[0813] The Divine Comedy, Page 11
└ posted on Thursday, 18 August 2016, by Novil
The demon Kevin-Asmodias from Sarah Burrini’s webcomic Life Ain’t no Pony Farm is making a cameo appearance today.
- Kevin-Asmodias: Here’s the source code of TESLA’s autopilot.
- The Devil: Thank you, Kevin.
- Larisa: Aww, he’s so cute!
- T-shirt: I <3 the Dark Side
- Larisa: Come here, let me give you a big hug!
- Kevin-Asmodias: Hey!
- Kevin-Asmodias: Put me down this instant! I’m a vicious arch-demon!
- Larisa: And you can even breathe fire!
- Larisa: May I keep him?
- The Devil: Once you’re a succubus, sure.
- Kevin-Asmodias: Help.
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I wonder if the thought of putting Kevin on a stick and calling it a flamethrower will ever occur in Larisa’s mind.
God, this arc is one of the funniest ones so far, and also underlined with the continuing depressing tone of Larissa’s sacrifice and short lifespan. I love it, Dark and sweet all in one. I just really hope Landon shows up in this one too XD.
Kevin looks a lot like Pain from ‘Luci Phurr’s Imps’, and that’s a good thing.
I need him as a plush.
I am in love with this Devil! He’s great!
You know, Larisa’s deal keep getting better and better. I wonder if Lucy himself is writing this arc, to get more clients? :p
@ Vegetable:
Landon having a Succubus as a girlfriend might completely blow every fuse in his brain.
Kevin = future store plushie?
He meant arch daemon, right?
@ All-Purpose Guru:
But she wont be a succubus until she dies, as I understood it.
I am seriously loving this arc.
I was looking back to earlier comics, and in the one where Larissa meets Landon’s parents, Landon’s mom is convinced that Larissa is “a succubus who’ll give birth to the antichrist.”
Looks like she might become half-right. Amusingly.
@ An “Average” High Schooler:
who says it´ll be only half? maybe mommy dearest has some hidden seer abilities….if so, she´s definitely the cassandra variant: always predicting the truth, but cursed not to be believed.
I discovered Sandra and Woo less than 24 hours ago. I have now read the entire archive. This is amazing.
@ An “Average” High Schooler:
Well, if she plays here cards right, the Devil might let her and Landon fulfill the second part.
Satan: “Make good use of the next twenty years, Kevin.”
Kevin: “Twe– what? She’s terminally ill? Not cool, man! And I’m literally Asomodeus!”
Larisa: “It’s fine. I’m basically Deadpool minus the healing factor at this point.”
Satan: “She’s right. Remember when Uncle Sam almost died? All her.”
An A Plus ARC!
ahah love the minion design
Yes Kevin, what a vicious nerdy arch-daemon you are!
An “Average” High Schooler wrote:
Looking forward to seeing that become canon.
Breathing fire was his fatal mistake…
Morbid Mobius wrote:
I thought the anti-christ was supposed to be the child of the Devil, though. Unless I’m mistaken, which is definitely possible, that means Landon can’t exactly help with that.
“I did NOT go to Law School for THIS!”
@ Djunk101:
The Bible does not specify any specific parentage for the anti christ. He will be a mortal, a political and religious leader who uses forceful coercion to get people to worship what he tells them to worship. He will martyr quite a lot of Christians, and place economic pressure on everyone to worship as directed. All governments will capitulate, or at least make a very big effort to avoid offending him, so that he dominates the entire world without necessarily outright conquering the entire world.
Being a mortal, probably born to a normal man and woman.
@ redeneck:
That sounds like what a pope in medieval Europe would have been like.Are we sure they haven’t already come and gone 😛
redeneck wrote:
Sounds like Emperor Palpatine… he could make a cameo too… ahh who am I kidding… this would really have to be a parody otherwise novil would be in trouble.
I’m still a bit worried… I mean, the “meh, what’s in it for me” comment the Devil made in the beginning of the arc implies at least some degree of selfishness, but he’s being VERY cordial and nice. And what’s so special about Larisa’s soul that made him agree to go through all this effort to get it? …on the other hand, it was also said that the Devil gets the blame for all of Thomas’ assholery… Maybe I don’t need to hold my breath in anticipation for the other shoe to drop. Maybe I should just enjoy this arc instead of worry so much. I mean, the Devil is nice enough so far.
@ noname: Yea I agree, I’m pretty certain there is a plot twist somewhere in here. We’ll just have to see. As for why Larissa is so valuable I can only imagine it’s because she is a pyromaniac chaotic neutral seductive temptress.
Theologically, most references to the Anti-Christ, along with the ‘Sign of the Beast=666’ are actually direct references to the Emperor Nero so yes, the AC has come and gone at least once. Probably several times which indicates that he may ‘be back’!
Kevin-Asmodias sure reminds me of Anger from inside out – and that guy could be used as a very effective flame thrower!
@ 1oldbear:
The book of Revelation, which is afaik the only book of the bible that predicts that there would be some mortal Antichrist to achieve great power and corrupt the people to turn from god in the time cshortlyy before the judgement day, is probably the most difficult book of the bible to interpret and there are numerous opinions to any bit of it in theology. The cool mystic Images the author used also have inspired mad cultists and – more commonly – fiction authors and pop culture artists to make there own stuff up. Makes it kinda hard to follow what church officials really think about it.
