Cool designs of everything!!! Blood, monster... Can't be stuffed complimenting, because I can't think of the right words, but your comic is the best!!! Literally the best! (In my opinion anyways)

haha I love how Kimbo's expression in the last panel, albeit dead, also looks like he's kinda disappointed in himself

Nyahahahahah!!
Man!! I hate it when that happens! You're doing something cool and impressive and then it backfires! Kimbo even has a trench coat. Good thing no one's looking at him.

Wait.....I stand corrected :D

This offends me!

haha mighty gruesome! this makes me like looking at guts and smushy brains! ...cartoon ones of course

"This offends me!"

Me too...Everyone knows that Buddha statues makes for FAR better bread meal than the Christian Crucifix. ;)

It was sort of an open-ended command there, Kimbo. Looks like Christ compelled him to dine on your tasty arm meat. Hmm... I'd stick to spell-casting.

our little Kimbo does some monster hunting on the side

and I too was mezmorized by those monster's eyes. I can't tell if it has just empty sockets, or just really black eyes.

Wow - a monster nom-nom-nomming on a crucifix-sandwich. So cutting edge and original. *sigh* Very brave and fearless of you, indeed.

That is one gnarly monster. I like how it's eyes are just rings of puss. Looks neat.

Oh yeah, Kelly, we've seen the crucifix-arm sandwich gag a hundred times before. Uhhh... NO! What the hell are you talking about?!

I'm still offended.

Wowzers69!

I'll pay attention to your problems now
because I certainly care about random strangers on the internet!
YESSIREE

Crucifix and arm sandwiches for everyone!!!

great work!!!!

I saw him drawing cartoons since his childhood, as a matter of fact, he started with all this stuff when he was in his baby walker and accidentally a pencil came to his hand… The rest is history!!!

More than 30 years passed and I still have emotional problems when I see his peculiar slaughters. (Tonight I’ll have, like every Thursday night, terrible nightmares).

(Anyway I never miss one of his cartoons)

Proud Mom… ALMA

I'm talking about lazy ideas - "I need to be shocking, lessee... hey! I'll mock Christianity! Awesome!" *yawn* Y'know what? I'll say I can't remember ever seeing a crucifix and arm sandwich before. Now that I have? I think I'll give it another big *yawn*. The multiple eyes that seemed to be great until it wasn't? That was a groovy idea, and creepy, too.

How is it mocking Christianity? Maybe it's just an anti-monster tactic that just didn't work! ever seen Dracula? Jeez why does everything have to be so political nowadays

You're absolutely right. I'm really sorry I brought it up. Actually, I wouldn't give two sticks if he WAS mocking Christianity. I still think it's a lazy idea, whatever it is. Sheesh. Here, maybe this is more what everyone wants to see (and mostly the depth of commentary found here): LOL that waz awWEsome - roflmao this is the best comic EVAR! I'm done now, as well as bored. Good luck.

Hey Guys!
Thanks for all of your replies.

Kelly, I'm sorry you found this episode boring. I know there's room for improvement, luckily there are many more Kimbo adventures to come and I hope I can win you over! But if 1930 Nightmare Theatre isn't your cup of tea, We have Mouse Slapstick on Mondays, Lonely Sailors on Tuesdays, Sexy Barbarians on Wednesdays, and Adorable Sci-Fans on Fridays. There's a full selection of Dumm Comics for you to enjoy and I hope you will be back soon.

On a sad note, I regret to announce to everyone that the full-page "Sunday-Style" 1930 strips will never return. Hope you can learn to love Kimbo in his new shorter format. See you next week!

Ooo... sorry about this serious second post. Hhahaahha! So much seriousness here almost like last, last week!
I'm fine with the cartoon, because it doesn't directly mock God. Plus it's a Cartoon!! And it's making fun of the weirdest religious follies like treating crucifixes(or some 'holy' items) like talismans with no faith whatsoever, or seeing God as a wish machine that does your bidding, get it, hehehehhe that's why I laugh! It's funny because it's true (yes I'm guilty those too)!

How can this strip be boring when I'm so very offended?!

Sorry to come off as such a grouch, Ricky. I know it's not a breeze doing what you do. If you missed it before, I don't mind saying it again; I thought the curse of the eyes was great, and you capture the period look very well.

Good luck.

"On a sad note, I regret to announce to everyone that the full-page "Sunday-Style" 1930 strips will never return. Hope you can learn to love Kimbo in his new shorter format. See you next week!"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! :'(

NOOOOOOOOOO I agree with Andy(24) the full page comics will definitely be missed. Just before I read that I was actually wondering how long until you got back to the full sized comics.

