Well, I’m worth a million in prizes
Yeah I’m through with sleeping on the sidewalk – no more beating my brains
No more beating my brains
With the liquor and drugs
With the liquor and drugs
-Marching-song of the Guild of Terminal Accounting’s Debtor Legion
Mottom confirmed anti-team rocket:
– Hideous
– Murderous
– Almost certainly actually dies
– Approaches the protagonists at high speed from a twinkle in the sky
Hrmm… Not as problematic as you might suppose. Since the infinite vault was already contained within – and connected to – the infinite universe (as demonstrated by the ability of our Adventurers to simply walk into the infinite vault), then technically they were the same infinite space to begin with.
And even if they were previously two seperate infinite dimensions… if you connect them and add infinity to another infinity… do you not still get only one infinity? Hrmm… so then what happens to the other infinity?
I suspect infinity is grandly overstating the nature of Yre. Its main feature, almost its only one in fact, is that it is extremely good at making one circle around the same path. It doesn’t need to have a physical infinity if all it needs to do is appear to be infinite.
And lo!
The ground shook
The stars hid
The air trembled
The animals and insects fell silent
And the commoners began to die again
While the gods disagreed.
I mean, I suppose if we’re talking about a fight, my first choice for ally would probably be an Akashic Brother. What with their mastery of mystic martial arts.
But, yes, having a Fuckin’ Wizard on my team would also help.
So the vault is infinite on the inside yet when the outside wall is breached it creates a rift…I wonder what happens when the whole Vault is destroyed…
It’s a little hard to be sure, but the bars/columns of the vault seem to be healing behind the hole Mottom’s city punched in them. Mottom got into Mammon’s place. Can she get out? Does she want to?
Beware, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
And yet will she be enough to overcome the king in the mountain? Will her fury suffice where greed has failed others?
Or is her greed all the same, just for that of revenge and flesh.
Where as sorrow has weakened the dragon, will this be enough to stir him from his ancient slumber.
Oh dear, looks like the Battle Royale is about to kick in.
I’ve followed your site for a long time and have always loved it. But after getting Volumes 1 & 2 of the story and rereading it, I can say this is the BEST graphic novel out there.
As much as I would like to root for Mammon here, it’s important to remember both of them have caused countless suffering on a scale unimaginable. Let the godhead annihilate itself, heaven is a violent place.
I came back to look over the page, and as usual the detail subtly says a lot. My favorite bit is how the smoke is pushed aside when Mottom begins her approach. It really contributes to the atmosphere, makes the reader feel like they can feel the hurricane wind of her haste.
Thinking about it, I wonder how many lives Mottom stole away to rejuvenate her body? Because she didn’t seem to be able to keep it young without a continuous act of will… which is easier if you power that with something. Life energy seems to be rather popular, though I’ve found it more efficient to use other forms of energy and spend my people on labors of worth instead.
Oh! This great system of worlds, the order of throne!
Its skin cracks as its flesh crumbles!
The remaining stand still as five stands
This blackened vainglory, the rise is most eternal
Hrmm… I forsee a whole bunch a’ dead folks clamboring through the hole to gather up some a’ that infinite loot. That and about a hundred hunters lookin’ for our gal Al.
I also woulda thought Mammon would keep Yre at a slighly positive pressure just to help keep the dust out.
Well, this could have been much worse. I was half expecting the vault to start dimensionally de-compressing after being breached, or something just as catastrophic.
I have feeling that by the end of this encounter the city will have a mysterious rainfall of gold and other miscellaneous valuables. The economy will be destroyed, forcing the city to adopt a new currency/standard.
What is that approaching thing? Based on perspective, it didn’t come from Mottom’s city. The iconography (red cross) suggests it is ‘Murder the Gods and Topple Their Thrones’. Who actually helped Allison last time.
The One True God versus the World-Plundering Usurper! Let’s see how the scion of gluttony stands up against the Lord of Greed! I’ll bet she won’t last ten seconds. Who else is betting?
THE UNCOUTH RUFFIAN IS A QUEEN
Too many queens are.
Mores the pity.
Kings and Queens generally are
Queen, perhaps, but she ain’t no Lady.
Well, I’m worth a million in prizes
Yeah I’m through with sleeping on the sidewalk – no more beating my brains
No more beating my brains
With the liquor and drugs
With the liquor and drugs
-Marching-song of the Guild of Terminal Accounting’s Debtor Legion
Mottom confirmed anti-team rocket:
– Hideous
– Murderous
– Almost certainly actually dies
– Approaches the protagonists at high speed from a twinkle in the sky
-Feeds other teenagers to plants
-She’s also clearly not crossdressing
-Has natural hair color.
… what?
