Murderous anger at the wrong party? Check.
Unwittingly creating an immense disaster? Check.
Too absorbed in the first to be concerned with the second? Check, check.
It’s official folks. WAV is dead, long live Best.
ALTERNATE PUN COMMENT:
Here’s hoping Best does remember that Byron tried to save him, and decides to Payet forward.
I suppose if you consider X to just be SK backwards, but given X is generally treated as a single phoneme and SK doesn’t come as simply to the tongue and must be treated as two, it really doesn’t fit that well.
“sigh” when you’re resigned to the fact the situation is so fucked up you can’t do anything to change it at the moment. “Well fuck, so how was your day?”
I kind of feel exactly like Byron in this page. I was seriously crushed that WAV was dead before we got his “development” (he was a robot how much further could he have really developed anyway..?) but after witnessing this chain of events I can not only understand but appreciate his return. Still, it’s a mixed bag of feelings and I think there’s only one way to sum them up, in the words of Byron: “… *sigh* Hey man, long time no see.”
Jeez. His first act upon returning to life is to doom them all. Hell of a way to thank the guy that almost died trying to save your ungrateful ass, not once, but twice.
I think Byron is starting to figure out the bigger picture. His reaction in the end gave the impression he was thinking “Oh let it go Best. Neither of us would stay dead for long anyways.”
Have the gravatars quit working in Firefox for anyone else? Chrome still shows them fine. Seriously I think Mozilla has been put together by Blizz’s reject coders for some time now.
Byron:
Ah, my past “sins” have come back to fuck with me. Again.
Yeah, hi. Take a number. Try to explain why I should feel worse than I already do.
Then maybe we can get back to actually helping people?
“Best, your death was an accident. I at least tried to save you. Since then I’ve slaughtered droves of townies and fellow guildies alike. So take a seat pal, it’s going to be a long time before I get around to indulging your pity party.”
That is like asking why you’d freak out about an oncoming car while standing in the road. I mean “you’re on the ground”… right?
… Okay, snark over… Sure, the Harpies can fly… but that still requires getting from A to B, and assumes they can fly out of the way of the avalanche before it hits them. NOT GUARANTEED. And expect if it does hit them, it’ll break their wings and thus unable to fly they will die sooner rather than later.
I get the feeling that Best’s grievances aren’t so much at Byron as at Byron’s player. Byron’s player’s Rage metaplot creeped so much in the campaign, causing even permakilling. Best, being basically an extension of his player persona, a character previously existent in his mind, and a bard to boot, seems a bit self aware about the true nature of the things.
I can see that. Best seemed to have shown signs of being aware that he is a player in a video game, maybe on a subconcious level. This scene in particular is the one I’m thinking of.
So it seems pretty obvious Best is going to be a winter-elf. The real question is: did he return as one or was he one to begin with and didn’t know it?
A Winter Elf? It makes so much sense! He always thought he was a special snowflake, and when the seeing pool threw cold water on that, he found out it was all a snow job.
He’s probably just feeling cold about the whole thing.
There’s no avalanche like the Best avalanche :P
Murderous anger at the wrong party? Check.
Unwittingly creating an immense disaster? Check.
Too absorbed in the first to be concerned with the second? Check, check.
It’s official folks. WAV is dead, long live Best.
ALTERNATE PUN COMMENT:
Here’s hoping Best does remember that Byron tried to save him, and decides to Payet forward.
I approve of this pun, and that’s snow Joke.
Well, with his snarky comment, Byron, is giving Payet’s unaxed question a freezing cold shoulder.
Why “unaxed”? Why not “unsworded”? Or maybe “unspeared”? Maybe “unwarhammered”?
It might as well be any of the above for how utterly bizarre it looks and sounds in a sentence.
Because it’s the same phonemes in a different order.
I suppose if you consider X to just be SK backwards, but given X is generally treated as a single phoneme and SK doesn’t come as simply to the tongue and must be treated as two, it really doesn’t fit that well.
Plus… y’know… cliché.
I love the last two panels.
Me too. Byron seems so resigned.
“Oh, right. This is my life. I almost forgot.”
Why would he *say* “sigh”?
That is not how the humans do it? Have I been doing it wrong?
Because he’s not really all that happy to see Payet?
It would make sense for him to sigh, but not to *say* “sigh.”
“sigh” when you’re resigned to the fact the situation is so fucked up you can’t do anything to change it at the moment. “Well fuck, so how was your day?”
That “Ah, so we’re back to those old times” look.
I think it’s, “Damn, it’s actually him again…Guess I’d better make the best of it.”
Oh hey! With this, we’re back to the five as our main character group!
you just noticed that?
Maybe he was still waiting for best to straight up just murder Byron. Boy would that have been a giant pain for the party.
I think Gravy would just tell them to cool it with the rez requests for Byron.
When you come back from death as many times as Byron has, people trying to kill you just becomes boring.
They removed the gate to the afterlife and put in a revolving door because of him.
And now he’s stuck in it, going round, and round.
‘Sup.
Hey, howzit goin? Oh, wait, you weren’t talking to me.
