Annotated 15-20
A mellowed-out Frigg is one who can actually listen to Rachel for a few panels before going off on an angry digression. A mellowed-out Rachel, who was already pretty mellow to begin with, will show only mild concern when Frigg disses not only her religion– she’s almost used to that– but the entire concept of a belief system.
How much this really bothers Rachel will never be entirely clear, but it’ll get maybe a bit clearer in the next chapter, which Phil was very deliberately setting up here.
And yes, we were also rolling out some of Phil’s ideas about the power that Rachel and Frigg channeled and why they channeled it differently. We didn’t follow up too hard on the idea of (ahem) “faith-based healing,” but Rachel would allude to it or use it occasionally as a lesser talent.
This marks the first appearance of the phrase “glowy hammershit”, replacing the one-off “magic supershit” that preceded it. Let us contemplate that for a moment okay we’re done.
2000 years later, the Church of the Inverted Ginger Stepchild would insist that “Glowy hammershit” and “magic supershit” were referring to two distinct things, and that abortion is wrong.
Meanwhile, the Church of the Red-head Protestor would insist they are just two words for the same thing, and that segregation isn’t really racist.
It was time for the 257th coming of Frigg, not that she thought this rapture would fix it either.