[478] Try not to undress the female students

It's cool that the Court has kid-sized suits of armor.

It's also, for some strange reason, not in the least bit surprising to me. Not entirely sure why.

I love Annie's expression in the last panel. And I wonder if Jones' comment was meant to be a very dry joke about Egger's former relationship with Surma.

HE'S WORRIED ABOUT HER! D'awwwwww...

That's cute. I wish my school had miniature suits of armor. As well as an ARMORY filled with BLADED WEAPONRY. Wait...did I just prove Tom's point about swords? Dang.

Also Jones is awesome as usual.


ANGRY FACE ANNIE! Seventh panel is golden. (Return of the avatar makers, anyone?)




(...wwwwwwwwwww!)

Truth...although it remains to be seen if her ubiquitous skirt is still around.

And fcd, your comment about Jones's comment is, I imagine, fairly close to accurate...unless she's talking about herself

(first time in 561 posts I've used an emoticon. Yay me!)

You're my hero Mezz. My golden shiny hero. (too creepy?)

Jones is a teacher. All the difference in the world.

Maybe she's being snide, but she still has a good point. Most of the time avoiding the appearance of wrongdoing is just as important as avoiding the wrongdoing itself.

I love Eglamore. He's a huge, musclebound heroic knight in shining armour, but the minute he comes into close proximity with someone who resembles Surma, he turns into a bumbling fool.

Huh, I just realized:

Annie is frowning at Jones, not James.

Beg to differ: James also has a simplified face, which he clearly turns towards Annie.

I think Annie does shift her head slightly; she may be equally annoyed with both grown-ups.

It was just a joke, specifically made to make Eglamore uneasy. I doubt Jones seriously meant that he was undressing Annie, he's just changing her tie! Don't jump to silly, exaggeratingly PC conclusions.

Then again, there's a level of potentially awkward closeness in letting someone approach you so close as to change your tie. Perhaps this is where Eglamore's familiarity with Surma comes to the surface. We've already seen that Eglamore has this level of closeness with Jones, and that she likes to tease. She would be the one to recognize and point out something like this, in the form of a humorous and veiled observation.

Edit: Also, it's likely that Eglamore just forgot all sense of propriety simply because of being protective. (Also, is there a special hell for nitpickers and over-analyzers of webcomics? I just got a strange shiver through my spine.. brr, cold..)

Oh man, I love Jones.

So now Eglamore is acting inappropriately father-like towards Annie. I have a wild theory fomenting that I'll keep to myself for now

More akward situations = more stuff to dream about.

Yeah... maybe its just me... *laughs like an overexcited little girl*
*cough*
*laughs like a madman* Thats better.

Well... uhh... dont you guys think that a suit of armour would be a bit outdated? It is a time of robots and the best they can do is a steel plate? I'd go for the force field, or maybe a ballistc vest...

...What are you people looking at?!?

:P

I'm suprised that Eglamore's involved with the excursion to Gillitie Wood at all; I would have thought that he'd be utterly opposed to it on the grounds that Annie's past visit there had caused enough troubles already (and suspecting - like the rest of us - that Coyote had ulterior motives for his invitation). Maybe Jones talked him into it - or maybe his escorting Coyote back to the forest at the end of Chapter Fourteen had something to do with it.

I'd agree with Annie against the armor. This is supposed to be a diplomatic visit, and martial attire could send the wrong message. (Though I agree with the others here that seeing her in that suit would be kind of fun.)

(In the course of typing the above paragraph, I found myself remembering the scene in the story of David and Goliath where King Saul offers to lend David his armor for the battle with Goliath, and David turns it down. It might be just a coincidence, though.)