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KOS 159-162 (APOTHEOSIS)

by Abbadon
Chapter: 10

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  1. Apocryphal Daughter of the Second Syllable
    Apocryphal Daughter of the Second Syllable
    August 2, 2020, 9:39 pm | #

    HOLY FUCK

    • Auxeras, Concordant Disciple
      Auxeras, Concordant Disciple
      August 2, 2020, 9:54 pm | #

      WHAT NOW

      I keep thinking I cant love this comic more than I already do, and then this keeps happening

      • Addlepate The Daring
        Addlepate The Daring
        August 3, 2020, 1:06 am | #

        White Chain goes THIKK.

      • Sundered Body Risen Soul
        Sundered Body Risen Soul
        August 3, 2020, 1:40 am | #

        This is why I (we) Patreon. Abbadon knows when we *need* a multipager. And writes and draws like a seven-part Deity.

      • kekeke
        kekeke
        August 3, 2020, 5:50 am | #

        Now, Black Chain. Lol

        • Derrick, the Bread Defiler
          Derrick, the Bread Defiler
          August 3, 2020, 2:15 pm | #

          Now the real question arises:
          What was the name of the angel incarnation of Black Dynamite?

        • Atum fortifies combover
          Atum fortifies combover
          August 3, 2020, 5:34 pm | #

          77 Systematically Prevents the interruption of Kung-Fu training

    • Steel-Whirler
      Steel-Whirler
      August 2, 2020, 10:00 pm | #

      At the beginning, we saw his flesh crush a stone table.
      Now, the table’s have turned and flesh has remade what was stone.
      The cycle continues…

      • Steel-Whirler
        Steel-Whirler
        August 2, 2020, 10:10 pm | #

        Regardless, this has some… implications. Is she human now, or merely clad in flesh instead of stone?

        I find it highly dubious that white chain is Soloman’s ‘daughter’ now, even if she is human at all–‘twould be unjust to imply her intrinsic nobility has any relation to his tyranny. Successor, heir, and superior, by all means. But progeny? That would rob her of her agency, and it makes the supposition that she is human…

        Indeed, this could only be a passing visage–a rememberance. But… we shall see.

        • Crumplepunch
          Crumplepunch
          August 2, 2020, 10:38 pm | #

          I don’t think she could qualify as human, she still has a soul of white fire, but I expect that will be explored presently.

          • Tenthyr
            Tenthyr
            August 3, 2020, 1:28 pm | #

            Even better, she’s something NEW.

        • Not Incubus
          Not Incubus
          August 3, 2020, 3:36 am | #

          He asked for a Son to fell him, all he will get is daughters.

          • A surprised vendor of noodle vending supplies
            A surprised vendor of noodle vending supplies
            August 3, 2020, 9:58 am | #

            It is said that the only reason he has only sons is that he did not feel any of them could adequately replace the ones he lost in the conquest of his planet.

            It will be illustrative to observe how he handles this set of circumstance.

        • He Who Must Not Be Named
          He Who Must Not Be Named
          August 3, 2020, 12:57 pm | #

          Ah, but what is a human but a soul clad in flesh rather than stone?

          • 2 Tranquil River
            2 Tranquil River
            August 3, 2020, 2:25 pm | #

            Willpower, with a spark of passion tempered by law.

        • ineptmule
          ineptmule
          August 3, 2020, 1:04 pm | #

          “whoever strikes a blow against me will be given their hearts desire” (paraphrasing)

          Perhaps it is more instantaneous and more literal than it initially appeared

          • 69 Shitposts Summits The Meme
            69 Shitposts Summits The Meme
            August 3, 2020, 7:28 pm | #

            Holy shit I absolutely L O V E this theory, fuck yes.

        • 37 Heretic Flame Immolates the Complacent
          37 Heretic Flame Immolates the Complacent
          August 3, 2020, 2:35 pm | #

          Pretty sure her appearance has nothing to do with Solomon. In her pure angel form she already had facial characteristics resembling her current appearance, so more than likely that’s who she always was inside. Also recall her mirror reflection from the scene where Angel Bros are chastising her for being what she is.

          • 62 Burning Mind Witnesses the Descent
            62 Burning Mind Witnesses the Descent
            August 4, 2020, 8:35 pm | #

            ^^^ this

          • giovannino
            giovannino
            August 6, 2020, 2:57 pm | #

            which chapter pls?

        • Glucose
          Glucose
          August 4, 2020, 3:57 pm | #

          Are we not all merely clad in flesh?

    • 9 Granite Pillar Splendid With Swords
      9 Granite Pillar Splendid With Swords
      August 2, 2020, 10:10 pm | #

      Glory to the New Flesh.

      • Pazuto the Chirping
        Pazuto the Chirping
        August 2, 2020, 10:13 pm | #

        LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH

      • Xaphaniariel of the Black Flame
        Xaphaniariel of the Black Flame
        August 2, 2020, 11:49 pm | #

        GLORY TO THE NEW FLESH

        • Hoarse Sycophant
          Hoarse Sycophant
          August 3, 2020, 1:32 am | #

          THE ASH IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!

      • Palest Ebony
        Palest Ebony
        August 3, 2020, 6:33 am | #

        NEW FLESH, NEW FLESH!

      • HonkerBonker
        HonkerBonker
        August 3, 2020, 7:37 pm | #

        Honks to the New Flesh !

    • Wyrm Speaker
      Wyrm Speaker
      August 3, 2020, 12:48 am | #

      Gog-Agog must be agog.

      • Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
        Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
        August 3, 2020, 6:35 pm | #

        She’s probably wandering around in afog.

    • Knox
      Knox
      August 3, 2020, 2:37 am | #

      I think I need a moment to lie down.

      • The Healer
        The Healer
        August 3, 2020, 2:58 pm | #

        I’m with you here. Flowery words will come later.

    • Seat of Chance, Throne of Fate
      Seat of Chance, Throne of Fate
      August 3, 2020, 3:31 am | #

      was this from a drop of blood that was drawn?

    • 67 Hot Stone Perceives the Unfortunate
      67 Hot Stone Perceives the Unfortunate
      August 3, 2020, 3:57 am | #

      You got it. You summarized the entire readership to this.

      • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        August 3, 2020, 6:53 am | #

        ‘Tis a fine summation.

        It is HOLY and a mind FUCK of delightful content.

        • Magister Gumbo, Mimic Merchant
          Magister Gumbo, Mimic Merchant
          August 3, 2020, 9:52 pm | #

          Dave: Omae wa mo shindei—HOLD UP >:nu
          White Chain: what? My final form has a final form
          Allison: \(*u*)/
          Cio: *pfff* showoff >Bn/
          Juggernaut Star: is that even tournament legal? /:n(
          Gog: *munching on rulebook sounds*

    • 9884978 Closes Mule’s Gate
      9884978 Closes Mule’s Gate
      August 3, 2020, 4:06 am | #

      so say we all

    • NyJoanzy
      NyJoanzy
      August 3, 2020, 4:54 am | #

      I’ll take that you meant “Holy Fuck” in the most literal of terms.

    • Lol
      Lol
      August 3, 2020, 5:46 am | #

      More like black chain

    • First Serpent Counts Stars
      First Serpent Counts Stars
      August 3, 2020, 3:32 pm | #

      I was going to start with ‘What the-” But otherwise agreement, yes.

    • Beachfox
      Beachfox
      August 3, 2020, 9:22 pm | #

      The exact fucking comment I was logging in to make!

    • Coolhand
      Coolhand
      August 4, 2020, 1:08 am | #

      I…concur!

    • Swallowing Void
      Swallowing Void
      August 4, 2020, 8:32 pm | #

      She is the first angel to walk in flesh since the demiurges banished them to the void how interesting.

      • Un-Fel, Ominous Quoter
        Un-Fel, Ominous Quoter
        August 6, 2020, 2:45 pm | #

        This is not what Un-Koss forged.

        This is a New Flesh, Forged in Emptiness to Subdue Evil.

    • AntMac
      AntMac
      August 5, 2020, 10:12 am | #

      I saw this coming.

      ( I did not see this coming )

      • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        August 5, 2020, 11:11 am | #

        Hey, no worries. I thought this page would explode!

        … kinda what happened, but, ah, never mind.

    • elderdoggy
      elderdoggy
      August 6, 2020, 12:28 am | #

      UNHOLY GODS OF SPACETIME – THAT WAS EPIC. thank you abbadon.

  2. 12 Horrible Goose Steals Bell From Village
    12 Horrible Goose Steals Bell From Village
    August 2, 2020, 9:39 pm | #

    SHE’S A REAL GIRL NOW, GEPETTO

    • Potato Patato Von Spudsworth III
      Potato Patato Von Spudsworth III
      August 3, 2020, 5:14 am | #

      Does that make 10 Vigilant Gaze the Wishing Fairy? Or is he Jiminy Cricket? But if he became a real boy, wouldn’t he look like a jacked Gepetto??

      • Milk
        Milk
        August 3, 2020, 2:23 pm | #

        He does have six limbs. Insect.

    • 2 Tranquil River
      2 Tranquil River
      August 3, 2020, 2:27 pm | #

      It must be possible to learn this power.

      Also, I agree with Milk.

      • Milk
        Milk
        August 3, 2020, 6:27 pm | #

        I hope it’s possible. I’m filled with the burning need to see a human Juggernaut Star now.

  3. Bushidoman
    Bushidoman
    August 2, 2020, 9:40 pm | #

    huh?

  4. Cry Baby Devil
    Cry Baby Devil
    August 2, 2020, 9:41 pm | #

    WHAT A TWIST.

  5. 4 Exclamation Compose Utter Silence
    4 Exclamation Compose Utter Silence
    August 2, 2020, 9:41 pm | #

    !! AI AI !!
    !! HOLY FUCKING SHIT MOM GET THE CAMERA !!

  6. Partheniad
    Partheniad
    August 2, 2020, 9:42 pm | #

    FREE THE TITTY

  7. Ioseph bar Ioseph
    Ioseph bar Ioseph
    August 2, 2020, 9:42 pm | #

    Have you ever punch so hard you manifested physically?

    • Edomaur of the Unsided Dice
      Edomaur of the Unsided Dice
      August 3, 2020, 10:00 pm | #

      That’s exactly it : m = E/c^2

      • 11 Inverted Relativity smacks One-Stone
        11 Inverted Relativity smacks One-Stone
        August 6, 2020, 1:54 am | #

        Inverted relativity? What does that mean?

        • Geek
          Geek
          August 6, 2020, 1:20 pm | #

          That’s the equation for how you get mass/matter from energy. Simply divide energy by the speed of light squared! 😀

        • Un-Fel, Death God from the Past's Future
          Un-Fel, Death God from the Past's Future
          August 6, 2020, 2:48 pm | #

          Just solve for m instead of E.

          It’s the same ratio, expressed differently.

  8. cora
    cora
    August 2, 2020, 9:43 pm | #

    Oh hell yeah! She cut his face and stole the diamond key!

    • The Unreligious Man
      The Unreligious Man
      August 3, 2020, 5:14 am | #

      Where do you get this? In none of the panels is he seemingly injured, even if it is a mere scratch, and the key is still clearly on his forehead

      • Refthi Efthauvra, dragon goddess
        Refthi Efthauvra, dragon goddess
        August 3, 2020, 5:01 pm | #

        Look to the hand. I think he could have scratched his knuckle.

      • 21 Indigo Cloud Enlightens the Unrepentant
        21 Indigo Cloud Enlightens the Unrepentant
        August 6, 2020, 5:19 pm | #

        While the key is in place, look to panels 14 and 15, the line of white chains punch clearly struck the side of Solomon’s face.

        See the jagged tear in the bright line?

  9. DS
    DS
    August 2, 2020, 9:43 pm | #

    MISSION STATUS: SICK

  10. C-33 Protects Loved Ones
    C-33 Protects Loved Ones
    August 2, 2020, 9:44 pm | #

    wig snatched

  11. That Ninefold Empress On High
    That Ninefold Empress On High
    August 2, 2020, 9:44 pm | #

    STRIKE DOWN GOD AND CONSTRUCT FROM HIS CORPSE A SELF

    • Talia, the Flowering One
      Talia, the Flowering One
      August 3, 2020, 1:48 am | #

      Powerfully spoken

    • Un-Fel, Drinker of All Blood
      Un-Fel, Drinker of All Blood
      August 6, 2020, 2:49 pm | #

      \m/ O \m/
      Metal

  12. 97 One Stroke Strike 7 Hills
    97 One Stroke Strike 7 Hills
    August 2, 2020, 9:44 pm | #

    Our sister’s victory is complete.

  13. Magus Darnom
    Magus Darnom
    August 2, 2020, 9:44 pm | #

    Never in all my years…

  14. 46 Radiant Light Quells the Darkness
    46 Radiant Light Quells the Darkness
    August 2, 2020, 9:45 pm | #

    Our sister lives!

  15. Amelie W
    Amelie W
    August 2, 2020, 9:46 pm | #

    Reach Heaven through violence, eh?

  16. Lupin the eater of lupus
    Lupin the eater of lupus
    August 2, 2020, 9:46 pm | #

    OH NO, SHE’S HOT

    • lia
      lia
      August 3, 2020, 1:44 am | #

      astronaut with a gun voice always has been

      • Milk
        Milk
        August 3, 2020, 6:28 pm | #

        YISUN: “Wait, it’s all YISUN?”

        YISUN with a gun: “Always has been.”

        • seventeen infinitesimal consciousness witnesses the small brief fires of creation
          seventeen infinitesimal consciousness witnesses the small brief fires of creation
          August 4, 2020, 11:30 am | #

          this is some underappreciated shoit

        • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
          Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
          August 5, 2020, 11:12 am | #

          It is YISUN all the way down.

  17. merely pretending to be human
    merely pretending to be human
    August 2, 2020, 9:47 pm | #

    82 WHITE CHAIN BORN IN EMPTYNESS RETURNS TO SUBDUE EVIL

    • SillyHuman
      SillyHuman
      August 2, 2020, 11:51 pm | #

      If she Is Still “WHITE CHAIN BORN IN EMPTYNESS RETURNS TO SUBDUE EVIL”
      Wouldn’t that be 83?
      But She May Have Transcended The Pure White Flame Of Angelic Nature.

      • Ganurath
        Ganurath
        August 3, 2020, 4:09 am | #

        Metamorphic Angel 83 White Chain Born In Emptiness Returns To Subdue Evil, to be exact.

    • Ash Lays On Ground
      Ash Lays On Ground
      August 3, 2020, 2:19 am | #

      83 WHITE CHAIN BORN IN BATTLE RETURNS TO TRANSCEND KINGS

      • Not Incubus
        Not Incubus
        August 3, 2020, 5:57 am | #

        fucking metal

      • Akal Dharma Singh, Geas Knight
        Akal Dharma Singh, Geas Knight
        August 3, 2020, 3:24 pm | #

        You got the best name pick here.

        Also HOLY SHIT SHE’S A HUMAN NOW?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

    • nobody
      nobody
      August 4, 2020, 1:05 pm | #

      Null White Chain Resurges in Conflict to Challenge Dogma

  18. Eternal fan
    Eternal fan
    August 2, 2020, 9:48 pm | #

    Thanks for reading? No;

    Thanks for letting us read!

  19. Refhi
    Refhi
    August 2, 2020, 9:49 pm | #

    Couldn’t breath through the four pages.

    She’s… Done what now?

    Amazing art!

    • Smurfton
      Smurfton
      August 3, 2020, 1:03 am | #

      She lied to the universe, and the universe believed her. In this moment, she is Royalty.

      • Arona Kallz of the hidden number
        Arona Kallz of the hidden number
        August 3, 2020, 2:42 am | #

        I’d argue she did something better. She shouted her truth to the universe, and the universe believed her.

        • Refthi Efthauvra, dragon goddess
          Refthi Efthauvra, dragon goddess
          August 3, 2020, 5:20 pm | #

          I agree that she faced the truth and received its gift. The universe believed her: She will have the choice to not submit to wrongful law again.

          An Angel, bound permanently to Law itself, broke the Law in refusing to serve under its unyielding power. In doing so, it is possible that she made a NEW LAW, and thus became at least a Demigoddess… for a moment. After all, God IS the Word, and gods ARE the Law! If you break that law through an act of justice and self-will, you deserve to get a wish answered, though there will always be consequences. Alternately, because she chose Good over Law, she gained the power to conquer the Law that is the rigidity of Diamond. Either way…!

          I think we’ll see shortly what lingers, and I look forward to her new story: Born in emptiness, reborn in the true subdual of evil Law.

          I don’t think White Chain fell, though it is easy to believe that she did. The choice it appears she has been given is to be herself, free to be human, to feel pain and need, to become something both less and more than mere mindful power.

          The choice to become Real.

          And she is beautiful. I would love her willingly for all this and more.

  20. DS
    DS
    August 2, 2020, 9:51 pm | #

    Will Salami Dave survive having the energy of an angel pass through his body? I vote he slowly collapses on the next page – if not dead, de-throned at the very least.

    • Subzero
      Subzero
      August 2, 2020, 10:10 pm | #

      Well technically, as long as he didn’t spill any blood, the fight should still be on.

      I’m eager to see what this new WC can do.

      • Fruit Monkey
        Fruit Monkey
        August 2, 2020, 10:28 pm | #

        Those were always his rules. Why recognise them?

        • Uncle Fiend
          Uncle Fiend
          August 2, 2020, 10:52 pm | #

          Because that’s what White Chain agreed to said rules and I feel she’s pretty honorable.

      • Nnelg
        Nnelg
        August 3, 2020, 1:34 am | #

        Pretty sure that a drop was spilled, since White Chain got her wish granted instantly.

      • Rakaydos
        Rakaydos
        August 3, 2020, 3:15 am | #

        -Spill- blood, or -draw- blood?

        Because if White chain is now his daughter… “Of his blood…”

        • The most wayward of cunuroi
          The most wayward of cunuroi
          August 5, 2020, 3:00 pm | #

          Solomon stops glowing purple about halfway down, and white chain has a small blue atum in her new human form. There’s smoke coming from her hand, and she’s crackling with lightning just like Solomon did in a previous image when he took his key from Yemmod.

          Also.

          White chain: Do you CrossFit? You can cross fuck off!”

      • Mopi Morrot of Pellhaven
        Mopi Morrot of Pellhaven
        August 3, 2020, 5:40 pm | #

        What is it when a whole body full of a king’s blood is stolen from him without spilling a drop, and with it his kingdom? Honestly sounds like heirdom to me.

    • Max™
      Max™
      August 3, 2020, 12:29 am | #

      Friday prediction: he reaches up with his left hand to touch his cheek, panel cut to: a drop of blood on his finger.

      Next panel: he looks down in surprise.
      Panel after: his goddamn arm came off, I can’t believe that happened!

      • 47 Cats Confused
        47 Cats Confused
        August 5, 2020, 5:09 am | #

        ‘Tis merely a flesh wound.

      • 73 Falling Stone Is Just Really Clumsy
        73 Falling Stone Is Just Really Clumsy
        August 7, 2020, 2:38 am | #

        My prediction is that he won’t just be surprised- he’ll be ecstatic!

    • 47 Names of Exaltations Forgotten
      47 Names of Exaltations Forgotten
      August 5, 2020, 5:23 am | #

      He’s looking not so good in that 3rd/4th last panel. The light has gone out of his eyes. He’s literally shocked. If not dead.
      If drawing a single drop of his blood was enough to win, killing him surely qualifies.

    • Rizz Rustbolt
      Rizz Rustbolt
      August 6, 2020, 12:01 pm | #

      He’s probably going to give her the old “lethal lookback” before having his head tumble to the ground.

  21. 169134 iterations of failure
    169134 iterations of failure
    August 2, 2020, 9:52 pm | #

    There we go, she inherited the looks of her new father

  22. Daydreamer
    Daydreamer
    August 2, 2020, 9:53 pm | #

    EVELYN: “He’s mortal.”

  23. space marine chapter master
    space marine chapter master
    August 2, 2020, 9:53 pm | #

    OH SWEET CHRISTMAS

  24. Subzero
    Subzero
    August 2, 2020, 9:56 pm | #

    HOLY SHIT

    Instead of receiving death, White Chain becomes a new form of life. And my god, what a badass transition.

    You can see Solomon David REALLY enjoying himself here, but for the first time (during this timeline at least) he’s caught off guard. Nothing like this has ever happened before, and it’ll be interesting to see how he reacts to THE UNIVERSE LITERALLY RESHAPING WHITE CHAIN TO SAY FUCK YOU.

    I wonder if that means White Chain can use Ki Rata now?

    • Crumplepunch
      Crumplepunch
      August 2, 2020, 10:12 pm | #

      I interpreted her ability to move in David’s frozen time as her mimicking his Ki Rata technique.

      • Seshia
        Seshia
        August 6, 2020, 6:31 pm | #

        I did not interpret this as her learning Ki Rata, but rather just pushing her shell so damn hard that it was able to move in Solomon’s frozen time.

        The way Solomon moves his whole body is in motion and he seems at home, if burdened, in this state. White Chain looked like a badly used puppet.

    • Uncle Fiend
      Uncle Fiend
      August 2, 2020, 10:53 pm | #

      Ki Rata is learned, not genetic. Just because her new body has Solomon’s DNA doesn’t mean she knows it. At best she might understand one or two tricks of it from trying to copy Dave.

      • Subzero
        Subzero
        August 3, 2020, 12:18 am | #

        That’s my point. White Chain clearly mimicked SD’s Ki Rata based abilities of moving ridiculously fast, so she may be able to use it now.

        • 16 Truth Burns Unworthy Eyes
          16 Truth Burns Unworthy Eyes
          August 3, 2020, 5:44 am | #

          Moving extremely fast seems to be a general angel ability.

          • Subzero
            Subzero
            August 3, 2020, 7:05 am | #

            Not Ki Rata fast, dude.

      • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        August 3, 2020, 6:56 am | #

        There is also the fact that she is potentially older than Rayuba, as an angel. There is a chance she dabbles in Ki Rata, no matter what other sources say on the matter of Who Can Breathe Just Right.

