For all their great power, they in their greatest moment of arrogance, realized their powerlessness.
Solomon now truly is King of the only thing that truly matters in the end.. Himself.
Alternatively, lack of body pilosity is one of the side-effects of bearing a key? Always ask your doctor before sticking random stuff into your forehead.
Here he’s resting his left arm on his leg, and it looks like he pointed to the mountains with the same. In the scene you’re referring to, his approaching silhouette showed his right arm and he used his right hand to implant the key.
Of course, you still could be right; who’s to say that WC isn’t always a reliable narrator, the panel does show just the one arm, and Abbadon has been known to make the occasional continuity error.
In ten thousand years ruling the Celestial Empire, I can’t imagine Solomon ever once using the word “anyway”. Every action, every word, every single step he took was carefully chosen to uphold his cult of personality, and that disingenuity was exactly why readers liked to hate on him so much.
Now? He’s a weathered old man, worn down by time and life experiences, recalling a rambling story about his younger days over his pipe and fishing pole.
Solomon said that he conquered this world 10 generations ago. That couldn’t be much more than a few centuries in the past, nowhere near his “younger days”. He’s been ruling the Celestial Empire for 10,000 years as you pointed out.
I followed the story so far, but I don’t get why we round up the old gods again. First of all, they all already lost to Jagganoth. Secondly, all of them got their keys taken from them, so they shouldn’t have any powers but be just normal mortals. Sure Solomon is a genius martian artist, but I just don’t get how he can get his key back from Jagganoth. Lastly, Jagganoth can’t be harmed anyway. So I’m just confused.
Not all the keys were taken by Jagganoth. Hell, only two off the top of my head: Mottom and Mammon. Who happened to run vast empires and at least the Dragon distributed part of his key to subordinates. Jadis, Gog, and Incubus still have theirs.
David imparted his to White Chain, and frankly seemed to seal Jagganoth with kirata rather than anything derived from the Key. Between that and his apparent progress in Royalty I’m not convinced he’s weaker in a combat sense.
Remember, the demiurges actually seemed to be winning until they pissed off Gog. The Keys are the result of strength, not the source. Alison has been walking around with the original since like page 3 and it clearly wasn’t enough to whomp on someone with 1/7th of a copy by itself.
Ok I think I just assumed that Jagganoth took all the keys by now except Gog’s. It’s been like 3 years? Jagganoth fought with Solomon and smashed him almost dead last time I saw them. Why didn’t Jagganoth took Solomon’s key?
Actually I don’t know how those keys work. I also assumed they are power. Those people took the keys to gain more power didn’t they? Maybe I need to re-read the comic.
The keys are said to be terrible weapons distilled from the name of God. In practice, though, we only know that they let you teleport between worlds and unlock the Gates built by demiurges. It is already possible to teleport between worlds without a key, though, if particularly skilled. There is some implication that bearing a key does indeed grant some form of power or energy or what have you- but of the Seven, each of them was supremely powerful regardless of the key. Solomon, Maya, Jagganoth, Mottom, and Mammon are all either implied or directly shown to have taken their keys from bearers that had already accumulated MANY keys.
As for Jagganoth, he is currently imprisoned within the SOUL ORB currently hanging over Throne. That’s one of the three reasons that White Chain is here- she’s attempting to get him to take back the key, enlisting his aid, and to figure out how long they have before Jagganoth gets out the finish the job.
You drill the opening down from the bowl, then hit a diagonal up to the horizontal stem. it creates 1 extra hole that needs to be plugged with something, but a good woodworker could hide it easily. I’d just use cork.
White Chain and Allison are at two different stages of the same process.
Allison had no power. Then it was imposed upon her. She had no idea of what it was all about at all. She instantly became a target of entities and forces she couldn’t even imagine and she’s had to gather and master power just to survive. She’s spent much time in survival mode and until just recently did not have the luxury to question whether she needed or wanted more power, what she was going to do with it once she got it and hadn’t thought about what effect it would have on her.
White Chain is very well versed on all these things. She has seen what this kind of power does to someone and – with her newfound humanity – is deathly afraid of accepting it and exercising it because she *has* seen what effect that has on you and she does not want to go there.
