Chapter 48 – Cover & Page 1
THREE CHAPTERS REMAIN
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What a little Joffrey.
I mean, what a little shit. Hard to keep that straight.
Six of one, half dozen of the other… :P
What’s the point in keeping shit straight? Are you making a sculpture?
Look at you, with your fancy custom plumbing that accepts more than one shape.
Hmm… do not underestimate the power of poo sculpture effigies.
Sir Orloff Broloff approves of this comment.
Taro is a little more competent than Joffrey.
Emphasis on the word “little”- as in we may soon be seeing the full tiny difference.
He offed his momma and did the poisoning himself.
He’s like Joffrey’s evil mirror.
He’s more of a Ramsey Snow without birth out of wedlock.
he’s going to be the second fictional kid whos death is praised. its a shame he’s not just a program
“That’s my new word for ‘shit.’ Because of today’s events.”
And this is why you don’t poison your father before he’s done teaching you how to be a cold and ruthless despot. (Also why I won’t ever tell my son “Son, you have now learned everything I have to teach you about being cold, ruthless and despotic”).
It’s why you encourage familial love so that when your son becomes a cold and ruthless despot, he just posts you to some pleasant backwater villa with a pension to live out your dotage.
If it weren’t for current events, I’d be complaining that this comic is terribly unrealistic. There’s no way a country could put up with such a ridiculous, hateful and inept leader.
Reality is, in a sense, just a step removed from a fiction that isn’t taken seriously enough by anyone to act it out.
Honestly, complaining about surrealism in a work of fiction is like complaining that you’re bored when you have an exciting source of entertainment right in front of you, and nothing to stop you from enjoying it but your own dry personality.
My comment was more meant as a criticism of the state of American politics then this comic.
My comment was more meant as an explanation of what happened to America than a criticism of your comment :P
I feel like you may have missed the point of his comment.
Sadly, you’d be surprised at how much people are willing to put up with- or even do for- a “ridiculous, hateful and inept leader”.
While the end result may look similar for the country (i.e. ruin, shame, unrest, etc.) Taro has nothing in common with the individual you allude to, except cocky arrogance and perhaps that his physical age is comparable to the other’s mental age. Taro’s actually very intelligent, but also very evil and ruthless.
For every terrible ruler that is ousted by popular demand, there are two that hold on to power by sheer cruelty and dozens that just sort of slide under the wire
Looks like Gastonia is getting Minmay’d.
Yeah, if I had to listen to “My Boyfriend Is A Pilot” in combat, I would surrender as well.
Make it stop! Please, make it STOP!
kyuun kyuun
kyuun kyuun
HE’S A PILOT NOW!!!!
AND PENK WOULD DRUM 500 MILES
AND PENK WOULD DRUM 500 MORE
AND HE’D BE THE TROLL WHO DRUMMED
1000 MILES OUTSIDE OF YOUR FRONT DOOR
When I wake up, well I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the shit elf that wakes up next to you
When WAV goes out, yeah I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the shit elf goin along with you
Da da da (da da da)
Da da da (da da da)
Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da
If I get drunk, well I know I’m gonna be fuck head
I’m gonna be the fucker who gets drunk next to you
And if I haver up, yeah I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the fucker who’s havering on you.
Soon enough the phrase “payetrolling” will be coined.
Not only because Payet is doing the equivalent of rickrolling them, but also because the people will be paying the trolls to make him stop singing
I prefer Basara myself.
I am 10,000% sure this won’t backfire.
“Hey, dude – I know how to do this so don’t worry about me. My daddy told me how, just like he told me about the bardic magic.”
“Uhhh … yer Pop told you that the tooth sprite, the dire Easter Hare and Saxemas Clause were real too … AND WE ALL KNOW HOW THOSE TURNED OUT.”
“…What happened to the tooth sprite, the dire Easter Hare, and Saxemas Clause?”
They walked into a bar together. The bartender said, “when I ordered a case of holiday spirits, I meant the kind my patrons could DRINK!”
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar, Taro.
Pretty sure if you told him that; he’d just poison the honey.
Also, in fact you catch more flies with vinegar, because it smells like rotting fruit. Seriously, try it.
Also, also, why is everybody so into catching flies? Is there a Secret Aracnoid Conspiracy I somehow missed?
Taro seems more of a “you catch more flies with napalm” kind of ruler.
He loves the smell of napalm in the morning.
Love is fleeting, but fear is primal.
Ah, but so is hatred, and it walks hand-in-hand with fear.
I know that’s an old saying, but the inverse is actually true.
Clearly Taro has read his .
And clearly I have not read my html tags.
Lol those guards are charged with guarding the throne, not the little shit on it. He gonna just storm out? Gotta keep an eye on this chair back here man.
Maybe they’re just cardboard cutouts, what with the new king firing everyone Azula-style.