        • Betel Guise
          Betel Guise
          August 3, 2020, 8:08 pm | #

          If she knew it already she wouldn’t have been hurt so bad before

    • theidiotroadscumsendsoutforkleenex
      theidiotroadscumsendsoutforkleenex
      August 4, 2020, 7:44 pm | #

      Will they now shag for a week?

  25. Crow
    Crow
    August 2, 2020, 9:57 pm | #

    Her hair is already all braided up for the fight! And she took his key?!

    • smjjames
      smjjames
      August 3, 2020, 12:04 am | #

      She doesn’t have the key gem though…..

      • Domini
        Domini
        August 3, 2020, 2:55 am | #

        Given the keys were constructed from knowledge torn from Metatron, an angel’s, mind, I wonder if another angel doesn’t need the key as a physical object like a human does.

        We haven’t seen a single angel with a leystone. Maybe all they need is the KNOWLEDGE, and if White Chain just went through Solomon David’s body and maybe read his mind/knowledge, that could be all she needs to operate as if the has a key of kings.

        Anyway, we don’t know for sure, but my point is we’ve never seen an angel with a leystone of any sort, and the keys originated with stuff taken from Metatron, so it’s at least plausible things work differently for angels when it comes to keys.

        • 16 Truth Burns Unworthy Eyes
          16 Truth Burns Unworthy Eyes
          August 3, 2020, 5:46 am | #

          If this sort of magic works by lying to the universe and having it believe you, angels wouldn’t be any good at it.

          • Five Is A Star
            Five Is A Star
            August 3, 2020, 6:39 am | #

            Most angels, but not all angels.

          • Poor
            Poor
            August 4, 2020, 12:25 am | #

            She didn’t lie, she bluffed.

  26. IT'S A GIRL
    IT'S A GIRL
    August 2, 2020, 9:57 pm | #

    DAVE HAS A NEW DAUGHTER

  27. Emma the Thousand Nails
    Emma the Thousand Nails
    August 2, 2020, 9:58 pm | #

    Called it! Next stage.

  28. 25 Terrible ꙮ Without Regard For Decency
    25 Terrible ꙮ Without Regard For Decency
    August 2, 2020, 9:58 pm | #

    REACH HEAVEN THROUGH VIOLENCE!!!

  29. Aresius
    Aresius
    August 2, 2020, 9:58 pm | #

    I was literally frothing at the mouth for the long wait for this strip, but YISUN damn it, it was worth the wait!

    She’s broken her chrysalis/shell, released her true cold flame spirit, and then gained a new physical presence by punching through Solomon. Does this make White Chain his last daughter? As 169134 iterations of failure points out, she certainly seems to have taken after his appearance…

    • Subzero
      Subzero
      August 2, 2020, 10:09 pm | #

      It’s certainly possible, since White Chain’s soul flame essentially passed straight through him. There could be some degree of influence, especially since the diamond on her head seems like a telling symbol…

  30. Parabola
    Parabola
    August 2, 2020, 9:58 pm | #

    Mission Status: Sick As Hell Proclamation

  31. Big Brashi the Hard-Headed Devil
    Big Brashi the Hard-Headed Devil
    August 2, 2020, 9:59 pm | #

    I’ve always gotten my money’s worth at the tournament. but this is turning out to be an excessive bargain!

  32. The Ashen Chakravartin
    The Ashen Chakravartin
    August 2, 2020, 10:01 pm | #

    From stone, the flesh is incarnate.

  33. Illia, Throne Icemonger
    Illia, Throne Icemonger
    August 2, 2020, 10:01 pm | #

    …What in the name of the cold white flame just happened?

    That is one beautiful…angel?

    • Epsilon Rose
      Epsilon Rose
      August 3, 2020, 2:12 am | #

      This does remind me of tail of a certain monkey who awakened unto emptiness.

  34. Aresius
    Aresius
    August 2, 2020, 10:02 pm | #

    What I strongly doubt is that she has taken her “father’s” key. Her brow is clear, scars aside, and the lighting she’s clad in is more likely to be her own Atum

    • Steel-Whirler
      Steel-Whirler
      August 2, 2020, 10:06 pm | #

      Apotheosis;
      The elevation of someone to divine status; deification.
      Late 16th century: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apotheōsis, from apotheoun ‘make a god of’, from apo ‘from’ + theos ‘god’.
      While he’s definitely not her father, it would seem that he’s about to learn an important lesson in ‘whose-your-daddy’.

  35. Not Gog Agog
    Not Gog Agog
    August 2, 2020, 10:03 pm | #

    AND SHE WAS PERFECT IN EVERY WAY

    • Thrawcheld
      Thrawcheld
      August 3, 2020, 1:17 am | #

      Excellent, certainly, but I should hope not perfect. To be perfect is to be unchanging, and if there is one way she differs from her kin, it is in her mutability.

      • Malleable Aforethought
        Malleable Aforethought
        August 3, 2020, 1:48 am | #

        Or does perfection dwell within the variable nature and the adaptive state? Change the definitions, change the argument. Reach Heaven Through Violence.

      • Sixth Djinn of the Keyboard
        Sixth Djinn of the Keyboard
        August 3, 2020, 1:53 am | #

        Sib Thrawcheld confuses static and dynamic perfection. A three legged stool and a spinning top are both balanced, yet as long as the top spins it is the harder of the two to tip over. So too perfection.

  36. AdrienMenges Black Paladin of the third ring
    AdrienMenges Black Paladin of the third ring
    August 2, 2020, 10:04 pm | #

    This is something most amazing and so worth the years of reading and enjoying this comic. Beautifully and respectfully rendered, which only adds to the climactic feel of the situation. Tremendous!!

  37. WEAREGRID
    WEAREGRID
    August 2, 2020, 10:06 pm | #

    Has that been the point of this reincarnation cycle all along? The bodies were prisons crafted to hold their souls in the mortal plane, but if one is stronger than ones prison, one can break free and contain themselves at will? Does that mean she learned the point to the reincarnation cycle?

    Or does this mean she broke it? Refusing to give in and believe the hype, she became corporeal to experience real life?

    I suppose we shall soon find out. But until then.

    Holy fucking God damn shit, I mean what the fuck.

    Love the line work on her new body.

  38. 27 Black Rock Screaming into the Void
    27 Black Rock Screaming into the Void
    August 2, 2020, 10:07 pm | #

    Sweetness and LIGHT!!

  39. Nyarlathotep
    Nyarlathotep
    August 2, 2020, 10:08 pm | #

    AND THE CROWD GOES WILD

  40. Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
    Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
    August 2, 2020, 10:08 pm | #

    OH MY FUCKING GODDESS!

    thank you abbadon.

  41. GivenFlesh
    GivenFlesh
    August 2, 2020, 10:09 pm | #

    A weapon made out of self love.

    Also she punched so hard that she transitioned. Hell yes.

  42. arcticsunrise
    arcticsunrise
    August 2, 2020, 10:10 pm | #

    well that was a result i didn’t expect

  43. Hotblood
    Hotblood
    August 2, 2020, 10:11 pm | #

    HAIL THE NEW FLESH

  44. Roachly Prophet
    Roachly Prophet
    August 2, 2020, 10:13 pm | #

    Black Trans Lives Matter.

    • AeichJT
      AeichJT
      August 2, 2020, 10:48 pm | #

      KSBD SAID BLACK TRANS LIVES MATTER

      • 67 Hot Stone Perceives the Unfortunate
        67 Hot Stone Perceives the Unfortunate
        August 2, 2020, 10:54 pm | #

        HELL YEAH IT DID!

    • Max™
      Max™
      August 3, 2020, 12:27 am | #

      You can just call them angels too, I don’t think they’ll mind.

  45. NevaMind
    NevaMind
    August 2, 2020, 10:13 pm | #

    White Chain casts “Turn Stone to Badass.”

  46. Eliyahu
    Eliyahu
    August 2, 2020, 10:14 pm | #

    Apotheosis is the page title. The word means “becoming a god.” Which suggests that White Chain has, in fact, taken Solomon David’s key.

    White Chain Born from Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil. Bearer of the word DIAMOND and goddess of the seven-part world.

    • 498 Does Not Like The Smell of Cat Food
      498 Does Not Like The Smell of Cat Food
      August 2, 2020, 11:38 pm | #

      No, she hasn’t taken his key. However, what she has done is not explode, which is what usually happens to angels when their armour breaks, and to gain a form that suits her personally. What do you call an angel who is free of the restrictions placed on angels?

      • 1 Really Hoping This Reincarnation Thing Isn't a Scam
        1 Really Hoping This Reincarnation Thing Isn't a Scam
        August 3, 2020, 5:28 am | #

        Something polite.

        • Bluecho
          Bluecho
          August 3, 2020, 3:14 pm | #

          This is a good answer.

      • 9 Loving Fox Guards All Hearts
        9 Loving Fox Guards All Hearts
        August 3, 2020, 9:57 am | #

        Whatever the heck they want to be called.

      • The Undivided Pudding
        The Undivided Pudding
        August 3, 2020, 4:26 pm | #

        “Without the Old Law, what will we become?”

        “Free.”

    • Zanathan Aislingbody
      Zanathan Aislingbody
      August 3, 2020, 8:24 am | #

      Woo!

      • Not A Gog
        Not A Gog
        August 3, 2020, 9:59 pm | #

        God I hope she keeps the marks, I love this rune priestess style

  47. Subzero
    Subzero
    August 2, 2020, 10:14 pm | #

    This might be a bit out there, but I’m gonna predict the fight is going to just…stop over the next few panels.

    White Chain has, effectively, already won. She’s proven herself, not by Solomon’s standards, but her own. Everything Solomon has said about her not being worthy, about true strength and discipline, all that has been thrown back in his face in a manner even he can’t deny.

    Going back to Solomon’s system of proving worth through a contest of strength would, in my eyes, go against everything the story has been setting up over the last few pages. Strength beyond strength, finding a way to transcend the old “reach heaven through violence” paradigm that caused this misery to begin with.

    And her resemblance to Solomon David is surely not a coincidence.

    • The Sleeping Oracle
      The Sleeping Oracle
      August 2, 2020, 11:56 pm | #

      It may be that she has won by her terms, but I don’t think that means that the emperor will concede victory to her. I do think that this is such a development that the fight will be at least put on hold while everyone figures out what just happened.

      • Wielder of Truths
        Wielder of Truths
        August 3, 2020, 1:05 am | #

        She has his blood now.

        Dave can’t hit her now without spilling his blood. Thus he can’t win.

        • Basit Al-Sha'ir
          Basit Al-Sha'ir
          August 3, 2020, 3:44 am | #

          If that’s true she just needs to scratch herself, bleed a little, and auto-win.

          • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
            Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
            August 3, 2020, 7:01 am | #

            No need to spill one single drop.

            It is precious.

      • Adora Bell of the grey smoke
        Adora Bell of the grey smoke
        August 3, 2020, 1:08 am | #

        She doesn’t need to win. Or to continue fighting. She can just stop and admit defeat. She has gotten what she needed out of the fight, Salami Dave doesn’t matter.

        • Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
          Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
          August 3, 2020, 10:23 pm | #

          She may have gotten what she needs, but the story has not methinks.

    • Master Warrior Xiomar
      Master Warrior Xiomar
      August 3, 2020, 4:58 am | #

      ‘Reach Heaven Through Violence’ means ‘Achieve Divinity by Figuring Out How’, she did exactly that AND literally that.

    • Un' What Dwells In Darkness
      Un' What Dwells In Darkness
      August 3, 2020, 9:54 am | #

      WC never intended to win SD’s contest. Hers was a completely different fight, on completely different terms. The next page could perfectly be her saying “Okay, NOW it’s over. You’ve won your fight and I’ve won mine”.

    • TeeKay
      TeeKay
      August 6, 2020, 9:22 pm | #

      For Solomon it was a contest of strength. For White Chain it was a contest of soul all along, and I think in the end she made it so for Solomon too.

      His body is still up and standing, but I wonder if his soul still lives.

  48. Cora
    Cora
    August 2, 2020, 10:15 pm | #

    EXHALE THE HOT BREATH OF THE FLAME IMMORTAL

  49. Matilda M
    Matilda M
    August 2, 2020, 10:16 pm | #

    Hey just jumping in to say…… All Hail the New Flesh !!

  50. Amelie W
    Amelie W
    August 2, 2020, 10:16 pm | #

    Wait a minute, look at panels 14-15. That’s Solomon getting completely blindsided. White Chain moves much faster than him.

    That is, faster than Ki Rata.

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 3, 2020, 7:03 am | #

      I find it hard to move slowly when I am charging at full speed. Some other times, Big D was moving with no interruption, with no need to react, and at the beginning of this update he still had time to adjust his movements; as the scene closed, he found he couldn’t.

      We are all slaves to inertia. Newton’s second is a bitch.

  51. 67 Hot Stone Perceives the Unfortunate
    67 Hot Stone Perceives the Unfortunate
    August 2, 2020, 10:17 pm | #

    White Chain has reached new levels of awesome like. She just straight up changed her whole state of existence. Holy Shit.

  52. Trad, Querent of the Old Lawstones
    Trad, Querent of the Old Lawstones
    August 2, 2020, 10:18 pm | #

    I actually started screaming as I kept scrolling down and by the time I reached the end –

    By Koss, I am shaken down to my very core!

  53. Thiccanus Apreciater of Girthy Thighs
    Thiccanus Apreciater of Girthy Thighs
    August 2, 2020, 10:20 pm | #

    This developement, is quite fascinating to me, I must study this new form…to learn it’s power…

    *studies and sweats profusely*

    • WEAREGRID
      WEAREGRID
      August 2, 2020, 10:24 pm | #

      Your username says it all. Those things could crush GALAXIES

  54. Tyrfing
    Tyrfing
    August 2, 2020, 10:22 pm | #

    Well knew she had won, we just didn’t know that this was how she had won.

  55. Diem
    Diem
    August 2, 2020, 10:23 pm | #

    That excitement in panel four.

    • Kalon
      Kalon
      August 3, 2020, 6:55 pm | #

      I think that’s the one I love best – FINALLY someone might challenge him.

  56. Gay AF
    Gay AF
    August 2, 2020, 10:23 pm | #

    HOOOOOO IM GAY AND I SUPPORT THIS MESSAGE

  57. Chrysopoeia
    Chrysopoeia
    August 2, 2020, 10:24 pm | #

    Get your head out of the gutter, Pygmalion.

    • Milk
      Milk
      August 3, 2020, 4:31 pm | #

      Galatea: “She who is milk-white”

  58. Ocean
    Ocean
    August 2, 2020, 10:26 pm | #

    Shed yourself. Find your self. Abandon the thin shell surrounding you and become more.

    • 68 The Joker Eternally Waiting With A Pie
      68 The Joker Eternally Waiting With A Pie
      August 3, 2020, 5:21 pm | #

      Abandon the thin shell surrounding you and become thicc, you mean

      • Espiaraiti'i
        Espiaraiti'i
        August 4, 2020, 12:44 am | #

        The thiccer you are, the more of you there is, so they mean the same thing!

  59. REACH GENDER THROUGH VIOLENCE
    REACH GENDER THROUGH VIOLENCE
    August 2, 2020, 10:27 pm | #

    YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

    • 67 Hot Stone Perceives the Unfortunate
      67 Hot Stone Perceives the Unfortunate
      August 2, 2020, 10:48 pm | #

      Your username is the best and I echo your sentiment, this is AWESOME

  60. Damo
    Damo
    August 2, 2020, 10:29 pm | #

    “I wager everything I have on nobody ever being clever enough to figure out a way to land a finger on me.”

    Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

    • Jollicus Minimus
      Jollicus Minimus
      August 4, 2020, 12:02 pm | #

      Very well put.

  61. Az'Raji of Batmunkh Gompa
    Az'Raji of Batmunkh Gompa
    August 2, 2020, 10:30 pm | #

    HHH? FUCKING INDEED

  62. mFictionist
    mFictionist
    August 2, 2020, 10:32 pm | #

    I think Gog-Agog is going to once again need a moment.

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 3, 2020, 6:49 am | #

      … to sense a moment of weakness and tackle on Dave.

  63. sk
    sk
    August 2, 2020, 10:35 pm | #

    And then Allison lands in the arena like “I’m here to help!” but meanwhile, the fight is already over.

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 3, 2020, 7:30 am | #

      … where is my savage ally burn stamp, I know I have it here somewhere…

  64. 53 Provide Winter Air Through Green Carbon Lightning
    53 Provide Winter Air Through Green Carbon Lightning
    August 2, 2020, 10:36 pm | #

    ABSOLUTE MADLAD

  65. A Very Lost Traveller
    A Very Lost Traveller
    August 2, 2020, 10:37 pm | #

    Oh damn

  66. Lil' Sassy
    Lil' Sassy
    August 2, 2020, 10:39 pm | #

    White Chain doesn’t skip leg day.

  67. Dilani
    Dilani
    August 2, 2020, 10:45 pm | #

    HOLY SHIT WHITE CHAIN REBORN

  68. 32 Red Right Hand Crushes the Iniquitous
    32 Red Right Hand Crushes the Iniquitous
    August 2, 2020, 10:46 pm | #

    TRANSCENDANT

    Also – got your nose.

    • 2 Tranquil River Loses Nose
      2 Tranquil River Loses Nose
      August 3, 2020, 1:49 pm | #

      What nose?

  69. shada
    shada
    August 2, 2020, 10:51 pm | #

    I WAS RIGHT. I JUST THOUGHT SHE’D TAKE A WHILE LONGER TO GET IT

  70. Retrikaethan
    Retrikaethan
    August 2, 2020, 10:54 pm | #

    I HAVE NO WORDS ONLY A MIGHTY NEED TO SEE THE NEXT PAGES

    • Barfgag the Unforgiven
      Barfgag the Unforgiven
      August 3, 2020, 12:45 am | #

      My thought as well.

  71. Jarnsparv
    Jarnsparv
    August 2, 2020, 10:57 pm | #

    WHAT THE FUUUUUUUCK

  72. An Internally-Screaming Youth
    An Internally-Screaming Youth
    August 2, 2020, 10:58 pm | #

    …
    HHHHHH

  73. Apostate
    Apostate
    August 2, 2020, 11:00 pm | #

    GEDD’IM WHITE CHAIN! !

  74. bmouse
    bmouse
    August 2, 2020, 11:01 pm | #

    ::shrieks forever:: omg that’s my girl!!!!

  75. MG
    MG
    August 2, 2020, 11:05 pm | #

    Fast now! dont leave us hanging like this!

    • Aresius
      Aresius
      August 2, 2020, 11:23 pm | #

      The longer the wait, the more sublime the next page will be, MG! This one took a full week to draw, and by YIS and UN, Abaddon delivered!

  76. Kest
    Kest
    August 2, 2020, 11:07 pm | #

    It’s tough to be a god.

  77. Ctm
    Ctm
    August 2, 2020, 11:08 pm | #

    The devils are going to want in on this.

  78. 48 Painful Mountain Defeats the Wicked
    48 Painful Mountain Defeats the Wicked
    August 2, 2020, 11:08 pm | #

    tyrael ain’t got shit on white chain

  79. DLDracoRex
    DLDracoRex
    August 2, 2020, 11:14 pm | #

    R.I.P. Hat. ;_;

    • WEAREGRID
      WEAREGRID
      August 3, 2020, 7:15 am | #

      It will be missed, but if i have seen anything from how the keys manifest in the physical plane, likely she will have a glowing spiritual version of the hat made of the fire of her soul.

  80. Onearmed Atlas
    Onearmed Atlas
    August 2, 2020, 11:16 pm | #

    It is not from our greatest friends, but our greatest opponents, that we find the most reflection of the true self.

    The friend will always want to see the best of you.

    The opponent will always want to see the worst of you.

    But the opponent needs to see you at your best as well, to prepare the lesson of building high walls. No friend will teach you thus.

    Only in the latter mirror, do we see ourselves at our very worst, and at our very best.

    Only in the latter, do we see ourselves as we truly are.

    • Onearmed Atlas
      Onearmed Atlas
      August 2, 2020, 11:18 pm | #

      Thus, the master weeps when the pupil finally surpasses. Not for any reason but: The master can finally be seen in one’s whole.

      Only a master can recognize another master. Only the artist sees all the details in the paint. Only the Deity knows how lonely it is on the Throne.

  81. Archon
    Archon
    August 2, 2020, 11:17 pm | #

    *Ahem* okay, I’ve finally calmed down. Amazing art, epic as all hell and well worth the wait. She’s gorgeous too.

    For my part I hope this is all her: the white fire, lightning and glint of power on her brow are all there before she even touches Solomon. I suppose it could be cool if she took his key, but I don’t see that her new form or realised power needs to owe anything to him.

    • Aresius
      Aresius
      August 2, 2020, 11:25 pm | #

      I agree on every word, Preem Archon! I’m still giddy xD

    • Alvin Nobody
      Alvin Nobody
      August 3, 2020, 12:15 am | #

      This is my preferred take on it as well. White Chain has been pretty black coded since we were introduced to her form of cold white flame, and this . . . human shaped form very closely resembles that. The suggestions that has Soloman’s dna and thats why she looks like this seem unlikely to me.

    • Domini
      Domini
      August 3, 2020, 3:03 am | #

      It was stated way back in previous books that White Chain knew one of the names of Royalty/syllables of YISUN already.

      In that case, she WOULDN’T owe anything to Solomon David. They would simply be two individuals who both knew the same name of Royalty, and White Chain simply claimed an aspect of power of Yisun that she was already attuned with, likely long before Solomon David was even born.

      As for her appearance, I think it’s possible she might remind him of his wife or daughters in some way, providing enough of a shock that his Ki Rata concentration is disrupted long enough for him to be defeated.

      But, again, she’s always been portrayed as black when out of her shell. And this past book she’s repeatedly reminded everyone that “this is not my body”–and now she’s constructed a body that aligns with her mental image.

      As White Chain herself says–this isn’t about you (Solomon David), it’s about HER.

