Odin hung himself to achieve forbidden knowledge, didn’t he? It seems Gog-Agog had a similar fate, although I wonder if it was quite as voluntary?
And you know, there’s quite a lot of spectacle and ornamentation involved in a hanging tree. Even in her first death, Gog-Agog was entertaining others, whether she wanted to or not.
If you insist on asking awkward questions, you’ll get told convenient lies by merchants of belief. The priest and his belief in God. The queen and her belief in power. The sage and his belief in knowledge. The scientist and her belief in reality. What fools are we all!
If she were some primordial being, I don’t think she’d be so kooky from the immortality. I think that she was indeed originally that human, especially with the phrasing present.
“Pity boastful, for they seek to convince only themselves.
Pity the hateful, for hate is all they dare to feel.
Pity the hopeful, for they share the same grave.
But most of all,
Pity the Royal: For they sit, ALONE, on a throne.”
Allison, notably, does not look back at the child(ren?).
I’m assuming she’s popped back out to baseline reality in the final panel there? One wonders, from the dialogue, if a mental clone of herself now lives “forever” on in Gog’s head.
Why subject herself to needless suffering caused not by her path but by indulgence in seeing what she once had, can’t have and wont have, let alone keep. When she knows she’ll just have to draw upon a not inconsiderable amount of willforce to tear herself away again.
It speaks to characterization. Looking and then choosing to leave anyway would say something about her character. Similarly, refusing to look at all tells us something different.
The effect is mitigated somewhat by the fact that we know, or think we know, that none of this is real (although it might once have been, but the timeline on that gets a bit funky).
Is Allison using herself as an anchor to moor Gog to this cycle? That’s interesting.
If Gog has a little Allison in her, that implies that allowing this Allison to die would be spiritually painful to Gog, like tearing off your arm. Some people may be willing to rip their limbs off, but Gog is not royalty.
“Later Akaroth learned of their conduct and was greatly enraged for Hansa had been a great wise man, and he had the Archons tied to a flensing tree which stretched the seven corners of the multiverse and there flayed them with lashes of lightning as they had flayed the house of Hansa, and all agreed this was just.”
Blessed child. These are different resets. One where Allison was just gog meat, possibly the future of allison and another rotation where Allison stayed in earth and had a child.
The Allison from this cycle was indeed a Barista and Philosphy Major.
A. No she did not plan this. She has never planned anything, and when she has she deviates from that plan by such a wide margin that the plan effectively never existed.
B. “Get…get away from me.” Gog-Agog is TERRIFIED now that she understands that Al-Yisun is chaos incarnate. For a creature that has tried to stay the same for multiple universal cycles to now be face to face with a being whose goal is to break those cycles AND to find out that she’s just WINGING IT.
Allison makes many plans.
1. Allison made the plan to reach Mottom’s flying castle.
2. Allison planned to breech the Vault to find Zaid
3. Allison planned to entered Salami Dave’s contest.
Allison’s plans seldom work the way she imagines when she makes the plan. She is often advised against doing the plan. Allison does not listen.
This was literally my exact thought, and I’m slightly disappointed that out of ~200 comments (at the time of writing), you’re the only one that voiced this belief, so far.
You can have an incredibly convoluted, multi-step plan that relies an every phase going JUST SO, and people reacting in such-and-such a way to a degree that it becomes unbelievable… or you can just be really REALLY good at improvising.
…
…
Or I guess you can be shit at improvising and just want to see what happens when you press that big red button, when you crank that dial one more time, when you tell the entire universe: “hold my beer and watch this”.
Odin hung himself to achieve forbidden knowledge, didn’t he? It seems Gog-Agog had a similar fate, although I wonder if it was quite as voluntary?
And you know, there’s quite a lot of spectacle and ornamentation involved in a hanging tree. Even in her first death, Gog-Agog was entertaining others, whether she wanted to or not.
Nine days on the tree and back from the dead. The tree of wisdom.
that last pose on alison makes me want her to step on me.
The gods are currently absent from the Multiverse as the Multiplicity self-annihilated by Division in the forging of the Wheel.
History repeats itself, in Gog-Agog who has self-annihilated so as to self-perpetuate between cycles of the wheel.
It’s worming time
Now the question is whether this is the first human body the worms got their mandibles on or if the source of the power came from this person.
Always seemed like Gog was primordial and older than people, so my gold’s on the worm
If you insist on asking awkward questions, you’ll get told convenient lies by merchants of belief. The priest and his belief in God. The queen and her belief in power. The sage and his belief in knowledge. The scientist and her belief in reality. What fools are we all!
If she were some primordial being, I don’t think she’d be so kooky from the immortality. I think that she was indeed originally that human, especially with the phrasing present.
