I’m going to Disneyland this week! With my best friend Sfé Monster! HOORAY. Don’t worry about the comic, though, I have WORKED REALLY HARD and there will be NO INTERRUPTION in the update schedule between now, Disneyland, and on through Rose City Comicon! I did good! I did real good!
Also don’t forget that there’s still a big SALE GOING ON. This sale is going to end after I get back from Disneyland, so GET ON THIS ACTION. There’s still THREE damaged hardcover books left, if you are interested!!!!!!!
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Well, it seems the only thing that can be said is…. eep. Looks like, oh darn I’ve forgotten his name – the red one – has the right idea.
Mikhail. And while he got the right idea, he *might* be lacking in *speed* … :-S
Plus I’m not entirely sure he’s immune to having his head blown off by a shotgun blast the second he leaves the cave.
Now THAT would be funny. Maybe not getting his head actually blown off, but fleeing Divine Vengeance only to find out his real problem is a little bird with a gun.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
I think Gabe’s more than a little annoyed…
And those teeth! That’s something you don’t generally see on an angel. Is Gabe going to turn into a bugbear? Are angels and bugbears related? (Those bugbear powers have to come from somewhere!) And would Gabe really need to declaim in biblical language with an aspect (and dentition) like that?!
Gabe: IT’S SHE-BEAR-ROBBED-OF-HER-CUBS TIME, FOOLS!! (ref: Proverbs 17:12)
Can’t argue with that! Enjoy the fruits of your folly, boys! >:=)>
On a worrying note, he could be turning into a fallen angel….
I don’t think so. Biblical angels can be way weirder and more terrifying than that, and I don’t see how Gabe is breaking any of God’s rules. Admittedly, God’s rules (in many versions of the stories about Abrahamic God) ARE kind of arbitrary and the punishments for breaking them disproportionate regardless of circumstance.
Or, it could be taken that as noted many times, Angels and Demons are in actuality not all the different, the gist being one is up, the other is down, and neither are fun to piss off. His Enochian translates as “Fury” or “Extreme justice,” and I’m just going to lay it down that with that kind of scowl in panel 3, there is gonna be a massive unloading of ass kicking on the Grimm Brothers, or at least 2 of them. Mikhail seems to be making for the other side of the universe at “OH SHIT, SON” speed.
Yeah, I’m starting to think that Mikhail is the smartest of these three.
How about “for GREAT JUSTICE”? >:=)>
Damien: Someone set us up the bomb…
Azreal: Yeah, someone. Better make our time…
Mikhail (receding into distance): Screw that! Makin’ traaacks!!! Move ZIIIIIG!!
Hank (in distance): *boom* *boom* Shouldda zagged, boy… All your kneecaps are belong to us…
Quick note — Gabriel isn’t a “he”. They clearly don’t subscribe to binary gender, and while they don’t seem to care in-comic, in the real world it’s extraordinarily rude to refer to a nonbinary person with gendered pronouns (or to call them an “it”, don’t do that either).
Either way, don’t assign them a gender they don’t have.
Gabriel is different than humans in that sense. As he clearly doesn’t care which you call her. As for non-binary people, that’s something ya work out with them. A friend I literally call my little sister goes by whatever pronoun people want, but prefers “it” in written communication.
Also, “Xe” and so on are ever so slightly unwieldy in normal speech.
TLDR; GABRIELLE SMASH GENDER DIVISIONS! With a fabulous coat and perfect hair.
Just remember that, in the bible, pretty much every time angels showed up, the first thing they would say is (paraphrasing) “Don’t be scared. I promise we’re the good guys.”
What about the first born sons in Egypt or when people got turned in to pliers of salt?
Just saying that angels can be scary-looking and still be angels.
Thats Uriel at work, the wetworks guy of Heaven. At least thats the case if you read the Dresden Files.
BAHAHAHAHA! “pliers” of salt!! Sometimes misspellings are hilarious!! :D
(It’s ‘pillars’)
Please stop trying to correct comments that are many years old.
Eep :c I hope Kory doesn’t get annoyed by me responding to years-old comments. But then, I’m not correcting spelling, just making jokes and answering (non-spoilery) questions I think later readers might have too.
He emerged Alien-like… *ew*
and yelling “baltim”, that means…. “fury” or “extreme justice”
Grim brothers better run, and fast
Well, looks like Mikhail is the only one of the Grimms who has a sense of self preservation! (Mind you, I reckon Myra will pop up in front of him any moment now)
Seriously, Damien, after you put Gabe in there surely you must realise that hanging around is not going to bode well???
Also I am sorry to say that seeing Gabe just made me think “Death awaits you with huge nasty teeth!”
it’s “big, nasty pointy teeth”. Really now, if you’re going to quote Monty Python do it right
Haven’t seen the movie for at least 20 years so sorry if my memory is a little off…
It’s “Death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.” If you’re going to be pedantically correcting people, do it right.
That’s two bonus points to ponyhome…. ;-)
It’s possible even Myra is quietly hiding behind something right now.
awww shiet
oh crap… did Gabe just get demonized? O_O
I think Gabe just doesn’t like getting dirty. He doesn’t seem to be the sort that likes grime on his threads.
Bingo. Never get blood all over a guy who really likes white suits.
Looking at panels 5 and 6, Gabe could start his own death metal band.
Cannot unsee. Thanks much.
See, this is the real reason Eustace got left outside holding the coat, it’s going to be the only clean bit of clothing Gabe will have left.
on a separate note, Kory has done a spectacular job with making Gabe look more disheveled and intense as things progressed from strip 29 to here.
My personal theory: Gabe gets ugly when angry. don’t make Gabe angry.
Woah… angry Gabe.
Mikhail’s hasty escape in the background makes me laugh. Damien’s expression is either that he’s not impressed… or just pooped himself.
Fifth panel: I don’t know if he’s leaving the corpse or posing for a death metal cover.
So those are.. uh.. angelic fangs? Of heavenly goodness?
Eep.
Could not have asked for a better page 44. It excels in both hilarity and badassery. I keep coming back to it to read it again and again.
Gabe’s face in pannel three is my new favorite face.
>:c
I notice the good guys are nowhere in sight. They’re even smarter than Mr. Red there.
Gabe looks mad as…um…Hell…
Gabe: *rips out of hellmouth’s head, dripping with blood, bares demonic fangs and emits archaic cry of holy fury*
Kory: I’m going to Disneyland this week!
Ahahahaha!! Yes, the juxtaposition was a little… odd, to say the least. I love it.
Panel 5 looks like the introduction to a really awesome heavy metal concert. Got the axe ready to go and everything.
Anyone care to retouch it (just a modified guitar)? It would be awesome! ^_^
Red-head is starting to realize that he celebrated a bit early. Fuzzy Face is as deadpan as every, either not caring or slow on the uptake. Mikal, on the other hand, has read the signs and is running for the hills. One mischievous she-bear was enough, thank you! Though I don’t think he’ll make much far enough before Gabe goes biblical on their collective asses… It can be safely said the the working truce they once had? It’s a burning bridge now…
Rough Translation: YOU HAVE FUCKED UP
‘…but they’re still good. Yeah. Still good.’
Lilo and Stitch?
Whelp! Guess this shows that angels and demons are really made of the same cloth…
The only difference is in which side they support… and their powers.
SOMEBODY looks royally pissed off.
Frame 3: That is NOT a look you want an angel to give you. Especially one whose name means “God is my strength”.
She looks a bit annoyed
“You have my axe.”
“And my bass.”
“And my LASER FLOYD!”
In the next-to-last panel, Gabe looks like xe’s about to pull a Brutal Legends on our poor little demon friends.