- Godwin Cotter
- 4 hours ago
- 3 min read
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 nothingness, slowly rising at the bottom of each panel, threatens to eventually cancel out the comic book, turning it into basically a blank page. Anyways, a new president is at the helm, but it doesn't look like even he can stop the inevitable. Neither could any of the comic book characters from the previous panels, in the pages before the new president's arrival to center stage. As you can imagine, this is re-awakening apocalyptic fears among the comic book characters.
What is this rising nothingness? As the comic book continues, the nature of the rising nothingness will be further revealed. But, dear reader, is there rising nothingness in your life? And if there is, where is it coming from?
I find myself in an intense war against nothingness. I want to do real things, be it exercising, making webcomics, painting icons, tackling to-do-list tasks etc., but the way is blocked by easy, less-real alternatives; doom scrolling, Netflix, junk food snacking and a vicious cycle where small indulgences wears one out so much, I need to indulge myself once more as a pick-me-up It's a struggle that has always been there, Steven Pressfield talks about it in The War of Art. In Romans 7:19, St. Paul laments that "I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing." While I truly enjoy blogging, making comic books and doing art, I still have to make myself do those things. It's like the adult me is dealing with a bratty seven- year-old Calvin as in Calvin and Hobbes. Succumbing to distractions is amazingly easy. The only time I pick up and read junk mail or the deadly dull local newspaper (new resident grew a larger than normal cauliflower that assisted with constipation etc.) is when I am trying to do meditative prayer in the morning.
I don't think I'm just projecting, but I think fighting for your life not to be swallowed up by nothingness is the battle of the great majority in our technologically advanced/enslaved societies. But that is also a point for evangelization. Any twelve-step program starts with admitting that there is a problem that you can't handle on your own and then calling on a Higher Power to give you the strength to overcome the problem rather than have it overcome you. While I still struggle with nothingness, I am grateful to Jesus Christ for helping me deal with it. The comic books found in FearoftheLordcomics.com were started or conceptualized while I was in university, but they never really got put to paper until I did Exodus 90 digital fast. I've also found TMIY, or That-Man-is-You to be helpful to a structured approach to calling on Jesus Christ to help us in our weakness. That-Man-Is-You isn't to be read in the sense of Yo-de-Man, or Men-are-Better. It comes from 2 Samuel 12 where King David rails against the despicably selfish behavior of an anonymous individual described to him by the prophet Nathan. After David's righteous indignation has fully riled itself up against the man, Nathan declared to David, "That man is you".
St. Michael the Archangel Icon
I do have a limited number of hand painted icons of St. Michael the Archangel. They are written on gessoed oak boards, roughly 9.5 x 12.5 inches in size. The pigments used are traditional raw earth materials and ground up minerals and the halos are gold leaf on clay. Photos of two of the icons are below.
Were a Canadian or American reader to donate $150 dollars in their currency to Fear of the Lord Comics, and also supply me with their mailing address, I would send them a St. Michael icon. God bless and have a great day.
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