It you had told me right after I saw the pilot for the new Doctor Who that the show would make me cry at one point, I wouldn’t have believed you. Heck, I might not have believed that I would still be watching it two months later.
It’s nice to be surprised sometimes.
I’m finally getting off my duff and working to revive the comic strip I did in high school, Brickgirl & Oscar, as a webcomic. Here is some promo art (and I use the term “art” loosely.) Hey, I never said I could draw.
With all the hullabaloo over National Geographic’s announcement of the finding and translation of the long lost Gospel of Judus, I decided to give it a read this morning. Unfortunately, between the fragmentation of the document and the esoteric language that is fairly alien to someone really only familiar with the canonical Bible books (the talk of enlightened aeons only made me think of Final Fantasy X), it didn’t really impart much. Except that Jesus liked to laugh.
But from a story analysis point of view, the public focus of this gospel (that Judus was actually very close to Jesus, and Jesus was the one who planned for the betrayal) isn’t really in conflict with the accepted Gospels. Because there is no clear statement of Judus’ motivation in the current Bible and his agonized reaction after the betrayal could easily be seen as that of a man mourning rather than a man overcome with guilt.
Actually, one of my first thoughts when I heard the National Geographic radio ad was of my post about Snape in Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. Of course, I’m also the one with a Harry Potter bookmark in my Bible.