[0819] The Divine Comedy, Page 17
└ posted on Thursday, 8 September 2016, by Novil
With respect to readers who may look at our comic in conservative work environments, I was a bit skeptical about posting the original version of this strip in which Larisa wears a much more revealing outfit in the last panel. So I asked Powree to draw the revised version you can see above. I then asked our readers on Facebook and Twitter if I should also post the original version and everybody™ said yes. So here it is:
- Tablet: Calculate… calculate…
- The Devil: I gotta go now. I still have a lot of paperwork to do.
- Larisa: Bye. And thank you for all the help!
- The Devil: Not a word to Sandra! That may change the future and ruin everything!
- Larisa: Okay.
- The Devil: Here, take this.
- Larisa: What’s this?
- The Devil: Homework. You want to become a successful succubus after all, don’t you?
- Caption: Later.
- Landon: Uhm, Larisa, what are you doing?
- Larisa: Homework!
How old are Larisa and Sandra supposed to be at this time?
Er- well yes, she has Wolfram’s Disease, which explains her so much . . . all the same, she is twelve, so please let that be sparkling grape juice . . .and even if it isn’t, Landon is twelve!
@ Eli:
Twelve! Though in fairness to Larissa, per the comic she has Wolfram’s Disease, a genetic disorder meaning she’ll be blind in ten years and dead in twenty. Y’know, fun as this comic is, it really has a dark dark DARK side to it at times! (For instance, Richard, Sandra’s dad, has a boss who is quite possibly a serial killer, Richard himself has been shown filing an axe in preparation for murder, Sandra’s boyfriend Cloud’s Mom Ye Thuza is a Burmese resistance fighter who turns murderous whenever her family and those she likes are threatened . . . Excuse me, I’m going to go read the Marquis de Sade because after reading what I just wrote I feel the need to turn my attention from this comic and read something pleasant, uplifting, inspiring .. ..
@ erejnion:
What bellybutton? Did Larisa’s outfit get changed or something before I saw this one?
@ Morbid Mobius: Gotta corrupt ’em while they’re young. Who better than a peer?
@ Paeris Kiran:
That was very interesting and informative. Thank you! So basically it’s a genetic crap shoot?
Am I the only one that thinks it’s creepy that a 13 year old is being trained as a sex demon?
The best part about this storyline so far is that Landons mom turned out to be kind of correct with her thinking that Larisa is a succubus. Though judgement is still out on giving birth to the antichrist..
edalsie wrote:
I agree. It is much better. For artistic reasons. Yes.
@ myth buster:
Wub Step. . .?
Mogster wrote:
Do you think the forces of evil care about age? I’m sure she’d be a successful succubus as she is right now 😀 After all, what’s the difference if you sin once or twice at t
he same time? XD
@ Demarion:
Lol, you didn’t mention Ruth and her carnivorous hunting.
Bow. Chicka. Wow Wow.
@ Mogster:
She will die young. She’s got that disease thing.
@ Arthur:
Well, relatively young. Given that she still hasn’t had the onset of blindness and deafness yet; she’ll probably still hit the average expectancy of 30.
@ chiggerwood:
Oh, very. Still, I’m not entirely convinced that she can contractually sell her soul at her age anyway.
The only way Landon and Larisa’s child could have Wolfram Syndrome is if Landon is a carrier. Otherwise, their children would all be carriers.
Shame on you, Larisa!
A romantic soundtrack would work better for the intented purpose
@ MidoriLuna:
I don’t think the devil cares about age. Really, I think at this point, the only way I’ll stick with this comic is if at the end Chris Hansen shows up and tells the devil to take a seat right over there. Seriously, the more Novil writes Larissa the creepier this comic gets. After seeing the original drawing of Larissa, I feel like I need to take a scalding hot shower while saying a hundred Hail Mary’s, after I clear my browser history. @ MidoriLuna:
THAT LAST PANEL – WHOA!
@ MidoriLuna: umm
According to whose rules? This devil already has the set of rules he’ll play by, and we saw just how unwilling he was to break them. If the rules included something about the age at which a person could sell their soul to the devil, and Larissa was too young for those rules, you’d bet that the devil wouldn’t have even come to Larissa in the first place.
It’s straightforward; you can’t contract with a minor under the age of majority in the United States. I’m sure Satan realizes this and is simply giving her incentive by telling her she could become a succubus; something she obviously wants. However, until she actually reaches the age of majority and ratifies the contractual obligation, that contract is null and void in the eyes of the court.
If you think that US law would not apply in this case; realize that there is biblical precedent in Romans 13 – 14:
“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.”
Effectively, since Satan contracted Larisa in the US, and since US Law is in effect appointed by God; the contact must inevitably be considered null and void.
@ MidoriLuna:
Haha, that’s cute to think that.
In a continuity with multiple other religions. Religions that submit to middle management.
@ chrono:
Err, upper management. My memory is never quite accurate, but either way it appears he’s playing by the rules.
