Issue 20, Page 40
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1: The dripping, toothy mandibles open as the goddess speaks.
Air’Asha: THEN
TAKE
IT
2: Julia reels back, hand clenched in a fist. She’s looking up at Air’Asha as the creature drips bloody spittle onto her.
3: She twists and slashes her claws at the air. The air itself seems to rip open: vibrant bloody flesh of the astral realm showing the dark tendrils and eyes and teeth beneath.
4: She grabs at something from within that gaping wound: Sedjet’s pale-furred hand stuck in the black mass.
5: Julia’s hand thrusts up, seeming to push and strain against invisible binds in the sky.
6: From the writhing mass of Black Idol flesh in the lab, Julia’s hand bursts forth, collapsing the mass into thin watery mess.
Calling it – she’s gonna pull Sedjet out with her and the monster is going to implode/invert back into him in a spectacular eldritch black bloodsplosion. This is going to be the most metal thing in the entire comic so far.
Commenting from the future,
THE MOST METAL THING.
Invoke the secret name of God and speak it into being.
wait una moento.
Sovereign
As in ruler.
Her Surname is King.
Why has this not been noticed
its kinda spooky.
Nice!!!
Some people might call this a deus ex machina. They’d be wrong, of course. The supernatural has been a part of this since the beginning, and this isn’t a fantasy kitchen sink situation like the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books where literally everything is real and was somehow hidden for millennia, or even the better written Kitty Norville series where a lot of things are real but the things that ARE are skeptical of anything they haven’t seen personally. Basically, this comic has been very well written all along and I love it.
So, this Air’asha doesn’t seem like a bad deity, even if he looks like a demonic centipede. He gave lives fire, and likely had a hand in breaking them out of the idol to start with. So, he’s likely miffed that the idol is coming back together and so, he’s quite willing to help King take back her will, break her chains once again. 😮 He didn’t ask for any sacrifice of her, only that she takes it back. Maybe he wants to see how strong her will of being herself is?
If one is to be sovereign, the must prove they have the will and strength to rule themselves before they can rule anything else.
Also, it looks like that deity is wounded. I theorize that it got wounded by the black idol when he gave mortals fire and freedom. I’m pretty sure the idol would have put up quite a fight …
This comic must’ve been named “How to turn a hardcore horror into a princess show 101”.