toe

A five-panel comic in which a balding man with a mustache and vest talks to God, whose dialogue appears in large rounded speech boxes. Panel 1: the man clutches his foot in pain, shouting "OW!" Panel 2: he looks up angrily and asks, "God! Why did you let me stub my toe?" God answers, "I saved you." Panel 3: God explains, "If you hadn't stubbed your toe, you would have left 3 minutes earlier than you will. And, you would have been run over by a bus." Panel 4: the man grins and throws his arms wide, saying "Wow!" God adds, "Instead, that bus will run over someone who isn't Catholic." Panel 5: the man, now small and kneeling, says "I... I don't know what to say..." God commands "Praise the Lord!" and the man meekly echoes, "P-praise the Lord..." The joke is that the man is unsettled by God's casual cruelty toward non-Catholics but goes along with it anyway. Votey (aftercomic): the man, seen small in profile, looks up and says "Could you maybe not?" God replies in a large box, "You want a rain of toads? Huh?!"