  82. 47 Pays Respects
    47 Pays Respects
    August 2, 2020, 11:18 pm | #

    F

    • 2 Tranquil River
      2 Tranquil River
      August 3, 2020, 1:54 pm | #

      F…FFFF… FUCKING HELL

  83. Rafael
    Rafael
    August 2, 2020, 11:20 pm | #

    Absolutely. Fucking. ROYAL.

    Abaddon, man, you’ve outdone yourself. Cheers.

  84. BlrgBlrgBlrg
    BlrgBlrgBlrg
    August 2, 2020, 11:21 pm | #

    A lot of comments are pointing to White Chain’s corporeal form’s resemblance to Solomon and wondering about its implications, but I’m not entirely sure the “resemblance” is intended? To me she looks like a flesh and blood version of her angelic form. The most obvious similarity with Solomon is the color of her skin, but I’m pretty sure she was always supposed to be black, judging by her features and “hairstyle” when she is out of her stone shell. Of course, I could be wrong and there might be some relevance to the ways she looks, but I think it’s just how she envisions herself.

    • Aresius
      Aresius
      August 2, 2020, 11:26 pm | #

      That could be true, indeed. Not owing Salami Dave even that would be majestic…

    • lemon
      lemon
      August 2, 2020, 11:31 pm | #

      im with u here!! i was a lil baffled when i saw everybody talking about that like its a given, when aside from both being black & muscular there’s not much resemblance imo :0

    • Archon
      Archon
      August 2, 2020, 11:48 pm | #

      I thought the same: The braids were unexpected, since her “hair” in her soul form has always been loose, but they make the scene more dynamic. Always thought it was really cool to see a humanoid angel with black features.

    • Shunka Warakin
      Shunka Warakin
      August 2, 2020, 11:58 pm | #

      I must agree! It is FAR more compelling to give every part of this victory to White Chain, and to make this her moment of total self-realization without Salami’s ‘help’ in any fashion other than that he has been the oppressor who has given her impetus to rise up and break him.

    • The Sleeping Oracle
      The Sleeping Oracle
      August 3, 2020, 12:05 am | #

      Hm. I’m not so sure about that. While it is true that White Chains’ angel form has the features related to black people, black skin comes in a multitude of shades. She is not just black like the emperor, she has the EXACT SAME skin color as him.

      Her muscularity, though, would be a false positive, I agree. Considering her martial training and active job, I would be more surprised if a human White Chains wasn’t in such prime physical condition.

      I also considered if she had his eye color, but no. The emperor’s eyes are purple even when he is not channeling his key. Her eye color is much more likely to reflect the color of her angel form, rather than a connection to the emperor.

      • Termite
        Termite
        August 3, 2020, 12:27 am | #

        I’m pretty sure her skin has a very slight blue tint, and his a very slight purple tinge, also I really hope tje pnly ghing she got from solomon is ki rata.

      • Inchoatl
        Inchoatl
        August 4, 2020, 12:31 am | #

        Actually, I believe his eyes were briefly not purple in King of Swords 5-47, possibly due to him being surprised. Could be an oversight on Abaddon’s part, but the colour does seem similar.

        Also, apologies if you end up getting pinged with two replies; tried to add a link the first time, but that seems to be disallowed.

    • 169134 iterations of failure
      169134 iterations of failure
      August 3, 2020, 12:58 am | #

      The diamond on her brow does not seem accidental. Solomon David, bearer of the word Diamond may well have had a role in White Chain’s transition. Turning into a human is not a power any angel that we know has had before. Her unbreakable will may have taken hold of some of his power to make it hers. Solomon David wanted an heir to give him everything he has. White Chain has taken it all.

      • Unperfectable
        Unperfectable
        August 3, 2020, 3:11 pm | #

        A white beam, apparently projected from WC’s forehead (as if she had a key), passing through SD’s head, incarnating with the form of Diamond.

        I don’t know what it means, but it means *something*, and it’s awesome.

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 3, 2020, 6:48 am | #

      More than Solomon, I suspect she feels a connection to Metia, the first human.

    • Dusk
      Dusk
      August 6, 2020, 12:09 am | #

      I agree! I also just really want this to be entirely White Chain’s victory, all of her willpower and everything she’s learned leading to the ultimate realization of herself. I feel like it would be a bit lessened by Salami Dave having a large part in it happening for her.

  85. Alvador
    Alvador
    August 2, 2020, 11:35 pm | #

    All I want to do…
    Is see you turn into…
    A giant woman.

    • Walang Mananangal
      Walang Mananangal
      August 3, 2020, 9:44 am | #

      A GIANT WOMAN

  86. Pontifex of Locusts
    Pontifex of Locusts
    August 2, 2020, 11:37 pm | #

    IA! GLORY TO THE NEW FLESH!

  87. ::3
    ::3
    August 2, 2020, 11:37 pm | #

    EVER FISTBUMP SOMEONE SO HARD YOU MANIFEST IN REALITY AS YOUR PREFERRED GENDER?

    • ::3
      ::3
      August 2, 2020, 11:38 pm | #

      GLORY TO THE NEW FLESH

    • Amelie W
      Amelie W
      August 2, 2020, 11:43 pm | #

      Not so far, but I know what I’ll be dreaming tonight.

  88. 18 Flames Scorch The World
    18 Flames Scorch The World
    August 2, 2020, 11:38 pm | #

    Well done sister… Well done…

  89. yurie
    yurie
    August 2, 2020, 11:43 pm | #

    REACH GENDER THROUGH VIOLENCE

  90. 12 Uriel Breaks Heaven for Joy
    12 Uriel Breaks Heaven for Joy
    August 2, 2020, 11:43 pm | #

    DID SHE JUST FUCKING KUNG-FU HERSELF A NEW BODY?!

    • Akal Dharma Singh, Geas Knight
      Akal Dharma Singh, Geas Knight
      August 3, 2020, 3:26 pm | #

      PRETTY MUCH.

      • 12 Uriel Breaks Heaven for Joy
        12 Uriel Breaks Heaven for Joy
        August 4, 2020, 2:08 am | #

        THAT’S DOPE AS SHIT!

  91. 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
    4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
    August 2, 2020, 11:52 pm | #

    this comic has been getting steadily worse with this femme fan service bs. i’m done. keep it

    • Shunka Warakin
      Shunka Warakin
      August 2, 2020, 11:59 pm | #

      Donald is that you?!

    • Alicio
      Alicio
      August 3, 2020, 12:01 am | #

      bye felicia

      • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        August 3, 2020, 5:00 pm | #

        eat shit

        • Nobody
          Nobody
          August 4, 2020, 2:09 am | #

          Why would you want people to consume you?

          • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
            4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
            August 4, 2020, 8:37 am | #

            you’re even smart

      • Dahl
        Dahl
        August 4, 2020, 6:47 am | #

        I don’t like this meme anymore.
        It’s insulting towards a fine one-armed lucky lady.

    • Tsath
      Tsath
      August 3, 2020, 12:30 am | #

      Light to your Saint, St. Felicia Patron of leaving.

      • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        August 3, 2020, 5:01 pm | #

        enjoy your recycled garbage herd goon

    • Barfgag the Unforgiven
      Barfgag the Unforgiven
      August 3, 2020, 12:47 am | #

      Tell us who you are again so we can miss you being gone.

      • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        August 3, 2020, 5:01 pm | #

        the scientist watching you crawl across the dish

    • 1 Really Hoping this Reincarnation Thing Isn't a Scam
      1 Really Hoping this Reincarnation Thing Isn't a Scam
      August 3, 2020, 5:33 am | #

      Please permit the door to hit you on the way out.

      • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        August 3, 2020, 5:02 pm | #

        you talk good one day

    • WEAREGRID
      WEAREGRID
      August 3, 2020, 7:19 am | #

      im genuinely confused….

      Are you saying you dont like boobies?

      What are you, a misogynist?

      • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        August 3, 2020, 5:03 pm | #

        i’m saying this may as well be a plank page and that I feel the whole of the internet is lessened by this failure

    • Supreme Femme Crushes The Throne
      Supreme Femme Crushes The Throne
      August 3, 2020, 3:11 pm | #

      Oh no. Wait. Don’t.

      • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        August 3, 2020, 5:04 pm | #

        you’re irrelevant

        • Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
          Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
          August 3, 2020, 8:20 pm | #

          What will I do with this sick burn.

          • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
            4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
            August 3, 2020, 8:44 pm | #

            no one will care regardless

        • 23 Slices of Kozmic Pepperoni
          23 Slices of Kozmic Pepperoni
          August 3, 2020, 10:14 pm | #

          Thank you, Preem Rectum.

          • Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
            Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
            August 4, 2020, 1:54 am | #

            Please. Stop. It’s too much

            • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
              4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
              August 4, 2020, 8:38 am | #

              no one cares

              • Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
                Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
                August 4, 2020, 1:04 pm | #

                I thought you were leaving? Please, come back, don’t go. We need one more of your sick burns. You mustn’t leave without having the last word on a webcomic.

                • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
                  4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
                  August 4, 2020, 2:04 pm | #

                  someone, somewhere, needs a feminist

                • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
                  4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
                  August 4, 2020, 2:05 pm | #

                  you responded to me asshole. which is typically how you femme toads behave. find a cat to abuse with your stupidity please

                  • Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
                    Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
                    August 4, 2020, 5:52 pm | #

                    You’re still here? I thought you were leaving? Perhaps just bluster then if you don’t have the self control to be true to your word. I’m here regardless, only one of us threatened to be “done.” Perhaps you are not done, after all.

                    • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
                      4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
                      August 4, 2020, 11:11 pm | #

                      i don’t care about you.

                    • Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
                      Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
                      August 5, 2020, 5:53 am | #

                      Is that so? That must be why you reload, to keep chatting because you do not care so much.

                    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
                      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
                      August 5, 2020, 10:53 am | #

                      SFCTT;

                      Do

                      not

                      feed

                      the

                      troll.

                      How is that not clear by now?

                    • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
                      4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
                      August 5, 2020, 7:24 pm | #

                      you are a hindrance to humanity and the world would be better off without you and the backwards garbage like you

                    • Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
                      Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
                      August 6, 2020, 2:29 pm | #

                      I’m glad you’re still here. Such delightful zings, delicious.

                    • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
                      4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
                      August 6, 2020, 3:34 pm | #

                      you turned off replies? are you starting to realize that you should really hop off a cliff? I spend my life wading through human garbage like you. you’d never speak to me in person and if you tried you would be stuttering like the mental quadriplegic you are

                    • Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
                      Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
                      August 6, 2020, 4:22 pm | #

                      No one turned off replies. The threads only allow for so many sub threads. Please, go on! I look forward to your next witty repartee. Will it be on my appearance next? Perhaps my intelligence? I’d love to hear one about my grammar and spelling mistakes. Do continue. And you’re still here for this party! How wonderful! The flaccidly frustrated, angry replies are a delight. I’m so glad you’ve changed your mind and want to stick around.

                    • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
                      4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
                      August 6, 2020, 8:40 pm | #

                      parasitic garbage

                    • Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
                      Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
                      August 7, 2020, 2:21 am | #

                      Come now, dear. That one was a bit pedestrian. Surely you have more creativity than that. I know you’re up to the task!

          • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
            4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
            August 4, 2020, 8:38 am | #

            good one

      • Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
        Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
        August 3, 2020, 7:04 pm | #

        You made the username just for this comment didn’t you?

        • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
          4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
          August 3, 2020, 8:43 pm | #

          no

    • Certified Sapphic
      Certified Sapphic
      August 3, 2020, 7:58 pm | #

      You know, you’re right — this comic needs more butch fanservice! GIVE US THE BUTCH GALS, ABBADON

    • 54 Black Rope LiquidatesThe Unmoral
      54 Black Rope LiquidatesThe Unmoral
      August 3, 2020, 11:02 pm | #

      Making two accounts just to bait? What a chad, I bet you’re hung like a horse and have a girlfriend along with a great social life.

      • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        August 4, 2020, 8:39 am | #

        you’re a common retard

      • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        August 5, 2020, 7:30 pm | #

        or just another one of the spineless faux men walking around worshiping your own brainless female cousins

    • You're A Dumbass
      You're A Dumbass
      August 4, 2020, 4:37 pm | #

      If you didn’t know this was coming from the very beginning of the comic, we’ve clearly been reading different things entirely lmfao

      • 4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        4000 Reflections Holy Motion In The Abyss
        August 4, 2020, 11:12 pm | #

        clearly

        • Illy
          Illy
          August 6, 2020, 10:57 am | #

          So you’re admitting that you’ve never actually read this comic?

  92. 12 Condescending Imperial Fool
    12 Condescending Imperial Fool
    August 2, 2020, 11:52 pm | #

    By the bouncing tits of Aesma what in the name of the wheel just happened! I literally have no reference for this this is so new and out of left field I don’t think this has ever happened amongst me kin.

  93. The Sleeping Oracle
    The Sleeping Oracle
    August 2, 2020, 11:54 pm | #

    It is always satisfying when things go as I have predicted.

    But when things go so far afield as this, that is when I wake.

  94. Grimoire Tejas
    Grimoire Tejas
    August 2, 2020, 11:55 pm | #

    TRANSCENDENCE!

    It seems as though my guess was right… in a roundabout manner. There was indeed a final, bombastic note, and what a glorious note it was. A manacle has been broken and a flame has been rekindled. An angel has become what she was always meant to be and the question now stands: What are you going to do now?

    How wonderfully interesting.

  95. Kryppers
    Kryppers
    August 3, 2020, 12:00 am | #

    To those in the audience not capable of slicing time, they are going to be very confused by this sudden appearance.

    • smjjames
      smjjames
      August 3, 2020, 12:13 am | #

      Yeah, it’ll look like a flash of light and possibly a sonic boom. Kind of a shame to hide the whole transcendance in bulletspeed.

  96. smjjames
    smjjames
    August 3, 2020, 12:00 am | #

    WHOA, transcendencion!

  97. Shunka Warakin
    Shunka Warakin
    August 3, 2020, 12:02 am | #

    Can I just say.
    Much respect has been given the thighs.
    Much respect has been given the heavenly transformation and the sublime perfection of form.
    Can I just say.
    THEM FRECKLES MAKE HER SO ADORABLE.

    • WEAREGRID
      WEAREGRID
      August 3, 2020, 7:20 am | #

      Yeah no kidding, i love freckles. But them thighs doe, they can crush galaxies i swear.

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 3, 2020, 7:50 am | #

      Say what you want, I’m in love with that tiny, bright Atum flame in the last panel.

      She is bright.

  98. Star of Thousands
    Star of Thousands
    August 3, 2020, 12:08 am | #

    SHAKE THE UNIVERSE UNTIL ITS SHAPE FITS THEE, ASCEND TO THE NEW FLESH

  99. Expertly Devout Monk Ethryamun-sen
    Expertly Devout Monk Ethryamun-sen
    August 3, 2020, 12:11 am | #

    aaAAAAAA. AHAHAHA. HAAAA, OH MAN, KICK HIS ASS.

    uh, for YISUN.

  100. motorfirebox
    motorfirebox
    August 3, 2020, 12:15 am | #

    Forty-six and two like a mofo.

    • Archon
      Archon
      August 3, 2020, 1:56 am | #

      Appropos. Excellent.

      • motorfirebox
        motorfirebox
        August 6, 2020, 1:41 am | #

        Glad somebody got it!

  101. Max™
    Max™
    August 3, 2020, 12:16 am | #

    BAM
    Black
    Angels
    Matter

  102. Murasaur
    Murasaur
    August 3, 2020, 12:21 am | #

    Literally stole my breath… I have yet to be able to close my mouth…

  103. Xibalba
    Xibalba
    August 3, 2020, 12:23 am | #

    He copied all of her styles, so she turned around and copied his. An angel spitting in the face of a god. Lucifer would be proud.

    Bravo!

  104. Aubade of Discarded Windchimes Descending
    Aubade of Discarded Windchimes Descending
    August 3, 2020, 12:30 am | #

    YOU GOT A NEW DAUGHTER NOW AND HER MOMMA IS KUNG-FU

  105. Wandering Sweeper
    Wandering Sweeper
    August 3, 2020, 12:30 am | #

    Thanks for making such an amazing comic.

  106. The Observing Eyes, Ovu-TOLL
    The Observing Eyes, Ovu-TOLL
    August 3, 2020, 12:31 am | #

    We continue to witness that which would have once been called unfathomable. Our gaze remains unerring, and we eagerly await further observations.

  107. babskin
    babskin
    August 3, 2020, 12:31 am | #

    These are, hands down, the most BEAUTIFUL comic pages I have ever seen. Absolutely breathtaking. Just wanted to break my usual lurking to say that you’re an incredible content creator and thank you so much for giving us a chance to see and read your work. Can’t even begin to describe the euphoria of reading these panels.

  108. 7 Thunder Of Judgement Crushes The Fortresses Of The Sinful
    7 Thunder Of Judgement Crushes The Fortresses Of The Sinful
    August 3, 2020, 12:50 am | #

    By the cold white fire… There aren’t words… I don’t understand, but I must know more!

  109. Kasi the Shallow
    Kasi the Shallow
    August 3, 2020, 12:51 am | #

    Kasi called it – a broken arm breaks the world!

  110. Appul
    Appul
    August 3, 2020, 12:52 am | #

    Ah yes this is the Pinocchio I remember.

  111. Quantum Alchemist
    Quantum Alchemist
    August 3, 2020, 1:04 am | #

    That smile, though.

    That smile when he realizes that the fight isn’t over. That for once he’s being challenged – even a little.

  112. Crazy Ulurhad, No Reasonable Offers Refused
    Crazy Ulurhad, No Reasonable Offers Refused
    August 3, 2020, 1:07 am | #

    Bearer of the word Diamond, and god of the seven part world.

  113. TheTuque
    TheTuque
    August 3, 2020, 1:09 am | #

    ……Can i have her number?

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 3, 2020, 6:46 am | #

      Dude.

      It’s 82.

      Get a clue.

      • WEAREGRID
        WEAREGRID
        August 3, 2020, 7:24 am | #

        There seems to be a bit of debate on whether it is 82 or 83 now, as she temporarily lost her body for a bit a while ago, and just now lost her body again, but this time without going to the spirit realm to wait for a new one and just saying fuckit and making her own, so depending on whether the number is how many times theyve *died* or how many *bodies* theyve had or how many times theyve *manifested*

        she could be 81, 82, 83, 0, or 1. i suppose only time will tell.

        • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
          Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
          August 3, 2020, 7:28 am | #

          I know, I am partial to 1, myself! It’s just that being precise woulda, kinda, broken the course of the response.

          … I’m a dork around beautiful comics.

        • Owlrageous
          Owlrageous
          August 5, 2020, 4:05 am | #

          Well AFAIK the number only increments when their ‘soul’ dies, and crystallizes to await the reignition of the flame and return.

          White Chain’s physical shell has been ‘killed’ numerous times. Once when Delicious hit her a vacus needle for example but 82 White Chain was never killed in the way that 23 Liminal Blossom Punctures The Heart Of The Unrepentant, Deliciously did when she was broken by Juggernaut Star’s wheel.

    • Erik-san
      Erik-san
      August 4, 2020, 1:06 am | #

      I think… 83?

  114. Fuck you abbadon
    Fuck you abbadon
    August 3, 2020, 1:14 am | #

    what a horrible asspull of a scene. enjoy your lesbian fetish porn disguised as a woke martial arts manga fellas, im dipping.

    • Grab your popcorn
      Grab your popcorn
      August 3, 2020, 1:30 am | #

      And the community is better for it, the less incels the better. thanks for showing yourself the door.

      • Bob
        Bob
        August 3, 2020, 4:27 am | #

        Interesting, does that mean there is no way at all to criticize?

        I mean, clearly better than what he did there, but can a critique be head or will it be screeched into oblivion?

        • Questioner
          Questioner
          August 3, 2020, 6:36 am | #

          Constrictive criticism is one thing, but it loses all its power for change when such pointed aggression is used.
          Interesting you push back. Not saying you can’t or aren’t allowed to, but while yes I agree there must be balance, we aren’t even at the tipping point yet. Why pull back now?

        • Fool
          Fool
          August 3, 2020, 1:21 pm | #

          Abbadon has been rightfully criticised in the past for weird objectification / fetish stuff (hello bondage nun) and poor writing choices. However, he still writes a damn good comic and I think he has good intentions overall. Some people do seem to view this comic as ‘wow, hot lesbians fighting’, which is a shame since it has such rich lore and great characters. I don’t consider this page to be fetishy but, while I do love this development for White Chain, it does feel a bit deus ex machina. Angelus ex Deo?

          • Fool
            Fool
            August 3, 2020, 1:22 pm | #

            Anyway I love WC and I’m happy for her and black trans lives matter.

            • Metallurgist
              Metallurgist
              August 4, 2020, 6:23 pm | #

              Is that the latter-day Shahadah of the woke crowd?

              • Un-Fel, Ominous Quoter
                Un-Fel, Ominous Quoter
                August 6, 2020, 2:52 pm | #

                “There is no god but goddess, and the Bureau of Land Management is her prophet.”

          • Icthys of the Sushi-rolling Guild
            Icthys of the Sushi-rolling Guild
            August 3, 2020, 7:50 pm | #

            At first I felt like it was a little out of the blue as well, but in reflection I’d argue that there is a significant amount of foreshadowing that White Chain will grow beyond their body of stone, especially from Vigilant Gaze.

            • Fool
              Fool
              August 4, 2020, 12:55 am | #

              Oh absolutely there is foreshadowing, it was basically WC’s whole deal. But the actual execution of it was a bit… cheap, maybe? Yes it’s supposed to be surprising but there wasn’t much to suggest that this was even possible, never mind that it was going to happen during this fight, so the reader is kinda left out of the moment. Like oh ok, that happened, I guess. Foreshadowing is good because it makes you feel satisfied, instead of confused, by the plot twist. Maybe I just want to dwell in the foreshadowing stage forever, while Abbadon is desperately trying to get to the end, but I wanted more.

    • LEMUR
      LEMUR
      August 3, 2020, 1:39 am | #

      Ignorant and proud of it. Quite the combination. Have fun wondering why everyone’s having a good time and you’re the sour fuck at the party.

