I think she’s making the comparison because Zoss is exactly what Allison strives to become, and exactly what she could become with her guidance. “Reach heaven through violence,” after all.
True, but the last time we saw him he hadn’t grown anything but a beard, and Allison was already filling out nicely. He’s got a LOT of catching up to do!
True again, but the last time we saw him he’d evidently been released from stasis only a couple of days before, and we have no idea how long he was frozen. Personally, I hope he’ll get to grow and develop as well. I’ve never really understood why everyone thinks he’s such a creep. Sure, he was eager to have sex with Allison, but that only makes him a normal young guy! Also, he wasn’t forceful with her – over-entusiastic maybe, but let’s not forget she had planned losing her virginity through him. Neither of them seemed particularly in love, but they obviously did care about each other: Alison went back to throne and broke into Mammon’s vault to find him, and in the only episode we saw Zaid unfrozen, he was worried what had happend to her. So, I’m hoping he’ll have his own development and maybe join her later.
Such meagre ambition! There are 777,777 universes and you would think in terms of just conquering one or two? The truth of proper abs should be enough for at least a thousand universes!
Of course, we do not know the shape of all those universes. Some will be expansive, sprawling affairs, with galaxies and star destroyers and borg and whatnot. Others will be more… bijou? Dainty, even? It all depends on what story their creator god or goddess actually told, and tremendous variety exists. After all, the gods were definitely imaginative…
The Rising King’s crew stole a whole ass ship back on Mottom’s turf. A tea set is nothing in them terms, especially given that the Palace of Radiance is bloated with treasures.
The problem with bird-steeds is that they cost so damned much. They charge you the flat fee and time/distance rates of a taxi, but add on an altitude multiplier… which means if you fly high to avoid traffic you’re getting hit with exponential costs. And don’t even get me started on their “surge pricing.” Damn whatever world came up with that idea to the bleakest of hells.
Meanwhile, the Angel Buses accept transit cards from across the 777,777 worlds, and are much more practical.
I hear ye. At this point it’s cheaper to own you’re own bird steed. But unnecessarily more time consuming. It’s near impossible to find a perch where you don’t risk some miscreants stealing it or butchering it for street buns.
The problem with the time jump is that we don’t know how many demons she killed in the downtime. Like she could be a solid billion in already if they were all street thugs.
“Demon” is actually a name for a societal problem/great evil within the multiverse, not a Devil. Her prophetic name doesn’t mean she’s going to shoah a bunch of devils.
The first “demon” she truly killed was Mottom’s tree husband, since the hidden text on that says “1/6,000,000,000,” and that certainly wasn’t a devil.
For 82WCBiERtSE, an Angel always has precisely the amount of balance that they intend to have.
For Allison, either sheer muscle mass or the weight of her prize money (which I assume she has won, I mean how can you be that swole and not at least dabble in being a prize fighter, like c’mon at least make money off of it!)
‘Swole’ is being used by everyone here to mean that she is muscular, and has been common vernacular for a goodly number of years. Swole = pronounced muscles, usually from working out.
I will have you know that I own the word “swole”, I still have the receipt as proof of purchase, and as its owner I am entitled to change its definition as I see fit
Allison subscribes to the “real muscle doesn’t look pretty” philosophy of body-building.
She has abs, the rectus abdominis, but they are less developed, in favor of developing the internal and external oblique abdominis and transverse abdominis. She also has a healthy layer of subcutaneous fat, like any strongwoman should.
Traditional abs are only really good for crunch-motion, so if you do a lot of bouldering, you might have a use for them. But for throwing punches and lifting goons off their feet, you need spinal support and upper-body rotation. That’s core strength: oblique and transverse abs.
Not to mention having a layer of fat somewhat protects the muscles from damage, a knife slash across a layer of fat is going to cause less damage to the muscle’s integrity underneath it.
