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The Fine Art of Reparation for Blasphemy
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2014, 02:15:40 PM »
I wondered as well what was so wrong with it.

My only guess was that your main character bared too much resemblence to Our Lord.

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« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2014, 02:50:47 AM »
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I wondered as well what was so wrong with it.

My only guess was that your main character bared too much resemblence to Our Lord.


Yeah, it's odd. Our Lord didn't wear a hat. Nor was his name Jaques. I'm not sure what in the world about this comic could inspire someone to deduce that I am posessed by demons.

I ran the comic by two other traditionalists before I put it up on the internet. Neither had any problem with it. I've put it on other trad message boards. No problems there, either. I put it up here and I get a screaming message about how I'm posessed.

Usually before it is determined someone is posessed there is an investigation of some kind. The evidence usually amouts to alot more than a half read comic strip and a Lithuanian last name.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but depicting a villian in a story using a formula of a prayer to say a prayer is boring and that some guy named Larry is gross does not amount to blasphemy. If this were true, we could never reprint the worrds of heretics like Martin Luther to be used against them. And any time some child complains that prayers are boring they are being blasphemous. And Larry is a saint.

But I mean it when I say correct me if I'm wrong. And give some docuмentation to back yourself up. Or some good examples. Anthing but screaming text about how I'm posessed and how my threads bare curses.

But I do appreciate the prayers. Maybe Our Lady can use them for the good of my soul.


The Fine Art of Reparation for Blasphemy
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2014, 12:03:12 AM »
Your replies to the rash judgments were very good and Catholic, George.

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« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2014, 08:53:24 AM »
George, 
Your comics are usually done very well and convey the calm and power of the saints. 
In the case of  St. Dominic and the heretic story, since the character was making fun of the Hail Mary, some Catholics took great offense and could not get past that part. 

Since you mentioned welcoming constructive criticism I thought how you might redraw just the two offending frames of the story - you could have a narrator character explaining what the heretic is doing while having the Jacques character shouting expletives with drawn symbols (such as ?!~##) . 

Although you would rather give the lesson pictorially, in this case you may have to resort to narration so as not to offend pious Catholics. I was not repelled by your story but I showed it to another Catholic and he thought making fun of the Hail Mary was offensive, even though you meant to show that it was blasphemous. 

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« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2014, 09:12:24 AM »
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Your replies to the rash judgments were very good and Catholic, George.


Yes they were!   Thank you sir.

I did not view the thread, nor know who/what the comments were referring to.   My post addressed the concern in general, so I included the prayer of St. Michael to help those who were upset.

Please accept my sincere contrition if I hurt you.  
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