Humdum refers to the BASELESS hypothesis that, since she has sported green soul flame on occasion, Nyave has taken the Worm, a piece of SLANTER that FOOLS and NAYSAYERS state is further supported by her insistence that Allison go into the Ring, thus playing into the Worm’s hands, which is a lot of BULL because miss N is perfect and I swear to god I’ll fuck you right up.
Her arm does seem to have taken on a rather greenish shade , I wonder what’s going on there…?
I also wonder in a purely hypothetical sense, whether when one takes the worm one eventually becomes a mass of them a la Gog, or if one merely ends up with a single specimen sitting in the driving seat so to speak. Perhaps we shall soon find out.
Turu vaguely remember seeing Nyave with a green flame, but can’t find it. Turu thought it would be King of Swords’ finale (great Alisson face on that one by the way, protecting the others) but it isn’t. Would a Noble Soul give Turu a hint?
Bear in mind, an amount of this is him yeeting himself. He is not being yeeted in panel six, except by himself. Here we see that another path to Royalty is a continuous Yeeting motion as well.
“A-hem… Yo, now! I heard you liked mass extinction events with your dinosaurs, so I’m a dinosaur that causes mass extinction events!”
“…”
“…”
“… rest now, O God O Mine.”
“I am so tired, Number One. I am so very tired.”
It is a bastardization of a quote from the Batman movie with the AAAHNOLD playing the freezy guy and saying puns.
In the movie he says “what killed the dinosaurs? The ice age!”
The Runaway Guys, a YouTube collaboration, once accidentally referenced this quote but said it the wrong way around, thus spawning oodles of laughter for all.
I thought the boy was with one of the demiurges? If he was then I pray they had the common sense to teleport him somewhere safe since he’s lacking any of their abilities (or at least gave the poor kid like a blaster or something to defend himself with)
Why the eminently forgettable fellow with the zesty personality of tepid oatmeal! Really tepid. Like terminally tepid. If it were Shakespeare, he’d have a brief monologue to fill in a couple of loose plot points and be seen no more.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
Which is why, narratively, Nyave has to survive. She needs to take Zaid off Allison’s hands. Otherwise, it’ll be book 17 before Allison gets her emotional life sorted out.
Yes, yes, yes! + 1,000 on the the Pratchett shoutout! Genius, hilarious, prolific. Granny Weatherwax would kick ass and take names, all before tea time.
almost the entire point of Granny Weatherwax as a character is that she *doesn’t* do that sort of thing. if she ruled a seventh of the universe she wouldn’t be Granny Weatherwax anymore.
Well, how much coin do you spend each month? Save some each month, put it in a sock to build up. Eventually you’ll have enough to use as a blackjack and take any boots you please.
She’s more likely hurt rather than dead, as the only normal mortal human here, to better illustrate that continuing to stay on a mega-battlefield is a dangerous thing to do especially for the more fragile companions.
I highly doubt Zaid has much more training than her. Judging by his drab, his duties did not pertain to godly combat. And that’s not considering that Allison is just ‘okay’ at Empty Palm despite having the true Key of Kings in her forehead and cosmically significant teachers. One being a Demiurge who does not possess a martial art he refuses to share with anyone.
What is with people using “fridging” inappropriately all of sudden?
For this to have been a ‘fridging’ [A] it would have to have not been a battlefield, [2] Nyave would have had to have not been there of her own volition (//she// put herself in harm’s way), and [Lastly] she needs to have been injured (or killed) //solely// to upset our Protagonista.
Unresolved questions:
Where are Princess, Cio, and Zaid?
Where is Maya?
How far has the devastation spread thus far?
Has word of this battle reached Throne?
Okay, I’m not really buying that Jaggy has anything in his arsenal to throw back Salami like that. What have we seen? A sword that could not pierce him and seemingly was destroyed as it forced him deep into the crust of the planet and another sword that shattered on impact.
I’m not sold that Jag has that kinda juice to hit The Beard that hard.
