You’re half right, I’d have absolutely no issue with this if it was written a bit better is all. I’m pretty sure my classmate said most of what Allison’s sayin’ back in my polish class when we were 16.
Lmao what kind of highschool did you go to? Not even the most nerdy and lonely kids in my HS said anything close to that. Maybe Canadian highschool is different from where you went to school?
With Cio dead and Jadis representing Sloth, this is the perfect place for Allison’s depressed ‘I can’t do this, I can’t change anything’ arc.
The problem is we’ve already had that arc twice already. It’s boring now.
I see a small problem here Alison. What if Jaggy has been trying to make his better world for each and every cycle, and killing Metatron *that* is actually what hits the big fat reset button. What if this isn’t the first time he’s had this idea?
But nothing changes, the world recycles into exactly the big fat crap sack it was before.
Since he had the advantage of, you know, access to training/ being informed about what the fuck is happening? People hold WAY too much of a grudge over the slightly awkward sex dynamic at the start. Here? He’s basically giving every sign that he IS the right successor. Probably going to get flipped again- Allison hasn’t come this far to become cheerleader girl, not least with the key in her head still- but as of right now, Zaid’s giving a good account of himself.
Well he’s had 3 years to be a placeholder protagonist for whatever is left of the crew while Allison has been on vacation. Plus he can change, already has since his kidnapping.
Alison should read the Gita. Inaction is still action. Zaid is right, Alison needs to keep moving forward. That doesn’t have to involve being a badass in chainmail with a sword, though.
Sadly Alison has bought into the hype being sold by, well, EVERYONE else in the setting; that the Key of Kings, and Royalty in general IS violence.
Also I must say, Zaid has come a very long way despite little screentime and starting the comic as an absolute fuckboy.
A chain mail bikini would be a good look though. Nobody would seriously expect you to enter battle dressed like that. Don’t turn down good outfits, even if they are clichéd.
Funny, I was thinking of that lesson from the Gita as well.
Alison has only been shown violence as a way to achieve royalty, the irony is that in by achieving royalty violence becomes irrelevant.
I was there once, not to long ago. Believing I had made my own choices when I was nothing but a whipped dog. You’ll listen to anyone who beats you into submission, through body or mind.
Jadis may play the part of healer and teacher, but she hasn’t learned anything of the wheel aside from how to wield it for violence.
Zaid did not train hard enough facing the ennui of the internet-dweller on his Earth. I don’t know what fraction of people are afflicted with it here and now, but too many. Far too many.
Allison is tired of fighting. But Zaid can swing a sword and break bones and kill, as well as Allison. So she doesn’t need to fight that way. Instead, Allison can fight in a way no one else can. I wonder how long it will take her to realize that.
Going from literally fused to both waifus to maidenless, emaciated, and omniscient during the apocalypse is a rough two years. Zoss doesn’t understand.
So basically current Zaid is buffed up Allisson version from past who got a taste of being strong one and trained for it.
We saw that version of Allisson thought everything can be solved when she goes forward into unknown and we saw what that got her, Cio killed, WC possibly too, and her getting nihilistic pill from Jadis that it doesn’t matter what she will do she can’t change fate she was given and the outcome it comes with.
What Zaid can really say to change that? That she can bring dead people to life she lost? Despite everything if they will want to go against Jag and his armies there will bne enormous bloodshed, the only way to go would be if they destroyed the wheel before Jag would go out of his prison, and by destroying the wheel they would make all keys useless and powers coming from them finally making everyone fate free. But again that result too will end in some fight and bloodshed cause that is in human and other creatures nature as conflict goes. That will never end.
We see it in our times when one guy starts a war basically no one knows why just to throw whole world into frenzy.
All are broken by the wheel
It is not a choice to be broken
the choice is in the attempt to break the wheel
In failure, a small defiance, unnoticed by the rim.
In Success, Royalty.
All things are hard until they are easy.
It’s probably just stylistic artifacts, but I see each of the five demiurges that opposed Jagganoth (everybody except Incubus, who pre-B of I was “allied” to him. Notably mammon doesn’t get an expression, just an argument) in Allison’s expressions and speech.
