EPIC RAP BATTLES OF EARTH HISTORY – SHANNA VS HR
After tabulating the votes (and sifting through the straight up fuckin’ ingrates, BOY AM I NOT GOING TO MISS THAT ABOUT NOT RUNNING A WEBCOMIC ANYMORE), the winner between Syr’Nj & Bandit is…
BANDIT, 28 to 23!
This here is our last battle, Chapter 50, the final chapter, will begin this Monday! Voting’s open until then?
PS: This is a call out post for T Campbell, who at no point referred to HR in this as “Hot Raps” Daedelus.
Hmm, Team Hurricane. Got to say I like the bullet hole aesthetic for JJ.
Team Shanna for me, I really liked Hurricanes style but I feel like the actual dialogue was a better counter, like Shanna’s Squad was more unified and was putting up with bullshit. Their ensemble bit to re-in force shaman was a bit cheesy but heart warming after all they’ve been through.
Also I missed the last one on accident but would have voted bandit after reading it just now, so happy with the result.
Shanna. Where HR has the supposed power, Shanna’s got the people to back her up.
Shanna. She’s got the rhymes, she’s got the right, and TBH, she’s the best GD character you ever did write.
This. Also, I agree with the comment above that her squad provided more cohesive backup.
Hrm… close but Carol carried it for Team Hurricane IMO. HR was whack, but her and JJ spat fire.
Also, yay! Go team Bandit!
Unpopular opinion, but accurate diagnostic.
HR was nothing special, but his special guests were fire.
While positive moral support is good, it’s no way to win a rap battle.
I have to give this one to HR especially if you’re going to compare him to Matt Lauer. I know Shanna had to find a word that rhymed, but still. If you’re going to scheme, then scheme big and godhood is as big as it gets. And it might’ve worked out if he wasn’t so preoccupied with killing the 5. If he chose to improve the world then Carol might’ve remained loyal.
In the end this is like choosing between Light and L or Ozymandias and Rorschach. I shouldn’t root for the former but I do because I find the latter to be too idealistic and shortsighted.
{{{Shanna and bros}}} go team good guys!
This is how you lyrically defeat a god!
Team Shana FTW
God awesome song…
this was so even, but I side barely with Shanna
HR
HR started out strong, but then got weak. Shanna and team crushed the beast.
Team Shanna for the win!
I agree with this. Just as HR became more and more Too Much in-story, Team HR crumbles at the end, whereas Team Shanna just gets stronger. (It was nice to see Early Carol, though.)
Was rooting for Shanna, but Team HR crushed it.
Also F the haters, you guys rock, and do these ERBH!
Hr’s god-mode talk was great. His win for me.
You’ve been at this webcomic game a long time. You have to know ingrates come with the territory by now, though I understand it’s still shitty to try and give people something great and have them act like you’re the devil because it was 20 minutes late or not how they saw things going in their heads.
And HR, I guess.
I forgot you killed Kaye. I hate you. So Shanna.
Honestly, the ex-Kaye line was part of what put me on JJ’s side of this bout.
Monty Python reference in my raps? Yes please.
Gotta go with Team Shanna.
I could feel Team Hurricane’s beat better, but their verses feel too disconnected from each other. Which goes well with one of them being a crazy chaos god-wannabe, but Shanna’s more united front shines through on this one.
First, an overdue thanks for the last decade of comics. Also these last two weeks have been a welcome respite after an awesome but heartbreaking chapter. I can only imagine how much more difficult it must have been to write and illustrate. I promise there are a thousand appreciative readers for every ingrate, we just do not post as much.
Second, Team Shanna.
I concur with this as well! I came to the comic late, but have enjoyed it SO much — and now I feel a little sad every time I click on the webpage because it is ending.
Also, just saying that this is one of the best comments sections I’ve ever seen. And I am old — not Gravedust old, but old enough!
HR nails this one down for me.
Last stanza on a T-shirt, please.
Five stars. Would buy again. Also goes for the ten years of a truly fantastic webcomic. I’d like to know what it is that you folks will be getting up to next, as I’d like to continue to follow along!
Oh, and agreed that team Hurricane was wild, but as in the comic, Shanna and co win out in the end.
Cheers,
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Shanna for the win.
Shanna held her ground and kept rhymes flowing despite having to face off against several different opponents (one of whom is a god). Sure, her allies helped. But they didn’t come in until the end and didn’t stay for long. So it was mostly Shanna conquering the Hurricane.
“Stoic”
That word perfectly describes Shanna this time. I wanted to work that in my response previously, but long story short, I ended up having to draft my response twice today (this page was acting funny this morning).
