and to the heavy blunt object.

  12. Caradin
    Caradin
    March 8, 2010, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

    My first thought was “Oh. no.”

    This is going to be awesome.

  13. Hawk
    Hawk
    March 8, 2010, 5:18 pm | # | Reply

    Oh yes, this is going to be awesome.
    I like Frigg! She’s my kind of gal!

  14. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    March 8, 2010, 10:02 pm | # | Reply

    “FRIGG SMASH!”

  15. david
    david
    March 9, 2010, 8:06 am | # | Reply

    He’s sort of right, though (albeit not for the right reasons). Steam-powered coal fuel engines are unlikely to generate the power-to-weight realistically required to achieve flight, especially without all the other composite materials that require much more advanced technology to make.

    Perhaps magic can fuel the gap – can a human conjuring fire heat a boiler long enough to power flight? – but who knows about magic?

    But as far as war goes, their opponents don’t need to fly; they just need a way to lob heavy objects in their general direction fast enough, whilst being mobile enough to keep a safe distance. Sufficiently powerful artillery will suffice. If humans have explosives, as they apparently already do, a hail of rockets like these will likely dent their target.

    • Hawk
      Hawk
      March 9, 2010, 8:54 am | # | Reply

      While the humans might not make flying machines, and you’re correct about the likelihood of their making artillery sufficient to make the elves very unhappy, I think the magic angle is also a very likely avenue for the humans to use, should retributive action be needed. And combat wouldn’t even be necessary to kill the flying city.

      All the humans really need is to research intensively on the methods to block the elves’ conjurations. Voila, thefts are stopped – and if the elves continue with their present attitude, they will starve hundreds of their own people before attempting to open trade with the “worthless ” nations. And if things progressed in that manner, those nations on the ground from whom the elves were stealing would probably be unwilling to aid the elves.

      But I think Frigg may get things going in a more constructive direction…or a more directly destructive one.

      Either way, we the readers win!

    • Jaang
      Jaang
      March 10, 2010, 2:01 am | # | Reply

      A helium-filled dirigible with a coal-fired steam engine will work perfectly fine as a flying machine.

    • SotiCoto
      SotiCoto
      June 21, 2013, 7:57 am | # | Reply

      Bombs. In. Bread.

      Seriously. You guys are overthinking this.
      You steala the bread, you suffa the consequences.

  16. Fren
    Fren
    March 9, 2010, 8:35 am | # | Reply

    For some reason, Syr passing the proceedings to Frigg made me think of that scene in Payback whence the hooker is asking Porter what he would do if his interrogators “asked him hard”.

  17. Phlanx
    Phlanx
    March 9, 2010, 9:06 am | # | Reply

    5 bucks says she’s snoring.

  18. TraderInTown
    TraderInTown
    March 10, 2010, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

    Ugh. Pompous arseholes, just like every other elf. Especially Best.

    Frigg! She may look rough but she’s (apparently) very good at diplomacy as well!

  19. Glew
    Glew
    June 21, 2012, 11:18 am | # | Reply

    Oh come on, mister Magick guy, we all know that “Food is the first of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration”

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