This was the “epilogue” I mentioned a few days back.
Also, I got the order of “YES” posters from FedEx today! I’ve already got a batch of them ready to go out in the mail tomorrow. Those of you who ordered one, look for them soon!
Shortpacked! by David Willis
Toys are serious business.
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AWWWW They’re bonding…
At a glance, the posters look like they say, “OH YES”
Hey koolaid!
Ooooooh yeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhh
I am really glad Historical Jesus is sticking around. He’s a fun guy.
Don’t you mean “Hysterical Jesus” hyuk hyuk hyuk
When did Ryuk from Death Note become Jesus?
I love the character an’ all, but… Wow.
Turning over the tables in the den of thieves and false idols, I presume?
negative, its turning over the tables of the money changers in the temple that you are searching for. right idea, wrong place. Here I suppose the store is the holy temple (of toys?) so its sacred and its defiled by selling the toys? maybe?
Maybe he’s just warming up before heading over to the nearest megachurch.
I just want to know why we don’t have mega-synagogs?
Because people keep destroying the Temple
+1 Internet
I want to know why he doesn’t have the a whip like the one he had when he did this in the bible. Edited Jesus, you suck
And once more I am Roadblock.
He knows a good whip when he see’s one and judge the quality of the toy whips in the store inadequate. He’d rather do it without then do it with shitty.
Christ you know I love you, did you see I waved…
I believe that you are God so tell me that I’m saved
Roll on up for my price is down! Come on in for the best in town!
Take your pick of the finest wine. Lay your bets on this bird of mine.
Jesus Christ Superstar Combo! +30 Pieces of Silver
Why is he pushing tables over? Has Shortpacked! being converted to a church when no-one was looking?
Perhaps he hates capitalism? As far as I can tell he seemed to have a hatred for it in the bible…
Jeshua and me can be very special socialist buddies!
But Jeshua – attempts at toppling a corrupt system in such a manner can be dangerous – we need to think this out a little better than tipping over random tables and cash registers – it’s a bit barbaric really…
By the way Jeshua – You’ve got a sexy beard…
Even if Jesus is a good Marxist, he would scold you for saying the Roman era was capitalist. The system goes tribal communism -> slavery -> feudalism -> capitalism -> socialism -> paradise communism
You missed the petty-commodity system of the late Enlightenment that lays down a market structure, much less the accompaning socio-political systems that go with the related economic paradigms. ;-P
Wow; I’m a little disappointed – my smart-ass remark should have devolved into insane bickering and arguing by now! Shame on you all!
I guess Jesus has kinda worn out his flame baiting ability by now…
Seriously though – Am I the only one looking back on this Jesus storyline and pondering how Malaya realizing she’s straight and the negative depiction of women in comics causes a bigger (and angrier) commotion than the resurrection of a long-dead historical Jesus which in many corners of the internet would be considered cause for untold arguments and debates!
Damn, I love this fandom!!!
Strictly speaking one could see a store as a church to those that worship the gods of name brand goods or something along those lines.
Have you accepted Optimus Prime as your Lord and Savior?
No, but I’m a fan of his work.
Optimus Prime? No. Optimus Christ. **** yeah!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/misogi/optimus_christ.jpg
So Shortpacked is the Third Temple? All I have to say is Best Temple ever!!
Jesus just likes pushing tables over. It’s his sick obsession.
Should… Should Leslie disinfect the tables and hide the black lights?
Oh, I see. We all thought that in that bible story when he turned them over, it was because he was upset that they were selling stuff in the temple. But it was actually unrelated to the fact that he was upset! He was going to knock the tables over anyway even before he got upset.
actually, as a carpenter he was showing his disapproval of the shoddy craftsmanship in the tables. See how easy it is for me to upend these, if you had good solid wood Nazarean craftsmanship I’d need two or three people to flip these. I could collapse this table with one light tap on any of its legs.
I always thought that part of the bible was expressing displeasure at selling religion and how tightly Roman government and Roman religion were intertwined (like how the Roman Catholic Church in the darker days literally sold salvation like door to door salesmen)
He overturned the table at the Jewish temple, not a Pagan one.
Selling religion didn’t ever really happen in Judaism, and didn’t happen in Christianity for at least another few hundred years. They weren’t selling religion at the temple, they were just selling coffee and t-shirts at the temple.
True story: I know of several churches that sell coffee and t-shirts.
The whole money-changer thing had to do with exchanging the money you brought on your pilgrimage for the local currency, so you could buy a sacrificial animal. It wasn’t really practical to travel with your own sacrificial animal, in most cases.
Not sure what Jesus had against that, I only know the Jewish side of the story. Never read the New Testament.
See, they could have worked out a reasonable agreement wherein the money-changers relocated their enterprise to just outside of the temple grounds. It’s still a valuable service … just take it outside, ya know?
