Precept 7:
A brain is useful only up until the point when you are faced with your enemy. Then it is useless. The only truly useful thing in this cursed world is will. You must suffuse your worthless body with its terrible heat. You must be so hot that even if your enemy should strike your head off, you shall continue to decapitate ten more men. Your boiling blood must spring forth from your neck and mutilate the survivors!
Among the things that Auntie Maya can cut is spacetime. So, should she need to, she could make a cut, step through it, and be outta there. Which, at the moment, seems like it would be a good idea.
Y’know? Depending on how you figure it, it’s taken about 3.3 years for the artist to work his/her way through only one Deadly Sin: Gluttony. There are six sins/demis left. That might mean this thing is scheduled to run another twenty years or so. I’ll most likely be dead by then, so I hope I’m wrong.
For all of its chaos, there was some serious synchronicity in this fight. Perhaps it’s a side effect of Allison’s use of power or perhaps indication of interference by even greater powers than what we’ve seen so far? I lean towards the latter.
Volume 1 of Kill Six Billion Demons will be at my place tomorrow! I am so stoked to get my hands on the print version of this amazing comic. Thank you Abaddon for sharing this crazy world with us. Definitely NOT a mis-take in this case!
Angels are so powerful that they may forget that they are not invincible. Fear the angel with a low number for he is formidable. Fear the angel with a high number for he is wise from harm.
Mad dogs be Thum Heateaters whomse take longserly numbers on thum Name! Dangerful enough thee whom leap blindslike t’ th’ Void! Thum taker all about thum in great-loud-kaboom!
I work at a comic store, so I got to see the print books come out of the box today as we sorted through our order. They look amazing! I’ve got one waiting for me!
And so passeth a mighty aeon. I may disagree with my brother Juggernaut Star on many things, but his power is undeniable.
What frightens me is the power vacuum he leaves among the Thorns. They are not all Royalists, after all, and there are many others of great strength among them. Who can say where their blades will point now?
If the Children of Thorns do not have spare shells standing by for their recently disincarnated Speaker, then our fear of them is entirely unjustified.
Recall the story of Koss against Ogam, said to be a favorite of Lord Jagganoth: for a hundred days and a hundred nights Koss split his blades against Ogam’s iron skull, but on the hundred and first Ogam’s blade broke, and there being no suitable weapons close to hand, was chased out of the forge-god’s domain like a child beaten about the head and shoulders with a broom.
You are right, but it may be some time before Juggernaut Star stands ready to inhabit a new shell. His flame will need time to restore itself from such a mighty cut. And in that time, who can say what the Thorn Knights will do, or who may step up to lead them?
I had not heard that tale. It is indeed illustrative. My thanks for relating it!
GADDAMN DUDE YOU ARE TOO METAL FOR THIS EARTH!
Grats on the book too, makes me want a coffee table to stick it on.
considering the current allegories you may need to buy a Tea cup table.
Or a maybe table
A corpes that gets it’s own revenge. Handy
Precept 7:
A brain is useful only up until the point when you are faced with your enemy. Then it is useless. The only truly useful thing in this cursed world is will. You must suffuse your worthless body with its terrible heat. You must be so hot that even if your enemy should strike your head off, you shall continue to decapitate ten more men. Your boiling blood must spring forth from your neck and mutilate the survivors!
This one has learned well.
Rather, a nuclear explosion barely contained in a suit of stone armor.
Truly historic final words, not sure if that was supposed to be hilarious.
I’m sure Mendicant’s fine. You can cut an explosion right?
..betcha Maya can.
Ideally you cut the space within the explosion and thus the blast implodes in to the riven space.
Of /course/ you can cut an explosion. Royalty is a cutting motion, after all.
Well, apparently you can cut a word in half so…
Among the things that Auntie Maya can cut is spacetime. So, should she need to, she could make a cut, step through it, and be outta there. Which, at the moment, seems like it would be a good idea.
<3
Love love LOVE all the teacups.
I’M CRASHING THIS PALACE
WITH NO SURVIVORS
Was getting Cut part of your master plan?
Was getting cut in half a part of your plan?
Somebody get this hothead out of here!
If I cut that off, will you blow up?
