2004-03-31

A movie theater scene shown from behind a row of silhouetted empty seats. On the glowing screen, a promotional title card reads: "COMING THIS EASTER, A MEL GIBSON FILM, PASSION OF THE CHRIST II: ZOMBIE JESUS!" Beneath the title stands a figure with long brown hair whose face is split down the middle: one half is a normal pale human face, the other half is rotted green zombie flesh. A pale severed-looking hand is raised on the left, and a green zombie hand reaches in from the right. A caption below the panel reads: "Do unto others as you would have them BRAAAAINS!" -- a zombie spin on the Golden Rule. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-lettered note reading "I SWEAR THIS JOKE WASN'T COMPLETELY PLAYED OUT IN 2004," the cartoonist wryly acknowledging the dated Zombie Jesus gag.