The sound effects and second panel are meant to convey Searsha pounding the piss out of the spider's head with her claw. This won't be the last time she fights like that. In fact she has a punch and twist maneuver that is pretty nasty too. There's more to her claw than slice and dice.
Annah and some thoughts on gods
Her second wand is a wand of lightning. Since sorceresses are servants of Annah the goddess of lightning, it would make sense that they would have lightning spells. Since there are many Norse living on the Southern Island of Narthatheia Annah wormed her way into their version of the Norse pantheon. As the Mistress of Lightning she is the consort of Thor becoming an aspect of Sif. Annah's worship extends across the whole of the world in many different names and guises. Her name hints at a relationship to Isis, Astarte and Inanna who are all aspects of one revered goddess archetype between Egyptian, Semitic and Sumerian cultures. Later on Annah will also be revealed to be a face of Kwannon/Guanyin/Quan-yin as a giver of mercy as well as taker of vengeance. Know your archetypes! When it comes to deities those archetypes can meld and fold into one another among different interpretations and re-tellings of their myth cycles. After all there are a multitude of Greek myths and traditions that contradict each other. We're just all accustomed to Bullfinch's neat re-telling.
If you're going to create your own pantheon you can afford to be sloppy with retconing because that's how real faiths evolve over time. Original Judaism wasn't monotheistic. That was a retcon led by the prophets of the Old Testament. Yahweh had a consort as well as the angels who were once minor deities in their own right. But it all got cleaned up when they sat down to compose the Old Testament during the Babylonian exile (or thereabouts). Lots of time for soul-searching and wondering where they went wrong and they decided to write it all down. But until the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls the earliest texts were from the early Middle Ages. And now the earliest ones are from the years before Jesus supposedly lived. And we know each and every step of the retconing that went on in Christianity from the apostles, through Paul to the council of Nicaea and after. More changes over time there than the whole of the DC universe.
I instantly got what was happening with Searsha and her claw!! She can be quite viscious when her life (or her remaining hand) is on the line!! Yeah, the evolving of religious beliefs is quite fascinating!! Yahweh, local weather/warrior god to creator of the cosmos - quite the promotion!!
dpat57 at 11:48PM, Aug. 11, 2017
"Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening." ~Big Spider.
El Cid at 1:23PM, Aug. 10, 2017
Ooh, lightning bolts. Now that's frickin' useful. She can power all the village hospitals and power plants and television sets...
bravo1102 at 6:00PM, Aug. 10, 2017
And send Deloreans back to the future.
KimLuster at 6:46AM, Aug. 10, 2017
I instantly got what was happening with Searsha and her claw!! She can be quite viscious when her life (or her remaining hand) is on the line!! Yeah, the evolving of religious beliefs is quite fascinating!! Yahweh, local weather/warrior god to creator of the cosmos - quite the promotion!!
bravo1102 at 7:04AM, Aug. 10, 2017
She has lived a very hard and cruel life.
jerrie at 1:54AM, Aug. 10, 2017
I grew up in Camden...I can attest that DC universe is safer
plymayer at 1:23AM, Aug. 10, 2017
The DC universe? Still safer than Chicago or Detroit.
bravo1102 at 1:25AM, Aug. 10, 2017
Or Camden, Newark and Jersey City. ;)
plymayer at 1:20AM, Aug. 10, 2017
Ah yes. Annah, mistress of lightning and ramen noodles. She lives in the Castle of Aaargh, amidst many fine shrubberies.
bravo1102 at 1:24AM, Aug. 10, 2017
And her servants are Neemeria. The sisters of the knights who formerly said "nee"
jerrie at 12:43AM, Aug. 10, 2017
FANTASTIC page
Jason Moon at 12:43AM, Aug. 10, 2017
That spider is starting to heat up now! Searsha knows some dangerous spells
bravo1102 at 1:22AM, Aug. 10, 2017
The patron goddess of sorcery is the goddess of lightning.