A Death at the Gates of Heaven – Page 9
In the immortal words of Tim Krieder, “Sometimes we all must make breakfast for the Devil.”
About A Death At The Gates Of Heaven:
This story first appeared in 2018 in the Spiderforest Webcomic Collective anthology Threads: A Gallery of Rogues, which is available in print for the impatient among you by clicking on the image below. It appeared alongside fifteen other graphic short stories in full color, and so for my money it’s a good buy for entertainment during the current time! You can also find other volumes of our anthology, and the work of a lot of other great Spiderforest artists worth looking into.
And of course, please give Ally’s spectacular Wychwood a look as well!
And as always, thanks for the continued support! The notes and emails I’ve received have all been so positive and encouraging, I can’t tell you all how much it means to me. God bless!
S, a quote for you “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”. Well, not exactly scorned, but pissed off nontheless. Please do consider the quote as you go with her, if you want to have anything to “rehabilitate”.
That thin blue line, huh?
When justice fails all a man has is revenge or woman. I wonder is S there really there for a murder and not extracting a hitman on a mission?
Never avenge yourselves, but leave that task in the hands of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Romans 12:19
Well it seems Rachel clearly refuses to wait that long.
Quite so.
I am so enjoying this.
Thanks, Tony. High praise coming from you – it’s an attempt at the kind of mature, fully-developed story I see in The 388th.
I was totally inspired by you. You suggested that I create a webcomic in the first place. Again, thank you for that.
I’ll be honest, I lost a lotta sympathy for S in the last page. The ‘you were savages’ line is such a paltry justification that I really don’t think moral grey areas are really going to apply going forward – this is more the Centareans having to make recompense than the Earthlings.
To be fair, “They were savages” has been used to justify a lot of horrible things in human history, even among ourselves.
Well, consider also: if we had lost the War, would we all be willing to “admit” we had been fighting for a corrupt, decadent idea like “liberalism” and willingly submit to the wisdom of the Partei? Read The Man in the High Castle for a take on that – the ORIGINAL Man In The High Castle, not the compromised second draft. It focuses very intently on the experience of the defeated in a war, and draws such a situation into contrast by making America the defeated “enemy” whose citizens are in one form or another either submitting to or attempting to comprehend their place on the “wrong side of history.”
In this case I could tell you who won the war between the Humans and the Centrans, but it’s pretty much immaterial – they’re now stuck on the same planet and have to learn on some level to get along. And old habits die hard.
Oh you have a first draft of Man in the high castle? I found it interesting the way the Nazis spun things we did but it’s not they weren’t doing the same. I guess it’s only a crime against humanity of your side loses.
Well by “first draft” I mean the book itself, not the tv show.
Oh well I see still I did love John Smith’s addition but yeah the Nazis did comb over American history from slavery and the trail of tears then used it to justify our destruction oh lord that is really drawing close to the present.
That’s done specifically to mirror rhetorical practices the Soviet typically used, which amounted to “We might be bad but we’re not as bad as you, so you have no right to criticize us.” Still common in all levels of discourse today.
Re – it being used as justification IRL: that’s exactly why I don’t like it.