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What? no comic today? And i guess im first 8D
I see words, but no pictures…
All of you first shouters can get in line to have your brain eaten like the jacka** in Shaun of the Dead.
Does it really matter about being first?
And another great comic! Keep it up.
“And keep you hands off my daughter”
Second favorite line of all time. I loved this one.
“Sweet smoking Conan!” There’s a mental image that’ll haunt me… Awesomely funny! :)
figures. only two magic items in the whole fracking campaign, and they both go to the ranger. ;)
lol. This episode cracked me up. Oh crap indeed.
“And keep your hands off my daughter.” Ooh, I think I’ve seen that exact look on my dad’s face when I brought home some guy he didn’t approve of… thanks for the Friday laugh, Shamus!
Hahaha! I love it! Looks like ol’ Elrond pulled a little heist…
ah well, Aragormless got his sword finally.
This one made me laugh really hard whereas the other recent ones only made me smile ;). You still manage to surprise me Shamus, I thought you already abused every situation that could possibly happen in a D&D game. :)
Hilarious, as usual. And probably makes about as much sense as that part of the movie. Yeah, yeah, dramatic pacing and all that.
Finally, the DM screws up bad.
Haha.
Another classic, some of the best lines yet.
Keep it up!
“Ok, suddenly Lord Elrond shows up at your camp.” “Hi”
When I first started GMing this was a WEEKLY event. I was so nub LOL. I got a lot of “I was supposed to have this all along?”
That screen cap of Elrond is awesome when he tells Aragormless to keep the hands off. Classic lol.
And when the Aragormless is using the palantir: “Yeah that magical dohicky.” HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
“Then he leaves.”
Gotta say, the best line of the comic is “Okay, Suddenly Elrond shows up at your camp.” I’m embarrassed to admit I’ve solved problems this way before.
OK, Shamus, you have surpassed all of your previous perfection in the choice of facial expressions with “Wielder of the what now?”
Also, please but *please* tell me there’s a Priscilla, Queen of the Desert joke coming before this is all over.
Cheers!
DB
Ye Gods! I read this more than 5 minutes ago and I’m still laughing. “Sweet smoking Conan!”, indeed.
Quality stuff again, Shamus.
AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHA!!!!!!
“Suddenly Lord Elrond shows up at your camp. ‘Hi.’ ”
AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I didn’t think it was possible to beat the previous comics but this one is really the king now. Keep up the awesomeness!
That’s it!? That’s the whole Palantir viewing scene?
I guess you’ll go back to that in the next comic now that you’ve reconciled the missing Anduril plot element.
That was one of the scenes in the movie that made no sense to me.
Heh, you should have posted the swords stats too, like in an item box next to the sword as Aragorn holds it up so we can see how awesome it is too.
My favorite lines?
“Hi. Here is the sword.”
The understated eloquence of the Noldor is rarely acknowledged.
Certainly the most brilliant episode so far, in my opinion. Great job alluding to the corresponding (and somewhat perplexing) plot alteration from the movies. I wonder whether Peter Jackson made the same mistake that our DM made, and corrected it in the same way. Hmmm…
Nice one Shamus. Again, your screen-capture-fu has surpassed itself.
I particularly enjoyed the commentary on the fallacies in the movie by having Elrond show up. So pleasantly subtle and tasty. I think that you should let your dissatisfaction with the movies come out more in the comic. It’s hilarious!
My wife and I are reading the books again for the first time since the movies came out. It’s wonderful to have the characters back from their twisted cinema-versions. Comforting to have Frodo be competent and not wide-eyed and scared the whole time.
Anyway, thanks again for the great comic.
I dunno… You gotta be leery of any sword with a name. Like as not, it may have a mind of its own.
Hillarious!I can just imagine peter jackson shooting the third part,then someone comes out and says:”Hey,we never did that scene where they reforged the sword in part one”
Oh Lord… the rest of the cube farm must think I’m crazy. I got to “Hi.” and just lost it.
“Okay, so I managed to use the planter.” XD
This one was truly hilarious, Shamus. I was cracking up right at the first panel, and just about fell out of my chair when Elrond turned into the father of every girl I’ve dated.
Giggle-fest. You’ve outdone yourself.
Can’t wait for other players’ reaction when they hear Aragorn got a sweet blade for doing nothing. Where’s Gimli’s enchanted hammer, or Legolas’ enchanted bow, or the halflings’ enchanted toe hair trimmers?
Great comic as usual.
Hilarious! I’ve been reading the comic for about 3 months now and have loved it, but this is the first comment I’ve made. I just had to post something because this episode is a masterpiece!
