It was common for the person to be beheaded to tip the executioner to hopefully ensure he does a good job and just not slice off the top of your head. Actually beheading was reserved for the upper class as if done right was painless; while the rabble were hanged which if done incorrectly often took 10 minutes for the person to die. The French guillotine was introduced as an egalitarian execution method for everyone.
Here's Waldo about 4 years ago
This one is a doozy!
I Mad Am I about 4 years ago
“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.”― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged
Darth_Walrus_1975 about 4 years ago
Careful Finky Boy, your not the one holding the ax.
littlejohn Premium Member about 4 years ago
I wonder if the executioner uses AXE body wash before coming to work?
sandpiper about 4 years ago
Unfunny reminder of an earlier time.
littlejohn Premium Member about 4 years ago
I thought that was Bung’s job, to get a raise out of people?
Sanspareil about 4 years ago
The executioner seems to have shrunk a foot between panel 1 and panel 3!
mobeydick about 4 years ago
Being executed while in the stocks? Seems excessively harsh. Will they chop his hands off as well?
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace about 4 years ago
Think carefully ere arguing with those with axes.
(And I’m not talking the orientation kind.)
jagedlo about 4 years ago
Be careful, executioner, you may end up being next!
WoodstockJack about 4 years ago
Yeah. I remember reading Wizard of Id as a kid and being amused.
Jokes about capital punishment? Not so much.
Unfollowing.
Gen.Flashman about 4 years ago
It was common for the person to be beheaded to tip the executioner to hopefully ensure he does a good job and just not slice off the top of your head. Actually beheading was reserved for the upper class as if done right was painless; while the rabble were hanged which if done incorrectly often took 10 minutes for the person to die. The French guillotine was introduced as an egalitarian execution method for everyone.
Troglodyte about 4 years ago
Funny you should ax…
blakerl about 4 years ago
The assistant executioner is going to get a promotion.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Holy crap! The fink is at his fink-iest today.
scote1379 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Last words ; Get it over with ,these stocks are killing my neck !
tripwire45 about 4 years ago
All the executioner has to do is behead the King and he’s the new King.
heathcliff2 about 4 years ago
The villain is disguised as the king, Seize Him.
paranormal about 4 years ago
No last meal and cigarette?
geese28 about 4 years ago
Be careful executioner or you might get axed