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Kill 6 Billion Demons #3

Kill Six Billion Demons, Book 3: Seeker of Thrones

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Parkinson-Morgan/Abaddon's web comic following the further adventures of Allison, a young woman from L.A., transported to another world in a search for her boyfriend. Allison has accidentally received the godhood meant for her boyfriend (book 1) and a motley crew of angels and demons are aiding her on her quest. Book 3 finds the group getting off track and generating more enemies than friends, but ends with new resolves made and deeper understandings between the characters.

147 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2018

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Profile Image for Valuxiea.
352 reviews57 followers
August 18, 2021
This is the first book that gets close to being actually good. Once the author stops trying to tell us how cool his worldbuilding is, and just lets his characters speak and act in their own ways - the story becomes significantly more tolerable. This is the first issue that I wasn't angry while reading.

Even still there are frustrations, while the heist was a fun premise, you don't really get to know a single character in the heist that we didn't already know. Also the reasoning for the heist is kind of out there? Like why would you go after the most highly guarded and presumably dangerous of the 7 keys first? Don't get me wrong, it's fun - but a couple seconds scrutiny and things begin to crumble.

Our main character finally kills something after 2 and a half books of not killing anything, which is nice. The action is better, but still not excellent. I have a better idea of where things are and what's going on, but it's still often used as a crutch. Fight scenes aren't built towards, and are often boring at the end of some really good character work. The book concludes with an action scene that comes completely out of nowhere and interrupts an actually interesting conversation and some character growth. The art for said fight is impressive in it's scale and detail and mind numbing in all other regards.

Oh well, I'll still read the next one because the interesting books I want to read are still on hold at the library.
Profile Image for James Mork.
35 reviews4 followers
August 20, 2018
I started reading this series online as this volume was in the final chapters, and I was very quickly hooked by the others.

Catching up and going along with this volume has been great; the lore is intense, the art is insanely intricate and creative, the characters are developing, and everything is amazing. It continues to to strive forward from strength to strength while subverting my expectations in the best ways and continuing along it's insane journey.

Definitely recommended.
Profile Image for Juho Pohjalainen.
Author 5 books348 followers
April 11, 2025
Increasingly abnormal heroine is already struggling to keep her head afloat in the semi-deep end, but fuck it, let's dive even deeper in. Get a heist crew going in order to rob the local equivalent of Scrooge McDuck, and the whole crew is literal demons. Oh, and make a deal with the devil too, on the side, why the hell not.

So I'm rather starting to feel the Bad Decisions tagline that the story is selling... but at the same time, it doesn't really offer enough good decision Allison could do instead. I never get the feeling that she had a whole lot of options. She's along the ride now and way past the point when she could have hopped off and returned home. True, by the end of things they manage to calm down a little bit and find something else - something wiser - to do, but even that was rather out of her hands, since it needed her friends to open up a little bit.

But on the other hand, she managed to deal with a good chunk of her insecurities and come to better terms with herself, warts and all. So that's something.

And the new characters are all a bunch of hilarity. You've got Oscar making his return and adding in some more crazy cool (albeit somewhat superficial and lacking in any real characterization) devils, you've got this spiked BDSM nun opposing them, and the dragon of course. If you've read the book then you know what the dragon turns out to be like, it's a pretty great reveal. The rest of the cast's still good, new dimensions out of each of them. Even some ship-tease, though I'm still not sure how that's even supposed to work with her sort.

The art continues to improve. The backdrops are great, the fights are a thing to witness, all the new designs of devils and other weirdos are all imaginitive and detailed, there's a cool-ass old-school dungeon crawl I'm going to steal to my own games basically beat-by-beat, and the stakes escalate and the main character continues to be pretty small and helpless and barely holding afloat as the deep end begins to make waves. Starting to feel like the main character doesn't have a whole lot of agency, again, but at least it's in the entertaining sort of manner - that's about all the criticism I can find here. We have a lot less exposition, too!

Four plus, nearly four and a half now. If this keeps up we'll be getting there soon enough.
Profile Image for Jason.
251 reviews4 followers
October 23, 2021
This volume sees protagonist Allison Ruth putting together a team of devils to raid the infinite treasure vaults of god of 1/7th of the universe, Mammon, in an attempt to rescue her sorta boyfriend from cruel imprisonment therein. Tom Parkinson-Morgan fleshes his vast and imaginative world out in greater detail in this volume, and we learn a good bit more about some of our characters, particularly the dark past of Ciocie Cioelle (a character I am really starting to grow incredibly fond of).

