WHEEL SMASHING LORD 2-45
Chapter: 2
“Heed, ye who thinks himself master of the world. Listen well to the grinding – the grinding. The wheel still turns, and it will turn forever and ever. There is no greater master than that. In time, you too, will be crushed beneath it.”
-Unknown
Father daughter day!
At the Apocalypse…
Says Popeye the Sailor Woman!
Toot toot!
you can’t give the power back, white chain. there’s no use trying.
I think that she wont attempt to, preem. Held in her arms is everything that is at stake. For what is the use of strength if not to protect that which we hold dear? She will make this power her own. And by gods, she will wield it.
WRONG!
She will try to give it back!
So .. why does Alison, Wheel Crushing Lord and all that, wear a girdle?
Because it’s cool?
Gotta emphasize the ladies.
For girding.
I suppose that’s a belt that her prosthetic leg is strapped to. Also a girdle.
Isn’t it a weight lifting belt? Like a back support?
Back support?
She might also be currently cut in half. Maybe.
Bro it’s to keep your core engaged
White Chain on her way to find her alcoholic dad
Alcoholic? Maybe more like the creator of an overly-taunt, neurotic property that was never even field tested once.
“Thanks for the one too-late-to-be-useful boon, step daddy.”
“Please come home and help reinforce the house of cards you left behind.”
i think the house of cards that solomon empire is a good thing to explain why tyrants even if they good (i will argue that for solomon, fight me if you want), they never end good because that system relly in only one person, in this case Solomon as God King.
That’s not unique to “tyranny”. Every system, democratic or autocratic, falls apart eventually. How many states, now or in the past, can you name that have remained intact with no violent regime changes or attempted revolutions, for…let’s say at least 500 years? Outside of a few microstates like San Marino, nothing comes to mind. (Best I can think of among big states would be the HRE…still struggled with the Thirty Years War)
Even with only Solomon keeping the Empire united, it seems to have been exceptionally stable. If only he lowered his standards and decided on a “good enough” heir (or trained an heir to be good enough), maybe the Empire would have continued on – albeit not as stable or prosperous as before.
Uh, it’s pretty clear commenter was talking about how that’s much more likely in such a case, not in general.
Solomon dying or abdicating isn’t just a regime change, it’s literally one leader dying or abdicating. Even if that leader won’t die under normal circumstances, one killable and fallible guy is no basis for a system of government.
The drunken master, is still a master.
Allison still being a bad influence who makes smoking look like the coolest thing ever.
That’s the real reason why she’s going to die in 32 yrs.
I just wanna know how that pipe works. Mebbe being Royalty makes it possible to get a good draw from a stem fixed at the top rim of the bowl.
probably a channel up the interior wall. so mechanically it draws from under, then that sockets into the actual stem at the top
THANK YOU
That has been bugging me so much.
A pipe created by someone who became king of the multiverse by right of conquest sounds like the kind of pipe that’d laugh at petty things like “fluid dynamics” or “gravity.”
Hell yes. Or maybe Heaven yes?
Listen well to the grinding
man. calling attention to white chain breastfeeding is hard to not make sound gross, but its really cool as a trans girl to see this fucked up ex cop punch god so hard she can help feed someones kid. a nice detail to me :^)
I get the sentiment, which is cool, but I do believe that White Chain has a bottle in her hand. This is more clearly visible in the bottom-left panel.
Yeah, the bottle is certainly there. Also there is some extensive… remodeling… that needs to be done biologically to prepare those to produce milk, as my partner is undergoing right now.
I wouldn’t call it *extensive*. Uncomfortable, sure. Tedious and boring, if you’re doing the induced lactation protocol. And bureacratically restricted, just to get the drugs to do it. But (nearly) everyone’s got milk ducts and (nearly) everyone who’s had estrogen in their system for a couple years has them 75% of the way to ready.
I’ve been on hormones for about a year and I am lactating. I’m not even on progesterone.
I don’t think the process of Lactation is a super difficult thing to circumvent for an Angel that has become a singular existence of a human-angel demigod with a key to 1/7th of the universe in her forehead who could already perform all kinds of miraculous nonsense before she changed.
I hope it’s not too off-topic but a wise trans coworker once told me “all boobs are real, all borders are fake” and I wanted another excuse to repeat it
Thank you for sharing such great wisdom, o’ wise one.
Um, she’s using a bottle…
ok so it looks like my goofy ass did not in fact process that panel correct mb yall
You know, without context of the type of person he is Vigilant Gazes has a fucking death stare, his name is quite fitting. (I am realizing this quite late)
“If you came to conquer, you’ll be king for a day
But you too will deteriorate and quickly fade away”
Allison is starting to be….Really manipulative doesn’t she?
She sure is a lord but I’m not sure I enjoy that.
Last time she was wielding her key with such confidence and thought she had stuff figured out, things didnt exactly worked out.
Wonder what its gonna be like tis time.
That’s life isn’t it? You think you have the answers until you don’t. Then you stay humble for just long enough to come up with a new ‘brilliant’ idea on how to structure your existence, which will work until it runs into any actual problem.
Assuming you’re talking about the Yre heist, I don’t fully recall the details of that event. But the important thing is that, here, she’s not exactly confident, just bluntly honest.
If it was the Yre Heist, she had some Inky bad influence infecting her as well as the misplaced self confidence of knowing she actually succeeded at taking down a Demiurge with some unknown and untapped potential. Oh, and the heist team was solid.
She’ll just run really fast through everywhere he could be
When you speak as Royalty, all you speak must be as law; when Kings doubt their own word, empires fall.