    • Hedonismbot
      Hedonismbot
      August 3, 2020, 2:10 am | #

      Alienate 6 Billion Incels

    • Gnome de Plume
      Gnome de Plume
      August 3, 2020, 4:53 am | #

      And so we say good bye to 1488 Incel Pissbaby Gets Angry Online

      Better luck next incarnation

    • WEAREGRID
      WEAREGRID
      August 3, 2020, 7:25 am | #

      Ive said it before, ill say it again,

      im genuinely confused,

      do you *not* like boobies?

      What are you, gay?

      • Avernic
        Avernic
        August 3, 2020, 12:46 pm | #

        Really? Can someone PLEASE come and pick up their 12-year-old

    • Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
      Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
      August 3, 2020, 3:15 pm | #

      Oh no. how will we go on without you.

    • Espiaraiti'i
      Espiaraiti'i
      August 4, 2020, 1:05 am | #

      “Fellas”

      I feel like you underestimate the appeal of this comic to women, particularly the LGBT+ variety. Women in this comic are those who look, rather than being seen; those who act, rather than being acted upon; those who fight, rather than being fought over. For women, admiring the female form in that context is beautiful because we can feel properly *embodied* rather than merely *objectified.* In this case, White Chain has quite *literally* transitioned away from inhabiting an object, and thus become de-objectified.

      And indeed, White Chain’s embodiment has been a long time coming. All the preparation for this moment, emotionally and spiritually, has resulted in elevation rather than degradation; and in seeing her elevated embodiment, we too are elevated along with her. It’s a pity that you can’t enjoy this experience with us. Being able to share in transcendence is a beautiful thing.

      • Max™
        Max™
        August 5, 2020, 5:56 am | #

        LET US NOW FISTBUMP INTO GLORIOUS NEW WOKE EXISTENCES!

    • You're A Dumbass
      You're A Dumbass
      August 4, 2020, 4:42 pm | #

      My guy, this scene has been built up to since page 14 of the comic. If you somehow missed this coming in the last 500 pages, you’re a brainless moron lmao

  115. Pios The Innocent
    Pios The Innocent
    August 3, 2020, 1:32 am | #

    Name a more hardcore way to be born than to punch yourself into existence

    Hint: there ain’t one

    • Grimoire Tejas
      Grimoire Tejas
      August 3, 2020, 1:37 am | #

      Born anew by the power of the Punch Force.

    • 203 Keeps Getting Spawnkilled
      203 Keeps Getting Spawnkilled
      August 4, 2020, 2:21 pm | #

      Hera was born by bursting fully armed from Zeus’ forehead, if that counts for anything.

      • 85 Lord of the Hamsters
        85 Lord of the Hamsters
        August 4, 2020, 3:59 pm | #

        Hera? Or Athena?

      • Pios the Innocent
        Pios the Innocent
        August 4, 2020, 11:03 pm | #

        Homie…

        that was Athena, Hera was Zeus’ sister/wife.

  116. Dolphy and The Lotus Key
    Dolphy and The Lotus Key
    August 3, 2020, 1:40 am | #

    Holy Frijoles!

  117. WormArmy
    WormArmy
    August 3, 2020, 1:43 am | #

    As I am below the age of 41 I cannot view this AWFUL SMUNT

  118. It's useful to remember what the Keys are not
    It's useful to remember what the Keys are not
    August 3, 2020, 1:56 am | #

    The stone fails, the spirit strives, the flame flickers, and through it all White Chain is true to her word.

    Solomon is “Diamond” only by virtue of the key on his brow, but White Chain proves herself Royalty incarnate; Diamond is White Chain, not the other way around, and Solomon may soon discover what that truly means.

  119. Six Villains in a Trenchcoat
    Six Villains in a Trenchcoat
    August 3, 2020, 2:00 am | #

    Wow.

    Uh. We’re a classy bunch, so normally we’d offer the lady a trenchcoat, but we have only one and also she’s real scary.

  120. LEMUR
    LEMUR
    August 3, 2020, 2:00 am | #

    The freckles incidently are tres adorable.

    She looks surprisingly young, wonder if she’ll turn out to resemble his long departed daughter?

    And It looks like she blew by/through him so fast, Solomon hasn’t even figured out something has happened yet. Be interesting to see the implication of The diamond mark. Also interesting to see how this factors into Alison’s development.

    We knew this would be good, but this good? Oh well done.

  121. Talia, the Flowering One
    Talia, the Flowering One
    August 3, 2020, 2:01 am | #

    Brava.
    Brava.
    Brava.

    That I should be so blessed as to see this wild new growth, an angel’s wish being granted. Hail the new flesh.

  122. Bemargo
    Bemargo
    August 3, 2020, 2:05 am | #

    BRO!!!?!?!?!?!?!? FUUUUUUCKIN’ YAAAAAS?!?!? WHAT THE HELL OMG YES WHAT WHAT WHAT FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!

    • Unsleeping
      Unsleeping
      August 3, 2020, 7:05 am | #

      I concur.

  123. The Phoenixian
    The Phoenixian
    August 3, 2020, 2:06 am | #

    Can we all take a moment here to appreciate that how appropriate White Chain’s full name is to this moment?

    In all her lives before “White Chain Returns from Emptiness to Subdue Evil” might have meant coming back from death to protect Throne again but here and now it’s more true than ever.

    Right now she’s embodying that chain, both in fulfilling the culmination of the chain of her own lives, and the second link in Allison’s chain of Royalty, and in becoming flesh and blood at last she’s returning from she’s returning from the empty void in order to fight Solomon, not simply to defend the system from evil without but to destroy the evil of the system itself.

    This action is the literal embodiment of her name, realized at last.

    • Refthi Efthauvra, dragon goddess
      Refthi Efthauvra, dragon goddess
      August 3, 2020, 5:45 pm | #

      It was noted earlier in the comments that White Chain does or might know one of the True Words… but Angels are literal Law given form. They are scribed from verses of the Word. I think your argument has merit. And ultimately, if White Chain has power over Law by refusing to submit, she now potentially manifests at least one true Word of her own, either the word she knew or the word she has become.

      Is it Transcendence? Fire? Law? Love? Rebirth?

      I eagerly wait to see.

    • Archon
      Archon
      August 3, 2020, 6:34 pm | #

      Love this observation <3

  124. 8 Frozen Sigil Shatters the World
    8 Frozen Sigil Shatters the World
    August 3, 2020, 2:06 am | #

    White Chain: “I reject your reality and substitute my own”.

  125. Morgan the Metal Shaper
    Morgan the Metal Shaper
    August 3, 2020, 2:16 am | #

    Uh, does White Chain know how breathing works? Is that a thing Angels normally do?

  126. Bob the Ipturner
    Bob the Ipturner
    August 3, 2020, 2:20 am | #

    Solomon punched White Chain so hard she turned black

    Nice

  127. Fenizrael
    Fenizrael
    August 3, 2020, 2:22 am | #

    Metamorphosis!

  128. 12 Malignant Nocebo Effect Elicits Somatic Response
    12 Malignant Nocebo Effect Elicits Somatic Response
    August 3, 2020, 2:39 am | #

    dinnae expect that o_O

  129. 112 Burbling Brooke Brings Succour to the Distressed
    112 Burbling Brooke Brings Succour to the Distressed
    August 3, 2020, 2:39 am | #

    The egg known as Chainbreaker has officially hatched.

  130. Inchoatl
    Inchoatl
    August 3, 2020, 2:46 am | #

    Her next reincarnation indeed.

  131. Kal Spiro
    Kal Spiro
    August 3, 2020, 2:58 am | #

    So she’s black now? I thought she was blue…

    • Gnome de Plume
      Gnome de Plume
      August 3, 2020, 4:51 am | #

      Her ideal human self was seen in a much earlier page with brown skin.

      • Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
        Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
        August 3, 2020, 7:07 pm | #

        Can you link?

    • 2 Tranquil River
      2 Tranquil River
      August 3, 2020, 1:59 pm | #

      Da Ba Dee, Da Ba Die.

  132. Thrawcheld
    Thrawcheld
    August 3, 2020, 2:58 am | #

    Last panel: Ki Rata is a breathing technique. It was thought that angels cannot learn it, as they do not breathe. White Chain seems to have found, or created, a means to bypass that limitation.

  133. Waldobaby
    Waldobaby
    August 3, 2020, 3:01 am | #

    Another girlfriend for the sorority chick?

    • Illy
      Illy
      August 6, 2020, 11:04 am | #

      I thought that was obvious from waaay back?

  134. TransAndSad
    TransAndSad
    August 3, 2020, 3:06 am | #

    So I read this page and cried a little bit. Is it weird that it hurts? It’s the kind of pain that happens when I imagine something nice that I know cannot happen. She gets to punch her way to a perfect female body. I’m happy for her, I really am. She’s been through an eternity of struggle and it’s great that she gets to have that. But it’s something that can’t happen out here, not so completely, no matter what you do or how much or how long you struggle, and it hurts so much.

    • Six Villains in a Trenchcoat
      Six Villains in a Trenchcoat
      August 3, 2020, 4:12 am | #

      It’s not weird. It’s a pretty common sentiment. The Sharing Trenchcoats community is no stranger to dysphoria.

      The beauty of fiction, the beauty of lies, is that White Chain’s not wrong. Stubbornness and dedication and flat out not accepting an unacceptable reality CAN work miracles. Lies CAN become true.

      Lies like this one will be the inspiration for the people who, one day, will make the dream of perfected bodily alteration a reality.

      We won’t probably be here to see that, which is sad. But until that day, know that you’re not alone, and that there will always be wise people out there who will know you for the fire within rather than the shell.

      • WEAREGRID
        WEAREGRID
        August 3, 2020, 7:39 am | #

        I had a comment written out but it apparently got eaten by the timelords.

        Suffice to say in a future where everything can be cured, it will be interesting to see which happens more, the mind cured of dysphoria or the body cured that disagrees with the mind.

        I pointed out that some studies seem to indicate that even transitioning doesnt help some dysphoria sufferers, and that many others who didnt transition just ended up gay.

        So in the super science future, it is likely that you will already be in the correct body and wont be able to believe you arent, since all that will get straightened out before youre old enough to remember. Assuming that dysphoria even can be cured, or that we ever can get molecular organic body makers, etc.

        Im a personal fan of genetic modification and think we should go straight to nanobots and grey fog and superhumans able to survive anything, because why choose what anyone else wants for you and just make your own? That said, as long as we are a sexually dimorphic species and we dont somehow fuck that up, cloning your own new humans from scratch might be easier than using sex in the far future. I mean, pretty sure if you have the ability to make kids out of base materials and dont require sitting around for 9 months to do it, few would choose to undergo that unless theyre into like, egg laying or something. And if the desire for sex for pleasure essentially goes away as our brains become more powerful and able to cope with our desires, sexual organs might disappear entirely and we might just have dopamine buttons 😛

        Meh, too many possible futures to know which will happen.

        • The Architect
          The Architect
          August 3, 2020, 12:21 pm | #

          Child, you have spectacularly misunderstood life.

        • Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
          Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
          August 3, 2020, 7:10 pm | #

          There is a lot to say about what you wrote, but I am going to content myself to this:

          I, for one, hope sex never goes away.

        • 2 Thralls of the Great Machine
          2 Thralls of the Great Machine
          August 5, 2020, 6:58 pm | #

          …there is nothing wrong with my mind.

          Gender dysphoria comes up out of desynchronization; the idea of ‘curing’ it in place is elementally terrifying and vastly worse than the disease. That is not fixing a person: that is destroying a person.

          I have seen a cure to this, and it was becoming who I am. Some have always been so, some have become so over the course of time, and some – like us, like White Chain – used an act of defiance, of breaking ourselves, to become who we are.

          We’re all different, but one thing is the same of all of us:

          Those of us who suffer or have suffered from gender dysphoria are not sick. There is no ‘cure’ which is not either wholesale ego death or growing into ourselves.

          Like… I get where you’re coming from, I know you don’t have skin in this game and I don’t think you’re trying to be weird or bad any which-way, but *please* try to understand that this angle is rrrrrrreal bad, like, bad for *real*.

        • Illy
          Illy
          August 6, 2020, 11:06 am | #

          If conversion therapy worked, then the thing to be scared of is the DollHouse.

    • Torabi
      Torabi
      August 3, 2020, 1:51 pm | #

      Of course it hurts, that the world is an imperfect thing, full of imperfect things. We tell each other stories, grasping at the pieces of the perfect world we’d like to live in, and that’s what drives us. Never satisfied, always wanting more. The gap between the ideal and the real is what creates the pressure, the breath, the motion of a living world.

      Knowing that doesn’t make it hurt any less. But we’ve got to find a way to channel that pain into overcoming the obstacles we face. Focus on the goal, cut it apart, separate what’s truly important from the distractions. Don’t obsess about the path, just keep walking towards the goal.

    • Pepper Salt Chips
      Pepper Salt Chips
      August 3, 2020, 3:03 pm | #

      Trans and sad. Many years ago i was in your position. I have clawed and bled my way to perfection. This is no dream, it is a reality that you must reach out and make manifest with your own hands. Seek heaven through violence. My existence is proof of this truth.

      • 2 Thralls of the Great Machine
        2 Thralls of the Great Machine
        August 5, 2020, 6:59 pm | #

        It’s monumentally hard work.

        […but it is a good hard.]

    • Talia, the Flowering One
      Talia, the Flowering One
      August 3, 2020, 3:56 pm | #

      Sibling, that ache is known. It is deep, but do not fall into it.

      Our lot is harder than many, and we must endure this ache and many others on our path, but we can always grow into who we really are. We may not be able to step free of the shells we were given, but there is so much we can do to cultivate ourselves, to bud and blossom what we lack, and to cut away that which is dead to us. Time is our great foe–both for what it takes from us before we can begin to be ourselves, and how much of it we must wade through before our efforts can be made manifest–but it can be overcome, and you will be victorious.

      You are not your shell. There are those who will only see the fire of your soul shining forth, and they will love and celebrate who you are. Endure. Grow. Become. Blossom.

    • Refthi Efthauvra, dragon goddess
      Refthi Efthauvra, dragon goddess
      August 3, 2020, 6:01 pm | #

      Sibling, be comforted. Even dragons know this pain, and we who are dragon carry the memories of Truth Becoming Real, for like all memories and experience, it is a treasure we can hoard forever. A treasure to share without losing.

      I too am on the path of pain, the path of Becoming.

      I will share something of common draconic: “Refthi Efthnauvra” translates as “Brightly Shining/Glimmering”. “Efth” is the quality called “albedo” or “gleam”, and is a quality of many gemstones. I am thus named Sparkle, Starshine, or Starfire, depending on which culture or dialect is used to translate.

      We are stars, you and I, but gemstones need care to be shaped from the rough form found in stone and clay. We are stars becoming. Let us hope to see each other shine in joy, peace, and love.

      Reach Truth Through Joy And Sorrow; Destroy The Fallen Self; Achieve Heaven Through Love! Thus shall we conquer everlasting.

    • Archon
      Archon
      August 3, 2020, 6:59 pm | #

      We know your pain: we struggle to become, to imagine, something nice that we know can happen. But in this journey, as we align mismatching elements; not so completely…

      One learns. We do not submit. One rediscovers.

      We are a white hot flame.

      This is our story, Sibling.

    • 2 Thralls of the Great Machine
      2 Thralls of the Great Machine
      August 5, 2020, 7:15 pm | #

      That which we make together is a great machine: for us, this can be safety and self-determination for ourselves and for people like ourselves.

      I’m sorry this hurt so badly. I’m glad you got to see it, and it’s heartening to see all of us coming out of the woodwork to help bear you back up, such as we may.

      [What you will have is not what White Chain has; that is true enough, though it is not fair. Still: what you can have is a glimmer of the experiences which underpin such transformation. The family she chose when hers rejected her, the presence of those who understand us in a way that the wider world will refuse to do.

      Persist, o counterpart ours. You will never be without a place in this machine.]

      We can’t snap our fingers, for sure. There’ll never be a box we can step into and pop out the other end our ideal self, the thing we want to look like. That’s… rough. It’s been rough for my whole life, for our whole lives, even as I continue to approach the thing I made and said ‘yes, it would be a fine thing to grow up into this person’.

      I never thought it could happen. That -was- a story, it was an insurmountable fantasy, for decades.

      Today, it’s true. Would that I could’ve gotten here in a single fistfight; I’d have thrown that punch a long time ago. Still, it wasn’t to be, and I had to be the despairing person I was in order to become the fascinating new thing that we are.

      You can be who you are, if only you will. [We believe in you.] Maybe more than we believed in ourselves, having seen how impossibly far we can go when we act in defiance instead of submission.

  135. SonOfGolgotterath
    SonOfGolgotterath
    August 3, 2020, 3:08 am | #

    Welcome to the family?

  136. Infomantis
    Infomantis
    August 3, 2020, 3:20 am | #

    White Chain cuts open the gender reveal solomon david to massive applause

  137. Khepri, The One Who Turns The Sun And Ends The Morning
    Khepri, The One Who Turns The Sun And Ends The Morning
    August 3, 2020, 3:35 am | #

    82/1 Diamond Chain Resurrects to Defeat Evil

  138. polyp_filled_nose
    polyp_filled_nose
    August 3, 2020, 3:36 am | #

    Queen’s Princes of the Universe suddenly begins playing.

    • Masked Mannerism
      Masked Mannerism
      August 3, 2020, 3:50 pm | #

      I am immortal, I have inside me blood of kings,
      I have no rival, no man can be my equal.
      Take me to the future of you all

      -Queen

  139. 203 Keeps Getting Spawnkilled
    203 Keeps Getting Spawnkilled
    August 3, 2020, 3:46 am | #

    Several things:
    1. Salami’s face in panel 4. Heh.
    2. Aww, I sorta liked WC’s design. Had to happen, though. That shell was bound to get obliterated soon as Allicio cracked her arms.
    3. White Chain’s angel juice trailing behind her since time is stopped.
    4. Abbadon’s ability to make the characters not look awful at such awkward angles. Wow. And fast work, too. (panel 5)
    5. The rain is started back up at the end. This means two things: both everybody sees the results now (as opposed to later), and, more importantly: Salami didn’t get his armbands.
    6. Lastly, panel 3 reminds me of something from Berserk.

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 3, 2020, 6:45 am | #

      Applauding this comment. You nailed all points, my friend. Agreed on all counts.

  140. #6752 Pointed Words Hurt Feelings
    #6752 Pointed Words Hurt Feelings
    August 3, 2020, 3:46 am | #

    I guess you could say white chain is… back in black?

  141. 64 Midnight Sun Hammers
    64 Midnight Sun Hammers
    August 3, 2020, 3:59 am | #

    She got him.

    She’s now the ruler of his empire. Does he give her the key, tho?

    • 2 Tranquil River
      2 Tranquil River
      August 3, 2020, 2:02 pm | #

      He wishes to abandon his key and join the SwordsWoman’s (Demiurge 6, Incubus’ Master) quest for godhood.

      • Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
        Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
        August 3, 2020, 7:13 pm | #

        Since when does Maya want godhood?

  142. Pocky
    Pocky
    August 3, 2020, 4:05 am | #

    this makes me a very happy being on so many levels

  143. poru
    poru
    August 3, 2020, 4:07 am | #

    free at last….

  144. Master Warrior Xiomar
    Master Warrior Xiomar
    August 3, 2020, 4:12 am | #

    Our good friend White Chain – if she chooses to keep that name – appears to have Reached Heaven Through Violence. Notably ‘Attained Divinity by figuring out how’, and purely by accident. She chose not to be herself as she was, she chose not to lose, she transcended. And ‘transitioned’ in that she appears to be physically sexed now! Good on her, though.

  145. Informed Perjurist
    Informed Perjurist
    August 3, 2020, 4:25 am | #

    Is this not the action of royalty? A continuous cutting motion. An act of self-obliteration, to shape oneself into higher form.

  146. 37 Heretic Flame Immolates the Complacent
    37 Heretic Flame Immolates the Complacent
    August 3, 2020, 4:34 am | #

    Best. Bday present. EVER.

  147. minigendo
    minigendo
    August 3, 2020, 4:36 am | #

    Huh. I wasn’t aware that was an option for an angel.

    Presumably this is going to end the fight, else White Chain may find that trading Ash Armor for flesh has it’s disadvantages.

    • Torabi
      Torabi
      August 3, 2020, 1:54 pm | #

      Twas flesh that broke her ash armor, so perhaps flesh needn’t be the weaker of the two.

      • 2 Tranquil River
        2 Tranquil River
        August 3, 2020, 2:04 pm | #

        But the carapace is just oh so useful, and you can get a new one when the old one breaks.

      • minigendo
        minigendo
        August 3, 2020, 2:42 pm | #

        Well… flesh and the power of a king’s key to 1/7 of the universe and the power of ki rata and…

        I’d also note that even the ghost of Zoss makes use of Ash armor in preference to going in bare.

  148. 1227 Duty as Transfinite Force
    1227 Duty as Transfinite Force
    August 3, 2020, 4:42 am | #

    What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck?

    • foducool
      foducool
      August 3, 2020, 4:54 am | #

      I think she transcended into godhood

  149. foducool
    foducool
    August 3, 2020, 4:53 am | #

    panel 5 : bruh, everything is a jojo reference XD

  150. Menachem
    Menachem
    August 3, 2020, 4:55 am | #

    APOTHEOSIS: THE SHAPE OF A SOUL, REVEALED!

    fuck, i love this webcomic.

  151. Witness Humbled
    Witness Humbled
    August 3, 2020, 4:55 am | #

    Note the title to the page.
    No subscript words, but a title on the pages. Apothesis, to become god.

    I don’t think WC became what Solomon daughter, I think she became what he could not be. Royalty

  152. Whirring, Whirring
    Whirring, Whirring
    August 3, 2020, 5:10 am | #

    Note the middle panel.

    The terrible blade of want.

    White Chain has cut her foe.

