This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://swordscomic.com/comic/DCCLXII/
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://swordscomic.com/comic/DCCLXII/
Why did they just add the “ius” and then called it a day?
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That’s hilarious, dude.
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I don’t understand this comic. Isn’t this the katana barbarian’s dad? Wouldn’t it be the katana barbarian who’s straying from the path and causing grief? So why on earth did he kill this random clown, and how is that related to the rest of the comic?
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Also what’s with these new barbarian names that are Latin instead of Greek?
I know what you mean. It feels like this comic is a cultural reference to something I do not understand.
I didn’t get this one either first but thanks to @Guard I had an idea. There is an old joke: man comes to the doctor and complains about being depressed. Doctor says that the great [insert clown name] is in town and that he should go see him. The patient starts crying. “I AM the great [clown name]!” There is your reference.
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Is that fungeon clowns brother?
The name is for the alt text joke
I understand that… I just wish this had been pulled with some other group of people, not barbarians, because of the longstanding joke about barbarians having Greek names
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We could just chalk it up to the clown being from a different tribe or something. Latin and Greek are close enough that it seems plausible.
Plus “-us” and “-os” aren’t really that different.
Ok, to be clear, I don’t care about the naming conventions. I just liked the joke. See, “barbarian” was originally a Greek word used very vaguely to describe anyone who didn’t speak Greek. So all the barbarian characters (Harpe, Xiphos, Kopis, etc.) have been named after types of Greek swords. But I guess you can only go so far with that.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. But then history actually saves the day here, since the Romans appropriated the term “barbarian” to refer to those who weren’t under Greco-Roman influence. So, in that sense, Latin sword names actually still follow the joke.
gladii frigidi sunt. Latin frigus est. si Latine loqueris et hoc legere potes, frigidus es.
I wrote something in Latin because it felt on topic and I’m a silly billy