That’s my read, too.
Just for clarification, are you talking about the hook at A or B?
B. And I noticed that this “hilt” is pretty bumpy. Maybe there’s some fiend somewhere with strange hands that fit this hilt. Or maybe this thing is part of the mechanism that extracts whatever it is they extract from souls.
This conversation got a lot more analytical than I was expecting.
I think B is clearly seen through a ripple. And the hook and the bumps could be a distorted view of a normal hilt.
I mean I just did a quick mock up. Water ripples could turn this
into this:
Well, what’s the fun in being a demon princess if…?
I actually laughed out loud at the last panel.
Oh, and from the last one, he was wrong. They didn’t monologue about the Fountain.
They trilogued.
“His penis”? He’s gonna feel silly when he’s a 12’ tall arch-devil with Nale’s pink doodle attached.
Brain bleach please.
If you think about it, other than sheer aesthetics, that’s not much of an issue when you’re schtupping a shapeshifter.
I mean, aesthetics is presumably the point?
Form follows function.
Man, that’s really a bum deal they’re offering, if you read it with a fine-toothed comb (as is always appropriate for an infernal contract). The reward for success isn’t “you will take my place as an archdevil”, it’s “you could”. As could any other devil of lower rank… if you can outcompete all of the others. And the answer to “will you punish me?” is “there would be no benefit to that”. Which doesn’t answer the question. They’re Evil with a capital E; punishing people even when there’s no benefit to it is something they do routinely.
I also wonder if Sabine is deliberately distracting from all of the other gotchas in the contract with the penis thing. I mean, yes, she loves Nale… but she’s also very devoted to her job, and she’s also Evil with a capital E.
Well, if he didn’t take the deal, he’d be in for centuries of torment.
Damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.
The penis punchline is hilarious. But what I liked is how this strip shows the limits on Nale’s personal growth. He no longer wants to be evil to spite his father - but he still wants to be evil for its own sake.
Personal growth does not necessarily mean moral growth. Sometimes, it just means a healthier form of evil.
Or just being more effectively evil.