She can’t help it, she’s an Authority now. She’s manipulating people simply by existing, because she has power over them, and she can’t hide that from her interactions with others.
Not really, it’s clear from her dialogue on the previous page and in how she walked away from Nyave’s table on this one that she’s not forcing or manipulating anyone into helping her. But she’s made up her mind and is going to follow the path she thinks best, whether or not people help her on that journey. She just made it clear that she hopes people do help her on that journey.
If White Chain didn’t agree that she has to face Solomon one last time, she wouldn’t have accepted to go find him, and Allison would have been fine with that.
Allison was pretty clear that she wasn’t asking for permission: technically she doesn’t NEED any of them. She’s a demiurge. But she wanted to warn them of her plan, and she’s learned the lesson that the other demiurges haven’t, except like gog-agog in a messed up way: what’s the fucking point of all this power if you make yourself alone? Fuck that. She has friends who can stand with her, if those friends wanna.
Allison, don’t smoke around babies you dweeb!
Why shouldn’t she?
Lol that sure went in a reply to the wrong comment
Hah, you’re not gonna live that one down!
Undeniably a thing to say I guess
No wait maybe you have a point
Not to doubt White Chain, but if Solomon does not want to be found, that will be more than a simple challenge.
Nevertheless, she will likely have a Plot Compass to aid her along the way.
She has a key, she probably can jump around.
I don’t know how Allison can stop Jagganoth, but I doubt it will be through violence.
Why shouldn’t we simply kill the unkillable man and be done with it? Seems like a simple situation to me!
THE MAN JUST NEEDS A HUG TO CRY OUT ALL THE PAIN!
REACH HEAVEN THROUGH VIOLENCE
REACH POSITIVE CHANGE THROUGH THERAPY
Jagger just needs a massive dose of shrooms. That would straighten him right out.
Tickle Jagganoth until he surrenders, but beware the JaggaHog!
OR maybe do the Care Bear Stare!
Though a blade may cut the body, words may cut much deeper than that.
We are probably being a little hypocritical in our criticism, but we feel yon godling, though she wears it well, would be best served finding her own style rather than going through life wearing a dead man’s coat.
Yeah it is a little odd that stubborn, skeptical Allison simply accepted the pile of mysterious old junk she was given, without a second thought. She does look pretty cool though.
She received them after she had an entire sequence about facing her fate instead of running from it.
Time is circular. And Allison is wearing it before Zoss did.
i think solomon is weak towards human white chains because his old trauma about not being able to defend his original family in Rayuba, he might do what white chain will ask him because of that.
Good point! It seems like Solomon’s Punch (did I just invent a new drink?) could have turned White Chain into almost anything, but in fact turned her into something very like his dead wife. Up till now I thought of it as her wish-fulfillment, but it might have been his.
Meti teaches us that a peaceful life and victory in combat are equal endeavors. Let us hope Al-Yisun can see this, too.
“They know and do not know,
what it is to act or suffer.
They know and do not know, that acting is suffering
And suffering is action. Neither does the agent suffer
Nor the patient act. But both are fixed
In an eternal action, an eternal patience
To which all must consent that it may be willed
And which all must suffer that they may will it,
That the pattern may subsist, for the pattern is the action
And the suffering, that the wheel may turn and still
Be forever still.” — TS Eliot, “Murder in the Cathedral”
It’s not about cutting Jagganoth, it’s about smashing the wheel, A true master of the wheel might be able to cut down the war god king, but only a the true heir can smash the wheel.
So WC will go find Solomon.
Then we have to divide the party to vote who will go to the rest of two deceased demiurges domains, who will go to vampire guy and the most crazy mision to go to Gog world to convince her to send worms their way.
White Chain with baby! OMG, I love this comic.
How do you find a king who does not want to be found? You´d think his footsteps would be larger, more royal but at the end of the day he is just a man.
“I hear the grinding well enough, old man. It’s all i can hear. That’s what the guitar is meant to drown out, if only for a little while. Now quiet, i’m trying to figure out this chord.”
We waited 2 weeks for this? 🙁
Abbadon mentioned computer issues. Keep thine eyes open and vigilant and safe travels.
I’m sorry, how’s YOUR webcomic coming?
Obligatory critic’s fallacy alert.
But yeah commenter could be nicer.
The “critic’s fallacy” applies to criticizing the quality of a piece of media, not its quantity. If a guy is pissed that he’s not getting his free content quickly enough, then I think “you’re holding other people to standards you would think are absurd to be held to yourself” is perfectly valid criticism.
What’s your problem with it?
Well then that just becomes a good old fashioned Ad Hominen, right? Claiming they are being a hypocrite without knowing their underlying motive? But whatever, no one changes by online comments.
Commentator definitely could have been nicer and could have enlightened us on their particular critique instead.
Please keep in mind that the creator, Abbadon, is not only a Husband and Father with a computer burdened by being imperfect.
But also that he provides us with free full-color chapters to his longrunning webcomic.
Complaining is a right you have, but not every chapter needs to be a revolutionary moment, for a story that is nothing but revelations is called a Pop-Up book.
Oof well said.
This comment perfectly encapsulates the argument for deliberate and methodical pacing. Not every page or scene needs to be flashy or bombastic, sometimes the reader/viewer just needs to chill with the characters.
Error in panel 2, text reading “WELL.” at the bottom right but without a speech bubble.
Look at all the glum faces! The group at the table have been struggling for years to keep things together, only to have Allison reappear and announce that they are superfluous. That’s gotta hurt.
Well, hey, at least they’re superfluous, not just the regular everyday hum-drum fluous.