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Bethany: Why do you think God bothered making humans? I mean, really, what's the motivation?

Bloato: I dunno, ego maybe? You are made in His image.

Bethany: No, that's just too simple a motivation for the being who created the entire freak'n universe. He's gotta be well beyond having an ego. Why creat a creature with intellect and free will and then turn around and demand that creature follow a strict code of predetermined rules that insists that they completely ignore what their God-given intellects tell them? Then, if and when they choose to listen to that intellect-- bestowed on them by God they naturally begin to deduce that man has no real way of knowing what God's intentions are for us. The funny thing is, this usually leads to becoming an agnostic or atheist, which in turn gets you slapped down with a sentence of eternal damnation in Hell... It's daft!

Bloato: Maybe you monkeys needed dem rules ta make the right choices.

Bethany: Maybe... But if an individual chooses to follow a moral compass and behave compassionately and ethically of his or her own volition, if all a good person does is follow God's rules where's the personal growth and self actualization in choosing to be good? If the only reason I follow the rules is to avoid punishment, what's the lesson learned? Why bother living at all?!?

Bloato: Maybe, God just wanted ta test you all. To see if you could overcome your logic and just have some faith that da cat upstairs had it all under control.

Bethany: But if we're created in His image, why would he feel the need to test and govern us like children? Is it just some sick game? What's the point of life, of consciousness, if it's all just a test to see who can blindly follow some rules written by other men who believe they hold the laws of the one and only true God. Am I expected to also have blind faith that those men managed to translate the rules into all our various languages throughout the ages without botching it up?

Bloato: You got me. But He did wnat people to follow those rules-- and to a "T." When they don't, we demons are there to follow our rules and to give 'em the ol' hot poker and ironic torment.


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Nothing quite like a wordy girl questioning God's motivation when she, herself, is living in a Hell on Earth lol. I don't think it really matters at that point. I like how Bloato, a Demon, is so uninterested in finding the deeper meaning in existence. He knows who he is, what his job is. That's all that matters.

Anyway, this is a fan art at least 2 or 3 years in the making. I picked up the first issue of Strange Girl in that time frame and always wanted to draw those two characters. So here they are, for all to see.

Thanks for looking, and reading
~JW

Strange Girl-- Bethany and Bloato © Image Comics, Rick Remender and Eric Nguyen
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But strange is beautiful!!