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Comic in 6 panels

Panel 1. Satan mans a reception desk in Hell. He wears a pleasant smile with hands clasped together by his face.

Satan: Welcome to Hell! Do you have any idea why you are here?

Panel 2. Shou Tucker scratches the side of his face a sheepish look on his face.

Tucker: Ummm… Was it because of my wife?my daughter? or my dog?

Panel 3. A shocked look of recognition on Satans face

Panel 4. Satan pulls out his phone and starts dialing

Panel 5. Satan watches Tucker as he talks on the phone

Satan: Hello God

Panel 6. Satan looks serious

Satan: He’s here.

  • BeUnique@lemmy.zip
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    17 days ago

    I may be dumb but I don’t get it. From the comic strip alone it’s not clear why Satan is calling God and I have no idea what he did? “Is it because of” can mean a lot of different things. Idk, maybe it’s obvious and I’m just an idiot.

    • ramble81@lemmy.zip
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      17 days ago

      So the character in question is widely regarded as one of the most hated in all of anime…

      Tap for spoiler

      He was praised for creating a talking chimera, something that had never been done in alchemy before. Come to find out he used his wife in the experiment and then when his alchemy license was up for renewal he panicked as he had no notable achievements and then used his 5-6 year old daughter and family dog to create another one.

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      17 days ago

      Satan asked the question without realizing who he was talking to. Shou Tucker’s response made him realize just who he was, and he was so bad that he needed to contact god for help.

    • cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned
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      17 days ago

      So there was this anime called ‘fullmetal alchemist’.

      The first scene is the then pre-teen main characters, two orphaned brothers, dismembered and splattered around the room after defying the laws of man and god in an attempt to resurrect their mother with illegal magic that went horribly wrong. It then cuts to a couple years later where the protagonist (now 14, and only diagetically glossing over the ‘child soldier’ of it all, as the absolute ruler of their vaguely Germanic central European military dictatorship is kind of a fatherly figure) with half his limbs prosthetic and his younger brother, a disembodied spirit bound to an old suit of armor, are working as military wizard-engineer maybe-counterintelligence are dismantling a cult in an city the state didsone atrocities to a while back, and being kind of unnecessarily shitty about it. the audience finds out its part of a bigger conspiracy, and by the end of the episode a shapeshifter comes into town and replaces the cult leader they had exposed as a fraud and killed (claiming he was an imposter) the moment our heroes leave.

      This guy is from the episode where it becomes clear that the general tone of the show might be a little darker than previously suspected.