Solomon is employing the ancient art of: You didn´t win!
He is technically right as nobody of them, except our large angel friend, is in any shape to fight him but I am sure the ruler of all cosmos can wait a bit for his opponent to recover.
Sadly, as you can see with most of the people, demiurge and normal alike; happen to be crass and unbecoming cowards. So, alas, we will not get to see Salami Dave fight anything because he is, sadly; to coin a human term ‘a p**** a*** b****’. Oh my that self censored…
In the last panel, how many spearmen are just out of shot? Because six spears and a rupert isn’t enough to take a war devil. I mean: grab the rupert, silly sod should have stood *behind* the pointy hedge; kebab him on the left-hand spears to disarm; back-flip over Z and N, falling on the left-hand attackers like the proverbial; shred finely; walk out whistling. No?
Carefull, those are not simple spearmen but soldier of the greatest Empire in the wheel, and handfull of such warriors where considered by Mottom to be a great gift.
42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
How many spearmen are just out of shot in the last panel? Because six spears and a rupert isn’t enough to take a war devil. I mean: grab the rupert, silly sod should have stood *behind* the pointy hedge; kebab him on the right-hand spears to disarm; back flip over Z and N, landing on the left-hand contingent like the proverbial; shred finely; walk out whistling. No?
Twisting the rules and playing with them as a cat would with a mouse. The Purple Emperor is drunk with power, but its the drunk who are easiest to trick. Time will tell
Solomon David may, indeed be a tyrant, but he seems rather more benevolent than most who purport to rule fairly and justly.
Have all forgotten that he dismissed overworked peons to their homes to rest, chastised the manager who overworked them, and then took up their work with his own hands?
Solomon David may, indeed, not be pure, nor omnibenevolent, but he has _depths_.
Most perceptive.
But consider, this is a tyrant who so sighs that he would like to shift the burden called Empire to worthy shoulders and yet hasn’t managed to find such shoulders in twenty-five generations. Either he judges himself rightly most extra-ordinary, or perhaps his eye has been blinded by pride.
Most depths are dark and know few lights, after all.
Let’s see the universe and the absurdity it means to be a demiurge. Was he wrong to judge his offspring unworthy? Who would be worthy? Easy to judge for us. Couches are comfortable. Mine is, I can vouch.
How could they ever become capable with living from youth near such a withering flame?
Consider, you must kill buddha if you meet him on the road, if you wish to reach enlightenment. To reach adulthood, you must kill your parents.
But Solomon has seen his first and second-fourth generation children dying and still lived on.
Solomon taking over for the workers was sheer vanity, not compassion. Why do you think those workers were in that situation in the first place? If Solomon wanted them to have better working conditions, they would. But then he couldn’t show off as much.
Ah, the judgment of Solomon. Fair, just, very diplomatic, perfectly timed. Taking Allison’s submission for valid is perfectly within the letter and the spirit of the law. And you’ll note he put her in the middle of the list. A little too perfectly inconspicuous. Conspiratorial whisper: He really doesn’t know if he can control her.
Gotta say; impressed with Solomon’s competence here. Catching the would be escapies and saying “Yo, come over for dinner.”
Sure, he’s probably going to throw everyone in an extremely comfortable prison but… ummm… given the power Alison has, and the war brewing in the background, I couldn’t exactly cause such an action Unreasonable.
Also, I’m kind of wondering when Gog-agog is going to go for the kill and stab him in the back… because seriously- she is going to KILL this dude… and then we will all remember why we needed him.
No but hes been important in keeping the tenous ceasefire between the demiurges in place. Without his level head, the others would have ripped and tore each other asunder ages ago, all while Jagganoth plots his own conquest
Solomon is perhaps going to reason with Allison and try to recruit her to his cause. That won’t work: she’s not a reasonable person. Can she spin it back and recruit him to her cause? That’s can’t work while he’s smug and prideful. But…
Every time Allison meets a demiurge she breaks something of theirs. She broke Mottoms immortality and Mammon’s seclusion. She damaged Incubus’ cool (and also made him a promise, which I long to see fulfilled), and she seem’s to have messed up Gog Ago’s flippancy (the Gogs are fighting!). Can she put a crack in Solomon’s self-confidence?
@Always: It’s been said in Abbadons tumblr that the only reason that Gog Agog hasn’t overpowered the others yet is that she is insane. Basically, she isn’t stupid, she’ll bide until the time is right.
