- Anvilicious: Even setting aside the obvious and blunt anti-religion messaging, it's almost equally unsubtle about the difficulties of technological advancement to solve human problems when amoral and power-hungry people at the top are the ones controlling it.
- Ensemble Dark Horse:
- Jerry Craven, the Fights Like a Normal, Only Sane Man (relatively speaking) of the supergods.
- Husky Russkie Perun.
- Matter-shaping Maitreya, who makes a giant Cthulhu body of himself.
- Nightmare Fuel: Starts out bad enough, and then ups the ante at every turn. It would probably be easier to list what isn't Nightmare Fuel.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The Rastafarian, Chinese and Iranian supergods can feel pretty underused. The Rastafarian doesn't make an actual appearance besides one panel being created in a lab. The Venezuelan one doesn't even get that.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The general concept of "superhumans become increasingly powerful until they dissociate from humanity entirely" is a good one, but it ends up being all but discarded in favor of stomach-churning violence and ranting about how religion is literally just a drug addiction.
- The Woobie: Jerry Craven, the only one of the superbeings with even a trace of humanity, is the closest to a conventional superhero and asked for precisely none of the horrifying crap that's made a nightmare of his life. Granted, he's still bugshit crazy, but at least he's not outright genocidal.
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