KING OF SWORDS 174-177 (FINALE)
Chapter: 10
Thanks for reading!
These are the final pages of King of Swords. We’ll take a 1 week break to prepare and return Friday 10/2 Tues 10/6 with the final book of Kill Six Billion Demons, Breaker of Infinities.
This book was a blast to draw and I hope you’ve enjoyed it, I’ve learned a lot and hope to give it my all with Book 5. See you then!
-Abbadon
That tweet about “me sowing: hell yeah this rocks!” and “me reaping: oh what the fuck fuck this shit” seems apt.
Noooooooow
I’m unerasable!
I’m indestructible!
I’M JAGGANATH!
I, too, enjoy the music made by that ragtag group of devils.
Now,
I am unstoppable
Endlessly beautiful
King of the world
Your connoisseur
What you deserve
And I am
Superhero Jagganath
And now, my fellows, we see the ultimate argument in favor of having the mightiest person lead the nation – because in a universe in which people can cause nuclear annihilation as part of their *entrance*, you need somebody who can convince them that you’re not worth the trouble of fighting, and you need to give that person a pretty solid incentive to stick around.
Yeah, no kidding. Old Zoss could probably have handled him, but as things stand now it’s going to be a real challenge for even the remaining demiurges together to match him.
The real fight is for a world without terrifying powers like him, where folks like Salami Dave take their place as aesthetics chasing enlightenment rather than paranoid quasi-benevolent dictators.
Well, keep in mind that combat ability and rulership ability are completely separate thing, and many generals who have seized control of nations have subsequently proven themselves utterly unfit to actually manage such nations.
If your “lucky” your dictator has actually both ability sets, but that is rarely the case. You’re way more like to just get a psychopath who knows they can solve their problems with sufficient violence.
Though I believe this “we need to give them incentives to stick around!” is why we keep seeing CEOs receive enormous bonuses on top of their massive salaries even as they drive their companies into the ground.
I mean, CEOs aren’t Invencible War Gods, and not exactly necessary for the defense or maintenance of a nation. In the K6BD multiverse, you’d presumably need at least one Invicible War God to defend your nation against other Invincible War Gods, and you don’t really need to make them your ruler. It’s not like ruling a nation is exactly a pleasant thing, after all. Your ego gets bigger but so does your workload. Much easier to just get supplied lots of money and live the easy life while slaughtering whatever enemies the (hopefully democratic) goverment of your nation points you at.
Does Jagganoth get a name-card page? You know what I’m talking about, like
“JAGGANOTH
THE RED GOD
IMMORTAL MONSTROSITY
BEARER OF THE WORD ????? AND GOD OF THE SEVEN PART WORLD
This would be the perfect time for it. I think only him and Jadis haven’t had one yet.
The word he bears is “blade.”
Pankrator Jagganoth also be known as God-Eater, possibly worrisome that, for some of the ‘little princes’.
She bear word Mind. Some-un said it prev page.
JAGGANOTH
THE GOD-EATER
LORD OF RAGE
PANKRATOR
CRIMSON KING OF THE BELLIGERENT KNIGHTS
BEARER OF THE WORD ‘BLADE’ AND GOD OF THE SEVEN-PART WORLD
^^^^^ !!!!
Aw, Red God, big little Red God, what has got you so mad about everything?
We want to gnaw at the roots of that wrath, to dig down into the dark where they tear the earth asunder to get at its heart.
Such power and fury must come from somewhere.
It’s not a message hidden in the dark
Or a truth that no one’s seen
It’s a little bit of everything
Hard to believe it’ll be over soon (-ish)! I don’t suppose the next project will be a KSBD spin-off?
damn that went from 0 to 9001 real fast lmao
Holy actual shit, like, I was expecting the dude to cleave the Void and bring forth his legions clad in Thorn-steel or some such, Solomon to make a panicky plea for aid to Allison and Co., but this motherfucker nukes the field as an opener
Jagganoth like “yeah the demiurges are all assholes, that’s true, but me? I’m the BAD GUY.”
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMNN!
Solomon compared to this looks like a big joke.
So he will kill them all and the comic name KSBD was a referer to Red King?
Seeing how powerful he seems I doubt alliance from Solomon, Gog-Agog, Allison and her pack will have any meaning of opposition against this.
From my seat at the edge of the Void, I see the Red Light blaze across the infinite skies of infinite worlds, and I see a million worlds unmade in the span of mere blink. I see the nails of angelic might plunged into the beast’s back, and I see the blade it carries, and it smiles red with the blood of wars fought and wars to come.
Behold Jagganoth.
Behold the End.
Pray for the heir. And for her strength.
For that is all we can do.
The…. last book?
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Well, that escalated quickly.
Yesss, this is perhaps my favorite trope ever, former enemies join forces to fight the real bad guy. Go go team Allison Dave!
Never thought I’d say this about a bunch of people watching a death sport, but… OMG the poor audience. 🙁
Cio clinging to Alison like that is an eternal lesbian mood TBH.
.
Oh. Fuck.
In awe at the SIZE of this lad. Absolute Unit.
Things that are awesome about this page:
-Jagganoth cutting through reality with a freaking sword
-Cio clinging to her gf for dear life
-Allison once again being surprised at what she can actually do
☝️
(also white chain trying to hold onto CIO for dear life 😂)
Did any of the 108 stars survive that?
Are the scars which Jagganoth bears memories of a time before taking up the key?
so i’ve been reading back in in this book and there’s a supplementary text about this guy named
‘yaun’
………………..maybe it’s nothing but MAYBE
The final Book… now that is a sad note to digest.
If Maya was present and survived that, then there are technically seven demiurges in one place…
Solomon, Jadis, Gog Agog, Jagganoth, Allison. That’s five… Incubus, Mottom and Mammon are not physically there, Maya never bore a key, and Yabalchoath is no more, who am I missing?
Pretty sure Maya had Incubus’ key before he gained it. It’s never stated outright but there are a lot of clues, especially in the conversation Incubus has with Jagganoth.
My understanding is that, during the Universal War, Maya was among the seven most powerful demiurges with one of the seven biggest keys, and was on-par with Jadis, Solomon David, Gog-Agog, Mottom, Jagganoth, and Mammon at the time. But at some point after at least some of the other six started considering and discussing forming the seven, Maya just stopped for some reason. Stopped fighting. Stopped conquering. And just let Incubus have her keys, thereby forcing the others to take him as their seventh. According to this interpretation, Incubus’s key is not the same as Maya’s key, but it does contain Maya’s, as she never actually held a full 111,111 keys.
Cio.
Ciocie Cioelle was never a Demiurg. Her previous form, Yabalchoath, had a fraction of Mammon’s key, but she lost both her power and her identity when she was defeated and renamed. So I wouldn’t count Cio for this list
She remembers that life. Doesn’t sound like an actual break in her selfness. Besides, she literally had the master key yesterday.
So Jadis knew this would happen. And she arrived too late to warn anyone that it was time for judgment day. SHE certainly isn’t going up in the character ranking list! Disgusting.
Don’t judge, perfect omniscience is probably very nuanced in its’s workings. Perhaps it’s a Doctro Strange-esque “Actions required for best future” sort of thing.
Jadis’ only wish is to die. That’s probably why she came here.
Jadis’ only desire is to die. That’s probably why she’s here.
congratulations to the author on finishing ANOTHER book!
once again it is heartwrenching graphico-literary gold 💛
Welp, we’re boned
~Bender
I don’t know if I’m not reading too much into it but I like how he says “a war”. Everybody thinks about it as “reigniting the universal war” but Jagganoth does not care about the mythos of it. A war is a war and he intends to wage it.