I think Fighting/Fairy wouldn’t be an unreasonable guess. He was clearly a fighting type originally, but he got a substantial power up by driving nails made from angel power into his body. Angelic pokemon are usually fairy type.
Let me preface this by saying I know the image I’m about to present doesn’t really reflect the current situation.
But for some reason this makes me think of Mammon like one of those huge dogs that doesn’t realize their own size/strength and jumps on people as if they were a tiny puppy.
I don’t so much believe that Jagganoth will kill the other six as I feel like our heroine All-Yi-Sun will have to magic everyone away in order to create an actual game plan. Though maybe the death of multiple demiurge’s will create extra screen time for the 108 stars or my personal favorite Princess Jack “please snap me in half senpai” Moonshine.
It’s a *very* well-drilled civil-defence plan, as one might predict for an ultra-lawful state. But if the citizens are ready to evacuate at zero notice, they must be permanently on edge. And we’re only seeing those who actually responded, not those hiding under their duvets back in the city.
Oh wow, a page! Almost expected a wait till weekend for another spread. Great, great.
Predicting (probably wrong, as usual) some pages later Ally is gathering her gang with anxious face whith “oh-shit-leaving-this-armageddon-now” clearly written on it, when suddenly stopped by Maya who… is probably still after the Key at last? May be her idiot not-student was njot that mistaken and she actually wants it for avenge.
And Allison’s injuries depicted on cover may have been dealt via this turn of events.
Well, gramps ran up and got within striking distance of his opponent’s sword(s) and then launched a distance attack. Extremely poor tactics, and the sort of thing that does not extend one’s lifetime in a story like this.
Yes, excellent summary of key battle variables. Mammon may be sushi before any of his (apparently unfocused, widely distributed) twinkles get near Jaggy.
So long, gramps!
On the one hand, Mammon fucked up by interuppting Mottom’s big move.
On the other hands, Mammon is senile and means well unlike basically every other Demiurge and Mottom is an old hag who is also a complete asshole who already interrupted the fight once. Also, Mammon has been stuck in a vault for the past thousand years growing senile and his first encounter after that with Mottom involves her attacking him and his people for basically no reason than petty vengeance.
…are there gonna be, like, warrior bondage nuns with pruning saws pouring out of Mammon’s howdah at some opportune moment? Or was he giving a bunch of second-graders demiurge rides when shit started going down? Either seems equally likely tbh.
I don’t see how the Six can win this one, TBH, unless Jagganoth somehow eats a worm and loses his mind. Maybe he splats Gog and some bits go up his nose? Or maybe Jadis knows a way to feed Gog to the Door^H^H^H^H Red God?
If that did happen, I don’t know whether Jagganoth would succumb to the happy-clappy worm-dream, or whether an octillion worms would suddenly wake up in a psychotic rage. And I’m not sure which would be more disturbing.
Huh. that would be one way to defeat him: Have Gog-Agog ‘port in enough worms to bury him under a literal mountain of them, so he could not move. Maybe.
Four have stood to attack Jagganoth thus far yet the only thing that’s struck him is some piddly lightning.
I wonder what the demiurges thought they would do when they agreed to fight him together, whether each one thought the other five would simply get out of their way as they threw their weight around the battlefield.
While Solomon’s digging himself out of a hole and enraged he can’t shout the others into compliance, and he’s the only one all of them will even begin to listen to.
Maybe these guys only survived because they kept slapsticking their way out of situations. You know, see a coin and bend down to pick it up, thus dodging a sniper’s bullet, accidentally tripping and knocking over a giant statue of an ax so it bisects a different demiurge, doing the thing with the really long ladder and turning around.
Alas, power is so misunderstood. The grandeur of a show, its destructive scale, its massive outputs of cosmic energy are not signals of power.
They are but small details
Love that this comic always focuses on the everyday people whose lives are thrown into chaos and pain by the spats of the gods. It’s so important to the recurring theme that these demiurges are monstrous, that their conquests inflict a horrific toll on the multiverse.
this is when we learn GameFreak has inexplicably made Jagganoth a fairy type. alas, such is the cruel will of game balance.
I think Fighting/Fairy wouldn’t be an unreasonable guess. He was clearly a fighting type originally, but he got a substantial power up by driving nails made from angel power into his body. Angelic pokemon are usually fairy type.
This makes a frightening amount of sense. I like it
Let me preface this by saying I know the image I’m about to present doesn’t really reflect the current situation.
But for some reason this makes me think of Mammon like one of those huge dogs that doesn’t realize their own size/strength and jumps on people as if they were a tiny puppy.
The kind people don’t usually grow as large as him, maybe in his mind he still does see himself as smaller than he is.
I don’t so much believe that Jagganoth will kill the other six as I feel like our heroine All-Yi-Sun will have to magic everyone away in order to create an actual game plan. Though maybe the death of multiple demiurge’s will create extra screen time for the 108 stars or my personal favorite Princess Jack “please snap me in half senpai” Moonshine.
Who is willing to bet the alt text for the next page says “It’s not very effective”?
Dragon is a neutral hit against fighting <3
Unless Jagganoth counts as Steel.
Huh, seems Soli had a good evacuation plan ready to go and mandated every one have a bug-out kit. He clearly saw this coming, sooner or later.