@42 FUBAR: Technically nobody else saw Incubus getting his earring shaved off besides Allison and the comic readers, but it did damage his ego a bit. As for Gog Agog, she’s insane and split among untold numbers of bodies, plus the fact that she doesn’t seem to hide her emotions all that well, I just see it as Gog Agog being Gog Agog. The two on the side look despondent/ bummed out, while at the same time she is emoting her internal freakout with the other three.
Gog-Agog might very well be stupid. She’s worms, after all. She isn’t a person. I dunno if she’s capable of biding her time or anything of the sort. Maybe if she was she’d have eaten everyone long ago.
A long while back there was something going around, supposedly from a statement from Abbadon, about Gog-Agog being the psychic imprint of some poor woman onto the maggots that ate her corpse and later happened to eat a demiurge – I may be remembering incorrectly – and later she just sort of ate her way into power without ever realizing she was doing it. Can anyone reading confirm or deny if that was genuine?
As for the thing a long while back, yeah I remember that. I don’t remember if it was a direct word for word statement or one that got interpreted by fans, but the basic idea is that it arose from a bunch of worms/maggots that happened to eat a demiurge corpse that still had the key in it (seems odd that a key would be unclaimed, but maybe it was a massive battlefield or something).
I don’t remember if Abbadon ever said the ‘sort of ate her way to power without realizing it’ part
Civility and custom! No better disguise exists for royal cruelty. The Law is cruel, but it is the Law.
The only thing worse than a fight to the death: meetings. At least with a fight, you can tell who won in the end.
Solomon is employing the ancient art of: You didn´t win!
He is technically right as nobody of them, except our large angel friend, is in any shape to fight him but I am sure the ruler of all cosmos can wait a bit for his opponent to recover.
Sadly, as you can see with most of the people, demiurge and normal alike; happen to be crass and unbecoming cowards. So, alas, we will not get to see Salami Dave fight anything because he is, sadly; to coin a human term ‘a p**** a*** b****’. Oh my that self censored…
The ruler of all cosmos might.
In the last panel, how many spearmen are just out of shot? Because six spears and a rupert isn’t enough to take a war devil. I mean: grab the rupert, silly sod should have stood *behind* the pointy hedge; kebab him on the left-hand spears to disarm; back-flip over Z and N, falling on the left-hand attackers like the proverbial; shred finely; walk out whistling. No?
Carefull, those are not simple spearmen but soldier of the greatest Empire in the wheel, and handfull of such warriors where considered by Mottom to be a great gift.
How many spearmen are just out of shot in the last panel? Because six spears and a rupert isn’t enough to take a war devil. I mean: grab the rupert, silly sod should have stood *behind* the pointy hedge; kebab him on the right-hand spears to disarm; back flip over Z and N, landing on the left-hand contingent like the proverbial; shred finely; walk out whistling. No?
Brother Fubar, travelling between planes has created an echo of thee. Rest, while your second image catches up and reintegrates.
Twisting the rules and playing with them as a cat would with a mouse. The Purple Emperor is drunk with power, but its the drunk who are easiest to trick. Time will tell
Solomon David may, indeed be a tyrant, but he seems rather more benevolent than most who purport to rule fairly and justly.
Have all forgotten that he dismissed overworked peons to their homes to rest, chastised the manager who overworked them, and then took up their work with his own hands?
Solomon David may, indeed, not be pure, nor omnibenevolent, but he has _depths_.
Most perceptive.
But consider, this is a tyrant who so sighs that he would like to shift the burden called Empire to worthy shoulders and yet hasn’t managed to find such shoulders in twenty-five generations. Either he judges himself rightly most extra-ordinary, or perhaps his eye has been blinded by pride.
Most depths are dark and know few lights, after all.
Let’s see the universe and the absurdity it means to be a demiurge. Was he wrong to judge his offspring unworthy? Who would be worthy? Easy to judge for us. Couches are comfortable. Mine is, I can vouch.
Nobody would be worthy, nobody *is* worthy. Such power should not exist in the hands of only one.
Yet that power *CAN* exist in the hands of few, and demonstrably does.
And “few” instead of “one” only because Zoss chose to no longer exercise his obscene might.
What should we do? Except from moaning in our beards, like Solomon’s little boys that hope for a world they are incapable of bringing up.
How could they ever become capable with living from youth near such a withering flame?
Consider, you must kill buddha if you meet him on the road, if you wish to reach enlightenment. To reach adulthood, you must kill your parents.
But Solomon has seen his first and second-fourth generation children dying and still lived on.