Yet there is only so much a god can accomplish without understanding her power. White Chain isn’t just teaching Allison to be a good fighter, they’re TRYING to teach her how to learn. It’s true, an angel can only teach so much to a god, but unless the god learns to learn, she’ll never truly surpass that angel.
Well-spoken, 33 Ardent Mountain Scours Reality. Everything you’ve said is quite true. White Chain, regardless of type of existence, is still Allison’s senior, and could honestly trash her thirty ways from Sunday. Allison, even after the time skip, has much to learn, and not an infinite amount of time to do it in.
The time skip just helped us get past her fumbling baby stage and get to the start of her road to competence.
White Chain has good intentions, but it is written that the new king will be flanked by a white and a black flame. True mastery of her key of kings will only be attained when Allison learns from both Angel and Devil.
Ah, Kimbono. I love that place. Best business in the Spires District if you ask me. The month I spent with the cashier there was among the most splendid of my life, second only to the day I had my blood surgically removed and replaced with glorious molten gold! Her opinions on the finer points of record-keeping and the philosophy of rounding still ring true to me, and I will never forget the bountiful profit margins of Kimbono’s quarterly report!
As for what they sell… quite frankly I forgot. For all I know they were a temple to a lesser fertility god or a bell tower. It didn’t matter anyway. At least they were profitable. I think.
Does gold cross the blood-brain barrier? I may need to speak with my cardio-geologist.
yikes. New scars. Alison is either gonna have to master some kind of scar removal magic or start buying reaaaaaaallly good concealer in 55 gallon drums.
The driver’s just a decoration; a decoy. In truth, Angels just like the entire taxi-job thing. It’s easy work, good payment. No change of getting murdered by ascending gods, and transportation will always be needed, so good security and easily to plan your mortgages and such around.
Hrmm… Yeah, pretty much what 32 Thornstar Runner said. Sure, there are a variety of Devil Drives used in the propulsion of the armor busses, but the principles are all basically the same. Feed the devils to push the pistons, which move the cranks, outputting the energy via clutch assembly to a transmission, which disperses the movement to driveshaft(s), thereby moving the massive variable cams that propel the legs.
As you can imagine, the “engineering department” can be quite busy, laboring to ensure proper lubrication of the components, keeping the Devil Drive’s fed, as well as answering commands from the helm (y’know, biasing the leg-drive variable cams in order to steer them in the desired direction, as well as shifting the balance gyro to initiate or stop forward movement ~ it’s a very complicated balancing act best left to the professionals).
The busses are mostly prone to clutch or transmission failure, due to the stress of frequent use – and the fact that they are cheaply made off-world. Although I have seen a balance gyro fail once, spectacularly launching itself through the driver and out into the neighboring buildings.
Eh, her build looks similar to a lot of female weightlifters, like she’s trained primarily for strength rather than looking ripped. She’s not a bodybuilder, training for aesthetics, her goals are more utilitarian, which her appearance totally matches up with.
Hrmm… I gotta wonder… In a relatively lawless city, where does the Lone Ranger take the bad guys to? I mean, is there is some sort of town Sheriff maintaining the local jail? If so, how likely is it that they’re “on the take” anyhow, and Scumbag will be out on the street again with a quickness?
Or does she haul them off to the rigatonium mines to become slave labor for the rest of their lives? (Don’t scoff, digging up carbon fiber noodles is hard work!)
“Make no plans.
Life can only be lived where and when it is happening. It is not behind you. It is not before you down an easily read path. Life is underneath your shoes, and it is your job to choose where you carry them. Just like walking down a road, life can only be made one step at a time, and you can never go very far in one step. It is better to pay attention to where you are than to where you were, or where you are going.
Make no plans. This is where you are. Live here.”
Given the angle of the top of the head they’re sitting on, I’m surprised they don’t all slide off – especially in the topmost panel where the angle seems close to 45 degrees!
“Where it should be compared to angels or compared to humans?”
compared to a god
Compared to Zoss specifically, I’d guess.
