Yeah, even if only 0,2 percent of those were made of Godbone with the right bouyancy it’d still be enough to make a fleet with more ships than all the ships involved in our worlds largest naval battle.
I’m impressed that these deities don’t look decomposed at all. Compare to the skeletal stone corpses we see in the early comic and these are pristine.
May the Wheel tremble and resonate with the booming of a billion cannons, the better to shatter the Shape, and end the Cycle. This will be truly glorious to witness.
I admit a little trepidation at this suddon onslaught of noble-hearted characters. While many wear blue, I yet see them in red.
Soon, the one with the power to cut everyone everyone at once will emerge.
Or, perhaps this is a moment of unity beyond what any could have seen? The forces they normally oppose should be arriving soon enough to add their own weight. Will we see the worm acknowledge the one-eyed? Will Jadis speak to her would-be liberators?
…Will Incubus stab a bunch of people, prompting auntie to maybe his head off and dunk it in the hotpot until he promises to behave?
Then there’s the question of the Angels. Why are there none here to fight for the preservation of throne? Not even one? What is Metatron planning? And where is Juggernaut Star?
SO yeah I am concerned for the cool extras historically things don’t go great for them.
…Unless they all join up and have their own fun adventures like team Golden Baby! I wonder if any of them show up?
…I am confused how this was posted to someone else’s comment when I distinctly filled in the correct box.
Ah well, it was clearly destiny since you’ve already said what I did in a far more concise form.
This is exactly like Love Actually.
Truly, Love Actually is the Berserk of christmas movies.
“… prompting auntie to maybe his head off and dunk it in the hotpot…”
I am so proud to understand that reference. From now on, every time I am attacked by a villain I will shout “Get the fuck outa my way before I maybe your head off!”
Some thaumaturgic engineer probably had to cut corners when it came to construction… not to mention the number of deified elephants may have taken a downturn during the 3rd War of the Demigods.
Lo! The Armada comes! Feel the heat of their engines, the beat of their wings, the groans of their godbones, and the warcries of their ten thousand crew! All the beasts of sky, sea, and star, all crawling things of the earth, all the hungering potentates; all the argent saints and hell-forged heroes shall be bent to the dust by their enormous blasts!
This fleet is so badass and I predict I’ll be really sad a dozen pages from now when Jag pulls some kind of Forbidden Blade Bullshit: Ten Thousand Cubit Spear and blows them all up in one panel.
I admit, I am unfamiliar with the creation and workings of Godships. Many of them incorporate great statues, some do so in a relatively unobstructive, parallel manner such as in Godships Kaukat and Krys.
Some seem to use a vertical construction, such as Godship Paraga, but ships like that the statue and ship parts share an overall center, and are balanced, even if the ship’s dimensions are greatly magnified because of it.
And then, there is Godship Lokan. While I have no doubt about the vessel’s effectiveness, nor the competence of its crew, its construction strikes me as bizzare. The two “components” of Godships such as Paraga are clearly intertwined and inseparable. Yet the “ship” part of Godship Lokan is placed on a shoulder of the statue component, creating what seems to be an odd, assymetrical center of mass.
I wonder, what would be considered the “core” of Godship Lokan? The vessel that holds the people and the engines, or the statue? It puzzles me. Yet, I am also impressed by the precision it must have took to balance it out, preventing the buoyance of the godbone and the mass of the ship from overtaking one-another, tilting the deck.
Or perhaps all my ramblings show naught but great ignorance regarding the workings of these vessels. I am but one who seeks knowledge of that which grows from the earth, after all.
Anon Not-Mammon, Underpaid Engineer of all Stuff Unrelated
The dead god has 4 arms. The second left arm is grasping the ship around the mid-section. You can see the fingers of that hand on the far side of the ship.
It’s still not particularly stable from an engineering perspective, but it’s not as unstable as you seem to think.
Clearly, the starboard axe is made out of an incredibly heavy material, while the port axe is as light as giant feather.
This also explains why one leg is kneeling – it’s because the axe is so heavy that side requires additional support, except the rock he was kneeling on is long gone.
Most fleets: Let’s make our godships look like WWI dreadnoughts, but with fearsome gods carrying them on their backs!
Aiman-Shan fleet: We want ours to look like naked chicks who got run through with ships and now they’re mad about it.