Friendly fire? Very unlikely. None of the big shots fighting Jaggy are friends with each other. They’re barely circumstantial allies. At best, they might ignore rather than attack one another. As in “I’ll conveniently ignore that you’re in the way, and fire anyway.”
Not convinced Jaggy has the juice? He’s been on the juice for years.
Salami Dave looks like a hard core juicer, too.
It’s a roid rage showdown!
Well, you’ve got Mottom and her blood borne butt fruit. That’s serious juicing, too. Clearly her supply is running low. Heard of getting beaten with the ugly stick?
Mottom is that stick.
Inky just looks like a junkie. A lucky junkie, considering the veins to choose from.
Mammon is a lost cause. Demiurges always think they’ve got one more season in them.
Jadis had at least one trick up her sleeve. Maybe more?
And we haven’t seen the great worm uprising, so hijinks will ensue!
Conservation of Momentum is a thing. Salami just took a full power swing from a sword the size of a schoolbus, and despite being superhuman in a lot of respects, he seems to weigh roughly the same amount as a regular (if tall and beefy) person.
You see, people debating over the specifics and nuances of wearing shoes to bed are why there ended up being several gospels of Bloody Common Sense in the first place.
That’s a hypothesis, supported by me also (thogh I am not sure whether I was the first to suggest it). Alternative version being, of course, that Jadis is Mind & Jagganoth Blade, but this will be too striaghtforward for Abbadon, IMHO.
No other variants really, for YS ATUN VRAMA PRESH stands for “the Glory, the Tower, the Flame, the Diamond, the Blade, the Mind, the Beast”. And the source is the very Abbadon’s words in his Tumbler,
That’s one of my reasons for labelling him Mind. And for Jadis, aside from her being said an iron-willed person (which reminds us strongly of the Blade of Want), one, as I’ve already stated elsewhere, neds to be one hell of a cutter to perceive the Wheel as it is. Also, the shade on the cover may indicate that she performed the Division of Self at some point. Which is also basically a cutting motion.
One is sure a nice sheet of britannia metal could be worked into a passable tea-set, electro-plating with silver to finish it off. One prefers fine bone china naturally.
For some reason I read “FORMAL introduction to Jagganoth and Jadis” as “CARNAL introduction to Jagganoth and Jadis” and now my mind is completely and utterly broken.
Seriously, I read the comment yesterday (sifting through today for new replies, ‘cos the hits just keep coming) so hell, I already knew what it said! But for a split second that’s the word I saw.
I KNOW it’s not that kind of comic, nor do I want it to be. I…I must be losing it. Soon I may be blundering around with Mammon, yelling things like “Avaunt, villain!” whilst stabbing myself with a fork. Zounds.
The Rising King has not yet mastered the Division. It’s kind of shamefull. But it’s ice to see her indeed (as someone has wittily stated above). Am also curious what’s of the rest of the team and how in Seven Names they got separated at all.
At least she wasn’t thrown off a roof and then had her fate and survival teased for six real world months only to reveal that she survived in a coma and then have her die off screen during a time jump.
Suffice to say “Damn you, !” is something of a rallying cry in the fandom/comment section of a different webcomic. I was just referencing a thing that happened recently over there.
True Wisdom from Al-Yisun as usual.
“Make love, not war!”
or short
“Fuck!”
“Make Love not war” = “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge”
Tbh that is a perfectly reasonable reaction to her situation.
Allison*
Fuck indeed
Nyave needs to survive. She’s the kindest character in the whole story.
Worm Nyave reveal any time now. She’s totally fine, just worms. Right?
U kno sumthin’ we don’t?
Humdum refers to the BASELESS hypothesis that, since she has sported green soul flame on occasion, Nyave has taken the Worm, a piece of SLANTER that FOOLS and NAYSAYERS state is further supported by her insistence that Allison go into the Ring, thus playing into the Worm’s hands, which is a lot of BULL because miss N is perfect and I swear to god I’ll fuck you right up.
Her arm does seem to have taken on a rather greenish shade , I wonder what’s going on there…?
I also wonder in a purely hypothetical sense, whether when one takes the worm one eventually becomes a mass of them a la Gog, or if one merely ends up with a single specimen sitting in the driving seat so to speak. Perhaps we shall soon find out.
