Guys! I just woke up from a dream and the next page has salami dave step down as emperor and joins our heroes in their quest to restore balance! Allison cracks him in the jaw before accepting his offer.
Welp. Although WC has already had her greatest wish granted, she technically hasn’t asked anything of the Emperor yet. So she could use that to get him freed. Salami isn’t in a position to go back on his word.
That must have been the original plan, but Abbadon even went back to the first chapter and redrew him to make him look less creepy. And it makes sense: I don’t see Allison going for a *total* creep, even if it was just to lose her virginity.
But he probably thinks that he and Allison are still an item, and boy is that gonna be awkward.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
When was Zaid redrawn? I’ve been reading KSDB since June 2019, with multiple rereads of book 1, and I don’t remember a change. Is there any way of seeing the original drawings of Zaid?
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
OK, so the Wayback machine has the old versions, from the time before the comic was coloured. Yes, Zaid is more sympathetically drawn now.
There are quite a lot of dialogue changes since the old version of book 1. The current web and print editions are also missing a simply gorgeous page showing Allison kneeling in Old King’s Road on first arriving in Throne.
Never liked the guy and I doubt author wil ldo antyhing for me to start liking him knowing how he acted before.
Lets see if he won’t care about the one key and will gladly abandon it into Allison care.
I wonder if Zaid has done anything cool with his down time. Maybe sharpened his mind while Allison trained her physical skills? He probably just twiddled his thumbs like a good princess though.
I’m curious on their relationship, really.
I’ve never had a family or lover, so I don’t have a frame of reference. But didn’t Alison spend more time on The Wheel than in whatever relationship she had?
She’s more married to White Chain and Cio than to him.
oh yeah im not an expert either but i’ll go out on a limb and say the ship has sailed on their relationship, still nice to see the only person from your universe though
I like that they barely know each other, except they’ve both been drawn into this situation and forced to grow in this alien world under circumstances so far outside of their control.
So they don’t really know each other, except for the bits they understand on a level no one else does.
I hope they get enough time connecting before they realise their interests are almost certainly opposed. Because drama is good.
They may only have been romantically attached for a pair of weeks, but the story opens with an attempt between the two to have sex. Given they were interrupted by a dead king and a mob of flaming angels, their inability to complete the act is forgivable.
With that said, this does mean they were, in fact, lovers. Even if only for long enough for everything to come undone.
It’s also important to remember, as I said, that though they were lovers in the past, they certainly aren’t in the here and now.
To my mind, this is the hole at the middle of this comic. There’s no reason for either of them to care about each other, at all. They didn’t know each other. They had never developed any relationship or affection. There is no reason for the reader to care about him, either. It’s entirely unmotivated.
No, it isn’t. Allison cares enough about Zaid to fight her way through three Demiurges’ empires to save him. And for Zaid, Allison is the only link he has to his “normal” life before he was abducted into this crazy new universe. Of course they’d both get emotional at seeing the other again.
It’s no fun having a relationship with someone who’s totally committed. There is no challenge, no courting is needed and there are no rivals to poison. Very boring.
Until one lady killed the other, got re-committed to an insane asylum and died there… then Zaid’s left alone to be abducted by aliens, right as he’s dying of late-stage cancer.
Guys! I just woke up from a dream and the next page has salami dave step down as emperor and joins our heroes in their quest to restore balance! Allison cracks him in the jaw before accepting his offer.
They… let him go? Just like that?
Welp. Although WC has already had her greatest wish granted, she technically hasn’t asked anything of the Emperor yet. So she could use that to get him freed. Salami isn’t in a position to go back on his word.
Zaid is a creep. He’s going to ruin the group dynamic.
That sounds kind sexist tbh.
That must have been the original plan, but Abbadon even went back to the first chapter and redrew him to make him look less creepy. And it makes sense: I don’t see Allison going for a *total* creep, even if it was just to lose her virginity.
But he probably thinks that he and Allison are still an item, and boy is that gonna be awkward.
When was Zaid redrawn? I’ve been reading KSDB since June 2019, with multiple rereads of book 1, and I don’t remember a change. Is there any way of seeing the original drawings of Zaid?
OK, so the Wayback machine has the old versions, from the time before the comic was coloured. Yes, Zaid is more sympathetically drawn now.
