Seeker of Thrones 4-30
Chapter: 4
“The Belligerents have a name for Preem Jagganoth: God’s Monster. You see, to them, he is a divine messenger, blessed by YISUN’s angels to cut away weak and useless things from the world and forge it into a more pure form. To them, he draws all evils into himself, like a great poison, in order to expunge the world of corruption.
Most people, I believe, take their worship as further proof of their insanity.”
-Peroxes the younger, S.C. 1440
Pardos’ ballsack, i would not fuck with that guy
Even for all his horror, great Jagganoth is truly worthy of worship. How could anyone not kneel before such glorious destruction?
Most commonly, because he has chopped off their legs.
There are also quite a few people out there who crave their own deaths, and wish to mask this desire in the guise of heroism. But in truth, such an action is the greatest form of worship one can give onto Jagganoth.
Consider a man with no knees.
Wait. There are clearly chalices falling in panel one. They could be disturbed by the action of his rising displacing some, or they could be caught on Jag’s jewelry. I choose to believe they were lightly embedded into his skin.
I’ve really been enjoying k6bd so far. The world building has been amazing. I’m looking forward to watching this comic continue to grow.
So it was a rule-bound contest that they agreed to. It’s always nice to arrange your wars in advance, after all.
In theory. In practice, it gives shrewder or less honourable opponents a massive window to stab your back through, and then presumably pull you out of for good measure, which is why pitched battles fell out of favour minutes after the universal war started.
Really, it’s a laughably polite fiction for someone in Jag’s position to claim a state of truce with an avowed trickster like Incubus, when he knows Incubus stands to substantially weaken his own chances if he keeps his word. And Incubus knows he knows. And he knows Incubus knows he… you get the picture.
HIM BIG
TOL BEAN
SCOURING BEAN
this is a plan without flaw nor possibility of error!
“The dead shall dance…and all of Hell shall sing!”
Critique: Jag’s helmeted head seems kinda small in the past three pages? Looking back to book 2, one see’s his design is as a large humanoid proportioned as we. The helm is a snug fit for that frame.
Also, the motion lines give off a shaky/hobbling movement in this page’s first panel.
I loved his squatting rendering the previous two pages though. The movements have refined so much the past year!
That seems like the idea, i think, almost like the helmet is driven into the skin of his face.
This seems like as good a time as any to state my theory that Jagganoth is not, in fact, the primary antagonist, but a red herring. It’s Solomon that Allison & Co should worry about, no one that looks that smug is up to anything good.
Smugness is next to godliness, and gods never did anyone any good.
War has many shapes, and holds many meanings, or none at all. Each may want war, but what war?
The war after which no more wars are necessary, or possible.
Jagganoth seems a little unsteady there.
Everyone seeks to use the Rising King for their own purposes. The Angels use her as a scourging flame, as do Incubus and Jagganoth, but where the Kings expect Her to be strong enough merely to weaken the roots of the world, the Angels expect Her to burn all to ash.
It will be interesting, I think, to see who is right.
It looks like Jagganoth lost a nipple in glorious combat at some point in the recent past.
That’s the type of Dad Bod I want to get when I’m older. Muscles, a bit of pudge, and 20 feet tall.
Raise the hammer high and strike forth, weilder of the old king’s power.
But who will win this war?
Those who cling to their thrones?
Or those who inherited the true power of want?
We’ll see
Those Belligerents do not armor the one named Preem Jagganoth. Armor made of (NOT BY!) angels and empowered by their wills seems like an acceptable form for those divine wastes of space. I have this to say about Peroxes the younger’ swords: Evil is not weak and useless, nor are the weak and useless evil.
In our line of work there is no such thing as “messengers.” Diviners translate truth. The blue-masked devil is the diviner of our tale. Through her eyes we experience the all the wonder that would be before, during, and after Allison’s path of carnage.
The fact that Jagganoth requires the throne to brace himself as he stands implies that his knees are weak, and the tremors in his muscles imply silent agony. One supposes that squatting on a mound of golden chalices for any length of time would be a fatiguing endeavor, but does one dare wonder that perhaps Jagganoth’s imposition is merely a facade or is the broker of his power beginning to call in their cost?
No, as I noted above, he’s just climbing out of a pile of chalices — not weak, but in an awkward position.
Just because he’s invincible doesn’t mean he’s strong.
I pray for a day when Throne ceases to utterly terrify me.
Is it Time for flesh?
How I long for the old style of our most esteemed scribe Preem Abbadon’s telling: http://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/ksbd-4-75/
Can you spot the subtle differences between the current and first chapters of the RISING KING?
(Among others, nobody drips anymore)
Abbadon, I hate hate hate to be that guy, because I love love love your body (of work!) but I can’t get my head around the (intentional?) disregard for the representation of proper anatomical forms, most egregious of all your poor characters’ hands and feet.
It is quite visible in Jaggan-, sorry, JAGGANOTH’S upright figure, where a decent torso (with a very realistic belly, is HE a middle-aged Demiurge?) gives way to lacklustre (and quite two-dimensionally flat) legs.
I’ve been having great fun with Burne Hogarth’s series of anatomy books, they’re a veritable goldmine!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burne_Hogarth
He broke the most complex anatomical shapes (hands, feet, face) into easily understood solids (cones, cylinders, prisms), so if a poor apprentice like me can fractionally improve the bird droppings he calls “drawings”, YISUN knows what you may achieve!
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I may also be lying.
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