His name change is easily the most upsetting of all those things.

Man, I’ve been popping in and reading this for sometime now, but I never felt the need to comment. I just wanna say that I have great respect for how you continue with this through your job at CN. I wish I had that kinda resolve.

This comic has begun infecting my dreams. Probably because while I find that our society’s mythology is totally boring, you’ve created a unique amalgam of myth and modern culture. I’ve simply never seen anything like this.

While I fully expect that you will have other demands that continually draw a greater amount of your time, and that you will someday break many hearts (including mine) by leaving Forming unfinished, my imagination is better for having read this far.

Thanks, Jesse. Your intensity has melted my face.

[quote comment=”1433″]I love the sixth panel.[/quote]

Cronus’ Lapteus impression is incredible.

God, damn.
Now I have to go back and read from the start.

Jesse, I got a problem with the continuity here…
Back in forming 70, Themis is making here distress call thing… and Lapetus is in panel 5 and Nommo is asleep in panel 6.

Lapetus’ father is Noah and his mother is Gaia. Gaia is indiginous and bears the mark of the elements. Noah is also indiginous but I can’t remember why he isn’t as big as the dudes who were working in the fields – “pick up this plough and then we’ll be brothers”.

Nommo makes his first “onscreen” appearance on Dogon in forming 20. We see him in a dead end job talking about his “sculpture career”.

In light of this evidence I’m finding it hard to reconcile the idea of Nommo and Lapetus being the same dude.

My theory is that Nommo is a role taken up at certain times… no wait that doesn’t work because Nommo in the future doesn’t undergo any transformation until after he eats the scroll…

Maybe Lapetus is channeling Nommo’s sleeping consciousness or something, hence “He says he’s changing his name to Nommo””

i feel like Lapetus-Nommo is a “fake-Nommo”.

kind of like an Antichrist type deal.

i’m probably way off, and i don’t even want to hear if i’m right or not…i’d rather find out as the series progresses.

this comic is my obsession.

Ah, fuck. I knew this would happen. I read this page, then carefully scrolled up to click the ‘next’, clicked, found myself on the previous page, ‘nexted’ again from there back to here… and then realised that on this page there IS NO NEXT!

Then I went, “NoooOOooooOOOoooo!!”

This is an amazing thing. Now I just have to consume it as a mere mortal instead of as a time-traveling god. Damnit.

Cronus’ head tilt on panel 3 is a new one. Are you taking still life drawing classes or something?

popo, the first guys that Mithras met on on Atlantis looked like Gaia and Noah (take a look at page 2). Not sure where the burly slaves came into the picture. Maybe they’re a different race altogether? Or maybe it could be caused by whatever Mithras is feeding them (see page 56).

I don’t know why Lapetus identifies himself as Nommo though. Too many possibilities at this point.

I find it funny that most of these people have had dealings with Ghob at some point, but they don’t really discuss him and just pretend he doesn’t exist.

Oh and funny how you mention page 70. I’ve been trying to place man/dino–I swear I’ve seen him before, it’s killing me.

if you’re trying to place where you’ve seen him before in the comic, go to page 55. but you probably mean somewhere else, huh?

Forming is my favourite comic.

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with Ghob at some point, but they don’t really discuss him and just pretend he doesn’t exist.

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I think Jesse’s storytelling is really shining in that respect, that we just assume he’s gonna wrap shit up nicely. Take the squid thinking about the gun in ep 70. Check it out.

Anybody saying in the comments section how weird it is that a squid is thinking about a gun? Nope.

F U C K

I read all of these in one night. You have blown my mind, sir.

my mind is too blown to consider 70 plus non consecutive panels.

Nommo’s first appearance is in #3, receiving a report from Mithras.
#2 is weird, looking back, because it looks like “Adam & Eve” are talking about The Adversary and his gem…which is…how would they know…? And then a giraffe gives them the fruit of knowledge, instead of a serpent/Satan. Weird.

Anyway I can’t wait for #75 – #???. Forming is like my favorite thing lately.

Incandeza, hee, “Eve” in page 2 has peen. (I think the actual fall would have happened when Serapis fried a fish in #13.)