#375 – Al’bert takes one for the team
  • Zypher

    Oh my gosh, I LOVE that last panel. Al'bert looks so HAWT!!!

    *twitch* I never thought I would say that. I always hate to see that about Legolas, and here I am drooling for some arrogant dark haired… bah. Pretty boy who looks better with short hair. And he so looks like he expects to die. v.v

    Colby, if you kill Al'bert, I might do worse to you than Bactine was threatening to do to Al'bert. k? We want everyone we can have alive at the end, your characters are too awesome to die.

  • Psalm

    I got a better idea. Kill everyone but Fang! :D

    And Al'bert, he's soooo pretty in the last frame!

  • Spike

    Haha! Yay, Al'bert! I do so love him, he's hilarious.

  • Rachel

    I love Al'bert. Pretty sure I always have, so at least he'll get some good screen time if he has to die.
    And may I say that the panel with the sword dragging gives me horrible shivers up my whole spine. Gah!

  • Lady Nilstria

    I had a flash of Inigo Montoya with that last frame. That halloween Princess Bride special will be your bane, Colby. XD

    Oh, I'm sure Al'bert will be fine. :3

  • Falco

    If the next page is a scene change, that' will be cruel. (Which is why I expect it to be…)

    Gotta love that last panel.

  • http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1120154/ Calenlass_Greenleaf

    Gotta love Al'bert! :) And that last panel is made of awesome.

  • http://lux-lucis.net Mia

    Oh, Al'bert.

    (My composure is a lie, I was squeeing for a full minute.

  • Pondie

    the last panel is epic, yes, but the build up to it is fantastic as well. you can tell be believes hes facing his death.

  • Pip

    Ditto on the dragging sword… I can *hear* the sound it makes!

  • Annalia

    Haha, I have absolutely no hope for Al'bert. No matter what book or movie or comic I read, my favourite character always die. Yet I might just cry when it happens. Or throw something on the wall in frustration (did that with books, once, and I still feel bad about it!)

    But, yeah. Gosh. Pretty Al'bert of Awesomness! :D

  • Chamella

    Ooo, Albert is a hero par excellence!

  • Zypher

    Of course it will be, now that you've said it.

  • baretoedgirl

    Ok, I just want to say, I TOTALLY KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN when you say that you have it when people say that about Legolas! I always feel like that, but at the same time, I do love Al'bert… -drool- So sad. ^_^ And I also love that he expects to die. Hopeless bravery– oh my god, so gets me.

  • baretoedgirl

    *hate

    x)

  • baretoedgirl

    sorry didn't mean to do that there. xD

  • baretoedgirl

    *hate

    xD

    We really need to be able to edit our comments. Or maybe we can and I just don't know how?

  • http://purnicellin.com/lint colbycheese

    Unfortunately you can't, I don't think. But I can go in and delete the ones you didn't want :)

  • http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1120154/ Calenlass_Greenleaf

    You can edit comments if you have an account; I edited a comment before because due my stupidity I spelled a name wrong.

  • Eccentric

    Same here on both counts :P . Al'bert always makes it through.

  • Remembrance

    My favorite character is Xylic. Much as I love Bactine, I rather think he's too good for her. I'm cherishing a dream that he will end up with Hope, thus having children with a purer High Elf bloodline than any of them.
    Well, I can dream, can't I?

  • baretoedgirl

    You're right, I can edit them now! YAY, thank you! :)

  • Ilirien

    I *love* this page. The way Al'bert goes from all “Whatever, babe,” to being totally serious and heroic…*swoon*.

    If I remember correctly, he's actually an incredibly good swordsman – wasn't Kelneth pretty impressed that Sangwine beat him? So, he should have no trouble beating a few clumsy human guards. Right?

    Seriously awesome page!

  • baretoedgirl

    Mm, me too! :/ You'd think he'd be more careful with the one thing that gives him a chance for life against those guys!

  • A Reader

    I love the 3rd panel. It's just begging to be a poster for a Al'bert fangirl club.

  • http://www.rocarts.com/sabrecat Roc

    OOO, fencing coming up? :3

  • Faticia

    “Hallo. My name is Al'bert Du Fromage. You cut my hair. Prepare to die!”

  • http://www.myspace.com/arhdiy_trepe Arhdiy

    “whatever babe”
    hee hee… whos is the guy now?

  • Rachel

    *riotous laughter*

  • Kenosaki

    Xylic is my favorite too, I wouldn't mind if he ended up with Hope, but it won't bother me if he doesn't

  • Lady Nilstria

    XD Somebody should make that in an Al'bert banner using the last panel of this page. That would be the greatest thing EVARS. :3

  • Anony

    Ow, Al'bert!

    You lose the moment you think yourself a loser.

    I know, it's emotions and everything, but… Strategy!
    Hide behind that arc behind you. The way the'y barging about the place, they probably
    wouldn't be too careful coming out. You could get one or two of them using the element of surprise. The others would be crowded in the archway, so they wouldn't be able to attack all at once.

    I know it's too late now, but you can still benefit from the latter.

    Unless, of course, there's something I'm not seeing in this room that could help him – say, a chandelier he could drop. I don't think that blackboard would cut it though.

    Oh, oh! He should've drawn something perplexing on the blackboard AND hidden in the archway!
    That could also give a few minutes :)

    Ok, I realize I'm not giving very constructive advice, since it's too late to do those things…
    What else could be done now?

    C'mon Al'bert! You can do it! Just don't give in to despair.

  • http://purnicellin.com/lint colbycheese

    Wow, that does look like a blackboard. I was going for “framed tapestry”, but your interpretation is funnier.

  • Jess

    LOL … that line cracked me up. Totally *not* elf-ish … but so totally A'lbert!

  • WeatherGal

    I was squeeing in my mind since if I did it out loud there would be quite a few looks here at work. Dark haired elf are so cute.

  • Crystal

    i'd kill him too if he told… the only reason i would ever kiss him was so that he would be soooo woozy that he got stabbed while drooling over memories… lol jk, he's too hot for that!

  • http://www.landofdestiny.com/ Phenoca

    “You lose the moment you think yourself a loser.”
    I disagree! Whenever I am out of practice in multiplayer action-games, I do when I play to survive instead of playing to win (Fencing (with foil), Subspace, and SSBM). Playing to survive let's your beginner's luck last for a very long time; playing to beat the other player relies both on your skill and the other player's skill (so playing to survive increases your enemy's risk-factor). Just as importantly – Al'bert is fighting for time; not for victory. Thus his epic pose to make the guards hesitate is just as important than killing them (and I do hope that he is not a bloodthirsty fellow).

  • http://www.landofdestiny.com/ Phenoca

    “You lose the moment you think yourself a loser.”
    I disagree! Whenever I am out of practice in multiplayer action-games, I do when I play to survive instead of playing to win (Fencing (with foil), Subspace, and SSBM). Playing to survive let's your beginner's luck last for a very long time; playing to beat the other player relies both on your skill and the other player's skill (so playing to survive increases your enemy's risk-factor). Just as importantly – Al'bert is fighting for time; not for victory. Thus his epic pose to make the guards hesitate is just as important than killing them (and I do hope that he is not a bloodthirsty fellow).

  • Eliza

    OH WOW!

  • Puck

    I imagine a gag page where we see Al’bert holding a hat in front of him as he makes Puss In Boot’s kitty eyes up at all the guards. In fact I was mildly surprised and disappointed when that didn’t happen.