#1003: "Or twelve!"
 

Don't underestimate the value of hand rails.

What are the chances?

"Impossible! Only a maximum of nine enemies may be onscreen!" "Fuck you."

That was bloody brilliant. XD

I've been reading this comic for years (since ~2001-2), but this Episode finally made me register. IMHO this is one of the top two in the whole run.

RM: "Impossible! Only a maximum of nine enemies may be on screen!"
Dragon:"Fuck you."
RM:"Run."

I say that whole bit works great in or out of context. I have never laughed so hard. Brian sir, you are indeed a comic genius.

Haven't laughed this hard in a couple of months.

But so as not to sound like a lowbrow who gets cheap laughs out of swearing in sprite-based webcomics, let me point out that it is this time the last panel that set my LOL radar off, not the dragon's (admittedly memorable) comeback.

ooooooooo....they said a dirty word...oooooh....

Best comic in a long time, even without the awesome inclusion of swearing.

Oh my god. I think this just might be my favorite one ever. I enjoyed every part of this comic but I'd have to say my very favorite part, the one that made me burst out laughing (Probably waking up my entire family in the process, it's 1 am, Damn you) was the last panel with the falling down the stairs.

Those stairs are the funniest crap I"ve ever seen in the comic yet, and I didn't think I'd see anything funnier than that Team Fortress Pooh thing.

The humor logic flows so well in this! A return of random, inexplicable encounters, More dragons than you can shake a stick at (in reality guys, there were Millions of dragons, they could just only attack you 9 at a time, so consider this as Reality Vs. Gameplay), followed by a direct refusal to conform to the game they're from, "Fuck you!", which serves to turn events around followed by a conclusion of BM's line about a dangerous lack of railing.

Also, as a frequent Staircase victim, I find that running down stairs is not a good idea, even if there are dragons after you. Especially if you're laden down with heavy swords and stuff. Especially swords, and I always wonder if it's because of our heroes superhuman stamina that they never seem to tire having to down down like 20+ flights of stairs to get to that dungeon that somehow is also where the earth's core should be.

My view of stairs may be biased because the stairs in my house are a bit too steep, are missing railing near the top (where they'd be needed most), are splintery, and to add insult to injury, all steps have strips of sand paper on them. At first glance you'd think the sandpaper would help keep you from falling or tripping, but really it just makes it so when you fall down the stairs you also get the skin on your arms and face rubbed off.

Are the dragons the only characters to ever use lowercase letters?