BREAKER OF INFINITIES 1-30
Chapter: 1
Seal
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Kill Six Billion Demons
BREAKER OF INFINITIES
Seal
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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