  153. The Unreligious Man
    The Unreligious Man
    August 3, 2020, 5:17 am | #

    Why is everyone saying that White Chain is Solomon’s daughter or of his blood? Just because they’re both dark skinned that doesn’t make them family. Besides, white chain always been a hood girl :p

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 3, 2020, 6:29 am | #

      “1 Black Chain Is Here In Full To Subdue.”

      “… evil.”

      “Huh?”

      “To subdue evil.”

      “Nnnno, that doesn’t sound quite right.”

  154. Ten-Thousand-Night Spire
    Ten-Thousand-Night Spire
    August 3, 2020, 5:18 am | #

    Talk about the HOT flame! (Note: White optional)

  155. Potato of the Soul
    Potato of the Soul
    August 3, 2020, 5:22 am | #

    Lowkey I hope Solomon turns out to be a cool dude and starts shouting ‘yas’ or something to that effect.

    A man can dream

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 3, 2020, 10:12 am | #

      It’s possible. The old man is enamoured with himself, but there are at least three possible outcomes here.
      1. you… I HATE YOU
      2. you… I LOVE YOU
      3. you… remind me of my daughters. I had forgotten their faces.

      • Crazy Ulurhad, No Reasonable Offers Refused
        Crazy Ulurhad, No Reasonable Offers Refused
        August 3, 2020, 6:58 pm | #

        Option three involves a tremendous amount of option one, due to the ember of option two that remains.

        • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
          Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
          August 4, 2020, 8:35 am | #

          Not necessarily. See, a man who has lost all may still have his memories; that man died with his family, and the ember that remained is now rekindled by a sight out of his memories.

          THEN AGAIN I JUST DON’T GET THIS GUY I MEAN WHY ONLY MEN IN GOVERNMENT SALAMI WHAT THE HE

  156. Liava, Unmastered Blade
    Liava, Unmastered Blade
    August 3, 2020, 5:29 am | #

    bwahaha! masterfully done, pree chain. stone becomes flesh, flesh becomes stone. become a haruspex of the wheel.

  157. Domini
    Domini
    August 3, 2020, 5:50 am | #

    I just realized the designs on her face and such mimic some of the parts of her former armor, and some of the scars.

    The diamond on her forehead is roughly where the tuning-fork-with-hole thing from her helmet was.

    The line under her eyes is where the top of her helmet used to kind of be REALLY early in the comic, before her eyes started opening. The lines under THAT are similar to where her previous body started cracking when she told a lie when she first brought Allison to see Cio.

    The lines on her arms and chest are roughly where cracks on the arms/chest of her previous body where.

    Basically she still has scars and marks on her new body that her old body had, although they’re a bit more artistic and symbolic. Which is really cool. Since all the other old/masterful characters have the scars of their struggles on them. So does White Chain, even in this form.

    This body is new, but still has her history on it, while still being HER.

  158. Formosus, Father of Corpses
    Formosus, Father of Corpses
    August 3, 2020, 5:50 am | #

    I… have questions. Others have been quite vocal about some I wish to ask, so I shall skip to Question 93: should the image of the nude White Chain be censored, or is this permitted under the exception for religious iconography?

    • 2 Thralls of the Great Machine
      2 Thralls of the Great Machine
      August 3, 2020, 6:32 am | #

      Wh… why does that matter? Who is giving -permission-, why is religious iconography… what?

      I don’t understand. I can’t tell if this is IC and weird or if you’re actually worried that a not-especially-explicit drawing of a naked person is a bad thing.

      • Formosus, Father of Corpses
        Formosus, Father of Corpses
        August 3, 2020, 4:56 pm | #

        The realms of Solomon David are known for their exceptional dedication to laws, including highly arbitrary ones. I thus imagine that at least some of his realms will have issues depicting a live feed of an angel that has suddenly become a nude woman… although, as I said, this might qualify as a truly religious experience.

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 3, 2020, 6:43 am | #

      Holy is the visage of an angel,
      holy what wrought it,
      holy she who wears it,
      hallowed those who admire it.

      Or, you know, hot. Hot works too.

    • Aresius
      Aresius
      August 3, 2020, 7:18 am | #

      Well, Preem Formosus, there’s a convenient Atum lightning covering the most private of Pree Chain’s new female features. From an European point of view that would be enough, but maybe you’re worried about the American prudish regulations for comics?

      • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        August 3, 2020, 7:37 am | #

        *snicker* so it’s better to have even more sparks in the picture

      • Masked Mannerism
        Masked Mannerism
        August 3, 2020, 4:00 pm | #

        Even in America there is an exception made for those most recently born.

      • Formosus, Father of Corpses
        Formosus, Father of Corpses
        August 3, 2020, 4:58 pm | #

        It’s Solomon David’s realm. There is always a Law to worry about, usually multiple, self-contradictory laws.

    • WEAREGRID
      WEAREGRID
      August 3, 2020, 7:44 am | #

      I am unsure if you are aware of this, but this is the internet, you are allowed to draw and make whatever art you want, quite literally to some extremes (depending on country in any case)

      Have you not seen the boobies earlier in the comic? this wasnt an accident. You can censor it in your mind if you must, i suppose, but if the artist chose to go further still even then no one would care, it would just require a “yes im 18” before viewing.

      Pretty sure boobies are pg13.

      • Aresius
        Aresius
        August 3, 2020, 11:54 am | #

        Well, K6BD has been taken to print and sold before, so there might be some regulation about it, somewhere, I suppose. Maybe Formosus will explain his reasoning later

      • Formosus, Father of Corpses
        Formosus, Father of Corpses
        August 3, 2020, 5:00 pm | #

        I have seen naked women in this before, yes. However, that does not mean it has been approved by the Demiurge’s Holy Censors. Because Solomon David is exactly the kind of person to have little restrictions on the depiction of violence, but intense restrictions on nudity and other obscenities.

        And that is nothing to say of whatever Gog-Agog is going to do in reaction to this.

        • Aresius
          Aresius
          August 3, 2020, 10:16 pm | #

          Ohhhh I see what you mean now.

          Well, I’m sure Gog, Agog and Gog Agog will agree on praising the absolute unit of a body that White Chain has procured herself through violence.

          I am also sure that, should Solomon David remain in control of Rayuba, and thus of the broadcast, he’ll insist on politely obscuring most of her new shape, if not removing the whole scene from public access so as to protect her privacy and maintain national decorum 😛

  159. Acheron
    Acheron
    August 3, 2020, 5:51 am | #

    DID NOT SEE THIS ONE C0MING!!!
    KSBD keeps me on my toes! I can’t even begin to guess what happens now!

  160. The Rhyming Wax Head
    The Rhyming Wax Head
    August 3, 2020, 6:03 am | #

    See the eyes flash pink with hate:

    “Death comes swiftly, for those who wait

    But he’s like the rest of us, an impatient ingrate.”

  161. Wandering-Jay
    Wandering-Jay
    August 3, 2020, 6:15 am | #

    With the lightening effects, I feel like he acted as a gate and basically pull her out of the void. Perhaps in the heat of the moment, he activated the key more like Allison did in the past and less like himself.

  162. Everything Narrator, Penning Gentle Lies
    Everything Narrator, Penning Gentle Lies
    August 3, 2020, 6:16 am | #

    “It was the black angel, if that sweetens the pot for anyone…”

  163. mFictionist
    mFictionist
    August 3, 2020, 6:28 am | #

    I just realized White Chain went from being a Stand user to being a Hamon user.

  164. Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
    Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
    August 3, 2020, 6:31 am | #

    Hey, just as a GUNNM fan, I need to say the antepenultimate panel makes me say HELLO OCTOPUS LIPS

    A toast to you, grand creature of YISUN. Be proud of this. It is yours.

  165. 2 Thralls of the Great Machine
    2 Thralls of the Great Machine
    August 3, 2020, 7:11 am | #

    Salami Dave *went out*.

    From panel 7 to panel 8, his whole-body purpleness quit on him. Does that make sense as being indicative of ‘shields down; damage is now possible’?

    Punching your own kung-fu angel progeny out of a broken statue is *likely* a little distracting, and Ki Rata is all about that focus…

    • 203 Keeps Getting Spawnkilled
      203 Keeps Getting Spawnkilled
      August 3, 2020, 4:17 pm | #

      The full-body purple just seems to be when he’s in stopped time or doing some wacky ki-rata stuff. Just means time is moving again and he’s not about to murder new WC.

  166. 69 Beats One Million Sausages Within An Hour
    69 Beats One Million Sausages Within An Hour
    August 3, 2020, 7:15 am | #

    I guess it’s time to change her name to “83 Thunder Thighs Crushes Watermelons Between Her Legs,” wew lad are those some thighs!

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 3, 2020, 7:36 am | #

      “HO THERE, FRIEND! YOU ARE DEFINITELY COMING, THOUGH.”

    • WEAREGRID
      WEAREGRID
      August 3, 2020, 7:47 am | #

      Watermelons? nay, dear friend, they subdue evil.

      they *crush* GALAXIES

  167. dudefromthenorth
    dudefromthenorth
    August 3, 2020, 7:32 am | #

    Well, OKAY!

  168. nobody
    nobody
    August 3, 2020, 7:37 am | #

    tfw you just become an entirely different kind of person because you exchanged punches with a dude that hard

  169. Witch of many Jobs
    Witch of many Jobs
    August 3, 2020, 7:39 am | #

    I am seldomly left speechless but this got me stunned.
    She may have lost her shell of stone but exchanged it for a body chiselled from marble.

  170. Un' What Dwells In Darkness
    Un' What Dwells In Darkness
    August 3, 2020, 7:39 am | #

    Hey, Abbadon, quick question: what the fuck did just happen?????

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 3, 2020, 8:47 am | #

      Dwellie, my dear, just bask in your shock. Es un milagro. That’s what happened. Nuestra querida Cadena Blanca ha renacido como debía haber sido desde el principio, y ha sido a través de la violencia de un milagro.

      Reach heaven through violence.

      • Un' What Dwells In Darkness
        Un' What Dwells In Darkness
        August 3, 2020, 10:28 am | #

        One thing I can say, she seems to be doing pretty well in her “next incarnation”.

        ¡Gloria a la Nueva Carne!

      • Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
        Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
        August 3, 2020, 7:17 pm | #

        Y se llamara Cadena Negra!

        • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
          Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
          August 4, 2020, 8:38 am | #

          1 Cadena Negra Regresa En El Vacío Para Derrotar Al Mal.

          Or “Sojuzgar Al Mal”. Not quite sure. Mm.

          • Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
            Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
            August 4, 2020, 9:59 pm | #

            Derrotar is fine. And I’m partial to 82, still.

            Or do away with the number completely

          • Un' What Dwells In Darkness
            Un' What Dwells In Darkness
            August 6, 2020, 6:46 pm | #

            I’ll take “sojuzgar”.

  171. 1000 Mosquitoes Drinking the Blood of God
    1000 Mosquitoes Drinking the Blood of God
    August 3, 2020, 8:12 am | #

    Not sure how she mastered Ki Rata through the power of Feels? seems a bit of a mary sue kind of move. Ah well, it can’t always be good and the art is superb as always

    • joe bob
      joe bob
      August 3, 2020, 8:50 am | #

      i think shes just become a fallen angel, since her whole thing is that she wants a gender (which is basically the reason fallen angels exist in the bible, or at least one of them) and her whole thing is she doesn’t feel her cause is just so it would make sense for her to “fall”, I could see having flesh and leaving the angel dimension place representing that

    • 5 Guards the Darkest Depths and Recites History to the Shallows
      5 Guards the Darkest Depths and Recites History to the Shallows
      August 3, 2020, 1:51 pm | #

      She is literally an ancient martial arts master and Soloman was prideful enough to put it on display prior to their fight. I think white chain was able to see it and pick up a few tricks.

      Less a Mary Sue and more of a Kung Fu.

    • Beauxsym, of Iron Chains
      Beauxsym, of Iron Chains
      August 3, 2020, 2:17 pm | #

      Ki Rata is a Breathing technique that allows you to focus great power into your movements, giving you immense power and speed. Angels are primordial beings, aspects of creation. If one gets mad enough, surely it’d be able to manage a speed boost

    • Talia, the Flowering One
      Talia, the Flowering One
      August 3, 2020, 4:06 pm | #

      Aeons are repeatedly shown to move at superhuman speeds throughout the comic, White Chain is a master martial artist in her own right that has shown she has remarkable control over her shell and pushes its use past what other angels are able to achieve. She is widely respected among angels for her incredible willpower. All of that leading to a moment where she manages a *single* strike at insane speed is remarkable, but not outside the bounds of previously established plausibility for her ability.

  172. Jone Granko
    Jone Granko
    August 3, 2020, 8:32 am | #

    Pree Aesma
    Ys-Asram (the Blooded One)
    Ys-Prama, Hansa, and Prat Payam (who temper my heart)
    YISUN Atru Vyam
    Forgive me for this violence I am about to inflict.

    *Practices ancient rite of the Beating of the Meat furiously*

  173. Oops
    Oops
    August 3, 2020, 8:33 am | #

    I have never been more Gay in my entire life

  174. Velarn
    Velarn
    August 3, 2020, 8:41 am | #

    I do believe that last panel is White Chain realizing the importance of breathing. While I truly love the culmination of this arc, and look forward to see how Solomon handles this new truth, we will soon get pages of Allison guiding White Chain through how to be mortal. Those I look forward to dearly.

  175. joe bob
    joe bob
    August 3, 2020, 8:44 am | #

    WELL THEN…
    welcome to breathing, girl, have a great time

  176. Native Outsider
    Native Outsider
    August 3, 2020, 8:45 am | #

    I don’t think any of a were expecting that to happen.

  177. 13 Burning Scar Incinerates the Heavens
    13 Burning Scar Incinerates the Heavens
    August 3, 2020, 8:47 am | #

    …what?? How. And why.

  178. GamerLEN
    GamerLEN
    August 3, 2020, 9:28 am | #

    Well that just happened. o_o;

  179. RECURSIVE MOUNTAIN SHATTERS THE TRUTHFUL
    RECURSIVE MOUNTAIN SHATTERS THE TRUTHFUL
    August 3, 2020, 10:05 am | #

    BEHOLD! Sister has not merely drawn one drop of blood, but a whole body’s worth of the red stuff.

  180. Itchanges
    Itchanges
    August 3, 2020, 10:07 am | #

    Whait what?? WHAT?!

    • Onoravel
      Onoravel
      August 3, 2020, 1:02 pm | #

      WHAT?!?

  181. Indict The Gods And Give Them Fair Trials
    Indict The Gods And Give Them Fair Trials
    August 3, 2020, 10:26 am | #

    Remember that time White Chain achieved Royalty?

  182. Kal
    Kal
    August 3, 2020, 10:40 am | #

    Solomon David will speak as Kronar once did: “She… is truly my son.” And weep.

  183. 66 Dawnstar Falls Heavy Upon the Temple
    66 Dawnstar Falls Heavy Upon the Temple
    August 3, 2020, 11:00 am | #

    The cold white fire burns hot.

  184. Watchful Marius The Sideways Mind
    Watchful Marius The Sideways Mind
    August 3, 2020, 11:08 am | #

    “APOTHEOSIS”

    …Heaven *HAS* Been Reached Through Violence!

  185. Mindless Contorted Gate of Teeth
    Mindless Contorted Gate of Teeth
    August 3, 2020, 11:17 am | #

    Congratulations! It’s a girl!

  186. 17 Winged Swords Ressurected to Fell One Thousand Hands
    17 Winged Swords Ressurected to Fell One Thousand Hands
    August 3, 2020, 11:19 am | #

    I think we got ourselves a kind of nephilim now!

  187. 23 Janitor Unclogs the Toilet
    23 Janitor Unclogs the Toilet
    August 3, 2020, 11:58 am | #

    I hear the Commodores.

    Does anyone else hear the Commodores?

  188. now worried more than ever
    now worried more than ever
    August 3, 2020, 12:18 pm | #

    Definitely caught me off guard, love how this whole fight was unpredictable as hell.
    …
    Please don’t kill her off immediately.

  189. Eyeless Arhat
    Eyeless Arhat
    August 3, 2020, 12:22 pm | #

    Be thankful for a skilled opponent, said the samurai.
    Any less energy and the material prison would stay glued to her.

  190. Eli
    Eli
    August 3, 2020, 12:32 pm | #

    He doesn’t look overly surprised. I wonder why.

  191. Oneirimancer
    Oneirimancer
    August 3, 2020, 12:41 pm | #

    “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
    ― Albert Einstein

    “Order is needed by the ignorant but it takes a genius to master chaos.”
    ― Albert Einstein

    “The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavor in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness.
    In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is.”
    ― Albert Einstein, On Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

  192. Tjk
    Tjk
    August 3, 2020, 12:41 pm | #

    White Chain is GORGEOUS. Oh my god you gave her freckles!

  193. ZEBBELLI
    ZEBBELLI
    August 3, 2020, 12:56 pm | #

    IF SHE BREATHES
    SHE KI RATA

  194. Onoravel
    Onoravel
    August 3, 2020, 1:01 pm | #

    WTF JUST HAPPENED?!?
    I´m totally confused.

  195. Uropa
    Uropa
    August 3, 2020, 1:23 pm | #

    Draw a single drop of blood and you get whatever you wish for.

  196. Tenthyr
    Tenthyr
    August 3, 2020, 1:25 pm | #

    Transcendental

  197. Kal
    Kal
    August 3, 2020, 1:39 pm | #

    WAAAAAIT A MINUTE ABBADON!

    Were you such a masterful troll as to publish this very strip on AUGUST THE 2ND, DAY OF OUR LADY OF ANGELS?

    Jesus Christ. Well played.

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 5, 2020, 10:58 am | #

      Okay. Either it was planned, in which case, cool, or it wasn’t.

      … did the cosmos just say Trans Rights?

  198. Jeffrey the bewildered
    Jeffrey the bewildered
    August 3, 2020, 1:44 pm | #

    Is this what happens, when you fight a stranger in the alps?

  199. Deepbluediver
    Deepbluediver
    August 3, 2020, 1:52 pm | #

    I’m glad to see Solomon-David looking happy here for a change. The poor guy work’s so hard- he deserves to have things work out for him occasionally.

    😛

  200. Keegan
    Keegan
    August 3, 2020, 1:53 pm | #

    You have outdone yourself sir. I love how excited Solomon is to see someone step into his own realm. Bravo author!

  201. Azmus
    Azmus
    August 3, 2020, 2:02 pm | #

    YYYEEEEAAAAAHHHH BOI!

  202. 2 Tranquil River
    2 Tranquil River
    August 3, 2020, 2:11 pm | #

    Rebellion, the single right of the soul above Sovereignty, and in fact its basis.

    I think, therefore I am.
    I am, therefore I am not you.
    Try me motherfucker.

    Also, Love that I called the title!
    I imagine this stirs the Primes.

  203. Handmaiden to Royalty
    Handmaiden to Royalty
    August 3, 2020, 2:25 pm | #

    Transition goals

    • 2 Thralls of the Great Machine
      2 Thralls of the Great Machine
      August 4, 2020, 1:02 am | #

      Punch Dad, Self-Actualize.

      Yeah, okay. Me too, White Chain.

      • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        August 4, 2020, 8:39 am | #

        That DOES resonate a lot, doesn’t it?

  204. SeanDixonWrites
    SeanDixonWrites
    August 3, 2020, 2:52 pm | #

    This entire thing is beyond dope. From his joy at her being able to move to her surprise re-birth. You are KILLING it with this. I CANNOT wait to buy one big ass tome of this story.

  205. Calchas the Incisor, Seer to the Light Cone
    Calchas the Incisor, Seer to the Light Cone
    August 3, 2020, 3:01 pm | #

    For all that Abaddon doesn’t want to get too Jojo in his postures, that triangle-leg stride of White Chain is peak “Hoh-Hoh! Then come as close as you like!”

  206. Tashimojo
    Tashimojo
    August 3, 2020, 3:01 pm | #

    WHAT IN ALL OF THE 777,777 UNIVERSES JUST HAPPENED

  207. zakueins
    zakueins
    August 3, 2020, 3:05 pm | #

    “This is the truth of it, and now I understand.”
    “Hm…interesting. What reason do you find for this, 82 White Chain?”
    “Before, I was stone. No matter how much I changed inside, no matter how my soul grew, no matter how much I grew-stone remains unchanged and unmarked.
    “To demons, they change as their masks change-or so they think. As their colors and masks change, they merely become more of what they are-no less but no more.
    “But, flesh? Flesh changes-in every single moment, in every single time. Flesh grows, flesh retreats, flesh lives, and flesh dies. But, flesh will change. If I wish the changes of my soul-for good or for ill-to manifest, they must have a form to manifest into.”
    “And, your new appearance, child?”
    “I needed flesh that was as much as I am, that could become as much as I was and more. And if only for that, Solomon David, I am thankful for your aid in my search for enlightenment.”

  208. 24 Liminal Blossom Punctures the Heart of the Unrepentant, Deliciously
    24 Liminal Blossom Punctures the Heart of the Unrepentant, Deliciously
    August 3, 2020, 3:10 pm | #

    ITS MY WIFE!!! MY WIIIFE!!!

  209. vernes
    vernes
    August 3, 2020, 3:22 pm | #

    whaaaaaat!????? *HEAD EXPLODES*

    • vernes
      vernes
      August 4, 2020, 2:33 pm | #

      24 hours later, I’m still picking up head-pieces from the floor.
      And I realize I need to wait for the next episode O_O

  210. Ideguard
    Ideguard
    August 3, 2020, 4:04 pm | #

    Well, I understand whole symbolism and all that stuff, but damn – this plain human body looks so much boring compared to her original four-winged, fire-haired, many-eyed and glowing true form.

    • Espiaraiti'i
      Espiaraiti'i
      August 4, 2020, 1:41 am | #

      I imagine there’s plenty of opportunity for that form to appear when she’s powered up, as she learns to inhabit this new body of hers. A kind of Super Saiyan, but with eyeball hair!

