2010-05-13

A six-panel comic. An older bearded man congratulates David: "David! You have slain Goliath! Incredible!" David, a man with reddish-brown hair, downplays it: "Well, not really... I slung a rock through his head." The bearded man insists, "Yeah... buuuut... he was really really big!" David, exasperated, replies, "Right, but... again, it was a rock through a guy's head. There's not really much of a story he—" In the next panel three grinning bearded men interrupt him, shouting "It was the hand of God!", "I saw it!", and "He shall be our king!" while David stands apart in the background, unimpressed. A final panel labeled "Later..." shows a boy asking a rabbi, "Rabbi... why did God cease doing miracles 2,000 years ago?" and the rabbi answering, "That is an unknowable mystery!" The joke: mundane events get mythologized into divine miracles over time. Votey (aftercomic), drawn in rough black-and-white: a woman asks a man, "Didn't you used to do single panel comics?" He snaps back, "I also used to sleep. Get up to date, woman!"