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

Look, once you save the world, you're in charge of your entire race. That's how it works. It's a Herocracy.

Chapter 50 – Page 13

on April 23, 2018
Chapter: Chapter 50
└ Tags: Byron, Clair, Don Gobligno, Gondolessa, Gravedust, Kur'ik, Penk, Reynolds, Sir Groff, Syr'Nj
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  1. JSStryker
    JSStryker
    April 23, 2018, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    About the alt text if that is true shouldn’t Bandit be in there with Byron and Syr’Nj?

    • David Liao
      David Liao
      April 23, 2018, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      Error 402 Unable to Log In

    • biggmac
      biggmac
      April 23, 2018, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      Hear, hear!

    • MatthewTheLucky
      MatthewTheLucky
      April 23, 2018, 12:53 am | # | Reply

      They tried, but she took the ceremonial regalia and split.

    • Beroli
      Beroli
      April 23, 2018, 1:24 am | # | Reply

      You beat up an evil god who’s trying to unravel the world, you wind up in charge of your race.

      You beat up a boy tyrant who’s trying to enslave everyone he can, you wind up…well, we’ll find out.

      • TachyonCode
        TachyonCode
        April 23, 2018, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

        If there’s a pun here about “winding up people”, consider me wound up.

    • Some guy
      Some guy
      April 23, 2018, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

      Not to mention Payet isn’t in there.

  2. Beroli
    Beroli
    April 23, 2018, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    I like Dean Reynolds.

    • Ved
      Ved
      April 23, 2018, 7:55 pm | # | Reply

      Well yeah. He’s a bro.

  3. brasca1
    brasca1
    April 23, 2018, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    Thanks for the exposition. I figured Miyamoto either died during HR’s attack or escaped. Apparently he lived to fight another day and then die. Hopefully, Bedard was one of the off panel casualties too.

    • Psolo Ghoti
      Psolo Ghoti
      April 23, 2018, 6:00 pm | # | Reply

      I think Bedard will be around for the heat death of the universe, using the remaining power of the last battery to publish his last headline to a long gone intergalactic-net. Then, he’ll just observe the vast darkness, with unabated curiosity, while his spacesuit slowly radiates the last of its heat away.

      • Ved
        Ved
        April 23, 2018, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

        A noble end! He’ll be there at the end of the universe. Ready to put up the chairs on the tables and turn out the lights. There to witness the end and document it.

  4. Iarei
    Iarei
    April 23, 2018, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    Oh my, Clair… how delightfully saucy.

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      April 23, 2018, 9:10 am | # | Reply

      There’s a ‘Don’t call me Shirley’ joke there somewhere, but I couldn’t find it.

  5. biggmac
    biggmac
    April 23, 2018, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    Old regime outcomes report, with new career recommendations as appropriate:
    Myamoto: captured and submitted to usual Gnoll interrogation methods. Succumbed to same.
    Field Marshall Ardaic: Banned from government service. Recommend a career in private detective service, as he’s already a dick anyway.
    Pardo: Give leadership name of “Don”. Recommend becoming announcer for SNL-S (Sat. Nite Live Sacrifice)
    Grand Marshall Jarvis: Exiled, now inventing and selling war board games (“Wisk” and “Stratega”)
    Bedard: Jailed, 30 years for the new crime of Fake News. Still writes; publishes the weekly prison menu report.

  6. Ganurath
    Ganurath
    April 23, 2018, 1:39 am | # | Reply

    Pardo got a pardon.

    • kammon
      kammon
      April 24, 2018, 3:20 am | # | Reply

      I really hope he’s also got a role in government, even if a far more limited one as part of Byron’s staff. He was a victim of the conspiracy himself. really.

  7. Passerby
    Passerby
    April 23, 2018, 2:46 am | # | Reply

    There’s an old saying about the best politicians being the ones who never wanted the job.

    • Tsapki
      Tsapki
      April 23, 2018, 5:06 am | # | Reply

      Aye, though I think it is not specifically politicians, but rather all those in positions of power.