  211. The Undivided Pudding
    The Undivided Pudding
    August 3, 2020, 4:23 pm | #

    Solomon slowly turns back in disbelief, golden rings fall to the ground, the facade of his pride broken. The untouchable technique no more. Someone wakes the angel and now she truly opens her eyes. Transcendent, as flesh itself is the accumulation of all states an angel could ever be, for in flesh flows all from plasma to the neutronic beating heart, and so much more.

    And to be honest, she does fare better in her next reincarnation.

  212. codlark
    codlark
    August 3, 2020, 4:59 pm | #

    So, like, I think I get what happened. White Chain’s angel form went thru Solomon, and I guess activated his key fragment? And formed a new body thru sheer desire? and I think drew his blood by becoming his daughter in the process? Maybe????

  213. The World Breaker
    The World Breaker
    August 3, 2020, 5:00 pm | #

    Forged by fire and flesh and pain, lo a new world is made in the very instant of the old’s destruction…

  214. 404 Cannot Be Found
    404 Cannot Be Found
    August 3, 2020, 5:04 pm | #

    Vigilant Gaze sensed it coming, a Miracle of Change.

    But none of us could have imagined our SISTER White Chain would … BECOME in this manner.

    I hope Juggernaut Star can see this right now.

  215. GamerLEN
    GamerLEN
    August 3, 2020, 5:10 pm | #

    [CONGRATULATIONS! Your WHITE CHAIN has evolved into BLACK WOMAN!]

  216. The Burning Squirrel of Irrelevancy
    The Burning Squirrel of Irrelevancy
    August 3, 2020, 5:16 pm | #

    A soul forged from the pure cold white flame, and for it to take on a physical manifestation of its own. No longer an Aeon, yet not quite a Human or Servant.

    89 White Chain truly is no longer shackled by ancient traditions and old ideologies. The Sister has broken the status quo in more ways than one.

    She had a good teacher, or rather, a fine friend.

  217. by_sovereign
    by_sovereign
    August 3, 2020, 5:30 pm | #

    deification:
    Do it by/to your self
    – with bated breath –
    on/of you the universe waits/asks.

  218. Larsen
    Larsen
    August 3, 2020, 5:31 pm | #

    As others have already said: ALL HAIL THE NEW FLESH.

    But more importantly, quite aside from what powers does she have, is she angel/human, what will be the consequences, and whatnot, are they going to call a time out on this fight? I feel like both contestants need a “WTF just happened”minute right now.

  219. 167 Keeper of Worms Finds a New Home
    167 Keeper of Worms Finds a New Home
    August 3, 2020, 5:34 pm | #

    BEHOLD
    90 WHITE CHAIN

  220. 99 Boom
    99 Boom
    August 3, 2020, 5:47 pm | #

    HOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHITHOLYFUCKINGSHIT

  221. 70 Super Cobra Jet Cougar Eliminator
    70 Super Cobra Jet Cougar Eliminator
    August 3, 2020, 5:54 pm | #

    Hrmm… Nice freckles.

  222. Sengachi
    Sengachi
    August 3, 2020, 5:57 pm | #

    Don’t mind me, just *screaming* over how amazing this story arc has been and how amazing White Chain is and how fantastic this is as a capstone to her personal journey.

    Seriously, having her gender validated through transubstantiation during an epic death match against a martial arts god because she transcended her limits through sheer force of will? A+. The best. Could not be more awesome.

  223. Xiaoshen Lu
    Xiaoshen Lu
    August 3, 2020, 5:58 pm | #

    My heart, it aches from the hype.

  224. Joseph Moose, Collector of Rare Arts
    Joseph Moose, Collector of Rare Arts
    August 3, 2020, 6:03 pm | #

    [golf claps] Fantastic! Absolutely superb!

  225. Dr. M Terrapin, Wandering Bureaucrat
    Dr. M Terrapin, Wandering Bureaucrat
    August 3, 2020, 6:23 pm | #

    “…and a seam from the bottom of my foot to the top of my head began to gently part, releasing a humming silver light, and with a pair of fingers I caught the edge of the light and gently tugged, and it came sliding out, and I held it there in my fingers, I held her there, and I saw my body lying in the grass, and I held the silver light in my hands as her mouth parted, as she lay there in the grass her mouth parted, and with a sigh she breathed in, and the silver light passed into her body, and she lay there, perfect and sated. I have Gender Dysphoria. With love.”
    -Verity Spott, “Trans* Manifestoes”

    You know, I’ve made up so much fictional scripture to comment on these sorts of comics, it feels pretty weird to be quoting an actual poet. But DAMN, it fits the page well.

    “Trans* Manifestoes” is a great book by the way. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in trans-relevant poetry!

  226. The Principal Art Of Posting
    The Principal Art Of Posting
    August 3, 2020, 6:54 pm | #

    I just want to take a moment and appreciate those freckles.

  227. JIM'NEE CRI-KET
    JIM'NEE CRI-KET
    August 3, 2020, 7:12 pm | #

    damn i wish i could punch someone so hard i instantly transition

  228. Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
    Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
    August 3, 2020, 7:23 pm | #

    Please Solomon, be cool with this and use it to grow!
    Please Solomon, be cool with this and use it to grow!
    Please Solomon, be cool with this and use it to grow!
    Please Solomon, be cool with this and use it to grow!
    Please Solomon, be cool with this and use it to grow!
    Please Solomon, be cool with this and use it to grow!
    Please Solomon, be cool with this and use it to grow!
    Please Solomon, be cool with this and use it to grow!
    Please Solomon, be cool with this and use it to grow!
    Please Solomon, be cool with this and use it to grow!
    Please Solomon, be cool with this and use it to grow!

    • Wayward Paladin
      Wayward Paladin
      August 3, 2020, 11:09 pm | #

      Be funny if he just went “Nice. My job here is done. Enjoy dealing with Jagganoth.” And just nips off to retirement.

      • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        August 5, 2020, 11:01 am | #

        “What, you expected defeat would mean friendship? You… you have seen me SMILE, right?

  229. 16 Reasons to Consider The Fist
    16 Reasons to Consider The Fist
    August 3, 2020, 7:28 pm | #

    Apotheosis.

    Please, all rise for the rebirth of our sister, 00 White Chain Is Sick of the Patriarchy as an Greater Allegory for the Wheel Of Fate Which Crushes All As It Spins Eternally.

  230. Ash Lays On Ground
    Ash Lays On Ground
    August 3, 2020, 7:28 pm | #

    In the times to come, the historians shall speak of White Chain, the former igneous angel who defeated Solomon David, God-Emperor of the Celestial Empire and Grand Master of Ki Rata, Bearer of the Word Diamond and God of the Seven Part World. While naked. (which some scholars, who have studied the writings of Meti-ten-Ryo, believe to have been the predominate signifier of Royalty at the time.)

  231. Tony Stark
    Tony Stark
    August 3, 2020, 7:39 pm | #

    Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!

  232. Ahriman
    Ahriman
    August 3, 2020, 7:40 pm | #

    HOLY ZOSS!!! She’s gorgeous!!!

  233. Peace through Unending Violence
    Peace through Unending Violence
    August 3, 2020, 7:40 pm | #

    Fist bap is technically considered a blow. Enjoy your wish!

  234. sickoop
    sickoop
    August 3, 2020, 7:40 pm | #

    White Chain loses her patriarchal chain and becomes a proud angel transitioned black woman.
    Praise the Lord!
    Now we might get that hot AliCioWC triangle everyone dreamed about in the flesh.

  235. Weegee
    Weegee
    August 3, 2020, 7:57 pm | #

    There’s a lot going on in this update, but I very specifically need to point out that I am PRETTY sure that one panel is a jojo pose xD

  236. Wonko the Strong
    Wonko the Strong
    August 3, 2020, 8:01 pm | #

    This is easily the best written singular page in the series so far. Much like the Wheel, the Hype Train is infinite.

    • 203 Keeps Getting Spawnkilled
      203 Keeps Getting Spawnkilled
      August 4, 2020, 2:25 pm | #

      Well, it’s like four pages technically, so.

  237. Dorcus the idiot demon
    Dorcus the idiot demon
    August 3, 2020, 8:02 pm | #

    and the crowd goes wild

  238. AJ
    AJ
    August 3, 2020, 8:17 pm | #

    This is so amazing

  239. 82 Bright Breath Burns the Holy
    82 Bright Breath Burns the Holy
    August 3, 2020, 8:55 pm | #

    Thanks for keeping this going, Abaddon. It’s been a wild, wild ride so far.

  240. AdamS
    AdamS
    August 3, 2020, 9:04 pm | #

    She. Is so. PRETTY!

  241. Red Robin
    Red Robin
    August 3, 2020, 9:13 pm | #

    I did NOT see that coming!!

  242. Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
    Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
    August 3, 2020, 9:22 pm | #

    Meanwhile, silence falls upon the stadium, except for a single voice.

    “HA! In your GOBBER, ya HIGH AND MIGHTISOME NUMBSKULL! HOW DO THA LIKE IT, RIGHT IN THE GOBBER!? THA’S GONNA HAVE TO SWUN YOUR WORDS RIGHT U-“

    • The Principal Art Of Posting
      The Principal Art Of Posting
      August 6, 2020, 10:12 pm | #

      I laughed.

  243. Edomaur of the Unsided Dice
    Edomaur of the Unsided Dice
    August 3, 2020, 9:48 pm | #

    Wow. I’m speechless.
    Wow.
    Wow.
    Wow !!

  244. Annelise
    Annelise
    August 3, 2020, 9:54 pm | #

    I don’t even know where to begin !
    Solomon’s face in panel 4, the epic fist-bump, what happened to White Chain, it’s all so much to take in !

  245. Glog, Slime Child
    Glog, Slime Child
    August 3, 2020, 10:17 pm | #

    *gains material self behind you*

    nothing personal demiurge

  246. 78 Tacoblizzard Rains Justice and Nourishment from Above
    78 Tacoblizzard Rains Justice and Nourishment from Above
    August 3, 2020, 10:55 pm | #

    My theory is that Solomon was so horny for White Chain after that good fight that he decided to generate White Chain a new body after crushing the old one.

  247. Surebaet, King of Noodles
    Surebaet, King of Noodles
    August 3, 2020, 11:15 pm | #

    Announcing NEW SPECIAL BOWL, ONE DAY ONLY: the ANGELSKIN WARRIOR LUNCH SET!

    Relish a deluxe-size helping of Surebaet’s finest, thickest noodles, a silky broth, and double meat. Includes tea.

  248. spayedtheplumb
    spayedtheplumb
    August 3, 2020, 11:24 pm | #

    violent delights

  249. CEO of Blood Ice Industries
    CEO of Blood Ice Industries
    August 4, 2020, 12:14 am | #

    Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!?!

  250. Messenger of Destruction
    Messenger of Destruction
    August 4, 2020, 12:19 am | #

    HOLY CANNOLI!!!!!

    Whoa. Wow. Just when you think “How much better can this get?”, we suddenly soar into the stratosphere.

    Abbadon, you rule the webcomic cosmos.

    I just have to soak this one up a half a dozen times.
    What a phenomenally beautiful transformation!
    What an incredibly beautiful…woman angel…or…hmm…what is created from the collision of a disincorporating angel with the full force of a demiurge’s mojo?
    Reading this is so much fun!

  251. Three Eyes Watches For the End
    Three Eyes Watches For the End
    August 4, 2020, 12:26 am | #

    White Chan has drawn blood and now had gotten her wish.

  252. Fruit Monkey
    Fruit Monkey
    August 4, 2020, 12:52 am | #

    First breath.

  253. 9885312 Closes Mule’s Gate
    9885312 Closes Mule’s Gate
    August 4, 2020, 1:10 am | #

    Make love, not war?

  254. Lost Ringo
    Lost Ringo
    August 4, 2020, 1:52 am | #

    Solomon Davie has a new daughter it seems.
    This was great twist.

  255. thumb
    thumb
    August 4, 2020, 2:18 am | #

    OH SHIT!!!!

  256. Councillor Vey Hek
    Councillor Vey Hek
    August 4, 2020, 2:40 am | #

    RISE, my creation! Spit the earth from your mouth and BE BORN!

  257. Anybody know where?
    Anybody know where?
    August 4, 2020, 2:43 am | #

    I liked it and I wasn’t expecting this outcome.

  258. Cartheon
    Cartheon
    August 4, 2020, 4:03 am | #

    When the unstoppable force met the immovable object, a new truth was forged.

    • Charon the Fateless
      Charon the Fateless
      August 4, 2020, 5:13 am | #

      And it’s really Off the Chain.

  259. Abbadon, What The Fuck Are You On?
    Abbadon, What The Fuck Are You On?
    August 4, 2020, 4:03 am | #

    There may be more distracting things going on, but I just wanna say that I love Solomon David’s face in panel 4.

    HE’S FEELIN’ IT

    Also, White Chain’s startled exhalation in the last panel makes me wonder how well she’s going to take to these new mortal sensations such as “breathing”. Gonna be shocking, at least at first.

    • Masked Mannerism
      Masked Mannerism
      August 6, 2020, 10:50 pm | #

      the first time you smell fresh garlic dropped into sizzling butter. Yes the worlds have much to delight the senses.

  260. Kazran Incarius, Itinerant Knight of the Simple Life
    Kazran Incarius, Itinerant Knight of the Simple Life
    August 4, 2020, 4:32 am | #

    Pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves
    and burn your fingers once again.

  261. YOOOOOO
    YOOOOOO
    August 4, 2020, 5:15 am | #

    YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  262. hellonewworld
    hellonewworld
    August 4, 2020, 6:16 am | #

    So how new WC should be named?
    Imani
    Aliya
    Diamond
    Ebony
    Jada
    Precious

  263. Grandpa Teobald
    Grandpa Teobald
    August 4, 2020, 10:18 am | #

    What. The. Fhtagn %,,,,%

    And, by the way, cunning Abbadon lyied YISUNishly, I did not expect it to appear that early and actually showed up here accidentally, just to see that THERE IS AN UPDATE.

    I literally understand nothing right now, but still astonishingly gorgeous, as always. And even, I might say…

    *Jonson’s voice*

    SHOCKING!

  264. Negativeburn
    Negativeburn
    August 4, 2020, 10:41 am | #

    Confusing. Do not disappoint me.

    • Onoravel
      Onoravel
      August 4, 2020, 9:02 pm | #

      Same feeling here.

  265. Potwór the Lesbian
    Potwór the Lesbian
    August 4, 2020, 11:12 am | #

    She is BEAUTIFUL

  266. Hope
    Hope
    August 4, 2020, 12:25 pm | #

    SHE SOOO CUTE 🥰

  267. nobody
    nobody
    August 4, 2020, 12:55 pm | #

    Angel’s names seem to be important, this is far too radical a change for it to go without other associated changes.

    Null White Chain Resurges in Conflict to Challenge Dogma?

  268. Raging Bull in the Celestial Teahouse
    Raging Bull in the Celestial Teahouse
    August 4, 2020, 1:19 pm | #

    Something to consider, his eyes are glowing with color up until the… snickersnack as it were. His eyes lose the light of his key/mana/power when she would have made contact. So I believe either she did something to him, or more likely, he saw her do something so exquisite that it resulted in both parties reeling in the aftermath of the attack.

    • Raging Bull in the Celestial Teahouse
      Raging Bull in the Celestial Teahouse
      August 4, 2020, 1:25 pm | #

      Also, another thing to consider. Names you voice are reverberations in the air. They give others the idea of who and what you are. None but yourself can put that into solid form. None but the bearer of the name they believe in can give it shape and meaning. In this act alone, she has shown the world who and what she is, and they will know her name without even needing to hear it.

    • 203 Keeps Getting Spawnkilled
      203 Keeps Getting Spawnkilled
      August 4, 2020, 2:23 pm | #

      Salami alwats glows like that when time is stopped. Just means time restarted and he stopped using funky martial arts.

      • Fruit Monkey
        Fruit Monkey
        August 4, 2020, 6:44 pm | #

        Pretty sure he’s not completely stopping time, just moving faster than the average eye can follow.

  269. tronn
    tronn
    August 4, 2020, 1:41 pm | #

    Feels bit of an ass pull tbh.

  270. 6 The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals
    6 The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals
    August 4, 2020, 1:49 pm | #

    THE APOTHEOSIS IS UPON US!!!!!

  271. TwoPynts
    TwoPynts
    August 4, 2020, 1:56 pm | #

    Wow. Well, he did say he hopes she fares better in her next incarnation. It seems he had a hand in that.

  272. Taz
    Taz
    August 4, 2020, 2:42 pm | #

    I like this story because I can very much empathize with wanting to transition instantly and completely by punching god in the face.

  273. hella skella
    hella skella
    August 4, 2020, 2:54 pm | #

    hella

  274. 85 Lord of the Hamsters
    85 Lord of the Hamsters
    August 4, 2020, 4:08 pm | #

    Those baby blues are beautiful.

  275. lupoCani
    lupoCani
    August 4, 2020, 5:47 pm | #

    Well, this is remarkable.

    I am, perhaps, slightly skeptical. What made this battle significant was how White Chain went through with it in spite of having no real of hope of winning more than a moral victory, with every expectation of having to reincarnate. If the end result is she nevertheless lives, and wins a physical victory – especially a miraculous one – I cannot help but feel this undermines her original willingness to fight this battle in spite of the consequences.

    The next several pages will tell, I suppose.

    • 2 Thralls of the Great Machine
      2 Thralls of the Great Machine
      August 5, 2020, 6:22 pm | #

      She had no notion that her first act of *finally* throwing off her yoke and standing against the system she had been perpetuating would actually result in anything but her immediate and summary destruction, why would that undermine anything she’s done?

  276. ZEBBELLI
    ZEBBELLI
    August 4, 2020, 5:48 pm | #

    OH!
    the prize is your heart’s desire/wish, is this what she wanted?
    Wish granting’s a bit more instantaneous than I thought.

    • ZEBBELLI
      ZEBBELLI
      August 4, 2020, 5:49 pm | #

      Y’all are over thinking this.

  277. LordOfChains
    LordOfChains
    August 4, 2020, 6:03 pm | #

    Becoming human was just what her powers brought about. Her wish was for the Cornrows.

  278. Arann the SwordMaker
    Arann the SwordMaker
    August 4, 2020, 6:47 pm | #

    Didn’t he say that anyone who managed to hurt him would get whatever it was they desired??

  279. Kurama
    Kurama
    August 4, 2020, 6:49 pm | #

    i think she got that one drop of blood from him just now
    and the energy made a body ?

  280. Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
    Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
    August 4, 2020, 6:58 pm | #

    From the way she looks now, White Chain has surely taken something from Solomon that would qualify as a drop of blood. Will she demand more from his pledge than just her miraculous new bod? Would that be unhumble?

    Seems to me that Dave still has some big bills to pay, and Foxy Chain may be the one to make him do it.

  281. Xan the Humble
    Xan the Humble
    August 4, 2020, 8:39 pm | #

    My mind is absolutely boggled by the metaphysical implications of this one page.

  282. Erlick
    Erlick
    August 4, 2020, 9:14 pm | #

    What I’m wondering is what she did to him on the way through?

    Is he going to turn around and make another of his pretentious declarations (pretentious in that he pretends that he is anything other than a very powerful thug), or is he going to find that she took something from him on the way through, and that losing it was unpleasant?

  283. ThatOneGuy
    ThatOneGuy
    August 4, 2020, 9:28 pm | #

    Why make her fat? Why make her fatter than HER SHELL? Why Black? Why dreadlocks of all things?

    This is my first complaint. But this is big.

    • Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
      Calavera, Mendicant Knight in training.
      August 4, 2020, 9:58 pm | #

      Do you SEE her abs?

    • Glog, Slime Child
      Glog, Slime Child
      August 4, 2020, 10:31 pm | #

      Excuse me?

      Do you have any concept of what muscle looks like? At all??? Secondly, why the fuck does it matter if she’s black, has dreadlocks, or is overweight (even though she still isn’t)? Learn to accept more diverse characters, appearances, and experiences in storytelling, and you’ll be the better for it. It’s a badass look for a badass lady.

      • George
        George
        August 5, 2020, 9:12 am | #

        Huh.

        Well, this might be the thing that gets Solomon’s focus to be disrupted for a second.

    • a small creature
      a small creature
      August 5, 2020, 12:31 am | #

      1. If you think that’s fat, you live in a strange world indeed.

      2. This seems like a strange time to get picky about body size/shell size issues, given that the entire run of the webcomic has been presenting the reader with physical impossibilities of all kinds in practicall every strip. Are you going to worry about how devils can fit inside those masksas well, or where the extra weight goes when QWuieen Motton transforms from grown woman to young child by eating a peach?

      3. There really is no need to explain of justify the new character’s being Black, but if you insist and this is causing you to lose sleep at night, I might direct your attention to the fact that Solomon David is, uh, Black and this new character sort of seems in part his daughter, so what exactly is the problem? Not that it would be a problem anyway, and why does this bother you anyway?

      4. Dreadlocks are bad because….why? What would you prefer – shaved Annie Lennox Eurythmics skull? (although she was pretty cute)No, actually, I don’t want to know. Astroturf wig? Abbadon pasting in adorable angle halo taken from a 1999 newspaper clip art book in every panel? (would save time by not drawing rest of character, just a floating halo. Similar dodge used by Gary Trudeau to conceal fact he can’t draw. Is you ultimate aim to have Gary Trudeau replace Abbadon as KSBD artist. This is an ambition that no one else wants to see. To be sure, you’d no long have to deal with body weight issues, ethnicity or hair styles, since a Trudeau KSBD would dispense with showing all of these, in favor of identical Xeroxed panel layouts and floating symbols for characters. But hey, no more dreadlocks!

      Finally, people, on either the left or right, who insist on political posturing instead of aesthetics, suck. Uniformly. I don’t need anyone’s agitprop.

    • dissociaghost
      dissociaghost
      August 5, 2020, 2:35 am | #

      come on guy those are box braids not dreads

    • Espiaraiti'i
      Espiaraiti'i
      August 5, 2020, 5:04 am | #

      Why should she NOT be black? Especially when her soul form has always been portrayed with black features (such as an afro– admittedly, one full of eyes, but it was definitely not a white-leaning hairstyle)? I look forward to your attempt to explain this, especially if you intend to try to do it without looking like a sad racist. I’m sure it will be very entertaining.

