BREAKER OF INFINITIES 1-30
Chapter: 1
Seal
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Kill Six Billion Demons
Seeker of Thrones
Seal
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Really young, kinda young and super old POWER!
Maiden, Mother, and Crone. The triple goddess archetype.
hekate incarnate
We’re going to lose our host to a lucrative career in anime cover-art.
I choose to pronounce that phrase as if both words rhyme with Hekate.
Saw something recently about pronouncing various words like Greek names, names like Socrates or Heracles: words like obstacles, spectacles, barnacles, tentacles, perhaps even bicycles. 😆
Brings new meaning to the legend of Bophades Testicles.
I love humorously pronouncing things incorrectly, my recent one is to always pronounce the k in kn-words, and the guh in guhnome.
In other news, if you want a fantastic greek dunk, just tell them you’ll do them like menthe, and turn a thot into toothpaste.
“Testicles shuddered and shrank low, so cold were the waters around Phallus”
Turu would tap dat ass.
Touch of The Eternal
Really looks more like maiden, mother, and corpse.
WEAPONIZED SYMBOLISM: THE TRUE ESSENCE OF MAGIC
Trickster smiles, Tryst-er smirks, Tyrant shouts.
All of you is dead.
(Meanwhile, Mammon: why do I have flowers in my head now please stop I’m a senior citizen)
…he’s going to San Francisco?
In this world
we walk on the roof of hell,
gazing at flowers.
One really should tribute Kobayashi Issa, lest mistakenly appear its author.
Woe to the one who underestimates the reality & power of the “merely” symbolic!
Don’t really see the mother part, looks more like temptress
Right! More like “Mama”, as in “one hot”
Hellooooooooo, nurse!
A bit of a MILF then? (Does Mottom even have children?)
All Mother Om’s subjects are her children.
One aspect to the Mother Goddess archetype is fertility or the Lover.
No one tell this nerd how babies are made
Maiden, Mother Om.
Puns are the highest form of humor, as they inspire rage that can kill gods.
Dance like the Maiden, love like the Mother, think like the Crone.
Or the 3 Fates, who together act as the Grim Reaper.
CUNNY!!!
Go back to /tv/.
cunny is a /v/ and /a/ word, thank you
My god.
Why yes, she is indeed your god.
Hubba wha?!
#girlboss
she’s the whole damn company
Nah, that’s Gog-Agog. :V
T-T-TRIPLE GODDESS
A Gluttonous Hecate
Oh shit son, Maiden-Mother-Crone Methodology!
Binding immortal souls? Sounds like a status move!
Dave did say their plan is to seal him n drop him in a hole outside of time.
Coming up next, K6BD: Oceans Unmoving.
Next up: Incubus does Baby Jerkass, Nips-Out Jerkass, and Wizened Jerkass
I’m looking forward to Mammon busting out the “Who says dragons can’t have hordes?” myself.
I hope Mammon likes the new flowerbed that’s on top of his head now.
Old farts are into gardening. He’s sure to love it.
I’m sure there’s a senior female dragon somewhere who would find flower-bed-head downright sexy.
He genocided the other dragons, didn’t he?
No, only his own family. There are others.
Where the shiburi on the crone version though?
MAIDEN. MOTHER. CRONE.
Alright, in fairness as this is presumably not a physical attack, it might actually have some effect?
Considering the “words of sealing” that Salami mentioned at the start of this fight, this was probably the plan all along. The others beat down on Jag to keep his attacks from hitting the sorcerers, and the sorcerers curse Jag to lock Jag away. They know they can’t actually hurt Jag, but they might be able to turn him into the Ancient Evin in a Can
So all of the big 7 apparently have some kind of uber-powerful finishing move, and now I really want to see the other 4 as well. Just for gits and shiggles, even.
Me, myself, and I
You, Me and Dupree
The good, the bad and the ugly
Maiden-Mother-Crone, yet that thread gives impression of the Fates/Norns. I like it.
They are very closely related concepts. That’s why, for example, Neil Gaiman has the Norns and the Fates and the Triple Goddess and Hecate all manifestations of the same cosmic entity.
Moirai ?
I thought that, too.
Mottom after accidentally hitting Solomon: Oh! uhh… my bad?
It’s adorable that you think Mottom would EVER apologize for dealing collateral damage. Even at the potential end of the universe. ESPECIALLY at the end of the universe.
Two comics in a row my words have failed to match their label. I have wasted the time of my fellow companions. Five, seven, five- let’s make a proper haiku this time.
A haiku.
Warm dancing flicker,
Wise rose answers bale this eve,
Wyrm respects debt due.
A ROSE FOR INVULNERABLE FOES
Trigram hell power
Chain and Sickle Blood Flower
Quick Moves to Binding.
