WHEEL SMASHING LORD 1-15 to 1-17
Chapter: 1
“Listen well, peasant girl. The time is long past I teach you the ultimate technique, as I have promised.
The only thing you must understand about this technique is it is purely for killing. This is the cut of no cuts, the form of no form. It doesn’t have a name. There is no school it belongs to. There is no master it belongs to, not even you. There is no purpose it belongs to. It is a poisonous technique, the product of a thousand venoms distilled from one master to the next, back to the line of the Gods. All my master used it for is stacking corpses, and his master before him, and his master before that, and that is all you shall use it for as well.”
-Ryo, to his student Meti.
incubus is a massive nerd, confirmed.
What a waste of good violence.
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No, I’m afraid not.
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Incredible.
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This…THIS is why I read at least the first 2 pages of the comment section every damn week. Little gems of ephemeral, contextual, art like this give me LIFE.
bro experienced a meme for the first time and cummed harder than ever before
Roleplaying in the KSBD comments is a tradition that predates KSBD itself. The characters in this comic were originally introduced in another. One with an interactive format.
If you’re a fan of KSBD, you’ll respect that tradition and let people have fun.
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Leave it to the KSBD comment section to make lemonade
Am I the only one curious as to what other “.violence” web domain sites are out there?
sometimes i look upon the comment section and remember the days when there was little to no argument in and and see the conflict growing in it now, and i think that perhaps i have misjudged, and that this is, in fact, not the best fandom i have ever seen.
it is then when i scroll to the next comment, see something like this, and immediately abandons such worries.
diogenes moment
I was so happy to see the Diogenes references continued! Even Meti living for an exceptionally long time lines up, since despite spend a large portion of his life in a barrel and eating onions, Diogenes somehow lived into his mid-eighties.
By modern standards, that’s like hitting 110 without medical assistance.
Actually not true, the average age back then is skewed low because of the sheer amount of infant and child mortality as well as war, but if you managed to make it to adulthood you could easily reach 70+ before old age took you.
‘Easily’ might be a bit much. Was still a lot of plague and violence to kill you. But yes, ancient times had 80 year olds around.
Onions hold great power! Good for you, too.
Stand out of my light!
“If God were a mere fisherman, he would earn my respect”
“Is it worth it?”
Are you challenging the world of The Angel?
I have it on good authority God was a Carpenter.
Imagine thinking that bushel of genocidal hypocrites were “good authority”.
Imagine thinking there is such a thing as good authority.
Imagining or thinking is not among their greatest talents.
Imagine thinking that one sect of religious zealots are representative of all believers in that faith.
Imagine thinking that wars of religion are necessarily genocidal, that the goals of such are always extermination and never territory, resources, compliance, or subjugation.
Imagine thinking that there is no such thing as benevolent faith, that all faith is hypocritical and self-serving.
Imagine thinking there is no such thing as good authority, or that goodness can never find itself in a position of authority.
I can imagine it. Very easily, in fact!
I recall that wars of politics and power struggling have killed many times that of religious wars. Something in the range of 20x.
“the wars caused by the people I like, and the causes I believe in haven’t killed *that* many people, so its ok!”
I’m sure the dead will be happy to hear that.
I can’t understand how somone could get this far into this comic and make this argument lol.
Huge amounts of people only ever engage with any content at the surface level. The “wow cool robot” vrowd
The point was that ascribing violence and tragedy wholesale to religion/religious people is completely illogical. Anonymous said nothing to imply that religious violence is good or even better in relation to other violence, just that when looking at violence through history on the whole religion is not a primary motivator.
Keep in mind: the biggest problem with religious people is that they’re people.
People do violence.
Look, I mean that might be right and all.
But that other group of people is not my group of people. That other group of people, I don’t think it’s even fair to call them people. They are dangerous, disgusting, and violent. They do not align at all with my groups view of what a good person should be.
They’re not like my people. My people are so incredibly good and moral. We would never fall into the trappings of power.
