Shortpacked! by David Willis

Discussion (29) ¬

1. 
   BlueNight

   April 12, 2010 at 11:39 pm | # | Reply

   Because Aslan IS a universe-hopping shape-shifting Jesus, that’s how.
2. 
   Jorn

   April 18, 2010 at 1:08 am | # | Reply

   It looks like Harry has a goatee in panel 4. I think that’s awesome.
3. 
   Noble Bear

   May 6, 2010 at 5:22 am | # | Reply

   Underneath Aslan is Jesus and underneath that is Batman.

   Harry’s just an underdeveloped emo punk.
4. 
   Chris

   May 12, 2010 at 9:56 am | # | Reply

   Actually, both series have religious undertones, with the two characters shown here having Jesus underneath, though not necessarily Batman. Furthermore, they both have been criticised of teaching the occult and/or paganism, though the time difference filters our perspectives somewhat. Also, Rowling was rather more progressive, in that she portrayed both sexes as equals in a sense. Lewis, being against women and sexuality and showing this quite clearly in his books, found a lot of support from the church (or at least parts of it).

   In the end it’s not so much a matter of who was more awesome, which is extremely debatable and ultimately moot; it is a matter of whose thoughts were more in line with the more literal-minded clergy and laity, which some might say is a rather closed-minded and inelegant standard.

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     Anon

     January 16, 2013 at 10:50 pm | # | Reply

     http://cslewis.drzeus.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9636
     In that regard, Lewis’ views were… fairly normal for his time. And yes, I agree, the church back then was just as bad with those issues.
5. 
   Clare

   June 20, 2010 at 12:21 am | # | Reply

   Actually, there are a number of Christians who are anti-Narnia… I think because of the talking animals.

   • 
     David Willis

     June 20, 2010 at 12:23 am | # | Reply

     But there were at least two talking animals in the Bible!

     • 
       Alec Draven

       September 11, 2010 at 1:39 pm | # | Reply

       Yes, and one of them was the serpent that tempted Eve to eat the apple in Eden. There’s your justification against talking animals.

       • 
         Kate

         September 14, 2010 at 7:44 am | # | Reply

         Simba… you are an abomination and the one true king.
     • 
       No0ne

       October 25, 2010 at 8:18 pm | # | Reply

       we can also infer that because of Eves reaction (or lack of) to a TALKING snake that it is logical to assume that the other animals could talk as well.
     • 
       Stikibunn

       November 7, 2010 at 9:53 am | # | Reply

       For those wondering, the second animal was some dudes donkey. There was an angel in front of them while he was riding the ass (yeah yeah I made a joke) and the donkey wouldn’t move because the donkey could see the angel. He started beating the donkey and they donkey was all “Dude! stop hitting me! there’s a mother farming angel right there!”
6. 
   MissKmae

   October 5, 2010 at 6:02 pm | # | Reply

   Wow. Seriously, I’m a Christian, and I think that people who condemn this kind of stuff is stupid. Sure, if they’re SACRIFICING people or something, performing dark rituals that involve lots of bloodshed and murder, or have sex within the pages of the book, that’d be something else, but honestly… I mean, Harry didn’t even kill anyone, and I’m pretty sure Aslan has.

   • 
     Cassidy

     December 7, 2010 at 10:49 am | # | Reply

     SPOILERS
     for the lazy people who dont read.

     HARRY KILLED VOLDEMORT. waitwut?

     • 
       Lesharo

       February 3, 2011 at 5:51 pm | # | Reply

       Technically, no. Harry only attempted to disarm him. The Voldemort’s killing curse rebounded, again, so, in actuallity, Voldemort killed himself…again.
     • 
       AY

       March 10, 2011 at 2:38 am | # | Reply

       THIS.
       And also the one about the disarming having a rebound.
       BOTH OF THESE.
   • 
     Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

     February 2, 2013 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

     The problem Christians have with Harry Potter is because the Bible says specifically to stay away from witchcraft, wizards and fortune tellers because none of them are of God. In fact when God told King Saul to get rid of them all, he did, but for some reason spared one. King Saul had a lot of problems though. He was pretty mental to say the least, lol! But anyone can be that.

     I’m going to hold off on saying anymore because while I have more to say, this particular strip isn’t the place for it.
   • 
     John

     March 16, 2013 at 8:39 pm | # | Reply

     Yeah, as long as the fictional characters don’t have sex! Because that would be terrible!