As usual I've got a long winded comment, and while the second paragraph is dedicated to describing my displeasure, that's not the point of this post, so disinterested parties (namely those who don't give a flip about me) should just skip to block three.

I sympahtize with Wowzer. This week's strip offended me on several levels. In fact, when I read it last night it upset me so much I felt ill. I had just gotten through watching the series 4 finale of Doctor Who on youtube. Davros came back and K-9 had a cameo! What's not to love about a Doc Who Ep with both Daleks and K-9! I was on top of the freaking world! Then I read this week's strip, and it let the wind out of my sails ... I don't expect anyone cares, or that Ricky will loose any sleep over it, but I want it understood that I in no way approve, like, or was amused by the above cartoon.

That being said, (And here I sympathize with Kelly) the thing that has usually drawn me to Ricky's strip is that it's very thoughtful. Strips like 'Kimbo's Nephews', 'Kimbo's Little Hi-Jinx' or even 'Kimbo Never Sleeps' were all filled with very good societal observations. They had something to say about life, and what's more they depicted (in caricature) the secret fears and yearnings we all have. They were about love, greed, blind selfishness; they were, in short, about us, whether we want to acknowledge that fact or not. I don't think Ricky needs a Sunday sized page to get that across. Charlse Schultz did as much with four panels as it takes most writers an entire chapter to communicate (and yes I did just compare to Ricky to Charles Schultz. Whatever problems I have with the content of his strip, it does not blind me to the potential in his work.)

I say potential, because I don't believe Kimbo has hit his peak yet. I believe with time and work, Ricky can make the strip better than any of us dream. However, he needs to stick to his strength, that is, he needs for his work to say something.

That's not a good description of what I'm trying to say. In retrospect, most entertainment media do have something to say. It's just that their messages are superficial or inept and not worth your time. More often than not, Ricky's work has been just the opposite. I realize you can't hit a homerun every time you come to bat, but last week's strip (while featuring some nice artwork) was, well, good, but below average for Rick. I tried to be upbeat about it at the time, but now we've had two strips with no apparent message and that is the best quality of Ricky's work.

On a sideline, I will admit the above strip could be intepreted as a warning against symbolism as Ghosty suggested, but if it is, it still remains vague. There was nothing vague about 'Kimbo's Walk of Life'. Ricky had an observation. He communicated it. Everyone got it.

This is a piece of constructive criticism, so here comes the constructive part. Whether or not Ricky continues to do Sunday format is a mute point. Extra panels are always nice, but if he wants his strip to reach the grandiose hieghts it deserves to, he needs to consider the quality of his message. Any shmuck can take potshots at a group or person and make it funny (political cartoonists thrive off such), but if it's going to be worth while it's got to say something that is worth while.

Quantity is nothing. If he only does dailes I'll still look forward to reading them. Just please don't fudge on the quality of your message. I can't speak for everyone, but that's what keeps me coming back. In a short time you've already done some classic strips. Here's hoping there's much more to come.

...that people trapped in the midst of a terrorist attack, or people who suffer from terminal diseases, often meet with a similar fate after attempting Kimbo's chosen method of "defense".
So Mark, abusive mothers, jealous stalkers, and armaggeddon-obsessed fanatics are fair game for satire, but an unjust and uncaring God is not?
An inabilty to question or critisize your own belief system- the first sign of brainwashing.

I really love this! This looks really cool! I'm really liking the monster! Especially his eyes! Those are some crazy eyes! I love all of the comics you've done here!

"An inabilty to question or critisize your own belief system- the first sign of brainwashing."

So true...words to live by.

This is wonderfully sickening. Hats off to you, Ricky!

So Christians are brainwashed if they haven't considered that maybe crucifixes DON'T work on monsters. I can see your point here, because it's not like we haven't seen this same thing happen over and over again in various forms of media. It's pretty inconsistent that any Christian who tries to stand up for himself in this sort of situation is lambasted, but blasting Christianity in the first place is really cool. Why don't we try busting on Islam next week?

I'm with Mark on this one: the problem isn't really "questioning religion" (read: lampooning religion), but the way it's being done here. If you have something to say about specific goings-on in the church or some contemporary religious event, then go for it. Christians and non-Christians alike can learn from such a thing, especially from a cartoonist who excels at communicating like Ricky does. But mocking Christianity itself is extremely old hat at this point. Everyone has done it, and there's really no new ground to cover. The fact that it's a different monster thwarting the crosses THIS time around is immaterial.

