Breaker of Infinities 1-22
“We will make you useful,” said Jantris, storm-crowned. “Tell me, dead man, what is the most useful thing?”
At one time, Yaun could think of many useful things, such as the pot his mother had used to cook meals daily, or the piece of sturdy twine they used to fasten the door to his home shut since the wood had warped and it no longer closed properly. He may have thought of the heavy wooden screens the men of the village affixed to their houses during especially bad storms to protect them. Every house in the village was covered, no matter how destitute, and the men worked tirelessly, day and night, until all were secure. Yaun’s uncle had promised when he was older, he would join in their making, and had shown him the tools.
Now those screens, those men, Yaun’s uncle, the piece of twine, the pot his mother owned, and his mother were all carbon; and that carbon had turned into dust and mixed with the dust of the valley and been shit upon by wild dogs.
“A sword,” said Yaun, who was now a dead man.
“Good,” said Jantris, smiling with his very white lion’s teeth. “This is a promising start.”
Ritchie’s promised quid pro quo
masked and mic’d up ‘ay a to’
Walk away, but not too slow.
Oh no, he has his own special moves being announced in a badass font.
And the font’s name, appropriately, is “impact”
Flying swords, various beams of energies, teleportation, superstrength… It appears that they either don’t have much in terms of creativity, or their individual power is not even nearly so godlike as they claim. There’s a noticeable lack of the good stuff. Where are the arcane abstract attacks? The unraveling of reality, the violation of causality, the warping of the realms, failure of the facts, breakdown of logic and sense, getting rid of things by the mere thought of them never existing. That’s how real gods would fight in a way that’s uncomprehensible.
Instead we have Grandpa Mammon owngoaling like a boss, Incubus playing both sides against the middle, Mottom grandstanding while Gog gets in the way, Jadis playing hard defense, Solomon David turned into the world’s beefiest whack-a-mole and Jagganoth’s body language saying he’s so sick of all of them he’s spent a lifetime turning himself into a weapon just to kick their faux-divine asses.
Have you ever glanced in the general direction of a mythology before? This is how most gods fight.
This isn’t lovecraft. This is Greek/Norse tier WWE
Hrmm… Darth, I’m with you. I find their “godly” powers lacking. I’ve been asking for a long time ~ when is Allison going to just twist reality and make the world the way she wants it to be? If she has all the power of creation (and presumably destruction, per Jagganoth) at her disposal, all she lacks is Want / Will.
But, maybe these are not the Gods we are looking for?
Well, she needs to learn how, first. And the first step toward that is to realize that she could potentially do that.
To quote Meti-ten-Ryo (from King of Swords page 6-57): “Behold! The awesome fires of god. The limitless power of pure creation itself. Look carefully! Observe how it is used for the same purpose a man might use an especially sharp rock.”
These are not scholars you see before you, with an enlightened understanding of the underlying nature of the cosmos. These are not even clever Bureaucrats, exploiting loopholes in the universe and rewriting reality as they see fit. These are a bunch of dumb jocks, who lucked into a way to gain godlike power through the sole method of BEATING it out of whoever had it last. Is it really any surprise that their methods have not changed in essence?
Doctor Terrapin is observant.
Nothing constrains these seven, save their own self-petception, which they each wear like an iron straight jacket.
This being a graphic novel, we won’t see powers unless they have they have good visuals. And we won’t see much of powers that need 30 panels of exposition to say what happened. The more subtle and elegant the mode of attack, the less well it can be drawn.
One could retcon that the exotic attacks are actually happening through the last dozen-or-so pages, but that we the audience just can’t see them.
I have met many a proud fool who believed themselves gods simply for being able to cleave a mountain in two with some enchanted weapon or another.
Few felt quite as confident upon realizing their undergarments had been suddenly filled with scorpions.
How come he gets cool attack names!
Head of John and Skull of Ys-Myra didn’t do it for you?
When did Head of John get the non diegetic name drop?
Probably not the first time Incubus has been told to throw himself in the ocean. Might be the first time someone’s made him do it though.
Many are focusing on Jagganoth’s super attack however let us not forget, this is indeed as the alt text says, a lifetime achievement for Incubus.
He has finally taken a bath. And I shudder to imagine what may become of it.
We full Jojo now.
Not to be a stickler, but don’t all swords drain blood?
Most swords simply liberate blood. Draining is a very special subset.
Huh. Thought they were mates.
AGREED. WE WERE PROMISED FEATS BEYOND COMPREHENSION.
Hrmm… So, a very short time ago Jaggy was duking it out with Salami Dave in the background of the panels. Then suddenly Jaeger Meister is snuffing the teleport-bolt that Allison cast, and then he flings a sword at her, which Bowie-mon parries… and then gets the same sword flung at HIM while Jagganoth stands there levitating some other swords…
Now, I have to ask… assuming Salami Dave has been temporarily inconvenienced again… WTF are the other Demi-urges doing while all this is happening?? Scrambling around the paddy wagon like Keystone Kops or something? *sigh*… *facepalm*
They’re reenacting every single three stooges skit at once.
