A gentle reminder that before I started all this THAT’S BELIEVABLE nonsense, I was one of two writers on the bonkers DOOM comic book that gave the world the whole “rip and tear” meme.
BIBLE-OGRAPHY & JOKE-OGRAPHY:
1. Jesus illustrates good and evil and their final judgment with a story. A landowner plants a wheat field, but an enemy of his plants weeds in it -- weeds which look just like wheat in their first stage of growth. When the weeds start to show, the landowner's servants ask if he wants them to go rip them up, but he tells them not to. Now that they've grown together, pulling out the weeds risks pulling out the good wheat, so they'll wait until harvest. At that time, all the plants will be pulled up at once. The wheat will be gathered into his barn. The weeds will be burned.
2. The USCCB notes for this verse explain the purpose of this parable. Jesus is telling His disciples not to presume God's final judgment of sinners on earth. They must have patience and preach repentance to everyone. Then, at the end of time, God will be their judge.
3. In this cartoon, like in the parable, the servants ask the master if they should "rip them up," but as the landowner gives his canonical response, the servants reveal that -- in this cartoon -- they aren't asking if they should rip up the weeds. They're asking if they should go and rip up the enemy who planted them (as in murder him with their garden tools). The landowner will, most likely, tell them not to, but because I didn't add a fourth panel, we don't know his response, so there's a non-zero chance that he says, "Yes, absolutely. We can use his bones as fertilizer. I learned that from Minecraft."
Made this art for my buddy on Discord.
This feral mother-fucker on the left is Peter. He's a tortured prisoner of war who became a werewolf from experiments.
And then my handsome man on the right, Conner, he's just happy to be there and cause mayhem.
I'm doing my best to work more on my backgrounds for my art and I'm having a lot of fun.