The Gift of Murder
I was thinking about these characters I’ve created and adapted for the comic and when I thought about how hard it was to get gifts for some people I know, I realized that Lil K has it far worse. I mean, what, exactly, do you get or make for an elusive, forest dwelling monster and a God that likes to take the form of a cat? That’s a tough call. Prayers are a bit too theoretical and besides, the guy gets them all the time. He doesn’t need material things, seeing as how he can just magick up whatever the hell he wants. No…this Christmas gift requires research. It requires…finesse.
By finesse, I’m talking about sacrifices, known in some parts of the world as murder.
It’s a bit surprising that some enterprising company hasn’t come up with holiday gifts for the deity of your choice. There’s a market just waiting to be tapped there. Have your kids order a sacrificial beanie baby and we’ll throw in a fruit cake for free!
I think there’s something wrong with me at this time of the year. My holiday comics tend to be full of cussin’ and murder. I must have suffered some serious Christmas trauma at a young age that I’ve somehow suppressed. This is the second holiday comic for this year and we’re two for two on murder, or at the very least, implied murder.
This time of year is a bit strange, from a religious point of view. It’s a time originally intended by folks for worship and recognition of dark days filled with the light of religion, family, and friends. Those people were pagans. Zing, Christianity! Take that! But in all seriousness, Christians, having co-opted the Yule festivities, took with them many of the core principles of the holiday season. Worship has been featured heavily for hundreds of years and only recently, with the coming of the great Lord Capitalism, and his trusted ally, Commercial Culture, has it taken on a more consumerist tone. What’s a God to do in times like these? Not being a God, I can’t really say for sure, but I imagine these are dark days. Where people once chanted your name and prayed for whatever, things must be a lot more quiet now. Parts of the world are still deeply devout and that’s almost certainly a bittersweet experience for the G-man. It’s like an echo of times gone by, a scent that reminds you of the glory days, or a snippet of a song that takes you back to when you were a god-kid.
The memories come flooding back and it’s pleasant, but you know you can never have them again. You sigh, a world-weary godly sigh. Ahhh…
I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. To the Christians, I hope the season is a good one and that you remember your deity. To everyone, I hope you enjoy your family and friends and remember the people you wouldn’t normally be concerned with. Everyone deserves a little cheer and kindness every day, but if you can’t manage that, at least give it a shot for a few weeks. To people working retail: you have my sympathies. If you desire, you may put it in your will that you’d like me to come speak at your funeral should you perish in these dark times. Include travel expenses and I will gladly show up, much to the bewilderment of family and friends alike. Incomprehensible tales about the heroic feats you never performed will be heard.
Merry Christmas, folks. <3
Cussin’ and murder? The birth of Jesus is like the only time when there isn’t cussin’ and murder in the bible…
I haven’t written a will yet, but when I do I will be sure to request that you come to my funeral and tell an epic, unwritten tale recounting my many adventures where I defied gods, slayed mythical beasts and murdered many of my potential wife’s suitors.
Poor Allev. He had to eat that cookie. Now look where he ended up. This is why sweets are bad for you.
This is exactly what I was thinking! God would have probably regifted him anyway.
I thought Lil K did really well using all his resources.
What else is he going to do with another dead body?
I don’t work in retail. Can I put that in my will anyways? Will you honor it?
Merry Christmas/ winter solstice party of your choice!
Are we going to get a New Years comic this year as well? I noticed you’d never done one. There’s bound to be some kind of mythological connection, although our definite Western date of January 1 is still fairly recent. Christmas (and Easter) used to be pretty popular times to start the new year…so uhm, happy new year?
There was a New Years one!
http://happletea.com/2010/01/01/happle-new-year/
😀
Not exactly mythological but hilarious nonetheless.
Oh yeah! Hahaha. I’d forgotten about that one.
You make me wish I was working retail. Merry Christmas for yesterday <3
Hmm… I don’t really like how you made God just like an average human, cussing away. But still, good comic I suppose.
Average? I don’t think so, check out the mustache… it is legendary!
It’s just a drawing -.- I can’t see the humour in it.
Sorry, that’s just the idea around here. People like to talk about God as if he’s some regular joe and I’ve sort of taken that idea and ran with it. The reality is that if there’s some deity out there, it’s likely incomprehensible to us. I’m sorry that you don’t enjoy this, but it’s all meant in jest and nobody would ever force you to read it. 🙂
Nobody forces me to read it. I don’t mind comics until they make fun of God. I’m a Christian, you see, and I really don’t like it when people make fun of something so wonderful and turn it into something else. I get that you’re doing it just to make others laugh. (Maybe you could limit the cussing, though… everything said can be said with out those flowery adjectives)
Arya, I’m a Christian, and I’m not sure why this offends you. I know that this isn’t the way God really is (as much as I can know about someone so unkknowable), so it jsut strikes me a a funny comic
If people don’t like or feel offended to content online, they should just disconnect their Internet. Or just ignore it.
Quite simple.
Also, I think God would get a chuckle out of these strips, cause I like him and he’s nice.
I don’t think God would get a chuckle out of it, because one of his commandments is “Thou shall not swear”. Swearing and cussing is the same thing. I don’t think he’d laugh at something wrong, just because he’s nice. You’re also forgetting he’s holy. And if you want to criticize others about giving advice, then go ahead, I’m not unplugging my internet.
There’s “Thall shalt take the name of thy lord thy god in vain” is a commandment, so unless we’re suddenly using Asshole as another name for our God, I don’t see what the problem is.
Whoops, shall not