WHEEL SMASHING LORD 5-168 to 5-169
Chapter: 5
“Yutun-Kari, the stroke of negation. The sword is not a positive instrument. It cannot birth anything – it is an implement of severance. Therefore the swordsman, inheriting this obliterating spirit, is a spirit of nothingness. No movement, no fertility, no life, no potential, no emotion – but also no suffering, no pain, no miasma and corruption. This is the meaning of grasping the non-stroke.”
– Ryo ten Ryam
See, Incubus? You only need one stroke. You don’t even need a sword, really.
It has been said before and it will be said again: Incubus was, is, and always will be an exceptionally poor swordsman.
YISUN would comment that he is indeed exceptionally skilled at the art of being a poor swordsman, and is thus perhaps the being most suitable for striking a sword-follower down.
YISUN can go, has gone, and will be going to Jump into a Lake. Perhaps, just hoping against Fate because y’know everything is fated to be a damn circle, he gets killed this time and we don’t have to deal with his discount devil self anymore.
If the multiverse resets, how much of the comic will stay the same next time around?
Every word, every line, every color will remain the same. The ordering of might differ.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the entire point of our Wheel-Smashing Lord’s journey to make sure that doesn’t happen?
“YISUN can go, has gone, and will be going to Jump into a Lake.”
Coyote’s lake? Is YISUN a dead goose on a bush?
Is that a motherfucking Gunnerkrigg reference in a K6BD page?
…you have good taste, Smitty.
Never slop
Incubus, god of casuals
Silver tiers vibes for sure.
HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! PARRY!!!!
Is KSBD parryslop?
Wait, one moment if you could. I have to make sure I have enough supplies to survive this. Hmm. Okay, should be enough for a week.
In this thread I–
Royalty is a continuous parry input.
KSBD is qualityslop. You only like it because it’s good.
“You only like it because it’s good.”
Okay you know what? Can’t argue with that.
And The reward for best webcomic written by Tom Bloom goes to Clair Obscure: Expedition 33
Appropriate username.
I was a bit disapointed when the printed books ditched the image descriptions
PARRY the platypus????!?!?!
This whole time, Doof was getting parried. It all makes sense now.
GO GO MAYA RANGER!!!!!!
Yoooooo he just winged it!
GRINNING LIKE AESMA RIGHT NOW OH MY GODDDDDD
Somewhere, someone is arguing with Ryo ten Ryam insisting “Well, I was delivered by cesarean section performed with a sword, so I was essentially birthed by a sword.
Hansa if he locked the fuck in and kicked the smoking habit
Might need “you obstinate old hag” and “protecting the rat” on shirts
Please tell me we’re getting a fight scene inspired by Vampire Savior’s Tower of Arrogance stage where they’re fighting on the side (or below) the ship and we see the ongoing war in the ground behind them.
YOU. You get it.
I’ll bring the tv static if you bring the piano.
Pree Maya has become an excellent defender of mice. With a single stroke, not only did she deflect the arrow, she directed it toward the enraged creature’s paw (wing), preventing it from continuing its suicide run. Meti would be proud.
Too bad about the mouse that got donuted though. No parryslop for him.
it may be parryslop but its OUR treasured parryslop
hold on to your hams
Nobody’s forcing you to expose yourself, Inky, you’re allowed to wear a shirt.
Incubus is wearing the Maybe Shirt. Undoubtedly one of the flimsiest shirts ever made.
“grasping the non-stroke” didn’t think I’d live to see a liturgy referencing No Fap, but here we are
It only makes sense that Royalty would never Goon.
Royalty is a continuous no cumming motion.
God this is my favorite anime
Never heard the word “parryslop” before in my life. But whatever it is, Maya has none of it.
Why is it that cruel people always think they have a monopoly on ruthlessness?
– Belisarius
Imo because they confuse being a dick with being ruthless. They’re not the same thing.
“Beware the anger of a gentle man”
There’s a scene in the end of The Postman (spoilers for a sci-fi book from the 1980s) where a nice old hippy is getting beaten around the room, his breath is deep and ragged, and then he straightens up and says something like “Sorry about that. Activating my powers requires a lot of air”.
Cue epic beat down of one of the most loathsome Nazis in post-Dystopian fiction.
“People don’t understand the word ruthless. They think it means ‘mean.’ It’s not about being mean. It’s about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It’s about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it.”
– Marco, Book #30: The Reunion, pg. 71 (by K.A. Applegate)
Deadly with a sword, is Belisarius.
On the one hand, the almighty attack of a god-king at the height of his majesty.
On the other hand, Tiger Drop blocks all incoming damage.
Discuss.
If one is incapable of progress, they may as well be dead. If one is themself the obstacle, but cannot do damage back, they are also, dead. Evacuation and escape are the only options. Unless of course, a peasant happens to distract either one, of course. Even better, someone with experience in getting the shit kicked out of their self. Someone skilled in insults would also be helpful.
Imma incubust
Maya doesn’t have special death-endurance powers, she’s just a really hard bitch
“Forcing me to expose myself,” he says, half-naked.
“The second or third time I’ve killed you”… an interesting statement, and maybe not just hyperbole? Maya is certainly long-lived, and one does have to question how she survived her previous encounters with Incubus. Maybe some combination her understanding of the world, her skills with a blade, or her past ownership of a Key of Kings have made her something beyond a typical mortal. Something sustained by purpose rather than food and drink.
Or maybe he’s exaggerating. Incubus does love his theatrics.
Incubus has at least at used ten different cuts to attempt to remove Maya’s head from her body. By her own admission, at one point, her neck was only a windpipe. But still, she persisted.
Later in that same story, she says to Allison “I have just killed you.” having sliced her in half.
She did in fact kill Allison. Cut clean.
But it didn’t take, because Allison decided it didn’t. She chose her own destiny.
Allison has in fact died several times throughout the story.
It just has yet to take.
As with Maya.
Which is also the point of her greatest weapon. The Maybe Sword.
Will it kill a god? Maybe. Maybe not. But it will kill anyone who does not control their own destiny.
Maya has died multiple times. At least ten.
It just has yet to take.
Maya has been dead for a long time. She is a vengeful spirit.
I think she’s just plain got too much hate in her to die.
“Is your hate pure?” asked Alex Cockburn?
Pure hate is harder than steel and hotter than nuclear fire.
Hate? I don’t hate (insert name) Can’t hate what I have never loved or acknowledged the existence of (starts reloading the matched S&W Russian Schoefield’s because the coach gun is loaded) and I (lights a dog leg cigar cuban leaf, dominican roller) sure ain’t ne’er loved them. So, no. No hate, just taking out the trash.
I’d say we reached peak, but that was dozens of pages ago. We reach EXTRA PEAK every page.