Turu vaguely remember seeing Nyave with a green flame, but can’t find it. Turu thought it would be King of Swords’ finale (great Alisson face on that one by the way, protecting the others) but it isn’t. Would a Noble Soul give Turu a hint?
.The fragments of knowledge you look for are in King of Swords 7-67, my good friend.
May you never chew more knowledge than you can swallow.
Anyway, Al-Yisun can heal herself, we’re about to see that she can heal others AND cast the worm away.
I love that Salami dave is just getting yeeted and yoted around.
Bear in mind, an amount of this is him yeeting himself. He is not being yeeted in panel six, except by himself. Here we see that another path to Royalty is a continuous Yeeting motion as well.
Because of relativity, from his perspective he actually yote the entire world.
Maybe the real Royalty is the yeets we did on the way.
Ahh… The majestic circle pf yeet.
A king yeets; a slave is yoted.
As they say: Yeet or be Yeeten.
Allison! It is ice to see you again.
Get outta here , lol !
*but , no really don’t get out of here . Do provide us with more puns XD
I bet Mammon melts this whole field.
Because what killed the ice age?
THE DINOSAURS
Funny, I thought an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, but Mammon already tried that.
“A-hem… Yo, now! I heard you liked mass extinction events with your dinosaurs, so I’m a dinosaur that causes mass extinction events!”
“…”
“…”
“… rest now, O God O Mine.”
“I am so tired, Number One. I am so very tired.”
It is a bastardization of a quote from the Batman movie with the AAAHNOLD playing the freezy guy and saying puns.
In the movie he says “what killed the dinosaurs? The ice age!”
The Runaway Guys, a YouTube collaboration, once accidentally referenced this quote but said it the wrong way around, thus spawning oodles of laughter for all.
okay I did not catch it but it was hilarious
She needs to chill out
NYAVE NOOOOOOOOOO
I know right. [ANGER]
Fuck.
FUCK
Fuck
Oh, she’ll be fine.
Unfortunately, Nyave is the medic of this party.
So, it’s up to the others to see to that.
She took the word right out of my mouth
inky gave good advice
True, but as usual when someone tells you to run, it was already too late.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Pity the weakness of mortal flesh in the hostile environment of the battlefield…
I wonder where lies the one named Zaid?
I thought the boy was with one of the demiurges? If he was then I pray they had the common sense to teleport him somewhere safe since he’s lacking any of their abilities (or at least gave the poor kid like a blaster or something to defend himself with)
Oh no! Is Nyave okay? And where are Cio and Princess Jack?
Yeah where is Mamoru Tim Jack Jack Daniels, Cio and I actually forgot about Zaid, plot point that he hath been.
Zaid who?
Why the eminently forgettable fellow with the zesty personality of tepid oatmeal! Really tepid. Like terminally tepid. If it were Shakespeare, he’d have a brief monologue to fill in a couple of loose plot points and be seen no more.
Which is why, narratively, Nyave has to survive. She needs to take Zaid off Allison’s hands. Otherwise, it’ll be book 17 before Allison gets her emotional life sorted out.
When elephants fight, the grass suffers.
The grass suffers whenever elephants are near.
Cinderella…
Cinderella? Hmm.
This is why Granny Weatherwax and I stick with boots.
As any good witch (or good anyone, really) should. Strong boots that can march through anything. Good, sensible boots.
Boots are exceptionally useful, when it’s time to put the boot in.
Maximum upvotes for Pratchett shoutout. Granny Weatherwax is the equivalent of Zoss in this universe.
Yes, yes, yes! + 1,000 on the the Pratchett shoutout! Genius, hilarious, prolific. Granny Weatherwax would kick ass and take names, all before tea time.
Petition to replace Mottom with Demiurge Granny Weatherwax, controlling 1/7 of the universe with headology.
