- Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Here's Hosea, a book of the Bible, by Mark Russell dreadful_blog and sample cartoon. This is one of those cases where I'm going to spend hours redrawing it three million times to try and get the energy of the rough that I did in 3 seconds. I think the reduction of content to cartoon is perfect - and the text and illo work in nice compliment. Just the illo that's going to be a pain in the ass. I'd have been fine with it if I didn't like the rough so much.


And the final - which doesn't quite work...


28. Hosea
Hosea was a prophet whose wife was always cheating on him. He’d be preaching in the town square, but his words were lost on the crowd because the whole time people would be snickering behind his back because they knew that his wife was off getting boned by some other guy. When he got home from preaching to find an empty house, Hosea would wander the streets, track down his wayward wife, and drag her back home, much to the amusement of the townspeople. Sometimes she’d just disappear with a new lover, often for months at a time, but then she’d invariably come crawling back to Hosea. And like a chump, he always took her back. One time, the guy she ran off with decided to enslave her and Hosea ended up having to pay her lover in order to get his cheating wife back.

People couldn’t believe that Hosea still wanted to have her around after all the times she’d cheated on him. One day, Hosea was out in the town square, preaching as always, when someone finally worked up the nerve to ask him why he didn’t simply throw his wife out on her ass. Hosea shrugged and replied by saying that his relationship with his wife was like God’s relationship with us. We are always cheating on God, leaving him for some shiny new idea or temporary pleasure, but for some reason, he’s always willing to swallow his pride and take us back.

And the people finally understood what he’d been preaching about all that time.
 
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