Solomon taking over for the workers was sheer vanity, not compassion. Why do you think those workers were in that situation in the first place? If Solomon wanted them to have better working conditions, they would. But then he couldn’t show off as much.
A most succinct and accurate summation.
Well, nothing went according to plan at all.
Well, not our rescuers’ plan.
OVER THE LINE! MARK IT ZERO!
Ah, the judgment of Solomon. Fair, just, very diplomatic, perfectly timed. Taking Allison’s submission for valid is perfectly within the letter and the spirit of the law. And you’ll note he put her in the middle of the list. A little too perfectly inconspicuous. Conspiratorial whisper: He really doesn’t know if he can control her.
Well, Allison is a pigheaded fool with anime powers. The wise know that controlling such people is usually not productive.
Thus far she has left behind a trail of ruin such as would give pause to Groo the Mendicant Knight, true. Which bodes not well for Solomon’s realm.
Did she err?
And that is curtains for the mandatory tournament arc, my fellows.
We now move onto Act III.
BUSTED.
A shame the white art and its blade of want are reserved for kings alone.
I so craved too see a duel between two of its wielding.
Gog seems alarmed at this. How will the beast deal with the end of her admittedly rudimentary plans?
Oh no, oh no, oh no…
Gotta say; impressed with Solomon’s competence here. Catching the would be escapies and saying “Yo, come over for dinner.”
Sure, he’s probably going to throw everyone in an extremely comfortable prison but… ummm… given the power Alison has, and the war brewing in the background, I couldn’t exactly cause such an action Unreasonable.
Also, I’m kind of wondering when Gog-agog is going to go for the kill and stab him in the back… because seriously- she is going to KILL this dude… and then we will all remember why we needed him.
I don’t see this narrative taking Solomon’s side in the end.
No but hes been important in keeping the tenous ceasefire between the demiurges in place. Without his level head, the others would have ripped and tore each other asunder ages ago, all while Jagganoth plots his own conquest
Solomon David is an antagonist in this story. He is not permitted to win.
Long story short, that is all there is to say in the end.
Solomon is perhaps going to reason with Allison and try to recruit her to his cause. That won’t work: she’s not a reasonable person. Can she spin it back and recruit him to her cause? That’s can’t work while he’s smug and prideful. But…
Every time Allison meets a demiurge she breaks something of theirs. She broke Mottoms immortality and Mammon’s seclusion. She damaged Incubus’ cool (and also made him a promise, which I long to see fulfilled), and she seem’s to have messed up Gog Ago’s flippancy (the Gogs are fighting!). Can she put a crack in Solomon’s self-confidence?
@Always: It’s been said in Abbadons tumblr that the only reason that Gog Agog hasn’t overpowered the others yet is that she is insane. Basically, she isn’t stupid, she’ll bide until the time is right.
@42 FUBAR: Technically nobody else saw Incubus getting his earring shaved off besides Allison and the comic readers, but it did damage his ego a bit. As for Gog Agog, she’s insane and split among untold numbers of bodies, plus the fact that she doesn’t seem to hide her emotions all that well, I just see it as Gog Agog being Gog Agog. The two on the side look despondent/ bummed out, while at the same time she is emoting her internal freakout with the other three.
Gog-Agog might very well be stupid. She’s worms, after all. She isn’t a person. I dunno if she’s capable of biding her time or anything of the sort. Maybe if she was she’d have eaten everyone long ago.
A long while back there was something going around, supposedly from a statement from Abbadon, about Gog-Agog being the psychic imprint of some poor woman onto the maggots that ate her corpse and later happened to eat a demiurge – I may be remembering incorrectly – and later she just sort of ate her way into power without ever realizing she was doing it. Can anyone reading confirm or deny if that was genuine?
I didn’t say she was a genius either.
As for the thing a long while back, yeah I remember that. I don’t remember if it was a direct word for word statement or one that got interpreted by fans, but the basic idea is that it arose from a bunch of worms/maggots that happened to eat a demiurge corpse that still had the key in it (seems odd that a key would be unclaimed, but maybe it was a massive battlefield or something).
I don’t remember if Abbadon ever said the ‘sort of ate her way to power without realizing it’ part
Hey! The rules said nothing about being disqualified for being heavily injured! White Chain should still be in the tournament, unless she forfeits.
Ah, so the answer is all of them are out.
Neat.
BONUS ROUND
a fair judgement, as the host of the tournament he must make sure that the rules are followed
Much as I desire it, there is no first E in Judgment. It seems to call for one, but she retrains herself as best she can.
Great post.
Great post.
Great post.
Great post.