As an interested layman, I know at least that most modern theologists believe the book to be highly symbolical and it is a common – though certainly not undisputed – theory, that Johannes did not describe a real vision he had seen (or, for the sceptics, a mad fever dream or the result of a really bad LSD trip), but adressed – among other things – problems of the Christians and the political state of the world in his time carefully hidden in allegories only those who knew his way of thinking would be able to decipher without any doubt, while Roman officials who read the Pamphlet would shrug it off as some nonsensical but harmless gibberish some half-mad selfproclaimed endtime Prophet wrote.
A popular theory about the “human number 666, the number of the beast” says that this number of a human was to be calculated by phonetically transcribing the persons name into hebrew writing and adding the numbers associated with the used hebrew writing signs. Of course, since there are no rules for transcribing Latin or Greek names into hebrew, this method leaves much room to Interpretation, if it is really what was ment with the cryptical “number of the beast”-text in the first place. Nero’s full name is a popular theory, because he was powerful enough to fit and lived at the right time for those who say that the text was not a prophecy but a comment to recent political developments at that time. However, there are dozends of other names that have been proposed as possible Solutions.
That said, the text definitely describes the Antichrist as a person of fully human origin, though with demonic features that may or may not have been meant symbolically. There is no explicit statement that the beast should literally be Satan’s son and be conceived by a virgin like Jesus.
So cute :3
@ noname:
How about this for what the devil gets?
Pretty sure Landon is still religious. I wouldn’t be surprised if that means that, once the contract’s fulfilled and Larisa’s soul fully belongs to the devil, his touching her could cause her flesh to smoke, with the whole holy/unholy reaction.
It could be that Landon will be left with the choice of keeping his religion and losing Larisa…or renouncing his religion to be with her, which means the devil gets his soul too because it was done to be with someone already damned.
And Larisa might *know* that. Leaving her – a succubus in training – to be forced to choose between love (breaking up with him to prevent him from making that choice) or lust (keeping him while alive and leaving him to the devil when he dies).
…of course, given this devil, if Larisa chooses the latter and successfully corrupts Landon enough, once she’s a full succubus he might let her recruit Landon to be an incubus. Leading to the pair of them coming back home to hell and each other to brag about their conquests before ‘bunny hopping’.
…so, happy ending?
@ Tatsurou: You know, all these possibilities make me hope that this arc will be of significance to the world of this comic and not just end in life as normal as it’s been in this comic with nothing unchanged.
I mean with nothing changed.
Checking off “first infernal slave” from the checklist.
It seems that Larisa is getting the better end of the deal here.
someguy wrote:
If you say so. I’ve never heard either of those theories. Practically all mainstream historians agree that it is an obvious commentary on Greco-Roman society at the time.
coyoteBR wrote:
Some religious (ex-)readers would probably say so!
Vegetable wrote:
Why would she do that when she can already get access to actual flamethrowers? They don’t complain quite as much.
I just hope Larisa’s ready for the responsibility of having a demon for a pet. They can be so messy until they’re trained.
@ someguy:
How can we be sure Donald Trump isn’t the antichrist? I’m dead serious, have you heard some of the crap he spouts? He’s doing Hilary Clinton’s ‘put down the political rival’ work in the campaign for her!
I gotta say – Really looking forward to Succubus Larisa, just cause thats gonna be hilarious. Not wishing for anyone’s death her, just seems like its gonna be awesome…
Found the machine that is slated to kill Sandra: https://www.facebook.com/awesomeearthmovers/videos/1401241023225347/
Grace wrote:
Makes a show of opposing yet comically does pratfalls and shooting himself in the foot does not the great deceiver make. More like I don’t want to win damn it, stop supporting me.
Hillary fits the billing much better, being a deceiver and all that underhanded stuff the party pulled for her against Bernie.
The private server thing wasn’t a bad decision but calculated because it would be immune to FOI requests and easy to purge when necessary.
@ coyoteBR:
Nope, not at all how did you get such a ridiculous idea…
*whispers* They’re onto us
Did anyone hear someone whispering?
Nevermind, probably just the wind.
am I the only one who legitimately thinks the devil doesn’t have any ulterior motive I mean, he does actually believe killing Sandra is a dick move.
@ Nuly: Welcome to the crowd, I also recently (a few weeks ago I think) read all the comics. Quite amazing this series is.
@ WitchyRouge: Well yes, but he’s also not doing it for free either. If the current deal is his ulterior motive then that isn’t really a bad deal for Larissa considering her personality and what little we know of the state of heaven and hell in this universe. However it still is an ulterior motive, he’s not doing it for Sandra but rather to get Larissa’s soul and stick it up to God.
Still knowing the portrayals of the Devil in other medium (even medium that actively portray God as a jerk such as this comic) even when the Devil seems like a nice guy he’ll eventually stab you in the back or reveal some tiny detail that would’ve been a dealbreaker if the MC knew about it. I don’t think the Devil would stab Larissa in the back (at least figuratively, maybe literally to speed up her death, but still unlikely I think), but I would not be surprised if Larissa doesn’t realize some detail. Perhaps the fact that she won’t be able to see Landon anymore. Also succubus are sometimes considered dangerous to spend time with. While that time will be amazing your lifespan will shorten dramatically. I doubt Larissa would like that.
Trackman1997 wrote:
I think sticking it up to God is only motivation he needs.
Checking for timezone, ignore this.
Kevin is kind of cute 🙂