Zoss is so catastrophically badass that even the Seven are afraid of him. I can’t see White Chain making the comparison to Alison.
If she hopes to break the cycle she needs the strength to lift the wheel.
Break the wheel on the butterfly.
I think she’s making the comparison because Zoss is exactly what Allison strives to become, and exactly what she could become with her guidance. “Reach heaven through violence,” after all.
WEW LAD
Allison looking especially juicy here
Swollison 😍
Stop starving yourself and be who you were meant to be.
Remember that shrimpy little dude that Allison was about to loose her virginity to on page 1? I wonder how much she outweighs him by now.
Dont forget hes being trained (held prisoner?) By Solomon, keeper of the word beefcake
True, but the last time we saw him he hadn’t grown anything but a beard, and Allison was already filling out nicely. He’s got a LOT of catching up to do!
True again, but the last time we saw him he’d evidently been released from stasis only a couple of days before, and we have no idea how long he was frozen. Personally, I hope he’ll get to grow and develop as well. I’ve never really understood why everyone thinks he’s such a creep. Sure, he was eager to have sex with Allison, but that only makes him a normal young guy! Also, he wasn’t forceful with her – over-entusiastic maybe, but let’s not forget she had planned losing her virginity through him. Neither of them seemed particularly in love, but they obviously did care about each other: Alison went back to throne and broke into Mammon’s vault to find him, and in the only episode we saw Zaid unfrozen, he was worried what had happend to her. So, I’m hoping he’ll have his own development and maybe join her later.
From the future, he does indeed get swole
uh-uh, spoilers
The last time we saw him was the page before the 1 year timeskip
Getting some real Ciri/Geralt vibes with the scars & white hair
I wouldn’t mind seeing more pronounced abs.
Not sayin’ that abs are great. But they are. Everyone should have them if they plan to conquer a universe or two.
Such meagre ambition! There are 777,777 universes and you would think in terms of just conquering one or two? The truth of proper abs should be enough for at least a thousand universes!
Of course, we do not know the shape of all those universes. Some will be expansive, sprawling affairs, with galaxies and star destroyers and borg and whatnot. Others will be more… bijou? Dainty, even? It all depends on what story their creator god or goddess actually told, and tremendous variety exists. After all, the gods were definitely imaginative…
abs are a thing for low fat and high muscle, I find the fat covering the muscle way more endeering personally, mainly in women
Last words of many fantasy heroes: “You can’t hurt me. I magical proteargharghargh!” *thud*
Isn’t it fantasy _villains_ who usually go around boasting of their invincibility?
Heroes and villains are often one and the same, the only difference is the one who remains.
Are those tea pieces from Mottom’s palace?
Oh, Most Certainly.
The Rising King’s crew stole a whole ass ship back on Mottom’s turf. A tea set is nothing in them terms, especially given that the Palace of Radiance is bloated with treasures.
REQUIRED XP FOR NEXT LEVEL:
Street Thugs: 204/200
Wisdom: 0/1
……
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……
How the hell do you beat the shit out of Wisdom?
Big book
Ttttttttttttthhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaat sounds like it would work, yeah, aye.
Leastwise it gives her an excuse to go to the various book shops libraries of the Red City.
We can come to an understanding, I feel.
Westerly the basil, thyme
crawl after doctor calls time
raise your arm and catch a ride
The would-be aspirant to the throne requires greater challenges.
You needed worthy opponents.
Mmmmmm comin’ in here with that good Worm game.
Angel Buses are back!
And yet, I do also see Bird Steeds, and know which I would prefer to take.
The problem with bird-steeds is that they cost so damned much. They charge you the flat fee and time/distance rates of a taxi, but add on an altitude multiplier… which means if you fly high to avoid traffic you’re getting hit with exponential costs. And don’t even get me started on their “surge pricing.” Damn whatever world came up with that idea to the bleakest of hells.
