2010. Big, heavy, blocky numbers. It does sound kind of ominous, doesn’t it?
Happy New Year from Odin and Friends!
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Don’t accuse me of showing the mighty one in a bad light. This kind of stuff is straight out of the Eddas. Show Odin your loot at your own risk!
Odin realizes that not every man was born a poet. That some of us jumble our words and can’t figure out whether the word for strange is spelled “weird,” “wierd”, or “wyrd.” That most of us don’t prance around talking to the heavens all day but only when our head is on the block.
So when you do manage to cough out a prayer, don’t make the mistake of this bold knight and just recycle the one from Conan the Barbarian. Yes, the Conan Prayer is a beautiful little piece of work, but consider this:
– The prayer was intended for Crom, not Odin.
– The prayer was uttered by the body building governor of California. I’m with you, I wish the movie was real too, but we have to be honest about such things.
– Odin is the God of Poetry not the God of Movie Quotations and Arnold Impersonations.
Am I wrong on this one? You guys tell me.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Conan Prayer (infidels!), there’s a refresher below. No, the guy below is not me, but he has obviously seen the Greatest Movie Ever Made as many times as I have:
Odin tires of blasting humans with lightning and mixes it up with a nice firestorm. This was going to be a quickie, but I took a little extra time to make the background extra-apocalyptic and get the orange wafting smoke of destruction funneling into the clouds just right. Figured we might as well end November with a bang. Let me know what you think of the colors!
Be careful what you pray for. Or at least how you phrase your prayer. The gods can take these things quite literally.
Odin has never been fond of greedy individuals either. In the the Eddas, the gold-lusting witch Gullveig was attacked with spears in Odin’s hall and burned not once, not twice, but three times, setting off the first war of the universe between the Aesir and Vanir (some theorists have associated Gullveig with Freyja, who has an affinity for bright, precious, sparkly things).
One final bit of commentary: One nice thing about making a comic is it’s one of the few artistic mediums where you can still drop a safe on someone’s head for laughs.
I guess all this talk about medical marijuana in the news made me want to do a cartoon about reefer.
That, and I just like the idea of the gods getting smoked out now and then. Burnt offerings are a mainstay of world religion, after all. So what you really have here is a cartoonish attempt at comparative religion.
Now, regarding the whole medical marijuana thing, I’m a bit torn…
On the one hand, I don’t think it should be illegal to grow plants and if you so choose, light those plants on fire and breath in the smoke. I mean, we’re not talking about some demonic carnivorous flower from outer space fed with the sacrificed blood of virgins here, we’re talking about a roadside weed.
On the other hand, I don’t really like the idea of the guy driving me through traffic to the airport fighting off his buzz from the night before. Or of my young nieces thinking a righteous doobie is an acceptable cure for a headache. Or our military becoming like those guys in Somalia who are always hopped up on that narcotic chewing tobacco of theirs.
I know what you’re saying. “But Vato, we’re not talking about complete legalization here… we’re talking about marijuana for medical purposes.”
Okay, so here’s what I say to that. What is the first thing a non-hippy, non-medical-marijuana-dope-doctor asks you about when you get a physical? You know, the kind of doctor that works in a hospital, not an apartment on Venice Beach. The doctor you see not when you need a hook up, but when you have a cough that won’t go away?
Do you smoke?
The United States government has spent tens of millions of dollars taking down the tobacco industry because of the effect smoke has on your lungs. If you apply for health insurance and tell the insurance company you smoke, your rates are doubled. Corporations are fined millions of dollars for the noxious smoke they pump into the atmosphere.
So now all of a sudden smoke is good for you?
Just remember, Odin drinks wine.
The Norse spirit of discovery extends beyond just sailing boats to strange new lands. The Odin described in the Eddas quested ceaselessly for knowledge and wisdom as well.
Odin sought knowledge using all manner of methods to increase his store. Every day his two ravens would search the world for new information, while Odin himself surveyed the affairs of the entire world from his throne, Hlidskialf.
Odin’s quest for wisdom knows no equal. He placed so much value in its attainment that he exchanged one of his eyes for it at the Well of Mimir.
No wonder nowadays he has so little patience for humans who turn their backs on knowledge. When Odin of old wasn’t clobbering giants and stirring up trouble amongst kings, he was being absolutely ruthless in seeking to understand the laws of the universe.
This one makes it all worth while.
Panel three. A full frame, full panel explosion in glorious comic book magenta and orange.
Yeah!
I mean, this is the kind of stuff I drew in fourth grade when I should have been learning how to do “useful” things like spell and multiply.
Napoleon Dynamite would be all over this — Odin’s eight legged horse tromping a space ship… sweet! — although he might criticize the shading on the eight legs of my eight legged horse.
Yeah, I know what you’re saying: Where’s the eight legs, Vato?
Sadly enough, my horse drawing skills still remain at the fourth grade level (along with my math skills). But trust me, those eight legs are there. Check out this comic for proof (yes, I recycled the image; it took me all day to draw, so I don’t even need Odin’s wisdom to know I should use it more than once).
Star Wars, Star Trek, Starship Troopers… today Odin and Friends takes its rightful place at the same mead hall bench as these legendary titles . Yes, glorious webcomical space battle is yours to behold.
Presenting for your visual and existential enjoyment…
The ultimate battle of religion versus technology.
Gods versus space ships! Antiquity versus science fiction! Floating heads versus future law suits — egad!
Okay, I really tried to make that space ship look unfamiliar. You know, while still getting the joke across. I followed the whole 10 percent rule. Or is it the 80 percent rule? I went way over 80% with the hue and saturation filter.
You’re not buying it?
Come on, the Captain’s name is Burt!
Dragonballs, it’s going to take me a week to reedit this thing and I’m already struggling to make three new ones a week. Webcomics are not for the meek, my friend.
If you are just joining this space battle, click here to go to the start.
Odin decides to return to Earth after his long respite in outer space. Although he might be aloof when it comes to human affairs, he still has his responsibilities. Odin dreads the problems the humans have created in his absence, problems that will certainly require his attention on return.
His return should fill the hearts of the humans with joy…
