| Proberly the greatest story of betrayal has to be Jesus
being betrayed by Judas. With the recent publication of the so-called
Gospel according to Judas it lead to an interesting strip.
Evan Munday started off this strip with a potential follower jumping
ship. Even in the gospels, it was noted that several people gave excuses
for not following.
Andy B with his car booth at Paradise Comicon quickly set Christ as
rejected with some foreshadowing of the betrayal to come. Maybe it
seems odd to show rejected for Son of God but then who doesn't?
Then I went to Cosplay Contest.... there ws no time afterward to finished
this strip as the show closed for the day.
Come AnimeNorth which also has a large artist alley. Not only
artists who draw doujinshi (fan comics) based on anime characters but also
some comic artist who styles blend with scene.
One of those is Jason Loo who started Rebel
for last year's 4koma at Anime North. He managed to turn around things
quite literally.
Done with the other 4 komas, I went back into the dealer's room for
show some of the artists there the results. To my surprise, Kean
Soo (who did firt panel of Crisis
last year's Paradise Comicon) agreed to draw the final panel but left the
writing to Ryan North who came up with the ending.
Even the artists in this 4 koma thought this strip sacreligious. Simply
Jesus knew he was going to be betrayed. Still he carried on until
the end.
However, I found it refreshing 4 koma that I think that even religious
types will like as this 4 koma. It's interesting that it's not as bad as
it could have turned out to be.
Note: One minor point. Jesus had two disciples named Judas since it
was a common name at the time. No doubt the so-called found gospel of Judas
was the second.
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