And I honestly believe that in order to have peace and justice, we must exterminate them.
The one named Shabriri speaks wisely from experience.
Imagine being racist (saying everyone “like that” Is the same, theyr worst define them all) and saying basically “Yes I am!” Proudly, even.
It’s easy, if you try…
The question I always ask of the faithful when they make arguments like this is simple. What are you doing to stem the tide of corruption and cut out the rot? Do you believe that your inaction somehow makes you better than the people committing these atrocities?
The catholic church is a prime example. Indigenous genocide, conversion therapy, shielding child predators from the consequences of their actions…the church is complicit in all of these deeds.
As is anyone who supports the church without calling for accountability.
Yes there are countless movements within the church for reconciliation and reorganization. The Liberation Theology movement has been going on for over half a century and has great sway.
This is “old man yells at clouds for moving slowly”-level of complaint.
While I can imagine goodness being thrust into the place of authority, I can’t imagine them remaining to be good. Authority has to compromise with evil – banal evil the most – to keep being in power and keep the order.
Treating a ridiculously complex set of faiths as a singular monolith of evil aside, that’s not what authority means in the context of that phrase. Being an authority on a subject does not necessarily imply a power structure unless you take ‘knowledge is power’ as a universally applicable and context-agnostic axiom.
An easy example: Climate Scientists. A good, even excellent authority on the planet’s current predicament, with absolutely zero authority over its people.
Indeed, that’s also not what ‘good’ means in the context of that phrase. A historian or detective describing a source as a good source is not necessarily describing one with which they morally or ethically agree.
J-money was also a parttime fisher and parttime winemaker al while kicking out the wisdom at the synagogue.
J-money was on that grind.
Expelling the heavily regulated moneychangers from the Temple makes it impossible for pilgrims to exchange their currency to acquire suitable sacrifice animals. All he did was a cruelty in potentially keeping people making a once in a lifetime pilgrimage from fulfilling their Temple practices.
At the bottom of the totem pole, below fishers if I’ve read correctly. Fishers bring in the wealth of world, but carpenters were seen a mere middlemen, transforming but not creating.
There are exactly one dozen 1st-century men who have some serendipitous news for you!
“And then what?”
The secret to keeping one’s head?
One hundred chin-ups, every day! No breaks! No excuses! Chin to the sky, chin to the chest! Repeat 100 times!
The weakest Head of John practicioner
So the question finally reveals itself!
Alison confronts the red god and screams: ‘Jaggonoth! Where are YOUR noodles?!’.
He will likely be unable to stop himself from contemplating all the moist, delicious noodles that he could have been enjoying while he was instead perpetrating his pan-galactic omni war and in that moment he will be defeated.
He named his own defeat, the fool. A pan-galactic omni war? A pan cannot contain galaxies. A pan is an ugly piece of metal, fit only for containing noodles.
Galaxies of flavour, maybe?
no not a whole galaxy of flavor just enough for a flavor town
Word!
Where I come from, a galaxy bar is chocolate. Only in certain parts of Scotland would they fry it in a pan.
I now hear Jagganoth with a Glasgow accent.
Yisun split apart in order to taste those tasty, tasty noodles.
Infinite recipes, infinite noodles.
But no one to compliment your cooking, and no one to cook them for you.
That is why god killed himself.
The immortals greatest, and last, invention. Death.
Better Sorry Than Safe.
Tell me o’ Chakravartin, King of the World, Where is your bread and what of it’s warmth?
The question is “and then what?”
Four words, barely audible.
“You needed worthy opponents.”
That is not a question, worm.
I agree with Ganurath.
Plus, it’s clear she was never a swordswoman for the sport of it. She desired only conquest. If I had to guess, it’s that mentality that made her so much better then Incubus. She had no desire to prolong her battles, only to win them as utterly as possible.
Incubus meanwhile has been shown to relish conflict.
Ganurath was acknowledging they understood the reference. To another mighty warrior brought low by the simplest of words. From the story called Worm.