Meanwhile, the Angel Buses accept transit cards from across the 777,777 worlds, and are much more practical.
I hear ye. At this point it’s cheaper to own you’re own bird steed. But unnecessarily more time consuming. It’s near impossible to find a perch where you don’t risk some miscreants stealing it or butchering it for street buns.
(͠ ≖ ͜ ʖ͠≖ )
Oh Pazuto! You incorrigible rogue you.
The problem with the time jump is that we don’t know how many demons she killed in the downtime. Like she could be a solid billion in already if they were all street thugs.
“Demon” is actually a name for a societal problem/great evil within the multiverse, not a Devil. Her prophetic name doesn’t mean she’s going to shoah a bunch of devils.
The first “demon” she truly killed was Mottom’s tree husband, since the hidden text on that says “1/6,000,000,000,” and that certainly wasn’t a devil.
Not that wiping a whole bunch of devils wouldn’t go amiss, provided it is done with panache.
How are they not sliding off?
For 82WCBiERtSE, an Angel always has precisely the amount of balance that they intend to have.
For Allison, either sheer muscle mass or the weight of her prize money (which I assume she has won, I mean how can you be that swole and not at least dabble in being a prize fighter, like c’mon at least make money off of it!)
And Vash? He is not only bound and untrained, but also placed right at the edge.
On another note, I hate that s-word in this context. She is not ‘bloated’ and I assume there is no doping involved.
Vash’s arms are tied around that flagpole behind him.
‘Swole’ is being used by everyone here to mean that she is muscular, and has been common vernacular for a goodly number of years. Swole = pronounced muscles, usually from working out.
I will have you know that I own the word “swole”, I still have the receipt as proof of purchase, and as its owner I am entitled to change its definition as I see fit
Allison, you don’t even have girl abs yet. At this rate you’ll never catch up to Spinnerette.
Allison subscribes to the “real muscle doesn’t look pretty” philosophy of body-building.
She has abs, the rectus abdominis, but they are less developed, in favor of developing the internal and external oblique abdominis and transverse abdominis. She also has a healthy layer of subcutaneous fat, like any strongwoman should.
Traditional abs are only really good for crunch-motion, so if you do a lot of bouldering, you might have a use for them. But for throwing punches and lifting goons off their feet, you need spinal support and upper-body rotation. That’s core strength: oblique and transverse abs.
Not to mention having a layer of fat somewhat protects the muscles from damage, a knife slash across a layer of fat is going to cause less damage to the muscle’s integrity underneath it.
in Rome, gladiators ate a lot of oats, so they’d have a lot of fat, and so that wounds would bleed and be spectacular, without being too lethal.
Allison’s squishy buffness is the beeeessssssst.
I like that the Spires district is basically a truckstop for Throne, and that there is thus a Circle K. Because there must be.
I wish I could have a body like Allison’s, god damn…
these delicious oats
you must eat
There’s only so much an angel can impart to a goddess.
Yet there is only so much a god can accomplish without understanding her power. White Chain isn’t just teaching Allison to be a good fighter, they’re TRYING to teach her how to learn. It’s true, an angel can only teach so much to a god, but unless the god learns to learn, she’ll never truly surpass that angel.
Well-spoken, 33 Ardent Mountain Scours Reality. Everything you’ve said is quite true. White Chain, regardless of type of existence, is still Allison’s senior, and could honestly trash her thirty ways from Sunday. Allison, even after the time skip, has much to learn, and not an infinite amount of time to do it in.
The time skip just helped us get past her fumbling baby stage and get to the start of her road to competence.
White Chain has good intentions, but it is written that the new king will be flanked by a white and a black flame. True mastery of her key of kings will only be attained when Allison learns from both Angel and Devil.
Ah, Kimbono. I love that place. Best business in the Spires District if you ask me. The month I spent with the cashier there was among the most splendid of my life, second only to the day I had my blood surgically removed and replaced with glorious molten gold! Her opinions on the finer points of record-keeping and the philosophy of rounding still ring true to me, and I will never forget the bountiful profit margins of Kimbono’s quarterly report!
