Icemonger Industries continues to provide excellent services, including to those who seek their first time truly going out and REALLY enjoying mortal comforts! Hopefully in this revelous state the guardian of the republic will be more willing to pay our bill from the Tournament.
…Yisun’s lies, why is there a statue head headed straight for our current HQ?
Next page of KSBD will feature cold open skit for Icemonger Industries, culminating in Allison’s announcement of “Coming to you from the Red City of Throne… This is Saturday Night Live”.
I love Allison explaining White Chain to the radish man while she does katas, a very relatable part of going out
It was actually mentioned several times, the earliest being, I believe, some of the episodes of Prim story back in the first book. And yeah, it was never explained. Deal with it.
Records of great battles and societal upheavals are rarely worth the digging. It’s death, death, death. Why doesn’t anyone –beyond certain rare periods of culinary education– put down accurate records of their -food-!? Most vexing.
There are actually some records, recipes and the like. They can be difficult to find, and often very confusingly written, but they’re there if you look.
A large problem is the difference in language over several hundred years and ingredients that are no longer being used, or are different in modern days. For example, this is a 15th century recipe:
‘Tak cheryes & do out the stones & grynde hem wel & draw hem thorw a streynour & do it in a pot. & do therto whit gres or swete botere & myed wastel bred, & cast therto good wyn & sugre, & salte it & stere it wel togedere, & dresse it in disches; and set theryn clowe gilofre, & strewe sugre aboue.’
So yeah. No mention of measurements either. Battles and major events will generally have a historic impact so they’re more interesting to study and there’s a lot of trial and error involved to get everything right.
I don’t feel like this is denial. I feel like this is… letting go of so many of her mortal restrictions and hang-ups. This is the last book, she will reach Royalty.
Oh, that’s interesting. I think it’s a bit creepy but in a good way, because it’s a mania about enjoying life. Do you think it’s how it’s drawn or the context that gets to you? I’d love to talk
Both.
It feels unnatural. Forced. Exaggerated. Like its not her own. It’s a mask she puts on.
But even more so, I think the exact date of her death did no favors for her being a “recovering existential nihilist” as Inkyzuzi put it.
Until the very end of the Maya miniarc she looked broken. And that changed without transition and without any talking it out. …or therapy if you will. What happened to Cio? Did Alison grive her at all? I dont think so. Not really. There was no burrial, no sendoff, no anything… just depression, the sudden and uninhibited Joy.
That signals to me an unhealthy coping mechanism: Denial.
I’m pretty sure her whole spell with Jadis largely consisted of mourning Cio, among other things. I highly doubt that did it, though, because of how unhealthy it was and how isolated she was. Plus, she did go through denial at the end there, sitting idly by in Jadis’ pyramid avoiding pain and trying to forget about Cio. The reason she came back to herself, though, was *because* she remembered. Mask shard, right? To me she seemed determined to get back on her feet during her Maya training arc and is attempting to let herself live again.
Given that she still hasn’t mourned with anyone else who also lost Cio, though, and that she’s throwing herself back into the fray, I figure that arc Isn’t over yet. Might sieve up a lot of the things she didn’t address while falling apart.
It’s the only expression she’s been making at all for a while now. It’s an exaggerated, unnatural, extreme grin, her lipstick making it look painted on and her closed eye a permanent wink.
It reminds me of a clown or jester or, if you will…
tbh I read it more as Alison trying to have one last hurrah with White Chain before preparing for the final battle with Jagganoth. Sort of a “hey we’re probably going to die or at the very least get extremely fucked up by a war/death god”
Remember, she was a sorority sister back on earth and she’s probably trying to recreate a little bit of that wild abandon that you get when your an underage drinker at a college party. Not to mention she’s a recovering existential nihilist with everything that happened when she was staying with Jadis.
I am agreeing simply because 1)not in character for either and 2) just…too soon. Again, for both. Let’s face it they each had a bond with Cio, Alison’s bond was stronger but Cio being gone, that’s gonna sting for both.
Other hand, Cio did go out after a literary reality shattering 3 way with an angel and human demiurge in waiting. I’d drink to her for that. Cio, the only one of the three with any sense of brains at all.
I do want them to end up together, but together as in forming a garage rock band together, running a shitty bar together, accidentally stealing a penguin together, etc. The core of their relationship, which we could see from the first chapter, was not romantic in nature, but it was sitcom hijinks in nature. RELEASE THE CANNED LAUGHTRACK EPILOGUE, ABBADON YOU COWARD
I do want them together (especially if Cio’s gone permanently, they need someone) and on top of that it’s no longer ‘out of character’ for either of them as both of their characters are undergoing absolutely massive foundational changes. I’d also like to get Cio back… she’s been dead before, right? A demon is their mask if I’m not mistaken, and part of her mask survived.