I was laughing from the first panel and “Sweet smoking Conan” just about made me fall outta my chair.
You’re doing an awesome job. Thanks for the belly laughs!
Makes you kind of wonder if Peter Jackson made the same mistake in the filming and went “oh crap…umm…we’ll have Elrond show up to deliver the sword!”
Fantastic as always Shamus!
Shamus ex machina… Great comic!
You know, some strips lead up to a punch-line, but I think that one that one has a punch-line in every frame.
Best yet!
21 Clyde Says:
May 18th, 2007 at 11:35 am
I dunno… You gotta be leery of any sword with a name. Like as not, it may have a mind of its own.
That reminds me of a book I read: Bring me the Head of Prince Charming.
Near the end, Prince Charming comes across Excalibur, which indeed has amind of its own, and seems obsessed with killing things. And it crawls away on its own to do that. Prince Charming quickly abandons the sword after that. I admit it’s not a great book, but it’s good for a couple of laughs.
teehee… I always hated that part of the movies
id give up now
it will not get any better than that strip!
well done sir
John
Lurved it. Lurved it good.
So… what are the stats of the sword?
Unfortunately, I understand why this deveation was made.
In the books Aragorn purposefully hides the fact that he has this sword. No modern moviegoer who hadn’t already read the books would beleive this. Therefore you throw it in when, in the books, the blade would be revealed.
Blame it on media’s always selling to the lowest common denominator.
Still one of the funniest things I’ve ever read!
Hi-larious.
In the books, Aragorn actually used Anduril before that. At the very least he wielded it at Helm’s Deep.
TalrogSmash: In the books, Aragorn doesn’t hide Anduril after it’s reforged. He uses it openly (e.g., in Moria), and gives its whole history to Hama the doorward when the latter insists that they not bring weapons before Theoden. (That it’s specifically that sword is the reason Aragorn says he’s reluctant to let it go. “I would do as the master of the house bade me, were this only a woodman’s cot, if I bore now any sword but Anduril.”)
(If anything, the trick is to get him to stop telling you about the sword. :-) )
In any case, the events of this strip are a better explanation for the reshuffling of the sequence than Jackson came up with.
Oh, oh, my!
My diaphram HURTS from suppressed laughter!
Quality, Shamus. Many thanks- I’ll be chuckling all weekend over this one. :)
Okay, so did I already mention my friend who was playing Mordenkainen’s Dungeon with another friend of his as DM?
That dungeon starts the players off in front of a lock and absolutely impassable door– you can’t disintegrate, fireball, cut, break, lockpick, _wish_, astral travel, or ANYTHING to get through that door. The only thing that will open it is the Key of Opening, which the players are supposed to start out with (through whatever mechanism the DM decides in order to fit it into one’s ongoing campaign or whatever).
So after four hours of the players trying to pick the lock, fireball their way in, disintegrate the doors and so on, after getting TOTALLY frustrated with the whole thing, finally the DM asked, “Why don’t you just use that key you started out with?”
Yeah, he’d forgotten to give them the key. I think that was the last time he got to be DM…
Bwah ha ha ha ha ha! Priceless! I am at a job I just started on Tuesday and burst out laughing.
“And keep your hands off my daughter!”
Absolutely priceless!
He has Anduril the whole time and doesn’t really hide the fact either. In fact, he even warns the Palace Guards in Rohan that only he may draw the sword without being harmed when they take Anduril from him. Not much hiding there.
I have to agree, this part of the movie made me miss the books the most.
Perfect, though. “Hi”. Just perfect.
“Okay, suddenly Elrond shows up at your camp.” “Hi” Laughs out loud!
“He gives you the sword” “Here is the sword” Laughs out loud again!
Brilliant. Absolutely horseF—in’ brilliant. XD
The just about had me in tears. It was amazing. And agreed, the screen caps are utterly divine on this one.
I think Aragorn’s player is FINALLY happy with this campaign, now that he has some sweet loot.
And I think that’s the shortest speech Elrond Hubbard (or any plot exposition NPC) has given in the strip to date. Aragorn must be happy with that. :D
Whoops. Something screwy happened in my last post. Should be: The *Suddenly Lord Elrond appears in your camp.* “Hi”. just about had me in tears.
Thank you, Mr. Brain.
(With apologies to Steve. ;) )
beauty
I can’t stop laughing, even while I was typing this.
“Hi. Here is the sword. And keep your hands off my daughter”. And here I thought elves and rulers loved making long speeches.