     … wait, how do you read this webcomic? You do realize that that, a few pages back, it was only for the grace of a blanket that we didn’t actually see Faz and Ninja Rick having the buttsex, right?
7. 
   Novii

   March 8, 2011 at 10:43 pm | # | Reply

   Aren’t Harry’s eyes supposed to be green…?

   Also…nah. I hate talking about religious stuff on the internet. Awesome comic though.

   • 
     Pippin Tam

     June 26, 2011 at 10:31 pm | # | Reply

     They are only blue in the movies because the actor was allergic to the contacts.

     • 
       Ragnal

       December 25, 2012 at 5:23 pm | # | Reply

       Really? Guess I don’t pay attention to people’s eye color to really notice.
8. 
   Kasamari

   September 29, 2011 at 11:36 pm | # | Reply

   I don’t know about the Lewis books, but I know that people were trying to have the Rowling books removed from school. Back when it was going on I already knew what the response was going to be on the basis that every book that had anything to do with magic or mystisism or any other fantasy type thing in it would have to be removed if Harry Potter was. This includes all of the fables and fairy tales. Not to mention Lord of the Rings which is considered to be the book of the 20th century.
9. 
   Heather

   October 25, 2011 at 11:22 am | # | Reply

   The hilarious thing is that Harry Potter was made into a Christ allegory himself in the last book. He walked to his death, even had a bit of soul searching in a version of Gethsename, died for other peoples safety and rose from the dead.

   Plus of course, Rowling is a Christian herself.

   I didn’t really like how the HP series ended at all, but it’s kind of ridiculous that some fundamentalists consider her to be some sort of Satanist. I mean if they actually read the books, certain things- such as Divination are pretty much slandered in the books, which pretty much line up with that religion. I mean HP isn’t really the perfect example of morals at all in many instances- since the heroes get away with a lot of stuff they shouldn’t, but nothing to specifically get most christians all that relied in comparison to your average every day non-christian.
10. 
    Dave who hates bad pet owners

    December 5, 2011 at 10:51 pm | # | Reply

    The position Christians take is that if you are going to escape into a world of fantasy through a book you should use the Bible.
11. 
    dragoonchris

    January 3, 2012 at 1:38 pm | # | Reply

    Poor Harry, being called Satan and having a millions of dumb fanfics.
12. 
    TARDIS With A Hat

    June 23, 2012 at 6:47 pm | # | Reply

    Don’t be ridiculous, everybody know Harry Potter is a zionist, hollywoodist, templeristic scheme to brainwash our poor muslim children.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rGsHUfl9xEE
13. 
    Master David Goodmen

    August 4, 2012 at 2:01 pm | # | Reply

    Who is “Mary Sue”?  Lookie here:  http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2257878/3/That_Essay_That_Everyone_Else_Writes.   I am sure there are other instances, but I knew of this one before reading this comic, and looked no further. 
14. 
    newHelm

    August 25, 2012 at 9:02 pm | # | Reply

    Three things. Rowling’s research was to good, she used actual spells for fictional ones (brother is wican and I learned a lot about it) Second, any lie or truth can be twisted to your own good or bad. (I’m Christian and go fish is a sin for me because I was an excessive gambler but drinking has never been a problem so its ok in small doses.) Third, if one person says it everyone repeats. (Harry Potter, both sides. It’s amazing or Satan spawn, I found it lacking but I get yelled at about it.)

    • 
      Blackaeon

      September 16, 2012 at 10:45 pm | # | Reply

      Hate to engage in a metaphorical staring contest with you, chum, but Rowlings’ “research” for her spells didn’t consist of more than some bastardized Latin (which, unless maybe your brother’s an Alexandrian/Hermetic Wiccan, you wouldn’t really encounter in any of his materials anyhow). The Killing Curse (Avada Kedavra) is the closest analogue to an old amulet that contained the words every stage magician knows as “abra(c/h)adabra”. Also, if go fish is a sin, I’m so F’ed in the A. Nice try, though.

      • 
        Lis

        May 13, 2013 at 12:52 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, as a pagan I have to say that there is no real resemblance at all to real practices. In fact Rowling tries very hard to stay away from any of the real occult.