On the other hand, Cio walking in on Allison and White Chain passed out in bed together would make a pretty funny scene. Just like that time when Angie Bowie found her husband David and Mick Jagger.
I only agree with this sentence if it ends with “…without Cio”
I’m still very certain that Cio is coming back somehow. She’s literally been killed before as Yabalchoath, and to bring her back her husband had to put her mask back together.
(Also… her face is the site icon.)
I don’t expect things to be the same between Allison and Cio after being apart for so long. But I DO want to see Allison, Cio and White Chain together as a realitybendingly powerful throuple.
And I think it’d work, esp. once Cio returns, in whatever shape that is. (I’m certain she will, but I suspect it’ll be in some form that is neither Cio nor Yab.)
Cio even foreshadowed REALLY early on in the series that she’d quite like being “arrested” by White Chain. It came off as teasing, but Cio tends to be fairly transparent in what she wants, she wears her emotions on her sleeve.
So yeah. I’m totally here for the poly lesbian triangle. Especially now that White Chain has a body that’ll let her enjoy it.
(Although on the topic of couples, I still ship Maya and Zoss hardcore. I’m pretty sure the “friend” Maya got Allison’s arm and leg from was Zoss, it’s basically his own hardware, just smaller, even has the world tree on it.) (Maybe at the end of this, Maya can open a noodle shop, and Zoss can be her househusband raising fat children with her.)
For all those thinking that Cio is out of the picture: Allison pulled a shard out of her forearm in the last book. Which is most likely the last piece needed to complete Cio’s mask and bring her back. The problem is finding out who has assembled the pieces of her Devil mask.
IT’S ALWAYS GIRLS NIGHT OUT IN THRONE (literally because somebody fucked up the sun so you can technically stay in nighttime indefinitely if you follow the right circuit)
My buddy’s mother makes 85 US dollars per hour working on the computer (Personal Computer). She hasn’t had a job for a long, yet this month she earned 12,500 bucks by working just on her computer for 9 hours every day.
Read this article for more details..
I might have missed this detail before but Allison’s comment in the first panel confused me- did Solomon David have laws against women being out by themselves? Or laws against being gay? Either way, what a fuckin tool
Impossible, Solomon David is an equal opportunity dictator. Clearly they are simply rules against public intoxication and unauthorized public practice of cool martial arts katas.
Preems seem to have forgotten that under the Concordant Harmonies, Aeons couldn’t participate in monetary transactions. White Chain mentions it rather aggressively to Nyave a while back
Ah, but as White Chain has become a unique existence not expected by the Concordant Harmonies and the 999,999,999 gods who created them, she is not quite bound by them. Is she an Aeon? Is she a Human? Is she a Demiurge?
Who knows! And it’s too hard to do the paperwork, so fuck it! White Chain is now ungovernable by the laws of man and god.
GIRLS NIGHT GIRLS NIGHT GIRLS NIGHT
Ah.
Yes.
The Hangover was prophesied A KALPA ago.
It is coming.
this comic is actually about allisons spiritual development into a murderclown and you cannot convince me otherwise
Hey, I know a lot about bad influences. Allison is an excellent one.
A good bad influence and a bad good influence. Has all the bases covered.
Personally I think she’s turning into a murderbot
Murder Clown isn’t the word I’d use, Wuxia hero maybe. She fights hard, works hard and parties hard. When you’re Royalty you take it all the the lmit.
all things in moderation, including moderation
Nah, that’s Gog 😀
This specific comment is very alarming after the more recent cliffhanger.
Allison is the living avatar of Oktoberfest. Her outfit is very Bavarian in a good way.
Oh, Germans hate Bavarians.
And vice-versa.
you just love to see it
ha!
Sorry, Ken
Every night is girls night
LET’S GET THIS AJASH
GIRLS NIGHT!!!
Icemonger Industries continues to provide excellent services, including to those who seek their first time truly going out and REALLY enjoying mortal comforts! Hopefully in this revelous state the guardian of the republic will be more willing to pay our bill from the Tournament.
…Yisun’s lies, why is there a statue head headed straight for our current HQ?
Next page of KSBD will feature cold open skit for Icemonger Industries, culminating in Allison’s announcement of “Coming to you from the Red City of Throne… This is Saturday Night Live”.
I love Allison explaining White Chain to the radish man while she does katas, a very relatable part of going out
Glad I wasn’t the only one to see a resemblance to the daikon kami. 😀
GIRLS NIGHT GIRLS NIGHT
I never thought I’d get to see White Chain let loose, but here we are.
White Chain has become Black Unchained, and I am HERE for it.
Very good take, Squire Spudworth. You’ve done your tubercular forefather proud!
What’s the point of having flesh if you don’t indulge in the related pleasures?