As for what they sell… quite frankly I forgot. For all I know they were a temple to a lesser fertility god or a bell tower. It didn’t matter anyway. At least they were profitable. I think.
Does gold cross the blood-brain barrier? I may need to speak with my cardio-geologist.
Al-Yisun has met the primal definition of THICC. If ever she wears one of those devils cloaks, there is no other word that should adorn it
Does Allison have a licence for those guns?
yikes. New scars. Alison is either gonna have to master some kind of scar removal magic or start buying reaaaaaaallly good concealer in 55 gallon drums.
How do the drivers of the angel bus control them I wonder 🤔
Probably by telling the captive demons that power it what to do.
The driver’s just a decoration; a decoy. In truth, Angels just like the entire taxi-job thing. It’s easy work, good payment. No change of getting murdered by ascending gods, and transportation will always be needed, so good security and easily to plan your mortgages and such around.
It’s a pretty symbiotic thing, really.
It’s pretty canon that they’re the armor of dead angels being run by devil engines.
Cattle prods?
Hrmm… Yeah, pretty much what 32 Thornstar Runner said. Sure, there are a variety of Devil Drives used in the propulsion of the armor busses, but the principles are all basically the same. Feed the devils to push the pistons, which move the cranks, outputting the energy via clutch assembly to a transmission, which disperses the movement to driveshaft(s), thereby moving the massive variable cams that propel the legs.
As you can imagine, the “engineering department” can be quite busy, laboring to ensure proper lubrication of the components, keeping the Devil Drive’s fed, as well as answering commands from the helm (y’know, biasing the leg-drive variable cams in order to steer them in the desired direction, as well as shifting the balance gyro to initiate or stop forward movement ~ it’s a very complicated balancing act best left to the professionals).
The busses are mostly prone to clutch or transmission failure, due to the stress of frequent use – and the fact that they are cheaply made off-world. Although I have seen a balance gyro fail once, spectacularly launching itself through the driver and out into the neighboring buildings.
The swole allison look isn’t working for me – she looks puffy and bloated rather than strong and built. Something about the lack of muscle definition.
Eh, her build looks similar to a lot of female weightlifters, like she’s trained primarily for strength rather than looking ripped. She’s not a bodybuilder, training for aesthetics, her goals are more utilitarian, which her appearance totally matches up with.
I find her new look aesthetically pleasing – strong yet feminine. It fits her.
Welp, just read the entire thing so far in a day.
This is one of the best comics I’ve ever read. I really, really love it.
on one hand i envy you for getting all this at once, i’ve been reading it the slow way since almost the beginning.
on the other now you have to wait for glorious new pages like the rest of us.
welcome to the darkest and deepest of the hundred hells.
Hrmm… I gotta wonder… In a relatively lawless city, where does the Lone Ranger take the bad guys to? I mean, is there is some sort of town Sheriff maintaining the local jail? If so, how likely is it that they’re “on the take” anyhow, and Scumbag will be out on the street again with a quickness?
Or does she haul them off to the rigatonium mines to become slave labor for the rest of their lives? (Don’t scoff, digging up carbon fiber noodles is hard work!)
Reckon we’ll have our answer soon…
“Make no plans.
Life can only be lived where and when it is happening. It is not behind you. It is not before you down an easily read path. Life is underneath your shoes, and it is your job to choose where you carry them. Just like walking down a road, life can only be made one step at a time, and you can never go very far in one step. It is better to pay attention to where you are than to where you were, or where you are going.
Make no plans. This is where you are. Live here.”
Seventeenth student of Bagoret – FBC, 079
Given the angle of the top of the head they’re sitting on, I’m surprised they don’t all slide off – especially in the topmost panel where the angle seems close to 45 degrees!