      • Lirazel
        Lirazel
        April 23, 2018, 10:50 pm | # | Reply

        I think it’s one of the qualifications for abbot in the Benedictine Rule: “Qualification #1: Not wanting to be abbot.”

    • Psolo Ghoti
      Psolo Ghoti
      April 23, 2018, 5:51 pm | # | Reply

      Or at least those who don’t trust themselves to do a good job.

    • Angel
      Angel
      April 23, 2018, 7:08 pm | # | Reply

      I dug up a qoute that Sums up our Altruist buddies rather nicely
      “When any man is more stupidly vain and outrageously egotistic than his fellows, he will hide his hideousness in humanitarianism.” – George Moore

      and a Personal Quote “Never lead the Fattest head Sit in the Biggest Chair.” – Angel :P

    • brasca1
      brasca1
      April 24, 2018, 1:30 am | # | Reply

      Frigg is human and helped save the world too. Maybe they flipped a coin to see who got stuck leading humanity.

      • gorcq
        gorcq
        April 24, 2018, 7:08 am | # | Reply

        More likely, Frigg threatened to beat up anyone who suggested her for the job. With her hammer. Frigg’s not stupid.

  8. Nathanyel
    Nathanyel
    April 23, 2018, 2:58 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, who gets punished more, Ardaic or Byron?

    Would really like to see at least 2-3 epilogue panels with Ardaic though, he was an interesting character, a Rommel, a Nazgrim.

    • Rules Lawyer
      Rules Lawyer
      April 23, 2018, 10:57 am | # | Reply

      That’s very perceptive.
      Reynolds hems and haws about Ardaic’s offenses, talks up how happy he is to be working with Byron.

      Net result, humanity gets a representitive that isn’t enough of a bastard to make it stick.
      Politics as usual.

    • Thracecius
      Thracecius
      April 23, 2018, 2:32 pm | # | Reply

      So Ardaic will end up taking cyanide forced on him by his own side? That’s grim.

      Rommel deserved better, but chances are he would have been charged with war crimes (not that I recall reading about any, unless being an effective general was one) and spent the rest of his life in prison anyhow, so maybe it was a mercy. At least his family could have visited him in prison though.

      • Ved
        Ved
        April 23, 2018, 8:00 pm | # | Reply

        He’s only being banned from government service. That’s a slap on the wrist. He’s being allowed a normal civilian life.

    • Joe
      Joe
      April 23, 2018, 5:06 pm | # | Reply

      Better a Nazgrim than a Taylor.
      I’m still mad about that.

  9. Dichologos
    Dichologos
    April 23, 2018, 3:43 am | # | Reply

    “In punishment for your crimes, you will no longer be allowed to participate in government, and can now live out the rest of your life in peaceful retirement.” The horrors of an early retirement, woe is Ardaic!

  10. Blake
    Blake
    April 23, 2018, 8:22 am | # | Reply

    Gnome-one sees the clock
    How it’s broken twice a day
    Until darkness lifts

    (I will continue to disgrace haiku’s until the sun goes out)

    • maggPi
      maggPi
      April 23, 2018, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

      Forgive me my O.C.D.;
      There is no apostrophe in pluralization, only in contractions and the possessive participle. (The only exception is “it.” The possessive participle is “its.”)

      Ex)
      1 haiku
      2 haikus
      “Haiku’s a Japanese rhythm poem, it’s popular worldwide for its deceptive simplicity.”

      Lots of people make this mistake, sorry for picking on you in this instance.

      • biggmac
        biggmac
        April 23, 2018, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

        Forgive me, maggPi – but if you were extremely O.C.D. you’d spell it C.D.O. (alphabetical order)___;)

      • gorcq
        gorcq
        April 24, 2018, 7:12 am | # | Reply

        Pretty sure the plural of haiku is actually haiku. It’s a foreign word. But I agree with you about apostrophes in plurals. People who do that should always be publicly shamed.

      • Blake
        Blake
        April 25, 2018, 7:37 am | # | Reply

        No no, that’s the disgrace part!
        In all honesty your comment is much appreciated, grammar rules were always a weak point of mine in English, beaten only by iambic pentameter.

