![[0848] The Divine Comedy, Page 45](/comics/2017-01-02-0848-the-divine-comedy-page-45.png "[0848] The Divine Comedy, Page 45")
Whew, that’s the last strip of the longest or second-longest (depending how you count the 17 MS Paint Adventures pages) Sandra and Woo story arc ever.
I’m very happy with our output in 2016. It wasn’t on par with our best year 2013 (in my opinion), but I believe that we managed to publish a lot of fresh and funny material. I’m proud that Sandra and Woo hasn’t become stale in all those years since its start in 2008 and is still able to surprise its readers with every update.
In 2017, I want to reduce the amount of supernatural elements in Sandra and Woo to its usual level again. But the Divine Comedy story arc would just not have worked without them. It’s one of my favorite story arcs. All the pieces really nicely fit together which wasn’t clear to me when I began writing it.
- Larisa: All’s well that ends well?
- The Devil: Looks like it.
- Seeoahtlahmakaskay: We caused quite a stir, though. Time to flashy-thing all involved mortals.
- The Devil: No way! I still need to teach Larisa a lot to make sure that she’ll become a successful succubus!
- Seeoahtlahmakaskay: I’m sure she’ll do just fine without your help.
- The Devil: Grumble
- Seeoahtlahmakaskay: You too.
- Caption: The End
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Wait, what was this arc about?
I can’t seem to recall the last few weeks. How the heck did I get here and why do I have the sudden desire to make fires?
Well that was… What happened?
…? did we skip some Chapters?
Neuralizer? Never liked that move, MIB or not…
TheShear wrote:
I think yesterday we were promised that someone will die…
Well, I do remember an arc called “The Divine Comedy”. Does this mean what actually happened was something strange and hilariously silly?
Well done Oliver and powree that was one of the best arcs you guys have ever done, can’t remember a thing about it, but yeah great work
Of course there’s a men in black reference. of course there is…
Nice try, but I’ve seen enough MiB to always wear shades. 8)
Nice try, but I’ve seen enough MiB, so I always wear shades. 8)
Too bad I still make some posting mistakes due to this… :'(
Doesn’t count! I closed my eyes!
*flash!*
What happened? Is it January?
The end? I was thinking of this:
Seeoahtlahmakaskay: Succubus??
The Devil: Yes that was the diele. Larisa wil be a Succubus for Sandra life.
Seeoahtlahmakaskay: Sandra was never in danger. J. God maybe don’t now that but Sandra is too inport for Woo and this world.
The Devil: Yes Woo but Sandra too?
Seeoahtlahmakaskay: Yes we will see a lot of here. The name of this comic is not for naving Sandra and Woo.
(Sorry for the mispelling try me best)
Fine! Give her a Happy memory.
So Larissa won’t remember she sold her soul to the Devil. Might make things interesting.
One thing I don’t get is why TJG even bothered doing this in the first place. Unless he was just being a jerk for the sake of being a jerk (which is apparently the sole reason why this whole thing began in the first place) killing Sandra and making Cloud into (whatever) doesn’t gain anyone anything.
I do wish we had seen the ‘why’ that was done in the first place, but otherwise a really fun arc.
And Landon- who only got one or two panels in the entire arc- might still be smiling depending on just how much ‘homework’ he and Lar worked on.
Oh man, it sure has been a long time since this comic has updated,… what are they waiting for?
Huh – why is the mart completely destroyed ? 🙂 aaah gas main rupture ! Everything’s explained 🙂
I’d like to see Devil, mad and angry for once, i wonder if he has a second form of something, although it must be pretty similar to currect appearance, i am pretty sure he might still be very mellow when he is angry on contrary to popular beliefs.
Fun bullwhip because… who cares. That’s really it. Also God is dead.@ Draigon-Sprty:
So absolutely nothing that happened matters.
Oh crap, what year is it? I don’t remember a thing.
Good thing I backed up using an external memory device before reading this comic.
Something happened? When? Where . . . ?
Thank goodness I blinked.
I’m that guy that doesn’t go down in the basement and I don’t get caught by slow monsters, and I know where all the exits are at all times. Oh and talking animals don’t bother me, I know they talk to humans when they feel like it, especially if they need one of us to do something.
…Uhhh…something…something happened. I can…I can…something.
