WHEEL SMASHING LORD 3-87
Chapter: 3
“Cut down all pre-present illusions. Cut away everything that is behind you and continue only to step in the right direction. This is the essence of the sublime art of Division.”
– Dhukkan ten Dhul, Blade Illusionist
Pipe. Comes with the job.
The pipe is the instrument of the wise
It is the weapon of the old
The sign of the master
Also fun to chew on.
I use one to blow bubbles! (Tobacco and Marijuana allergy)
Prim Shavanahola, is this you?
(Too niche, I know, sorry)
Filling your lungs with ash and death seems ill advised. But I’m a lowly neophyte, what would I know.
A pipe gives a wise man time to think
and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
– C. S. Lewis
Ceci n’est pas une pipe.
Every reason not to smoke goes away once you’ve reached the “just looking to pass on my techniques to an apprentice before I die” stage of life.
Man, I love this comic
Solomon David is one of the best-written characters I’ve ever seen. He was convinced of his righteousness but genuinely well-intentioned, and now that he knows he was wrong he’s trying to make things right.
And even so, he’s still being a dick.
He is a fascinating character indeed.
His experience as a demiurge would be valuable to a new world, as would Jadis’.
Alas, all things end.
Except our hero, Gog-aGog
The gog in the bogg spoke to me, and revealed things about mogg bagog i wish i had learned sooner
Gog-a-mog, mog moggin in the gog goggin.
Go go gog-a-gog. Mog-a gog, ga gog a gog.
Goggin in the Gog, with good goggin.
My favorite gog-agog, was a moog-agog, but that was goggin in the moggin, gog a gog.
gogagog, gogagog, gogagogagogoagogoagoagogogoagoagoago.
Inchworm, inchworm, measuring the marigolds
You and your arithmatic, you’ll probably go far.
Inchworm, inchworm, measuring the marigolds
Seems to me you’d stop and see how beautiful they are.
(Kids Singing: 2 & 2 are 4, 4 & 4 are 8, 8 & 8 are 16, 16 & 16 are 32)
— Instrumental —
Inchworm, inchworm, measuring the marigolds
You and your arithmatic, you’ll probably go far
Inchworm, inchworm measuring the marigolds
Seems to me you’d stop and see how beautiful they are.
(Kids, now long dead ghosts, singing – goes on repeating 2 Quadrillion & 2 Quadrillion are 4… etc…)
Seems to me you’d stop and see how beautiful they are.
Seems to me you’d stop and see how beautiful they are…
the gog in the bog left me agog
trying to make things right by filling a forest full of 1000 impaled corpses of those who have come to interrupt his ruminative & dissociated fishing arc
We’ve all been there.
You can take the salami out of David, but you can’t take the David out of Salami.
His attitude makes perfect sense. He’s been a god-king of 111,111 universes for what? Eons? If he was humble he could not have lasted that long, he would have been deposed. Why would he divest himself of how he’s been and thought for potentially millions of years or more now that he’s stepped down from the throne for only three years?
How would anyone depose him just because he was humble? He’d still be the grand Master of ki rata, and being prideful didn’t exactly help him against dear old Jaggy, did it?
A humble man may be satisfied; a prideful man cannot.
Old Salmon Dave looked pretty complacent to me back on Ryuba.
Will to power is one of the laws of this reality. Pride is maybe the bigget shortcut to having a strong will, whereas having a strong will and being remarkably humble about it is more difficult for most folks.
Sordid Despair also did pretty dang well against ol’ Jaggahog, and his bruised pride over the damage Jaggy caused to his empire was part of that.
He must teach her the most secret art of royalty… changing the color of her dialogue text.
You say this jokingly but I increasingly am suspecting there’s some meta-fictional element to Royalty
given morrowind is, to me, a reference i would agree
in that Vivic has gained a kind of awareness to the nature of his reality (a video game)
Wait, he did?
Zoss’ true secret… the hue slider.
Reach heaven through violet.
Underrated comment
Logan The Mad, you have written the perfect comment. The burden of such an achievement has ground down many men to pulp beneath its weight. What further deed can compare to the transcendent peak of sublime greatness now falling away further and further into the past? Mad you are indeed, for what other refuge remains to you?
Sublime.
The words of a genius.
Exceptional.
Perhaps Wisdom is gained through Madness
I can’t decide if this is more or less harsh than Maya training Allison.
I’m leaning towards less. Maya was *nicer*, but then she did cut-not-cut her student in half also. Dave so far has only been rude. 😛
…I didn’t want that to turn into an emoji. Pain…
The internet is the most severe of all. You have suffered a complete betrayal.