This is a highly enjoyable read, from the recruiting of the devils who are going to raid the vault, exploring the sinister traps within, and of course, the sudden but inevitable betrayals that tend to occur when you have a group of devils begrudgingly working together.

Allison really comes into her own in this volume as she struggles with her inner demons (and external ones when you consider the manipulative influences of Incubus), and her relationship with Cio and the angel White Chain get some good development here (White Chain is not overly present in this volume, but I feel that the moments she does have feature some real growth, especially for a character that seems to have been stuck with a rather rigid outlook for her entire life). Some intriguing new villains are introduced, and as it was with Mottom, Allison's encounter with the dragon god Mammon is not at all what I was expecting, but it was exactly what it needed to be.

Parkinson-Morgan's art continues to improve with every page, as he continues to throw wildly creative character designs at us, and more epic cityscape spreads featuring literally hundreds of characters (including one of the most epic battle scenes I've ever seen). This comic is wild and chaotic and I never have any idea what is going to happen next and I absolutely love that. I am so, so glad that this book has entered my sphere of awareness.
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192 reviews2 followers
April 1, 2022
Ocean's 11 more like I'd die and kill for Cio
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1,274 reviews32 followers
August 20, 2023
The art work is still stunning, the story is slowly unravelling and becoming less confused. I’m enjoying my time reading this one.
Profile Image for Kat.
1,624 reviews16 followers
March 1, 2021
The world keeps getting bigger and crazier and more epic. Loved learning more about Cio’s past, and all the new characters introduced this book. I passed by this book in the comic shop so many times, because I wasn't sure I would love the art....but damn, is he DETAILED. His strengths lie in the large two-page spreads, when he draws from a perspective overlooking an entire city. There's so much to unpack in every panel. I love it so much now!! The only negative thing I have to say about this volume is that IT'S A REGULAR TRADE PAPERBACK SIZE!!! The first two oversized volumes are so perfect for the story. Wish they would all be released in that size.
Profile Image for Bill Coffin.
1,286 reviews8 followers
May 17, 2021
If you're on the wavelength of this off-the-wall story of a gradstudent/barista who gets pulled into a bonkers, multi-planar world with angels and demons and everything in between as she discovers she is one of the most powerful beings in the universe...then you're going to love this. If this all feels a bit like 10lbs of story stuffed into a 5 lb bag, then it's going to be a hard read. Either way, Tom Parkinson-Morgan gets huge credit for publishing this ambitious effort on his own. But throughout all three volumes, one can't help but thing how much better this might have been if he had some help along the way.
Profile Image for Shaun.
392 reviews17 followers
October 20, 2019
The first two volumes of this story were printed with a large-format binding. This volume was printed in a standard comic collection aspect ratio. The smaller pages made everything a lot more difficult to read and a lot of the art was harder to make out in the smaller format.

The format hampered my entire experience reading this volume, sadly.
Profile Image for Pop Bop.
2,502 reviews125 followers
March 26, 2019
If You're New - A Third of A Loaf Is Still Better Than None

The Kill Six Billion Demons world is huge, both in a fictional alt-world sense and in a practical webcomic internet-presence, even a new RPG, sense. And I only know that because I looked it up because I didn't know much of anything about KSBD until I got this book. And so here we are starting at Book Three. Didn't read the first one; never entered the online world. Knew almost nothing going in. Guess what? Even with that slim background and no other KSBD experience this was still a hoot.

Two things especially made this work for me, even as a relative newbie. First, the art is just so tremendously fantastic and in your face that the book really qualifies as a "visual feast". Some of the big splashes are remarkable. Sure, there are some smaller panels that are incoherent, either because too exaggerated or surreal, or too crowded and dense. But when this works it works like almost no other graphic novel I've seen. The colors are bold and intense, almost like neon, but even with that the characters are expressive and hold the eye.

Second point of appeal - while I just had a handle on the bare bones story, (semi-slacker Allison ends up in an alt-universe of magic and demons searching for her kidnapped boyfriend and ends up finding the heroine within), I could pretty much figure out what had already happened and where we were now going and why. That was fine, and enough. And putting aside the actual story and narrative, the best part for me was a whole series of isolated, or one-off, scenes and digressions and bits of business involving Allison and her reactions to what was going on. Usually just a page or two, and often placed primarily to break up the action and offer a bit of a pause, these quiet scenes were witty, engaging, and appealing. So, maybe Allison talks with her fellow questers, or she wrestles with all of the lame and useless alter-Allisons in her head, or she receives guidance from some weird minor character. These bits were interesting and funny and sometimes a bit edgy, and added a rare dimension of likeability and appeal to Allison and a number of other characters. Books like this aren't usually loaded with wry or rueful or deadpan humor, and I enjoyed it here.

