TLA Anno 5
FB: Byron decides to get Best a Black Mercy.
This is a fairly efficient recap of Best and Byron’s relationship up to now, at least on Byron’s side (we’ll get into Best’s side soon enough). The real surprise is that Byron considers himself to have been “impossibly selfish” in the past, which I’m gonna presume is mostly about his hiding the Berserker Curse until it, well, killed everybody back in Chapter 8.
It feels like we probably should’ve used the gifts Byron gets for Frigg, Gravedust, and Syr’Nj more explicitly in the finale, especially the magick ring for Syr’Nj. (I wonder if Byron meant that ring as a preview for another ring he’d be giving her, a little further down the line.)
I take it the warhammer has a magical boomeranging capability?
No, he’s not tossing it away, he’s twirling it using the strap on the handle, which is tied to his wrist.
I think it might’ve been a little bit of a woopsy that the second to last pannel has the head facing the opposite direction and the movement lines don’t convey the counter clockwise direction anymore. But maybe the intent was to imply in his moment of eureka he just caught the hammer to a stop.
On some subconscious level, perhaps Byron is aware that he **chose** the zerk-curse?
That’s pretty selfish, just for some edginess points, that he doesn’t even really use (no black leather, no eyeliner, where’s the edge, man?)
It’s not edge, it’s *drama*!
I didn’t notice the strap, either, just thought he was throwing it on the heap with the other presents. Either way, I feel it’s probably not advisable to either throw or swing a hammer in a confined space which is full of other metal objects. You can hurt yourself or at least damage your hearing and cause a mess in the process. Byron is used to swinging sharp metal objects, of course, so I’ll just trust that he knows what he’s doing. But watching it still makes me nervous.