Return to Glory
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Have you been to Reddit? That place is like 90% cat related content. If Bastet wanted to revive her cult, it’s the obvious choice for a starting point. They’re practically her worshipers already! Combine that with bad puns and ancient memes that 4chan gave up on forever ago and you’ve got yourself one hell of a popular submission!
But I kid the Reddits!
Also, what is this the third Bastet strip so far? I really need to give some other gods a little face time, eh?
Ever since I did this strip a while back, I’ve been meaning to do some more comics where Lil K tries to help ancient deities find their way in a modern world. I’d actually had an idea to do a more story based comic to that effect a long time ago, but Happle Tea ended up being so much fun that I never got around to it. Thankfully, HT provides a flexible format to mess around with that concept whenever I want!
It’s kind of funny to think about these powerful divinities being revered in ancient times and now, suddenly bereft of worshipers and surrounded by technologies and concepts they don’t entirely understand, trying to regain some of their old popularity. It’s like a bit like a man going through a mid life crisis and trying to relive the glory days of his high school football career. It’s never going to be the same. The best these gods are going to get is shoe on head memes and valueless karma points on an internet website.
I guess that’s still better than what that Chinese river dragon got for his job placement in that old comic…
Anyway, I think we’re all pretty familiar with Bastet by now and for those of you not familiar with Reddit, by all means check it out. Like all places on the internet it has its faults, but overall, it’s a fun place to visit. If you’d like to know a little more about our feline friend, check out the blog posts for her previous two comics here and here!
Oh I love how you drew her so much! I wish I had the patience to draw like that. >.<
Spot on assessment of Reddit right there, old chum.
There must be something special with cats, what with us having worshipped them for five millennia and still not showing any signs of stopping.
Hilarious. Love Reddit, and cats are awesome without it. 🙂
Unfortunately, the other ten percent is absolutely horrid.
Oh, and you should do a strip about Amon, that guy is super popular right now. Plus he’s three, three, three gods in one!
>Shoe on head, next big meme!
Bravo, just bravo.
Poor Bastet!
Scott (@K) I really think having Lil K trying to help ancient deities find their way in a modern world, would be awesome…
As for cats and the internet: Well the Internet IS a series of tubes… and is plagued my rats (aka trolls), so of course cats are the natural response! They are able to hunt down those rats throughout the maze of pipes, with out a problem!
~Brefelan Silverpaw
kinda reminds me of viruscomix with the occasional sphinx
which is good. although definitely less text.
its cute in a way.
The concept of ancient gods getting along in modern times with a distinct lack of followers is very well addressed by Neil Gaiman in Sandman (graphic novel), American Gods, and Anansi Boys (in order of descending awesomeness). Definitely read the first two.
I’ve read American Gods, it’s one of my favorite novels! That’s one of the reasons I never used the idea, I didn’t want it to be thought of as derivative even though I’d come up with it before I read American Gods. It would have had a wholly different tone to it, but it still felt too samey for me.
Plus, I really enjoy not having to deal with continuity and worrying about consistency of art. HT lets me draw Lil K and the other characters however I feel on any given day and I get to make stupid jokes! 🙂
I tried Reddit once. It hurt my brain to look at it. I prefer a more reliable source for silly cat pictures.
I love the idea of gods trying to get more popular, that’s hilarious! Cat god for reddit of course, I like how you nailed the redditor’s witty replies. Great website actually, it is what you make of it, if you’re there for cats go nuts but really there’s tons of other subreddits.
She does have followers in modern times, just sadly not as many, and a lot of them are idiots who haven’t done research on Her ><
I love the expression on Bastet, especially on the second panel.
The idea of gods wanting to boost popularity is definitely good. I can just picture the Olympians trying to get more FB friends or Twitter followers…. poor Hades probably has none.
I think r/aww/ is better place to post cat pictures.
silly, shoe on head is years old.