  11. TxGator
    TxGator
    April 23, 2018, 9:29 am | # | Reply

    Poor Byron. He’s now in charge of the race that everyone hates. Even though humans may have been given a seat on the council, I’m sure their is still some resentment from all the other races.

    I’m sure he’s got a tough road ahead of him.

    • Blake
      Blake
      April 23, 2018, 11:45 am | # | Reply

      I guess you could say their hatred is deep /seated/?

      • maggPi
        maggPi
        April 23, 2018, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

        Oh dear, you couldn’t cushion the blow, could you?

        • biggmac
          biggmac
          April 23, 2018, 1:40 pm | # | Reply

          Surely there’s more puns than what we’ve seen sofa.

          • TxGator
            TxGator
            April 23, 2018, 4:39 pm | # | Reply

            Should we table these puns?

            • Psolo Ghoti
              Psolo Ghoti
              April 23, 2018, 6:21 pm | # | Reply

              I just think Byron ottoman up and stop being so pewerile.

              • TachyonCode
                TachyonCode
                April 23, 2018, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

                All these puns about seats and not one person furnished a butt joke.

                • FoolishOwl
                  FoolishOwl
                  April 24, 2018, 2:50 pm | # | Reply

                  You people and your armchair political analysis.

    • Ved
      Ved
      April 23, 2018, 8:10 pm | # | Reply

      Nah.

      The former Sky Elves Clair brought along like humans because they represented their first friendly contact with the outside world.

      Gnomes have always been used to humans.

      Forest Elves have thawed relations with humans, although some tensions remain, they’ve already started trading since the days of the Gastonian coalition.

      The dwarves mostly live in their mountain now and won’t need to have much contact with humans in cities.

      Goblins are selfish but pragmatic. They don’t care who they’re doing business with as long as they profit.

      Things could be worse overall.

  12. Tim
    Tim
    April 23, 2018, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

    Just when I thought I couldn’t love Byron more.

  13. Spencer
    Spencer
    April 23, 2018, 10:34 pm | # | Reply

    Is Clair amused because “managing human affairs” is code for Byron getting nookie?

    “Oh yeah I was just back in the bedroom with Byron, ‘managing human affairs’.”

    • drs
      drs
      April 24, 2018, 10:05 pm | # | Reply

      To me it seemed like Clair was expressing the hots for Byron herself. She looks more wistful and blushing than snarking at someone else’s relationship.

    • Devlerbat
      Devlerbat
      April 25, 2018, 1:24 am | # | Reply

      I that took it as “lots of people think you are the best human for the job even if you don’t like it and/or agree.”

  14. Lirazel
    Lirazel
    April 23, 2018, 10:53 pm | # | Reply

    I really, really love “Herocracy.”

  15. Sahara
    Sahara
    April 24, 2018, 11:37 pm | # | Reply

    Can someone help me find Pardo? He’s not on the cast page, and isn’t tagged on this page, and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to search for old tags…

    • Psolo Ghoti
      Psolo Ghoti
      April 25, 2018, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

      Here’s his tag: His Grace Pardo.

  16. Devlerbat
    Devlerbat
    April 25, 2018, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    I was about to ask if they should still worry about Goblingo making ambitious and selfish plans like the Altruists did. However given that he finds himself surrounded by actual altruists that are all about as powerful if not more so, as he is I suppose the most. selfish thing for him to due would be play by their rules.

    • Devlerbat
      Devlerbat
      April 25, 2018, 1:22 am | # | Reply

      *do

  17. tlhonmey
    tlhonmey
    April 25, 2018, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

    How much would folks be willing to bet that this is more or less how the first meeting of the previous council looked?

    Altruists are the least trustworthy when it comes to wielding power over others.

    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
    C. S. Lewis

  18. DP
    DP
    April 30, 2018, 11:15 pm | # | Reply

    Chapter 20, Page 4 has the old Gastonian representatives, in case anyone else has as much trouble matching their names to their faces.

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