Oh yeah, no kidding! We must assume that they are still tripping all over themselves in a stunning display of slapstick at its best (or worst, take your pick). If they attain the most holy state of being – that of the Stooges Three (with Curly, not Shemp) the multiverse would probably implode.
However, to play devil’s advocate (or demiurges advocate? Nah, back to the devil) our perception of time may be influenced by our wait for the next installment, which always seems like forever, despite Abbadon’s incredible output, while in KSBD land, the sequence of events is pretty quick.
I mean, we already saw that he can make clones of himself…
You know how in kung fu movies the baddies attack the protagonist one by one instead of ganging up on him? They’re just following the genre logic.
is Allison even going to have a chance TO run like all the “run the fuck away” opportunities seem to keep getting interrupted by insane nonsense
To those who are curious as to why the Demiurges have not been more effective: we learned from Mottom long ago that Jagganoth has been rendered completely invulnerable. His true power here is not his offense, but his defense. Wasting big flashy energy attack moves on an opponent who can just shrug and ignore them is a loser’s move, it spends your power and leaves you open for no gain. This is the Demiurges trying to stay alive and figure out a way to deal with those needles and his invulnerability. THEN they can drop the hammer. Solomon, with his incredible speed, seems to stand the best chance of removing the nails from the monster’s flesh…but Jagganoth seems to know that and keeps batting him far away so that he can see him coming when he returns.
Fighting an enemy you can’t harm is stupid. But if you know YOU don’t have a solution, sticking around the other demiurges in the hopes one of them might have one you can capitalize on does boost your odds more than simply fleeing and leaving the others to their fate.
I would disagree. If they lack knowledge of his weaknesses, then what they need right now is more information. Probing attacks are exactly the right thing.
The sword is an ugly chunk of metal
and its adherents idiots.
anyone have any idea what those eye-like symbols floating in front of jagganoth in the last panel mean? have we seen them before?
By his shoulder and in front of his codpiece? I think they’re representations of the key in his forehead, and they hover there next to the descriptions because the key enabled him to do such sick moves.
The symbols & words that we are allowed to see but don’t appear to the others in the comic (I think, could be wrong) along with his flaming visage and “I am the absolute shit, you’d better believe it” stance, testify to his total badassness. At least that’s how I took it.
The weeping eye glyph has seen a lot of different uses in various occult traditions, but the general consensus is that it symbolizes inner pain and suffering, especially if the tears are implied to be blood. The remorse of a murderer and the inheritance of divine power and wrath ( via conflation with the plucking of the eye of Ra and the birth of Sekmet) are also popular interpretations, and would find a home here.
I think the takeaway is that Jagganoth is, while physically invulnerable, a raw wounded child on the inside. He may have taken Jantris’ power, but he lacks the art to heal the wounds Jantris left on his soul, so instead he feeds the cycle of abuse, by inflicting those wounds on others.
I think that the depth of the backstory being presented in the page text would suggest that you are right. Someone may try to connect with the inner child which against all odds still dwells in that codpiece.
I realize this isn’t the best page to ask this, but I’ve been wondering, is Incubus also using Demon Flips the Cart during this fight? The comment about the nature of his Atum used, the sweat, the red flushed appearance etc all seem consistent with that so I thought I’d ask
My guess? Yes, but he isnt using his own fire to fuel it. He’s a soul taker after all.
FORBIDDEN FORTY-TWO-POINT STRIKE: “CIVILIAN DEVASTATION ATTACK”
Well, it’ll be interesting to see how ol’ Incubus fares after this. He can’t be totally down for the count, I’d expect to see the various demiurges go out in a more dramatic fashion. Although that was pretty dramatic.
Meanwhile, Allison is tempest tossed by the general goings-on. Wonder if and/or how she’ll get her mojo back?
By losing an arm and an eye, perhaps.
Yeah, Incubus got Unfinished Bidness with a certain noodle eating swordsaint
Oh yeah, right you are. That should be epic!
I’m having track of all these titles. Jantris is the one whose storm-crowned achievement was earned slightly before choosing to invade the world with a Hokuto Shin Ken monastery, right?
Impact is apparently the font of choice for utilising divine-level martial techniques. You might even say it’s meme magic.
I was about to say something along these lines too
Truly, it seems Jagganoth has become the bone of his sword.
Sword Soul only works at full health. They need to get Jagganoth to below full health. Or maybe I’m thinking of Legend of Zelda?
Have we had a “God of the seven-part world” caption for Jagganoth anywhere yet? I couldn’t find it.
I don’t think so. I’d imagine we’ll get one towards the end of this battle scene. It seems very dramatically appropriate for it to show up once Jagganoth has truly beaten any immediate hope of defeat into a smear on the ground.
Any immediate hope of his own defeat, that is.
Well,.. I’m still not getting it.
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