10/30/2026Boo!___JOKE-OGRAPHY:1. In Matthew 5, Jesus sits on a mountaintop and speaks to a gathered crowd. Here, He gives His famous list of blessings, called the Beatitudes. At the end of this list, He declares that happiness comes to those who suffer insults and persecution in this life for believing in Him, because their reward will be great in Heaven.2. In this cartoon, two people in the crowd – a man and a woman – mull over Jesus’s final, seemingly upside-down saying. The man is confused. How can Jesus tell them to rejoice in the midst of suffering? The woman, sensing weakness in the tapestry of human language, jumps at the chance to despoil the world with some whimsical wordplay. She offers that, if the Christ (Jesus) wants them to rejoice in suffering, He must be calling them to be “maso-CHRIST-ic.” This is a play on the word “masochistic,” derived from the word “masochist,” which is used to describe a person who gains joy or pleasure from being made to suffer. When the woman says “masochistic,” she replaces the middle of the word (“chist”) with Jesus’s title (“Christ”), turning it into “masoCHRISTic.” Of course, while Jesus DOES say to rejoice in suffering, He’s not saying to develop a morbid fascination for the suffering itself; He’s encouraging us to endure suffering for the sake of something better beyond it.3. After the woman’s most inelegant(https://tenor.com/view/not-elegant-gif-27013985) perversion of speech, someone in the crowd hurls a tomato at her head for the terrible pun. Since the 1900s, tomatoes have been a popular communication tool used by crowds to display tangible displeasure during performances. This practice evolved from the earlier European tradition of pelting unlikeable people with rotten produce and other garbage.
4. The tomato-thrower also says, “Boo!” In theater, “boo” is an exclamation used by an audience to verbally communicate dissatisfaction with a performance. In popular fiction, the word “boo” is also an exclamation used by ghosts and other monsters to startle the living. This is topical, because this weekend is the popular holiday of Halloween, where people dress up as ghosts and other monsters and share in a night of spooky-themed community fun.
>>156117836I like that last panel for going the distance and making the tomato have heft instead of ineffectually splattering like most depictions.
>>156118141how much force should a tomato impact inflict?
>>156117836>Tomics = Tom + Comics LMAO!
Couldn't this be accomplished in 3 panels? 2 would be too few but I could see it