Well, shoot. There goes my intellectual facade. I will need to look this up!
It is a wretched, miserable tale of worm-like humans, set to dancing as puppets by much larger, much more wretched human-like worms. All of them fail to understand the art of cutting, and the path of royalty.
The story teller is a jocular fool as well, and fails to understand how to understand people, which is much more terrible than failing to understand people.
It is, over-all, a miserable, terrible, wretched story.
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Hmm… I recall an old passage. Does Incubus relish the result of the cut, while Maya the cut itself? She certainly seems to now- but is pursuing victory relishing the result?
Actually it was:
“Why don’t you just put the whole world in a bottle?”
Wait, that’s not it. Was it:
“Don’t you think she looks tired?”
Or, no, must have been:
“If I invoke the aid of one of thy colleagues, wilt thou deprive that colleague of his office?”
Hang on, that’s not it either…
I recognize the first as a *spoiler* reference, but not the others.
May you be so kind as to enlighten us?
From like five minutes of research:
1 is Superman: Red Son
2 is Doctor Who
3 is apparently Plutarch’s Parallel Lives? Not sure about this one
It is! That’s a line that late republic debate bro Titus Annius Luscus uses to own the pops after Titus Gracchus tried to cancel him.
You’re confused, he’s just The Doctor
“Are you happy?”
Holy cow that’s a fandom crossover reference I never expected.
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
“Are you worthy?”
Ask again tomorrow, old woman. I may have the answer you wish for, then ^^
Nonono. The question was, “Is the rat-killer still killing rats?” In other words, finish the job!
Also, I am pretty sure that when climate change turns my city into a stinking, rotting, sinking necropolis, I will still be floating around in my barrel.
Remember that Inky has already told Allison that this is what he does: he takes losers and turns them into kings. He hacked Maya’s desires by giving her respect, support and help to get what she THOUGHT she wanted. When she rejected the bribe, he knew he’d lost control of her, so he had to come after her, but he was deathly afraid. Why else would he bring such a ridiculously long sword, other than so he could stand as far away as possible? There’s no way he could have swung that thing fast enough to sever her spine. His cowardice gave her survival.
I’ve had friends like that. They too affected a rockstar vibe. Ten cuts and still standing.
I see your reference and appreciate it good ser
reading 1.7 million words over the course of several hundred hours purely to get this reference
I love you for this ❤️
Also now it’s time for me to fill up a notebook with ideas about a KSBD/Worm crossover
Hmmm. Replace Gog-Agog with a different kind of worm demiurge
Maya was the keen servant who followed almost all the sword gods’ advice on mastering and using only one blow, and became the former demiurge symbolizing drunkenness, regrets and hate.
Inky took all the quick, sloppy short cuts to power, and became the demiurge symbolizing ambition, recklessness, and vice.
Hail, Abaddon – this Maya flashback is the greatest panel of the strip, maybe in webcomics history.
And the contrast between “I decapitated him quite cleanly” and “He tried to decapitate me ten times”.
But greatly appreciated
No wonder no one respected him.
I believe the question is one that comes to me whenever I see great ambition – “Will that make you happy?”
It feels like I’m seeing more and more Worm references every day, is it finally becoming more mainstream? Am I going insane?
I haven’t read Worm, I have to admit. That wasn’t a Worm reference.
Worm, with the super-heros and the Endbringers?
‘Will that make you happy’ wasn’t a question the story explored. It was a young adult coming of age, antihero story. I don’t remember much in the way of exploring the self, it was more about forming relationships, distrusting authority, and teen angst manifest in the impending end of the world.
The dialog was terrible, but the world building was great.
It was all awful only stupid internet fanwankers keep bringing it up
“That’s all you wanted?”
Looking at Incubus sorrowful eyes, I think he really felt Maya’s distress at that moment, and that’s when and the reason why he killed their master.
It must wound him deeply, that Maya values the fruit of her victories so little, when his companionship is arguably the ripest of said fruit.
