Apr05
Ain’t no road rage like Skärva road rage
on April 5, 2013 at 12:01 amCourtney:
NOW they’re traveling by map.
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I’m loving Skärva’s lack of punctuation. Not sarcasm.
Y’know, looking back at this comic, it seems the punctuation only bothered showing up half the time…
Skärva drives a lot like my grandma used too :’D …that’s kind of creepy, actually.
I assume “Normal Forest” is exactly what it sounds like?
And does this mean the whole “Gods and compass” thing was actually a ploy for them to go on a (well deserved) vacation?~
Honking and shouting?
Yeah. Gotta keep it distinct from the Haunted Forest! Don’t want to end up in the wrong one!
Yup, this past year or so of exposition was really just leading to the long-awaited beach party arc. Speedos for all! (the men, I mean)
Thank you for that…LOVELY…mental image, Courtney. It will not leave my head now.
WELP TIME TO TURN THIS CAR AROUND AND GO HOME.
“I told you I’d do this if you didn’t stop complaining Cyril!”
How did he even get enough traction on the wheels to get that far on the sand?
WHY did he drive all the way up to the water before stopping and going WHAT
Maybe the steamboat would work here? Or the Shark-Zeppelin.
Heeeeey, Skærva’s a shark-man. Maybe he can swim it, and carry the bard on his back.
Time to break out the metal detector. It’s buried in the sand.
Cyril booted up the HM03.
TIBERIUS wants to learn SURF. Which move should be forgotten?
RAGE
BITE
NASTY PLOT
SCARY FACE
LOL . . . I can’t stop laughing now. Best pokemon joke on this strip yet.
Hrm…
Forget SCARY FACE.
That move’s pretty much useless anyways.
Plus it tends to have no effect on enemy BLANK.
Well, I hope he didn’t expect the keys to be easy to get to. This is probably Karma getting to him for all the stuff he put Blank through, especially the ice/water puzzle combo.
A taste of his own healing potion, indeed. But… to be fair, I think karma came around every time Blank reduced him to a bloody mess.
Oh he never used BITE anyway.
Not that YOU’ve seen!
Nice montage!
And I love the little bumps on the road after each hiccup in travel; most amusing.
Loving the last panel too; Skaerva’s lack of punctuation has an odd sense of adding MORE emotion to his speech, which is ironic given that it is sort of one of the things punctuation is for.
Hm. Good “now what” cliffhanger though.
Sometimes punctuation is insufficient to describe the levels of WHAT experienced.
Skärva should be happy. Clearly, it’s hidden in a water temple!
Is the map meant as an Indiana Jones shout-out? It’s pretty awesome regardless.
Idenau Jones! Uh… not really though. But maybe subconsciously.
“THIS AGAIN, CYRIL!?!”
“You didn’t let me go the first time!”
That made me laugh harder than I’ve laughed all month! That was brilliant!
Skärva would have just made him go in a potion bottle if Lorelei wasn’t back there.
SK in a… DERK in a speed–CYRIL in a speedo…
…Excuse me a moment I have to go poke out my mind’s eye.
Myself as well…. V~V
Oh gosh, Cyril noooooooo
I like how Skarva is so surprised you can see his top eyebrows over his head
Lol noticed that too, I like the detail.
Tiberius Skärva and the Fate of Atlantis?
That big WHAT just kills me. Perfect timing.
At first, without the map, It looked like cyril peed the sea.
I can’t stop laughing.
HA! Grosss
I’m glad our comic has evolved to bodily function humor
Actually though, one of my heroes, Doug TenNapel, once said it’s good to have those kinds of jokes sometimes… it makes your characters seem less like abstract cartoon entities and more like real living people. People who have to pee. We’re just keeping it real. Stay tuned for the scatological humor, next time on The Fourth!
“Normal Forest”?
Gotta be a trap
Absolutely, totally, perfectly normal and safe, a fantastic place to take a picnic and not* filled to the brim with starving bears.
Or assassins hiding in the trees.
“ARE WE THEEEEERE YEEEEEET?”
good lord, how do you survive a car trip that long with no radio?