TELL ME ABOUT JUGGERNAUT
WHY DOES HE WEAR THE MASK
Perhaps he’s wondering why someone would cut an angel, before blowing him up in a palace.
Y’know? Depending on how you figure it, it’s taken about 3.3 years for the artist to work his/her way through only one Deadly Sin: Gluttony. There are six sins/demis left. That might mean this thing is scheduled to run another twenty years or so. I’ll most likely be dead by then, so I hope I’m wrong.
If it’s one sin per chapter plus the intro chapter, then you can halve that, I think.
Mistakes are always made. To Cut is to create and solve them, thusly.
this is the last of the teacup violence, right?
The cups have truly suffered enough. Mottom will now be obliged to avenge them all if she’s to have any chance at redemption. Serious stuff…
Violence is inevitable. So long as a thing exists, there will be violence inflicted upon it and by it. Teacups are not exempt from this axiom.
What I find remarkable is how many teacups were cut exactly in half.
Guess that makes it easier for everyone, I suppose, to get a half-cup of tea.
For all of its chaos, there was some serious synchronicity in this fight. Perhaps it’s a side effect of Allison’s use of power or perhaps indication of interference by even greater powers than what we’ve seen so far? I lean towards the latter.
Getting a Brandon Graham vibe from this page… :3
Volume 1 of Kill Six Billion Demons will be at my place tomorrow! I am so stoked to get my hands on the print version of this amazing comic. Thank you Abaddon for sharing this crazy world with us. Definitely NOT a mis-take in this case!
HOT DAMN
MAKES THE GRAND DRAGON WANT TO RETIRE, MAN
Would Maya count as uptown funk? Somehow, I think it’s possible
Angel++
Angels are so powerful that they may forget that they are not invincible. Fear the angel with a low number for he is formidable. Fear the angel with a high number for he is wise from harm.
Eh. An angel with a high number cannot remember the harm, and may as well have not experienced it.
Not truly. For there are some angels that are always prone to violence.
Mad dogs be Thum Heateaters whomse take longserly numbers on thum Name! Dangerful enough thee whom leap blindslike t’ th’ Void! Thum taker all about thum in great-loud-kaboom!
OKay, that’s bad-ass
Laputa’s gonna fall now…
Even his last word got cut in half.
Underrated comment.
I work at a comic store, so I got to see the print books come out of the box today as we sorted through our order. They look amazing! I’ve got one waiting for me!
At this point, I’m half-expecting the actual *explosion* to be cut in half, with Maya standing nonchalantly in the middle.
It always bares repeating that angels are controlled nuclear explosions contained in protective shells (and skilled in millennia old martial arts).
When we say “protective”, we refer to protecting EVERYONE ELSE.
I don’t know what Nadia just did but it won’t be fun for either AL-YIS-UN or White Chain if the two of them don’t decide to be elsewhere.
that is exactly what they are working on, post-haste!
And so passeth a mighty aeon. I may disagree with my brother Juggernaut Star on many things, but his power is undeniable.
What frightens me is the power vacuum he leaves among the Thorns. They are not all Royalists, after all, and there are many others of great strength among them. Who can say where their blades will point now?
If the Children of Thorns do not have spare shells standing by for their recently disincarnated Speaker, then our fear of them is entirely unjustified.
Recall the story of Koss against Ogam, said to be a favorite of Lord Jagganoth: for a hundred days and a hundred nights Koss split his blades against Ogam’s iron skull, but on the hundred and first Ogam’s blade broke, and there being no suitable weapons close to hand, was chased out of the forge-god’s domain like a child beaten about the head and shoulders with a broom.
Strategy wins battles, children; logistics win wars.
You are right, but it may be some time before Juggernaut Star stands ready to inhabit a new shell. His flame will need time to restore itself from such a mighty cut. And in that time, who can say what the Thorn Knights will do, or who may step up to lead them?
I had not heard that tale. It is indeed illustrative. My thanks for relating it!
Who made the mistake? The angel or the knight?
The philosophy of the Thorns, such as it is, holds that the mistake was long before either.
A little lie, if I may.
The mistake was shared by many. Experienced by all.
Upon the fourth call, the first modern,
there were martyrs who used a similar technique.
It made for great fury, amongst the men of duty.
Castle just got twice as easy to hold up!
Man, how are we going to top this fight against a chest of teacups?