Executioner
>He had a sword called Ruin, that he hammered a thousand times a thousand times. And each time he hammered, he called out the name of his enemy, but the name of his enemy was a dreadful word and could not be spoken aloud without mortal peril. And thus his hammerstrokes covered the sound of that awful name and gave shelter to his supplicants.
>that hesitation, contemplation, on Allison's face
She was thinking about it
Is Jaggs bullshitting her? Does he know he's capable of accomplishing his goal without Zoss' key?
...is Jaggy the good guy?
Huh, I definitely wasn't expecting him to actually stop wanting to destroy everything. Not sure if I like that or not.
I think Alison's gonna be thinking about it for a lot of this book. This is hardly her only chance to hand over the key, just the first.
The keys of kings allow you to do things easier. It's absolutely possible to do things without, but it's the difference between a 99% chance and a 0.1% chance.
I'm not sure "good" is the operative word here. He's a driven guy, certainly, but cutting the true world away from the corpse reality is almost certainly going to mean cutting several hundred thousand worlds apart to shape them into a new one.
I mean logically if Zoss beat Metatron without any keys, Jagg should be able to do it with 111,111 of them, but then again maybe losing initially was part of Metatron's keikaku?
>completely snubs Salacious D by talking to Allison
>David in his grand sense of self importance tries again to get him to respond to him
>"No."
Christ, way to crush the guy's ego there Jag.
He probably does. He's just wanting the key so he can accomplish his goal without needless slaughter of most of reality. I wonder then, if the thing that makes everyone angry is that he slaughters most of the demiurges.
>All this time we thought he was acting on Metatron's behalf
>When he was in fact his enemy
Well that's an interesting development
I'm confused. Metatron (and Juggs?) just want to cleanse Throne and put Zaid in power. This shouldn't reset the rest of the universe technically.
What is Jag on about about Metatron being the universe's slaver?
The subtle limpness of So Deadalready's arms in the transition from the second to last to last panel makes me think we have our moment that Abby thinks will people angry. Standing Decapitation's death, if this is how it happens, could have been easily the way last book ended. He also features so minutely in the cover art for the book compared to all the other characters and in this exact pose (albeit floating).
>the same quote about Ruin again
>the name he was calling out was Metatron and not Zoss
when was the first quote?
It's different this time
I think you're right; if this doesn't kill him, it's going to be a mortal wound that shortly will.
>Jagg was right
No, Metatron wants Throne completely cleansed of life, sterile and pure. It's unclear what power he has over fate, but on the page where Zoss talked about how mastering the wheel left him unable to prevent ruin, it had Metatron looming over him.
New theory
>Originally, Metatron was the one that assigned Jagganoth to cleanse creation
>At some point, Juggernaut Star gave him the full version of the story, and ripped off her own wings to forge the nails
If Abbadon intended for Solomon to die so easily he would have had him killed in this panel. He's going to counterattack.
Maybe Zoss having "beat the names of God" from Metatron and building all these keys out of them somehow binds Metatron but also binds the order of Zoss's world through him. Zoss is the master of the wheel but it's a wheel he built using spokes he didn't create, with Metatron at the hub.
I don't think he wants to "stop" per-say. I think he wants to do it one last time and be done with it, and metatron/zoss causing things to all cycle and repeat makes what he wants fundamentally impossible. He wants to scorch the earth and start for something new, not scorch the earth to just rebuild what he worked to hard to destroy.
Also note the fact that he no longer has his halo.
>My boy jag is the good guy after all
never doubted, sasuga abby sama
He still wants to destroy everything. But his motivation for it may have changed at some point.
Didn't even catch that, I'm now sure he just got one shotted.
Allison in panel 3 looks kinda crosseyed.
>Salomon barely manages to block the attack
>YFW gets backstabbed by incubus
Jaggs also doesn't have it in the last two panels, when he had them in the first few. It doesn't really mean anything.
jagg's is wide enough that it could be offscreen, i don't think we've ever even seen davey without his
Is he just going to fucking obliterate several demiurges immediately? If he actually fucking immediately wrecked Solomon, he's just going to get right to it. He's not a speech maker or a drawing it out to savor it kind of guy. I feel like Mottom and Mammon are at maximum danger of being hammered into a paste (Mottom) and arrowed to death (Mammon, possibly in his eyes). Gog has survivability, Jadis has an role to play, ans Incubus has Maya, while Grandpa Saddrake and Grandma Bloodfruit have already had their whole arcs.
G-guys, what is incubus doing right now?
>>The subtle limpness of So Deadalready's arms in the transition from the second to last to last panel makes me think we have our moment that Abby thinks will people angry
Abby first mentioned the "moment that will make people angry" at the beginning of the fourth book, long before people started to truly know or like Salami, so it's unlikely to be that.
Last bunch of pages from book 4 show him without a halo plenty of times
>He's not a speech maker or a drawing it out to savor it kind of guy.
I mean, he just got through indulging in some monologuing, but it's all out of his system now. Solomon just poked the bear.
Right, but he just went from ki stance and full flame to straight arm and out like a candle, in the instant it took Jagg to jump like a lightning bolt and complete an entire slash. Jagg moved so fast a man who can seemingly stop time didn't react before the arc of the sword has moved past him.
I could see it going like this:
>Salami Dave, Turbobitch, and Grandpa Dragon have all had their characters explored already, and thus die in the initial round
>Incubus survives to plot another day (or dies on Rayuba, but at Maya's hands)
>Gog is impossible to one-shot, and has to be purged planet by planet by Jag's armies
>Jadis teleports The Gang to safety and we finally get to learn things about her
It felt weird not drawing Beartato as Jagganoth.
Same thought and I'm betting it is unfortunately likely to be right.
Jadis was shown out of her crystal, right? So maybe she gets smashed out and then does things.
Show 'em how it's done, big man.
>Gog has survivability
Gog's going to be the "neutral" one here. She might act alongside many of the other demiurges but eventually cannot or will not move against or for Jag.
Thing is, Gog probably doesn't need the keys to be Gog. Aside from stupid-amounts-of-power it's hard to imagine what she does with it and I think we don't have the time to fully explore what she does do nor do we want to spend the pages taking the effort to find out exactly what it takes for Jag to actually kill Gog. If the next several pages are about Jag seeking out and taking the keys for himself, then Gog probably gives them up immediately - because why not.
That being said, I hope Gog fights. It will be really fucking interesting to see how Abby dreams up a hivemind fighting and dying.
The sword went in front of him. It seems to be an energy attack that he could probably dodge or even deflect
I'm also betting that Gog smooshing her face on Jadis has some significance. Like Gog worms a willing Jadis and some fucking cosmic shenanigans happen where the hivemind gets the omniscience and becomes Jade Agog or some shit.
Jagganoth looks so done with Solomon's shit in the penultimate panel
He wants Throne purged and the links between the worlds to be closed off, essentially returning everything to the state before Zoss breached Throne.
Is no one going to point out that Solomon is going Mr. T on Jagganoth there? Literal "I pity you fool".
"Debate me coward"