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Intermission_War_2

Shadowless

on March 27, 2007

Second page of WAR!.
Amazingly, although nearly everyone I talked to liked this page, very few actually realised what it was that I was trying to convey.

So if you would like to figure out for yourself, read no further.
If not, feel free to read my explaination below.
(Bonus points for people who can identify the different countries represented.)

So anyway: In the First World War, all the armies had items (like belt buckles, for example) emblaisoned with the expression "God is with us" or a variation thereof in their various languages, ("Gott Mit Uns", "Dieu Est Avec Nous", "Dio e' con noi")

Of course, because most of the opposing faction had the same religion, so God could not have been on both sides of the fray, unless he didn't know or care about what was going on on Earth.
(Either that or He likes to see people get hurt, which is a really disturbing idea, even for a non-believer like me)

For some reason, I just love the ironic perversity behind this fact so I decided to to it into a comic.In the narrow panels, the characters are proclaiming that the Divinity preffers their side, by imagining God waving their flag and wearing regional dress for each country.

Of course, in the last pannel we actually se he is totally unintrested in what happens below, and is instead, having a nap.

Just for the record, lately I have become deeply disilusioned with all forms of organized religion, of whatever faith butI'm not an atheist per se, so I'll just say I'm an "Orthodox Heretic" from now on.

PS: the stuff dividing the various nations in the last pannel is supposed to be barbed wire. I drew the Entente on the left and the Central Powers on the right, the nations involved corresponding to the situation in the summer of 1915.

PPS: the "God" character is borrowed from a comic belonging to a friend of mine, Matei Branea.