Then again, I'm under the impression that these Christianity-themed strips get the most attention by far in the forums. So Ricky, if your goal is to get a lot of comments, you're doing a good job with these. But if I have to expect the same geriatric Christianity-is-stupid-lolz jokes for the rest of Kimbo's lifespan, then I'm going to have to switch over to "Through the Porthole" as my favorite comic here.

It's not something I want to do!

I'm a recovering Christian, not a recovering Muslim! But I see your point.

Boy... Kimbo has become a very controversial little fellow. All Kimbo is trying to do is destroy this horrible monster the only way he knows how. Unfortunately things didn't work out as he had planned, as do many things in life. It's ok Kimbo, you're still my hero.

What the hell are all these knobs talking about?!!?! I love the strip in what ever format it comes in and great design on the monster dude!!

It could have gone so many ways.
Although I am offended that the monster didn't garnish his cruci-wich with Kimbo's eyeball.

"...mocking Christianity itself is extremely old hat at this point. Everyone has done it, and there's really no new ground to cover."

SURE there is! There is PLENTY of humor and unexplored material to use in relation to the subject of both Christianity and Religion in general. New religions are being formed almost every day, and the old ones like Christianity are always patheticly trying to somehow bandage up the biggest of the glaring flaws to their dogmatic belief system, so that they can somehow find a way to co-exist in a world that has proven their teachings time and time again to be complete bullshit.
To the few people who find religious jokes like this offensive, it is no doubt because they are still drinking the kool-aid. Not only does the idol image to a religion not stop Demons, but there are NO Demons either. The truth hurts, I know, but once you wake up from it your going to be even MORE pissed about how your mom and dad shoved all of this crazy dogmatic nonsense down your throats in the FIRST place.
However don't fret, years of therapy and 1930's Nightmare comics will no-doubt be just the cure for you to channel this new found rage, and inevitably lead you out into a new found world of opened minded, rational free thinkers, waiting to greet you with opened arms...Kind of like in the Matrix! ;)
Best of Luck to you!

The below post is an answer to Post #27 by Friendly Jake. Those wishing to stay only on the subject of the strip itself will probably not be interested and can skip if they like.

Friendly Jake,

As far as questioning God goes, I wasn't born a Christian. True, I was raised in Church, but I didn't get saved until I was 17. Before that time I did things that I knew the Bible said were wrong. It didn't matter to me then. I didn't care. I just did whatever. When I did get saved it wasn't because I was pressured or because of fear or because of brainwashing. It was because I was presented with evidence that I couldn't refute. I won't bother you with the details because it would take too long. In a nutshell, I saw things that had no logical explanation. It wasn't a burning a bush or a parting sea, it was little things. Too many tiny threads in my life that kept coming together time and again and if I ever bothered to look closely at them, I saw God there, and I saw the God I had heard about and ignored most of my life. That's why I'm a Christian. As far as questioning him, I would feel like a kindergartener questioning a Yale Professor about Physics. He's that far beyond me.

And God isn't uncaring. Bad things happen, but look at it this way. He made a perfect world, gave it to us, and we screwed it up. There's a myth that people go to Hell because they do bad things. That's not why people go to Hell. When man allowed Sin to enter the world, it tainted everything. Think of it like a spiritual cancer. We're infected with it from birth, not from anything God did, but because of what Adam and Eve did way back when. It's like the soul's equivalent of a heredital disease. That's what sends people to Hell.

At the point man allowed sin to enter the world, God could have destroyed us and been so much the better. After all, the most effecient way to remove a cancer is to cut out the infected portions. But that's not what he did. He spoke to us, tried to help us, and he even sacrificed his son for us.

The idea of someone rejecting Christ and then being angry about being condemned to Hell is a like a man who falls overboard from a boat, refuses to grab hold of a life preserver that's thrown to him because he'd rather the water magically disappear instead, and then gets mad when he drowns.

I am an openminded, fair person who has expressed outrage at something I read. I'm not trying to suppress Ricky's opinion. I'm not boycotting dummcomics. I'm using a comments section provided by Ricky and the other creators here at Dumm, to do exactly what Ricky himself has done; express my views. Free speech works both ways after all.

