[0845] The Divine Comedy, Page 42
└ posted on Thursday, 22 December 2016, by Novil
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- Caption: John Medley: 43 years old, Accountant, father of two, baseball fan, …
- Seeoahtlahmakaskay: Hi, John. The human god had an “accident” and now humanity needs a new one. Does that sound like something that interests you?
- Arrow: Interim department head
- John Medley: Gee, yes, I think so.
- Seeoahtlahmakaskay: Excellent. First day of work is Monday.
- Caption: … God of all humans.
- Seeoahtlahmakaskay: Unlike everything else, our selection process for new gods is rather informal.
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So that is how TJG and Kevin became… Hmm…
That answers my question from last time. So do his wife and kids become demigods?
At least this guy seems cheerful and friendly. Maybe he’ll be a bit more relaxed than TJG
@ Trimutius:
Yeah……..
With TJG out of the way, Seeoahtlahmakaskay can now fulfill Lily’s wish that Sandra may give birth to at least 20 children!
@ Cervisia:
Oh my Medley, I had forgotten about that!
@ Cervisia:
Hopefully father of two is sensible enough not to make someone mother of twenty… Though who knows what Seeoahtlahmakaskay did while being interim department head. Anyway that wouldn’t be unheard of, record for maximum children from single mother is 69 (though 4 were quadruplets, 7 triplets and rest were twins, still she had 27 pregnancies though)
I’d like to lodge a complaint with upper management
an accountant is not qualified for the position of God
potential nominations and applicants must have
studied at Yggdrasil University of the 12th Dimension
Graduating with a PHD in every possible curriculum offered
and pass a qualifying test, in birthing a new universe
creating a planet from scratch, and successfully creating life
from a primordial ocean, and succeed in maintaining a
fully diverse ecosystem, while evolving single cellular life
to intelligent life. while maintaining a healthy family life.
@ Lookfar:
TJG started out chill and relaxed, then upper management drove him crazy. That’s why he’s self loathing, forced to do unpleasant acts because that’s what upper management make him do, then, he just turns into a colossal jerk.
@ Kuraimizu:
Denied. However thank you for volunteering to be Larissa’s test subject upon crossing over. She will need someone to practice on while in training. It helps newbies to relieve the stress.
@ Van:
you’re not upper management
Hmmm, how did Seeoahtlahmakaskay get the interim gig? I like to think she was raiding TJGs office when upper management dropped by, saw her, and said, “well, you’ve already here, so you can be acting human god”.
Kuraimizu wrote:
Yeah, that’s just the nonsense in the official job requirements. Those are always way overstated, a ‘best possible candidate’ wish list. Nobody in HR pays attention to that stuff.
What does the mutual “J” in “John J.” and “Thomas J.” stand for?
@ Tomana:
Probably the Tetragrammaton; it’s usually anglicized as Jehovah.
How fitting on ’42’ hehe.
Well I guess that confirms once and for all TJG is dead. I guess then we can assume that the someone will die quota is now filled. Good.
Ah, so that’s how the Cubs won the World Series….
honey, whats with that tringle floating over your head?
oh….uh…i got promoted, it came with the new job, no worries 😉
I kinda wish Larisa, or maybe Clouds Mom or Yuna got the job. Hell, maybe even Landon or however his name is spelled if I got it wrong.
Kuraimizu wrote:
He’s supposed to be the God of Humans not God of Everything. But still, he should have at least gotten a degree in Metagenome Management.
Given how silly this all is, well, appropriate that this happens on page 42.
@ Kuraimizu:
That would be the qualifications for “Upper Management”
hmmm… a white man…. again…
Devil, is actually the word, for “The-evil” well, it was cool-ed with times, so demons are elected, no always lucifer has time to waste on his dad, on contrary, i had no idea election of god really was possible, hey, thid surprisingly is similar to how it works for Funamusea deep sea prisoner games and comics, you know Gray Garden and Mogeko castle and stuff.
So…the person who died…was God?
This reminds me of southpark:
“We need another Kenny!”
Charlie Spencer wrote:
Unfortunately, not at my employer. When a job is advertised, if any experience or education requirements in the job description includes “must”, any applicant that doesn’t meet those “must” requirements doesn’t make it through the initial filter. Here the “wish list” requirements follow “prefer” or “preferably”.
Someone DID die. God. God died.
So Tomas J. is definitely dead, no backsies?
…
I don’t mind so long as John does a good job, but I do wonder whether there’s an afterlife for members of the celestial bureaucracy.
Cervisia wrote:
PfffftBWAHAHAHAAA~! Hooo… *wipes away tear*
Well, it might mean Sandy will strike it rich and use her wealth to give a warm and loving home to a round dozen of orphans. (The rest, she’ll just have to bear (with).)
Thisguy wrote:
How do you know? Thomas J. just struck me as an all-round jerk.
Ominous wrote:
I would like to say how bloody happy I am they DID NOT get the job….. =_= Disaster would have followed.
Cony wrote:
Despite what Nietzsche said, I think nope. Just the god of humans, as distinct from the Creator of All. Like how in Nescio’s “little poet” you see the god of the Netherlands run around, a very small-minded character who embodies the virtues of bourgeois lifestyle, and is at the end clearly distinct from the Creator.
Ah, replaceable human hosts! Clever!
kaijinu wrote:
Just like the president of the USA. Or of Turkey (my birth country).
Kuraimizu wrote:
considering the mess human’s have made of the planet, the first thing any god needs to do is remove free-will (or just get rid of the humans all together, but that would make his job redundant)
Has anyone else noticed the new humans’ god has been appointed in (probably) the last strip before a celebration based around the birth of god?
(and no, I don’t mean a track from Final Fantasy VII, though that was a good track)
Good God!
Why does Larissa get insider information?
He seems like a chill guy, I think he may be just whats needed, some time for humanity to relax.
frank wrote:
She’s an agent of Hell on Earth now.
And the Devil works for the celestial bureaucracy, just like the raccoon goddess.
I for one am happy to no longer be confused with Thomas J. God. All the misaddressed prayer emails were cluttering up my inbox.
@ shazz_smifff: Well that’s dependent upon what that god wishes to achieve. Nature is not inherently good so destroying it isn’t inherently bad. There only is absolute good and evil if there is a higher power that says what good and evil are. Otherwise good and evil are subjective. Really the only reason why good and evil as determined by a creator wouldn’t be subjective is because as the creator they can set the purpose of that creation and thus going against that purpose could be said to be evil.
If the purpose was to create a planetary ecosystem in complete balance and never changes except upon god’s will, then there of course would be no point to free-willed beings. But if the point was to give the free-willed beings a place to learn and grow and be able to make mistakes then nature would just be a sandbox that they would have to be careful with. There could also be different purposes a god might decide to create a world for. Also thanks for giving me an excuse to think about this, this was fun.
hmm, let me guess the pyramid thing is the actual God, but requires a human host and consciousness to operate effectively.
Five By Five wrote:
Meet the new boss…
frank wrote:
Well as a future board of directors member of Hell…
At least this oneseem s a better candidate, than the other was. ..
God of all human? and odin is god of who? klingon?
Of course, you know, if Larissa doesn’t already suspect it, now it’s only a matter of time before she learns that Woo can speak human English.
Hmm, I am getting the feeling someone has read the Piers Anthony books.