There are quite a lot of dialogue changes since the old version of book 1. The current web and print editions are also missing a simply gorgeous page showing Allison kneeling in Old King’s Road on first arriving in Throne.
I was looking for them, but you found them first ^^
Prince Robot lookin’ motherfucker in panel 1
Never liked the guy and I doubt author wil ldo antyhing for me to start liking him knowing how he acted before.
Lets see if he won’t care about the one key and will gladly abandon it into Allison care.
the unstoppable power of realizing you just wanted to be friends
I wonder if Zaid has done anything cool with his down time. Maybe sharpened his mind while Allison trained her physical skills? He probably just twiddled his thumbs like a good princess though.
Well, it’s not like he’s had much room to breathe.
now the demiurges, their hearts softened upon seeing this reunion, solve all the problems by talking respectfully with each other
ABBADON DONT GIVE ME HOOOOOOOPE (please)
Th…the density of feels…. in so few pages…
Abby, you are skirting dangerously close to a full-on feelsingularity. Tread lightly, pilgrim.
Dont wanna jinx it but this sounds a bit too good to be true, something fucky is afoot, I can feel it.
How long has it been now for them, since the beginning?
I’m curious on their relationship, really.
I’ve never had a family or lover, so I don’t have a frame of reference. But didn’t Alison spend more time on The Wheel than in whatever relationship she had?
She’s more married to White Chain and Cio than to him.
oh yeah im not an expert either but i’ll go out on a limb and say the ship has sailed on their relationship, still nice to see the only person from your universe though
I like that they barely know each other, except they’ve both been drawn into this situation and forced to grow in this alien world under circumstances so far outside of their control.
So they don’t really know each other, except for the bits they understand on a level no one else does.
I hope they get enough time connecting before they realise their interests are almost certainly opposed. Because drama is good.
Yah, except there is no indication that Zaid has grown at all. He is just a plot device with good cheekbones.
Well it’s been clear that he’s not just a macguffin, and he’s isn’t just some hate sink people
Wait till he says “can I have my god power now? Thanks for holding it.”
Does Zaid know anything about the struggle over the key and the Rising King etc.? Who told him?
Aw gosh!
Is that a cameo from The One Electronic?
And at last they are reunited. But despite this, they are still separated. Time and experience and life have left an indelible gulf between them.
And that’s okay. They need not reunite as lovers to reunite.
That is also the way of things.
They are not lovers. Close, but no cigar.
They may only have been romantically attached for a pair of weeks, but the story opens with an attempt between the two to have sex. Given they were interrupted by a dead king and a mob of flaming angels, their inability to complete the act is forgivable.
With that said, this does mean they were, in fact, lovers. Even if only for long enough for everything to come undone.
It’s also important to remember, as I said, that though they were lovers in the past, they certainly aren’t in the here and now.
Do you think he was trained in Ki Rata? That’d be sick.
To my mind, this is the hole at the middle of this comic. There’s no reason for either of them to care about each other, at all. They didn’t know each other. They had never developed any relationship or affection. There is no reason for the reader to care about him, either. It’s entirely unmotivated.
No, it isn’t. Allison cares enough about Zaid to fight her way through three Demiurges’ empires to save him. And for Zaid, Allison is the only link he has to his “normal” life before he was abducted into this crazy new universe. Of course they’d both get emotional at seeing the other again.
Water! Get your water here, fresh and clean!
Are you sure it doesn’t taste of cabbage?
Usual delivery please. And bottle pickup; last week you didn’t.
Surebaet Noodles–it’s a “sure bet” you’ll love your bowl!
Don’t get jelly, Cio; after all, they’re both the first Earth beings the others have seen in God-knows-how-long.
It’s no fun having a relationship with someone who’s totally committed. There is no challenge, no courting is needed and there are no rivals to poison. Very boring.
And then they all married each other and lived happily ever after. The End.
Until one lady killed the other, got re-committed to an insane asylum and died there… then Zaid’s left alone to be abducted by aliens, right as he’s dying of late-stage cancer.
Hmmm she ain’t going to cheat on Cio is she??
I’ve been saying this for weeks now: Polycule
Zaid, opening panel of next comic, “Prophecies can eat a dick, I’m going back to work at Dave & Busters.”