Dilettante Comics: October 2017

Friday, October 27, 2017

Seriously Nuts

Sedna: Do you take anything seriously? Thanatos juggles donuts: Nope! Though I wonder what would happen if I did. He stares into space. All of humanity fears and despises me. They mock and reject me, again and again! But I am a Master of Death! If they will not love me, they shall bow before me. The heavens themselves will know my name and despair! AH-HA-HA!!! La Calavera: Um... should we, you know, stop him? Hades: Nah, he needs to get this out of his system once per century. He'll be finished in... three minutes and 48 seconds.

Thank you for tuning in to this regularly scheduled crazy. Donations (and donut-tions) will be accepted, and proceeds will go to the Thanatos Sanity Recovery fund, the Sedna Trauma Recovery fund, and the La Calavera Catrina and Hades Safety Bunker fund.

Friday, October 20, 2017

Plouton Playlist

Hades works at his desk. Persephone approaches: Hey, Hades? Do you... ...Hades? He doesn't respond. Hades? Hades? Hades? Persephone thinks, then snatches off his helmet, revealing headphones underneath: I knew it! Music is heard: Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin', I'm a-stayin' alive, stayin' alive...

The Helm of Darkness is renowned for its powers of invisibility, and is great for hiding lots of things: gods trying to defeat their forerunners, heroes trying to slay monsters, and headphones trying to play the songs that you don't want to admit to liking.
Though that last one doesn't always work out, as Hades and Persephone can attest to.

Friday, October 13, 2017

Lucky Day

Grim Reaper reads a report: So while on the way to mail a chain letter, you took a detour to avoid walking under a ladder, which brought you face-to-face with a guy whom you thought was giving you the evil eye. So to avoid him you took a flight of stairs, but tripped when you tried to avoid the thirteenth step. And then you saw a black cat, and to keep it from crossing your path, you backed... straight into rush-hour traffic. Spirit of a Man: Just take me already. I'll come quietly. Grim: Do you need a cookie?

Friday the 13th comes and goes, but we will always have people who take superstitions way too far. Don't be one of them. The Grim Reaper already has enough to do.

Friday, October 6, 2017

Dogs of Hel

Thanatos looks at Fenrir: Aww, that's a cute dog-wolf-thing you've got

They're back! Once again, October and the annual Deity of Death-fest is upon us. Today we are visited by Thanatos and Hel, along with Hel's brother Fenrir and her dog Garmr. Hel has... an interesting family. Besides being half-skeleton herself, she has a wolf and a giant snake for brothers, and the most irritating being in Norse mythology for a father. She also has a half-brother who's an eight-legged horse, but they don't like to talk about that.