Some context for this comic:

Transcript:

Drawing God in any context, let alone a cartoon, poses some obvious risks.

In the upper left cartoon, I was careful to do two things; First, I made God look the way I think most of us are pretty sure he looks. Secondly, I made sure he was really winning hands down. Even if Norman had only ten points it would have meant that he beat God to the buzzer at least once, and someone would have gotten mad.

“In God’s Kitchen” was fairly benign, since the emphasis was mostly on the earth and the suggestion that things aren’t quite normal here and why.

I was mostly worried about the last cartoon shown here. Not because of readers, who for the most part found it to be a light and silly drawing, but because I started to feel like I was bucking for a lightning bolt to come out of the sky and turn me into something like the kid here.

I wonder how many times in the past this cartoon has been applicable…seems like a lot lol.

totally redundant caption. there was me thinking this was God’s basketball court