Like Christ, Solomon David is a true king. Even in death he cannot ignore the pleas of his people, and returns to save them. They have prayed him back to life!
Solomon has fallen some distance away from everybody else, in the city. He has a breathing space before Jagganoth comes for him. So he has a choice: help his people here escape, or fly back to the God-fight and help Allison try to escape.
My Body, The State
More so than for any other Divine Rulers,
this phrase rings true for the Demiurges.
Mottom : Consumption – My lmmortal Life,
Sustained by the Flesh-Fruiting Corpse Tree of my
blood-fed, woman devouring,
Demiurgic Husband-King.
My Radiant Palace – flies – supported by my will.
My domains followed the same pattern,
Consume to Live, Live to Consume.
Unsustainable – I know, but I know naught else.
I Rot, Resurge, Renew and Rot again….
Until the ENTIRE cycle is broken and my body,
burns to ash.
Mammon : My Unending Growth Protected,
I Hid myself away like a gold-chasing bark beetle
within the Great Fortress-Bank of Yre.
My eyes feeble, my nose is keen.
My boundless Charm, seduces would-be slayers,
into Acolytes. Call me Mad, call me Obsessed,
call me Deluded, but my vision was pure.
I had a Dream, I achieved it – and it Ended.
My body destroyed, my ledgers erased,
the Peaceful Land cannot now be recreated for my followers.
Alas ! May you live On – my dear Number ONE !
Incubus : By now you have an inkling of
just where my powers derive,
how I sustained myself beyond the divine key.
Two rivers I drink from.
The river of mind,
Each one I help, feeds me in turn.
The river of life, the river of blood sustains
my body and is both the lure and the reward to my elite followers,
though they wither over time and bear the thirst.
It’s precarious to rebuild a Tower over a river of blood.
Solomon : Having Achieved the Pinnacle of Power,
I thought yet to be responsible as the Father to a World,
Primus, Patriarch, Paternum,
These my titles earned as Protector of my home world.
Now I ask myself if I erred,
for how could anyone surpass me ?
Trusting only in power, I didn’t trust in my people.
Now I am wounded and abashed.
The symbols of my glory smashed.
I, who withheld choices from others…
Do I have any choices left ?
Jadis : Though bodies be vehicles,
it was VISION which obsessed me.
Yes, Once I could focus my will and burn out stars – or kindle one.
And Once, yes ONCE – I desired to SEE ALL.
What surprises me still is that it was Possible
to Reach out to Encompass the ALL and Hold it
For a MOMENT- in my SIGHT.
Simultaneity is not for mere mortals – this I tell for free.
Well I SAW ALL – and having Witnessed
Found myself broken and reduced.
There’s so much to TELL ! – but –
My words turn to mercury, as do my thoughts,
I’m there, I’m here, and nowhere near.
Only fragments of the whole can I spill out.
So to keep it together, I bound myself in crystal
thence to slow my unwinding, hoping eventually to heal.
Time will tell and you’ll see for yourself – what is to come.
it’s all ONE moment to me, do you see ?
Gog-Agog : Bodies ! HA !
So FUN to have, why limit yourself to just ONE ?
And bodies are tasty, gooey, delicious, crunchy,
salty, sweet, you’re like candy.
When you can Play all day –
Who needs a State anyway ?
Jagganoth : A Transcendent path,
Is the one I tread.
Yes the cost is everything,
and I am giving this my all.
Having a State would be a means to an end.
It’s all resources – to bend towards this Finality
which would be, could be – Renewal.
Instead, I focused on building a body
which can become a Living Engine of Destruction
Except – I keep failing.
Zoss – the Hidden Hand.
“Why are you looking at me ?”
Invisible Hands – a metaphor for Invisible,
or hidden Forces in the Worlds.
“Hmm. Is THAT what you think I am ?
Let’s presume you’re right ( for a moment )
If SOMEONE acquired the Divine powers of the Deity,
and SOMEHOW messed up causality,
and THEN got stuck in a series of Infinitely repeating loops
Just HOW would they break out of that ?
Good Question !
Let me know when you figure it out.
Hey Come Back !
PLEASE !
Please help me !
By the way – your earlier question –
The Body as State ?
Once we did have a society and state of divinely empowered lords.
Oh – but it didn’t last.