Rayuba Trembles,
10,000 Diamond Death Blows
Shattering Armor.
For after 99
Body Slams und Incantations
Be This but Warm Up ?
Mr. J, Shrugs. “Tis GOOD,
To RECEIVE ! I PREFER TO
GIVE ! – IN WORLD SHATTERING
ABUNDANCE !”
Me thinks he didst but
Measure, the Width and Depths
of Foes for Pleasure
“TIS BUT A SCRATCH !
HO HO HO ! MET YOU YOUR MATCH !
CATCH MY JAVELIN !”
From a Distant Realm
Question Irrepressible
Who shall Draw the Nails ?
To Strip Away this
Indomitable Edge
precludes all else – Yo !
Allison and Crew
Much Preparation to Do.
BECOME FOE HAMMER.
That’s impressive
This would be the answer to “how do you kill someone that can’t be injured?”
Death has many faces. A masterful warrior knows this and lives by it. A wise one needs not remember.
Gotta keep reminding myself her true form is of a hella old crone; but goddamn is younger her a beauty.
And kid her is great at math, cooking, and wants to be a priestess!
I will dedicate this comment to the child from whom this grown-up grew. All grown-ups were once children–although few of them remember it. And so I here is my dedication:
TO NADIA OM
WHEN SHE WAS A LITTLE GIRL
A retroactive toast? What avgreat idea!
Kanpai!
All form is false and temporary.
Literally every page this comic keeps getting cooler. (and Young Nadia is such a badass. )
I have a feeling Jaggy is going ot get bound for a moment and the demiurges will breath a sigh of relief and then suddenly BONDS WERE MEANT TO BE BROKEN
That’s what a clueless hollywoodian jobber would expose us to.
Have faith (or at least hope)
It would be better if Jagganoth seems to be bound for good, but lets slip in private conversation with Allison that he’s faking and it’s all part of the plan to recruit the other demiurges.
The symbols on bottom right are missing their translation.
Something about Reaping (looks at ghost sickle)…
I don’t think we need any at the moment.
The salmon mousssse….
grand ole dragon growin weed on the noggin, mystic arts seem mighty foggin,
An’ somebody due for a badass floggin
My wig? SNATCHED after seeing this page.
This is getting out of hand, now there are three of them!
Oh shit, probably the most astonishingly gorgeous page in the comic so far, and that’s definitely something in a story like that. By the way, we have seen a similar technique performed by Allicio while battling White Chain.
That, too, seems to be a Division of Self. Probably that’s another key to the mystery of Jadis’ cover shade.
Who needs a coven when you can fill the role of Maiden, Mother and Crone all by yourself!
cute, hot, SEXY
delete this comment
you and i, we disagree about some things.
You do you, fam.
Ah, the three expressions of age.
Youth: Anger, worry, determination.
Adulthood: Confidence and seductiveness.
Old age: FUCK ALL Y’ALL MOTHERFUCKS AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA
“When I am old, I shall turn purple”.
A+
Slightly confused here. Mottom is doing some kind of eldritch macrame to bind Jagganoth … and it’s her big, signature spell … but she needed something from Jadis to do it?
Those who can win sport car races can seldom build their own car.
And vice versa.
Unless she’s had some secret upgrade in the time skip, Mottom has been spending more and more energy to stay alive every moment since Alison killed her power source. Another year and she’ll probably want one of those hellgates just to get up in the morning. . .
Stick some ginger up an old horse’s ass and it’ll prance like a foal.
The things which most define us are not independent, but rather a critical portion which stands out from the larger whole, a magnificent leader which is contrasted with the menial labors supporting it.
That is to say, when Mottom really busts out her ULTIMATE shit, she’s usually so focused on TECHNIQUE that she doesn’t really have time to spare to generate the RAW POWER that’s needed by herself. Look back at the sequence of events here: Jadis lays down the trigram, which makes a beacon of energy, and Mottom *yoinks* a small mote of that crackling energy, and now she’s WEAVING the energy into this complex spell/tapestry. I’m guessing that Mottom’d normally do this sort of thing when she has a lot of prep time and/or a massive cabal of army sorcerers supporting her, and Jadis’s obscene amount of power/expertise is a convenient replacement for all that.
Also: a basic principle of both sorcery & martial arts (not normal boring Earth martial arts, I mean the really interesting kind we see here) is that you can tell how special, significant, and really high-level something is by checking the number of words in its name. Which do you think is more special here, Preem Fragments The Universe: Jadis’ “Six Hells Trigram” or Mottom’s “Blood Flower Curse: Binding of Immortal Souls [translation unknown]”?
Binding magic, the obvious counter to an invincible opponent. But Jagganoth in our world isn’t the god of invincibility, he’s the god of unstoppability. . .
