Funny / Drowtales

The chibi pages in general tend to be a good source of this.

As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.

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• This page is generally agreed to be one of the funniest in the series' run due to the chibi art style depicting the mighty leaders of Chel'el'sussoloth, the fact that it's all in character, and Quain'tana's "Moon Age" there in the middle. Bonus points if you imagine Phani'nath doing some of the lines in a a falsetto.
• And of course: "Hel Yes!"
• Kyo'nne seems to be involved in a lot of these. See also here for her description of human menstruation and her comically bad grasp of the local human dialect.
• Eat Cake!
• The alternate ending to the "Rescue Faen" arc in the last row of panels for one chibi page deserves a mention. Evil Empress Faen FTW!
• Despite being a dramatic scene, the page where Syphile jumps out to attack Quain'tana while shouting a challenge is hilarious because of the Too Dumb to Live factor and Quain'tana's Oh, No... Not Again! face. The forum reaction to this page was universal facepalm.
  • And then one reader suggested that this page happened because she rolled a 1 on her stealth check.
• This page quickly became a fan favorite because of the sheer awkward hilarity of Diva'ratrika, who is their grandmother, Chrys'tel and Nau'kheol meeting for the first time, and the fact that it's the conclusion to a Brick Joke that was first introduced back in chapter 7.
  • It's sequel of sorts in chapter 47 is just as hilarious, with Chrys' utter consternation at seeing a random Vloz'ress Mook wearing her mother's old dress, which was literally pulled out of the garbage.
• "Please let the tiger go." Especially since in the background of the fifth panel you can see Ariel "sneaking" away to get close to it with a cat smile.
• Even though it comes in the middle of a Tear Jerker, Demon!Naal has a moment of this, mainly her finger poke of doom to Kiel, which many fans read as an exasperated "Just get out of here already!"
• This page actually confirms a much earlier non canon chibi page, where Kel'Noz claims he and Mel used to crossdress and switch places when they were kids.
• This exchange:
  Fame'nidea: How did you get up there?
  Kiel: With difficulty
• Kiel's response to Khaless' Breaking Speech, and her demon pals respond in turn two pages later (top right panel).
• The Vloz'ress scourge's reaction to realizing Ariel is about to give him Death from Above is nearly word-for-word Oh, No... Not Again!.
• This page, especially how Jak'iaah mostly just looks annoyed while the rest of the boys are freaking out (save Sen'gil, whose face is basically the :/ emoticon).
• This Sharen seems to think she could take Quain in a fight. The entire forum basically laughed their asses off at this. Maybe she should ask the last person who tried that how it went— Oh, Wait!, that's right, she can't, since she's dead.
• After several straight pages of wham, this page was a much needed change of pace and funny as hell to boot.
• The author's description of page 36 of chapter 40:
  Beating on Faen is turning to be a national sport. One that Durlyn disapproves strongly. Meanwhile Shinae is pushing her own national sport: everyone getting a good beating. It's all boil down to violence though, the root of all drowish sports.
• The fates of several of the cameos in chapter 40 as summed up on the end of chapter page. Of special note is Ksava, who turned out to be Not Quite Dead and scared the hell out of some hungry commoners who were trying to eat her, and Sengil, who suffered an arrow to the knee.
• When Nihi'liir was decapitated, while the act itself was more awesome then funny, the forums couldn't resist saying several puns that will make you laugh. There are more as you go through the posts. It really got going on page 10.
• In Chapter 41, yet another little Vloz'ress moment with Kiel.
  Kiel: [cheerfully] With a pilot like this, we're bound to explode.
  Pilot: Big boom!
  Kiel: Try to get us there first, you know, before breaking everything.
  Pilot: [insane laughter]
  Kiel: I knew I could count on ya. [to audience] Expendable assistant, he said. No shit.
• A wallpaper of Kiel and Chiri swapping clothes, due to the fact that Kiel is clearly enjoying the situation while Chiri is quite obviously not.
  • It gets even better with Kyo'nne and Ariel.
• Kiel discovers that Everyone Is Armed in Chel the hard way.
• Having had her death faked by Chrys and Nau, Kiel shows she still has her "priorities" sorted.
  Kiel: I need some warm princely arms to help me up.
  Nau: (facepalming) Not again.
  Kiel: And some sweet mouth to mouth to revive me. If the prince is busy. I'll take a princess.
  Chrys: (also facepalming) Brother, I say we toss the corpse in the lake and forget about her.