Didn’t see that coming, no.
So yes, I’ve become the Invisible King.”
I don’t think he’s down for the count just yet. He grimaces in the last panel and the words of those around him are becoming brighter. I think he’ll be awake enough to at least make a final attack against Jaggy.
I’d kind of love it, and it would be sort of oddly expectation-undermining, if Solomon got up now and just absolutely and thoroughly owned Jag. Like I’m sure the general idea, at least on the surface, is one of a final fight between a Jag who has collected the keys of the Seven vs an Allison fully come into her own power, but part of me (even though I know it won’t happen) thinks that Jag getting taken out now and Allison being forced to contend with facing the remainder of the Seven herself would be more interesting.
That would be interesting, but I think we are still at the point that you just can’t kill Jag and he needs to be sealed away somewhere, which Solomon won’t be able to do on his own no matter how fast he can punch.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
“‘A man who holds fear in his heart will never be safe, no matter how strong he makes himself. No matter how iron hard he makes his defenses, if left untouched, his fear will spring forth and devour him from the inside at a moment’s notice.’ – Au Vam”
Sounds like that could fit One Punch Man’s Darkshine to a T.
I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me. But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father.
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Get up, you old pine box.
How many rivers, horizons and dreams; All beget.
As you’ve [I] struck one [all] down,
It [all] stands.
But tell me then, you of ruin, if it did not?
How far would, could, we fall? How far away is your dream? How far away the abyss, the end of dreams?
How low, could the high be struck down?
How many hours, days and seconds… How many dreams, until we [all] found the way?
BEARD BASKET HAS FALLEN.
That’s a quite bit more than one drop of blood
It almost looks like Solomon is laid out on an anvil, and we still haven’t seen Jagganoth use the warhammer he brought with him…
don’t worry guys, soll’s gonna get back up and rec him
Like Christ, Solomon David is a true king. Even in death he cannot ignore the pleas of his people, and returns to save them. They have prayed him back to life!
Phffff, you’re all silly. He obviously is just slacking off, listening to the comment section below! Lazy kingbutt~
Jagganoth: “Wake up… time to die.”
Meanwhile, Solomon is doing his Pieta impression.
Solomon has fallen some distance away from everybody else, in the city. He has a breathing space before Jagganoth comes for him. So he has a choice: help his people here escape, or fly back to the God-fight and help Allison try to escape.
He bleeds, and so the Red God becomes the Emperor of DIAMOND’s worlds.
Woe, woe, woe betide them all.
It’s fortunate that he fell on that inclined slab and has that beam of sunlight hitting him or no one would know he was there.
The State = My Body
My Body, The State
More so than for any other Divine Rulers,
this phrase rings true for the Demiurges.
Mottom : Consumption – My lmmortal Life,
Sustained by the Flesh-Fruiting Corpse Tree of my
blood-fed, woman devouring,
Demiurgic Husband-King.
My Radiant Palace – flies – supported by my will.
My domains followed the same pattern,
Consume to Live, Live to Consume.
Unsustainable – I know, but I know naught else.
I Rot, Resurge, Renew and Rot again….
Until the ENTIRE cycle is broken and my body,
burns to ash.
Mammon : My Unending Growth Protected,
I Hid myself away like a gold-chasing bark beetle
within the Great Fortress-Bank of Yre.
My eyes feeble, my nose is keen.
My boundless Charm, seduces would-be slayers,
into Acolytes. Call me Mad, call me Obsessed,
call me Deluded, but my vision was pure.
I had a Dream, I achieved it – and it Ended.
My body destroyed, my ledgers erased,
the Peaceful Land cannot now be recreated for my followers.
Alas ! May you live On – my dear Number ONE !
Incubus : By now you have an inkling of
just where my powers derive,
how I sustained myself beyond the divine key.
Two rivers I drink from.
The river of mind,
Each one I help, feeds me in turn.
The river of life, the river of blood sustains
my body and is both the lure and the reward to my elite followers,
though they wither over time and bear the thirst.
It’s precarious to rebuild a Tower over a river of blood.
Solomon : Having Achieved the Pinnacle of Power,
I thought yet to be responsible as the Father to a World,
Primus, Patriarch, Paternum,
These my titles earned as Protector of my home world.