To trap an unstoppable being, simply place them an infinite distance from oneself.
Or else move yourself so the distance between you remains constant.
Since in this case “being unstoppable” means no barrier can hinder them from traversing a distance, not that nothing can prevent them doing anything, since the latter is omnipotence, and Jagganoth is not omnipotent. Let him be unstoppable… somewhere else.
Unless one considers the infinite distance itself to be a barrier. Could the Juggernaut then not smash through it?
Thricefold Mother presenteth before thee,
Pulling thread of thy fate,
Judgement cometh thy way
Swift and merciless
I have never been so scared of a girl scout before. I bet she always sold all her cookies to the first house she went to, because they didn’t dare turn her away.
Dayumn, Mother Mottom has got dat BOTTOM!
GLORY TO WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE!
And Nadia /finally/ reveals why it was /she/ who managed to become one of the seven.
Power has a beauty all of its own.
Raising the worrying thought that the Seven might have been _chosen_ — by Zoss? By the angels? By Himself, through extreme subtlety? — just so that they balance each other perfectly and six can always defeat one.
I suppose if you have universe-changing powers, it doesn’t actually matter if you have any intelligence to rule anything as long as you can defeat other powerful entities. Maintaining existence is more important than a few kingdoms of replacable mortals.
Solomon is really who impresses me most of the demiurges so far because he’s thoughtful and deliberate and patient and prideful and ideologically driven and so many things that can only get in the way of the naked will, the determination to dominate and kill, the continuous cutting motion. And he’s apparently still pretty well matched with them.
Those who seek and seize power are never worthy of it.
Is this half of a two-page spread?
This is getting really monotonous.
This is getting really Mottominous.
I cannot even imagine the kind of personality you have have to where THIS is monotonous. Might as well skip the entire book, battles like this are probably going to be common going forward.
Yeah it’s monotonous, so much awesomeness every page.
Let’s go back to some excitation, like the physically impervious guy* roflstomping everything elese in a totally unexpected way.
* in any other comic, I would have called Jagg a Marty Sue as soon as I heard about his Word-of-God-absolute-physical-unbreakability. Not so here.
I’m loving the book but I get the complaint. As amazing as this fight is, someone who got hooked on the incredible world-building and awesome character-development and evolution of relationships prior to the tournament, has pretty much been left in the cold for the finale. The closest we have to personal growth is a few sociopaths realizing they’re about to die if they don’t cooperate for the moment, and the constant “flashy move with accompanying text” is somewhat one-noted; you either dig it, or you don’t.
Abbadon mentioned the fight would be roughly 50 pages long.
My understanding is that the rest of the book would mostly not be a succession of fighting scenes.
It would be completely anticlimactic if a battle between such powerful characters ended up being quick and dull.
These complaints fail to realize how complicated is to release a comic with one page every two or three days. To manage expectations and deliver the story you want at such a slow pace is really challenging, and I believe Abbadon is really adept at it.
There is school of thought which says things should start off slowly, build up, and then end quickly, johakyū, but one does not believe our author has structured his opus this way. The demiurge battle is beautifully crafted but can indeed be painfully slow compared to all the dialogue, relationships and intricate world-building and lore we were spoiled with earlier, and especially in this publishing format.
Another structure is introduction, development, crux/twist/realisation, then dénouement/conclusion, which Japan knows as kishōtenketsu, more familiar to western scribes as a U-shaped pattern, and that dramatic structure better fits this epic tome.
One might expect such a great battle to be the finale, in a lesser work it may have been, but Allison has not yet had her epiphany or anagnorisis and come to fully inhabit her power, so, hard as it is to believe, we have not even reached the bottom of the U in the tale yet; this last book could perhaps have been more than just one.
One very much imagines we shall have another feast for our neurons as well as our eyes, as we climb up the other side of the U towards that ‘ketsu’, with Allison, the Demiurges, Metatron and the tempest of angels, joining us. And maybe even Himself with a cup of tea and a biscuit.
NOT ENOUGH WORDS!
Shes her very own Maiden, Mother, Crown coven.
I really want that last panel as a print. Looks amaaazing!
Wrestling nurse
flail and curse
time makes it worse.
And there it is. A win condition at last
Well, now that last panel would make a swell wallpaper
Oh, so she can do *that*. OK.
The Fates / Triple Goddess reference is cool, and I definitely didn’t see it coming.
Thank God for this comic
triple mottom…mottottottom
Nadia.
Nadia, we love you, and you look GREAT, and we’re really happy you’re getting your Groove Back after that ungrateful little wretch tap-danced on your feelings like that. You know we’ll always support you, no matter what you decide to do.