1. First panel, Allison is Solomon. She doesn’t need help, her reasons are her own but you should trust her because she’s right, and the lighting brings squareness to her cheekbones. She walks away, head held level.
2.Panel 6 brings us back to Mottom’s palace, to the childlike pleading/pouting/shouting posture that both kid Allison and kid Mottom used a bit. Her argument is even calling back to Mottom’s past (they don’t want me for me, they want me for my hair/my violence)
3. Right after, panel 7 is Jadis, as some people have noted. We know that smile from just a little bit ago. Here she resigns herself to fate as Jadis has.
4. The deadpan wide-eyed insanity in panel ten echoes Gog-Agog, and if you look closely the motives behind this argument are similar, if a bit of a stretch. Insanity is replaced by a hyperbole, but forced violence when she just wants to chill is the core similarity.
5. And finally, we get Mammon in the last two panels. Things used to have value for him, but they no longer do. Wistful reminiscence is a pretty Mammon emotion, so I’ll call it a half point for facial expression.
Duplicate the wheel, make a bicycle.
This brings memories about a video called Father and Daughter, from Dudok de Wit
:'(
Glad to see the highschool nihilism arc is still going.
Is it highschool Nihlism or did Allison watch her girlfriend get chopped to pieces, lose two of her limbs and see everyone around his get killed?
I think Allison has earned this nihlism and its a good change of pace from her absolute overconfidence in every other book.
You’re half right, I’d have absolutely no issue with this if it was written a bit better is all. I’m pretty sure my classmate said most of what Allison’s sayin’ back in my polish class when we were 16.
Lmao what kind of highschool did you go to? Not even the most nerdy and lonely kids in my HS said anything close to that. Maybe Canadian highschool is different from where you went to school?
With Cio dead and Jadis representing Sloth, this is the perfect place for Allison’s depressed ‘I can’t do this, I can’t change anything’ arc.
The problem is we’ve already had that arc twice already. It’s boring now.
The beards match! The facts don’t lie!
Everyone’s ragging on Allison with their left hand, forgetting they used the right one to whack off to Meti’s handbook.
I see a small problem here Alison. What if Jaggy has been trying to make his better world for each and every cycle, and killing Metatron *that* is actually what hits the big fat reset button. What if this isn’t the first time he’s had this idea?
But nothing changes, the world recycles into exactly the big fat crap sack it was before.
Allison I don’t think you can stand on a pile of corpses while limbless.
Not with that attitude.
since when does Zaid do anything, let alone have a noble cause?
Since he had the advantage of, you know, access to training/ being informed about what the fuck is happening? People hold WAY too much of a grudge over the slightly awkward sex dynamic at the start. Here? He’s basically giving every sign that he IS the right successor. Probably going to get flipped again- Allison hasn’t come this far to become cheerleader girl, not least with the key in her head still- but as of right now, Zaid’s giving a good account of himself.
On the one hand, it would be narratively unsatisfying to suddenly go “Yep it was Zaid all along; later Allison!’
On the other hand, the uproar would be hilarious.
Well he’s had 3 years to be a placeholder protagonist for whatever is left of the crew while Allison has been on vacation. Plus he can change, already has since his kidnapping.
I remember Jadis dropping some pretty nasty magic during the fight with Jagganoth for someone who’s “harmless.”
Jadis never actually attacked Jagganoth at any point in the fight, all she did is ice his arrows and buff Mottom.
Fuck yeah! Break up Jadis’ head games!!!
Tis always darkest before the dawn.
Hurts to see Allison at such a brutally low point, but these pages have been absolutely killer in ambience (these CAMERA angles…)
that’s a raw as fuck quote I wonder for how long has Abaddon been waiting to use it
Alison should read the Gita. Inaction is still action. Zaid is right, Alison needs to keep moving forward. That doesn’t have to involve being a badass in chainmail with a sword, though.
Sadly Alison has bought into the hype being sold by, well, EVERYONE else in the setting; that the Key of Kings, and Royalty in general IS violence.