The heads of the beast used to only bicker, but now they begin to bite. At themselves, at others, it matters not. Best not draw their attention.
Whu-oh!
Mammon, the Grandest Father, is simply an elderly dog. Rather forgetful, yet rather incredible, pure in a sense, birdlike.
It’s strange that everyone sees the cranky old bachelor as grandfatherly.
There’s this side effect to doing a genocide on your own species, where you die alone, without issue.
Also GET OFF MAH LAWN!
I find this scene metadimensionally problematic.
I love it.
I find it perfectly reasonable, if one happens to *want* to grow a potentially infinite trap maze inside a tower fortress of wealth and insanity.
Yes, though, it is an excellent depiction of passage into a dimensional bubble.
Hrmm… Not as problematic as you might suppose. Since the infinite vault was already contained within – and connected to – the infinite universe (as demonstrated by the ability of our Adventurers to simply walk into the infinite vault), then technically they were the same infinite space to begin with.
And even if they were previously two seperate infinite dimensions… if you connect them and add infinity to another infinity… do you not still get only one infinity? Hrmm… so then what happens to the other infinity?
Perhaps you are right after all.
I suspect infinity is grandly overstating the nature of Yre. Its main feature, almost its only one in fact, is that it is extremely good at making one circle around the same path. It doesn’t need to have a physical infinity if all it needs to do is appear to be infinite.
Some infinities, perhaps, are larger than others. The outer infinity is maybe greater than the inner, and so shall consume it.
BAD MOTTOM. BAD IMPERATRIX OF THE GATES OF FIRE. GO TO YOUR COMPLETELY DESTROYED, CURRENTLY ON FIRE ROOM.
“The Hands of Death could not defeat me, the Sisters of Fate could not hold me, and you will not see the end of this day!! I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!!!”
And lo!
The ground shook
The stars hid
The air trembled
The animals and insects fell silent
And the commoners began to die again
While the gods disagreed.
“Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.”
“Our stronghold lies in ruins.
Our enemies are ascendant.
Our allies turn against us.
Are we conquered?
Never.”
-Mage: The Ascension, Order of Hermes Revised Tradition Book, p. 7
Ah those goddamned stodgy old bastards. Couldn’t think of a better friend to have in a fight.
I mean, I suppose if we’re talking about a fight, my first choice for ally would probably be an Akashic Brother. What with their mastery of mystic martial arts.
But, yes, having a Fuckin’ Wizard on my team would also help.
“I hurt someone’s feelings once….” -Mottom.
GOD FIGHT!
Also I think this is the first time we really get to see any of these seven assholes go all in at full strength
And as the dragon rears he breathes
in air tainted with rotten leaves.
Time to put your cards in sleeves.
So the vault is infinite on the inside yet when the outside wall is breached it creates a rift…I wonder what happens when the whole Vault is destroyed…
NOW you’re thinking like a scientist!
Ever seen a Klein bottle soda bubble implode?
It’s a little hard to be sure, but the bars/columns of the vault seem to be healing behind the hole Mottom’s city punched in them. Mottom got into Mammon’s place. Can she get out? Does she want to?
I’m excited.
OH NOOOO MAMMON LOOK OUT!
If Al-Yis-Un teams up with Grandpa dragon to defeat Mammon, I may have to modify my current favorite ship to make it a threesome.
Don’t ask me how that’d work.
You’re missing the point.
How would that work?
😛
…Obviously, I meant “to defeat MOTTOM.”
Here we go. Buckle up gals and lads, its going to get rough
Yep, fire and explosions do tend to follow the Binge Rejuvinator. The crew outside the front door seems to be able to make it happen.
If you cannot topple the tower yourself, seek an enemy who would destroy it in their pursuit of you.
The Fire and Lightening of God make for a poor choice of enemies.
Make like a tree and go away
Stand not behind the Dragon in his wrath!
The fires of war are reignited. A new count begins here:
The count of bodies.
A door opens.
Who will come in?
What will step out?
Beware, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
And yet will she be enough to overcome the king in the mountain? Will her fury suffice where greed has failed others?
Or is her greed all the same, just for that of revenge and flesh.
Where as sorrow has weakened the dragon, will this be enough to stir him from his ancient slumber.
Are you suggesting that the Queen of Glory does not wish to Wake the Dragon?
Judge against Queen! Axe versus Whip! Let’s get ready to rrrrrumble!
Grandpa Mammon nooooooooooooo
“Javë, Joi, Jum,
Beware when falling the Greatest Tower [of World]
For when they fall, the whole world Trembles.
Aië, Aoe, Woe.”
AOE
And with the phrase “uncouth ruffian” Drampa Mammon finally gnawed his way into my heart.
The Tower trembled in the wind
As Glory thrashed and raved
Those innocent and those who had sinned
None of them could be saved.