But, um. It seems to us you are tying yourself, or some portion of yourself, to the Red God? And he’s, like…huge? Is this wise? Because we’d hate to see your Glory reduced to…well, to a yo-yo, Nadia.
I’m pretty down for some celestial shibari
Triple Goddess.
Young Mattom seems so powerful and full of pride. I know in my heart she was so vibrant and kind. Shame.
Agreed! Child Mottom had so much potential…
;_;
Motton went from 0 to Glorious in the span of 5 pages
Guess you needed to see her bad side to know how brilliant she could shine
“Blood Flower Curse”?
Can’t believe they’re gonna beat Jaggy with menstruation.
It looks like the Mother weaving the restraints and the the Maiden and Crone deploying them. So are they maybe … baby reins? To capture the scared child inside the Red God?
Triple Goddess
Ah, some of that old time triple-goddess dancing nekkid in the flowers under a pale full moon kinda witchcraft. A true classic.
Measure. Bind. CUT!
Everybody is letting loose with their special moves!
Jagganoth may be invulnerable but even immortals can be bound; a life sentence would be infinitely torturous for such a being. So, he will be imprisoned. I suspect Allison will eventually realise he must be freed.
(or maybe he’ll just fuck everyone up now to save time)
Everyone has such flashy moves I can’t wait for Alison’s “Literally I’m Just Going to Punch Him in the Face”
Well, it’s a simple strategy. But simplicity is beauty, beauty is truth and truth is divine, so it tracks all in all.
Crusty old bag sure was hot when she was younger
this fifth book is fucking insane
The binding spell is in the form of a kusarigama, which is a challenging weapon-spell to use/cast/manifest, but I would imagine that the magical powers are compressed to pierce at the start and to bludgeon at the end.
Regardless, it always leaves the target a gory mess.
Scrappy kid, sultry queen, unhinged grandma
Mottom: Skilled but not chock full of raw power.
Finally gets to cut loose.
But she kept a flying city afloat for millenia by willpower alone! I don’t don’t even have enough willpower to skip dessert.
Elves in socks, and the bestest of kids. You can’t pull this off in a house of many.
Imagine the last panel as a big poster on your wall… Glorious!
This is feeling heavily foreshadowed. Ages ago (or just yesterday, depending on your frame of reference), Allicio was in a stalemated fight with White Chain.
And, to go forward, she forged her righteous anger into a new weapon.
And she aligned her will, and the three parts of herself.
And she blew her foe halfway to the void.
And still she lost the battle, but many hearts were changed and many wonders seen.
And now I’m on the edge of my seat, waiting for some outcome more profound than simple martial glory.
This page is exceedingly epic, and now we have three, count ’em, three demi-urges working together. Four if you count Salami Dave’s recent contribution. Whoa, a quorum!
But I’m thinking whatever they lay on Jaggy-bones isn’t going to hold him down for long.
The only ones we’re missing are Master of Vascularity Inky and the ubiquitous wormy one, Gog-A-Gog. She acts like a ding-a-ling but there’s a certain “everywhere-ness” to the conquerer worm. What would HER signature move be? Or maybe “moves”, ‘cos there’d be a whole lotta wiggling goin’ on.
And I gotta think, no way this is the grand finale, folks. This battle may continue for 50 pages, but based on our experience thus far, I expect all sorts of adventure after, and/or as a result of, the current smackdown.
It’s all holding me waiting for another panel all the time. But i kinda miss Cio and others already.
Maiden, Mother (Om), and Crone
Jokes aside, I am LOVING this chapter. Evil as they are, seeing the demiurges work together, seeing their full abilities on display AND flow together so seamlessly, is so fantastic. I can’t wait to see how it goes horribly wrong
Interestingly, Gog-Agog hasn’t done anything yet. And on the cover of this book she looked distinctly unhappy, as if things hadn’t gone her way at all. Plus, why did Jadis impale her on that icicle at a moment when they were all needed to fight Jagganoth? That icicle was the longest that grew out of Jadis’ crystal, and it went straight through Gog-Agog, like Jadis did that on purpose. Considering that Jadis is said to know everything, does she know something about the Conquering Worm we don’t?
The icicle was comedic effect on the part of Gog-Agog, probably purposeful impalement. If she actually wanted off, she could’ve just…. flowed off of it. We’ve seen her dissolve into worms before, and frankly, if you’re not powerful enough to de-impale yourself, what kind of Demiurge are you?
Part of me wonders if she’s up to something right now, like gathering enough Gog in one place to actually be useful. Or maybe she’s just utterly useless in a fight, and only became one of the seven through being practically unkillable and being able to steal keys via worming their holders. Though, I’m skeptical of that, since Abbadon personally confirmed that Gog is 3rd place on the Demiurge tier list, after Jagganoth and Solomon.