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

Moisturizer ads are getting really fucked up.

Chapter 48 – Page 50

on October 25, 2017
Chapter: Chapter 48
└ Tags: Best, Byron, Carol, Frigg, Gravedust, HR, Syr'Nj
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  1. Dave
    Dave
    October 25, 2017, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    That moment you’re glad it’s Sepia world and not one where you can distinguish red properly.

    • minando
      minando
      October 26, 2017, 2:50 am | # | Reply

      Seconded. Yuck.

  2. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    October 25, 2017, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    No guts no glory I guess.

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      October 25, 2017, 10:06 pm | # | Reply

      How disarming.

      • minando
        minando
        October 26, 2017, 2:52 am | # | Reply

        Only a true fan can lose himself like that.

    • Narratorway
      Narratorway
      October 26, 2017, 10:17 pm | # | Reply

      Whelp, its no skin off my back.

  3. MatthewTheLucky
    MatthewTheLucky
    October 25, 2017, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Carol’s the one who made all this possible, but Gravy’s the one giving a hand to her.

    • Gristle McNerd
      Gristle McNerd
      October 26, 2017, 2:54 am | # | Reply

      Looks like he’s actually becoming gravy, too

  4. LookieLouE1707
    LookieLouE1707
    October 25, 2017, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Don’t be such a debbie downer, carol. Looks like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays!

  5. Jonathan Lang
    Jonathan Lang
    October 25, 2017, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    I think she might be having some regrets…

    • Draxynnic
      Draxynnic
      October 25, 2017, 3:37 am | # | Reply

      I think you might be right there.

      We’ve seen the Five in their tubes since, so I don’t think this is something that actually HAPPENED. Instead, this is Carol having a guilt-induced nightmare.

      Which probably also explains why HR has been repeating his line about not being able to do any of it without her ad nauseum. His praise has become part of her damnation.

  6. q`Tzal
    q`Tzal
    October 25, 2017, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    At least there wasn’t a T-888 under all that skin.

    • Meadowbrook
      Meadowbrook
      October 25, 2017, 9:09 pm | # | Reply

      More like a t-bone, dude’s pretty fat.

      • minando
        minando
        October 26, 2017, 2:53 am | # | Reply

        Traitor :-)

  7. Mr Ak
    Mr Ak
    October 25, 2017, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    It sure is lucky that Best and Byron’s lower halves dissolved into a puddle of hideous goo and melting flesh before the second panel.

    Otherwise we might have seen a penis. :P

    • Meadowbrook
      Meadowbrook
      October 25, 2017, 9:15 pm | # | Reply

      You know it was the weight of their dicks that ripped off their lower halves. The clothing was the only thing holding the sheer weight of their dangalangs from shredding them as we just saw.

      F ;_;7

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        October 25, 2017, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

        Worst case of crotch rot ever.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      October 26, 2017, 6:59 am | # | Reply

      As it is all we got is a mere boner.

      • MidnightDStroyer
        MidnightDStroyer
        October 26, 2017, 4:55 pm | # | Reply

        From Carol’s point of view there were a lot of awkward boners.

  8. Fiaryn
    Fiaryn
    October 25, 2017, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  9. Jason
    Jason
    October 25, 2017, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    Of course this would be the one comic I open just before I start slurping down some noodles. XP

    • minando
      minando
      October 26, 2017, 2:54 am | # | Reply

      You do have the Best avatar for commenting on this.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      October 26, 2017, 4:57 pm | # | Reply

      So, do you think you have more need of Brain Bleach™ or Pepto Bysmol™?

  10. fairportfan
    fairportfan
    October 25, 2017, 12:55 am | # | Reply

    “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”

  11. Pat
    Pat
    October 25, 2017, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    “Out damned spot – Out I say”, I got strong MacBeth vibe.

    • Minion Oftheempire
      Minion Oftheempire
      October 25, 2017, 9:12 am | # | Reply

      “O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
      Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!”
      Hamlet right back at ya ;)

      • Thracecius
        Thracecius
        October 25, 2017, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

        Frigg having a conversation with herself?!?! :D

        • Tsapki
          Tsapki
          October 26, 2017, 5:26 am | # | Reply

          Different parts of Frigg’s persona duking it out?

  12. Mujaki
    Mujaki
    October 25, 2017, 1:25 am | # | Reply

    Hurricane Software CEO discovers amazing weight loss program!
    Missing persons investigators hate him!

    • Slayn82
      Slayn82
      October 25, 2017, 5:39 pm | # | Reply

      Who said you can’t lose weight while playing games?

