Ammit (or Ammut) – a female demon from ancient Egypt with a body that was part lion, part hippopotamus and part crocodile—the largest “man-eating” animals in the area. A funerary deity, her titles included “Devourer of the Dead”, “Eater of Hearts”, and “Great of Death”.
Seriously, a hippo’s butt?! That undermines her whole “ferocious monster” reputation. Yeah, I know hippos kill more people than crocs these days, but not with their ass.
She’s actually kinda cute, begging for scraps of the damned.
Whoa! This is such a dynamic page. I love that aerial view in the first panel as Ammit comes to get him.
Yeah, he needed a good devouring after what he did on the previous page.
Oh, MY, that was satisfying! What a great page overall and in partiucular.
I have an observation and a question: If Jane keeps losing her sources of information before she can question them she’ll have a harder time discovering the truth, and was the fake nurse able to witness all these goings on?
Jane, Mr. Lewis and Ammit are in a neither realm, thus the light blue background. Time has stopped for everyone outside. Spoiler: Ammit didn’t eat his physical body, just his soul. I’m sure he won’t miss it.
Thank – I was wondering how much of what happened was “real”.
So when she judges the person, does she gain knowledge of the person as well? Though the source of information is still unverifiable — considering he’s been eaten by an Egyptian deity. The knowledge could lead to solid proof, I suppose.
Yeah, Jane sees their life story, and they see how their actions have affected others. For good or bad. But, since he wasn’t already dead normally she couldn’t take his soul — except that he kinda asked her to, so here’s Ammit! Jane may have been a little angry about him hurting her mom. But, there’s still one conspirator left, the nurse with the scalpel.
Indeed! I consideren this the more dangerous one, her mom was apparently able to fight off the man for a few seconds.
Ammit, Janet!
Wow. Andy, what a great page. The view from above in the first panel, the grab with his hands grasping its paws, the quiet pull into the watery floor, and that last panel.
Everything works beautifully. Man, you just keep topping yourself!
Thanks! 🙂 My only wish is that someone somewhere now has a fear of tile floors.
CROCODILED!!! “Ow, my Torso!”
Just don’t look up croc reference photos. Ugh, my stomach.
great job harmonizing the disparate parts of osiris’ cute little puppy. if there were such a beast that is definitely what it would like. the waterfloor effect rocks too. does that egyptian pic look like ammit has leopard (and cheetah?) parts too to you?
Thanks, that watery floor was something I’ve been waiting to draw from the very beginning of this story. I have my own theories on the lion spots (because I’m too lazy to research it): either Nile lions had spots and they went extinct, or the artist didn’t know what a lion looked like and, like me, didn’t feel the need to go research wild lions.
The head tilt of the crocolionhippo is gorgeous, very dynamic. Showing just the feet/skirt in the last panel lends a bit of uncertainty. I like it, it’s one of my favorite panels, tons of implied movement.
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nice job on all of it!
I suppose one could be crushed by hippo butt. That would be no fun at all.
Butt very funny. 😉
This page blew me away when you first showed it to me, and it still doesn’t fail to disappoint. The floor swirling around Ammit is a very nice touch, and very dynamic.
OOOh… nice page.
Thank you!
Ammit literally coming out of the floor to devour souls.
That’s it. That wins. Everything else go home. XD
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You clearly know how to deliver. I ammit it.
heh 😀
Puns count towards eternal damnation.
Better invent some limericks, fast!
Aaaaah! That was so awesome!
He definitely got the Ma’at pulled out from under him.
… Egyptian mythology joke, Ma’at was the goddess that embodied the concepts of truth, balance, and justice. The ostrich plume that the heart is weighed against is her main symbol. Some depictions of the ceremony have the heart weighed against Ma’at herself.