KING OF SWORDS 10-145
Chapter: 10
“Chief among the concerns of any code of punishment is that it is important for the executed to have dignity. A man’s death must be treated with reverence and not treated at some soiled thing. It therefore transforms from a wrongdoing into a spectacle.”
– Au Vam, Pankrator of Vesh
Hell Yeah
He was feeling a chill, and decided to put the robe back on. (And laundry isn’t a concern, and Angels don’t bleed.)
Such beautiful clothes Solomon wears. I wonder how they would look coated in Defeat?
Mud. You mean coated in mud.
Or a mud-like substance.
I got mud on my bum once.
Big if true
That’s not so hard to believe.
Even I have been knocked on my ass a few times. Once in six distinct planes of reality.
Kick him in the dick white chain!
That sounds like a good way for a brother-I mean sister to get her foot shattered.
Is a diamond harder than the alloy of Law, Oblivion, and Humanity?
The alloy of law is great, though at times I fear it is a lost metal.
Forgive her for the dick-kicking she is about to inflict.
Amen.
A question to consider: what hurt would be more humiliating to inflict upon he who considers himself untouchable? A kick to the genitals, or a kick to that expertly braided beard? (a rather phallic symbol in itself, and possibly hiding a second set of genitals; we cannot be certain).
I posit that White Chain should go for the beard first, I wish to know if the rumors of the hidden chin salami are true.
Beneath Solomon’s beard is Chuck Norris, staring back at you. Beneath Chuck Norris’s beard? Chuck Norris. It’s Chuck Norrises all the way down.
I DON’T KNOW YOU!!!
The theatrics of imperial hubris look like a weighty crown.
Shiny, though.
It would seem, my dear, that the pride presented is not far from earned. Is it as great a sin, to boast, if you speak the truth, than if your lips seep lies?
A tyrant only finds honor when his head is on the gibbet.
Gotta hand it to him, dude can really put on a show.
Their robes shift. Calm before a gale of death. Clad in ivory, azure & amethyst flames flicker in eyes that have seen the passing of eons. Divinity challenged by the devout. How will Ki Rata display its mastery over the art of annihilation. Will the angel fly into the realms of legend. The clash looms.
yeah white chain def feeling honorable right now, just gonna fight with honor cause she’s just in that sort of mood, for sure
I would say that only White Chain is ready to fight with honor, for she alone is ready to die for what she believes in.
i see what you’re saying
i just think her little lesson from allison is going to be put to use here
she going to cheat, because she respect her opponent’s strength
GET HIS ASS
Now that you mention it, SOLOMON GOT BACK
ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD
her feet are missing bandages in the first panel.
OOPS!
And panel 5. not as noticable but you should see the bandage from that angle i think.
If they walked to the centre of the platform from their opposite sides to meet, then both should also be in shadow from the suspended canopy.
Their shadows also appear to lengthen as the comic page goes on. Either those suns move really fast, Rayuba has a REALLY fast rotation, or Solomon is mentally shifting them so that one of them would appear to be just above his head from White Chains point of view.
Have to remember that there’s some potentially impossible astrophysics happening here.
Salami’s bin a tad distracted wi summat, an’ ‘is astromechanicking gone a bit loo-lah.
Even the angels are said to be skilled in the secret art of CLOTHES BEAM
Well, Cio can magic up clothes at her convenience, so I’d imagine White Chain could too.
Also on the previous page her left hand was shown being bandaged. In third panel on this page, no bandages.
Implying the existence of a REVERSE CLOTHES BEAM!
It occurs to me that we’ve spent a lot of time looking at character’s feet lately, vis-a-vis footwear, or the lack thereof.
Abaddon did say early on that he hates drawing feet.
Minor detail for Abaddon — White Chain’s feet are bare in the first frame, then wrapped in the third frame. FWIW, I think bare is more bad-ass.
Also, Solomon’s key momentarily turned blue in panel 3. Just pointing it out for the final check before printing this book n.n
That’s just highlight.
Yeah, in other panels, the key is blue in the center with purple on the outside, kind of like a refractory effect or something.
Our Sun looks yellow or red depending on the time of day due to atmosphere scattering the light we get. When viewed directly from outer space, it’s white.
Aye an the sky en’t blue.
“Honorable means I flatten you at normal speeds so that my subjects can see the play by play.”
“I see.”
“If you look like you’re about to win, trust me, you’re not.”
“I get it, I get it.”
“You are so thoroughly boned you-”
“Please just kill me right now.”
Solomon is a gentleman, and will certainly give White Chain cab fare back to the void.
I find it impossible to dislike Solomon David. I feel like he has been honourable this entire time, even despite White Chain’s reasons for fighting him.