  Nau: (still facepalming) Agreed.
• Chrys'tel and Kiel's hilariously awkward conversation after she kills a Diva body double.
  Chrys'tel: You killed my grandmother?
  Kiel: Pretend grandmother!
• Baliir's preferred metaphor for the oppression of the clans.
• Somewhat meta, but the in-character commentary from the character's creator when Cas'nihlus is being tortured. A textbook example of Too Kinky to Torture.
  There are a million worse things you could be doing to me other then just setting my foot on fire. No no no, get the one with the hooked end on it, there you go. Sharess you're terrible at this, no wonder you didn't make it into the Order of Salvation.
  • And that's not even touching what actually happens on page, which is that Cas starts singing one of Kyo'nne's songs as they're burning his feet.
  • Taken to its logical conclusion in one of the chibi pages.
• Considering that chapter 42 in general is a very dark chapter the chibi pages are absolutely hilarious.
  • Merri'linn becomes the new holy mother by use of empathic brainwashing (including passing along her Verbal Tic to the masses) and Chiri's response.
  • The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much twice over on this one with Shimi'lande's body's epic trollface.
• Ariel's reaction to Faen kissing her is to stumble around in a daze for over a page, not noticing when someone hands her a piece of meat until she's already left the room.
• The twins Din and Perci are very touchy feely. What makes this darkly hilarious is that they're unknowingly doing this to their grandmother, who's clearly mortified.
• When finding out that Nau is being offered up to 'make babies of Sharen linage' he makes a flustered lie that he's already taken by Kiel. His face in general.◊
  • Later, Chrys wonders just what the hell happened to him. The last panel is best summed up by his single line.
• The reaction of Larvova's scourges when they realize they need to deal with Kharla: "Good luck, boss!" Truly, Vloz'ress loyalty is a sight to behold.
• Chapter 45 opens with Ariel moaning in deep pleasure, clutching her bedsheets. Die'tra, standing outside, grins in approval. Scrolling down the page, though, reveals that Faen is...
  Die'tra: [disbelievingly] Combing hair?!
  • On the same page, Faen is wearing socks with little bear heads on them. Looks like Die'tra's nickname stuck.
• Also in Chapter 45, Chiri can't figure out how to use the colony house's non-manatech oven. Kau tells her it uses fire. So Chiri uses fire, the only way she knows how.
  • And then, there's the end results of her attempt to cook. She forgot to gut the bird and remove its feathers. Everybody else's reactions ranged from amused to appalled.
    • And then there is Ariel, who thinks it smells good.
• The author has recently started putting up preview images of the new pages with fake dialog. Some of them◊ are great.
• Vanir warrior Grey has the upper hand in a fight with Sabryne. Then...
  Sara: Hey! Yes you. The whitey. [Raises mana cannon, wearing a huge Cheshire Cat Grin] HIIII!
  [Grey just barely has the time for an Oh, Crap! before being ignominiously launched into the lake]
  • Then the forum got hold of it and gave her an appropriate◊ accessory.
• This exchange between Sara and Chrys'tel:
  Sara: I have something for you inside my chestplate.
  Chrys: Sara... I am in a relationship with your brother.
  Sara: That's not what I- Goddesses, I'm not that flirty, am I?
  Chrys: Well, a bit, yes.
• Two old enemies meet once again... only to find that their past vendetta’s have lost their impact over time.
  • On the same page, Nau not so subtly checking out Ariel's posterior and the last panel in general to that.
    • And on the next page, the hilarious consequences of that action.
  • Also of note is Kyo's epic face palm.
  • On the previous page, Ariel mistaking Nau as his little brother!
• Kiel and Fame try to distract a guard so they can free An'jin, emphasis on "try" since he subverts The Guards Must Be Crazy and ignores their first couple of attempts. So they resort to throwing Kuso (whose modesty is only barely preserved by his helmet) at him.
• The Sarghress family facepalm strikes again!
• Read the Cast and Cameo sections at the bottom of this comic page.
• You aren't fooling anyone with that smile, Snadhya.
  • And if you look closely Zhor doesn't even look shocked, unlike Mel (and, judging by the forums, the readers).
• Kiel attempts to bully a chef into giving them food using the threat of the turtle summon crushing the place. The chef, like any jaded service worker, doesn't bat an eye and just tells her to get back in line.
  • Followed immediately by this exchange:
    Kiel: Ariel!!
    Ariel: What?