  13. Just_IDD
    Just_IDD
    October 25, 2017, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    He’s Skelly and she Moldering welcome to the Sepia Zone.
    Nice Halloween run up.

    • Just_IDD
      Just_IDD
      October 25, 2017, 1:49 am | # | Reply

      I just realized this is really Gravy but you’re supposed to take the bones out when you make that.

      also for some strange reason when I post from mobile I hit the button once and it always says that I did a duplicate post, not sure why.

  14. Professor Fate
    Professor Fate
    October 25, 2017, 1:36 am | # | Reply

    “… Watch the pounds just melt away …”

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      October 25, 2017, 4:21 am | # | Reply

      Gravedust has used “Atkins Diet” ….. It’s sup-TOO EFFECTIVE HOLY COW!!1

      • Speedy
        Speedy
        March 20, 2019, 8:25 am | # | Reply

        It’s Souper Effective

  15. brasca1
    brasca1
    October 25, 2017, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    Someone needs to lighten the mood with a boner joke.

    • MidnightDStroyer
      MidnightDStroyer
      October 26, 2017, 5:01 pm | # | Reply

      In darkest times, it’s usually appreciated when someone can find the humerus side. I think Carol herself came the closest to it when she grabbed Gravey.

  16. MidnightDStroyer
    MidnightDStroyer
    October 25, 2017, 2:39 am | # | Reply

    Alt Text: Moisturizer ads are getting really fucked up.
    I believe Countess Elizabeth Bathory would disagree with you…

  17. Smallfoot
    Smallfoot
    October 25, 2017, 2:54 am | # | Reply

    “NYAHAHA! I couldn’t have done it without you, He-Man!”

    • Thracecius
      Thracecius
      October 25, 2017, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

      That would have made a GREAT alt-text! :D

    • Just_IDD
      Just_IDD
      October 26, 2017, 11:14 pm | # | Reply

      In other disturbing ads, today I saw skelletor pimping for geico…. I think a small part of my childhood died that moment. either that or the few remaining brain cells that I had aftervwatching that show.

  18. Wannes
    Wannes
    October 25, 2017, 4:44 am | # | Reply

    She was drinking before she slipped into this dream: in vino veritas as HR really couldn’t have gotten this far without her cooperation (hiding the Five and the killing of Ferris, …).
    Question is: how will this dream effect/affect (not sure which of them is correct) her reaction on the break-in by Shanna and Xan?

    • smilr
      smilr
      October 25, 2017, 8:21 am | # | Reply

      A couple of mnemonics I use to try to keep those two straight: When you _E_ffect a plan, you _E_xecute it and _E_nd up with some _E_ffects. When you _A_ffect something you _A_lter it.

      Personally I’m hoping for her to find personal repentance by doing whatever she can to free the five and stop HR from here on out, then spend many many years in prison for her prior actions.

      • tlhonmey
        tlhonmey
        October 25, 2017, 6:06 pm | # | Reply

        If she plays it right, she can probably blame all the bad stuff on HR. After all, it’s his creepy lab. If he were killing people down there she’d really have no way to know…

  19. Innicent_Bystander
    Innicent_Bystander
    October 25, 2017, 5:02 am | # | Reply

    Called it. It reeked of a guilty conscience dream. That said, I wonder if it works as foreshadowing too? Perhaps getting the Five back won’t be so easy as unplugging them?

    • Draxynnic
      Draxynnic
      October 25, 2017, 7:51 am | # | Reply

      That’s been known for a while – HR and Carol TRIED to disconnect them, but it became pretty clear that doing so was risking killing them. Which is part of the reason why HR was trying to get them killed before he entered Arkerra himself – he was hoping that if he killed them in Arkerra, he could disconnect them without killing them in SepiaWorld.

  20. Frigg_fanboi
    Frigg_fanboi
    October 25, 2017, 7:23 am | # | Reply

    Anyone else have this song go through on the last panel or was it just me? lol

    • Seggs
      Seggs
      October 25, 2017, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

      at first i was like https://i.imgur.com/gqeFSoX.gifv

      but then i was all https://i.imgur.com/2yXBZdP.gif

  21. Lord Hideous
    Lord Hideous
    October 25, 2017, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    Carol- “Okay, I found this humerus.”

    • Minion Oftheempire
      Minion Oftheempire
      October 25, 2017, 9:14 am | # | Reply

      Thats not funny

      • Psolo Ghoti
        Psolo Ghoti
        October 25, 2017, 5:50 pm | # | Reply

        You’re right, that would be the ulna.