He has put a lot of effort into *looking* honorable, but if you pay attention he has slighted others at every turn, often in subtle but noticeable ways.
Just in this scene alone, look at how they’re dressed. He has forced White Chains out of her monk’s garb into a gi that is more befitting his style. What’s more, hers is unadorned and ill fitting, while his is immaculately tailored and subtly patterned. The entire spectacle is designed to make her look like his lesser, not due to his superior skill, but how she has been positioned.
If he were truly honorable, she would be wearing garb that represents her order, rather than his, and of equivalent make. Even before that, he would not have turned the tournament into an impromptu battle royal.
Left hand fist, right hand palm – the salute for a male should be the reverse. Is that a subtle slur to his opponent? Or is Solomon cack-handed?
Ah. It’s the salute he should do at a funeral.
@Epsilon Rose: The impromptu battle royale was an attempt to fix the subtle yet not so subtle (the clearly mismatched fight with Eris Lo-Kai certainly gave it away) match fixing that Gog Agog attempted in Allisons favor.
Also, I believe what you’re observing with the clothes is what’s meant and implied by the alt text.
It’s probably a political skill he has honed over the centuries.
Playing Black Flame’s Advocate for a moment, giving someone robes “befitting his style”, specifically Ki’Rata, could easily be construed as a gesture of immense respect.
I have little reason to believe it to be true HERE, but nonetheless, the Wheel has born witness to 108 stranger things since I started uttering this sentence.
If honour is making sacrifices to do the right thing, how can Sol be honourable? he has sacrificed nothing – he is an immortal god emperor who has modelled thousands of worlds after himself. Everything he is currently doing, he enjoys because it feeds his ego.
I actually think that of the demiurges we have seen, he is by far the worst as a person. The nicest to be ruled by, but what a *dick*
“If you can’t be polite, you can’t be anything.”
– said by a homeless person I know
He’s mastered that, if nothing else.
Politeness is a shallow social guise and indicates little enough of the wearer’s character to be practically meaningless. As stated by Sando Thrabe of the Leaf Sniffer Guild in their autobiography (accurately titled Sando Thrabe of the Leaf Sniffer Guild):
“The politest being I ever met was a Goblin merchant. When he greeted me, he recited the nine strictures of meeting from memory, and proceeded to bow deeply and insist upon washing my feet as a gesture of goodwill. By the time he had finished, all the while praising my purported good looks and impressive reputation, his henchmen had robbed me blind.
He apologized profusely as he vacated the premises.”
Aye thums’ll be fae ‘Mendax an Mendax Goblin Merchants o bestsome quality used an nearly new’. Bignose Sando muss be offgoin if’n him nae sniffoot thums tricksy lads.
None of the Seven are such unpleasant people to live under, so long as you are willing to bend the knee, slay the innocent, and pay your tithes to an indifferent god of cruelty.
Solomon just hides those requirements behind a veil of pageantry and paperwork.
I don’t see any of the civilians watching being forced to stab random commoners to death.
Gog-Agog reports that it is absolutely wonderful to live under the benevolent leadership of Gog-Agog! This is fortunate, since that is pretty much the only thing that lives under Gog-Agog; the assimilation is total…
Heed well the words of Au Vam. What you see here isn’t honor, but a cruelty of such ancient magnitude that you have been blinded to it.
It’s time to d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-duel!
Salami Dave summons Blue-Eyes White Dragon!
Salami Dave is my new favorite thing, thank you for that.
Alas, I cannot take credit as it was another soul who came up with it but it is an excellent name indeed.
3 of them, in one turn.
because screw the rules, he’s the Emperor.
“As the challenged, I dictate the method of the duel. I declare….combat by foot massage!”
Chaos!
Pandemonium!
This was unheard of, an outrage!
Gog sat back sipping a mint julep that Gog had purloined and handed to Gog for Gog.
It was going to be one of THOSE days.
I am half-expecting White Chain to turn around only for Allison to slam the Key of Keys into her forehead.
Oh, I thought the attendants were taking his robe off…
Provided this doesn’t end in Solomon’s patented one-shot technique, of course, I predict that this battle will take nine… no, let me say ten strokes. Three to test, two to confirm. Four to press, and then the final blow that grants victory.
Yeah, the rules of narration dictate that it won’t be a one-shot punch or whatever, but Abbadon probably won’t draw it out like the Alicio-White Chain fight.
The rules of drama say he will take one more hit than he intends to. A ever so slight chip in his armor of fear.
And what a lovely sound it may be. The sound of the Impossible striking home, the one-in-a-trillion chance manifesting in real-space. The Doom-driven RNG… making itself known to those that think they have surpassed such concepts.
