LINK TO FREE WEB COMIC VERSION OF TESTAMENT #7 (NSFW)
Quick reminder that TESTAMENT can get pretty explicit!
Original solicitation copy for TESTAMENT #7:
“Abraham's epic war with the Anakim giants reverberates through time, as
Alan Stern steels himself to do battle with an army of gargantuan war
machines. But his true enemy is a force more powerful than any robot.”
Rushkoff’s Chapter Seven (#7) Notes are available here.
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My, comic books have changed over the decades. Lately I have looked at Avengers covers from the sixties.
ReplyDeleteFor me, this is where the Bible goes from being temporarily weird to utterly nonsensical. Douglas Rushkoff’s notes help, but only a bit.
ReplyDeleteSo we have Cain working his ass off to produce something of value, necessary for the subsistence of life, and who then freely makes an offering of it to God. But no, that’s no good. “You have not learned the lesson that your brother Abel has.” Said brother Abel kept his fat ass sat on the grass, didn’t do a thing, and then took an animal’s life like the bloodthirsty psychopath he is, and THIS is being rewarded, THIS is the correct behavior that Nobodaddy wants to see. Man, sorry to say but God is a complete douche.
Cain even masturbated onto his crops, I mean, what could say ‘I <3 U God’ better than this?
Moreover, if that is the foundation myth all three monotheistic religions have, I’d say it’s no wonder civilizations arising from those have slowly but surely for the past 3000 years been working their way towards the self-destruction they now seem to be on the verge of.
As for getting rewarded for not doing anything while those who work hard get punished, this sounds to me suspiciously like the birth of capitalism.
I was lucky enough to be born and raised outside any sort of religion, meaning I never held much of a personal beef against it. But discovering now how filthy and repulsive many ideas in the Old Testament appear to be, I am starting to see it as a sort of manual on how to become the worst possible kind of human being.
At this point I wasn’t even surprised that the two biblical brothers would fight about who’s gonna get to have sex with their mom. What did surprise me was Rushkoff’s explanation that this element was his, for the sake of simplicity.
Cain hiding a dead body under the rug so God won’t notice made me laugh.
(‘Abel? Nah, haven’t seen him in a while, definitely nothing to see under the soil here, God’)
In the other timeline, Greta going for both men made me roll my eyes, like come on girl! I won’t blame her for being promiscuous (although Alan wants to see it as “date rape”, she clearly has been letting it happen), but I would blame her for a complete lack of foresight veering into sheer stupidity. She also has terrible taste in men, going for pedantic, self-absorbed, unethical psychos with hubristic egos.
I guess chances are high that Greta’s child might very well be Mr. Green’s rather that Alan’s. Especially seeing how Green is the one most knowledgeable about fertility.
Sorry if my comment this time around sounds pretty negative, but I find that there’s a painful lack of likable characters in this comics series. Sure beats Sunday school, though!