The bottom line for me is that this book is elegant, and amusing, and high-spirited, and exceptionally well paced and plotted, and I hope Allison just keeps questing as long as she can.

(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)
Profile Image for Nicolas.
1,396 reviews77 followers
March 23, 2024
La petite Allison s'est retrouvée dans le multivers des démons, et les deux premiers tomes ont montré qu'elle tentait de comprendre son univers.
Dans ce troisième tome, elle se décide enfin à agir et part donc avec une équipe de choc chercher son petit ami dans le coffre infini de Mammon, l'un des sept dieux de ce multivers.
Les deux premiers tomes étaient déja foisonnants. Dans ce troisième, l'auteur se lâche et nous livre des planches pleine page incroyablement remplies, vivantes, animées. Et ça n'est pas tout : l'évolution des relations entres les différents personnages est elle aussi un élément particulièrement remarquable : aucun des personnages ne commence ce tome dans le même état qu'elle ne le termine.
Si on ajoute à ça une action aussi rocambolesque que bien pensée, on arrive à une oeuvre remarquable.
Mais ça n'est pas même pas : en plus des références religieuses oecuméniques, il y a aussi quelques références culturelles (je suis à peu près sûr de voir que Moebius a lourdement inspiré l'auteur, et c'est bien).
Avec tout ça, on arrive à un récit pas simple, mais remarquablement bien mené. Et franchement, je l'ai lu, et je le relirai, avec plaisir.
69 reviews19 followers
July 20, 2023
Kind of a 4.5? I'm not really invested in Allison's arc; the beats feel perfunctory when they're not lifted wholesale from Pixar's Inside Out (which I don't get? I feel like the character designs were distinct enough that this would have worked just as well without the color thing).

Everything else is badass, though. Again, some of the best paneling and sequencing I've seen in comics in a long time. The bit where Oscar is going around recruiting his demon crew is just *chef's kiss*.

And the side characters who don't need development continue to be fantastic. The Devil is great, Mammon is great. It's only every time Allison or Cio or White Chain learns a valuable lesson and grows as a person that I'm like "eh, sure."
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43 reviews
February 20, 2025
Força entretingut, al tercer llibre he notat el primer bot en qualitat de la saga. Tant en narrativa com en desenvolupament de personatges.

El disseny de personatges destaca en gran manera i sembla ser un apartat on l'autor s'ho passa especialment bé. Fins i tot es varen obrir com una espècie de concursos de dissenys de personatges amb uns quants seleccionats per aparéixer a la història.

Destacaria, relacionat amb el punt anterior, la comunitat al voltant d'aquesta peça de ficció. Solament veient la manera en què interactuen entre ells i amb l'obra a la secció de comentaris de cada pàgina imitant els estils dels proverbis com si foren comentaristes diegètics dels esdeveniments que transcorren ja dona una imatge de la profunditat del món on t'estàs clavant.
Profile Image for Bryan Alexander.
Author 4 books318 followers
April 21, 2022
Kill 6 Billion Demons continues to be a visual feast. Every page is crammed with invention and energy. At times I felt like a little kid reading a Richard Scarry book.

The story is similar in style to the previous two installments: slippery, fast, diving deeply into backstory, funny.

Here the plot is a big heist tale. Along the way we learn a lot more about one character, get to learn more about the world, and also develop Allison a bit further.

One complaint: this volume is smaller - not shorter, just about one inch more narrow and less tall. Which is disappointing, since the pages are so rich.
Profile Image for Sara.
915 reviews4 followers
August 18, 2018
The latest volume is titled "Seeker of Thrones."
I am a major fan of this series. The side explorations of mystic religion, the detailed drawings of this "other world", the continued seemingly-quixotic quest, the disconnect between a young woman from L.A. and this demon-filled dream state have all got me hooked.

Only criticism is that the pages do not come fast enough. The author has suggested that readers go back and reread Volume Three in order to have a solid foundation for the new volume, King of Swords.
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546 reviews21 followers
April 22, 2023
The drawing style has reached maturity. The glorified heist is well designed and executed and even the expendable characters are well drawn and memorable.

