I have no idea where Sam Johnson, creator of the Exploding Dog webcomic, is coming from theologically, but there seems to be a lot of gospel in his drawings, particularly in the identification of sin and our crushing inability to self-improve. If he doesn’t explicitly identify with the gospel, then his work is all-the-more an affirmation of how universally applicable these themes are. Check out all his work at www.explodingdog.com. Here are a few of my favorites:
“I Knew She Was a Liar, but I Loved Her Anyways”
“It Is Such a Chore to Get off the Floor”
“I Want to Be a Better Robot”
And my personal favorite:
“Take It Everywhere”
Update: He just added this one yesterday. Talk about the bound will!
“It’s Always Been a Choice, but I Need to Go Fast”
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I like that first comic. It reminds me of C.S. Lewis' comment on faith in Mere Christianity:
"The battle is between faith and reason on one side and emotion and imagination on the other.
"A man knows, on perfectly good evidence, that a pretty girl of his acquaintance is a liar and cannot…be trusted: but when he finds himself with her his mind loses its faith in that bit of knowledge and he starts thinking, 'Perhaps she'll be different this time…'"
And while on the subject of C.S. Lewis, might I recommend http://lyricaltheology.blogspot.com/, the website of the C.S. Lewis of the 21st century hip-hop scene. You've got to listen to his stuff. The Atonement is beyond fabulous.
i love it, tom. great stuff. keep it coming.