WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Sex Criminals #28, by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky, available now from Image Comics.
Somehow, Sex Criminals gets even weirder in issue #28, with the reveal that the characters don't have the power to just stop time when they orgasm, but to step outside of it. When the series' big bad, Badal, takes Suze to see the battery he uses to channel his orgasm magic -- which is located at the bank where her father was murdered -- he tells her he's spent his entire life on a single mission: To find her, because he believes she's a god.
Suze disagrees, but in the course of their confrontation, the reason behind his belief is revealed. Badal figures out early in his life that he gets off on being cruel; this leads him on a particularly destructive path as he manipulates and harms people so he can enter "The Quiet," as Suze and Jon call it. However, Badal is able to travel forward in time when he orgasms, rather than time simply halting around him. He wants to figure out how to travel into the past so he can change it, which he believes he can do with Suze's help.
She isn't a god, though. When he saw her appear before him all those years ago, he was simply seeing a projection of the future.
After Badal reveals his ludicrous theory, Suze says, "You think you can control time and do anything you want because I'm God -- but you're wrong." She gets cut off by a literal explosion -- which ostensibly doesn't kill her, since the series has already revealed a glimpse of the future wherein she talks to Jon on the phone when he's in prison. However, Badal heard her say just a fraction of this same sentence all those years ago, which is what set him on this path. When he saw Suze appear, her apparition said, "You can control time and do anything you want because I'm God." The actual meaning of her words is lost because she's cut off at the beginning and end -- when Badal orgasms and when the building explodes.
Badal is powerful, but he reveres Suze as if she's a divine entity. It seems safe to assume he isn't the only one with the ability to step completely outside of time following orgasm and there are definitely hints Suze can do it, too. It's possible she figures out a way to apply his same methods -- albeit without the cruelty -- to travel through time in order to change the world.
Time travel always has consequences. If Suze, Jon, Myrtle or any of the others can unknowingly step out of time -- or are harboring a secret -- then things are surely about to get way more complicated, regardless what happens to Badal. Jon's stint in prison, as revealed in Sex Criminals #26, has yet to be explained and Suze's life seems to be bending toward extreme chaos with a side of violence as she continues to get glimpses of the future.
The explosion at the end of Sex Criminals #28 has an air of conclusion, but there are four issues left to go before the story actually ends. As time runs out -- both literally and figuratively -- there's a question of what happens after the moment Suze and Badal have been seeing in glimpses for so long. The big reveal in this issue feels like just the tip of the iceberg.