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Yeah no this is great. Just taking their "ooh i'm so poisoned by sword lawwww uuuu" and throwing it back with "Eh, sword's just a Thing. Also they're kinda ridiculous lol." of course, it's really hard to have a character give the Answer to Life in text because that requires you to know the answer to life as the author too but the answer is "i don't have an answer, i'll come up with answers as i need to nbd" is a pretty good answer tbh
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Entirely expected turn of events with how allison defeated Maya's first big question. She also has already mastered the art of cutting. With this one phrase she sliced maya into innumerable ribbons. goddamn lmao that face
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Entirely expected turn of events with how allison defeated Maya's first big question. All of Maya's faces ruled.
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Jun 24, 2023 12:09
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Allison sort of rambling in response is fine imo but sort of tonally undermined when everyone is doing it, even the otherwise very terse Meti Meti has never been all that terse, she will often go at length about what an absolute idiot someone is.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:I'm gonna assume someone will want this as an avatar: The Girl Who Shattered The Wheel
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Shadowlyger posted:Do note that Intra said continuous cutting motion, not continuous cutting. What isn't recorded in the histories is that Intra was speaking sarcastically and making a jack off motion while saying it.
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Jun 24, 2023 18:21
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SardonicTyrant posted:The Girl Who Shattered The Wheel Yessss
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Jun 24, 2023 19:34
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I really hope Maya ends up becoming a noodle chef despite what she thinks.
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Also operant you mildly messed up text alignment in panel 4 of the second page.
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Jun 24, 2023 20:18
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Did Allison smoke before? Because I gotta say, taking it up as a response to knowing you're gonna die in 35 years is a baller move. I'd definitely take knowing my exact death date as an excuse to start some bad habits.
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Yeah, we've seen her punctuate things with a cigarette before. I have a vague feeling she maybe picked it up from Cio?
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Jun 24, 2023 20:40
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She picked up the habit before the Yre raid, right here.
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And she was visibly smoking during her stay with Jadis, when Zaid finds her.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Entirely expected turn of events with how allison defeated Maya's first big question.
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Not even saying they're evil or disgusting, just lmao swords are lame why would you obsess over them
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maswastaken posted:Maya could've saved herself from this final annihilation all the way back in her childhood when Meti told her essentially the same thing. No, she couldn’t have as the comic has repeatedly stressed.
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Jun 25, 2023 00:24
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Jun 25, 2023 00:27
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We have seen Maya using swords as chef's knife, laundry hook, and barber's shears. Allison is just being descriptive of them being tools from what she's learned from her time with Maya
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Oh and that last panel, and the earlier info drop about the primes waiting their first reincarnation? It seems like Chekov's angel might be about to go off
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maswastaken posted:Maya could've saved herself from this final annihilation all the way back in her childhood when Meti told her essentially the same thing. Meti was just gatekeeping, she still thought swords were cool as hell. Allison might as well have sliced Maya in half here with her disavowal of sword logic
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M_Gargantua posted:Would probably look great with the text bubbled removed. For real. Maybe I'll have some time tomorrow. Also appreciating that this is visually right back to David Bowie/Incubus-empowered Allison, but on her own terms now.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Also appreciating that this is visually right back to David Bowie/Incubus-empowered Allison, but on her own terms now. Yeah, all this "philosophical considerations are for nerds, all that matters is being the one who takes action instead of the other guy" is a very Incubus sentiment after all.
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Yes, but imagine Incubus saying "actually, swords are for losers".
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Incubus and Maya have always been foils, their character designs pretty clearly contrast and the whole Yis/Un duality is a big theme of the comic. Allison is learning a synthesis from their philosophies: It is important to take action but 'winning' isn't the endgoal; there is no endgoal. You are simply Cutting the world into the shape of your will, continually. It may be through violence, but violence is ultimately one tool out of many.
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idonotlikepeas posted:Yes, but imagine Incubus saying "actually, swords are for losers". consider, he melted down when he misplaced his sword
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It's honestly kind of odd that Incubus is useless without a sword. It's not like Meti didn't cover that contingency. Maybe he fell asleep during that lesson.
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Emrikol posted:It's honestly kind of odd that Incubus is useless without a sword. It's not like Meti didn't cover that contingency. Maybe he fell asleep during that lesson. I think against non demiurge level threats he would be more on the ball with unarmed strikes.
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Jagganoth is bearer of the word 'Blade', right? I feel like Alison has been investigating what the weaknesses / restrictions / holes are in sword-wank theory from Maya (and therefore Meti) as a potential way around Jagganoth's supremacy. If swords aren't all that, Jagganoth is theoretically less inevitable.
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dingo with a joint posted:Jagganoth is bearer of the word 'Blade', right? I feel like Alison has been investigating what the weaknesses / restrictions / holes are in sword-wank theory from Maya (and therefore Meti) as a potential way around Jagganoth's supremacy. If swords aren't all that, Jagganoth is theoretically less inevitable. Jokes gonna be on Alison once she finds out it's not SWORD blade but ROLLER blade. Radical and extreme hijinks to come.
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Emrikol posted:It's honestly kind of odd that Incubus is useless without a sword. It's not like Meti didn't cover that contingency. Maybe he fell asleep during that lesson. He was a very poor student, but an excellent object lesson for Maya. Maya would probably Cut with a fingernail if she had to. dingo with a joint posted:Jagganoth is bearer of the word 'Blade', right? I feel like Alison has been investigating what the weaknesses / restrictions / holes are in sword-wank theory from Maya (and therefore Meti) as a potential way around Jagganoth's supremacy. If swords aren't all that, Jagganoth is theoretically less inevitable. The Maybe sword can probably cut him clean, remember above all else; He is convinced he is a Dead Thing.
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Emrikol posted:It's honestly kind of odd that Incubus is useless without a sword. It's not like Meti didn't cover that contingency. Maybe he fell asleep during that lesson. hes a phenomenally poor swordsman. he struck Maya ten times and failed to decapitate her. if anything hes better at blood alchemy, it seems.
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It isn't that Incubus is useless without a sword, it's that when he panicked, he flailed around for a sword like an idiot.
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pseudorandom name posted:It isn't that Incubus is useless without a sword, it's that when he panicked, he flailed around for a sword like an idiot. These are the same thing.
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This comic would suddenly get really mediocre if Incubus were as incompetent as this thread insists he must be. I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean to kill Maya, given… everything about their relationship. Not to mention he knew she was a washed-up drunk for millennia - if he meant to kill her she’d at least have been dodging his goons.
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I always figured he was good... but not at anything actually meaningful - like making noodles!
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Joe Slowboat posted:This comic would suddenly get really mediocre if Incubus were as incompetent as this thread insists he must be. Incubus is a terrifying force to be reckoned with that can probably kill entire armies with a single swing of his sword and even if his key was "given" to him he's more than capable of using it and putting his money where his mouth is. He's also a complete buffoon who was so enamored with this cool sword he got that he totally ignored everything Meti was actually saying (but so did Maya, until it was too late). Someone can be extremely skilled and also utterly incompetent at putting that skill to any meaningful use at the same time. What constitutes "meaningful use" is up to interpretation.
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