Issue 20, Page 37
Can you hear me?
Transcript
1: Inside the blackness of the Black Idol’s flesh, Julia is lit only by the light of the necklace which she holds in her hands. Her eyes are open, peering at it: she is nude, without adornments, in an astral form.
2: She shuts her eyes, and she prays.
Julia: Air’asha, who brought us fire,
who broke the chains of slavery so we may roam freely…
3: She continues the ritual. In front of her, tentacles are being split and pulled apart by light.
Julia: O bringer of light, whose many hands held the fire of the sun,
O armorer of man, whose swords we drenched in blood,
whose key opened the doors within…
Hear me!
4: Julia is exposed to light, looking up with intensity as her ritual finishes.
Julia: I beg you: consume me in your fire,
so that I may burn bright! So that my WILL manifests!
5: A multi-armed figure is seen descending in the light, obscured and shadowy, resembling the statue in Julia’s house in Issue #15.
I’m very hard of hearing right now! Might be all this death around me making it silent! Deaf? Oh that too
Wasn’t expecting for another deity to get involved so soon. I think this makes at least three so far, if Tazim-Talash counts as one. Four if you count the one Rhoda encountered on her first trip to the astral/spirit plane.
Interesting development indeed, love it when plot moves forward. Or sideways.
……And the B*stard stole your clothes!
Oh Honey, you KNOW….Julia’s going to [get back at him] for THAT! 😀
But seriously, Rebecca-
I REALLY love this page. 🙂
I think the creature in the last panel is there to save Julia, but this page is spooky-fun,
and it scares the heck out of me at the same time. This is very fun! 😀
Just throwing it out there, but am I the only one who thinks AIR EFFING ASHIA looks like a tyrranid with pincers?
Am I the only one who things Air is PROBABLY going to literally try eating Julia?
I mean, from Rhoda’s first astral trip, we know that at least ONE of the principle deities that people worship is less a loving goddess, and more of an indifferent bitch who devours the souls of her followers.
That could be. *shrugs*
However, in the Cthulhu/Lovecraft stories, there’s a monster / strong creature, named Nyarlathotep.
Nyarlathotep, I think is as powerful as Cthulhu + Maybe has more power than Rebecca’s[?] Black Idol.
Instead of destroying you, or eating you, Mr. Nyar. puts a [spell of confusion] on you, and this spell shows you a fake world, + not the world you’re really in.
Usually, that’s the worst thing that Mr. Nyar. can do to you.
As an avid disciple of Lovecraft’s work, I can see a very, very slight semblance to what you say, but I am specifically referring to the ‘deity’ that Rhoda saw when she first visited the astral. The thing that the Moth God is actively trying to avoid, which also holds semblance to the statue in Julia’s bedroom shrine. The same one that Rhoda became so batshit terrified of that it drove her into an asylum, because it tried to eat her while she was projecting.
I would feel that this thing holds more semblance to C’thulhu himself, generally ignorant and indifferent to our fleeting lives save for quick snacks now and then or, the more Yellow Kink approach, and actively propagated an entire cult that grew into a global religion in order to gather all of those ignorantly willing souls for a steady food supply.
Can you tell I play 40k to? I must be a special kind of sick…
“Yellow Kink”? What’s that?
That must be the single most hilarious mispelling of the Yellow King in the history of history.
Also, I think the one Rhoda encountered isn’t Air’asha, based on comparing Issue 3:Page 22, Issue 15:Page 1, and this one.
If anyone is trying to remember where Air’asha was mentioned before, it’s at issue 15, page 1.
“cAn yOU hEaR mE?”
Person of Interest reference or no, that line always means something more to me now.