So now the comic turns on these two different perspectives of the questions of power. What decisions will White Chain and Allison make about accepting and exercising power? What effect will it have on them? What effect in turn will that have on others? What lessons did they learn about how seizing and using such power had on the demiurges? Solomon being the most interesting object lesson because he was the only one of them who tried to define and do “good” for and to others. We would *like* to presume that Allison would do that. White Chain has seen what’s happened and doesn’t even want to be in the position to have to try.
For those of you who followed Game of Thrones, consider the different paths that Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen.
Alison will be just fine for as long as she’s able to not think too much about it. If it takes her longer than 30 or so years to think about death, she wins.
For some reason this was the moment I figured Solomon sounded like old man Kratos in my head. That “No” and the story gave me a lot of God of War vibes. Christopher Judge would kill this role.
All is a dream. Allison vanished in the book one, for the nervious and emotion for the firts time or hit her head with somthing and all of this is an allucination. XD
The students are observant
For all their great power, they in their greatest moment of arrogance, realized their powerlessness.
Solomon now truly is King of the only thing that truly matters in the end.. Himself.
Holy shit Abaddon literally made Salami a fisherman.
love the implication that Solomon David has been meticulously waxing his body hair for millenia
Fine observation.
Alternatively, lack of body pilosity is one of the side-effects of bearing a key? Always ask your doctor before sticking random stuff into your forehead.
One cannot truly remain hidden by obscurity and a demure demeanor alone. Certainly not when one has ruled at the peak of glory and folly.
Abbadon is just trolling us with these pipes now.
Solomon’s gone full on Sekiro, goodness. All he needs is to lose an arm and he’s there.
You think he hasn’t lost an arm? Think back to what he looked like after sealing Jagganoth.
Here he’s resting his left arm on his leg, and it looks like he pointed to the mountains with the same. In the scene you’re referring to, his approaching silhouette showed his right arm and he used his right hand to implant the key.
Of course, you still could be right; who’s to say that WC isn’t always a reliable narrator, the panel does show just the one arm, and Abbadon has been known to make the occasional continuity error.
Oh my god you might be right. I really want you to be right, now.
Woah. That’s a lot of hair.
In ten thousand years ruling the Celestial Empire, I can’t imagine Solomon ever once using the word “anyway”. Every action, every word, every single step he took was carefully chosen to uphold his cult of personality, and that disingenuity was exactly why readers liked to hate on him so much.
Now? He’s a weathered old man, worn down by time and life experiences, recalling a rambling story about his younger days over his pipe and fishing pole.
This is the most honest he’s been in millennia.
Solomon said that he conquered this world 10 generations ago. That couldn’t be much more than a few centuries in the past, nowhere near his “younger days”. He’s been ruling the Celestial Empire for 10,000 years as you pointed out.
I followed the story so far, but I don’t get why we round up the old gods again. First of all, they all already lost to Jagganoth. Secondly, all of them got their keys taken from them, so they shouldn’t have any powers but be just normal mortals. Sure Solomon is a genius martian artist, but I just don’t get how he can get his key back from Jagganoth. Lastly, Jagganoth can’t be harmed anyway. So I’m just confused.
He’s given his key to White Chain, she’s bearing it now and wants to return it. Jagganoth has nothing to do with this.
Not all the keys were taken by Jagganoth. Hell, only two off the top of my head: Mottom and Mammon. Who happened to run vast empires and at least the Dragon distributed part of his key to subordinates. Jadis, Gog, and Incubus still have theirs.
David imparted his to White Chain, and frankly seemed to seal Jagganoth with kirata rather than anything derived from the Key. Between that and his apparent progress in Royalty I’m not convinced he’s weaker in a combat sense.
Remember, the demiurges actually seemed to be winning until they pissed off Gog. The Keys are the result of strength, not the source. Alison has been walking around with the original since like page 3 and it clearly wasn’t enough to whomp on someone with 1/7th of a copy by itself.
Ok I think I just assumed that Jagganoth took all the keys by now except Gog’s. It’s been like 3 years? Jagganoth fought with Solomon and smashed him almost dead last time I saw them. Why didn’t Jagganoth took Solomon’s key?