Having done that, I've been labeled as brainwashed. Does believing something, anything in fact, make a person a zombie? Does believing that every action has an equal and opposite reaction mean that I'm incapable of thinking for myself? Does believe that two plus two equals four mean the same? No. It just means I've been shown something that I agree with, that I feel I have reasonable evidence to support, and that I'm defending because I believe it to be true. If somebody said your mother was a whore, you'd get angry. Ricky just insulted a belief system that has changed my life in every concievable way for the better. Of course I'm going to be angry. God is like family to me. I've known people who have literally given up their lives for the faith, not out of some vindictive desire for universal conformity, but because they had also benefited from it and they wanted others to benefit as well.

Why do people die? Because their time is up. Death is not a bad thing. It can be scary and people who are dying will probably wonder, 'Why is this happening to me'? In the best cases the answer is, "Because your work is done and it's time you got the vacation you've earned". Some people die violently. Others don't. Life is a mixed bag, and humanity does have an enemy who will do anything he can to hurt us. To say nothing of the fact, that while God gave us a rule, he gave himself a few too. Frankly I like the idea of a guy in charge who's willing to play by the rules, even when he doesn't want to. One of those rules is that the extent he is willing to intervene depends on the extent that we are willing to trust him. I have seen people who literally are alive today without a suitable medical explanation. They just are. I've seen other people who prayed and died, some in unpleasant circumstances. Was it their fault? I don't know. What I do know is that God has always been there for me, even when I didn't deserve his help and often times especially when I didn't. We don't know everything. H.P. Lovecraft once said that was the only thing that kept a man sane. I'm pretty sure he wasn't a Christian, because he knocked us a couple of times himself, but it is a good observation at any rate.

I wrote this post to try and defend my point of view, and explain why I feel the way I feel. After all, civil communication between opposing philosophies can only be a good thing.

You're showing an awfully lot of zeal in your post. This debate must mean a lot to you. You mentioned that there were all sorts of examples of how religion has been proven false? I've heard a lot of arguments but most of the ones I've seen are as refutable as they claim Christianity to be. Still, I'm always open to new information. Would you care to list a few specific examples for the readership?

I'd be interested in seeing your evidence, and from the amount of attention this subject is getting, I'm sure others would be as well.

Thanks.

"You're showing an awfully lot of zeal in your post. This debate must mean a lot to you."

Well, I don't believe my soul is in danger or anything if that is what you mean.

I do find it funny though how anyone would get offended by this cartoon. I mean HOW DARE RICKY MAKE FUN OF GOD'S DEMON STOPPING POWERS! If Ricky doesn't think that a Crucifix can stop a Demon, then my guess is he PROOOOBABLE doesn't really believe in Demons either...just a hunch.

As far as showing the proof goes, do you REALLY need me to do this Mark, or is this just a retorical question?...because you know darn well this is going to take a while, and I don't want a fourty page long post about debating religion to keep Ricky from making more comics on this subject.

...SO how about this, you make a blog and I will post some links for you to check out and you tell me what you think? Fair? I'm trying to keep this short and clean...it's also why I didn't go into further detail in debating you on a past post dealing with evolution. When I see bullshit, out of impulse I usually like to call it, but I also realize that this is not a blog for debate, it's a blog for a funny little comic about Kimbo.

...So here's the first of many articles of evidence I will show you if you do make a blog for this debate Mark, I will show you many more. It talks of how the Church use to teach that the world was flat, one of the many things that the Church has taught over the years that has been proven wrong...there is a very long history of this sort of thing with religon(as I'm sure you can imagine), only they do not learn from their mistakes. The mistake is that they get their arguements for Science from an Ancient book that is clearly full of Fairy-Tales. We can talk about this more on the new blog if you like...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#Early_Christian_Church

Never made a blog before, but there's a first time for everything. Challenge accepted. I'm checking out the article, BTW. I'll respond to it on said blog once it's up and running.

A match made in heaven!
I'll be monitoring you two closely.

p.s. I don't mind anything that anyone dicusses on the comments section. Knock yourselves out!

Fairy-tales! Ancient book! Dogmatic belief system! Ho boy, I've never heard ANY of this before! Do you see where I'm going? It's all been done, kiddo.

I'll be honest with you: I think it's a waste of time to leave comments here saying solely that the writer is offended. If you don't like what Ricky's doing, then don't read the comic. That's simple. On the other hand, I believe it's constructive to put up commentary regarding the quality or entertainment value of his work. I'm not here to defend the Christian faith against a horde of bombastic atheists - you guys are determined not to believe, and I'm as okay with that as you please. But I stand by my original statement: if Ricky can pull off a religion-is-stupid comic that somehow diverges from the monotonous atheistic litany that I've heard for the last five years, then I'll gladly join the standing ovation.

