The greater part of hope is patience.
on August 20, 2018 at 12:01 am*shouts after him* I BET YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW DO YOU
Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed the Wrestling With Faith portion of my life’s work. Eventually we will enter the Pissing On One’s Faith portion, followed by the Dissecting The Entire Journey Via Continuity Reboot portion.
you may now refer to the cheese as “cheese daddy”
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this was always one of my favorite IW! strips. there’s something i really enjoy about how the Cheese could just rip her apart molecule by molecule, but she asks an honest, sincere question and he takes her seriously enough to answer her (sort of) instead of ripping her apart molecule by molecule
It’s one of my favorite strips, too, especially because I first read it while struggling with similar questions.
Same. I first read it when I was in the middle of a very similar crisis of faith in my early twenties, and it’s always stuck with me since. One of my all-time favorite strips Willis has ever done.
Same. I always distinctly felt as though the Cheese knows that there’s no God in the walkiverse, yet he refuses to allow Joyce the easy way out. I thought it was extremely responsible of Wilis to emphasise how the journey of discovery and the eventual choice are more important than the fact, whichever it is.
I have to say that it was a disappointment to me when Shortpacked turned out to be fully anti-Christian. I expected that one who comes out from such a journey of discovery is wise and compassionate to understand those who arrived at a different conclusion. Then again, back then I was still quite naive and didn’t know very much about how very nasty and evil /some/ Christians may be while professing the name of Christ. Nowadays I know better, and agree that the most despicable among them deserve mockery.
Also I’m glad that in Dumbing of Age he has taken some time to portray some Christians in a positive light.
It’s true that the only things I remembered about this comic at the time the repost series started was Dina’s death scene and Walky generally being gross, but still, it’s really weird that I wouldn’t remember something like this. I wonder if I actively blocked it from my memory? Mr. Random doesn’t seem to be posting the original dates anymore, but I think I might have been still loosely clinging to my fundie phase at the time this came out.
*were. (note to self: after you go back and add something to a post, recheck all the grammar)
Yeah, I don’t know what happened to Mr. Random, but I can at least give you the date for today’s: Friday, November 7, 2003
That’s a very strange response from The Cheese.
Is this really his Earth-3 counterpart, Le Fromage?
I think he’s being rational and senses there’s no danger, just a poor misguided kid who need to do things on their own. He’s brushing her off but in a nice way, if he was angered he would have vaporized or done worse to her already
Dissecting The Entire Journey Via Continuity Reboot is also known as Dumbing of Age, right?
I like the implication here that Joyce will eventually start being incredibly snarky about Christ, given…
…aw, we’re never gonna get there, are we.
Since DoA time moves too slowly for us to ever reasonably expect to see this development in Joyce, I’m hoping we’ll get to see what’s going on with Jordan, because the black sheep of the Brown family has to be in the snarky about Christ stage. He’s probably also an internet pornlord.
I’m pretty sure that they actively avoided telling her about Historical Jesus.
When Dumbing of Age finally gets to the second semester, I really hope they introduce Historical Jesus as one of the new professors. He could be Prof. Hector Ricardo Jesús, PhD, Professor of Comparative Religion and Near Eastern Archaeology. That would be amazing.
The answer Cheese gives is pretty wise. If people all over keep asking him about believing in the correct Being, it’s a good response.
I’m imagining what would’ve happened if the Cheese had bodily harmed Joyce in this exchange and what that would’ve done to Joyce’s psyche. That would have been an answer in itself. I’m glad the Cheese took this route.
You mean if he had ripped her to molecules like he was threatening? Yes, I can see how that could cause long-term damage.
I think that The Cheese’s monologue could be summarised as: “Spoilers, sweetie!”