It’s a *very* well-drilled civil-defence plan, as one might predict for an ultra-lawful state. But if the citizens are ready to evacuate at zero notice, they must be permanently on edge. And we’re only seeing those who actually responded, not those hiding under their duvets back in the city.
New theory: All the demiurges are equally powerful fighters. Jagganoth is a match for all the others at once because they get in each other’s way.
Gramps is gonna die first
WHAT ARE YOU AIMING AT!?
To be fair to Gramps, *all* of the demiurges are villains.
Even him.
Regret can change the nature of even a god, but it doesn’t wipe away his past crimes.
Aeons of coexistence, and not an ounce of cooperation. So we see the true enemy, the grand enemy called “I”.
In other words”‘YISUN’?
Oh wow, a page! Almost expected a wait till weekend for another spread. Great, great.
Predicting (probably wrong, as usual) some pages later Ally is gathering her gang with anxious face whith “oh-shit-leaving-this-armageddon-now” clearly written on it, when suddenly stopped by Maya who… is probably still after the Key at last? May be her idiot not-student was njot that mistaken and she actually wants it for avenge.
And Allison’s injuries depicted on cover may have been dealt via this turn of events.
That’s a badass hypothesis, if anything.
I hope Grandpa lives.
Well, gramps ran up and got within striking distance of his opponent’s sword(s) and then launched a distance attack. Extremely poor tactics, and the sort of thing that does not extend one’s lifetime in a story like this.
Yes, excellent summary of key battle variables. Mammon may be sushi before any of his (apparently unfocused, widely distributed) twinkles get near Jaggy.
So long, gramps!
On the one hand, Mammon fucked up by interuppting Mottom’s big move.
On the other hands, Mammon is senile and means well unlike basically every other Demiurge and Mottom is an old hag who is also a complete asshole who already interrupted the fight once. Also, Mammon has been stuck in a vault for the past thousand years growing senile and his first encounter after that with Mottom involves her attacking him and his people for basically no reason than petty vengeance.
Go Grandpa Dragon, go!
Well howdah ya like that.
…are there gonna be, like, warrior bondage nuns with pruning saws pouring out of Mammon’s howdah at some opportune moment? Or was he giving a bunch of second-graders demiurge rides when shit started going down? Either seems equally likely tbh.
Yeah I miss the gang from the Tower of Yre too. Particularly the head accounting lady, I wonder if Mottom did her in?
She was at the second concordance of the Demiurges, after the siege of Yre, so I guess she’s still around.
Cool! She’s got style, that one. Kind of Betty Page meets Lady Madonna.
I don’t see how the Six can win this one, TBH, unless Jagganoth somehow eats a worm and loses his mind. Maybe he splats Gog and some bits go up his nose? Or maybe Jadis knows a way to feed Gog to the Door^H^H^H^H Red God?
If that did happen, I don’t know whether Jagganoth would succumb to the happy-clappy worm-dream, or whether an octillion worms would suddenly wake up in a psychotic rage. And I’m not sure which would be more disturbing.
Huh. that would be one way to defeat him: Have Gog-Agog ‘port in enough worms to bury him under a literal mountain of them, so he could not move. Maybe.
Four have stood to attack Jagganoth thus far yet the only thing that’s struck him is some piddly lightning.
I wonder what the demiurges thought they would do when they agreed to fight him together, whether each one thought the other five would simply get out of their way as they threw their weight around the battlefield.
Of course.
While Solomon’s digging himself out of a hole and enraged he can’t shout the others into compliance, and he’s the only one all of them will even begin to listen to.
Man, this is why I hate PUGs. They’re gonna wipe.
The visuals of this fight are dramatic, but the soundtrack is Benny Hill.
Yes, and these are the successful demiurges: the winners of the Universal War. The losers must have been pure slapstick.
Maybe these guys only survived because they kept slapsticking their way out of situations. You know, see a coin and bend down to pick it up, thus dodging a sniper’s bullet, accidentally tripping and knocking over a giant statue of an ax so it bisects a different demiurge, doing the thing with the really long ladder and turning around.
Hey Moe! Hey Larry! Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!
“You spoony bard!”
*Mammon remembered a spell!*
“M… M-meteo!”
Oh good, I’m not the only one who immediately thought of Tellah here.
Alas, power is so misunderstood. The grandeur of a show, its destructive scale, its massive outputs of cosmic energy are not signals of power.
They are but small details
Oh, children . . .
They’ve been powerful for too long to remember how to play well with others. Something Jagganoth doesn’t have to worry about.
Love that this comic always focuses on the everyday people whose lives are thrown into chaos and pain by the spats of the gods. It’s so important to the recurring theme that these demiurges are monstrous, that their conquests inflict a horrific toll on the multiverse.
Oh my. Six hands all clawing at the seventh, like crabs in a bucket.
Mammon, you’re doing amazing sweetie, keep going.
Ignore the screams of the civilians, I believe in you.
My family has exactly seven people, so I imagine my Thanksgiving is going to go EXACTLY like this.
Exactly.
Hah, fleeing the city as if this world will still stand after they are done. Just grow a spine and enjoy the show before facing your annihilation