I love this comic because I can never predict wtf is gonna happen
royalty is a cutting motion. a cutting motion can be 100,000,000 tiny gnawing bites of maggots 🙂
Each Cut is a Singular action. To make multiple Cuts is to sully the work of the Sword. So said Meti-ten-Ryo, Sword God.
“Pity boastful, for they seek to convince only themselves.
Pity the hateful, for hate is all they dare to feel.
Pity the hopeful, for they share the same grave.
But most of all,
Pity the Royal: For they sit, ALONE, on a throne.”
– Vermillion Emperor psalm.
The Wheel rolls forward, crushing all beneath it, leaving them mangled in its terrible tracks, again, and again, and again, forever.
Unless, of course, the Wheel is broken. But who could break the Wheel of the Universe?
So long as the wheel turns, it moves forwards, doesn’t it?
So what, we some kinda… Wheel Smashing Lord?
From every experience a new lesson. The wheel cannot be remade until one learns to be capable of remaking it.
You are the negative space of all the paths not taken. I want to see more of the discarded lives that carve Allison’s being
I WANT THAT SIDE COMIC
Allison, notably, does not look back at the child(ren?).
I’m assuming she’s popped back out to baseline reality in the final panel there? One wonders, from the dialogue, if a mental clone of herself now lives “forever” on in Gog’s head.
Why subject herself to needless suffering caused not by her path but by indulgence in seeing what she once had, can’t have and wont have, let alone keep. When she knows she’ll just have to draw upon a not inconsiderable amount of willforce to tear herself away again.
It speaks to characterization. Looking and then choosing to leave anyway would say something about her character. Similarly, refusing to look at all tells us something different.
The effect is mitigated somewhat by the fact that we know, or think we know, that none of this is real (although it might once have been, but the timeline on that gets a bit funky).
Allison looks exactly like Incubus in the final panel.
I would’ve enjoyed the side comic, but I understand books can’t have endless pages
Is Allison using herself as an anchor to moor Gog to this cycle? That’s interesting.
If Gog has a little Allison in her, that implies that allowing this Allison to die would be spiritually painful to Gog, like tearing off your arm. Some people may be willing to rip their limbs off, but Gog is not royalty.
50 pages is a bit much, but I was expecting a fair bit more than three.
“Later Akaroth learned of their conduct and was greatly enraged for Hansa had been a great wise man, and he had the Archons tied to a flensing tree which stretched the seven corners of the multiverse and there flayed them with lashes of lightning as they had flayed the house of Hansa, and all agreed this was just.”
If I was totally evil, I’d definitely enjoy a 50pg side comic of just Allison and her kid.
So, she used to be a business woman and she got a child?
I thought, before barista she was noone… We did not know anzthing all the story 😀
Blessed child. These are different resets. One where Allison was just gog meat, possibly the future of allison and another rotation where Allison stayed in earth and had a child.
The Allison from this cycle was indeed a Barista and Philosphy Major.
A. No she did not plan this. She has never planned anything, and when she has she deviates from that plan by such a wide margin that the plan effectively never existed.
B. “Get…get away from me.” Gog-Agog is TERRIFIED now that she understands that Al-Yisun is chaos incarnate. For a creature that has tried to stay the same for multiple universal cycles to now be face to face with a being whose goal is to break those cycles AND to find out that she’s just WINGING IT.
The Darkseid pose does a very good job of strongly projecting that she planned this
It also has very very implications about the kind of person Allison is now
the alt text for the page where she eats the worm is “Not her finest bit of improvising, you must admit” She did not plan this.
Allison makes many plans.
1. Allison made the plan to reach Mottom’s flying castle.
2. Allison planned to breech the Vault to find Zaid
3. Allison planned to entered Salami Dave’s contest.
Allison’s plans seldom work the way she imagines when she makes the plan. She is often advised against doing the plan. Allison does not listen.
“Al-Yisun is chaos incarnate”
This was literally my exact thought, and I’m slightly disappointed that out of ~200 comments (at the time of writing), you’re the only one that voiced this belief, so far.
You can have an incredibly convoluted, multi-step plan that relies an every phase going JUST SO, and people reacting in such-and-such a way to a degree that it becomes unbelievable… or you can just be really REALLY good at improvising.
…
…
Or I guess you can be shit at improvising and just want to see what happens when you press that big red button, when you crank that dial one more time, when you tell the entire universe: “hold my beer and watch this”.
to be honest i know that were probably not going to see this first gog-agog again, but god do i really want to know her story
Kill Six Billion Necromorphs
i didn’t expect her to take over the worm queen herself..
You Gogs don’t seem yo understand: I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me!