You jest, sir/madam, but you are close to the truth.
As in real life, guards in full livery are as much for show as for security. Pageantry, very important.
Note how one is left-handed while the other is right-handed. They are symmetrical. Very aesthetic.
Presumably, there are already guards aligned along the walls in the corridor Taro is storming in. And in the each room branching from there. And the next ones.
At some point, they may run out of guards and the ones in the throne room may have to rush along secondary corridors to position themselves in a room before Taro enters it. Behind-the-scene Versailles was a bit like this, when the king Louis XIV was taking a stroll in his domain, especially in the gardens.
Too bad he’s already king. I had hoped his coronation would have the same pomp, circumstance, and immolation as Starscream’s.
Looks like it’s mutiny-o-clock.
All aboard ! Next stop : Gastonia. Population : just him.
And quite the avatar you got there!
He’s quite a bit more self aware than I expected.
Same.
Though, to be fair, my bar was VERY low to begin with.
Rolling for a matching gender and character class.
Boy, the little shit didn’t waste any time slapping a crown on his head, huh?
And the giant “I”, too. I guess the country’s called Iwatania now?
Man I can’t wait for Frigg vs. Ardaic though!! Gonna be a good one!
Oh yay, Rachel!
I’m thinking it will be Ardaic vs. Syr’Nj. They have more history together.
One will result in a battle of words, while the other a battle of weapons. Honestly not sure which of the two I’d prefer to see.
We’ll prolly see both
Well I mean, there’s gotta be at least a little Ardaic vs. Frigg, or else the title page is A LIE! A LIE I SAY!
You’re right! I completely overlooked the title page. I still hope there will be an “aftermatch” between Ardaic and Syr’Nj. Closure and such …
Actually, it’s a cake.
Great idea. Because adding more subjugation is certainly not going to make people profess their loyalty on the surface while wanting, deep down, to stick it to you at the first reasonable chance they can get away with it. And if any such deep feeling of resentment was to somehow develop, against all odds, in response to your repression, it’s certainly not going to be something that bardic magic could exploit on the basis of your own thinking. Not at all. There is certainly no flaw with this plan that I can see.
Knowing Taro, the loyalty oath is a geas/quest deal that prevents disloyal behavior.
Someone read The Prince, failed to grasp it was satire…and still failed to follow the advice properly.
Random avatar thread, here we go!
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Taro will have a platform built to announce to the people what is about to happen, known as The Taro Deck.
Something something The Tower something. You win the Internet fellow poster.
Which will shortly become the gallows of the Hanged Man… or , in this case, child.
Man, do I want to see that boy’s head on a pike, and then, in honor of the recently passed Stephen Furst, give him a little wave while grinning like a kid on Christmas morning.
That would be sweet, but I think getting stabbed with a poison needle is more likely. I’m not sure the creators of this strip really want to depict even the gruesome aftermath of a beheading when a child is involved, but accidentally poisoning himself would be fitting.
Using force to ensure loyalty = bad
Using force backed by magic, coercion, compulsion, and fear = still bad, but maybe effective. Until The Silver Centurion becomes the Paladin O’Pee that is.
;_; I don’t know where I’m going to direct my crazy fangirl energy.
… Maybe I’ll make a Frigg cosplay. There’s a new Ren Faire near me and I need to be badass.
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If Taro’s playing up the police state angle, does that mean we might get to see Best and Penk play punk?
I’m still Ardaic? This better be a sign that he’s getting a redemption arc. Or a redemption scene, at least.
Last panel: Nice reference back to the previous chapter.
And oh my, whaddyaknow, according to my calendar, today is Kill a Child Day! I wonder how the Arkerrans will celebrate this holiday…
Good catch!
AND ON AMERICA EVE, NO LESS.
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
-Terry Pratchett
Such a great quote, thanks!
Avatar check!
yep
Checking on America’s birthday?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
He’s going to rock them.
Oh s**t, there goes the server.
Ooohhh….I get it…this is a guildedage-starwars-crossover!
Oh, I’m so smart.
Let me just check….
Many apologies, folks, but the next comic will be up in the afternoon.
I’ve been saying it for 241 years now, this independence was a mistake. First the spoiled tea, now a delayed strip of GA!
It’s all good. You guys are one of the more regular webcomics out there. I don’t think many of us are willing to give you guys a hard time for being a behind after a holiday.
Spot the hilarious typo! :)
(At least I hope it’s a typo and you’re not sneakily calling them assholes.)
DAMN YOU I DEMAND MY FREELY PROVIDED CONTENT IN A TIMELY MANNER
Looking forward to it!
Aw it’s concluding :( Guilded Age has been my grand finale webcomic for 5 years (as in, I finish reading the day’s comics by reading Guilded Age)
Then again, what are subjects if not subjective?