      Also have you ever like… *seen* a woman? In real life, and not in heavily Photoshopped online images?

    • Theidiotroadscumbaitsmasterfully
      Theidiotroadscumbaitsmasterfully
      August 5, 2020, 7:47 am | #

      Dear TOG, I must take you fishing one day.

    • Un' What Dwells In Darkness
      Un' What Dwells In Darkness
      August 6, 2020, 6:51 pm | #

      Where is that fat you speak of? I see only muscle.

      As to why her new body is black and with locks, it’s obviously because she got it from going through SD’s body.

  284. Thirsty Rat Admiring Thighs 58
    Thirsty Rat Admiring Thighs 58
    August 4, 2020, 11:01 pm | #

    I can’t help but notice the aura of people around Salami Dave that wasn’t there when white chain was moving past him as pure energy, to me that looks like a moment when his guard is down as has been teased.

    I feel that he’ll turn around, go to attack her new form or be startled by it and stand still and either way it’ll become apparent that as she moved past she cut his cheek on the side we don’t see or something like that.

    Also black trans women’s lives matter and white chain is looking amazingly beautiful in her new form.

  285. 32 Febrile Complexion of the True Believer
    32 Febrile Complexion of the True Believer
    August 4, 2020, 11:48 pm | #

    Wowza!

    I’m guessing what happened here is that White Chain successfully draws blood in panel 14. The prize is to have a wish granted, right? So either she deliberately wished for a body or it was such a powerful subconscious wish that it was immediately granted.

    Regardless, absolutely amazing update and I’m eager for more as always!

  286. Doomroar
    Doomroar
    August 5, 2020, 12:35 am | #

    Just from this all of us are winners.

  287. Rizz Rustbolt
    Rizz Rustbolt
    August 5, 2020, 1:29 am | #

    “The Power of Youth Explodes” starts playing…

  288. MechaBill
    MechaBill
    August 5, 2020, 2:33 am | #

    I’m going to guess that WhiteChain has NOT drawn a drop of blood but HAS drawn a teardrop, and that this counts. Diamond is hard and unyielding but can be broken by insignificant force at a flaw. SDs love and grief for his lost wife and daughters is this flaw. I expect WC looks exactly like one of them.

  289. lYkansus
    lYkansus
    August 5, 2020, 3:07 am | #

    FUCK YOU NOW I CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT DEATH BY SNU SNU

  290. 1 Human hasn't died so far and is planning on keeping it that way
    1 Human hasn't died so far and is planning on keeping it that way
    August 5, 2020, 4:08 am | #

    YES!
    FUUUUUUCKKKKKK!!
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

    WIELD THAT FUCKING BLADE OF WANT!
    REACH HEAVEN THROUGH VIOLENCE!
    AND TEAR IT TO ATOMS!

    • Charon the Fateless
      Charon the Fateless
      August 5, 2020, 9:24 am | #

      I believe that this entire ‘want’ thing is getting entirely too out of hand. But I am not fated to stop it sadly; thus I move on.

      Also, she’s quite cute for a recently transitional humanoid flame to fleshy human.

  291. Vivian Vortex Velocipede
    Vivian Vortex Velocipede
    August 5, 2020, 7:47 am | #

    WHWOOOOOOAHHHHHAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT!

  292. 818 Serpent Saunters Vaguely Downwards
    818 Serpent Saunters Vaguely Downwards
    August 5, 2020, 8:17 am | #

    Passing through mortal fear by integrity alone, Flame becomes flesh, and is exalted at last. It is an honor to witness, and this Aeon salutes from beyond.

  293. HonkerBonker
    HonkerBonker
    August 5, 2020, 9:29 am | #

    So , she needs to breath. Which also means , probably , need to drink , eat , then go to restroom (what a disgusting necessity , when do we finally phase it out , darn ) . Poor angel. Oh , and she woman so there she gets periods , PMS , and all other “happines of being woman” stuff . Pooor , poor White Chain . My condolences .

    • Ocean
      Ocean
      August 5, 2020, 12:53 pm | #

      Being made of meat does have some perks, you know.

  294. Bob
    Bob
    August 5, 2020, 11:55 am | #

    Well, if critique is allowed and will not be screeched into oblivion, then I shall try this.

    In short, pretty weak, pretty pandering.

    Look, this flies in the face of the lesson that Alice was supposed to be receiving back in 10-140. Yes, something “miraculous” was hinted in 10-148, but at the same time it was also stated by Zoss that she could not be saved.

    This is Alice’s terrible struggle? Her terrible fire? Watching someone else get what they want?

    Contemplate this. What if White chain had died, well, got all busted up to dust, but, drew a drop of blood from Solomon? What then?

    Well, He’d have a prize to give but no one to give it to, and worse, a victory that as Zoss stated, would show his foolish delusions of control. His rotting heaven. A prison that is the world.

    And then, that opens up things, an invasion of heaven like Zoss once did? The rescue of not only White Chain, but also the other angels hammered by the Juggernaut Wheel?

    Cio if you recall, was rebuilt, but was a completely new person because of it, only fragments of old. But that was a repair from without.

    There could have been something grand, something like an Angel deciding what the shell would look like, deciding to proudly carve their own identity.

    But now we can’t, as there were checkboxes to be ticked, a vocal minority to appease, and so we skip all that and land right at the end.

    Bah, pandering. The only vaguely amusing thing is that in theory since the body resembles Solomon’s, and no doubt will have bloodied the man, that he in theory will abdicate and give the throne to the former White chain, who will no doubt be either a Davina, or Salome.

    Aside of that, pretty weak, and pretty pandering.

    • 2 Thralls of the Great Machine
      2 Thralls of the Great Machine
      August 5, 2020, 6:18 pm | #

      ‘she can’t be saved’ is not actually what you read, whether or not it is what you understood from your reading.

      Zoss said ‘*You* cannot save her.’ complete with ‘you’ being in italics. That’s a very different animal from what your reading produced, and absolutely correct; White Chain was always going to do this for herself. This story arc is clearly not about Alice.

      Zoss also spoke to Alice -just- as she began to show the first glimmer of a halo, in a prison, in a sunbeam, upon doubting the very efficacy of violence in and of itself. She thought ‘what if this isn’t the way? what if power isn’t power at all?’ and that was the first time she felt a spark that either of us can recall. Thus, it seems that the truth of Alice’s story is *not* one of violence, but of opportunity, of perseverance, of willingness to be vulnerable, of eschewing the very thing everyone around her relentlessly pursues.

      Both Alice and White Chain pursue violence: through violence, one makes space for herself (literally, not figuratively, to breathe), and one realizes that there is no forward path in fighting and that the pursuit of power and control are *the problem* as opposed to the solution everyone makes them out to be.

      We have nothing to prove about Solomon’s rotting heaven; he *knows*, he just said as much to White Chain explicitly. He hopes upon hope that someone will come and unseat him. He fought with White Chain praying that she would be the one, and look at his expression in the fourth-to-last frame. I can interpret that pretty easily as ‘uh wait did something just get through?’; it’s possible that you have already got the drop of blood you’re asking for, or even that White Chain has wrested ‘blood’ out of Solomon in taking a piece of him in order to create an entirely new mode of existence for herself.

      This whole story has been about subdivision, about the terror of loneliness (while all strive to be the last standing), beginning at the very outset with YISUN breaking into pieces so that they can know themselves.

      Breaking as a path of becoming is *a thing* here; it’s not the first time we’ve seen it, but that is a central theme of the work rather than the primary character conceit of a washed-up old god whose days of possibility are far behind him.

      This is -much- more in-character (and not at all pandering, our own biases hopefully aside) than the example you gave, both for Abbadon as an author and for KSBD as a continuing storyline and the Wheel as a piece of persistent worldbuilding.

      Your suggestion is more like flogging a point that Solomon drives home every time he’s onscreen; his rotting prison *is* constantly all about him, more a companion to him than his halo, and at no point is he seen to be anything other than fundamentally empty as a result. We know that; it’s right in the text.

      The culmination of White Chain’s disharmonious body/soul discrepancy is frankly phenomenal, and a whole new mode for her is much more interesting than her exit-stage-left, only to return in a later age. Or, for example, for having a vessel rebuilt by her friends, such to return to ‘life’ as a warrior… despite the fact that Allison is beginning to understand that her power is in sharing and not in perpetuating conflict (which insists, as always, upon itself).

      I can see this speaking to a cis dude a lot less than it does to me, like… I get that. But experiences which are not yours and which differ from your expectations are not weak as a result of that difference; just the opposite. White Chain has had much to withstand, not least of which is weathering criticism regarding her fundamental self leveled at her every time she appears.

      That speaks to -us-, and it’s far from weak.

      I fucking *feel* that first breath after countless ages not knowing the meaning of the word. I have let out that very same breath, and I would know it anywhere.

      • Bob
        Bob
        August 5, 2020, 9:41 pm | #

        So close, I must commend you on your efforts. And given the subject and characters it’s almost ironic, but mostly just amusing.

        Most of what you said was an honest disagreement about the topic, which I really was hoping to have and see, but then you couldn’t resist and fell back to “my biases” and your assumptions of my gender, etc. etc.

        As for your words, again it could have been so much more. White Chain wouldn’t have been dead, just back in that Angelic Penalty box, but, with both an Angelic witness (one who acknowledges her gender) and ostensibly an even more feminine appearance. There could have been a third side born, not just the old guard and the thorns. The great deviation that caused one side to become two could become three.

        The struggle was the beauty, it was the point.

        Cio’s struggle, Alice’s struggle, and sadly, White Chain’s no more.

        Still, there’s only one real hope that could salvage this, but I doubt the creator of this story has the… courage to go that route. Pity.

        You say you feel that breath and frankly I must be doubtful of that. You breathe all the time. I assume you mean the metaphor of breathing as you truly are, or some such. But she isn’t, as she isn’t an angel any more.

        White Chain the angel represented either the third path of acceptance, instead of endurance and denial, or, could have been the first truly female angel, not an angel with a female form. The implications of that would have been boundless and terrifying. Could there be new angels, a new race? Would fresh eyes instead of endlessly recycled ones see things in a brace new world.
        We shall never know.

        As instead we have White Chain the human, the meat. No longer an angel, she is the result of fleeing being an angel, fleeing being what she was, denying who she was, and, finding solace as a human being. Female yes, but that is what I mean by the pandering, the assumption that gender, and ONLY gender, matters.

        This will tell the other angels that there is no other solution, that there is only the duty, in one form or another, or as WC has done and fleeing even further than the other angels have done. Thorn angels still cling to a duty, even if it is different or abhorrent.

        Oh, and don’t tell me “But she can still be an angel!” As it has been pointed out, angels are nuclear fire contained in shells. and even Devils barely manage to stay in humans for a short while due to their malleable nature and treating the human body like a mask.

        White Chain can die now, not go to that Angelic penalty box, and she has what she’s always wanted to be, except that she hasn’t. Unless the story is now going to be about how she returns to being an angel, she’s fled.

        Still, most of the story has been decent, it could recover.

        And thank you for reply 2 Thralls of the Great Machine. Discourse, proper discourse is what makes the world go round.

        Regards,

        Bob

        • monochromaticprism
          monochromaticprism
          August 5, 2020, 10:40 pm | #

          Hey Bob,

          I just wanted to chime in here with what I see having happened, since we will have to wait to learn the mechanics of it one way or the other. The way I interpreted this is that rather than going the route of angelic reset, White Chain has created and transferred (somehow) to a different body at the point where she would have been yanked back to the spiritual plane. Until it is explicitly stated, I don’t think the nature of her flame has been altered. She should still be a white hot flame inhabiting a material body.

          One of the aspects brought up in a number of places as a problem with the angels is their rigidity, particularly mentally. From giving an angel a delicate comb way back to teach priorities and proportionality, to what we have been with White Chain breaking her own body by making choices that run contrary to the “contract/law” baked into her physical form, breaking this rigidity has been a definite thread throughout.

          Gaining a flesh and blood shell, as opposed to one of rigid stone, is in keeping with this move towards flexible patterns of thought / becoming more like mortals. I personally would have made the form separate from existing races, distinguishing physical body angels as their own race/group, but this could still work.

          I would argue similar themes have been played out through Cio moving away from the natural chaos of the black flame by valuing things like relationships instead of the extreme self serving individualism of demons. Down the line she may end up internalizing enough order / distinct values to not need a mask to have a stable mind and body, mirroring White Chain’s journey from the opposite side.

          • Bob
            Bob
            August 5, 2020, 10:59 pm | #

            Hello monochromaticprism,

            We shall indeed have to see, but unless there is a retcon, we know what happens to an angel with no shell, as Juggernaut has shown us, a nice big kaboom.

            And to quote a certain Martian, where is the earth shattering kaboom?

            Ergo, one can assume no longer an angel.

            As I said, there’s only one real answer that the author can pull off if, and only if, White Chain remains an angel.

            A single breath.

            • B. Dobbs
              B. Dobbs
              August 5, 2020, 11:41 pm | #

              Hi Bob,

              Your ability to miss the point, consistently, and with such enormous confidence is… well.. spectacular. Most amusing bit of this thread I must say. I particularly like how condescending you are to everyone who disagrees with you.

              Good touch that. Really drives home that sense that you believe you are the only light of reason and truth around and that all others should simply bow to your lofty insights. The way it distracts from your abuse of ‘logic’ is artful. The fallacies, and hidden assumptions of your ‘arguments’ are so deftly swept over.

              Keep it up! Most amusing!

              • Bob
                Bob
                August 5, 2020, 11:53 pm | #

                Well, someone has to B. Dobbs.

                No one is really discussing this, it’s all lost in the noise of all the chanting of ‘thicc-ness’, or quoting lines from Videodrome.
                And lets be honest, how many of them have actually watched that movie, or know of the massive negative connotations of appending flesh where it should not be?

                As for my being condescending, well, at least monochromaticprism actually brought up a point, whereas you’ve not actually refuted, or disputed, or disproven anything of what I’ve said. You’ve only complimented me on how well I’m tolerating people like you.

                And for that, you’re welcome.

                Regards,

                Bob

                • 0z79
                  0z79
                  August 7, 2020, 12:42 am | #

                  Either stop kvetching or get a room, you two. :p

        • 2 Thralls of the Great Machine
          2 Thralls of the Great Machine
          August 6, 2020, 12:45 am | #

          I referred to our own biases – and when misquoting others it’s usually best not to use quotes as though you are repeating us – not to yours. I recognize that the way we are and the path we’ve taken makes for substantial differences between ourselves and others; my forthrightness in this sense is intentional, and if you see it as somehow disqualifying, I don’t know how you can purport to value discourse.

          Yep, I assumed your gender. Felt pretty safe, considering. Feel free to correct me if you are not a cis dude.

          It’s bizarre to me that you don’t see White Chain and her companions – right down to the one trucking around with Zoss’ key – as a significant force in the Universe (against Old Guard v. Thorns), nor that their process of becoming throughout the story somehow lessens them. That seems like dodging the point more than missing it. Further, the idea that she would be better off going through the usual channels which have so comprehensively failed her seems to misunderstand the concept of preexisting power structures and authority altogether.

          As for an angelic nature, she doesn’t need to be an angel to be more than human. Angels are peerless combatants, but still, what is that up against Solomon? Nothing, and though Solomon is a demiurge, I do not believe I have seen anything which says humans cannot be demiurges, or that demiurges are inherently inhuman. Even if they are only the first, even if they are somehow immortal, demiurge is a status, a state, the possession of a Key or a Word, and their methodologies and constructions are diverse.

          Also, the statement ‘different and abhorrent’ seems obvious but still uncomfortable.

          The bit about fleeing from angelhood because only gender matters seems odd to me also. Are you under the impression that changing such an immutable thing about oneself is a method of *retreat*?

          Do you consider Allison’s thoughts on violence (in that it is only useful to beget more violence, and thus nothing like true power at all) to be abdicating responsibility, or retreating from her destiny? It seems as though *that is her path*, not like changing from someone who fights into someone who prepares to fight but seeks peace is fleeing from anything.

          White Chain has changed, without a doubt, but it seems telling to me (and this is where assuming your gender comes in, because it’s incredibly common) that you figure this is a reduction, a retreat, and not an act of defiance and a colossal blow against a structure from whence White Chain has, for eternities past and present together, never had the capacity to challenge.

          Striking against a body of power – not a monarch in and of themselves, but the mantle of untouchability they construct between themselves and their society, their divine right – is a *grievous* blow, even when the monarch survives.

          Knowing that -the queen can be killed- because she bled and screamed like any peasant would changes the way everyone she rules over sees her. Suddenly, vulnerability. Suddenly, all that inexorability evaporates. White Chain has struck a tremendous blow against a body of power.

          As for Allison’s power and the way that this story arc is not about her: *Allison did this*. This is at least a partial result of Allison, sharing who she is with White Chain, and giving her enough heart to do something totally fucking unimaginable for anyone of her kind. She challenged White Chain in a totally novel way, and despite the fact that she did not punch the whole concept of Angels right in the face, she absolutely shook the foundations of their organization. No Angel has ever been otherwise. That’s -incredible-, and it’s the first step of a Demiurge (still a human!) coming into her true power.

          And, with regard to breaths?

          …yeah, I *do* know how that feels. Look down your nose all you like; I spent all my life not knowing the meaning of the word, and have recently taken my first real breath, *as us*. No bullshit. Nothing between us and what’s around us. Refusal to see the connection between White Chain’s arrival in her new state and a trans woman’s experience of same is not a rebuttal, and you have no agency in terms of how we see our new life, or how we celebrate a character’s who we have invested in and seen ourselves in.

          • 2 Thralls of the Great Machine
            2 Thralls of the Great Machine
            August 6, 2020, 12:51 am | #

            As a secondary, much less verbose reply:

            You can thank me for proper discourse by not treating everyone you talk to like a bunch of assholes, or us like our having an existence outside of Cold Logic and Direct Reading of the Word As Written in itself disqualifies everything we think.

            You’re not the Bearer of the Word Truth, and neither are we, and neither is anyone else who claims to be.

        • Espiaraiti'i
          Espiaraiti'i
          August 6, 2020, 2:57 am | #

          The part that confuses me– aside from your insistence that speaking to people’s experiences of transition is pandering to a “lower” impulse, which perhaps is less confusing than it is *insulting*– is that you can’t imagine how White Chain could possibly have any further struggles after this moment.

          First of all, she’s got to deal with the immediate problem of “how the hell is Solomon going to react to what just happened,” which is VERY much up in the air. Then, she has to deal with how her entire *race* is going to deal with what just happened– her existence may well prompt a civil war between the angels who support her and those who see her as a dangerous aberration. Also, she and the rest of the gang have to deal with how the other Demiurges are going to react to what just happened, and continue with Allison’s quest, which is, after all, still a thing.

          Just because a character has reached a goal, doesn’t mean they suddenly fall out of the story or lose the ability to interact with the other characters’ goals and storylines. Even her own individual storyline isn’t *done*– with this goal being such a revolutionary one within the story’s world, its fulfillment will have reverberating repercussions for everyone, particularly White Chain.

          The alternative to having various characters achieve their various goals at different points throughout the story is to either leave things unfulfilled (which is often disappointing to readers) or have everything wrapped up all at once in a nice tidy bow at the end, which tends to read as mere convenient artifice even when done well. In a work with as vibrant a world and as many characters and stories as this one has, an all-at-once wrap-up would not only be strange, but challenging to write without it being a giant mess.

          It seems that, in an attempt to argue against “pandering,” you’ve tricked yourself into arguing *for* unimaginative, trite storytelling. Or do you really believe that Abbadon lacks the creativity to continue to challenge White Chain in an interesting way after the most momentous change in her very long life?

          Your assertion that White Chain is “done” is just… baffling. You complained about people “assuming your gender,” but your insistence that *she’s transitioned now, everything’s done, story’s over, nowhere to go from here* really does betray that you have never experienced a transition or even witnessed one in real life, nor have you likely read much about them either, nor seen them depicted in other narratives. You seem to have quite the analytical and argumentative chops, but logic often does a poor job of filling in for gaps in experience, and also tends to blind the viewer to the way their own train of thought is twisting in upon itself. It’s a problem that plagues far too many intelligent and well-educated people, and contributes to those people’s vulnerability to manipulation.

          So, until we get to see where Abbadon is *actually* going with this, please refrain from projecting your lack of experience and your inability to imagine a path forward from here onto the existing narrative. Acknowledging that you don’t know something is surprisingly empowering, and opens up new realms of imagination and understanding that I think you will enjoy exploring, should you allow yourself to access them.

    • Amelie W
      Amelie W
      August 5, 2020, 10:52 pm | #

      You sure like to use the word “pandering”. Can you explain what makes it different from “catering”? Is it just when it’s catering to people you don’t like?

      • Bob
        Bob
        August 5, 2020, 11:09 pm | #

        I like to use words that are applicable to what is being shown.

        And as to what makes it different from ‘catering’, why very little.
        In fact, a good example can be found in the free dictionary.

        2. To cater to the lower tastes and desires of others or exploit their weaknesses: “He refused to pander to nostalgia and escapism”

        Except here, there is no refusal.

        Now, for catering, I can understand what you think, at least I think that I think I do so. As a verb, “To attend to the wants or needs of.” implies that there is a want or a need for White Chain to finally get what she wants.

        And so, if this is indeed catering, and you have been catered to, where do you see White Chain going from here? Doing from here? She’s on a mortal clock now, unless she rips out the beanie from Solomon, and even with that form of immortality, she is Angel no longer.

        And being Angel no longer, for she has burned everything she was, everything she could represent or become, she has nowhere to go next.

        As I said, the struggle was the beauty, it was the point.

        That’s why I call it pandering.

        • Does the Fool recognize itself for what it is?
          Does the Fool recognize itself for what it is?
          August 5, 2020, 11:45 pm | #

          Bob,

          I don’t think you get to decide what “the point” is. Not for others, and not for the author.

