Shock and Awh: Narrative Control is Slipping I have come into the world to bear witness to the truth, and all who are on the side of truth listen to my voice. Jesus before Pilate (John 18:37) Knowledge is not as much a prerequisite to understanding as is commonly supposed. We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we modems are inu

This Comic Book is at War After a hiatus we return to the comic book drama, The Rise of Nothing. While it was intending to be a comic satire but sadly, real life events have a tendency to outflank this comic book in terms of ridiculous silliness. What was intended as humor and jest ends up being merely a partial catalogue of current events. Anyways, the comic book characters, already uneasy by the menacing rising nothingness at the base of each panel, are now plunged into

The Radiometric Dating Scene: Deception Abounds During the 2000 Canadian election campaign, the press landed upon a gotcha moment! Years before coming into the public eye, the anti-corruption candidate, Stockwell Day , had voiced a belief that dinosaurs had coexisted with man. Polite society does not question the 252-to-66- million-year-age of the dinosaurs, and Canadian society is polite to a fault. In fact, my son, (who is studying business), suggested that we swap out t

The Pepstein Files I am toggling back and forth between various ongoing webcomics; Repentance , Who Created Who and The Rise of Nothing . Currently the finished webcomics; The Christmas Present , NROP Glasses and The Refining Fire are numerically tied with the unfinished ones. The page above is from The Rise of Nothing , and it rudely ends a two-page respite from the encroaching white space. The flashback has ended, and we are back in the present. This is this ominous n

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