I really like this comic.
So, what is arguably the most famous portion of Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” is the parable of The Grand Inquisitor, which is frequently excerpted or published by itself. In it, a tale is spun of sixteenth century Seville, Spain, in which Jesus returns and is promptly arrested by the aforementioned Inquisitor. While Jesus is in the pokey, the Inquisitor rambles on about how Jesus ultimately damned everyone by giving them free will instead of just ruling us like a king. As such, the church has secretly decided to follow Satan instead, since humanity – when you get right down to it – likes getting bossed around and being told what to do.
It just now occurs to me that this was pretty much Loki’s plan in the Avengers. But I digress.
After telling Jesus all the ways in which he screwed up back in 30-ish AD, the Inquisitor finally pauses. Then Jesus kisses the 90-year-old Inquisitor tenderly on the lips, prompting the him to let Jesus go. SEXY.
In comic news, I’m skipping Thursday’s Lit Brick because I’d have to draw it on Wednesday, and Wednesday is our American Independence Day, in which John Adams and Thomas Jefferson decided it was cool for me to not work. To make up for this break, next week will have comics Monday through Friday, as I plow through five strips about “The Princess of Mars.” I’ll see ya then.
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Are you sure that wasn’t a Mafia kiss?
Is Satan’s last line taken from Galaxy Quest?
I love Dostoyevsky! Dostoievsky! Dostoevski!
Pot roast! Chocolate pot roast, with stispacio… with dismashnee… with dismash… with green gravy.
By the way, why is Scratch so nauseated by the sight of SJ kissing the Inquisitor? He was screaming when he saw Adam and Eve macking, too… Is this version of the Devil anti-intimacy?
If so, then the fact that he has a daughter suggests hypocrisy, which, admittedly, he probably wouldn’t care about, or that something happened in between then and the Adam and Eve scene.
Yeah, but that daughter clawed her way out of his skull. Not exactly the traditional way to have kids but, hey, I hear Zeus tried it once, too.
Sin erupted from Scratch’s skull without his having to knock a girl up — or without him having to be knocked up. Of course he did apparently then do the dirty with Sin, so… yes, he’s had his own experience with the beast with two backs.
Yeah, but that’s LUST, not LOVE. Satan is totally pro-lust, but not exactly a fan of love and intimacy.
That kiss between SJ and the Inquisitor doesn’t look like an expression of love, though. Not completely, anyway. ^^;
She-Jesus loves EVERYBODY!
Besides, isn’t she kind of sort of his sister? And also father?
I mean, god is basically the father of every angel, even the fallen ones, and Jesus is his kid, AND him.
This is confusing. >.<
@ Rock: Yeah, two backs and a buncha’ tentacles. With corrosive slime. Bleurgh.
The Inquisitor is 90 years old. I’m pretty sure Satan just finds a hottie like She-Jesus kissing the nearly-dead gross.
But… she’s actually much, much older than the Inquisitor, isn’t she? A fallen angel, as a shapeshifter, should know that appearances are deceptive.
Yes, but the age difference isn’t what is squicking Ol’ Scratch, it’s that he’s finding anyone (especially a very attractive female) kissing the very unattractively decrepit inquisitor gross.
While this LitBrick version of the Brothers Karamazov tenders more to lust than it does to the virtues of love and forgiveness, it did make me laugh out loud. ^_^ Well done on that.
That said, I thought that part of the Brother Karamazov was amazing. All Jesus has to do is show that he still loves people, no matter how badly they get things wrong. He doesn’t even have to say a word…
That is one sexy, sexy Satan.
I believe in the power of sexy deities. How else are they gonna get followers?
He’s really rocking the jacket, too. No wonder the Inquisition followed him! That’s where all the fashion sense is at.
Make sure up is up and down is down and they stay that way. Make edible plants that grow by themselves. Make rain fall so edible plants will grow. Collect souls of the dead so they don’t fall into Hell or oblivion. That and at least a million other ways.