#188 reposted 15mar18
Remember these guys? when I originally made these comics (and had my own website), I was updating regularly. Also, I really needed to emphasise how long the characters were stuck in that boat. So we had a commercial break.
I think I also installed some minor computer upgrades around this time.
#187 reposted 13mar18
We…we are main characters… right?
#186, reposted 8mar18
Don’t mess with someone who is wiling to blast one of your NPCs as a warning shot. It probably means they’re a main character and not afraid of you.
#185 reposted 6mar18
You CAN drink lake ontario water… but you probably shouldn’t. You might have fared better hundreds of years ago when it was cleaner.
#184 Reposted 1mar18
He still thinks it was a good trade. He’s a terrible pirate.
#183 Reposted 28feb18
So there we were at Pennsic many moons ago, a conglomerate of Vikings and pirates, inexplicably armed with laser swords, wandering around when we come upon a ship! Someone had an awesome camp gate that looked like a pirate ship. So we begin the raid and the defenders respond with rum. They trade Darth-tagnan’s sword for a bottle of good rum. The still believes it was a good trade. I’m not sure what happened to our other companion, but in the end, we had no ship and fewer swords.
Later, we found out that another camp armed with lightsabers did manage to raid the ship. That comes up again later.
#182 Reposted 22feb18
The first panel used up everything I actually know about pirates. The last panel proves that there is no joke too lame for Vindalf.
Around this time, I think @lledra showed me how to use the colour options in photoshop. It would be some time before I got around to applying it to the main character. I envision Vindalf wearing a Norman style helmet and chainmail. How does one draw chainmail? (spoilers: I figure it out around issue 237.)
#181
Darth-tagnan is technically a privateer. He’s a pirate who pays his taxes. This is totally different from a Pirate who does not. Both raid ships for the treasure and for the fun of it.
#180 reposted 15feb18 Happy Flag Day, Canada!
“So, Sarge, the plan before that was to walk around the inland sea and not like, swim it. Right?”
Toronto is located almost exactly half way along the north shore of lake Ontario. I know this because both border crossings are about the same distance to drive when going to Pennsic. The exact middle is somewhere around Scarorough, as Ajax is slightly closer to the Kingston bridge, and North York closer to Niagara Falls. I used to drive to Pennsylvania a lot, so I found out exactly how long it took either way.
#179 reposted 13feb18
Sometimes the Society for Creative Anachronism can produce some really great Creative Anachronisms. Walking around Pennsic with lanterns and torches is considered a fire hazard, but there are no street lights in the middle ages. So people tend to have a flash light subtly stashed about their person. The more creative may invest in lights that look like candles. And some emphasise the anachronism and carry a lightsabre instead of a sword. A particular pirate in our camp went with the last option.
There were a lot of medieval-jedi walking around that year.
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