Seconded
Thirded,
but she’ll probably say it’s a bad idea, even when she’d take the job and eventually go to the other demiurges’ houses and criticise them ruthlessly.
almost the entire point of Granny Weatherwax as a character is that she *doesn’t* do that sort of thing. if she ruled a seventh of the universe she wouldn’t be Granny Weatherwax anymore.
But really good boots cost 50 gold and I only make 38 gold a month.
Well, how much coin do you spend each month? Save some each month, put it in a sock to build up. Eventually you’ll have enough to use as a blackjack and take any boots you please.
Oh no, please don’t kill Nyave! Don’t fridge the black girl to make the white girl sad
She’s more likely hurt rather than dead, as the only normal mortal human here, to better illustrate that continuing to stay on a mega-battlefield is a dangerous thing to do especially for the more fragile companions.
well, it’s not really that she “decided” to continue to stay
They are the only survivors at Ground Zero and DID run.
I highly doubt Zaid has much more training than her. Judging by his drab, his duties did not pertain to godly combat. And that’s not considering that Allison is just ‘okay’ at Empty Palm despite having the true Key of Kings in her forehead and cosmically significant teachers. One being a Demiurge who does not possess a martial art he refuses to share with anyone.
They’re all out of their depth.
What is with people using “fridging” inappropriately all of sudden?
For this to have been a ‘fridging’ [A] it would have to have not been a battlefield, [2] Nyave would have had to have not been there of her own volition (//she// put herself in harm’s way), and [Lastly] she needs to have been injured (or killed) //solely// to upset our Protagonista.
Unresolved questions:
Where are Princess, Cio, and Zaid?
Where is Maya?
How far has the devastation spread thus far?
Has word of this battle reached Throne?
Princess and Cio are probably strutting through the battlefield, not unharmed but still alive.
Maya is coming. Blood will surely be spilt at her leisure.
Say, a small nuclear bomb? Locally, I mean, there is no telling the kind of destruction Mr. Red’s armies are unleashing right now.
It probably has, I mean, the whole thing was televised by Gog-Agog. They’re probably scrambling to create war-time propaganda right now.
… no, I haven’t forgotten about Zaid, I just can’t bring myself to care. 🤷♀️
from sorority member to buff cinderella, our girl really has come far ^^
Okay, I’m not really buying that Jaggy has anything in his arsenal to throw back Salami like that. What have we seen? A sword that could not pierce him and seemingly was destroyed as it forced him deep into the crust of the planet and another sword that shattered on impact.
I’m not sold that Jag has that kinda juice to hit The Beard that hard.
also:
Nyave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
Maybe Jagg did roundkick ? )
Jag didn’t do it, Mammon’s a bit near sighted and accidentally swatted him. Friendly fire’s way more likely on this battlefield.
Friendly fire? Very unlikely. None of the big shots fighting Jaggy are friends with each other. They’re barely circumstantial allies. At best, they might ignore rather than attack one another. As in “I’ll conveniently ignore that you’re in the way, and fire anyway.”
If he was able to drive the Salami into the ground, I’m sure he can toss him too.
Salami couldn’t stay hidden for long…
A spurious frivolous comment was made on the last page as to the sheer amount of mass required to stop that blade in mid air without going flying.
Humorous reply was “lol, what if next page we see solomon go YEET.”
i believe this commenter must be acquainted with jadis, for they have seen the future.
Solomon’s mass is not proportional to his strength.
Not convinced Jaggy has the juice? He’s been on the juice for years.
Salami Dave looks like a hard core juicer, too.
It’s a roid rage showdown!
Well, you’ve got Mottom and her blood borne butt fruit. That’s serious juicing, too. Clearly her supply is running low. Heard of getting beaten with the ugly stick?
Mottom is that stick.
Inky just looks like a junkie. A lucky junkie, considering the veins to choose from.
Mammon is a lost cause. Demiurges always think they’ve got one more season in them.
Jadis had at least one trick up her sleeve. Maybe more?
And we haven’t seen the great worm uprising, so hijinks will ensue!
Conservation of Momentum is a thing. Salami just took a full power swing from a sword the size of a schoolbus, and despite being superhuman in a lot of respects, he seems to weigh roughly the same amount as a regular (if tall and beefy) person.
