WHEEL SMASHING LORD 3-65 to 3-66
“Once, a long time ago, in my youth, I served as a caravan guard crossing the deserts of Qeen, a trip of around a half turn all in all, crossing through the kings road. I made the crossing about four or five times – the men in that caravan were hardened and bolstered by both youth and good, boisterous courage, fed by the frequent clashes with bandits, desert beasts, and other hazards that the crossing was known for.
One night we stayed in an errant ruin to shelter from a sandstorm. There was something about the place that set the hackles ablaze with ill feeling. Thorough examination of the area presented nothing, but into many of the stones of that place we found a curious marking – a single indentation, coiled and sinuous, as though something had been sealed in there, inside the stone itself, perhaps for millennia. Though we could not explain how, each man of that expedition, and there were fifty something of them, reacting almost instinctively with almost violent repulsion. Without any reason to think so, we somehow knew what had been encased in that stone was older than time itself.
We lost three men in the sandstorm trying to escape that place, but given no other quarter, we had no choice but to bivouac there. It was one of the most harrowing and uneventful nights of my career. The company parted soon after. We lost the stomach for the work.”
– Graves, belligerent knight
This panel really reminds me of a Clive Barker short Son of Celluloid. If Abaddon feels like checking it out, its a short story in Book of Blood, theres also a neat comic version of it out there.
Reminds me of Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex! for some reason.
Ah yes, The Conqueror Worm.
I see a man of culture
Its time everybody!
Time for the eye!
All of you who have been here since the old days, you know! Its time for the eye!
The whole Gog deal is kind of incestuous/cannibalistic, don’t you think? Listen to the music, do you hear the words?
People,
People who eat people,
Are the hungriest people
In the world…
Sex is more Incubus’s thing I think.
idk, i always Thought that actual sex isn’t really inky’s thing-that he’s more of a “lust for power” guy as apossed to a “lust for the flash” kind of thing.
I’m particularly loving that the top of the name card says “worm”
Gog Agog has yet to do a genuinely evil thing in this story so far, and has spent every page since we met her seeking validation from others.
I hope Allison remembers the literal moment they lost against the Red God last time was when Gog asked for them for a single moment of validation, to admit they needed her, and Mottom just started wailing on her verbally instead.
It’s such an insignificant little thing to give a person. Or, well, a zillion persons, all made of worms.
Yea, we’ve yet to see what the dark side of her is, aside from the whole worm thing and losing one’s individuality and stuff.
However, all of the demiurges are shown as being complicated with messed up pasts, so, I’d expect whatever Gog Agogs origins are, they’re equally messed up (gonna be hard to beat Jagganoths past though).
If the text is to be believe shes older than YISUN, so there is that.
That might be the most helpful character summary blurb we’ve gotten so far.
So, Gog seems somewhat flippant with regards to her coming death and the end of the world and all. Does she not expect to die? Does she not care?
If the universe reborns itself and you’re aware of it every time, you probably stop caring about death at some point.
Plus you’re forgetting now distributed she is. The only way to truly kill her would be to end the universe most likely. All she needs is one scrap on some distant world.
The short story under the post does imply that she can survive the reset of the Wheel. To me, ‘a single indentation, coiled and sinuous, as though something had been sealed in there, inside the stone itself […] what had been encased in that stone was older than time itself’ sounds a lot like Gog Agog’s worms preserved in the stone like cysts, until more favourable conditions (such as the continuation of flow of linear time) return.
would have to be instantly as well, since she can move. If you destroy half the universe, part of her survives then moves to a planet already eradicated and replaced in a wheel reset then the whole wheel could reset and she survives. Gog is completely unkillable really, though though as was said she isn’t really evil and a universal threat, just envious
For a being that’s able to regenerate herself at will, I imagine it might be a bit unsettling to encounter the loss of another organisms body parts.
WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS
TO THE SHOW THAT ALWAYS ENDS
I was just looking at those “asking ChatGPT to draw something as more and more something” posts on Reddit, and now I feel like this strip is about five iterations of “Gog Agog, but more Gog Agog.”
A thought occurs.
Evidence suggests that Gog consciousness survives the turning of the wheel. She’s seen it all before, done it all before, been it all before. Every turning ends the same way. She can’t take anything seriously because, from that perspective, nothing matters – you live, you die, you live again.
To her, everything /is/ just a show, played nightly, with everyone locked in the theater, where she’s the only one who survives the finale. And she so very sick of it.
So she just builds up her strength every Turn in hope that maybe, just maybe, this Turn the rest of the universe will finally get enough of it’s shit together to raise up somebody who can hold up their end and see the wheel broken.
Stupid, sexy Agog!
Tie the worm on the hook, cast, and let the lure fly.
The poor wriggling creature can only writhe on its spike.
This dance will draw the hungriest of fish.
I imagine Gog Agog to sound like a drunk Harley Quinn
I recognize those floors Abbadon. Gog agog for sure sharing a body with Laura. Is Allison in the black lodge?
*Lets Rock!*
I’ve got Gog News! That Worm You Like Is Coming Back In Style
Definitely got the “presentation” part down of being a super villain. Megamind would be proud.
Gogged and agog-pilled
I am absolutely terrified by the prospect that the blurb and the comic this week are directly related.
Yes Gog. Things didn’t go pretty after you bailed.
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Ah, damn it! It didn’t let me post the word gog a hundred times! Boo!
Oh Gog-Agog!
Don’t trust you, but I love you!
The “Leviathan Revue”.
According to Hobbes and used most frequently of Kensey – two great economist – the leviathan is the binding administrative inertia and force that governments developed when they become oversized and out of control.
A weirdly perfect (or outdated) notion when one seventh of the world is under control of a worm-like hivemind.
Rock on, Abbadon!
Excellent text entry
Ah, just noticed that you can see gog-a-gog secret name by reversing the letters! Praise be gog-a-gog!