#410 – Last ditch effort

Zedwig got hit in the face.

A couple of things of note:

One, I removed the voting, although thanks for all the votes, you guys are awesome. I just came to a point where I didn’t forsee myself keeping up with it incentive-wise for now. I might stick it back up another time in the future.

Another thing is that my novels Fromage and Bactine Gallagher are now available for purchase on Amazon.com, in case, for whatever reason, you didn’t want to order them through Lulu. I think Amazon’s shipping costs less, but I’m not entirely sure.

Thanks for reading and for all the comments! <3

  • jello

    Sangwine RUN!!! Schloeffel… nice name…

  • Me

    Lol the first panel made me laugh.

  • http://adorabledesolation.comicgenesis.com/ maglorius

    That first panel IS adorable. But how bad could that middle name be to have a young Sangwine swear such an oath? and how did Zedwig find it out? Cute swat in panel five

  • Zypher

    Sooooo mature, Sang. WOW I forgot how much he grew up through this quest…

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

    Ooh. Good webcomic. But where are the forums..?
    Ooh – he is doing a back-handed swipe. All of the webcomics I am reading have ogres on their latest page… Ha : )

  • Falco

    Zedwig, you totally had that coming

  • spas

    ah, but derf is only half-ogre and, as an intellectual, the black sheep of the family. see here: http://www.purnicellin.com/lint/cast/

    this is the forum. no registration required – my favorite kind!

    *love* this page. derf's brawn can come in handy when combined with wit, bet zedwig didn't see that coming! i hope he is totally knocked out!
    but how could sang keep his middle name secret, as the prince? wouldn't it have been publicly announced at his birth?

  • http://purnicellin.com/lint colbycheese

    Yes, everybody in Schloeffelonia knows it. In that frame he's in exile, which is where he met Derf.

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

    lol!!!!
    but… what is the point of derf in this wist challenge? (not so confident anymore, eh? unless theres a hidden plot there…) lately characters engage something then just run.

  • Barrett

    Derf Derfenson has just backslapped Zedwig. Derf Derfonson might die for that. Uh-oh. :(

  • http://www.comicofepicfail.com/ amuletts

    I LOVE Derf! And fully appreciate the two coloured panels as well as the quick updating.

  • Wendy

    I really want to say that that's his middle name for real. Possibly complete with backslap, but on the other hand that might've made the birth announcements a little bit of a pain to handle.

  • Annalia

    No, really… that backslap is the funniest thing I've seen in quite a while. It makes me giggle every time I look at it and as much as I love Zedwig… he totally deserved it. XD

    Derf, you rock.

  • ellie

    hehehe…so true!

  • spas

    right? and it's hilarious bc it's totally out of character for derf to resort to violence.

    but i feel like this middle name thing is familiar, like the subject has come up before.

  • Crystal

    lol i like zed's face in the second one its sooo smug!! btw, what is his middle name?

  • Crystal

    lol i know he did deserve it… lol we should start up a Zedwig fan club!!!!

  • Crystal

    lol it would be sooooo funny if his middle name was “Run” lol Sanguine Run Shloeffel (sp? i can't spell anything! lol)

  • neuefruhling

    All Sanguine had was a squirrel to talk to back then?! He certainly has come a long way. ;-)

  • Annalia

    It being so out-of-character is probably why he ever got to Zedwig. Good old mage was fast enough to stop Kelneth (RIP, loved you) so I'd expect him to be able to do the same with Derf – had he been thinking such a thing would ever happen.

  • Lady_Nilstria

    Ah, so glorious. XD

    And yes, Zedwig, however LOATHE I am to say it…you totally deserved that and it would be magnificent if you are unconscious in the next page. However much I enjoy your pretty Elven angst. :-)

  • Ivell

    Whats the bet that sangwine's middle name is Aaron and Wiz Ah run as the right answer

  • http://bea-rhea.livejournal.com/ Beth

    Okay, this seals it. Derf is my favorite.