Awwwwww!!!!!!! That’s just the cutest thing ever! xxxxxxxxx
Next episode: White Chain learns the exquisite pain that is a hangover
Yes.
Not if she hydrates properly.
Or uses demiurge powers.
Nice.
This is the greatest thing I have ever seen (today).
Nice
As it happened, White Chain had never had a hangover before, either…
What is ajash? According to the sources I can find it’s an arabic name, but I suspect something else is being refered to.
Eating and drinking your fill before a fast.
I suspect it is the name of the liquor. I only remember it being mentioned (also in title text) once before, but I may be mistaken.
It’s been mentioned in the alt-text before. I believe it’s a fictional food that’s only in the world of K6BD.
It was actually mentioned several times, the earliest being, I believe, some of the episodes of Prim story back in the first book. And yeah, it was never explained. Deal with it.
Records of great battles and societal upheavals are rarely worth the digging. It’s death, death, death. Why doesn’t anyone –beyond certain rare periods of culinary education– put down accurate records of their -food-!? Most vexing.
There are actually some records, recipes and the like. They can be difficult to find, and often very confusingly written, but they’re there if you look.
A large problem is the difference in language over several hundred years and ingredients that are no longer being used, or are different in modern days. For example, this is a 15th century recipe:
‘Tak cheryes & do out the stones & grynde hem wel & draw hem thorw a streynour & do it in a pot. & do therto whit gres or swete botere & myed wastel bred, & cast therto good wyn & sugre, & salte it & stere it wel togedere, & dresse it in disches; and set theryn clowe gilofre, & strewe sugre aboue.’
So yeah. No mention of measurements either. Battles and major events will generally have a historic impact so they’re more interesting to study and there’s a lot of trial and error involved to get everything right.
allison’s grin here gives me a great deal of life
This wide grin of Alison is creeping me out more and more each week. It feels like denial. Could not tell why for the life of me.
I don’t feel like this is denial. I feel like this is… letting go of so many of her mortal restrictions and hang-ups. This is the last book, she will reach Royalty.
Oh, that’s interesting. I think it’s a bit creepy but in a good way, because it’s a mania about enjoying life. Do you think it’s how it’s drawn or the context that gets to you? I’d love to talk
Both.
It feels unnatural. Forced. Exaggerated. Like its not her own. It’s a mask she puts on.
But even more so, I think the exact date of her death did no favors for her being a “recovering existential nihilist” as Inkyzuzi put it.
Until the very end of the Maya miniarc she looked broken. And that changed without transition and without any talking it out. …or therapy if you will. What happened to Cio? Did Alison grive her at all? I dont think so. Not really. There was no burrial, no sendoff, no anything… just depression, the sudden and uninhibited Joy.
That signals to me an unhealthy coping mechanism: Denial.
There were a number of scenes that were not seen for a few months after she started eating again and before she gave in to suffering.
I wouldn’t call her a happy person, though.
I’m pretty sure her whole spell with Jadis largely consisted of mourning Cio, among other things. I highly doubt that did it, though, because of how unhealthy it was and how isolated she was. Plus, she did go through denial at the end there, sitting idly by in Jadis’ pyramid avoiding pain and trying to forget about Cio. The reason she came back to herself, though, was *because* she remembered. Mask shard, right? To me she seemed determined to get back on her feet during her Maya training arc and is attempting to let herself live again.
Given that she still hasn’t mourned with anyone else who also lost Cio, though, and that she’s throwing herself back into the fray, I figure that arc Isn’t over yet. Might sieve up a lot of the things she didn’t address while falling apart.
It’s the only expression she’s been making at all for a while now. It’s an exaggerated, unnatural, extreme grin, her lipstick making it look painted on and her closed eye a permanent wink.
It reminds me of a clown or jester or, if you will…
… The Fool.
This. A thousand times over!
Well, she was always a bit of a Fool [ASPECTED CHAOS]
tbh I read it more as Alison trying to have one last hurrah with White Chain before preparing for the final battle with Jagganoth. Sort of a “hey we’re probably going to die or at the very least get extremely fucked up by a war/death god”
Remember, she was a sorority sister back on earth and she’s probably trying to recreate a little bit of that wild abandon that you get when your an underage drinker at a college party. Not to mention she’s a recovering existential nihilist with everything that happened when she was staying with Jadis.
She knows one thing for sure: she’s going to die in thirty five years.
the meaning of royalty is to know the date of own’s own death before it happens
and then to continue as if you didnt know know
You’ve got to experience girls night to understand it
I think Allison is definitely going through something but I don’t think her smile is fake she is still mourning Cio
Hope they don’t end up together.
I am agreeing simply because 1)not in character for either and 2) just…too soon. Again, for both. Let’s face it they each had a bond with Cio, Alison’s bond was stronger but Cio being gone, that’s gonna sting for both.