Now I ask myself if I erred,
for how could anyone surpass me ?
Trusting only in power, I didn’t trust in my people.
Now I am wounded and abashed.
The symbols of my glory smashed.
I, who withheld choices from others…
Do I have any choices left ?
Jadis : Though bodies be vehicles,
it was VISION which obsessed me.
Yes, Once I could focus my will and burn out stars – or kindle one.
And Once, yes ONCE – I desired to SEE ALL.
What surprises me still is that it was Possible
to Reach out to Encompass the ALL and Hold it
For a MOMENT- in my SIGHT.
Simultaneity is not for mere mortals – this I tell for free.
Well I SAW ALL – and having Witnessed
Found myself broken and reduced.
There’s so much to TELL ! – but –
My words turn to mercury, as do my thoughts,
I’m there, I’m here, and nowhere near.
Only fragments of the whole can I spill out.
So to keep it together, I bound myself in crystal
thence to slow my unwinding, hoping eventually to heal.
Time will tell and you’ll see for yourself – what is to come.
it’s all ONE moment to me, do you see ?
Gog-Agog : Bodies ! HA !
So FUN to have, why limit yourself to just ONE ?
And bodies are tasty, gooey, delicious, crunchy,
salty, sweet, you’re like candy.
When you can Play all day –
Who needs a State anyway ?
Jagganoth : A Transcendent path,
Is the one I tread.
Yes the cost is everything,
and I am giving this my all.
Having a State would be a means to an end.
It’s all resources – to bend towards this Finality
which would be, could be – Renewal.
Instead, I focused on building a body
which can become a Living Engine of Destruction
Except – I keep failing.
Zoss – the Hidden Hand.
“Why are you looking at me ?”
Invisible Hands – a metaphor for Invisible,
or hidden Forces in the Worlds.
“Hmm. Is THAT what you think I am ?
Let’s presume you’re right ( for a moment )
If SOMEONE acquired the Divine powers of the Deity,
and SOMEHOW messed up causality,
and THEN got stuck in a series of Infinitely repeating loops
Just HOW would they break out of that ?
Good Question !
Let me know when you figure it out.
Hey Come Back !
PLEASE !
Please help me !
By the way – your earlier question –
The Body as State ?
Once we did have a society and state of divinely empowered lords.
Oh – but it didn’t last.
Didn’t see that coming, no.
So yes, I’ve become the Invisible King.”
*The mob erupts into thunderous applause*
Called it. Salami Dave is down for the count. Book 5 cover = prophetic
I don’t think he’s down for the count just yet. He grimaces in the last panel and the words of those around him are becoming brighter. I think he’ll be awake enough to at least make a final attack against Jaggy.
I hope he doenst react bitterly to his people
I’d kind of love it, and it would be sort of oddly expectation-undermining, if Solomon got up now and just absolutely and thoroughly owned Jag. Like I’m sure the general idea, at least on the surface, is one of a final fight between a Jag who has collected the keys of the Seven vs an Allison fully come into her own power, but part of me (even though I know it won’t happen) thinks that Jag getting taken out now and Allison being forced to contend with facing the remainder of the Seven herself would be more interesting.
That would be interesting, but I think we are still at the point that you just can’t kill Jag and he needs to be sealed away somewhere, which Solomon won’t be able to do on his own no matter how fast he can punch.
Still think that Jadis will harsh him with self-knowledge until he gives up his quest.
I spect that the final confrontation is not Allison vs. Jaggenoughalready or Allison vs. Gog or Allison vs. Metatron. It might be Allison vs. Maya.
That might leave a mark. or two
Really Tom? You just HAD to reach for the Christ-symbolism for your favourite fascist.
Say what you will about Salomon Grundy; that is a MASSIVE erection he is sporting.
Seeing some jesus imagery here, think salami lid is gonna pull a second coming?
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“‘A man who holds fear in his heart will never be safe, no matter how strong he makes himself. No matter how iron hard he makes his defenses, if left untouched, his fear will spring forth and devour him from the inside at a moment’s notice.’ – Au Vam”
Sounds like that could fit One Punch Man’s Darkshine to a T.
The Passion of the Paternum
They are mourning him…
I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me. But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father.
Get up! Let us go on from here.
I wonder how much of that blood is everyone else’s.
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