Shanna.
Team on team? That’s pretty epic.
Gonna have to give the win to team Shanna.
JJ has it in the (body) bag.
Gotta go with the bad guys and their k-k-k-razy rap sheet.
Shanna fanna Bo banna
ram a wham a the rhyme mon
Bust his guts, he’s really nuts!
Hand it, sand it Hurricane
To Shanna (Shanna!) she’s the one
You’re not just lame, you’re totes insane!
Annnnnnd…. I love you guys.
I am going to miss you so very very much. The story, the art, the characters, the extras that went above and beyond! How do you keep topping the Top?? Guilded Age has seen me through deep sorrow to relief and hope.
Also, this has been the friendliest comments group I’ve ever seen. I’m sure it’s due in no small part to mediators/moderators. (I’ve never been totally clear on who’s done that; was it you, yourself?)
But the puns! The pugnacious and punitive punny pun puns!
biggmac, if you start a spin-off GA support group, I will join it!!!
Please, you guys; go to your favourite hug-person and get some nice squishy hugs, cos that is what I want to give you!!!!
💞💓💕
Shanna hands down. “God, complex much?” “…burying the lede of five unburied bodies”, and the whole last stanza. This update is spectacular. Almost feels like a coda for the entire comic, not to mention being accurate commentary on modern events.
Definitely Shanna.
I think JJ was making a joke about Ayn Rand with “A is A”, but I’m not quite sure what joke he was making.
I think it’s less an Ayn Rand joke and more a specific reference to objectivism itself. “A is A” references that evil is evil, good is good and what Shanna did to JJ was definitely justified and right. However, Shanna will still be haunted by her actions and Kaye’s death, running what she could have done differently through her head for the rest of her life.
Team Hurricane! Berten was a nice addition, HR was wack as expected and Carol was just beautifully, uncalled for mean.
Its gunna be a team Shanna vote for me,
I always wanted to like HR more for his ambition, but he was too wrapped up in his own ego to realize any form of true ascended godhood and it’s reflected really well in his lyrical style here. That aside Shanna really spit some direct poison at him and I was feeling it the whole way through.
Shanna Shanna Shanna Shanna Batman!
by which I mean Team Shanna blows the opposition away!
Oh, it’s team votes, not picking one of the eight people in this?
Team Shanna then.
Shanna. ‘Nuff said.
JJ Lives! He’s changed his name and started a bakery. https://www.google.com/search?q=Dave%27s+Killer+Bread+logo&client=ms-android-americamovil-us&prmd=isnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjy1IaoqoPaAhXBTd8KHaooDZIQ_AUIESgB&biw=360&bih=511#
Huh, I have seen this stuff at my local HEB. I was thinking about grabbing some eventually, but now I just plain need to.
Shanna. That last part wrecked Team Hurricane.
JJ loses. He only had to come up with 16 lines, and he still rhymed mind with mind, and then rhymed mind with to.
I’m gonna go with HR as the winner.
You mean in spite of JJ? It’s team Shanna vs team HR
And yeah JJ is not pulling his fair share. I guess you could call him… Dead weight?
Team Hurricane cause that coordination. I’ve liked all of them as a rogues gallery…except, amusingly enough, HR, who I find kind of uninteresting. They rocked it here.
Team Shanna was great too, of course.
Team Shanna FTW
This one was SUPER clever!
“God, complex much?” god COMMA complex! Haha, I love that to bits!
Also, human resources made me chuckle.
Of course, “Ferris” and “fair is fair” was fun, and I utterly adore the rhyming of “verse is” and “universes!”
I didn’t much care until that last stanza. Team Shanna!
“… you are all just / Human Resources!”
Oy, do I know that feeling. That’s part of what’s lovely about this comic — Yertle and the other turtles at the bottom of the stack bringing down the self-elevated clown on top.
Yertle was the turtle king at the top, the one who landed in the mud when the turtle at the bottom revolted.
Team Shannah!
I just moved 66o miles. 4 trips here and three trips back. Just got intrnet debugged so I am back on line. shanna shanna shanna vote erlee vote often shanna
Guys, something a bit meta just hit me. Daniel, Lia and Chrissie are the players of E-merl, Rachel and Bandit.
All three of them won their respective rap battles.
I’m disappointed that you guys missed the obvious chance to make an XKCD reference after “Kaye is an ex-Kaye! See? Deep!” So I have to give it to Shanna.
Shanna
Shanna – I felt like once she got going her lines flowed better, and the last stanza really shone for me.
Hat’s off to Shanna, figuratively and literally.
Thank you for the webcomic Mr Campbell