🦋 Apocamon Again
I do not follow Fred Clarke's Left Behind analyses religiously; but when I do read one, I am never disappointed. In today's post, he looks at the unusual meaning of "literal" when that term is used by a fundamentalist Christian explicator of the Bible. We've already seen how, for Bruce as for Tim LaHaye, this word "literally" is not meant literally. For them it means something more like "my way." It's opposite would be "mere symbolism," which means for them, roughly, "any meaning other than the meaning imposed on a passage by reading it my way." Clarke reads LaHaye's explanation of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and my mind is  drawn irresistably to Patrick Farley's Apocamon -- I can see the First through Fourth Living Creatures calling out, "Come and See!" and once again I feel sad. So sad, because Apocamon is no longer available ever since a spammer stole Farley's Electric Sheep domain name... Well, one thing led to another, and I looked at Google, and Apocamon is back on the web. Not only that, but Farley has written two new episodes of it since the last time I saw it! Go and See! It is seriously one of the finest comics I've ever read. I wonder if the rest of the Electric Sheep strips are online again -- they don't seem to be at Serializer but some searching is in order.
posted evening of Friday, July 31st, 2009
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Farley has also been doing a guest strip over at Dicebox. Recommended.
posted evening of July 31st, 2009 by Randolph
Thanks Randolph! That is a truly excellent strip.
posted evening of July 31st, 2009 by Jeremy
Hey everyone who is not Randolph: I can't begin to imagine any reason that would justify your not clicking the link in his comment. (Your imagination may be better than mine; but if you're not prepared to test it I would advise checking out the comic to which R. links.)
posted evening of July 31st, 2009 by Jeremy
Even better news: Patrick Farley is "rebooting" E-Sheep. Nothing's there but a funny cover page so far, but watch that space.
posted evening of July 31st, 2009 by Randolph
The rebooted e-sheep archives are up: http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/main.html -- also Farley has started a Twitter feed for tracking updates.
posted morning of August third, 2009 by Jeremy
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