His aversion towards tables probably dates back to His days as an apprentice carpenter in Joseph’s workshop. He must have hated assembling them.
“Me-damned tables and their frikken legs…”
Hi PM, but is tonight’s gravatar Iroha from the Samurai Spirits/Showdown game series?
Nope, this grav is Kei Yuuki from Moyashimon, a show about Tadayasu Sawaki, a boy who can talk to germs and bacteria.
Kei is Tadayasu’s best friend who later becomes a ‘trap’.
Thanks. Guess I got trapped!
I thought maybe the store had been declared a religion during the Second Eaton storyline.
I thought we agreed never to talk about that Second Eaton crap again?
Christ this table is heavy.
Very Punny!
I imagine he said “ME, this table is heavy!”
The truce holds. Good to see.
And friendship will blossom from that truce…
A lesbian and a messiah figure/cult figure head
and they fight crime! …?
They fight vampires. No joke. Filmed in my home city
He’d be the best co-worker to hang out by the water cooler with!
Because he’d turn it to wine and make work that much more tolerable?
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
yay
I think she is waiting for him to loose the sash
Lose of of those o’s, , please. 8~P
Also, pretend that the first “of” was an “one” — I’m not fully awake. X~D
Nothing is funnier than typoing when pointing out a typo.
This is a universally true fact.
Indeed
Jesus is, outside of being Jesus, really really cute.
I always pictured a DJ when they said Jesus was turning tables.
Ever heard of Lucy, Daughter of the Devil? Jesus is a DJ on there
So what happened? It looks like Leslie copied Steven Sagal from “Belly of the Beast” where he double open palm punched that guy across the room. Did Leslie just punch that table over or something?
Or did she use her Jedi powers to force-push it over?
She’s secretly an abductee. It actually served her pretty well while thumpasprunging with Robin – avoiding that whole ‘woman of tissue paper’ thing and all.
No table will be safe in the world the moment he learns about levers
This was not my favorite arc but I love this particular comic!
Aww, Leslie you’re such a softie.
And no one wonders why, being a demigod, he can’t push over a table himself?
He is a Charisma based character.
Well, he could have turned the rocks into bread. Or un-nailed himself for the goddam cross, for that matter. Ol’ Jeshua was always about doing things the hard way.
Oooh! Now get him to turn water into Dr. Pepper.
‘Cause wine is so classist now.
Turn the water to Four Loko.
Thunderbird
I sense a battle in the future between Jesus and Ronald Reagan….. religion vs. patriotism
Tough choice. I’d bet my money or Reagan since Jesus would probably refuse to fight.
Jesus came to bring a sword. Reagan is sponsored by the NRA, though, and would bring a gun.
Going by the Book of Eli, Jesus still wins. At least as long as Jesus is blind.
Against Charleton Heston would be iffier though though his hands are already cold and dead. At least until Galasso gets to him.
Jesus just hasn’t been working out the way he used to.
he wouldn’t have this problem if the store sold shake weights.
I’m impressed by Leslie’s strength. Mostly because I always thought those register things built into the floor.
And you just know right after they did that, their was like 15 people waiting in line waiting to pay, and that was the only working register at the moment.
Nah, they move: http://www.shortpacked.com/2012/comic/book-13/06-reader-mail-week-two/sharkpit/
Ah damn it, i thought she may have turned out to be an unregistered abductee
That shows they can be moved. It did not show how heavy they are. Unless Willis is going to tell us exactly ow much it weighs, it is still a possibility. After all I’m sure it was impossible for them to find all of the abductees in the world.
Tho either way I like it to be a mystery if she is or not.
True, but i would love to see more hints towards it being true *read this Willis*
Not my favorite, mostly because I didn’t get the reference until I started to read the comments.
Such things happen when one grows up in a non-religious household.
Yep, me too. I’ve read parts of the bible, but there are a lot of common stories that I’m unfamiliar with.
I wonder what sort of reward table flipping transfers over to in heaven. What’s the paradise equivelent of one table flips? And does the reward get better with every consecutive table flip?
Do you get frequent flipper points?
Use the Force, Leslie.
If she wants cash, and she’s turning against the shop anyway, she could just take it from the till.
More so since Jesus would probably get the blame.
I wonder whether Galasso might go as far as to crucify him for it, though.
Hey David! What do you think about Transformers being an allegory for the New Testament? Optimus Prime is Jesus, as he is the leader and came back to life, while the other Autobots are his desciples. Decepticons are the Romans, and Cybertron is Jerusalem. Seems legit to me.
Explained in such broad terms, everything can be the New Testament. I’m not really buying it.
My thoughts exactly. Apparently a guy did his college thesis on how it is an allegory. While I can see his point, you’re right, it could apply to almost anything. I figured since you’re into Transformers and Jesus is one of your characters, you’d be the man to ask! Thanks for your input
Man, I hope he got an F, ‘cuz that is ridiculous.