>Flaming Sword>"He, the gate-keeper, guardian of the garden, could never stand beside his God. This gave him an impossible yearning that sat like a fire in his breast for all eternity. It was with this he smote his foes."
>>153484247>live White Chain reaction
>>153484247>tell me where the boy isWow, he ACTUALLY doesn't know...
>>153484247Michael's facial reaction here sends "pathetic" aura.
>>153484247>THEY DON'T KNOWLOLLMAO EVEN
>>153484271>>153484681Can't wait to see their reaction when they founds out
>>153484247Juggernaut Star's chestplate looks like a pair of malformed tits.
>>153484735Yeah, Incubus is FUCKED.
>>153484247love both Jug's and VG's reactions here>fuuuck did WC just say that??? can't wait to see what 2 Michael can do
>>153485175Nah, Incubus will get a good shot on Maya and skedaddle out of that minefield the first chance he gets, but a lot of mooks are going to pay for his accurate archery.
>>153484271if the death isn’t a fakeout it will jump this book up to top 3 for me
>>153485707it cant be a fake out, the only way it could be is if michael attempts to ressurect him or something, and it'd still be a "real" death in that case
Remind me, when was the last time we saw Ghost Zoss? Was it when Incubus was talking to Allison in the jail cell?
>>153485779Never assume a character has died until you see his corpse. There's a decent chance someone offscreen is performing life saving measures rn. Btw we haven't seen new coke in a while...
>>153485958I mean he got turned into a doughnut. He has no heart. Not sure what anyone can do about that.
>>153484247It's all neat, but the cool looking angels will just get pointlessly bodied in anticlimactic fashion and we all know it.
>>153486518that wouldn't stop Zoss
>>153484247it seems abaddon made an art error:https://bsky.app/profile/orbitaldropkick.bsky.social/post/3mkt5finsec22>God damnit I forgot to draw his dumb little spears, I’ll fix this later
>>153485175I don't think 2 Michael can fuck with the Seven, can he?
>>1534866662 michael was doing work on Gog when Metatron descended.He's a prime angel, chances are high he can fuck shit up pretty well. He's just an incredibly lawtist.
>>153486518Rebuilding organs is likely not even a huge feat. We got people canonically able to rewind time and place two suns in a single solar system.
>>153486518>I mean, I'm no doctor, but it was like one clean chunk!
>>153486688Isn't he much weaker since he reincarnated faster than all the other Primes who are still cocoons?
>>153484681>>153484735Let's fucking gooooooo
>>153487146He cant be that much weaker, he was erasing chunks of Gog by himself
>>153484247So who's going to make Michael eat shit in the next page? Allison? Juggernaut? White Chain herself?
>>153487241>Allison>Making anyone eat shit
>>153487146Yeah but he's still a Prime and still on his second life. It's all the other angels who'd be in trouble against Demiurges.
>>153487226let's goooooooooooo
>>153487229>>153487304Fair point, I'm apparently retarded. I misunderstood the first page with Gog getting parts of her evaporated as an attack from Metatron.
>>153487241We'll probably see White Chain finally do some cool ki-rata shit and then job super hard which will force Alison to do something besides stand around and pant.
>>153486896I'm sure there's some assholes that mastered Lung of Jimmy and just will oxygen directly into their cells, but Zaid probably isn't one of them. He also lost most of his spine, and we don't see anyone catch him so he could look like hamburger at this point. Plus I doubt the narrator text would explicitly point out the angels' ignorance about his death, if he wasn't even dead or if they could easily reverse it.Maybe Allison will do her own time fuckery at the very end and we'll see him alive in epilogue-verse, but he's likely staying dead until then.
Why the fuck does an "heir" even exist?If God wanted to both die and for the universe to still keep going afterwards, he'd just make it so.Why the fuck would he need and heir?Is this all just about angels being retards and making up their own interpretation of his will?
>>153487791>Is this all just about angels being retards and making up their own interpretation of his will?
So how many demons has she killed. Like 5 billion by now?
>>153487598>Plus I doubt the narrator text would explicitly point out the angels' ignorance about his death, if he wasn't even dead or if they could easily reverse it.I thought that was White chain's internal monologue.
>>153486518He can just walk it off. Maybe tear a heart and lungs out of a nearby demon and use those for spares.
>>153485958The narrator said "Their chosen heir had already perished" two comics back
>>153488265Not that anon you replied too, but see this:>>153488153>I thought that was White chain's internal monologue.
>>153488111>kill 6-7 billion demonsBRAVO KOJIMA
>>153488666thanks satan.
>Everything's going to plan
>>153489434Metatron is even bigger than he looked like. That's just one wing!!
>>153489451Metatron is may be the largest being in the entire existence.
