Guess Who's Back

Technicalities

The Gentle Genie

A New Beginning

Insanity Grip

Interview with a Rock

Abandoned

A Tough Nut to Crack

Descartology

Props to René Descartes for setting up the punchline. It was a big decision to focus on the host and not God following their split. Ultimately I thought it was better to advance the plot by sticking with the Host. It's also easier to get the lulz since God is a more serious character than the Host. Where did God go? What is he up to now?

Godbye

Lady GaGod

The dress texture is a real Lady Gaga dress. The lighting bolt under the right eye is originally associated with David Bowie but Lady Gaga co-opted it for the "Just Dance" video. I also couldn't resist associating God with the lightning bolt, which we've seen him use already.

Zoology

The host has discovered that he can manipulate God's avatar. It's operating principle lets the beholder call the shots. This gives the host a power over God he is quick to exploit. God's temper is showing as he verbally rebuffs the host. A showdown is looming.

Godpher

This strip explores the nature of God's avatar. The way it operates allows the perceiver to call the shots. God appearing as gopher was originally conceived for a retelling of the flood story. God would go back and shepard each animal to the Ark. The storyline was scrapped because it deviated too far from the strip's format.

God Vibrations

Godfellas

Qui-God Jinn

This strip explores omnipresence--being everywhere simultaneously means you're in no one specific place. God's manifestation is just an illusion for the audience. Thus his avatar doesn't have the same properties as a functioning body. God's perspective is not limited to his body nor are his senses pegged to them.

God Will Hunting

The pregnant pause is a staple of 4 panel comics. In the host's head, he's thinking, "Yes, that sounds right" "No" "Maybe" "Why's asking me? he should know!" "Damn I should eat a mentos and hope to stumble upon a clear solution." In the end, he's sore from his defeat by God so starts getting rude.

Lord of Lords

Since the 4th Wall was broken last strip, the gloves are off. God is no longer limited by the rules and the host responds by citing his own super-4th wall power over the strip. I like God's speech in the third panel, it feels like an Old Testament style raw display of power.

Breaking the 4th Wall

The fourth wall refers to the imaginary "wall" at the front of the stage through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. The term refers to the imaginary boundary between any fictional work and its audience. In this cartoon it also refers literally to the four walls that make up a single panel of the strip. God manages to move the immovable rock not by lifting it but pulling out the ground from right under it by altering the structure of the cartoon itself.

the Zeus Method

The bolt is a creative and convenient little solution to the rock problem. Instead of moving it, God takes a hammer to it. Although, lightning has appeared previously as a manifestation of God's emotions, this is the first time we see God's lightning powers put to use. I suppose technically he controls all the elements but lightning seems to be his tool of choice.