    Kiel: I hate your clan!
    Ariel: ...I hate your clan too.
  • Even better in that Ariel's "..." implies she had to think about that one, with the lack of an exclamation point only emphasizing it further.
• Now that Ariel's Prehensile Hair has become a fully-realized ability, one of Kiel's demons starts speculating about the possibility of tentacle sex. A mortified Ariel promptly reforms her hair into a bob cut.
• Zala tells Quain'tana she can knock it off with the looming, and Quain'tana, clearly uncomfortable, takes a seat and then pours the liquor she was offered on the ground as deliberate Take That!, to which Zala laments that with all that's going on no one knows when they'll see such quality hooch again.
• Baliir's attempt at revolutionary politics in Chel is noble at heart, but fails to account for one rather important detail: the Vloz'ress are, quite simply, insane.
• When the Vloz'rez insurgents open their nether gate in their throne room, all hell breaks loose; a nether demon god emerges from the portal, the loyalist Vloz arrive and attack, people are yelling, fighting, and fleeing, while the Eldritch Abomination continues to grow larger by the second. All Kharla does during the chaos is admire how "cute" the Demon God is.
• The infamous, nigh unstoppable Kharla is finally vanquished in chapter 47. But was she undone by an coalition of legendary clan leaders, or the badass hero protagonists? No. She was nommed from behind by a peckish Naal who was just looking for a snack. Although it quickly turns tragic, Kiel’s expression in the last panel is probably the most sincere “WTF!?” face throughout the series.
  • It’s also amusing that Kharla (Who is now, for all intents and purposes, a God) somehow failed to notice a 1,000 lbs Glutton demon ambling up behind her.
• Near the end of chapter 47, when the Vloz-rez fortress has collapsed into the rift and Kar'liir is left hovering despondently over his life's work, he spies Ni'bai (who was responsible for the whole mess) clinging desperately to the side of the rift and screaming for help. Kar'liir could have saved her... but instead chooses to let her fall to her death while he gets the heck out of dodge, and finds a ham sandwich. As Kern points out in the forum, "He chose ham. Ham sandwich is much better than her life."
  • He even flips her the bird with one of his prosthetic arms as he floats away.
    Kar'liir: I'm done. I'm fucking done with this clan. This city. I'm gonna go far, far away. And have a sandwich. With ham.
• Sharen warriors enthusiastically move in to seize Sarv'swati. Sarv shows them why that's a pretty bad idea.
• The entire sequence of Ariel and Faen visiting Mel'arnach's kids goes hilariously wrong very quickly, with the kids acting up and attacking the "Kraken" Ariel making her lose her temper, Faen's Not So Above It All moment when they tell her her butt is too big to fit behind their barricade, and then when the baby does what babies do best Ariel panics and tries to hand her off to Faen who ran to get a towel... except she actually hands her to Quain'tana, whose face is basically the :[ emoticon.
  • Then, crossing over with Heartwarming Moments, the sight of Ariel's ponytail wagging upon receiving an approving smile from Quain.
  • This moment gets a hilarious callback when Faen uses the supposedly leaking baby to distract Zith long enough for Ariel to get inside and see what's up with Quain.
• While at Vaelia's home, Ariel and Faen (at Vaelia's suggestion) finally buckle down to give Pup and Poopy Baby real names. They go through several, uh, less-than-creative names (with Pup turning them all down), including 'Gha,' mimicing one of the baby's sounds! Finally, Vaelia asks Pup what name he wants, and when he comes up with the equally-funny 'Pulaaah,' Vaelia suggests Pelan, which he instantly and exuberantly agrees to.
• As an assassin is being chased from Sil'lice's tower, she discovers that the only lift back to the ground is descending without her. With her pursuers closing in, she makes an elegant, dignified leap of faith... only to end up like a bug on a windshield in a moment straight out of Loony Toons.
  • The dutiful elevator then delivers the resulting mess down to Kiel, Nau, and Naal who were psyching themselves up for an ambush.
    Nau: What if they have our child?
    Kiel: We kill them harder! (The former assassin arrives) DAAAAAMN! That's...
    Nau: I see bones.
    Naal: The child got the assassin!
  • To crown it all, the assassin was actually a summon, who arrogantly proclaimed that she was immortal. Once her spirit rises from her mangled body, Kiel shows just how wrong she is; the assassin barely has time for an Oh, Crap! expression before Kiel's demon princes swarm and devour her.

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