Other hand, Cio did go out after a literary reality shattering 3 way with an angel and human demiurge in waiting. I’d drink to her for that. Cio, the only one of the three with any sense of brains at all.
I do want them to end up together, but together as in forming a garage rock band together, running a shitty bar together, accidentally stealing a penguin together, etc. The core of their relationship, which we could see from the first chapter, was not romantic in nature, but it was sitcom hijinks in nature. RELEASE THE CANNED LAUGHTRACK EPILOGUE, ABBADON YOU COWARD
Interesting idea. Maybe the gals should open an espresso bar, utilizing Allison’s barista skills. They could call it Two Keys One Cup!
Perfect! Man, I want this with like, everyone I like. No romantic relationships needed. They’re distracting. HIJINKS AND LOVE.
I do want them together (especially if Cio’s gone permanently, they need someone) and on top of that it’s no longer ‘out of character’ for either of them as both of their characters are undergoing absolutely massive foundational changes. I’d also like to get Cio back… she’s been dead before, right? A demon is their mask if I’m not mistaken, and part of her mask survived.
On the other hand, Cio walking in on Allison and White Chain passed out in bed together would make a pretty funny scene. Just like that time when Angie Bowie found her husband David and Mick Jagger.
I only agree with this sentence if it ends with “…without Cio”
I’m still very certain that Cio is coming back somehow. She’s literally been killed before as Yabalchoath, and to bring her back her husband had to put her mask back together.
(Also… her face is the site icon.)
I don’t expect things to be the same between Allison and Cio after being apart for so long. But I DO want to see Allison, Cio and White Chain together as a realitybendingly powerful throuple.
Begging and pleasing for WC / Cio / Allison throuple. abbadon please.
I hope they do, I’ve always liked White Chain.
And I think it’d work, esp. once Cio returns, in whatever shape that is. (I’m certain she will, but I suspect it’ll be in some form that is neither Cio nor Yab.)
Cio even foreshadowed REALLY early on in the series that she’d quite like being “arrested” by White Chain. It came off as teasing, but Cio tends to be fairly transparent in what she wants, she wears her emotions on her sleeve.
So yeah. I’m totally here for the poly lesbian triangle. Especially now that White Chain has a body that’ll let her enjoy it.
(Although on the topic of couples, I still ship Maya and Zoss hardcore. I’m pretty sure the “friend” Maya got Allison’s arm and leg from was Zoss, it’s basically his own hardware, just smaller, even has the world tree on it.) (Maybe at the end of this, Maya can open a noodle shop, and Zoss can be her househusband raising fat children with her.)
For all those thinking that Cio is out of the picture: Allison pulled a shard out of her forearm in the last book. Which is most likely the last piece needed to complete Cio’s mask and bring her back. The problem is finding out who has assembled the pieces of her Devil mask.
The Girls Night chant means you doing things right.
I sense a drunken conversation about cio coming on.
oh that’s gonna hurt…
Oh fuck this comic already broke me like once or twice already…
IT’S ALWAYS GIRLS NIGHT OUT IN THRONE (literally because somebody fucked up the sun so you can technically stay in nighttime indefinitely if you follow the right circuit)
My buddy’s mother makes 85 US dollars per hour working on the computer (Personal Computer). She hasn’t had a job for a long, yet this month she earned 12,500 bucks by working just on her computer for 9 hours every day.
Read this article for more details..
Pssh, that’s nothing. My eldest daughter earns enough to own a palace on Throne!
Alison has truly become an avatar of chaos.
Only one with Chaos inside can give birth to a Dancing Star!!!
I might have missed this detail before but Allison’s comment in the first panel confused me- did Solomon David have laws against women being out by themselves? Or laws against being gay? Either way, what a fuckin tool
Solomon David had really strict laws against “Moral Depravity,” which we know includes drinking, and I assume a lot of other stuff as well.
Laws against drinking (or public drinking?)- see breaker of infinities 3-94/3-95
Impossible, Solomon David is an equal opportunity dictator. Clearly they are simply rules against public intoxication and unauthorized public practice of cool martial arts katas.
His rules may have been strict, but it was the law of her fellow angels that kept her from partaking in festivities.
Preems seem to have forgotten that under the Concordant Harmonies, Aeons couldn’t participate in monetary transactions. White Chain mentions it rather aggressively to Nyave a while back
Ah, but as White Chain has become a unique existence not expected by the Concordant Harmonies and the 999,999,999 gods who created them, she is not quite bound by them. Is she an Aeon? Is she a Human? Is she a Demiurge?
Who knows! And it’s too hard to do the paperwork, so fuck it! White Chain is now ungovernable by the laws of man and god.