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This is horrific, but I always fixate on Minerva's mouth in this panel. Like all artists, Jamie has his visual tics, and the shape of his characters' mouths is a big one. There's a lot of lip curling. #onceagainwereturn
Good morning! It's my first official day of summer break, so let's talk about the one where Ananke has a very bad time. #onceagainwereturn
This plot point is a sticky one. Probably better discussed next time in context of what Ananke thinks it means. #onceagainwereturn
The silhouette of ribs in the foreground totally sells the horror here. Poor Valentine; he doesn't deserve any of this. #onceagainwereturn
True, you're actually gonna kill like five or six. #onceagainwereturn
Yes! Performance flashbacks are the best flashbacks! #onceagainwereturn
By the third time we see it, Ananke's figured out how to totally block attacks with it. Cool! #onceagainwereturn
Then we get a shift in strategy. Here's the first time Ananke's shown using her shield trick. It's not very effective against She-in-Thirds's vibes though. At least some of them break through on several subsequent uses. #onceagainwereturn
After a very plot heavy issue it ends on the reveal about Baal, and now we can talk about how messed up it all is! Huzzah! But we'll do that later. #onceagainwereturn
I realized this yesterday, but it was better discussed here: Ananke's eyes are purple. Minerva's eyes are always a different color. Completing the ritual is what allows Ananke's memories of her most recent life to get inside Minerva's head. #onceagainwereturn
Same shield Ananke used to defend against Persephone in the attack on Valhalla. #onceagainwereturn
It's okay, Jon. You can sit on a shelf in my apartment and we can talk about the great chain of being and a whole bunch of other intellectual shit. #onceagainwereturn
I mean, that's a better thing to be right about than "Every friend is just a fiend waiting for the Right person" or whatever dumb shit she put on Insta. #onceagainwereturn
This seems an appropriate time to say that this is the arc that makes me incandescently angry at Ananke. She's certainly complex, but she literally eats the young to sustain herself. Not to mention the incidental murder on the side. #onceagainwereturn
As we now know, accessing the gods' powers has to do with assuming their identities. Tattooing their marks on one of the children binds them to the power until it burns them out. Things must have gotten pretty desperate at the end. #onceagainwereturn