Clash (Part 4 - Finale) (Patreon)

so. a couple of lore things here.

Roba only took one of the blood vials before he went out to fight Price. But during Ghost's final interaction with Vernon, he smashes all of the remaining ones over the floor. When he finally killed Vernon, the impact of the blow splashed blood onto his hands, which he then used to a) slash Roba across the face and b) literally grab his tongue. So you can kind of assume that Roba's gotten a much much higher dose than he's supposed to safely take.

Also, his symptoms look pretty similar to the transformed state of Konig, no? Rabid, mindless, inability to talk, and most importantly, he's huge. I think my thought behind this is that the way the world used to be, monsters were way WAY larger than they are now. Roba was underselling it when he said that the vial "unlocks what is dormant" - probably a better description is that it strips away any hybrid's evolutionary 'safety cap' so to speak, in exchange for the original being's mind.

i feel like this story has somehow expanded so far beyond what i thought it would be, but i kinda just??? kept??? going??? i hope this is all like, understandable and stuff. In any case, there's a few more comics in this arc left (just to cover the recovery process and stuff, for both Price and Ghost). I'm gonna be doing a little break for my own sanity since it's been nonstop comics for a while now and post some feel good other stuff (hope that's okay). Thank you all so much for sticking around for the longest fucking comic arc ive ever done - we'll be back to Johnny, Gaz and the Vaqueros soon.