        • MidnightDStroyer
          MidnightDStroyer
          October 26, 2017, 5:13 pm | # | Reply

          Ulna in her left hand, humerus in her right hand.
          Yep, she found the ulna(mate) humerus side of the situation.

  22. asmanel
    asmanel
    October 25, 2017, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    definitely not the character’s past :

    Here, the order (from left to right) is :
    Gravedust, Frigg, Syr’Nj, Byron, Payet

    Before, it was :
    Byron, Syr’Nj, Gravedust, Frigg, Payet

    • echonian
      echonian
      October 25, 2017, 7:55 pm | # | Reply

      I would think that the fact EVERYBODY IS A SKELETON would be better evidence that this isn’t real.

  23. Rosetiger12
    Rosetiger12
    October 25, 2017, 10:37 am | # | Reply

    Kudos to the artists on the melty flesh skeletons.

    • eleventeen
      eleventeen
      October 25, 2017, 10:47 am | # | Reply

      Definitely. I feel that the artistry of the comic, not to mention the story, makes this one of the better ones out there.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        October 25, 2017, 10:04 pm | # | Reply

        I came, I read, I concurred.

  24. Seggs
    Seggs
    October 25, 2017, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

    https://i.imgur.com/lkyqqDg.gif

  25. Valleyflower
    Valleyflower
    October 25, 2017, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

    Not exactly the thing you want to see at seven in the morning when you’ve just woken up.

  26. Eric
    Eric
    October 25, 2017, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

    Ah, a little problems with the old conscience there Carol?
    I was wondering about the constant “I couldn’t have done this without you” in the last page. Now it makes sense.

  27. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    October 25, 2017, 5:54 pm | # | Reply

    Gravedust will cover you
    Cover you

  28. DaAmron
    DaAmron
    October 25, 2017, 6:08 pm | # | Reply

    hmmmm….this makes me wonder if the five arent, perhaps, already dead? suspended in the bacta tanks? HR said they would be breathing liquid, but it makes me wonder, how have their bodies fed? nutrients in the tanks? how often are they maintained? or have they been maintained at all? perhaps there was a malfunction and this is the whole point of it all, why they were covered up? the volunteers died, but created something entirely unexpected? (and yes, im just using the term Bacta tank here loosely) or did they go all ‘lawnmower man’ as their bodies deteriorate, but their minds go off the charts?

  29. Emma
    Emma
    October 25, 2017, 8:56 pm | # | Reply

    Ooh did Carol grow a conscience?

  30. Meadowbrook
    Meadowbrook
    October 25, 2017, 9:18 pm | # | Reply

    Look at the smile on gravedust’s face, he knows he’s about to get his dick sucked, she looks thirsty.

    Mm. That fupa tho.

  31. BrainWizard (Merasmus' former lab partner)
    BrainWizard (Merasmus' former lab partner)
    October 25, 2017, 10:57 pm | # | Reply

    I know a nightmare when I see one. I’d bet half a dozen yeti hairs the next page is Carol Waking up in a cold sweat. But unfortunately I’m out of stock due to so many men with guns wanting yeti fur coats, so bigfoot hairs will have to do.

  32. Defttitan
    Defttitan
    October 26, 2017, 9:18 am | # | Reply

    Looks like gravy plays a squishie class.

  33. Hornet
    Hornet
    October 26, 2017, 4:35 pm | # | Reply

    Nothing like being stuck in a dream of the real world.

  34. Red74pure
    Red74pure
    October 26, 2017, 10:32 pm | # | Reply

    Well one of the first times I’m checking out this comic, and I see this… I don’t know what to say.

  35. DarknessShallFall
    DarknessShallFall
    October 27, 2017, 2:50 am | # | Reply

    Dude, is Carol on Drugs?

    • Wannes
      Wannes
      October 27, 2017, 6:03 am | # | Reply

      Alcohol (last seen drinking upstairs right before the break-in by the gamers).

  36. Coragenan
    Coragenan
    October 27, 2017, 4:31 pm | # | Reply

    Despite all the “other stuff” i like to focus on the positives, like two days of Frigg booty.

  37. Blake
    Blake
    November 2, 2017, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

    Those third and fifth panels reaaaally do this scene for me. It’s squishy, gorey, and the melt affect is executed so well by having Carol ripping off the arm on accident trying to stop Gravedust. That part I don’t think I’ve ever seen done before, and sells the horror.

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