*TINK!* How very interesting.
Quite like Incubus taking that face scratch from Allison in one of her dreams.
Oh? You’re approaching me?
I can’t beat the shit out of you without getting closer.
“To Be Continued”
*YES – ROUNDABOUT INTENSIFIES*
My cup has run dry.
Perhaps friend White Chain can find a drop to quench my thirst?
White for striking, blood and piss
Colours progress. Analysis?
Ooh, and that’s a bad miss
And the fans go wild with ardor
Gorge on combat-sport palaver
Take another swig of lager
To quote a pre-fight ritual from a small and often overlooked world within the wheel: Let´s get ready to ruuuuuuumble!
‘I Will Go to the place where Gilgamesh Lords it over the people,
I Will Challenge him Boldly, and I will Cry Aloud in Uruk,
“I Have Come to Change the Old Order,
For I Am The Strongest Here !” ‘
~ Enkidu,
The Epic of Gilgamesh
“Game recognize game.”
Somehow, I doubt that this will end *quite* the same way as it did for good old Gil and Enki though.
Gil and *Enkidu*.
Enki — “Lord Ki”, meaning Lord of the Earth — was a Sumerian god. In KSBD terms he’s possibly a demiurge or one of the Multiplicity, remembered. I prefer to think of him as a demiurge, as I have in mind a disturbing story concerning Enki and the people of Throne.
Enkidu — possibly meaning “Creation of Enki”, or “Beloved of Enki” — and Gilgamesh were men. In KSDB, one could retcon Gilgamesh as a junior demiurge and Enkidu as an emissary.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu, occupying a place called “Throne”, which stands above all other realities…
For some reason, my memory stirs. Calling back to a distant Night related to…Fate? Ah, the memory did not Stay.
Can Salami Dave even hit the insubstantial form of a released Angel?
Pretty sure energy projection is within his arsenal.
Alicio didn’t have a problem stopping the blows of released White Chain once she realized the pattern, which is always essential in a boss battle.
Though I suppose you mean fully released, like no armor to attach to. Well, they’re supposed to explode in a ball of fire if that happens (unless there’s a difference between igneous and liquid angels in that situation), but we’ll see.
He’s quite a cheeky bastard, I daresay.
Love the gorgeous light of Rayuba, as always.
Remember that this light flows from two stolen suns, which he pillaged to replace the one his predecessor destroyed.
It’s easy to see this as a benevolent act of healing, unless you remember that he actually doubled the number of sunless worlds, with this act.
I don’t think it was said anywhere that he stole them, merely that ‘he put them there’.
Indeed. And even if he had, there are FAR more stars than their are planets actively or even potentially safe for any form of non-Angelic/Devilish life.
Never before appreciated just how large the man is.
Damn.
Never seen him before next to anybody for whom we know the height. Abaddon said that WC is 6’1″ IIRC.
Gog Agog got the “jolly green” part, Solomon got the “giant”
Wait until you see her in her World Devourer form.
The fact white chains gi is not a clean white like Solomon’s isn’t exactly subtle of him.
He’s not a subtle man.
Jokes on him. You can’t beat a tasteful off-white.
S-tier vs X-tier.
Place your bets!
Holy fight!!!
I hope this fight can be fantastic and unparalleled!
Good luck, White Chain.
This show down is going to be wild, I just know it.
That third panel. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Salami Dave’s arrogance pictured any better. Abaddon’s become incredibly good at his art!
BTW, I hope White Chain has some other idea than simply attacking SD like she always does, because that’s not going to work against a Demiurge. When White Chain tried it against Mottom, she swatted our favourite angel like a fly. White Chain didn’t even make a distraction to Mother Om, and Solomon Dave seems a lot more dangerous than Mottom!
I wonder if she had any coaching from Vigilant Gaze? Though probably the best he could do here are words of encouragement and imparting whatever knowledge on Ki Rata that he has.
The whole knowledge of the fourth syllable of royalty may become a chekovs gun here.
Yes, the 4th symbol along with so many other hanging threads: Nyave/Zed/Princess, Gog-Agog, Vigilant Gaze, Incubus… my curiosity overfloweth.
I don’t see Nyave, Zaid, Princess, or Vigilant Gaze doing anything, they’re spectators here as much as Allison and Cio are. Gog Agog and Incubus are more plausible, but even a predator knows when to lie in wait (and Solomon has probably put a special watch for the remainder of the tournament on Gog Agog in case they try something) and Incubus can only do so much with the dream state, besides, he seems more like the subtle cloak and dagger type. Even then, he knows better than to attack Solomon directly.