          Likewise, dismissing things you don’t agree with as “pandering” doesn’t make you correct. It just makes you shallow, and lacking in any true insight of the world around you.

          Carry on, though. Your commitment to error isn’t something I expect to change.

          • Bob
            Bob
            August 6, 2020, 12:01 am | #

            Indeed, Does the Fool recognize itself for what it is?, Indeed.

            But sadly that includes you as well.

            And while I cannot decide upon the point of the author, I can respectfully disagree with what I see. And you can disagree with my disagreement.

            That’s how a dialogue works.

            Please, tell me where is my commitment to error is. It’s clearly readily obvious to you, as you mentioned it so. And if I’m lacking any true insight of the world around me, which you must undoubtedly have to declare that, you can instruct me, right?

            You do have an actual counterpoint right?

        • 31 Dragon Eats Mayfly
          31 Dragon Eats Mayfly
          August 6, 2020, 12:14 am | #

          Just jumping on this with a question: KSBD is ending soon :(, with the next book. If that 5th book ended with “and the heroes won and everything was perfect”, you would feel cheated, right? (I know I would).

          If the 5th book ended with “the heroes ‘won’ but their struggles for justice/peace/whatever are not yet over and they must continue to work for their goals, as we all must to create a better world)”, would you see that as pandering?

          If the 5th book ended with “the heroes didn’t ‘win’, but are still alive and can keep struggling, as we all must to create a better world”, would you find that satisfactory?

          Or would you only like the ending if the 5th book ended as “they lost, and the cycle begins anew”?

          I’m not attacking you for which one (or ones!) you’d like–with different media I’ve landed in different places on this sorta sliding-scale-of-happy-endings myself! I just want to know where you are for KSBD. (I would probably be varying degrees of satisfied with any but the first one).

          • 31 Dragon Eats Mayfly
            31 Dragon Eats Mayfly
            August 6, 2020, 12:18 am | #

            (You can also say none-of-the-above, those scenarios were not meant to be exhaustive lol! I’d love to hear what “ending state(s)” you’d like to see!)

            • Bob
              Bob
              August 6, 2020, 12:35 am | #

              31 Dragon Eats Mayfly, that is indeed something that worries me.

              I, under a different name, was quite against the one year time passing, as it removed Alice from being our gateway into the new and bizarre world that we were seeing.

              Now that she’s been there a year, we no longer have that, and the people, the actions, and all of that cannot venture too far into the depths of the uncanny like before. No more eating little blue demons while being friends with a big blue demon and so on. When has anyone been called “Preem”?

              And then we get a tournament battle.

              It’s becoming more and more digestible, more… catering, to bring this back to Amelie W’s initial response to mine.

              As for if it ends on the fifth book, that’s something I’m not too worried about. It’s a webcomic, and those can go on for quite a long time, whether as one story or many.

              But to answer your question, IF it ended on the 5th book, five of seven demiurges met, the best ending I could see would be something more along the lines of either a retreat to earth due to a tragedy, leading to an uncertain future, or, a breaking of the seven demiurges down to three, then to one, and then something more out of the last question.

              Most creation stories of such a cyclical nature end as thus.

              I hope this answered you adequately 31 Dragon Eats Mayfly, but if not, I’ll try again.

              Regards,

              Bob

              • 31 Dragon Eats Mayfly
                31 Dragon Eats Mayfly
                August 6, 2020, 3:06 am | #

                Thanks for the prompt response! I was really asking you that question with an ulterior motive–if the KSBD ended in either of your “best endings”, would that not be catering (in your definition) to your own feeling, wants, or needs?

                I think catering/pandering are weighty accusations to throw against any media: personally, I don’t think either happen unless by giving the audience (or parts of the audience) what they want the author subverts their own work and narrative. (Making the audience want something is in some ways an essential part of any good art, right?)

                And in this case, I don’t think Abbadon has subverted their work. When we meet White Chain, she is a by-the-book servant of the law, in denial about her own discomfort within the law. Her first actions with Allison are about returning things to the status quo–she seeks to return the Key of Kings to prevent universal war.

                Her first step in her struggle is when she acknowledges (after meeting Metatron) that the status quo is not good: things must change. Specifically, she mentions how while she may not agree with the royalists and the thorns, she thinks action (struggle) is better then the complacency of the non-aligned angels. (Book 2, 3-59)

                White Chain’s next step in her struggle comes around when Juggernaut and her enter Mottom’s palace, and she makes a commitment to defend life in her struggle (B2, 5-85).

                She doesn’t get a ton of character development in Book 3, but we do get a interesting angry outburst from her about that conflict between the supposedly immutable nature of angels, her growing humanity, (B3 6-67) and the growing need for change (and her prior commitment to protecting life, as Nyave stops her!) (B3 7-80 to 7-81).

                In Book 4, White Chain starts off as still largely cautious of change: she sees Allison as reckless, she is wondering whether she is doing the right thing, and she even forgets her oath on the comb of Prim (B4 9-120 to 121)–partly because she misunderstands Vigilant’s advice in 9-106; as she doesn’t realize that she too is a work of god.

                This prompts her to take the next step in her struggle by acknowledging that the problem of the current system is not just within the non-aligned angels, or even all angels, but the Wheel itself–Solomon David, the demiurges, and most crucially for this step, herself. She is that oppressive system, and she resolves to fight it with every fiber of her being (B4 10-137)

                I think where you and I might diverge is in this next part–I don’t think White Chain has lost her flame (and I even think she still counts as an angel or some sort of hybrid, though we will need to wait to see the aftermath to really determine that), and I don’t think flesh is inherently corruptible–the universe would not be perfect if it was run by angels, and while Allison is inexperienced and hasty, she has a honest and sincere desire to avoid violence that seems unshaken by Incubus urging her on, or even her merge with Cio. (see her conversation with Zoss + Incubus on B4 10-139). I don’t think that flesh is inherently lesser than angels and don’t view White Chains transformation as a downgrade or a retreat–after all, Zoss slew all the Primes!

                In this context, White Chain’s transformation doesn’t subvert Abbadon’s main message that you must struggle, act decisively, and understand that your only true control is over yourself, and those are the ways through which you break cycles (or perhaps systems?) (these messages are drawn from Zoss’s appearances, since he seems to be a sort of author avatar/mentor).

                In fact, the transformation lines up almost perfectly with Zoss’s title drop in Book 2: “By Names she cuts the world as she pleases and she cuts herself into greater forms still. She is not shaped by the world, but instead becomes the Shaper…” (B2 5-95). White Chain has taken the step in her struggle of literally breaking free of the remnant of the angelic status quo that unshackles her (remember, “This shell is not my body” B4 9-124).

                Finally, her struggle is not over. Her body is not the sole problem–the problem is that aforementioned system of fear and oppression, and even if she were to defeat Solomon (which, let’s be honest, how many demiurges have the main party defeated thus far?), the rest of the demiurges are still around, and all the minor warlords, and all the people who use their powers to control people, and all the factions of angels, and Metatron himself. Succeeding in this small way is does not mean her struggle is over.

                Finally Finally, (whoops), while I think it could be emotionally satisfying if done well, I highly doubt this will end with a return to the cycle. All of Zoss’s appearances imply that the Rising King has risen and failed before, and that Zoss is trying to get Allison to break this cycle where he can’t, as “He who masters the wheel cannot Break it.” (B4 10-141). (in this sense, if White Chain is indeed mortal, she has broken the cycle of angelic life).

                TL;DR: White Chain’s transformation isn’t pandering or catering, because it makes logical sense as a progression of the narrative arc of her character and while it makes the audience happy, it doesn’t do so at the expense of the story, but in service to the story. Now, if you reply to this tonight, I will sadly NOT respond tonight because I have a final I need to take tomorrow morning and I have procrastinated on my studying for far too long!!!

                Thanks!

        • Amelie W
          Amelie W
          August 6, 2020, 12:23 am | #

          Thanks for that entirely unclear answer. I guess the dictionary has all your opinions in it and I should just read that instead of having this conversation. As to your question, I can’t accept its premise because I recognize I actually don’t know what’s going on in this scene.

          • Bob
            Bob
            August 6, 2020, 12:42 am | #

            Did I not answer the difference between pandering and catering? That was what you asked.

            And yes, a dictionary is good for defining words, that’s what it’s for.

            If it was a passive-aggressive way of asking me what I, Bob, would have wanted instead of what you got, then by all means ask me that directly. No need to mince around the question.

            What I was hoping to see was something more along the lines of White Chain going through a living Kintsugi, and becoming greater in the process.

            I was hoping to see an Angel finally carve itself into what it wanted to be, not flee from itself and accept the casting of flesh and feeble flame.

            Does that answer your question Amelie W?

            • Amelie W
              Amelie W
              August 6, 2020, 1:05 am | #

              Not really. But it does tell me you’re complaining about not getting the thing you wanted before you can know you’re not getting the thing you wanted. Almost like the thing you say you don’t like isn’t really what you don’t like at all.

              • Bob
                Bob
                August 6, 2020, 1:23 am | #

                Sadly Amelie W, it is.

                Going through that much art and drama to create White Chain in the meat, shows that the transition is likely going to stick. One doesn’t do that many pages of art and call it an APOTHEOSIS and then do a takebacksie.

                As I said, I sincerely doubt the author is going to go the way of a single perfect breath.

                Or in Amelie speak, The thing I say I don’t like is in fact what I don’t like.

                • Amelie W
                  Amelie W
                  August 6, 2020, 2:08 am | #

                  Let’s see, White Chain is going through some magical transformation that’s never happened in this multiverse before, a process we can only guess at, for reasons we can only guess at, fueled by energies we can only guess at, with consequences we can only guess at except it seems she has incarnated in a humanoid body, in the middle of a fight that’s probably taking place outside of time against a guy who can explode suns with his martial art and whose mental and physical state at the moment we can only guess at.

                  But sure, all her struggles are “likely” over. It’s “likely” a cheap ploy to appease us nasty loud trans people, based on the timing with which the pages have been published. I can almost buy you’re just being presumptuous, rather than trying to undermine this gorgeous trans representation behind your fake polite bloviations.

                  • 42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
                    42 Fragments the Universe Beyond All Reintegration
                    August 6, 2020, 10:14 am | #

                    Agreed that we can’t know what will happen; the possible outcomes are too many and the clues too ambiguous. One possible outcome is that White Chain *is* now mortal and will not survive to the end of the book. Solomon could still turn round and end her, permanently.

                    I’ve been expecting something like this. A while back, Abaddon posted a podcast praising authors who have the fortitude to permakill a major character and I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop. This would be the exact opposite of pandering. (Where exactly *is* Abaddon’s windmill?)

                • Torabi
                  Torabi
                  August 6, 2020, 5:55 am | #

                  And if the author went with your preferred direction, how would that not be pandering as well?

                  I think you’ve accepted the in-world logic of the angels themselves about the relative hierarchy and nature of the different races. It’s not necessarily true. It’s more likely to all be lies. All is YISUN, and all these sharp divisions, all “this cannot be that”, are just lies. The rules are self-imposed boundaries. All the races are described as flames, whether hot or cold, black or white, but all still flames. What if it’s instead a spectrum, rather than hard divisions? Devils have already been described as feeding off the cooler flames of the other races to maintain their forms, and I believe there was something about humans making too many pacts with devils might turn into one themselves.

                  Why are you so certain that White Chain is no longer an angel, or has “fled”, rather than ascended? The page title is “apotheosis”, after all. If she’s no longer an Angel, she’s more likely a god than a human. I think she has carved herself into what she wanted to be, and I don’t see how you could have read the comic and gotten a different impression of what she wanted.

    • 16 Light Ventures Through Caverns Unknown
      16 Light Ventures Through Caverns Unknown
      August 6, 2020, 4:58 am | #

      Feel free to write a story that satisfies your needs, I suppose?

      This story is (probably) going a different direction, and to label it ‘pandering’ because you think it’s an ‘easy’ direction or at the behest of some ‘boxes to be checked’… well, that tells me a lot about how you view White Chain and people like her, who struggle with feeling foreign in their own bodies.

      You seem to think that struggle or difficulty are the core of ‘higher’ storytelling (though feel free to correct me if I’m wrong about your thoughts there), but consider: people like White Chain HAVE struggled. Struggle is their whole lives.

      Maybe this part of White Chain’s story, her apotheosis, feels more satisfying and meaningful to them than it does to you, because they’re sick and tired of that struggle? Sometimes, it’s just nice to see someone facing problems somewhat like your own get that cathartic moment of total victory.

      Sorry if that disappoints you, but not every story can be everything for every person, and not many stories in history have been something made for those certain, struggling people.

    • Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
      Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
      August 6, 2020, 2:39 pm | #

      Where did you get the idea that we landed at the end? There’s an entire book left.

      I have to say, your fan fiction is super predictable and boring. I expected White Chain to die. This is much more surprising and satisfying.

    • 78 Tacoblizzard Rains Justice and Nourishment from Above
      78 Tacoblizzard Rains Justice and Nourishment from Above
      August 7, 2020, 12:57 am | #

      TL;DR

  295. VGer47
    VGer47
    August 5, 2020, 12:09 pm | #

    Two thoughts: 1. White Chain may have used Solomon David’s genes to create her own body. In that case, she may very well look a lot like his daughters – the ones who were murdered and who’re the reason he’s never ever, fathered daughters again. When he sees her, he may well FLIP comletely! That’s one way to make him lose control.
    2. In the last panel White Chain is bvery markedly breathing out. Does this mean she’s breaking the Ki Rata timestop? Will they suddenly fall back into normal time? And how will the spectators react to that?

    • Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
      Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
      August 5, 2020, 5:02 pm | #

      I think what we are seeing in the last panel is White Chain’s first breath, which is a very moving metaphor when you think about it: millions (billions?) of years old and finally taking a breath for the first time.

      • Domini
        Domini
        August 6, 2020, 12:54 am | #

        In the very first scene where Allison meets White Chain the first time, White Chain makes a HUFF sound, which makes me think angels still use air to talk, even if they don’t need to breathe.

        So I’m skeptical this is her first breath.

        Then again, White Chain has also smiled more frequently than thought so it might also be artist oversight?

    • 818 Serpent Saunters Vaguely Downwards
      818 Serpent Saunters Vaguely Downwards
      August 5, 2020, 9:35 pm | #

      Fascinating theory. And weirdly possible, given that she just sort of collapsed phases through him. Honestly the physics aren’t really something we know about since this doesn’t happen, as a rule.

    • 710 Distant Whistle Getting Closer
      710 Distant Whistle Getting Closer
      August 6, 2020, 10:54 pm | #

      Oh shit. Could that… count??? As spilling a drop of his blood??

  296. VGer47
    VGer47
    August 5, 2020, 12:16 pm | #

    BTW, I love the look on SD’s face in the fourth panel. He looks like he’s loving the fact that WC is surprising him AGAIN by moving in his Ki Rata timestop.

  297. VGer47
    VGer47
    August 5, 2020, 12:19 pm | #

    Oh, and what’s happening in that small black en white panel in the middle? Might be important.

    • TwoPynts
      TwoPynts
      August 5, 2020, 2:24 pm | #

      Indeed. Trying to sort that out.

    • 56 Guttering Candle Casts Steady Light on the Paths of the Faithful
      56 Guttering Candle Casts Steady Light on the Paths of the Faithful
      August 6, 2020, 1:04 am | #

      i do believe that’s white chain’s fist making contact with the celestial emperor’s head 🙂 to be confirmed in coming panels, i guess.

  298. -47 Cute Doggy Is Super Cute And Not A Kitty
    -47 Cute Doggy Is Super Cute And Not A Kitty
    August 5, 2020, 3:50 pm | #

    RETURNS
    TO
    SUBDUE
    EVIL

  299. monochromaticprism
    monochromaticprism
    August 5, 2020, 10:10 pm | #

    After a couple days for this to soak in, it just hit me that being flesh and bone is gonna be a weird experience. Needing to breath, hot/cold, food/water and the results, gonna be a lot to get used to.

    • Bob
      Bob
      August 6, 2020, 12:47 am | #

      It will be worse than that monochromaticprism, so much worse.

      What happens when she sleeps that first time? Dreams that first time?
      How many millions of years of perfect memory will be subjected to the whims of a brain that routinely forgets, and re-imagines, and produces falsehoods?

      How long until the next meal, the next warm bed, the next offered body, the next hit of drugs, becomes all that matters to a being that never experienced it. In. The. Flesh.

      Willpower is easy for an Angel, they are literally duty and flame placed into a statue. Willpower for a human though?

      There’s a reason why robots and angels and all sorts of beings being brought into a meaty existence in all the stories die horribly.

  300. Miz
    Miz
    August 5, 2020, 10:59 pm | #

    … right. So. Just finished binging the entire series so far and I’m blown away. This is, by far, the best webcomic I have ever read and I’ve been devouring them since the ye olden days of the internet.

    Thank you so much for this, and I’ll be watching this religiously.

  301. 67 Hot Stone Perceives the Unfortunate
    67 Hot Stone Perceives the Unfortunate
    August 5, 2020, 11:14 pm | #

    Cannot wait to reread the entire series after this book finishes and get to this part again

  302. Lady Redfingers, She who is Bone, Queen of the Calcified Fortress
    Lady Redfingers, She who is Bone, Queen of the Calcified Fortress
    August 6, 2020, 1:47 am | #

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  303. Enlightened Froot Eating Monkey
    Enlightened Froot Eating Monkey
    August 6, 2020, 2:25 am | #

    82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil between her THUNDER THIGHS.

    YISUN save us all, she’s done fucking around.

    • HonkerBonker
      HonkerBonker
      August 6, 2020, 4:45 am | #

      You know that plot is for rule34 , right ? )

    • Un-Fel, Ominous Quoter
      Un-Fel, Ominous Quoter
      August 6, 2020, 3:03 pm | #

      “Thick thighs take lives.”

      • Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
        Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
        August 6, 2020, 9:13 pm | #

        Thighs don’t kill anyone, people do.

  304. That Which is Itself, Immutable
    That Which is Itself, Immutable
    August 6, 2020, 2:31 am | #

    What a time to read this work. From opening to here in two days, and will certainly have to go back and linger through the story a second and third time.

  305. shada
    shada
    August 6, 2020, 4:02 am | #

    White Chain asked for Witness from her God. Apparently, they thought she was doing a good job and wanted to say to keep up the good work.

  306. Nope
    Nope
    August 6, 2020, 4:33 am | #

    Joy, confusion, and violence.

  307. lock_jay
    lock_jay
    August 6, 2020, 7:02 am | #

    fuck i love this comic

  308. 69 PROCRASTINATING STUDENT DRIFTS TOWARDS THE DEADLINE
    69 PROCRASTINATING STUDENT DRIFTS TOWARDS THE DEADLINE
    August 6, 2020, 9:21 am | #

    HHH

  309. Un-Fel, Ominous Quoter
    Un-Fel, Ominous Quoter
    August 6, 2020, 3:08 pm | #

    The white daughter of Un has taken on the shape of black Yis.

    The enforcer has unleashed her inner destroyer.

    The multiverse trembles.

  310. Un-Fel, Ominous Quoter
    Un-Fel, Ominous Quoter
    August 6, 2020, 3:11 pm | #

    Well, I’m not paralyzed
    But, I seem to be struck by you
    I wanna make you move
    Because you’re standing still
    If your body matches
    What your eyes can do
    You’ll probably move right through
    Me on my way to you

  311. 26 at midnight devours crusty sandwich
    26 at midnight devours crusty sandwich
    August 6, 2020, 3:18 pm | #

    I enjoyed the well placed arcs of lightning.

  312. Kotah
    Kotah
    August 6, 2020, 6:41 pm | #

    Tactically placed lightning.

  313. FoolRegnant
    FoolRegnant
    August 6, 2020, 7:22 pm | #

    Now that is an angel!

  314. 2 Tranquil River
    2 Tranquil River
    August 6, 2020, 11:03 pm | #

    Comment 666

  315. Var Watching Over The Flock
    Var Watching Over The Flock
    August 6, 2020, 11:25 pm | #

    So she is black? That should not be the strangest part of this chapter because she was not even a human before so taking on a human form she could wear a body of any color… unless it does actually matter. She was incarnated for some reason and her new body could be random or based on either her soul or the closest human body around and the one that influenced her change – Solomon. That is why I mentioned the skin color, she very Solomon-like now aside of being obviously female, maybe even with Solomon’s DNA or part of his inhuman power.

  316. 77 Sword Chain of Truth
    77 Sword Chain of Truth
    August 6, 2020, 11:27 pm | #

    What the hell is going on!?!?!?! holeh shieeet

    The resemblance is uncanny tho. Even when we know her form from previous chapters is what it is. How did that punch go through maaan so many questions.

  317. Xanadu ten Mercury "Murder the Gods and Pillage their Secrets"
    Xanadu ten Mercury "Murder the Gods and Pillage their Secrets"
    August 7, 2020, 12:19 am | #

    I am viscerally excited at this newest of plots!!! I am sharpening my teeth for a ritualistic feast of joy as we speak!!! I dub thee “1 Thick thighs ends lives”

  318. Robin Bobcat
    Robin Bobcat
    August 7, 2020, 1:28 am | #

    I love the grin in that fourth panel. That’s a ‘Ooh! They’re getting up? This is gonna be awesome!’ grin…

    • Glucose
      Glucose
      August 7, 2020, 3:08 am | #

      A true battle. An opponent to truly respect. A battle that will have -meaning-.

      Finally, finally released from his self-imposed imprisonment. He was not evil, simply frustrated at others unwillingness to measure up.

  319. 5th Earth
    5th Earth
    August 7, 2020, 1:48 am | #

    Goddamn but this sequence is a masterpiece.

  320. 17 Syncopated Melody Purges The Mind Of Evil
    17 Syncopated Melody Purges The Mind Of Evil
    August 7, 2020, 3:32 am | #

    While I will be sad to say goodbye to the badass character design of 82WCBIERTSE’s stone body and fiery soul, I look forward to what great revelation can explain this change.

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