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May 25th, 2016

This is a new version of a 10-year-old joke, with script brought up to date and a technical issue fixed.

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  2. No, Trevor M, the moon has gone from fourth panel signifying much elapsed time.
    Here there are many senses of “slow”: slow to understand for christians and for Jesus, slow to respond, slow with second coming.

  3. Not only has the moon gone from fourth panel, the constellations have moved on, indicating that serious time has elapsed. But look! A shooting star! The Second Coming must really be just around the corner!

  4. An animated version of this cartoon might borrow from the spectacular time-lapse effects of the 1960 film version of The Time Machine: mountains rise and fall but STILL no second coming!

  5. A second coming of Christ ?
    Not been proven there was a first one, never mind a second.
    Also -given the bible says ‘like a thief in the night’ suggests he would return unnoticed – so maybe he did but the xians missed it?

  6. The amount of time elapsed between panel 3 and 4 should be possible to calculate from the change of the moon’s shadow angle behind the park bench

  7. It’s a shame that the frame format doesn’t allow adding at least 10 more panels between 3 and 4 that would show ala Terminator bodies turning to dust and bones being buried in the sand.

  9. Wait two thousand years – nothing – and then three of them turn up at once.

  11. It is convoluted to be Christian
    The essence is definitely missin
    Talking heads in the sand
    Proselytize what is banned
    islam, which is a contradiction.

  12. Good! I hadn’t paid attention to the moon. The question may have been delayed until the following evening, or the next, or the next…..

  13. Author,
    Is does this “fixed technical issue” have anything to do with the scarceness of comments last week? And if so, how come Pink Sqirrel & yours truely HAVE been able to post?

  14. Dr JdW – No, the previous comic just didn’t attract as many comments as most. The “technical issue” with the original strip was a phantom bubble-tail caused by the lower horn of the crescent moon (see panel 2).

  16. It only took Author ten years to fix the technical issue. He must be a saviour as well.

  19. is it a comet or a meteor? – I would say meteor – because the tail narrows to a point – whereas a comet would have a tail that widens from a point.

  21. Hate to be the party pooper here, but I don’t think the joke is that funny. It would be if Jesus would have been genuinely slow in other areas, but that’s not documented. For instance, it would have a been a GREAT joke if Author was Charles M. Schulz and the it was aimed at Charlie Brown ! Ze points from Belgium : only 7 on a scale of 10.

  23. I recently saw an internet meme that said one difference between the 2nd coming and a cow is that you can’t milk a cow for 2,000 years.

  24. maybe you cant milk a cow for 2000 years but the Vatican has managed to milk a herd of bulls for almost as long

  25. Pink Squirrel, With a herd of bulls you’re not exactly “milking” them, perhaps it’s just priests training each other on how to handle altar boys?

  26. the reference was to papal ‘bull’ -textural waffle the Vatican decrees from on high
    but never mind

  27. I was in the Sistine Chapel this morning, but try as I did I could not get there before the tourists. The restored ceiling really is incredible compared to what I saw the last time, in the late seventies. But all I could think about was the cash flow the place generates after all these years. Whatever Michelangelo was paid,it was a good investment by the Catlicks. Kind of hurt to be contributing to the swollen coffers

  28. The restoration work may have made the coffers somewhat less swollen, you have to wonder what their overheads are like too, priests don’t work for nothing.

  29. From today’s newspaper:
    http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/960/Buitenland/article/detail/2718585/2016/05/29/Kersverse-vader-schiet-gynaecoloog-neer-na-bevalling-Hij-zag-mijn-vrouw-naakt.dhtml
    Translation:
    Saudi doctor shot in the King Fahad Medical City ziekenhuis in Ryad by new father after successful birthing.
    After the birthing the man made an appointment with dokter Muhannad. Al-Zabn thought the father wanted to thank him that all went well, but it turned out otherwise. The man took out a gun from under his clothes and shot the docter in the garden of the hospital. According to a hospital spokesman the situation of the docter is stable.
    The perpetrator fled, but could soon be apprehended by the police. Upon interrogation he said that it was unheard-of for a male doctor to have seen his wife naked. “The partus should have been conducted by a female gynaecologist”.

  30. beuh.
    Muhannad. Al-Zabn
    Should be
    Muhannad Al-Zabn. Al-Zabn
    Makes better logic that way.

  31. Dr John – proves that while Jesus may be slow, Mo is moving retrograde.

    but suppose it had been a female gynaecologist – what if the baby had been a boy – she would have seen a male naked.
    maybe Saudis should stop procreating -just in case

  32. Jesus Christ, what the hell is wrong with those kind of people?
    A question that will no doubt be asked until the end of days.

    Then again, I can’t blame Jesus for an extensive pause before response – maybe he just has no answers. Fitting.

  33. PS:
    but suppose it had been a female gynaecologist – what if the baby had been a boy – she would have seen a male naked.
    Well, it is not that bad…
    As long as the child is still suckling, it is not yet considered gender-differentiated. (quite handsomely so arranged, so it can be left to females to handle the the diapers – – or whatever they used in those days). And since the Koran prescribes 24 moons (not much less than 2 years) of breastfeeding, your “problem” does not arise.

  34. I should learn better typing and/or better proofreading.
    Please assume end-of-bold after just one bold word.

  35. still better than the Xian old days – when women were not supposed to have medical care during childbirth -cos ‘god’ via the bible ordained that women were supposed to suffer because they were responsible for ‘original sin’

  36. also it wasn’t very Islamic on the part of the father – to shoot the doctor for seeing his wife
    surely the proper more sharia correct way would be for him to shoot the wife for allowing herself to be seen

  37. Author,
    And here I thought the technical issue was the fact that a crescent moon pointing in that direction would mean it was broad daylight instead of night…

  38. Dr. John and pink squirrel, I’m afraid to ask, but are we sure that the father did not shoot his wife as well as the doctor?

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