Chapter 49 – Page 34
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“Highest form of existence”, eh? I wonder if we’re going for a “H.R. joins the Meme-Gods” ending…
I SEE THE ESSENCE OF PURE BEING! THE HIGHEST FORM OF EXISTENCE.
I SEE THE DIFFERENCE AND IT’S GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME.
THERE’S NOTHING YOU OR I WON’T DO.
I STOP THE WORLD AND MELT WITH YOU.
Anything you can do I can do better!
I can do anything better than you!
Yes eye can yes eye can yes eye can!
Now I remember that Taco Bell commerical of the Grim Reaper having a cheesey melt burrito thing.
Now I want Mexican food.
*bllrkhh!*
Taco Bell… isn’t Mexican food.
(…singing heard from a great distance; “…fire in the Disco! Fire in the.. Taco Bell! Danger..! Danger..!”)
Taco Hell – Where all the bad tacos go.
Yeah, Chipotle or Baja Fresh. :)
My fantasy has turned to madness
And all my goodness
Has turned to badness
My need to possess you
Has consumed my soul
My life is trembling
I have no control
I will have you
Yes, I will have you
I will find a way and I will have you
Like a butterfly
A wild butterfly
I will collect you and capture you
Just a sec, we have Frigg who after all is just an avatar for the gamer who volunteered for a unique gaming experience. And we have omnipotent morphing purple vapor who is the avatar for another gamer named H R Dedalus. (I mean he may also have written the software for the game and everything but he is playing the game using the same game controller as the real woman controlling Frigg. My point is this is the clash of two mortal humans will. Now add Voodoo Human and sacrifice (Ferris) Does he have the potential to control all of Sepia? This is reality as we the forum posters know it judging from the product placements from Madison Avenue.
The comic is never discussed here; only one liners and stinkier jokes are spoken.
“What does God need with a smoke machine?”
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!”
Or a starship.
To paraphrase the Doctor;
“What is the one thing gods are known for? (..?) They never actually show up!!”
“Now add Voodoo Human and sacrifice (Ferris)” should read “Now, add Voodoo and human sacrifice, (Ferris).” All this is certainly leading someplace but i can’t figure out where. Loving the suspense. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky got nothing on Khan and Campbell.
Are you a god?
We have a Hulk.
If someone asks if you’re a god, you say yes!
Are you a good witch? or a bad witch?
I’ve been a bad, bad, boy.
Oh, he’s a god all right, just not a real one.
What’s the difference?
PRESENTATION!!!
All that smoke is from the ashes of these sick burns!
Thoughts: Omnipotence is not the acme of god hood; omniscience is. And “all-knowing” … HR ain’t.
So in reference to my other post on this page, Syr and Gravy need to find the curtain and expose the small man behind it. Where’s Toto when ya need him?
We might be able to take you more seriously H.R. if you actually explained anything beyond Self-Inflated Pseudo-Philosophy.
Oh and Not Be a Gigantic Eldrich cloud of smoke and hands and Yelling. That would probably help your case quite a bit as well.
He definitely seems to have forgotten any lessons he learned from being a CEO.
I wonder how much of him is still the same H.R. Daedalus who stepped into the tube.
He’s behaving the way some CEOs of my acquaintance wish they could act. You know — an adoring female employee, no pesky share-holders, access to all the toys…
Yeah, HR is definitely in need of a psychiatrist couch.
Not to be confused with the Hollywood casting couch…I mean, c’mon, the dude is *already* stripped down to his underwear.
Judging by panel one above and panel one of this page, I think HR has some repressed urges. This might also explain why The Five “had to” get naked when going in the tubes.
Two quotes come to mind:
1. “I’m going to lash you… to within an inch of your life. And then… I’m going to have you!”
2. “Uh… trivial question, but did I really need to take my clothes off?”
Big nerd points for anyone who can place both.
Red Dwarf and Tenchi Muyo, respectively.
Big nerd points awarded!
(Not as fancy as an official Phil Kahn gold star, but at least as nerdy!)
As always, Frigg manages to win the award for comedy.
Frigg has seen enough things to know where that was going and she ain’t having NUN of it ;)
I guy I know was in the USN, he said he met some real honest to God SEALs while in. Most unassuming guys you ever met.
It made total sense. They knew they were bad asses, they had been through some tough ass training that few people pass, they had probably been in the shit a few times. They had nothing to prove to anybody, so they felt no need to posture or tell people they were big deals. They knew they were all that, those who needed to know also knew, and if shit happened they knew what to do. What you, or I, or some punk thought about them was irrelevant.
They didn’t say any of that of course, because that in itself would be posturing. They were just cool about the entire thing and didn’t make a big deal about it. It was my friend and I discussing it that figured out the logic.
That is what I immediately thought of with the last panel. People with real power and/ or genuine confidence in their abilities, don’t make a big deal out of it. They just do it. They may even downplay it. Those who feel the need to posture and make a show… you wonder who they are trying to convince, us, or themselves?
HR should learn that lesson.
(So should Donald Trump, for that matter)
Think of it like Animals in the Wild. a Hunter doesn’t go about puffed up and barking, nor does a mother herbivore prance about when protecting their young. they just either bring home the meat or stomp out the threat. the only time you get animals prancing about in displays like this comes from two reasons right off the top of my head- the animal is engaging in a mating display (Lol! Let your mind go places with that idea and H.R.!)
Or the Animal has come across a bigger, stronger animal and is currently bluffing like mad in order to not get it’s ass kicked. (the “I’m so not worth it” school of self-defense)
Both follow the same line of logic- Make the Individual look bigger, stronger and better than they actually are. So really at this point, how much of H.R.’s power true and how much of it is one hell of a bluff check?
That may depend on the number that came up when their D20 got rolled.
Not wrong… A true god can interfere with anyone’s free will.
Weird. I haven’t been able to read the alt-text in the past 3 or 4 comics.. But I can for today’s. 😕