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I think I’ll go read Gaia…yeah, that sounds nice…
Honestly it’s had some laughs along the way but I’ve been well past ready for this arc to be done with. Hasn’t really personally worked for me.
So, when does Larissa get to remember that she sold her soul to the devil and is promised not only to be trained as a succubus (and then work as one), but is already promoted from her answers on the acceptance paperwork?
@ Trimutius:
Well, Thomas J God is no more.
Two months without Sandra and Woo, does anyone knows if it’ll come back?
That’s why “I wear my sunglasses at night!”.
So, did Seeoahtlahmakaskay neuralize just the audience, or Satan as well? And if the latter is the case, does that mean the devil will forget his deal with Larisa?
Oh hey, it’s 2017! That’s strange, I don’t remember the last two months… Ah well, I’m sure it was nothing important!
@ Jim:
She specifically said “all involved mortals”. The Devil isn’t mortal, so he gets off free.
I do wonder how this’ll pan out for Larisa, though…plenty of other people have mentioned the things she’s now forgotten about, but are still in effect, but no one’s mentioned the retina display she still has in her eye for that hPhone. That’s still something she could discover without the Devil having to tell her.
HMRC4EVR wrote:
Absolute power corrupts absolutely? (The immediate actions of the new “god” seem to bear this out.)
I don’t know, I liked the arc up to the past couple of installments. I don’t even mind the flashy-thingy ending. But everything after the MS Paint segment was kind of weak, compared to what came before that (and honestly, the end of the MS Paint part wasn’t quite as good as the start, either). I was kind of expecting we’d at least get a bit of clarification about whether the devil in the scene with Odin was really the archdemon Kevin distracting TJG while the actual devil was somewhere else. I was also sort of expecting some kind of acknowledgement of Larissa’s expected short life span somewhere in this arc, e.g. as a motivating factor in her willingness to sign the contract. Seems to me she could have driven a bit of a harder bargain there– ok, she’ll be dead in 20 years, but does she need to go blind (and presumably have lots of other unpleasant side effects) before then?
Let’s all just go to bed and forget that this arc ever happened, okay? 😉
“I’m sure she’ll do just fine without your help”
You know, she does have a point there. I’m glad I put on my shades as soon as I saw the flasher and will wear them for the rest of my life.
Trackman1997 wrote:
Well I am pretty sure there is a deneuralizer somewhere in Devils office in Elysium…
HMRC4EVR wrote:
According to The Divine Comedy, Page 1 [0803], Thomas J God did it out of “Pure self-loathing”.
The Angel’s department had decided she needed to die to turn Cloud into a criminal drunkard. No-one ever explained what department, or why they wanted a criminal drunkard Cloud.
Seems kind of unfair not to let her remember she sold her soul.
Sorry, Seeo. Neuralizers don’t work across the fourth wall.
Sorry Novil, but there are quite a few readers that didn’t like this arc (as evident in the comments throughout), including me. What was the point you were trying to make?
*Blinks* Huh? Why is there a blank space in my memory? Oh well, better go get a drink from the bar.
*Walks off before steeling my face.* Hm, good thing Augments can’t be Neuralized. *Cybernetic eyes focus slightly.* Though I’ll have to be careful. If they don’t want us knowing, then we keep our lips sealed… And stick to the shadows.
*Disappears in a ripple of clear hexagons.*
Finally. I really like Sandra and Woo (and I like Larisa and Landon even more;)) but this arc was pretty terrible. Way to long, way to pointless, and rarely funny. I hope the comic returns to it’s usuall great shape now 🙂
Platonix wrote:
Thomas J. thought he was immortal – he still died. So maybe the devil is mortal too.
Ok, so TJG is definitely the someone who dies in this story… Yeah, I think I’m finished reading this comic now.
Oooooooo…Flashy thing plot device. Thank goodness for AdBlock or I’d have thought this was a dead comic for the past several months.
So does that mean Larissa will still have the hPhone’s Retina display? Also, does the “flashy thing” null-and-void the Infernal Soul Contract? Because they never specify what the “flashy thing” does and that it is only a reference to MiB. So does it work the same or different?
CaeSera wrote:
Well agent K was also deneuralized later.
My understanding of this arc is that it was entirely non-canon, they just had to give it a silly ending, which yeah there we go.
And of course obligatory MIB reference.
Swamp gas, its always swamp gas