The story arc starts to take shape, and we really care for the main characters.

The only problem, for me, is that having read the webcomic this is for me the high point in the series, though I still hope it can be recovered, at least compared to books 4 and 5, who are still good, but not as this.

The change in format compared to books 1 and 2 makes for a better book, but an unbalanced shelf.
Profile Image for Thresk.
78 reviews16 followers
February 13, 2022
Read in a delirious sitting, blissfully back-rowing all my mind's woes-du-jour. This series is a gorramn ziggurat of absolutely incendiary creativity that often approaches the realm of the visionary. TP-M is a kind of Vedic / Indic Wayne Barlowe, and seemingly overnight become one of the great innovators in design and world building, making a home for himself among the titans of the medium. Must-see and must-devour comics seq' art brilliance.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Profile Image for Damian Herde.
283 reviews
May 28, 2023
I’m finally onboard with this series, from the characters, the world, the conflicts, and the journey.
The heist arc was amazing, from getting the demon crew, to attempting to break into an impossible location, to the subverted expectations, and utter chaos that follows.
The journey of Earth barista Allison has rewarded perseverance.
The art has noticeably improved, and the character designs remain a highlight.
20 reviews
February 5, 2024
Parkinson-Morgan continues where he left off with a story more focused in on the protagonist trying to come to terms with surviving physically and mentally in the world(s) of Throne. Book 3 focuses on her and Cio, mainly, in that both characters struggle to understand who they should be, either someone they think they want to be or someone they no longer want to remember. The world building, now at a slower pace, is still pretty cool and wonderful from page to page.
Profile Image for Johan.
1,234 reviews2 followers
June 15, 2024
I find it at times hard to follow, and sometimes I have no idea what is going on. However, I am so enthralled by the artwork, the pretty colors, the chaos, the madness, ... of the story, that I don't care if I occasionally lose track of what is going on. Anything goes in this universe. Whatever happens, I am still rooting for team Allison.

METATRON LIVES, and that is all you need to know.
Unless I am mistaken.
Which I probably am.
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July 21, 2024
It's volume 3 so I assume you're already 2 volumes in. I liked this one. Heist plot breaking in.We get to know more of the characters, and I enjoyed the in-universe silver prince fable. And getting to know more about Cio was fascinating. Will definitely keep reading.

Pity the dragon. Respect the count.
Profile Image for David Wurtsmith.
172 reviews22 followers
April 4, 2025
This guy draws i n c e r e d b l e full-page spreads of wide-angle battle scenes; they look like Where's Waldo in hell, crossed with Warhammer 40k. Story wise, this voyle deals more with the lust for power/competence/success and how it can turn those who seek them into monsters, or even worse: people whose friends quit hanging out with them because they're selfish jerks.
Profile Image for Travis Webber.
176 reviews
August 7, 2019
Should be much better known. Conveys the feeling of a complete world outside the reader's view as well as any comic I've read. Enjoyable to re-read and scour the art. Weird as hell and fascinating as fuck.
Profile Image for Harry Jahnke.
333 reviews9 followers
November 20, 2019
I love this series, I wish I could live in this world. I live for the giant splash pages that are these "Where's Waldo" scale cityscapes that are packed to the gills with such beautiful detail. Such an incredible series. If you haven't read it yet, fix that.
Profile Image for A. L. Brubaker.
37 reviews4 followers
January 26, 2021
This series continues to be absolutely bonkers and I adore it. The art is unlike anything else you’ll ever lay eyes on—closest comparison is a Where’s Waldo book, except you’re in hell. Really great stuff.
Profile Image for Brice Culhane.
884 reviews1 follower
March 21, 2021
Very chaotic yet again. Allison and co try and break into a vault where she was told her boyfriend is. As usual they are pursued by a shit ton of demons they managed to piss off. Allison is definitely coming into her own though as are the other characters- it’s nice to see.
Profile Image for James.
4,303 reviews
April 17, 2022
Violence is inescapable which makes peace a constant stuggle. This book redeemed itself. Some epic scenes and a great heist of a dragon's vault by a band of demons who only "Do as thou wilt." I liked the twist at the end with the dragon. The screaming door was a nice touch as well.
Profile Image for Alexander Pyles.
Author 12 books55 followers
September 6, 2022
This one felt like we were getting back on track with the big picture as well as getting into the "meat" of Allison's issues as well as the supporting characters.

I'm very much enjoying how imaginative this all is, even if it is starkly brutal. It comes together so well.
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