Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180108221508/@comment-7673575-20180111103515

Great chapter. Finally, that vibe that anyone can die in SnK is back. Gabi's POW of the chaos and death that is not on the battlefield is one of finest expressions of Isayama's art.

I will admit, Willy's death had me confused for a moment, but we still got Warhammer, so I guess I can live with it.

As for Warhammer himself: I am divided here. His design is one of the best as far as titans are concerned, but it is not what I expected; I expected a hulking brute with huge arms. Instead, I got a surreal looking entity that can make its hardened flesh (no innuendo intended) grow from anywhere and shape it as it sees fit, which is at the same time freakish... and kinda cool.

Needs more Sasha, Hange, Historia, and Jean! They've been out of action for far too long. Of course, we will most likely never see Historia in action again, but it would be nice.

As for the fact that Attack Titan was still standing even after his spine was pierced: please note that Eren never bothered to pull the spike out. Even though it has been established that titans cannot feel pain, having a spike of that size embeded into a body is a great hinder to movement (assuming it doesn't outright kill you).

My reasoning is that Eren purposely left the spike. Had he pulled it out, he would inevitably fall to the ground, and in those few seconds it took for his spine to grow back, Wilhelmina Tybur would have ground him to a dust so fine you couldn't even mix it into concrete. He used the spike as a pseudo-spine, a support for his body, until he could catch a breather from combat and grow back his real spine.