![[0812] The Divine Comedy, Page 10](/comics/2016-08-15-0812-the-divine-comedy-page-10.png "[0812] The Divine Comedy, Page 10")
In the last two years, we received 68 and 82 submissions for our yearly artwork contest. This year, we’ve only received 32 submissions which is not a lot given that the 10 best entries receive prize money. The number of submissions this year is rather comparable to the one in the years 2011 and 2012 when the total prize money was much lower ($200 and $300).
While there are definitely some nice entries this year that deserve to win a prize, I’m nonetheless a bit disappointed by the quantity of this year’s entries, regarding the total number of submissions as well as the number of submissions being worthy of getting into the top 10.
Therefore I have decided to extend the submission period until Saturday. Maybe some artists were put off from submitting something this year by the fierce competition last year. But the competition this year is certainly not as fierce. I need a couple of days to prepare the news entries for the result of the contest anyway.
- Larisa: I’ll immediately go to Sandra to caution her against visiting the tech expo on Saturday.
- The Devil: I wouldn’t do that.
- Larisa: What? Why not?
- The Devil: The angels always have a dozen back-up plans. It’s best to wait until the last possible moment to thwart their original plan.
- Larisa: But how should we know what to do in the decisive moment?
- The Devil: There’s an app for that!
- The Devil: However, it only runs on a few selected tablets that were manufactured by Foxconn’s offshoot in Dis.
- The Devil: The search for one of these tablets may lead us to remote and creepy places like the Catacombs of Odessa or Area 51…
- Larisa: Cool!
- The Devil: Or to your desk.
- Larisa: I always knew that thing was possessed!
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Of course Larisa is basically…
Shoot, I would’ve thought Foxconn’s *headquarters* would be in Dis.
@ Xezlec:
The thing about Hell is that even demons don’t want to be there
Eeeeexxxxxxccccceeeeeellllleeeennnnt…
OK, she bought the special limited edition Apple.
I could need that thingamajig. Not for myself, but rather for my mother… Whenever she comes into physical contact with advanced technology, it begins to exhibit some very… unnerving behavior… How unnerving? Well, we had a professional computer engineer over to have a look at her laptop once. He said that he couldn’t really help us ‘cuz whatever she had caused her laptop to do should actually have been impossible. (And we know he didn’t say that out of incompetence: He’s the kinda guy that other computer savvy people call when they cannot solve their computer problems on their own.)
can someone explain the tablet joke, or is the joke just a basic ‘software so specific it’s almost worthless’ ?
Plus, it is on Larisa’s desk.
Satan: *picks up tablet from desk, watches hand catch fire* Was that supposed to happen?
Larisa: Oh… yes.
Satan: These are actual infernal flames, aren’t they? But not any of mine…
Larisa: They come from one of the Chinese folk hells. The whole desk is cursed. Tricky to get right, but the result is worth it.
Satan: I’ll say. They’re spreading, too. Here, take the tablet before it gets damaged. The dongle, too. This is getting really hot. Y’know, if you can duplicate the curse, you ought to come along to our regular infernal swap meet. We call it “The Hellfire Club”!
>:=)>
@ HMRC4EVR:
Dis is part of hell, specifically the deep part in the bottom circles of The Inferno. Supposedly Lucifer lives in the bottom circle. Apparently FoxConn (the maker of the iPad) has a factory there, and these “special” iPads have special features needed in the Underworld.
@ mrsmiles:
that comma shouldnt be there
And once again, Larissa does not get to go on a long and complicated quest.
@ Greenwood Goat:
I live in Ireland and there is a old castle ruin thing on top of a hill called the hellfire club and the story behind it is, that it was a casino type thing and one night when one of the regulars started playing a game with a stranger and looks under the table to see the stranger has cloven hooves any ways turns out its Satan and the man loses his soul in a poker game to Satan.
@ Thisguy: Probably for the best. I doubt they had enough time to find on.
The tablet is possessed….. By a mobile version of Microsoft Bob.
Hopefully said app come pre-loaded and doesn’t require her firstborn to acquire.
*Jaw drops*
Wait a minute, how do we know that this arc isn’t Burma and the Angels teaming up to get Larrisa killed, by making Satan have to choose between keeping Sandra and Larisa? The entire situation at the beginning where God talked about killing Sandra and then Burma suggesting that he put Larrisa on saving her, seemed a bit odd. Its now in the devil’s best interest to keep Sandra alive and to kill Larrisa for her soul. Now larrisa happens to have had the very rare tools to carry out the devil’s plan to save Sandra, on her desk.
I think the devil is being set up to kill Larrisa.
Larissa is Better for main protagonist! She has got style. And much more interesting!
Dev dot IL? Intentional or not, this is a very big poke at developers in certain countries.)
Meh. They’re all possessed.
This is actually great.
*alarm clock app on phone goes off, even though every alarm was deleted yesterday*
Is it just me, or does the Devil looked a little worried when looking at Larissa’s desk? Like he suspects something worse than Him being in the room.
Well.. that makes things easier.
… And nobody explained to me the Simpsons reference in the last strip.
@ All-Purpose Guru:
Okay, now I get it. Thanks!
@ Van:
Van wrote:
Disappointed. He was looking forward to a nice catacomb crawl.
@ Brett Bellmore:
Seconded. Devil looks sad.
Breaking news, snadraandwoo censors comments offer critique!
Tablet: I Am NOT possessed
Larissa: did my tablet just talk? Cool…
Tablet: …No i didnt, i am not talking…
Devil: …..We may have skimped on the lying software a little
Yay, art contest extended! Still have a chance peoples. 😀
Van wrote:
Apple tablet? He does not suspects… he KNOWS…
dude! i’ve been away for a while and i just want to say that i love this arc! simply amazing!
@ drakeye:
Her name is Siri. Siri, doesn’t need a *special* iPad to lie like a rug.