KSBD 3-37
YISUN sat with the Attendants one day in the twentieth palace of Bone and Silver. There was a great feast laid out and YISUN directed all in attendance to forgo the custom. Black bread and spirits were served, salt was cast upon the throats of the repentant.
YISUN’S attendant IMVTTR was fond of violence and skilled in the art of separating men from their wealth and bodies. He had long hungered after the secret name of God as YISUN’s other disciple Aeshma had, but the sorry and torn sight of Aeshma’s pus weeping eyes had dissuaded him. At this feast he attempted through other means to coax some secret and dread knowledge from the universal King.
‘Oh master of masters,’ asked he, as the salt came around, and plucking absent strings upon his glyphic quorric and palming his flayer he spoke a bird into the air which sang a singular song and dissipated.
‘What is the great art known to your royal mind?’ sang the bird.
YISUN smiled in the third way for this question was anticipated for a long time.
‘Lying.’
IMVTTR spent three centuries trying to learn the equivalency of this utterance and resigned to hermitude where he went mad.
– The Song of Maybe
Giant Misogynist Dog Devil needs to get it good. And by “it” I mean a hatchet to the face.
Hatchet is too small, too blunt for the task. It has but one tooth to chew. A serrated edge, and let the mastocation be slow; savor the mingling flavors of justice and despair.
Not Misogynistic just a demon demi god.
Stop throwing your tumblr bullshit buzzwords into this.
No, “misogynist” fits pretty well with the description of Hell 71, and possibly Throne in general. You will note how the first thing 82 is asked upon arrival to Hell 71 is if his concubine is for sale. The assumption is that she is owned, not independent. Female enslavement seems to be common and accepted. “Misogynist” can be readily applied.
Eh, could also be an assumption based on what she’s wearing: recall that her current wardrobe was given to her by 82. Also, given the Preem’s taste for mammalian females, it’s no wonder his domain reflects that taste; for the rest of Throne, we’ve only seen parts of its dark, criminal underbelly, not really a good place to judge the morals of an entire society.
hoo boy i wonder if this guy ever realized that this story is literally about combating misogyny
Right, which is why the baddie being a misogynist makes perfect sense.
I’m glad SOMEONE stood up for this poor, maligned sex-trafficker. How dare these tumblrites destroy his sterling reputation by implying he doesn’t respect women
Exactly! Just because he literally treats women like objects doesn’t make him a misogynist! I’m sure he deeply respects every women he meets, before stealing their faces and turning them into oversexualized flesh puppets with names like “honey bunch.”
Not trying to defend this guy, but I’m pretty sure those are his kids.
aye, he seems more a hedonist than specifically misogynist…
If I were Allison I would have spent the last two pages shitting myself and sobbing uncontrollably in the fetal position. She’s quite the badass to merely look terrified.
Clearly something has gone horribly wrong. I mean just what ARE you doing down there, deep sea diver? There’s no water around.
Poor guy. I bet he just wants to see his family again…
Has anyone else noticed that the void faces actively resist being dressed with the masks?
Probably because they knew what was going to happen.
Aaargh! Give me Cthulhu any day over the weapons-grade uncanny valley those two THINGS are displaying! Where’s a proximity air-burst railgun when you need it?
By train of thought and rail of rationality, Cthulhu one speaks of is informality!
What need is for old ones when all is as new, when green is best gold and blood is best blue?
Well they are in a hell…
I’m wondering if you’ve made an actual alphabet for this world? Because I’m wondering what these signs say, if they have any meaning at all.
There is in fact a U.M alphabet, but only for the coarse dialect or low speech. Things already in the comic may not be translatable for now but they probably will be in the future.
The syllabary is a little different too. For example, the letter V is used as an English approximation of a U.M. vowel sound.
Don’t let them rip off your hair, Allison! That’s how they get you!
(oh hey, the most minor of nitpicks – any chance of adding one of those mini-images to show up next to the URL? it helps the RSS reader show when there’s an unread page. I love this, it’s unbelievable.)
(icons! that’s what they’re called! I clearly know the meaning of words)
So, I recognised the name YISUN from somewhere when I found this comic today, and on reaching this page I discovered where:
Someone had posted most of the excerpt from beneath this comic in a game of forum mafia when casting the winning vote as scum. This was some years ago now. I figured I’d stumble across the excerpt eventually, but this was earlier in the comic than I was expecting. Kind of neat to finally have closure on where it came from.
Ah, so it’s real then.
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Nand really is not observant… He completely missed the key right in the middle of Allison’s forehead AND 82’s face cracking from telling a lie. How this guy stays in power I’ll never know.
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