The Pontifex is observant.
This one thanks thee, acquaintance Un Fel.
ENDUT!
HOCH HECH!
*an infinite amount of mimics emerge from ceiling*
That would actually be a hilarious way for this chapter to end
Oh dear, looks like the Battle Royale is about to kick in.
I’ve followed your site for a long time and have always loved it. But after getting Volumes 1 & 2 of the story and rereading it, I can say this is the BEST graphic novel out there.
As much as I would like to root for Mammon here, it’s important to remember both of them have caused countless suffering on a scale unimaginable. Let the godhead annihilate itself, heaven is a violent place.
Each of them is undoubtedly several sigmas Worse than Hitler (TM).
Lacking our Total Mastery of Space-Time, you cannot change the past, Demiurge.
Rather than pursue justice by punishing the wrongs of the past, seek an alliance that will minimize the wrongs of the future.
How can 000001’s civilian charges hope to escape this warzone?
The red evening star have decended on the tower, what star will rise come dawn
Nay, not the red of rage. Orange is the color of gluttony. Shall it overcome the glittering yellow of avarice?
Just when you get a place decorated the way you like it, someone always has to crash a flying city through the fucking wall.
With Knowledge Comes Pain…
With Knowledge Comes Pain
All things considered, she landed that city fairly well. Just patch up the hole, and add one flaming city to the count.
*please don’t be former friends which had a falling out that mammon forgot and he is happy to see her*
Mottom! You’re back!
…what do you mean why did I murder all your petunias?
Last century? I’ve only been alive for seventy years!
Let the Seven War being
I came back to look over the page, and as usual the detail subtly says a lot. My favorite bit is how the smoke is pushed aside when Mottom begins her approach. It really contributes to the atmosphere, makes the reader feel like they can feel the hurricane wind of her haste.
Great job as usual, Abaddon.
Thinking about it, I wonder how many lives Mottom stole away to rejuvenate her body? Because she didn’t seem to be able to keep it young without a continuous act of will… which is easier if you power that with something. Life energy seems to be rather popular, though I’ve found it more efficient to use other forms of energy and spend my people on labors of worth instead.
Probably every soul that was in her Palace. I expect many if not all have perished in her fury.
Somewhere, Incubus has just the smuggest grin.
[Insert “Just As Planned” meme here]
Mottom is naughty naughty child.
Should be spanked in a violent, preferably flaming manner.
If you know your Tarot at all, you had to see this coming.
Truly terrible is the Rot of Glory that it calls one to even kick the Towers Prisoner from its torpor.
“The count will take even longer what with an extra city added to the pile!”
Still, I would not count the Grand Dragon out just yet. The Glory has not yet pierced the Tower. She has merely made a mess of his courtyard.
Oh! This great system of worlds, the order of throne!
Its skin cracks as its flesh crumbles!
The remaining stand still as five stands
This blackened vainglory, the rise is most eternal
Wellp, he’s dead.
OH NO! I caught up with the comic! This is going to be one long weekend…
Hrmm… I forsee a whole bunch a’ dead folks clamboring through the hole to gather up some a’ that infinite loot. That and about a hundred hunters lookin’ for our gal Al.
I also woulda thought Mammon would keep Yre at a slighly positive pressure just to help keep the dust out.
It’s tough to keep positive pressure with a hole that size
Well, this could have been much worse. I was half expecting the vault to start dimensionally de-compressing after being breached, or something just as catastrophic.
All things come to an end.
So… All it took to get past that maze of yours is to just crash a city into the side of your building?
–and to Cut past the Labrynth with a Sword of godlike Will.
That part is important too.
you got flying-city money?
Ooooone corpse party, coming right up.
Corpse party! Yay!
I have feeling that by the end of this encounter the city will have a mysterious rainfall of gold and other miscellaneous valuables. The economy will be destroyed, forcing the city to adopt a new currency/standard.
Whilst Gods a’struggle
A rain’o tear fell
Wi’ molten intent
Murder cometh
It cometh
MY CABBAGES!!!!!!
Now look what you’ve done, cutting the fabric of space with such a rough instrument as a city.
Seems a battle of broken gods looms nigh?
…. that is one hell of a standing long jump.
I think it’s too late to go to the couple councelour, Mammon…
All this ans the rest of the party has yet to catch up.
Love how the smoke parts in her wake.
Ace work.
What is that approaching thing? Based on perspective, it didn’t come from Mottom’s city. The iconography (red cross) suggests it is ‘Murder the Gods and Topple Their Thrones’. Who actually helped Allison last time.
The One True God versus the World-Plundering Usurper! Let’s see how the scion of gluttony stands up against the Lord of Greed! I’ll bet she won’t last ten seconds. Who else is betting?