Maybe it’s a true domain of Gog.
Good to see that at least one of the fish they killed in that underwater concussion didn’t go to waste.
Wait, are they both going to eat *one fish?*
I think they both lack cooking knowledge based on the alt-text lmao. Solo Davy is a super divorced man who hasn’t had to cook for himself in a loooong time and White Chain probably hasn’t had much time in the kitchen with the whole surviving everything
“White Chain probably hasn’t had much time in the kitchen with the whole surviving everything”
Well, there’s also the whole “not being human until just recently” aspect to boot. Penchant for coffee aside, I get the impression that regular stone-shell angels don’t eat much. 😄
They didn’t even gut the goddamn thing.
I would have suspected White Chain to be a vegetarian in her new form.
True, behaps the slowly charring fish is not intended as food, but as a warning to all other aquatic lifeforms.
Eating the fish is symbolic, of defeating the fish or accepting the power of salami alike.
There isn’t enough fire to cook more than one fish at a time.
Can’t believe the best character in the whole comic is really dead… #JusticeForFish
Not dead. Just came to a mutual comprehension.
If she wanted to eat well, she should’ve picked a noodle vendor daughter sensei.
It’d be difficult to argue that Salami Dave doesn’t, at least in some sense, have it coming, but I wonder if White Chain will actually do it. Nothing would quite so cement the “student having become the master” as having the will to resist the teacher’s last command.
Does your character smoke a sick crack pipe?
Does he ROCK the hobbogarb?
Does he float around like a vagabond not giving a shit?
!!CAREFUL!! these are all warning signs that your character has reached the end of their development arc. In worst case scenarios, the result can be as dire as death. Take precautions.
If death is the worst result, is it even worth taking precautions?
thats just a regular pipe my guy
that’s not your man, thats [A Doomed Archetype]
It takes little skill to produce a fine meal from a campfire and a fresh fish. ‘Tis fortunate, for it has availed me of relief from hunger many times despite mine lack of expertise in the creation of repasts.
I wonder if Solomon realizes that he basically turned her into his daughter. Am I reading too much into it? Maybe, but she’s damn cool.
Love how the giant fish just chilled out.
No, you definitely aren’t reading too much into it.
I think often about how he and she were in a moment outside of time, and yet inside that moment there was a single instant, and it was that instant in which she struck him and the one in which she attained the apotheosis of flesh. I suspect, at right that time, her liquid soul commingled with that one drop of spilled blood; she resembles him in some superficial ways, and they are, I think, no coincidence.
She is his successess.
From tyrant to teacher.
White Chain, already cocking a shotgun: “Shame.”
all this killin and almost killin seems a bit violent innit
Reach heaven through violence, and then crash down cataclysmically
Let them cook.
The little smile after she scares the fish back into the water, the solemn silence between the two of them, and the question of whether or not white chain will heed his old guard beliefs on sharing his martial art, this shit goes so hard
SOMETIMES YOU NEED A COSMIC BEATDOWN TO LET GO OF YOUR FOOLISH DELUSIONS
FEEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN
KIIIIIIIIIIIII RA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA-TA!
White Chain has become the baddest of badasses. All’s that’s left is to reduce her master to ashes.
And so it goes.
Solomon David has been my favorite character (only Jadis and 10 Tigilant can wrestle that spot from him) for a long time.
I only hope the end to his time in this story is an adequate one.
Fish respect me.
aw, solomon keeps those little wooden figures like the one that guy was carving as a tribute!
I’ve been here the whole time
White Chain may not know how to cook, but damn does she know how to accessorize
Heck yeah, training arc!
Not even slightly the point, but that princess carry in the first panel is sending me into hysterics
I am speechless with horror at how far you have missed the point, Preem Blatant_Pseudonym! The PRINCESS CARRY?! REALLY?! THAT’S what you think the most important part of the page is?!?
OBVIOUSLY, the most important part is White Chain smug-ass shit-eating smirk in Panel 3.
hmm yes very wise
I think White Chain applying exactly as much demiurge-force to stop the fish (and not, for example, vaporize it) is extreme foreshadowing. Can Ki-Rata be used to achieve EXTREME++++ nonviolence?
Elementally speaking, mastering not so much the fire to vanquish your enemies, as much as the earth to stop them in their tracks.
Reach heaven through violence.
And then finally put the smack down on all these “royalty” children to out-adult them and get some goddamned peace and quiet going for once.
Break the cycle.