Heretic Restorationists fleet: TURTLE
Svelben Clanlords: Ours is like “Hey what up losers, I’m gonna axe some questions! Get it? Ha!” Oh and our god is gonna carry the boat on one shoulder, it’s just cooler that way.
I have only one wish.
That they may not perish in Jagganoths first attack and actually do something significant in the fight to come. Even if it is only fighting of the hordes of the hog, so Alison and friends can fight the destructor in peace.
Turtles all the way down
Everyone and their brother seems to have a godship.
Well, the corpses of dead deities seem to be a rather common commodity around there.
There were 777,777 of them… plenty to go around!
Yeah, even if only 0,2 percent of those were made of Godbone with the right bouyancy it’d still be enough to make a fleet with more ships than all the ships involved in our worlds largest naval battle.
I’m impressed that these deities don’t look decomposed at all. Compare to the skeletal stone corpses we see in the early comic and these are pristine.
Probably not the Gods’ real flesh. Just some good rock or plaster put on top. Or they’ve been very well maintained. Which I doubt.
It’s also possible those gods just…looked like that in life.
In 2-31 we get a Before and After of at least a couple of deities so clearly there’s some decomposition going on there
Maybe the ones in the city were partially … er … cannibalized for building materials or other resources?
Yeah, that’d make sense, though my guess is that it’s mostly just art evolution, really.
BOLO TURTLE !!
Space Worf?
even more… hell yes
I could go on like this for cycles!
Bycicles?
Yay a Discworld reference!
What?
Presumably the pyramidal godship on the back of a colossal turtle. (Although one could just as easily call it a Yu-Gi-Oh reference.)
No, I mean, what is Discworld.
Is it edible?
Look up Terry Pratchet’s discworld. And you’re welcome.
Don’t have time for that.
Too much Endemol reality shows to watch.
May it be so.
May it be so.
It may be so.
So be it may?
No… it’s still January.
maybe. maybe not. I don’t know
Make it so!
So mote it be!
May the Wheel tremble and resonate with the booming of a billion cannons, the better to shatter the Shape, and end the Cycle. This will be truly glorious to witness.
Well I’ll be damned. Space Vikings.
[Space Wolves intensifies]
Space Worfs?
Space LYNXES
This is just like Love Actually.
I admit a little trepidation at this suddon onslaught of noble-hearted characters. While many wear blue, I yet see them in red.
Soon, the one with the power to cut everyone everyone at once will emerge.
Or, perhaps this is a moment of unity beyond what any could have seen? The forces they normally oppose should be arriving soon enough to add their own weight. Will we see the worm acknowledge the one-eyed? Will Jadis speak to her would-be liberators?
…Will Incubus stab a bunch of people, prompting auntie to maybe his head off and dunk it in the hotpot until he promises to behave?
Then there’s the question of the Angels. Why are there none here to fight for the preservation of throne? Not even one? What is Metatron planning? And where is Juggernaut Star?
SO yeah I am concerned for the cool extras historically things don’t go great for them.
…Unless they all join up and have their own fun adventures like team Golden Baby! I wonder if any of them show up?
…I am confused how this was posted to someone else’s comment when I distinctly filled in the correct box.
Ah well, it was clearly destiny since you’ve already said what I did in a far more concise form.
This is exactly like Love Actually.
Truly, Love Actually is the Berserk of christmas movies.
“My love for you is like a truck.
BERSERKER.”
-Jude Law’s character, probably.
Is Jude Law om Love Actually?
If he is, I think I’ve eatched the wrong movie.
“… prompting auntie to maybe his head off and dunk it in the hotpot…”
I am so proud to understand that reference. From now on, every time I am attacked by a villain I will shout “Get the fuck outa my way before I maybe your head off!”
good to see A’tuin is there for the fight
You just know the big turt is gonna be the first to die…
beautiful as always
MORE MORE MORE KEEP IT GOING
as cool as they are i hope we dont have another 2 months of just introducing ships lol
I would absolutely be on board with another month and a half of this. At a minimum we have to see the fleet that opposes Incubus.
We’re now at six named ships so there’s only one left to introduce.
What manner of idiot engineered the Godship Ummon? Where are its load-bearing elephants!?
Some thaumaturgic engineer probably had to cut corners when it came to construction… not to mention the number of deified elephants may have taken a downturn during the 3rd War of the Demigods.
