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S.H.Y.S. Project
12-25-2007, 11:00 PM
For the love of Santa, put some clothes on!
Ok, but next time I get to torture the next one before I kill him.
Fine. Just get dressed already.
Confronted with both nudity and violence, Americans will always take offense to skin first.
God I love this country.LiQUiD wouldn't play WoW with me this weekend--I blame a certain EVE interloper for this--so I was cursed with an inordinate amount of time on my hands. On the bright side it did give me time to draw this, so it ain't all bad ;)

There's a larger, bubble-free full-sized version available here. (http://dranok.DeadGod.net/full/art/finished/comic28-large-notext.png)

The comic is titled "Happy Xmas" instead of "Merry Xmas" to provide me a flimsy excuse to rant about the archaic use of the word merry. When it became tradition, merry was normally used to mean agreeable or pleasant--not so much jolly or under the affects of alcohol. The phrase was, "God rest you merry, gentlemen," not "God rest you, merry gentlemen."

On a similar pedantic note, abbreviating the holiday as Xmas is a custom that long predates modern English--at least back to the mid-1500s. X is the Greek letter chi, the initial in the word Χριστός (Christos) "Christ."

In any case, I hope everyone had a great holiday and consumed many pigs' worth of ham.

--DranoK

Ratha
12-25-2007, 11:34 PM
It wasnt my fault.. Liquid watched an Eve video and apparently things spiraled out of control after that. Thats all i know, really!

Interesting bit about the X-mas. I almost never use it, but i consider it to be more friendly to use around certain folk who yell at me whenever i write "christmas." I figured it was just an abbreviation to help denature the religious association.

DranoK
12-28-2007, 09:28 PM
This subject was even a Calvin & Hobbes theme. Of all the snowmen Calvin crafted, only one was he forced to destroy:

http://dranok.DeadGod.net/normalizedblog/Pics/Random/ac.gif

Most of the snowman strips can be found here:

http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html