Actually I don’t know how those keys work. I also assumed they are power. Those people took the keys to gain more power didn’t they? Maybe I need to re-read the comic.
The keys are said to be terrible weapons distilled from the name of God. In practice, though, we only know that they let you teleport between worlds and unlock the Gates built by demiurges. It is already possible to teleport between worlds without a key, though, if particularly skilled. There is some implication that bearing a key does indeed grant some form of power or energy or what have you- but of the Seven, each of them was supremely powerful regardless of the key. Solomon, Maya, Jagganoth, Mottom, and Mammon are all either implied or directly shown to have taken their keys from bearers that had already accumulated MANY keys.
As for Jagganoth, he is currently imprisoned within the SOUL ORB currently hanging over Throne. That’s one of the three reasons that White Chain is here- she’s attempting to get him to take back the key, enlisting his aid, and to figure out how long they have before Jagganoth gets out the finish the job.
Thx for the clarification. SOUL ORB? I think I missed a page.
I just re-read. It was the Technique of Relief that trapped Jagganoth, the big black orb/ball. I totally forgot about this.
A pipe with a flat bowl and the orifice to the stem off to one side is not going to work particularly well.
You drill the opening down from the bowl, then hit a diagonal up to the horizontal stem. it creates 1 extra hole that needs to be plugged with something, but a good woodworker could hide it easily. I’d just use cork.
White Chain and Allison are at two different stages of the same process.
Allison had no power. Then it was imposed upon her. She had no idea of what it was all about at all. She instantly became a target of entities and forces she couldn’t even imagine and she’s had to gather and master power just to survive. She’s spent much time in survival mode and until just recently did not have the luxury to question whether she needed or wanted more power, what she was going to do with it once she got it and hadn’t thought about what effect it would have on her.
White Chain is very well versed on all these things. She has seen what this kind of power does to someone and – with her newfound humanity – is deathly afraid of accepting it and exercising it because she *has* seen what effect that has on you and she does not want to go there.
So now the comic turns on these two different perspectives of the questions of power. What decisions will White Chain and Allison make about accepting and exercising power? What effect will it have on them? What effect in turn will that have on others? What lessons did they learn about how seizing and using such power had on the demiurges? Solomon being the most interesting object lesson because he was the only one of them who tried to define and do “good” for and to others. We would *like* to presume that Allison would do that. White Chain has seen what’s happened and doesn’t even want to be in the position to have to try.
For those of you who followed Game of Thrones, consider the different paths that Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen.
Alison will be just fine for as long as she’s able to not think too much about it. If it takes her longer than 30 or so years to think about death, she wins.
So can anyone copy the link in the highlight thingy for us poor benighted bastards on mobile?
3w. youtube .com/watch?v=Nxh6X4ulgIc (Kardashev – Snow Sleep)
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White Chain: To the left, take it back now, y’all.
Solomon: No.
Oh cool. It’s still going. I found this thing years ago. Wonder how far behind I really am.
Will we ever get a print version?
Oh. Solomon is Yulvar here. Tuff stuff, big man. What goes around comes around when you work within the turnings of the wheel.
If God were a humble fisherman, he would have my respect
I have good and bad news.
God is a humble fisherman.
Unfortunately they are also everyone else.
For some reason this was the moment I figured Solomon sounded like old man Kratos in my head. That “No” and the story gave me a lot of God of War vibes. Christopher Judge would kill this role.
God, I love the writing in this comic so much. 🥺💜
84 White Chains Born in Emptiness Returns to Scare The Fish
All is a dream. Allison vanished in the book one, for the nervious and emotion for the firts time or hit her head with somthing and all of this is an allucination. XD
god, I hope not. that will be so, SO disappointing.
Hmmm. Hmmmm. Out ice fishing in nothing but a cloak. Wonder if he’s just tough, or if his furnace is still burning hot after the battle with Jaggonoth
This comments section feels oddly clean compared to the older ones…
Where’s the overabundance of spambots and the dubious medicine shills?
Digested
It means this planet has no Gog on it.
White Chain always looking so fine goddamn I am such a lesbian
awww i have to wait for more 🙁