One of the Elephants was borrowed by Finn and Jake.
Knowing this setting, probably the turtle itself.
Oh, no it’s Gamera again!
The art and designs continue to transfix and astound me… I love this comic.
Oh, no it’s Gamera again!
Yes Yes More Ships I Want More Ships Thirty More Pages Of Cool Ass Ships Please And Thank You!!
This makes me think of Zoss’ final advice to Allison in King of Swords 10-141: “…Strength beyond strength…”
Yeah, it’s such a lovely armada of godships. Shame about what’s going to happen to it.
As a treat.
Lo! The Armada comes! Feel the heat of their engines, the beat of their wings, the groans of their godbones, and the warcries of their ten thousand crew! All the beasts of sky, sea, and star, all crawling things of the earth, all the hungering potentates; all the argent saints and hell-forged heroes shall be bent to the dust by their enormous blasts!
This fleet is so badass and I predict I’ll be really sad a dozen pages from now when Jag pulls some kind of Forbidden Blade Bullshit: Ten Thousand Cubit Spear and blows them all up in one panel.
I admit, I am unfamiliar with the creation and workings of Godships. Many of them incorporate great statues, some do so in a relatively unobstructive, parallel manner such as in Godships Kaukat and Krys.
Some seem to use a vertical construction, such as Godship Paraga, but ships like that the statue and ship parts share an overall center, and are balanced, even if the ship’s dimensions are greatly magnified because of it.
And then, there is Godship Lokan. While I have no doubt about the vessel’s effectiveness, nor the competence of its crew, its construction strikes me as bizzare. The two “components” of Godships such as Paraga are clearly intertwined and inseparable. Yet the “ship” part of Godship Lokan is placed on a shoulder of the statue component, creating what seems to be an odd, assymetrical center of mass.
I wonder, what would be considered the “core” of Godship Lokan? The vessel that holds the people and the engines, or the statue? It puzzles me. Yet, I am also impressed by the precision it must have took to balance it out, preventing the buoyance of the godbone and the mass of the ship from overtaking one-another, tilting the deck.
Or perhaps all my ramblings show naught but great ignorance regarding the workings of these vessels. I am but one who seeks knowledge of that which grows from the earth, after all.
Weeeell, maybe their god was a tad UNBALANCED from the get-go, and they put the ship where it’d act as a matching counterweight … 😉
Before they put the ship there the corpse of Lokan was just tumbling in a never-ending barrel roll
The dead god has 4 arms. The second left arm is grasping the ship around the mid-section. You can see the fingers of that hand on the far side of the ship.
It’s still not particularly stable from an engineering perspective, but it’s not as unstable as you seem to think.
Clearly, the starboard axe is made out of an incredibly heavy material, while the port axe is as light as giant feather.
This also explains why one leg is kneeling – it’s because the axe is so heavy that side requires additional support, except the rock he was kneeling on is long gone.
Most fleets: Let’s make our godships look like WWI dreadnoughts, but with fearsome gods carrying them on their backs!
Aiman-Shan fleet: We want ours to look like naked chicks who got run through with ships and now they’re mad about it.
Heretic Restorationists fleet: TURTLE
Svelben Clanlords: Ours is like “Hey what up losers, I’m gonna axe some questions! Get it? Ha!” Oh and our god is gonna carry the boat on one shoulder, it’s just cooler that way.
I left my god corpse in my other pants. I’ll have to attend this battle armed with an especially sharp rock.
The odds? “Just Crit. Lol”. Now we see why Han demanded “Never tell me.”
I mean, they specify less than 5%. So its “Just crit, but this die isn’t quite weighted properly.”
“Less than 5” implies either “more than 4” or “fuck all” depending on how deep into Statistics Lore you want to get.
In a strip founded upon aggressive females, that first pane is phallic as hell. Made the sorority girl speechless.
I have only one wish.
That they may not perish in Jagganoths first attack and actually do something significant in the fight to come. Even if it is only fighting of the hordes of the hog, so Alison and friends can fight the destructor in peace.
Fight in peace? We shall see.
Slam the CatShip straight into Jagganoth’s Jagganuts.
It is incredible that Abbadon is writing these last few pages and who knows how more, explicitly for me and my entertainment.
Aww yeah. I hope some of my relatives survive this.