No, I don’t think the hanging threads waiting to be pulled are going to be from them. It could also come from a completely unexpected direction, for all we know.
Incubus is pretty much played out at this stage, since Allison no longer trusts him. Apart from petty acts of cruelty, he’s just noisy toilet paper. Incubus has just one major move left: goad Jagganoth into an early and dramatic attack. J. is scary enough when he’s calm, and I hate to think how he would do if he really lost his temper.
If there’s a narrative need to interrupt the duel between Solomon and White Chain, Jagganoth gating in would certainly do it.
Don’t forget that Incubus was a pupil of Meti, just like auntie Maya. Presumably he’s pretty good with the sword, so, more dangerous than noisy toilet paper.
True, but his plan so far has basically involved getting Allison to ‘mess shit up’. He wants a fight, but doesn’t want to be the one who instigates the whole thing. Even if he could give Solomon a serious challenge one-on-one, attacking him directly doesn’t fit his MO that we’ve seen so far.
Noisy toilet paper, I like that, heh.
A footstep-
A moon cracked
A knuckle popped-
Another dimension shuddered
Bare movement on a cosmic scale-
lives disrupted across a dozen separate worlds—
all from two walking towards a war
In addition to her feet missing the bandages/linen strips in the first panel, she’s also missing the bandage/linen strips that was on her left hand and possibly the one that went all the way down her left wrist. Though it’s also plausible that those two craftsmen were removing the linen rather than applying it.
If that werer the case, sholdn’t therer have been a small pile of discarded bandages under her hand in the previous page? Sorry, this bandage thing is kind of getting to me.
White Chain has trained and fought with the True Key Master, however inexperienced she is.
Now how do they know Salami Dave isn’t a John Carpenter’s Thing From Another World in disguise? White Chain should do a blood test!
Gog Agog already has the ‘shapeshifting monster’ bit covered
Solomon is nothing if not polite.
He going to cheat isn’t he?
Why would he cheat?
He’s guaranteed to win in a fair fight.
His morals might be a bit fake, but his strength is unquestionably real.
Hrmm… Do you think he bleeds purple blood? Heh, growing up, my ol’ Pops always told me “there’s no such thing as a fair fight”.
“Kick him in the dick white chain!”
~ Jim
A fair fight? Solomon’s actual words were, “an honorable duel.” Not the same thing at all, to a tyrant. One begs leave to doubt Solomon has any real interest in fairness.
Ahem. Yisun Atru Vayam, forgive White Chain for this crushingly painful ball stomping she is about to inflict.
I don’t think Solly is stompable. Scratchable maybe.
Abbadon did a really good job making Salami Dave’s face ooze condescension in this scene.
As is known, one should never trust a man who asks or declares an honorable duel. Honorable duels do not exist, except in the definitions of the winner. Worse yet is when it is a spectacle.
“Anything and everything is a weapon.”
his boss battle weak point is obviously his beard
The irony of Dave offering an honourable is that he may have been the most duplicitous of the demiurges we know of. He may seem upright and just. But he was able to hide his nature from his masters while the world he loved burned to nothing, and then turn around and destroy them.
That’s the kind of deception it took for him to gain power.
What do you think he will do to keep it?
Actually, from the background story (Incubus’s telling of it anyway), it sounded like they were extremely naive about choosing a random desperate person and assuming that their thirst for revenge would fade in time. It’d be easier to hide a thirst for revenge in the face of that kind of naïveté than one who would be more wary of it.
Yeah, gotta say. The original Master’s of Ki Rata might have done better than choosing to save one man. Perhaps saving as many as they would would have been better. Ahh well, hindsight as they say
Absolute Unit
always forgetting that Solomon is just Enormous.
Is Solomon’s head too small for his body? Also, anyone else think of Lawrence Fishbourne as being perfect for voicing the guy?
Or James Earl Jones.
Need a voice that oozes with menace and authority.
Nope, Solomon’s head appearing to be too small is just you. He does have rather broad shoulders though.
“By which I mean this will be a total curbstomp, but I’ll try to make you look a little less insignificant than you actually are.”
Fascinating how with Salami Dave EVERYTHING seems to be about his ego. He just HAS to feel better than everybody else. Remember how he made apoint of walking amongst his people without bodyguards back when he was talking to Zaid? Even though there’s no need for one since there’s really no-one (except perhaps Jagganoth) who can threaten him, he seems to cherish the idea that his people love him for being such a good and righteous king. He gives White Chain time to rest and even has her shell repaired, not because he’s honourable, but because he wants to be SEEN as honourable. He seems to have this need to be seen by himself and others as the Hero, the Saviour – even though he really isn’t. (His fellow Demiurges aren’t fooled for a second, but even amongst them he play his role.) His title, the Paternum is telling: to him, he’s the only adult among children. In fact, the only one who he seems to consider an equal is Zoss himself. (Wonder what the old man has to say about SD?). Also, I wonder how much of his current attitude goes back to the murder of his family? It’s almost as if he feels that he’s the only on who can prevent another disaster like that.
