Lev: Technically, they blasted him with enough white magic to bring down a god of chaos--which he was. That's really not much different than what happens at the end of Tenacious D, with the exception that it isn't shown.
MS: I actually never expected Astos to be an epic battle. The plot was really building towards Drizz'l. Some things, like that & the pirates, fall under the category of "minor event" to me. As for the Rat Tail, that produced the result we expected--in fact, perhaps moreso, just not in the same way. I do agree that there are SOME anticlimaxes, mostly for the sake of humor, but I'm not sure that the comic, as a whole, is anticlimactic. Except maybe factoring in the whole Chaos thing.
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