WHEEL SMASHING LORD 2-29 to 2-30
Chapter: 2
The embassy entrance of the Celestial Empire in Throne is built after the Dragon’s Gate of throne, in imitation of the most popular point of entry for commoners, according to legend, into the mighty halls of the gods.
One supposes White Chain is running things while Salami Dave is indisposed.
TFW Throne becomes a republic before your own country does
Throne isn’t a Republic, it doesn’t even have a central government that I’m aware of, it’s Solomon David’s realm that’s calling itself a Republic.
When she knows the day of her death and knows it can’t be avoided, she may as well smoke. 😀
Thus does the Lung Cancer Prophecy fulfill itself.
I’m with Allison on this, who knows, she might be hit by a meteor whilst trying to quit smoking. If it ends, it ends.
UN-Hansa knew for a fact that his pipe would be the cause of his death.
It has been remarked that there is such a thing as a long, painful, lingering death (such as one which might be caused by excessive smoking). Trying to exploit an accurate death prophecy can be harder than one thinks.
I’m guessing she’s seeking out the Emissaries of David Solomon first.
He had the most from memory
interesting how the colors of the city have changed- the former red stone and green fog replaced with white marble and yellow gold. Or is it just a different layer of throne, higher up the grand ziggurat?
This is one of Solomon’s worlds, rather than Throne.
Oh, silly me. It says Throne right there. They work fast!
I would suppose that this area suits Solomon’s taste because it was made for Solomon.
I suspect that it’s been there for centuries, used to be the Celestial Empire, now Republic.
Badass entrance.
Audience with Gog-Agog? There’s no one else left.
Pretty sure Incubus is still alive somewhere
It’s one thing to act like you belong, to act like you own the place is reserved for the truly powerful.
– some cultivator from another reality –
Oooh.What’sGonnaHappenNow?
Everyone in Throne knows better than to stand in the way of someone who walks like this while smoking a pipe free-handed. This city is full of creatures and gods who are Built Different.
The Celestial Republic is what used to be the Celestial Empire when Dave was ruling it; Allison is probably looking to meet with whoever council/committee/etc is running that now? If she wanted to meet another demiurge like Gog, I’m not sure this is the place.
Maybe they’re the most likely to know the status of Dave and the Technique of Relief; plus they’re probably the most stable sort-of-benign organization left in Throne.
“let”
as if you’ve got a say in the matter, bud
To be fair, try denying somebody with that energy entry. That is a recipe for having yourself get used as a means to opening that giant door you have been guarding.
That temple panel is so good. Your use of colors and the right kind of details is always impressive.
Are we sure Solomon is actually gone? He was in the title card for this book made post-technique of relief, and neither Mammon nor Mottom are shown there. I expect that Solomon is still around given the lack of total collapse, but I don’t think his pride would let him be dishonest in the face of White Chain’s request he adbicate. We’ve seen his ego get destroyed too, if he hadn’t watched his city get destroyed and his people berate him and beg I think he’d maybe feel justified in keeping his crown, but I doubt he can justify it to himself with all that’s happened. Supposing he’s alive, of course.
While I may well be wrong, I got the impression that he was in the orb with Jaggy. Presumably when the orb releases Jaggy, Salami Dave might show back up, but presumably he’ll be more the worse for wear than his opponent.
The door warden refers to “The Factotum”, which I take to mean that someone is substituting for Dave at the moment. But who? A surprising number of comments seem to think White Chain, or even Gog. But I’m hoping it’s Cio.
Panel 4: all of a sudden, Spider Jerusalem vibes on every conceivable frequency. Or probably “at”, I’m to lazy right now to check whichever preposition is proper here. But Spider’s aura is undeniable!
That sure is some pretty imperious looking architecture.
Looks like it’s seen better days though, only 1 of 4 statues still present, and the remaining one looking a bit wobbly.
Can somebody tell me what sphere is Jaggonoth in? I dont remember who put him in a sphere
The final technique of Solomon David, the Relief of Souls. The black sphere above Throne.
Reminder: Alison still needs to get her head chopped off and then she has to put it back on for her neck scar.
Hup
So not completely headempty. Just Existentially head empty, but capable of strategy?
If you don’t know how long you have to prep, you’ll never Stop prepping.
And then finally, The Audacity of this bitch.
Ahh, moving to pipe tobacco from cigarettes’. She’s on her way to the lung cancer that will get her in 30 years.
Allison has returned to Wonderland to pickup her white rabbit, I mean White Chain. They are going to get Medieval on the remaining demiurges before handing Jaggy his ass. Cue any cool funk music from the 1970’s and we got ourselves a movie!
The story is so good I sometimes forget how great the art is
Looking at it again, I just realized it says *republic* code, they must have had to make a heck of a lot of stuff that just weren’t there before and/or made tons of changes. They seem to have been way busier than your average government the past three years.
I also notice that the one remaining semi-standing statue appears to have been defaced. Gotta love those little details.
smjjames is observant.