Also I must say, Zaid has come a very long way despite little screentime and starting the comic as an absolute fuckboy.
A chain mail bikini would be a good look though. Nobody would seriously expect you to enter battle dressed like that. Don’t turn down good outfits, even if they are clichéd.
Funny, I was thinking of that lesson from the Gita as well.
Alison has only been shown violence as a way to achieve royalty, the irony is that in by achieving royalty violence becomes irrelevant.
I was there once, not to long ago. Believing I had made my own choices when I was nothing but a whipped dog. You’ll listen to anyone who beats you into submission, through body or mind.
Jadis may play the part of healer and teacher, but she hasn’t learned anything of the wheel aside from how to wield it for violence.
Oh Allison. Jadis is *very* effectively preventing you from leaving.
Zaid’s toughest boss yet: an un-dead emotional vampire that can’t leave it’s coffin.
Zaid did not train hard enough facing the ennui of the internet-dweller on his Earth. I don’t know what fraction of people are afflicted with it here and now, but too many. Far too many.
Allison is tired of fighting. But Zaid can swing a sword and break bones and kill, as well as Allison. So she doesn’t need to fight that way. Instead, Allison can fight in a way no one else can. I wonder how long it will take her to realize that.
Well look, if you’re not gonna use that key, at least let him pry it out of your forehead…
“She is harmless”
Hahahahahahaha!
In a way she is now more broken than she was when she lost the fight.
Going from literally fused to both waifus to maidenless, emaciated, and omniscient during the apocalypse is a rough two years. Zoss doesn’t understand.
Ah she’s been doompilled
So basically current Zaid is buffed up Allisson version from past who got a taste of being strong one and trained for it.
We saw that version of Allisson thought everything can be solved when she goes forward into unknown and we saw what that got her, Cio killed, WC possibly too, and her getting nihilistic pill from Jadis that it doesn’t matter what she will do she can’t change fate she was given and the outcome it comes with.
What Zaid can really say to change that? That she can bring dead people to life she lost? Despite everything if they will want to go against Jag and his armies there will bne enormous bloodshed, the only way to go would be if they destroyed the wheel before Jag would go out of his prison, and by destroying the wheel they would make all keys useless and powers coming from them finally making everyone fate free. But again that result too will end in some fight and bloodshed cause that is in human and other creatures nature as conflict goes. That will never end.
We see it in our times when one guy starts a war basically no one knows why just to throw whole world into frenzy.
All are broken by the wheel
It is not a choice to be broken
the choice is in the attempt to break the wheel
In failure, a small defiance, unnoticed by the rim.
In Success, Royalty.
All things are hard until they are easy.
It’s probably just stylistic artifacts, but I see each of the five demiurges that opposed Jagganoth (everybody except Incubus, who pre-B of I was “allied” to him. Notably mammon doesn’t get an expression, just an argument) in Allison’s expressions and speech.
1. First panel, Allison is Solomon. She doesn’t need help, her reasons are her own but you should trust her because she’s right, and the lighting brings squareness to her cheekbones. She walks away, head held level.
2.Panel 6 brings us back to Mottom’s palace, to the childlike pleading/pouting/shouting posture that both kid Allison and kid Mottom used a bit. Her argument is even calling back to Mottom’s past (they don’t want me for me, they want me for my hair/my violence)
3. Right after, panel 7 is Jadis, as some people have noted. We know that smile from just a little bit ago. Here she resigns herself to fate as Jadis has.
4. The deadpan wide-eyed insanity in panel ten echoes Gog-Agog, and if you look closely the motives behind this argument are similar, if a bit of a stretch. Insanity is replaced by a hyperbole, but forced violence when she just wants to chill is the core similarity.
5. And finally, we get Mammon in the last two panels. Things used to have value for him, but they no longer do. Wistful reminiscence is a pretty Mammon emotion, so I’ll call it a half point for facial expression.
You’re right! Wow. Abaddon is just putting SO much thought into this story! He keeps surprising us!
Excellent analysis.