>>153487791Yes. Every single cycle, this heir shit has gone badly, so they just start over. Big Mike hasn't gotten the message that Metatron is laying down.>No. Wrong. Do it again.And then Michael sets up another patsy to take the throne, because he's a fucking idiot, and Metatron rolls his eyes and resets everything... literally ad infinitum
>>153489536Zoss is the one reseting everything
The crashout will be unreal.
>>153489556are we sure?
>>153489979Jagg, Juggernaut, and Gog all seem to think so.
>heh... all according to- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>153487241Nobody. Michael is going to body White Chain like a drunk man beating his son.
>>153489434The battle ironically looks like hell now that the angels have come.
>>153491052So is you a be a sayin angels wuz da real demonz n shieet? SHIEET I finna a gonna be subverted hard by this butiful jewish masta penis nao
>>153491052The contrast is the intent of that panel, yes
So thinking about this heir business, why does it have to be a human male? It all sounds like Zoss induced ptsd. If YISUN is everything, why not choose a hermaphroditic servant-human hybrid that's also an aspected chaos warrior? Just check off all the boxes at one time.
>>153491100>It all sounds like Zoss induced ptsd.Probably extremely likely
> Heirs still alive on the battlefield : > Allison (new)> Gog (ex)> mini-Zaid (Salami fishing became Canon so let me dream)With Zaid deceased, and Allison+Gog being a thing, will Gog admits that this Cycle is indeed different and stay past the 6 minutes limits?
>>153491100Like the other guy said, this entire comic has been building up to punk the angels on their preconceptions since it's inception. They are literally being set up to be proven wrong harder than Incubus was.>>153485837Yep.>>153484247Anyway, poor Michael. Him and Metatron are like the meme about some men dying of thirst while others drown. At this point I'm rooting for them even though I know they're about to crash out, purely because I can't root for whatever the fuck Allion is fighting for, WC is being way too smug for jobbing harder than Bejita and Nu-Coke has literally no reason to be here.
>>153491150>Metatron literally showing up in person on the battlefield>Live Gog reactionI...I think she already has, given that she has NEVER managed to devour him based on her own words
>>153491100>>153491146>zoss can't complete the cycle>metatron can't complete the cycleHamsters in a wheel, all of them.
>>153486920How far would the Chosen One make it in KSBD? Would he achieve royalty
>>153491150>Heirs still alive on the battlefieldNone. It's time now to wipe Throne clean as a massive FUCK YOU.
>>153487226>Incubus fucks up the cycle for everyone without meaning toI always knew he was Royalty
>>153488666Checked
>>153491199He wouldn't get very far but he'd achieve Royalty.His "destiny" (until players rightfully complained it was hack writing that the shitty writers immediately revise) is to die (pointlessly and avoidably) essentially replacing a water filter. He wanders around the setting dodging killbeasts and blasting through wicked opportunists until he finds a village in need. He does something mundane but with action movie physics to better life for that village in a meaningful way, that ends with him dead but the village prosperous and happy long after his passing.He is the informed man with the empty water flask who nonetheless resolutely keeps going into the desert knowing full well he may not make it and doesn't, from that one bottom text.
>>153491460Dawg I was replying to a Kung Pow Enter the Fist quote, youngsters these days no appreciation for the classics
>>153491460Wrong Chosen One, but great answer.Anon was asking about Chosen One from Kung Fu Hustle.
>>153491100It's been women in past cycles, it was just supposed to a man in this particular one.
>>153486649entire page looks like scribbly dogshit like he hasn't been drawing this comic for over 10 years
>>153491515>>153491525Oh. Not sure then, but Wimp Lo would definitely achieve Royalty with no effort. He throws nothing but idiot's blows.
>>153491595Royalty is not just stupidity Whimp Lo's pining and failed attempt at wooing Ling was very unroyal
>>153491591I miss the scribbly dogshit from 10 years ago, but the wheel just keeps fucking turning.
>>153491651Hmm, true. Allow me to rephrase: Wimp Lo achieves Royalty roughly at the same pace as Aesma, with all the bumps and hurdles along the path. But not as effortlessly as Hansa does.
>>153491689>Starts off using face to foot style, gets his ass beaten>Goes on a hero's journey, learns all of the fighting techniques throne has to offer>Ends up realising face to foot is the best, achieves royaltyYISUN teaches their greatest students wrong, as a joke
>>153491748>"I do not fear the man, who my fists can hit in the face, but I fear the man whose face can hit my fists"
>>153484247>>153486649He fixed that now
>>153484247>>153491772I just realized 2 Michael is wagging his finger like an angry lecturing mom. This is hilarious.
>>153486518Can't he just not need his insides like Allison not needing prosthetics?
