Sunday, September 30, 2018

Comic 749 -- Jude's Offer

Time to finish off the prison break...

http://talesfromthevault.com/thunderstruck/comic749.html

For Gail, the whole "what would Jesus do" question starts to take on all sorts of new and spooky meanings.

2 comments:

Gary Kleppe said...

Hm. Here's how the scene could have ended:

GAIL: I know how His story ended. I don't... I don't want to die like that.

JUDE: Not to worry.

GAIL: Huh?

JUDE: That story was the *first* coming. You're the SECOND coming. It doesn't have to end the same way at all.

GAIL: Really?

JUDE: No. You just need to resurrect the dead, judge everyone, and set up a kingdom that will have no end.

GAIL: Maybe that whole cross thing isn't so bad after all.

Terranovan said...

One thought that comes to mind about the Crucifixion - Jesus might have been intending to turn himself in to the Sanhedrin and/or the Romans, adding another layer to his self-sacrifice. If so, Judas' betrayal didn't doom him, just diluted the Redemption. So far as I can tell, it's not inconsistent with the Gospels, although maybe it's inconsistent with what we see from Jude in Thunderstruck.