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WED, OCT 26, 2005This feels akin to slitting my own throat, but...I've posted two new comics today. I can't in good conscience post a one-frame page unless it's an emotional capper to a previous sequence, no matter if it did take hours of work to do. You, faithful reader, look at it for a second and boop! it's over. Page #55 is an emotional moment, yeah, but it's a piece of a greater whole. That's right, people - it's montage time! Like the 'falling in love' montage...or the 'training for the big fight' montage...or the 'getting ready to hunt the shark' montage...it's time for our 'looking for the lost little boy' montage! We've already had our flashback sequence, I figured we needed to throw another movie convention in there. As for slitting my throat, this means I only have two more comics in the can. A lot is riding on my next few days of productivity. Pray to whatever deity/ies you have, folks, be it Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah, Krisna, Brahma, the Goddess, whoever the Buddha is representin', that A.A. higher power thingee, or what have you. Heck, beseech the web comics gods! (Penny Arcade and PVP sure did.) Call in a favor for my ensured productivity! Have I ever told you my pet theory regarding the Old Testament? The Ten Commandments have as Numero Uno, "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." Before me. (Or 'besides', or 'instead of', whatever.) It doesn't say there ARE no other gods. It says "before Me." Implying that there ARE other gods. And throughout the Old Testament, there are gods for other cultures - Elijah the Prophet even mocks the other guys' big dude Baal in that contest where Yahweh rains down fire on the sopping wet altar. "Maybe he's sleeping! Maybe he's in deep thought!" That's Old Testament trash-talkin' there, bud! But Elijah never, ever says "Your boy don't even exist, homes." Why? Why doesn't he? Maybe he's just being subtle. Of course, the trash-talking - and later, the rounding up of the Baal priests and slaughtering them - kind of suggests subtlety wasn't exactly Elijah's strong suit. No, in my theory, until you get to the revamping of the mythos in the New Testament, Yahweh was just one of many supernatural beings staking out his territory. Maybe the biggest, the most powerful, and the creator of everything (if you believe Genesis - the heavens and the earth, remember?), but not necessarily the only game out there. Not until Jesus (and later, Mohammed, who thought Christians were polytheistic) do you really get somebody in the Middle East who claims there's only the One, and nobody else. (Except the Devil. And the demons. Whom God made anyway, so, problem solved. Kind of. It's actually just the same problem in different clothing, or a whole different set of problems, to be discussed in a sermon at another time...) Speaking of people with a 'thou shalt have no other gods before Me' problem, politicians in Washington have a very specialized go-to god - GOP or Democrat, Rightwing Evangelical or Liberal atheist, they all secretly worship the same fellow, and make all their decisions based on his holey word: Kor Per It Muh-Nee. I've never seen hide nor hair of him in my bank account, but I hear he works in decidedly mysterious ways, behind closed doors, through his high profits, the Lobbyists. He doesn't really care about the environment - he didn't make it. He don't really care about the poor - that was Jesus' gig, dig? Tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts. Borrow, borrow, borrow. And the red ink just spills down the sacrificial altar, where the financial future of the average American lays dying... Phew. That got dark. So. Anyway. Hope you like the comic.
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