Yes, ego to the nth degree. However, his walkabout with Zaid and the soldiers bronze-aging the arena build does reveal one thing: he actually is well regarded by the citizens, to an extent that he, Solomon, finds wearing. He doesn’t need zealous idiots who injure themselves hauling stones, he needs practical, well-adjusted citizens who don’t need so much looking after.
Also, the textual commentary from way back in the book suggests that Solomon’s governors, for the huge part of the empire he can’t run personally, are selected for ruthlessness and bloodiness. Perhaps it’s not all peace and light like Rayuba?
I looked back and found the quote you mentioned, and the text at the first page of the book does imply that his worlds are generally ruled with an iron fist.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Solomon uses the tournament to recruit governors for his empire, whether as a prize to the champion if they choose not to take on Solomon or as a prize for the top ranked surviving fighters. Obviously it’s not guaranteed to result in a ruthless governor as there could easily be those with virtuous goals, but the whole point of the tournament is going to attract a good deal of those with one particular goal, a thirst for power. Plus, they’re probably told to keep a lid on things and that if they can’t or are lax on enforcement, Daddy Solomon will be forced to come and deal with it, and Daddy Solomon doesn’t like being forced to do so.
Solomon looks very smug. I cannot wait for things to go wrong for him.
With a name like that, I doubt your claim of being unable to wait.
Next Page: Large Black Man Publicly Pounds Blue Clay Girl
Maybe her next incarnation should be named Karen 83.
Mild continuity error with the foot wrappings there. White chain doesn’t have them in the first panel, but then later does.
Make him bleed, White Chain, and show the multiverse he is vulnerable.
Hopefully White Chain will now show Solomon the true path to royalty: by getting your ass kicked.
White chain is going to be YEEETed by Solomon Joestar here
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“And in a shocking display, Solomon Dave has gone down to a single poke to the chest! He’s not moving! The referee has started counting!”
Crowd: Hey! He’s taking a dive!
I do not wish to watch our sister die :'(
I have a feeling this will not be an honorable duel
Same feeling here. Same feeling.
Do your best, Angel. I do not look down on you but still I do not expect you to win against such a dangerous monster. I want you to do something else – prove that Solomon is not all-powerful. Punch him in the face, make him drop one of his golden circles, untie his beard with a skillful kick… just make him taste even the smallest of failures. I am sure his pride is much more fragile than any part of his body so strike it instead.
Let’s be entirely real, here. Unless WC gains the sudden superpower of Popularity, she isn’t going to survive this. It would be literal suicide if angels couldn’t reincarnate themselves. Whatever it is WC thinks she’s doing, whatever point, moral argument or prideful awakening she thinks she’s come to, it is laughably insignificantly small in the face of God.
WC is gonna die pointlessly, unless Abby just…throws reason to the four winds. That said…
Prediction: Allison is going to give WC some of the power contained in the Master Key, and WC will use this to win what should be an otherwise completely one-sided and meaningless ‘fight'(more a beating and eventual murder). And this is coming from someone who briefly rode the White Chain Hate Train for her actions and attitude against Allison…
White Chain deserves many things, but not this. Nobody deserves to be reduced down to their base components.
Alice bin told she can nae help old Stoneyarse. Mebbe she could teleport insides him, or teleport a fragment o key. ?
Solomon’s text color is no longer purple. Is he forgoing powers of the Gate for the duel?
Huh, I somehow hadn’t noticed that. Though his halo is going almost full strength.
If it’s a mistake on Abbadons part, maybe he could slow down a little? If it’s intentional on his part, it could just be Solomon using a more ‘indoor’ voice. I tried looking back and he does use a black speech bubble border when using a more ‘indoor’ voice, so, maybe it’s a more person to person voice that he doesn’t need to project strength at? Either way, the next page is coming sometime this weekend, so, we’ll see if that pattern holds.
How appropriate that, on this day I catch up to the tale, “ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD” would begin to trend on Twitter.
I was just thinking this!
ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD, WC!
Missing bandages aside, this is a marked improvement in drawing feet! By the time KSBD is finished you will have no weaknesses left
A random thought: What if the “enough” in White Chain’s reply is meant literally? I.E.” Well enough to draw a drop of your blood.”