>>153492072He didn't get the Key this cycle, but it's genuinely unclear how much of a crutch the Key actually is.Maybe Zoss' idea of breaking the cycle is anointing two heirs lmao
>>153492121Zoss busted into heaven and killed all the angels before getting keys if Ziad really is him it should be achievable
>>153492201Zaid spent too much time learning how to surf on swords instead of studying the cosmic code and learning how to shatter the barriers of reality through sheer arcane mastery. Zoss was just a different breed and if any of his heirs could measure up to that reputation, I doubt the story would have needed so many loops.
>>153491460which chosen one are you making a reference to?
>>153492792Fallout
>>153492745Fun fact the big angel in the last panel is 1 Michael
>>153492745If I understand correctly, the fragment of the universal song IS the key. So he basically discovered it from first principles.
>>153493262I think that would be my assessment as well. Zoss had already started forging his own key during his process to breaching the Throne. >>153493243>1 Michael was Zoss' first victimFitting. Imagine some meat bag just shows up sword in hand and just decides to fight you for seemingly no reason other than he can. No wonder he's such a royalist.
>>153486518
>>153490277Zoss all but spells it out here. He wants to break the loop and altering the cycles are his attempts to do so. I assume Metatron likes the loop.
>>153493243>>153493306Source for that being Michael?
>>153493533so he made the loop but can't break it? or is unwilling to break it unless he wins?
>>153494343afawk Zoss turns back the wheel every time because he doesn't want to see it destroyed.
>>153492745I love how that nigga looks at zoss like "what the fuck"
>>153495192Can't imagine. It's been millions of years maybe since you've seen another living being, much less a human, and then one shows up and starts slaughtering you and your boys.
>>153491460Unless you know something I don't about Fallout 2 development, you're confusing Fallout 3's ending for 2's, and the quest of 1 for 2. The Vault Dweller was the one looking for a Water Chip to fix the Vault's water system. The Chosen One was looking for a GECK to solve his village's problems. And it was Fallout 3 with the stupid ending that made you sacrifice yourself for literally no reason.
>>153492072Using your Atum to replace your spine and missing organs sounds a lot harder and more involved than just forming a limb. Doing it also causes fatigue which is why Auntie Maya gave Allison the prosthetics.
>>153495423You're overthinking. All Zaid had to do at that moment was decide "I'm not dying here" harder than the hole in his chest insists that he does die there, and his atum will respond accordingly. All the fatigue and consequences of his decision is for future Zaid to deal with.
>>153494580>>153493533It's pretty basic if you cut through everyone sniffing their own farts and being edgy about it.Zoss' emotional attachment to what he created is too high because of how much effort he put in to doing it. He can't bring himself to do what is necessary to burn his own castle to the ground to end it no matter how terribly it's turned out.
>>153496529Also, we know that Jadis really wants to be a healer (BOI, sequence 4-170 to 4-172, and hinted at elsewhere). Really can't be sure until we're told it utterly directly.
Guys.How worth it will the crashout be? We're about to see a crashout like no other in the comic, right? It would make all this shitty storyteling worth it.
i wanna see michael absolutely flip his shit
>>153500273>michael seethes so hard he flips right-side up
When Allison reveals that she's only been losing so much because she had to hold back a huge reserve to fight Zoss at the moment when he shows himself, will people look at back all their words like, 'jobber' and feel ashamed, or will they pretend like they never said it and knew all along?
>>153493533incubus was not even alive when he bailed. wonder he thought of this encounter
>>153500292metatron is the upside down one
>>1535002732 Michael ain't shit. I want to see Metatron have a melty so hard that it shakes the wheel itself.
>>153500479This is someone that cares enough of the comic to come here and post. Imagine how bad the reading comprehension is for the average audience member.
>>153500313what makes you think Allison is going to fight Zoss? He wants Allison to wreck everyone's shit and then let her do whatever with the Wheel afterwards
>>153500532>>153500479I brainfarted Michael/Metatron, happens.
>>153500532is low reading comprehension a sign of royalty?
>>153500557>I brainfarted Michael/Metatron, happens.understandable. they both start with the letter M
>>153500534The entire plot of the story is someone trying to overturn the existing order, and Zoss is literally the king that created it. He was always going to be the final antagonist. Whatever solution an heir comes up with is always going be wrong, and lead to a reset.
>>153500534Not him, but Allison's goals might still diverge from Zoss's goals. Zoss ultimately wants to save the wheel, but Allison atm just wants to stop Metatron and break the cycle going in circles. If Allison goes why not let the wheel die, then I can see a scenario where their interests will clash.
>>153500534>what makes you think Allison is going to fight Zoss?If you meet god on the road, kill him.
