Ah! No wonder, its right before Torg Potter 3. My arch nemesis.

Also, because I didn't think it would be so close to when we first met Chilius. The Hereti Corp events surrounding that strip makes me think, yeah, maybe I was on the right track with Kusari. But i'm not as certain, and it doesn't look as much like the Fate Spiders were involved in Rammer's death.

My superhero name is mr. imperfect, I guess.

Well, my point is, either way, the Fate spiders definitely were involved in Erin's death, and she was killed by Oasis. They didn't directly manipulate Oasis, but by manipulating Erin, the result was the same. I don't really disagree that Kusari is likely web bound, but it's clear that the spiders can get people killed by agents that aren't under their control.

Thanks for bringing this up, you reminded me of something else. Prozoatu is one of the pillars of reality which the Fate Web is spun between (Siphania's demonstration). Oasis is "not a part of the web." Wouldn't Googol or Uncle Time have been able to notice that they were dealing with one of the pillars of reality? After all, K'Z'K is part of the web and can be detected on it. Logically, Prozoatu would also be detectable by the web, but Oasis isn't even connected to the web. This makes me even more dubious.

You have a point that Oasis is a puppet, but remember "The puppet is the puppeteer"? This indicates that although she is a puppet, she's still in control of herself (possibly a reference to Oasis' being autonomous after Dr. Steve's death). Also, although Torg decided that Oasis was innocent, he was really only thinking about Zoe's death in that situation. Wayang Kulit only affected their minds. So Oasis is innocent of killing Zoe, but I don't think we can state categorically that the Wayang Kulit part proves incontrovertibly that Oasis is pure innocent. And even if she is, there are many innocent people in the world. And Oasis' powers are still limited to reincarnation and fire. If Dr. Steve knew her true nature and she is the host of Prozoatu, and he was trying to use her to take over the world (he did say this), wouldn't he have trained her in the use of her powers? It seems like it would be really illogical to just train her in the use of throwing knives and shuriken if she can rewrite the fabric of reality. Fire? She'd need some more selective weapons, but rewriting reality seems like it would be all she'd need.

I agree that the Oasis-as-Prozoatu hypothesis is kind of far-fetched.

However, Prozoatu shouldn't be connected to the web. Only Kakazaku is imprisoned in the web, due to Khronus' machinations.

Look in this strip. Prozoatu is definitely connected to the web, as is part of Kozoaku. Yes, the sentient part of Kozoaku is bound up in the web. But Prozoatu is still a part of the web.

The strip before that states that Khronus "made space between" the pillars and filled it with the web. So "connected to the web" is a bit ambiguous, since P and K just represent opposite ends of it. They provide the bookends, rather than being the content in a particular book (which of course K has become).

Yeah, it is ambiguous. But I'd say that they still are connected to the web, even if they aren't part of it. Oasis is completely separate from the web.

Oh, I'm reminded of one other thing Oasis may be able to conjure with her mind: her knives.

I feel like that might just be a joke, since where's Bun Bun keeping his gun? But then again, maybe they both have the ability to summon things...

If it wasn't for the "separate from the web" thing, I would expect Oasis to be the Sun Twin based off of today's comic.

http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20140624

The ability to conjure fire with her mind would make sense for a Sun god. And being a god would explain why she can't be killed. Also this comic states that all of the gods were scattered across time by the Time-Father.

Yes, interesting spec. That has some possibilities.

It doesn't quite explain Kusari or Harbinger (4U) though.



Well... I'm not sure I'd read too much into that. Machus seems to be mashing up a bunch of stories so he's not exactly a great source of canon.

It was, '...across the earth and the heavens...'; I'm not sure that translates into time as well.

Although that kinda fits for Tempest/Uncle Time.

How much the refugees would know of that and some other of the other god stuff that happened at the end isn't clear though.

Oasis "operates outside the web." Aside from a personal interpretation of what that means, I don't see any reason to assume that Oasis must be any more "outside the web" than Prozoato. I don't favor the theory anyway, but I don't think this invalidates it.

Dunuloa/Basphomy is going to have a Mosp-style redemption. This time though, it'll be Gwynn's doing.

I do have a spec. She IS Ra'na, with her mind somewhat scattered. She operates outside the web because Krohnus suspected that the scroll wouldn't hold for long, and he thought that this web was doomed. So he removed the rest of his family from the web, so they wouldn't be destroyed with the next arrival of Poopypants, formerly known as K'z'k, formerly known as Kozoaku.