"Fairy-tales! Ancient book! Dogmatic belief system! Ho boy, I've never heard ANY of this before! Do you see where I'm going? It's all been done, kiddo."

Well first off those are Characterizations, not "jokes", although I do see how one could confuse them as being such. ;)

Bush jokes are old too, but they still make a lot of people laugh, mainly because the man continues to set him self up for them. The same can be said for a lot of modern religions. However, I don't expect Conservatives to laugh at Bush jokes, just as I don't expect Christians to laugh at Religious jokes either, but this doesn't mean they're not funny. Almost all humor is at someone's expense...even the fart joke.
As far as Originality is concerned though, I would like you to point out another joke where a Demon uses a Crucifix to eat someone as Bread Meal. Whether you find this funny or not is a separate issue, I have never seen this done before and it made me laugh...what exactly do you mean by originality? Surely religious jokes are not off limits just because the subject has been tackled before. I say religion is fair game for lampooning so long as it continues to be a present rediculous force in our world and daily lives.

The same can me said for Atheists as well, if you care to make a joke about us that is...

Say Mark, Ricky seems to be cool about us doing our little debate here after all...if you still like the blog idea though, I could set it up if you'd like, just need to finish a project first and I will be glad to jump on it...

"Bush jokes are old too, but they still make a lot of people laugh, mainly because the man continues to set him self up for them."

This is a good sentence here because you just rebutted your own point. When poor old George makes another malaprop, ta-da! You have material for a new joke. It's not the same drivel over and over again.

Have you ever seen the movie "Blade"? (If not, it's terrible and you shouldn't waste your time.) In "Blade" we've got vampires who are not affected by crucifixes. No, no one uses any Crucifix Wonder Bread, but variations on a cliché are still just that.

You're really fixated on the semantics of the joke here. What I'm saying is that when you bust out the Christianity-sucks-lolz angle, you're veering away from strict humor and more toward social commentary. THAT'S the part we've all heard before, and I personally got a lot more satisfaction out of the "Kimbo has too many eyes" storyline because it was fresh. There are at least a few others here who have made this point too. If you're going to pursue an antidiluvian theme like this one, then bring something new to it.

I didn't say anything about banning this angle. I just said it's lame. Atheists will read this and laugh because they agree with it, and Christians will roll their eyes because it's one more iteration of the same thing. The whole process is soporific and formulaic. I don't know about the rest of the audience here, but I don't read Kimbo in order to reinforce my world-view. The little guy can get (and has been) dismembered by monsters without dragging the cross into the mix.

Aaaaand the word is antediluvian, for the win. *Sigh*

""Bush jokes are old too, but they still make a lot of people laugh, mainly because the man continues to set him self up for them."

This is a good sentence here because you just rebutted your own point. When poor old George makes another malaprop, ta-da! You have material for a new joke. It's not the same drivel over and over again."

Yes but you conveniently left out my follow up scentence to that remark:
"The same can be said for a lot of modern religions."

Religious followers provide an equal steady range of new material for comedy to work from on a daily basis. Yes all religion is based on tiered old beliefs, but what is funny and ironic about it is how they twist that old tired religion to fit there daily thoughts, bigotries, misgivings, even there distaste for scientific progressions and other discoveries on a daily basis(I could go on for ever about this, and I have. :P)

That all being said, I found some common ground with you here in that I too think that Ricky's Multiple-eye comic is the best and most original one he's done to date. I didn't find it so much funny as dark and morbidly delightful! Like all of his work. Fun Stuff! :)

I'm not sure if anyone's still reading this. It looks like the last time someone commented on this page was two days ago. If anyone is still out there then I guess I should say ...

I HAVE A BLOG!

Oh you poor fools, the horror you've unleashed! Now I shall be free to rant and rave whenever I choose about whatever I choose! Will the world ever be the same?

Well, I got my silly streak out of the way. Anywho, the address is

http://marksviews.wordpress.com/

I've already responed to the first article from Robert. I didn't mention your name in the blog, because I didn't know if you wanted me to. Anyone who wants to comment or join in can, I look forward to hearing from you there Robert. I love a good debate, always have, and I'm expecting great things from our future conversations.

You bet I'll bet there!

NOT JUST THE COMIC
oh no

The comments as well

Please continue to use religion as a basis for comics
they lead to even better reads afterwards!

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