God makes a triumphant return, and, true to form he is totally gross and a little surprising.
There are times when I write the strip and I desperately want to come up with something for a particular character, god, or mythology, but it just doesn’t work. Lately, I’ve craved writing more Cat-God strips. The sheer ridiculousness of his replies to K’s philosophical questions are fun and they were the basis for this strip ever starting in the first place. It’s good to have written something new with him in it.
The fun thing about God (both in the strip and in life) is that his (or her or its) very nature stresses the concepts our brains hold dear. Finite reality is not something that can contain him (or her or it) and rules of social niceties do not phase him (or her or it). I think we (as a species) have sort of moved away from the idea of God as the man in the sky with the big white beard and have started to believe in his (or hers or its) existence as more of an abstract. Plenty of people don’t subscribe to that set of beliefs but even they are aware of the concept and I think this applies to them as well.
Personally, I always thought it’d be great if God weren’t subject to our rules but still acted and thought like us but was just a bit more rude and ridiculous. Hence his behavior in every strip he has been in thus far.
It’s like, yeah he could just tell Lil K the answers but that wouldn’t be fun. He’d rather give us some bullshit reply, gross us out, and watch us writhe, laughing the whole time.
You’ve got to be able to laugh at yourself, y’know? If God does exist, that might be his greatest gift to us. Humor in the face of adversity (or just life in general).
You’ll notice I’ve put up some space for Project Wonderful ads. I don’t really like advertising, especially since I feel like it ruins the continuity of my design, but I need some money to start paying for merchandise and PW is a great service. I also put the donation button back in. Hopefully these aren’t too intrusive…
Oh and here is yet another Thursday sketchblog update for your perusal.
Hey. I just started reading this comic on valentines day, and already I have read every strip. It is most definitely one of my favorite web comics, and I read A LOT of web comics! Some of my favorites include the Nanook one, the Jonathan P Necromancer one, the meme used on Fenrir, the Owlton’s hating Tuesdays, that one just cracks me up for no reason at all, i want a shirt with that on it, or maybe just the owl face lol
As someone in love with mythology and also as someone who would like to start their own webcomic one day (after I graduate from this dull highschool for god sakes!) this comic is indeed touched my life on numerous humerus accounts
Every time *every single time* I start thinking ‘hey, happle isnt as good as it was in the old days’ you bust something like THIS out! Your comic is completely incredible. You make me laugh like no other-never give this up!
Ah, cat-god. I think his/her/its presence is always welcome. His/her/its entirely plausible, but completely rediculous representation of Christian-God really works with all of the loopholes in that Bible thing.
Also, I see advertisements now. That was probably a smart move good sir.
That last panel is too hilarious. Censor it, or something.
This is probably one of my favorites from your strip. I really love Cat/God’s (would that mean she/he is Cod?) expression in the second panel.
I love Cat-God’s expression in panel 2! And K’s in the last panel for that matter! This is my new favorite comic page haha!
:3 God’s pervy cat face :3
he’s looking at the dictionary upside down? lol
God having a terrific (and probably really strange and pervy and pretty morbid) sense of humor is the only type of theodicy that seems to make any sense to me at times.
The He/She/It made us to make Her/Him/It laugh explanation is pretty compelling. Everyone wants God to talk to them, but he never seems to give straight answers.
That’s why everything’s shrouded in myth and philosophy! Our human brains can’t handle the truth delivered straight up.
This was a Carlin joke but he called it the big handjob
I would like to thank you for making me laugh harder than I have in days
is the word ‘foreplay’ really in the dictionary..?