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Kill Six Billion DemonsOther

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Charles Stross
Science fiction and fantasy novelist (Accelerando, the Laundry Files, Merchant Princes); blogs at Charlie's Diary on antipope.org.
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Kill Six Billion Demons Less of a single strip at a time webcomic and more of an episodic graphic novel, KSBD is distinctly Japanese/Hindu/Chinese/Hellish in tone: it seems to follow the travails of an American female student called Alison who winds up in hell, befriends demons, gets caught up in a holy war to end the universe, and ascends towards godhood, but that's kind of selling it short.

His round-up of the webcomics he actually keeps open in a browser window, written to crowdsource more. Note antipope.org serves no working HTTPS, so the source URL is http.

antipope.org ↗·2025-12-26

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