And did anyone notice that that last panel is twice the size of an ordinary page?
I meant the results regarding Hel. I find it hard to believe that in a gorillion-thousand worlds, there hasn’t been times when some evil pantheon member had an upper hand that time around. The whole Hel thing was originally framed as “Oh no, she’ll have all the dwarf souls and hold the upper hand when we remake the world!” when it’s more accurately “…hold the upper hand when we make World No. 53,163,288!”
I wonder how many iterations the Dark One has been around for, if this is the first time for it, or the manyith time to try.
Would it be all that easy for him to attempt it again if his plan failed before? Or does failure mean the other gods catch on and make countermeasures? Or would he have to have a new plan each time?
I always got the impression that the Dark One is a young god. But I don’t know how many iterations he’s been around for.
One more thought: did goblinoids even exist in previous worlds? Are the species constant? Sure, it is heavily implied that dwarves existed before, but they have someone who wants to create them. Goblins just seem to be intended to be mooks for the other guys. And the mooks might be part of where they get creative.
That’s kind of what I was pondering. If the dark one is new this time through, then maybe his machination are the wild card that will finally break the seemingly endless loop.
Am I reaching too far to see a parallel between the gods and (a particular sub-set of) D&D players and/or publishers?
They start playing a new campaign/ design a new world, it all seems to be going well but people start bickering about the rules and the arguments take over and its no fun anymore so they quit and abandon that world. But building worlds/telling stories has clearly got so much potential that they keep coming back to it with a new idea that will mean everything finally works this time - and keep getting bogged down in bickering and rules lawyering and general grief. And so the cycle continues…
I wonder how that’s going to work in the print version.
World’s dullest centerfold?
I think the title should have been “Try, Try Again”
Oh, and has it never occurred to the gods to just make two worlds? Make one the best prison you can, and then put all of the mortals with their tasty souls on the other one. That way, every thousand years when you have to rebuild the prison, you don’t have to kill a whole planet worth of worshipers, and if the Snarl breaks free before then, you don’t have the collateral damage.
From what we have been told, they used the threads of reality from the original world to create and recreate the worlds/prisons. I don’t think they can just go get some more. If they split the threads to get two constructs I don’t think it would make either better.
That’s actually an interesting point. Is “the world” in this context the actual planet the story is on or the entire Prime Material Plane? Are the moon and stars (much less any distant planets) part of the Snarl’s prison?
We don’t know if intra-god deals end when the Snarl destroys the current world/universe. They may have made the deal in world 1.0.
Did anyone else think that the gods should have numbered the monuments? Thor says it’s a blank gravestone, so I assume it doesn’t have a serial number. But the engineer in me says “put a number on it!” Your’re going to forget how many there are if you don’t.
They’re gods. They won’t forget.
Although at this point maybe the want to.
Well, they didn’t put a serial number on the first one, because at the time they made it, they thought it would be unique. And Thor never says that all the others are blank.
Hey Loki! Watch me pull the Snarl out of hat and into an inescapable prison!
Oh, Thor, that trick never works . . .
The first dozen times or so, they figured they had figured their problem After that, numbering them didn’t seem to matter.
I get the impression that The Dark One is a new god to this iteration of the universe, otherwise he would have had a say in the fate of this world’s goblin species.