>>153493533Strange, he has both legs here
>>153500629>goals might still diverge from Zoss's goalsZoss literally wants the Wheel destroyed, Allison doesn't want the cycles to keep repeatingthe very existence of the Wheel is a problem and they both want it gone
>>153500652their encounter will probably be something like>Z: "Now that you got here, kill me, then take the Wheel">A: "I'm not going to kill you">Z: "Oh you nasty bitch! Have at you!" *Does a World Ending Kata*>A: "Now I can kill you" *Does a World Saving Kata*
>>153500748>Zoss literally wants the Wheel destroyedAnon is...observant.
As far as we know, Zoss "dying" as he hands the key to the chosen heir is something that happens every cycle. And yet, every cycle, HE is the one who resets the timeline. Can he just do that as a force ghost? Or is it that he possesses the failed heir to do it? Something that Allison is probably immune to from her ability to survive the Maybe Blade, since that's all about "having the ability to choose".>Z: This cycle's fucked, time to try again>A: Nuh uh >Z: What do you mean "Nuh uh"?>A: Let's see how this "end of the multiverse" thing plays out
>>153501214>Can he just do that as a force ghost?He exists beyond reality>And yet, every cycle, HE is the one who resets the timelinethat's because the Heir fails and the universe is wiped
I've thought since his first appearance that those spears stabbed though 2 Michael's chest are evidence he didn't actually die and reincarnate. Either he cut some deal with Zoss or he ran away rather than actually die in the line of duty. Metatron has said 1 and exactly 1 word in the whole comic, I think he's just here to watch. 2 Michael is trying break the cycle in his own way. With him on the throne and wearing God's hat.It's been theorized that Jagganoth got his nails from Metatron but I think he got them from Michael as a safeguard if Zoss' heir of choice doesn't willingly hand over the keys to reality
>>153489434The joke in this panel is good enough that it's a shame that it wasn't used for a true spread page
>>153501521It works better without insisting on itself.
>>153500748>Zoss literally wants the Wheel destroyeddoesnt jagganoth want the same thing?
reminder the entire comic is literally Vivec from The Elder Scrolls achieving amaranth and instantly regretting it, and the entire story revolves around his chimmer side arguing with his dummer side on the merits on divine suicide
>>153502180Yes but he's retarded and doesn't understand that his way doesn't work (or just doesn't care)
>>153484247>Kare wa sudeni shinde imasu>N-NANI!???
>>153487378>We'll probably see White Chain finally do some cool ki-rata shitimagine if all she does is use Ki-Rata's super-speed effect to go collect Zaid's dead body and bring it over so everyone can see, then exhales in the middle of Michel's attack expecting him to stop in time> and then job super hardBut Michael's next attack doesn't stop in time, and he decapitates White Chain... and Zaid's dead body.And each time Zaid's body gets picked up by someone, it falls apart or gets damaged in some way. As a joke.
>>153503919Will we ever see the main characters not job horrifically in a fight?
What would breaking the wheel even mean? Seems like the wheel is also material reality, which I don't think Allison is trying to do away with?
>>153505836the wheel is basically the concept of destiny
>>153505944I thought the Wheel was the structure of reality, which Zoss mastered making him the closest possible thing to God.
>>153484271Metatron probably thinks Michael is such an immense retard right now for not being in the know.
>>153487356An 'attack' from Metatron would mean the end of the comic. The only reason he hasn't simply spoken and deleted everyone is because he literally can't.
>>153502180Jagganoth is just the evil final boss guy the heir is supposed to defeat. He'll likely job instantly to the maybe sword even with the feathers in place because he was part of the dead men army
>>153505836The wheel is I(not me), YisunBreak the wheel be free of Yisun
>>153505836Fundamentally alter reality, essentiallyAs it stands reality is in this limbo deathloop
>>153501326I always thought the spears signified the breaking of the compact's effects on the angels.Some wanna be demiurge thought he can tussle with Michael. Certainly felt like that was the durectiin the comic was going then.
>>153491460The Chosen One in Fallout didn't die.
>>153500601Not according to his spiel in his last appearance in king of swords.
>>153500313I will shrug and proclaim that she is still a jobber for needing to conserve her ki in a most un-Royal way instead of fusing with White Chain at least even if New Coke isn’t willing (what the fuck is even the point of New Coke) and sustaining the transformation throughout the battle through sheer lack of fucks given. Then add it’s about fucking time she remembered she can summon god body parts and rip holes through reality and shit.
>>153501214Zoss is very clear that letting death stop you from doing whatever you want is a skill issue, yes.>>153502779Incubus is basically a slightly less homosexual Vivec
>>153502779Not enough elf babes for this to be true
>>153500313>jobber>>153507583>jobber>un-RoyalListen up, there is only win or lose. Getting humiliated temporarily or having the shit kicked out of you is not being a jobber if you win in the end; it only makes you uncool. Only the ultimate losers who can't get back up are jobbers.
