For a laugh, here’s a comic about the atheist apocalypse, featuring the Four Horsemen of Atheism!
(click the image for the whole comic)
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If only such a blessed day would come.
Also.. the horses kinda look like My Little Ponies, no? :)
Well, we all know My Little Ponies are from the Devil.
Brilliant :)
Anyone else catch the headline on the paper in the first and last frames? :)
Now that you mention it. I in 4 changes to 1 in 400. The Gideons are now giving away dictionaries.
Yeah, and the world has gone metric, too! (Well, I guess that should be the US has gone metric; the rest of the world already has!)
I want that in poster form so I can hang it up.
Science! Reason! Progress! Equality! Your powers combined I am… well not religion anyway.
Equality my ass. Those were four men as the horse riders of the apocalypse, he claims equality for women. Also when was whiteness the only representations of the end of days. LIAR. We need a new apocalypse. One with true equality.
Well, in all fairness, it is a parody of the four horse*men* of the apocalypse, not the four horse*people*, but your point about diversity is well made.
I think it’s a take off on Hitchen’s comment. When his book made the best seller list, someone characterized him as the 4th musketeer of the “New Atheists”. He said he preferred that he and his new colleagues be thought of as the Four Horsemen of the Anti-Apocalypse.
Hmm, I can’t name a prominent female athiest writer….only a few bloggers. Clearly one is needed though.
Perhaps one of the 4 Horsemen can be talked into a sex change.
I’m struggling to figure out how a diverse selection of horse persons would make a really big difference. The guy draws badly. I think if you don’t look at the pictures it’s probably better. I mean, I really don’t think 4 white guys are incapable of getting it right and that you need minorities and women to have the “right apocalypse.” Look at the other comics he’s drawn, the women look ridiculous and black people, yes, they’re under-represented, but I think hey, I’m not the best at drawing myself, so I would try not to deviate into accidentally offending someone by drawing black people, other minories, or women into superficial caricatures and stereotypes…. even at the best this author could do, drawing mostly white guys, the style doesn’t seem to allow for inclusiveness without shitting it up. Is that what you want? When your drawing style is a little more on the cringey side, draw white guys, they can’t complain, they’re not a minority, you can stereotype them all you want.
okay than, turn your sarcasm sensor on and reread the equality riders blurb,now read my statement. Now chuckle at my wittiness, than chuckle at yourself. I was just pointing out the patriarchal whiteness of the cartoon. That is it. Now enjoy it and chuckle. Chuckle darwin-damn it. (see another funny, Darwin-damn it = God damn it, a bad funny but still a funny)
Ha! Ok, next time you can use this indicator at the bottom of your post: /sarcasm
It’s hard to tell when people are joking sometimes!
Most cartoons are like that. !!! You didn’t make me laugh but you made me think. I hate you! Not really. :)
But seriously, even if you could have brilliant multicultural awareness and understanding, wouldn’t it be a little difficult to try to draw and characterize people of a different race or culture without being offensive or intentionally maybe “observationally” offensive? I think most webcomics (or really most examples of fiction) have a generic character set of their own race because you can write better from what you know, or often enough, based on people they know. If they belong to a diverse group of friends, their comic will represent diversity (somewhat). Really if you’re going to mix things up, you want to get it right, you’re not going to want to pose minorities in your cartoon like you can speak for them or say things that they would say. I get that black people feel under-represented in popular culture but I also think there is a problem when you feel like someone here has to be black. I’ve been watching “Scrubs” a lot lately, and the diversity on that show is believable, the friendships are believable. On other shows, I feel like these people would not be friends, not because they aren’t the same race, but it’s the tokenism – the placement and the weak chemistry and writing. Black people aren’t going to watch a very white show with one black character who just seems uncomfortable to be there at all, or vice versa. Maybe after the apocalypse, “Friends” will be funny.
Anyway, I looked at a few examples of this cartoon. There is one where a woman answers the door and some fellas offer to clear the sidewalk of snow. Here, you read it:
http://www.viruscomix.com/page430.html
I like the one with the video store sphynx also:
http://www.viruscomix.com/page432.html
I still think the drawings are kind of foul.
Excellent!
And I share the sentiment of the previous commentor: “Brilliant!”
I’m not saying don’t have comic like this, I thought it was funny. Enjoy the moment, but at the same time recognize the whiteness and patriarchy inherent in such an image. Enjoy but be aware of the impact of stuff around you and recognize it for what it is.
Seriously, do you not get it? It’s not just “four white men,” it’s Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, and Hitchens, who have been called, and have called themselves, the Four Horsemen of the Atheist Apocalypse. You can argue that the lack of women and minorities in the atheism/rationalism movement is a problem, but don’t misrepresent it as the comic artist being a tool of the patriarchy.
Dennett? I thought that was PZ Myers…
Pretty sure it’s Dennett: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett
I dunno…it kinda loses that cool “LSD” quality in the translation…