May 29th, 2015
29 May 2015 · page 493 of 1306
This can only go well.
If you missed the wallpaper I put up earlier, here's the link on Tumblr! Let me know if there's a different size you want.
Also, I'll be at Wonderlands Expo at Sunderland Uni tomorrow, drop by and say hello! I'll be taking part in a workshop about self-publishing at 3:15, should be fun times.
Cast: Henry Barber
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Ah yes, this is how all good adventures begin: out of pure spite.
Spite: the real engine of both innovation and idiocy. Sometimes at the same time. ;)
No, the real engine behind those is people who suddenly think of something and think it would be really cool and then doing it without ever stopping to consider the actual implications, be they good or bad.
Submitted as evidence: Everything DARPA has done ever, be it useful stuff like the internet (would be really great for coordinating military communications, probably much good for much else) or daft things like sticking wings on a Humvee (hey check out what I scribbled on the back of my notebook back in junior high, we should totally build that on the taxpayer's dime).
Nah. As Karel Čapek explains, the real engine behind innovation and progress is laziness.
I never underestimate the wish to upstage or just plain prove wrong. :)
Imagine someone trying to upstage and prove someone wrong, about there being an easier way to do something.
Can confirm, have played D&D.
Gee, almost all my stupid ideas start out of spite. Yeah....they never end so well...
revenge is a dish best served with red pins and laughter.
It is surprising how many fatal accidents happen after one says, "Watch this.... I'm feeling lucky!"
The stuff Darwin Awards are made of...
... here, hold my beer...
That's the kind of lass that don't live old.
does anyone else want to see another comic with Ethan booth in it? I know he's a jerk, but he was one of my favorite characters in piece of cake.
For those having trouble reading that ad the visible text I can make out goes "For immediate action - time limited...reward, item location and retrieval, safety not guaranteed, travel expenses paid, no time.... Discretion required, Contact - Mr Luxuria, Gula Hotel 100 pounds reward". So that red pin certainly isn't an understatement.
So, What're the chances Mr Luxuria's going to bear a striking resemblance to a certain headless chap from earlier this chapter. And also, I hope Nora isn't too traumatised by Grandpa Barber mentioning the Hotel Gula just now.
"Mr Luxuria, Gula Hotel"
I heard you like deadly sins in your deadly sins... :P
["This can only go well."]
Well, evidently it did. :P
Well, Henry survived, but the fact that the deadly's seem to be after his family suggests imperfect success :P
True, but nothing's perfect. He became very famous in his own lifetime; he got the girl; and he started a dynasty that's so well-known, it has dedicated fan sites 200 years later. I'd say that qualifies as pretty successful. :D
Speculation: if the charm associated with the necklace is the problem here, and it brought Henry and Izzy together, then even though their lovely offspring were engendered lawfully and are a blessing to the nation, there might be some dues to pay somewhere along the line. So to speak. Ahem. Strangled cough.
Hang on here. Hotel Gula...I mean, Gula Hotel...I feel like I've heard that name somewhere else...
Is this before or after Piece of Cake?
Before, for a certain value of "before?" Since the hotel in "Piece of Cake" was kind of... outside of time, wasn't it? Or at least had a bunch of people from different points of time.. but from the view of the Barbers (and their own personal timelines, which is kind of what matters in this case?), this takes place before. :)
Thinking of all the assorted ne'er-do-wells that got caught by gluttony in the hotel Gula, none of them came from a time before Mr Cartwright summoned the deadly in 1830 something, so it could probably look forward into the future but couldn't change the past. Mr Barber Snr should be safe enough. Anyway, he doesn't look like much of cook.
D'oh That's a stupid question: Nora has already been returned and has the story about Gluttony. This happens after Piece of Cake, at least from the Barber's point of view.
This is a flashback, that happened before Nora was born.
I'd be willing to be this adventure is where Henry meets his wife whose name i just blanked on.
Isabelle. Here's the family tree if you feel like a refresher.
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Luxuria... I guess it's Lust then.
Lust is the last one we've yet to meet, so it makes sense. I'm guessing we'll see a few others in the course of the chapter, though... my bet's on Ira.
So this is what makes Barber a good bounty hunter. He spends his time on assignment, gives total disregard for his own personal wellbeing. And gets the job done, even if the reward is... Fishy lol.
Presumably Henry already has a plan... else, why the snigger?
Nope. This is entirely Indy territory: no plan, no backup, no backing down. About the only things he's got at the moment are sheer, bloody-minded contrariness and schadenfreude. :P
Heh, why does it bother me that it seems like somthing I would do?
We're off to see the wizard, powered by the looks on those snobs' faces.
100 pounds?