“When decapitating an enemy, it is severe impoliteness to use more than one blow.”
The Ninth Precept is observant!
Is your refrigerator running?
This is definitely The Question. Or it’s variation ‘Are you sure you shut the fridge properly?’. Almost had me running to check.
…
Damn it! Now I have to go and check!
meti-ten-ryo: …then you’d better go catch it!
maya: *argument gives way to horror*
ahahaha old woman went like Diogenes : “yo gtfo you’re blocking the sun”
Lol she got Diogenes
I can´t help but ponder and wonder what this so crushing question was. “How?” “What then?” “So?” I am curious if we will ever learn it.
Perhaps, “Are you happy?”
“What will remain of you- who would you be- if you stopped killing and stealing today?”
“Where is the noodle-seller?”
“And then what?”
As to what stands prior to the Word, not one phrase has been handed down, even by the thousand holy ones. If you are not yet intimate with it, you are separated from it by the three thousand worlds. Even if you have attained some understanding of it, and could stop the mouths of people living in the world, you are not yet worthy to be called clear-eyed. That is why it is said that heaven cannot cover it, earth cannot hold it, space cannot accommodate it, sun and moon cannot shine on it. When there is no Buddha and when you alone are the master, then for the first time you are worthy of being talked about a little.
En An@rche En Ho` Logos
I believe the questions was, “And then, what?”
inky with the washing pole
“And will that save the rat, then?”
You’ve nailed it
The thing I can’t quite figure out is the look on Incubus’ face when Maya runs. What is that? The creased brow, the lines under the eyes? If I didn’t know better, I might think it was concern – worry over a friend’s emotional state. Obviously it’s not that, but then what is it?
Maybe it was.
I think it’s disappointment. He thought she was like him, to whom power is an end.
Perhaps, from where he stands, locked in the prison of his own perspective on what power is, he wondered at the sudden weakness of someone he knew was stronger than him. If she had failed this test, what then of Incubus?
After all, he had been trailing in her wake since he was small. Shielded by her walking ahead of him, safe in her shadow.
He looks sad and confused to me. Like he genuinely can’t understand why she’s running.
Because Incubus is a sociopath and cares nothing for what others think, save that it directly concern his plans and survival. Incubus was a kicked gutter rat wha has grown to think of nothing other than kicking down all those whom he blames for his start in life.
Everyone but himself.
Maya worshipped the legend of Meti, but to Incubus Meti was but a means to an end. So of course he kills her, lest she she fathom the question that could break him.
> So of course he kills her, lest she she fathom the question that could break him
Oh, quite the opposite, he’d go down to her barrel just to hear her ask the question, so that he can prove that he’s stronger than Maya.
She’d give him a single side eye, and say that she can’t break what’s already broken.
He’ll get so angry that he’ll execute her on the spot.
She won’t resist, and will be laughing through the whole execution.
….
He still thinks about this a lot.
Loneliness and fear; he thought they were alike, that they understood one another and desired the same things and that those things would give them fulfilment. Now he sees how wrong that belief was and the reality of what that means frightens him: he will never know fulfillment unless he becomes a wholly different person and he fears he does not have the ability to do that, that he doesn’t deserve it, etc.
That’s easy. Disgust.
Personally I think the question was “what do you think about death” but also if that’s ever explicitly confirmed I’m gonna be mad because it works so much better implied
100% it’s this
My thought as well.
So much stuff to write about in one page.
Really loving the backstory.
this is an excellent comic page
Perhaps:
“Was it worth it?”
or
“What makes you think you’re still not a rat?”
Man Abaddon really made us think with this one huh?
At this point it’ll have to be good to warrant this buildup. Queen Maya doesn’t strike me as someone ho would be brought down by something banal.
Love the needlessly long sword from Incubus. A time honored tradition!
“What then?”
But are you happy?
the question: “but in all your conquest, have ever learned the meaning of Ligma?”
“Do you feel free?”
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Ligma The Fool?
“Who the hell is Steve Jobs?…”