@ Moose:
She texted him naked pics remember. I can easily see her in the more reveling dress. But lets face it she owns Landon what shes wearing isnt going to matter to him.
@ edalsie:
but the classy one is much hotter. I’d say we’ve got a win-win situation here.
Nice! Looks like Larisa has found her dream job. But I wonder whether Landon will like it in Hell as much as Larisa probably will. Plus, he might become jealous of her seducing other men all the time… Of course, only if he succumbs to the fresh-succubus.
MidoriLuna wrote:
Well, even if there is no contract, or it is void, this need not stop the Devil and Larisa stop her training to become a succubus. She still can sign the contract later on.
@ Klorix:
Bingo! Plus, she doesn’t necessarily need to sign a new contract, she just needs to ratify it once she’s old enough. Which basically would mean she need to simply agree the contract was and is still valid.
@ MidoriLuna: So which version of the Bible are you citing there? Because the King James version of the Bible just says higher powers and looking at the context might just be referring to the higher powers of the Church. At that time if they submitted to the governing authorities of the Roman Empire, well they wouldn’t be allowed to be Christians as they weren’t worshipping hellenic gods in addition to their own gods, and they weren’t Jews who had an immunity clause.
Also while I’m quite aware that the King James Bible has mistranslations, considering the multiple ways in which one can retranslate and reinterpret, I would say that generally it’s safer to go with the Kings James, since we don’t read classical Greek, and none of us have access to the original transcript written thousands of years ago.
@ MidoriLuna: Also, even saying this is true, this only guarantees that God plays by the rules of men, because he ordained those rules to be made. It says nothing about whether the Devil plays by those rules and in the Sandra and Woo universe ut doesn’t sound like the Devil plays by God’s rules, rather they both play by upper management’s rules. In truth it suggests that those like the Devil and thus likely the Devil actually will resist those rules, ie not follow them.
@ All-Purpose Guru:
What ilness?
Unless you mean Diabetes, but a treated diabetic has only 5 less years in life expectancy than average.
Let us hope she becomes a Succubus sooner than she thinks.
Landon is about to have his whole world rocked, B)
I swear, if any of her friends get caught in the crossfire of this ordeal I’ll stop reading this comic. And since you own this comic and I know nothing about plots or writing, you must obey my every whim.
Good call, the changed version is better. Imagination makes it look more attractive and at the same time, less sexual.
@ Folomo:
She has a rare genetic disorder called Wolframs Syndrome. An early symptom of the syndrome appears as juvenile diabetes; but what’s going on is that the cells in the body are beginning to atrophy from lack of a key protein normally synthesized in the body. Eventually other symptoms appear in other parts of the body stemming from the same kind of cell atrophy; the end result being a greatly shortened lifespan.
Am I the only one who finds it a bit disturbing that this is proving Landon’s mother to be the rational one?…
After reading through the entire archive thus far, I must say, this site does need a warning for mature themes. Nothing legitimately NSFW has occurred thus far, which is good, but it does get a bit much, especially when compared to the early comics.
I missed the original…
@ Killjoy:
Nevermind… found it.
Why didn’t I meet girls like that when I was a teenager? Satan, I thought we had a deal!
Landon is the actual winner of this whole ordeal.
Eldras wrote:
Yeah right, a real winner. Because he has a girlfriend with a deadly genetic disorder.
@ Regis Earsquake:
Which is non-communicable AFAIK, and unless Satan is withholding crucial information, after she naturally dies she’ll be reborn as an effectively immortal supernatural being that will not only be able to spend as much time as she wants with Landon in the mortal world, but the type of supernatural being she’ll become has a LOT of utility to what is arguably the most fun activity that the two of them could engage in.
Personally I think the original version makes more sense, she is going to be a sucubus, a creature that feeds on people’s life force through sexuality so it would makes sense for her to wear the more revealing outfit in her “homework”. On a side not these two will always be my favirote we comic couple ever, kinda sad it’s gonna end now with the whole sucubus thing…… Wait does mean they had sex?
@ Mr Zeta:
But she is practicing to be a sucubus, sucubi feed on sexual energy. Therefore if she was practicing for that wouldn’t it make more sense for her to wear a more sexual outfit?
@ Zenix: Sometimes if you are shoved in the direction people want you to go, you’ll fight back and flee if that isn’t the direction you want to go. If you are gently led that direction though, it is much easier to find yourself much farther down the path you didn’t want to take before you start wanting to take action.
I just realized, if this is a “traditional” depiction of a succubus, Mr. Sedan left out entirely that succubi, uh, drain the life force of those they have sex with…Well, I guess if he told the truth he probably wouldn’t get his way.
@ Regis Earsquake:
I think I get where you’re coming from with that one, still that comes off as really condescending and objectifying. I know that wasn’t your intent, but Landon is no less fortunate to have known Larisa regardless of her diagnosis. It’s an unfortunate fate for the both of them.
Guys, so… Landon’s mother was right all that time (from here: http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2014/06/09/0588-change-of-mind/)?