Conservation is no reliable law when energy is lost in the transfer.
Where we’re going, we won’t need shoes.
Are we going to bed?
As it’s written in the 3rd Gospel of Bloody Common Sense:
“Only a fool weareth his shoes to bed.”
That very much depends on where and under what circumstances one is sleeping.
No one said anything about sleeping.
Then, that very much depends still on where and under what circumstances one is being bedded.
😏
You see, people debating over the specifics and nuances of wearing shoes to bed are why there ended up being several gospels of Bloody Common Sense in the first place.
Indeed. Mainly because despite the name, there’s really not a lot of it about.
And if so, what are we going to do on the bed?
The answer is obviously “practise the Deadly Arts”
When are we going to get a formal introduction to Jagganoth and Jadis? I wanna know the words of royalty they carry!
Jadis is the bearer of the word Blade, and Jagganoth is the bearer of the word Mind.
I can’t tell whether you’re being humorous or just mixed them up.
I am notoriously bad for remembering names that begin with J, myself, so I know it’s easy to do.
Thank you, Preem DracoRex. Tell, I pray to you, what is the source of such knowledge?
That’s a hypothesis, supported by me also (thogh I am not sure whether I was the first to suggest it). Alternative version being, of course, that Jadis is Mind & Jagganoth Blade, but this will be too striaghtforward for Abbadon, IMHO.
No other variants really, for YS ATUN VRAMA PRESH stands for “the Glory, the Tower, the Flame, the Diamond, the Blade, the Mind, the Beast”. And the source is the very Abbadon’s words in his Tumbler,
Also worth noting that Mick Jagganoth is known for being the only one of the seven to be particularly interested in technology.
That’s one of my reasons for labelling him Mind. And for Jadis, aside from her being said an iron-willed person (which reminds us strongly of the Blade of Want), one, as I’ve already stated elsewhere, neds to be one hell of a cutter to perceive the Wheel as it is. Also, the shade on the cover may indicate that she performed the Division of Self at some point. Which is also basically a cutting motion.
And the wheel, when viewed side-on, itself becomes a perfectly sharp blade.
Technology as advanced as an anvil and hammer, and you can’t use an anvil and a hammer to make teacups.
One is sure a nice sheet of britannia metal could be worked into a passable tea-set, electro-plating with silver to finish it off. One prefers fine bone china naturally.
For some reason I read “FORMAL introduction to Jagganoth and Jadis” as “CARNAL introduction to Jagganoth and Jadis” and now my mind is completely and utterly broken.
Seriously, I read the comment yesterday (sifting through today for new replies, ‘cos the hits just keep coming) so hell, I already knew what it said! But for a split second that’s the word I saw.
I KNOW it’s not that kind of comic, nor do I want it to be. I…I must be losing it. Soon I may be blundering around with Mammon, yelling things like “Avaunt, villain!” whilst stabbing myself with a fork. Zounds.
Truly, shipping knows no bounds.
He just wants to put everything in existence out of it’s misery by killing it.
She is in constant suffering and just wants to die.
It’s the perfect ship, really.
The Rising King has not yet mastered the Division. It’s kind of shamefull. But it’s ice to see her indeed (as someone has wittily stated above). Am also curious what’s of the rest of the team and how in Seven Names they got separated at all.
I usually save this for another cartoonist, but DAMN YOU, ABBADON!
At least she wasn’t thrown off a roof and then had her fate and survival teased for six real world months only to reveal that she survived in a coma and then have her die off screen during a time jump.
I… What?
To which I add “Yeah!…huh?”
Suffice to say “Damn you, !” is something of a rallying cry in the fandom/comment section of a different webcomic. I was just referencing a thing that happened recently over there.
Are we ‘armed,’ (do we care?)
if we’re talking ’bout footwear?
Rhyme without riddle is rare.
If you’re a learned practitioner of the ancient art of shoeing, you might just be armed with shoes.
Behold, the Shoe Goblin: web.archive.org/web/20130518131418/http://www.beaverandsteve.com/index.php?comic=11