Volume 17 Page 17
And now for a random smattering of Barry Windsor-Smith art, one of my inspirations:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/327777679102356710/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/327777679102356785/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/327777679102356698/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/327777679102356685/
The colors of these Conan images grounded my conception of the outer astral realms:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/327777679102356587/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/327777679102357051/
Weapon X, which I picked up on a whim as a little kid, unaware that it was an “important” comic:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/327777679102357048/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/327777679102356635/
Since I know I’m not the best artist, I sometimes like to organize piles of “what I wish I could make my comics look like” art. It keeps me improving.
It is bad we can visibly see Darumatha SMILING!
Aaand what he’s going to do next most likely won’t be pretty-I’m guessing eat that dead dragon for power?
I get a feeling it wants Tamantha gone as well.
Brings up a question, though: the humanoid form we’ve seen Darumatha take most often is female. Should we call Darumatha a she? I don’t recall any third person pronouns used for Darumatha other than it.
So, anyway, yeah, Anthem and friends are playing into Darumatha’s massive soul-rending claws. Lovely.
It is often, if not always “he” but Darumatha is pretty clear that it doesn’t care for your puny pronouns.
Whatever else it might get, it is now king of the city by virtue of being the only power still standing, even if she wins Din Maia Hin is probably going to have to head for the hills.
Meanwhile, the scene has changed to Yig, and Dreadlord Yoth now has big scary weapons to match (or beat) Momba Kawunei’s. He also now owes a nascent demon-god a favor, which is never a good idea.
Darumatha thinks of itself as an “it.” Its human form is that of a young woman named Pali, who participated in Anthem’s first ritual and died from her involvement (chapter 1, page 1). Darumatha kept Pali’s features as its standard “person face” because doing so amused it.
I have to admit, I question Yoth’s intelligence in this matter. Sure, he can stomp Momba Kawunei into the dirt and then try to slowly ooze his way across the human lands, raping and pillaging everything into dust, but he’ll still die eventually, and be nothing but another Dreadlord in a long line of Dreadlords.
But if he turns, he can be The Last Great Dreadlordâ„¢, the man who united all the tribes and peoples and changed the entire world by sponsoring the new Racial Science instead of attacking it.
Problem: Kawunei is trying to do the last great DreadLord thing, and Yoth would basically be clearly trying to schmooze in far to late, and it’s probably not as Yiggish thing to do either. So instead he kicks Kawunei over, gets the art from Geen and THEN he does the DreadLord thing. Only with being evil and punching babies.