Well, this is different. A couple of popular characters get retconned back to life, but Blizzard is against it for once.
I imagine the feedback will be an avalanche.
Thats it, you won
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Great video game pun. You’re on Fire, Man!
Just the Top, Man!
Your jokes penetrate like a Drill, Man!
You’re really Chill, Man!
You’re a Jewel, Man!
These jokes are Mega, Man.
Woah, talk about phoning it in. That was Junk, Man.
Eh, it’s not like he can keep it up. It’ll be over in a Flash, Man.
Come on guys. Give him some credit. These puns take some Guts, Man.
This is just hilarious. I love these last 2 pages.
I am also amused that with his transformation, Best instantly grew some stylish stubble.
Yep, still a dick.
yep, 3 Comics in, and already hate worthy. -.-
That avalanche is going to bury all their hatchets.
I kind of feel exactly like Byron in this page. I was seriously crushed that WAV was dead before we got his “development” (he was a robot how much further could he have really developed anyway..?) but after witnessing this chain of events I can not only understand but appreciate his return. Still, it’s a mixed bag of feelings and I think there’s only one way to sum them up, in the words of Byron: “… *sigh* Hey man, long time no see.”
I just realized I made an entire comment about Best without naming him! I must really have a lot of emotions about this! :P
Except that he didn’t sigh; he *said* “sigh,” which is a weird thing to do.
Not that weird. I’ve done it… Oh, wait.
I haven’t seen eye popping hilarity out of this comic for some time. This was a nice feeling page.
Jeez. His first act upon returning to life is to doom them all. Hell of a way to thank the guy that almost died trying to save your ungrateful ass, not once, but twice.
Standin’ in the snow like that’s how you end up losin’ nipples, Payet buddy.
Well that didn’t take very long. Usually it takes a whole story arc to get to this point with Best. Apparently he’s in a hurry this time.
Well they didn’t want to bury him in the story arc quiet just yet.
I think Byron is starting to figure out the bigger picture. His reaction in the end gave the impression he was thinking “Oh let it go Best. Neither of us would stay dead for long anyways.”
I like how even the snarling killer wolf has popped-out eyes. New gravatar please!
Have the gravatars quit working in Firefox for anyone else? Chrome still shows them fine. Seriously I think Mozilla has been put together by Blizz’s reject coders for some time now.
I still see them. Using Firefox x64, v. 47.0.1.
WB. You g2g?
Cold WAV coming! He wanted to Byron coat but couldn’t Payet?
That must have been quite a scream to set off an avalanche when the entire previous fight didn’t…
Byron:
Ah, my past “sins” have come back to fuck with me. Again.
Yeah, hi. Take a number. Try to explain why I should feel worse than I already do.
Then maybe we can get back to actually helping people?
More like:
“Best, your death was an accident. I at least tried to save you. Since then I’ve slaughtered droves of townies and fellow guildies alike. So take a seat pal, it’s going to be a long time before I get around to indulging your pity party.”
Dude, if the avalanche doesn’t kill you, exposure will.
So you’ll have been back from the dead for what, 5 minutes?
…Why are the harpies freaking out? #fridgelogic
Even the doggo is freaking, so I suppose it’s a completely natural reaction to any oncoming disaster.
Well, the doggo would get buried in an avalanche. But the harpies are in the air.
They’re pretty low. They’re all looking up. The snow may catch even them.
That is like asking why you’d freak out about an oncoming car while standing in the road. I mean “you’re on the ground”… right?
… Okay, snark over… Sure, the Harpies can fly… but that still requires getting from A to B, and assumes they can fly out of the way of the avalanche before it hits them. NOT GUARANTEED. And expect if it does hit them, it’ll break their wings and thus unable to fly they will die sooner rather than later.
I get the feeling that Best’s grievances aren’t so much at Byron as at Byron’s player. Byron’s player’s Rage metaplot creeped so much in the campaign, causing even permakilling. Best, being basically an extension of his player persona, a character previously existent in his mind, and a bard to boot, seems a bit self aware about the true nature of the things.
I can see that. Best seemed to have shown signs of being aware that he is a player in a video game, maybe on a subconcious level. This scene in particular is the one I’m thinking of.
Chapter 11, Page 5
Of course his emotional outburst could just as easily be the result of his hero origin story. But it makes me wonder.
His look is something between “Weeeelp. We’re fucked.” and “Oh, hey. This may be a good thing.” With a little bit of “This is my life now.”
I just love all the eyes in that first panel, I can’t stop laughing.
“I just got UNkilled, dammit!”
So it seems pretty obvious Best is going to be a winter-elf. The real question is: did he return as one or was he one to begin with and didn’t know it?
A Winter Elf? It makes so much sense! He always thought he was a special snowflake, and when the seeing pool threw cold water on that, he found out it was all a snow job.
He’s probably just feeling cold about the whole thing.
“So it seems pretty obvious Best is going to be a winter-elf.”
Huh? What are you talking about?
Best is a shit-elf.
Those eyes in the first panel really sell this page for me.
“My name is Payet Best, and I remember everything”
Sir ‘Lanche a Lot has returned.
Cue emotional re-percussions in 3…2…1…