Sorry, Sedjet. Sorry Melissa, and everyone else.
But you WERE paying attention, weren’t you?
Didn’t you see the Idol absorb, not eat, anthro flesh?
Didn’t you hear them talk about how good it felt to belong to it?
Didn’t you see how they were all so inexorably drawn to it?
Didn’t you find yourself overwhelmingly curious about it?
Haven’t you always self so lonely and isolated?
Haven’t you always felt so hungry?
Aren’t you
always
so
hungry?
Wow.
I really feel for Julia.
Julia’s really hurting, but I don’t trust her view of what’s happening to her.
Such as- if [everyone] was secretly the Idol, then…in my opinion- quite a lot the people
in Julia’s world, would be growing tentacles…just like hers.
Wow. I can’t wait to see where Julia’s story goes. 😀
I think I recall one or more commenters postulating something along the lines that there are dormant BI cells being present in everyone, with Shankar radiation acting as an inhibitor. Perhaps Sedjet figures that if there is any truth to what Julia is suggesting, then using the chamber to isolate her from the radiation would make things much worse.
Yeah, I did suggest that.
Dormant fragments, or, a dormant FORM – e.g. BI dislikes the Shankar radiation, but, like lifeforms do, it has ADAPTED.
It’s analogous to humans in spacesuits.
A also wrote it’s just as possible that Julia’s view is a story she believes, but isn’t necessarily true.
Either way, that’s not bad news, really.
I mean, Sedjet’s about to verify… what? That they, as lifeforms, are much more powerful than previously thought? That death may be merely optional if they’re creative? That they can reshape themselves – heal, reconfigure – in iso chambers, as long as they’re disciplined enough?
Putting Julia in there might actually be healthy.
She is currently stuck in a form that’s… uncomfortable.
But the form seems to obey her just as “normal” flesh does.
I think if she stops freaking out, she could reform back, or at least stabilise her voicebox.
Of course, let’s remember Sedj possibly still has that BI fragment from the early event. He’s not a good subject to draw conclusions from.
We are venom
I love how Julia seems to be looking *straight ahead* at Sedjet,
with her muzzle looking like a MASK slid to the side
Still, in terms of cosmicHorrorific revelations, this one rates pretty OK
There’s another, though: that “spirit realm”.
Remember Ghost Guy who showed Rhoda how to look, and said anyone in the know would do anything to stay away from their “afterlife”?
I bet the spirit gluttons don’t want their soul farm going immortal on them.
There’s years of material in this comic yet.
Having read a slice of Mythos in the past, I’m understandably skeptical about revelations and truth from the mouth of someone under the influence. While it will sound compelling, and there may be evidence to back it up, almost always there’s something not being said which winds up being far more important.
I think this being we call the Black Idol for the sake of calling it *something* is very seductive, deceptive, and corrosive in nature. (Not quite to the level of Shadows, but pretty close.) Sure, one can say it has no reason to lie . . . but conversely it has no reason to tell the truth either, or even actually try a conversation at all.
What are Shadows?
“Shadows” as in “Vorlons and Shadows” from Babylon 5. They start off with a simple question: “What do you want?”, and then start off by giving it to you . . . and then ask a favor. A cycle which continues until you’re practically doing their bidding.
There’s more to it, naturally, but I’d rather not spoil the whole thing.
It makes sense to me. The original Lovecraft stories which heavily influenced this comic say that the Alien Gods created all life on earth. In the At The Mountains of Madness for instance, the Narrator impiles that the Elder Things created life on earth as an whim with the cells left over created from Shiggroths.
Oh no! It looks like the alien biogoop is about to hit the fan!
We are the Legion (dead by daylight)
“We are the Borg. You shall be assimilated. Resistance is futile.”
Dullest twist that could possibly be here.
I’m giving up all theorisations. That’s bullshit. I quit.
The water, water, the water had some of the black stars parts in it,
That has been a popular theory, till now.
And it’s QUITE plausible, still.
I mean:
* Julia’s thoughts have been drifting. She may have come up with a story that is compellingly convincing, but not true. We make ourselves believe weirder things even without growing weird brainotomy first.
* Aside from Mel’s short visit, Julia’s sole contact with others is Sedjet. Possibly-still-infected Sedjet. Not a good reference point.
Still, I’d go with the “we’re all made of it” theory.
Except maybe Xijo, being a martian he’s already exhausted his unusualness quota 😉
Now that. That twist is almost word-for-word the kind of idea that made Lovecraftian and otherwise-unknowable-horror writing so compelling in the first place.
I’m almost angry some people in the comments got it right.
Nicely done. Nicely done indeed.
Mind, it feels like it contradicts some things we saw earlier. But oh does that only make me eager to see where things go from here.