  • Shalydra

    Isn't this a bit of a continuity error though? Derf's ability to say anything other then “Derf” is a rather recent change… innit?

    http://www.purnicellin.com/lint/2005/11/21/1121…

  • yerk

    earlier was derf based on franz schubert? or is that recent?

  • http://purnicellin.com/lint colbycheese

    I have no idea how that's a continuity error.

  • http://purnicellin.com/lint colbycheese

    Since he got the wardrobe change. (City of Ena)

  • Celidah

    Wow…can't blame him for hating it with a middle name like that.

  • yerk

    oh.thanks for repling! :D

  • http://purnicellin.com/lint colbycheese

    Not telling! (yet)

  • http://purnicellin.com/lint colbycheese

    Haha, oh man, you guys are way more clever than I am.

  • http://purnicellin.com/lint colbycheese

    Actually, I think it was before that. I'm not totally sure because it just dawned on me one day that I'd been subconsciously basing his looks on a painting of Schubert I'd always liked in college. So really it could have been earlier, or always. Who knows.

  • LuckyMrph

    Never! NEVER EVER NEVER! Ahhh man! Now I'll never know it! LOL! Derf! He shoulda done that in the first place!!! ……. I love Zedwig in the second panel, but the first and last are hilarious!!!!

  • LuckyMrph

    Not if he hit him hard enough!

  • LuckyMrph

    Tell me when you figure it out….

  • LuckyMrph

    Yeah!

  • LuckyMrph

    It would!!! ^__^

  • N. W. Wimbler

    Wow. Epic panel. I love Derf. Make the next one great too!

    !Dr. Dixie!

  • Dan

    WHAP! hehehehe! love it

  • Ivell

    That means either I guessed it and you did not expect us too, or I am WAY off

  • http://purnicellin.com/lint colbycheese

    Yeah, that's not it. But a clever idea!

  • http://www.squidoo.com/Webcomic-artists-on-deviantart Flynn

    I'm guessing… either he doesn't know and has come to the end of stalling; he knows and swore not to reveal it; or it doesn't matter either way because of something off panel :D

    …or one of the below. Also, are there regular updates? I can't seem to find or figure it out *sad*
    O_o Rereading the beginning. I actually remembered that, but filed under 'other misc comics what I don't remember details of, and certainly can't follow anymore or I'd remember more about what happened next'

  • http://purnicellin.com/lint colbycheese

    I need to put it up somewhere… I supposedly update on Tuesdays and Fridays, but unfortunately this week have had some hangups.

  • spas

    rss would be so sweet but the only one i'm smart enough to be able to register for is the comic one… http://www.rsspect.com/

    it's like rss for idiots. what is it with other rss feeds, do i have to download something to use them?

  • Andre

    His middle name must be “RUN!!!” XD It would fit so well with the password being “Gaarrgh!” earlier on the comic. ^_^

  • http://www.freewebs.com/erulisse/ Erulisse

    Am I the only one here that doesn't like the fact Zedwig got hit in the face? D:

  • LeafyGreenTerrorist

    lol I was so used to Sangwine being in, like, every page that I'm feeling the loss. And what of Bactine?! IT'S KILLING ME.

    But and however this page is priceless. The backhand is possibly the best thing I've ever seen. EVER.

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

    Hahaha – I just learned my friend's last-name, and it reminded me of Sangwine. Lol – but you wouldn't believe me if I said his name.
    I also dreamt that I learned Sangwine's middle-name…

  • http://www.squidoo.com/Webcomic-artists-on-deviantart Flynn

    Maybe. I want to see why and what happens next, to decide >.>

    *stalks you*

  • yerk

    actually its wheres al'bert thats bugging me

  • Crystal

    what middle name? we don't know it yet!

  • Crystal

    I love zed, but you gotta admit, he can be a jerk lol XD i think we all love a jerky, handsome elf man!

  • Crystal

    YEAH!!! Where is he???????? *o*

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  • Eliza

    Bet he wasn't expecting that! Hahhaha!