1. Comment #145966 by Machinus on March 18, 2008 at 12:13 pm

This is promising. Write something more biting!

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2. Comment #145977 by Richard Feldmann on March 18, 2008 at 12:38 pm

Thumbs up, indeed.

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3. Comment #145993 by mero on March 18, 2008 at 1:07 pm

Interesting comic! But I like how the man wanting equality is white and male, just like the other three horsemen.

They need Ayaan Hirsi Ali up on a horse!

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4. Comment #146006 by movingshadow on March 18, 2008 at 1:20 pm

take THAT, jack chick

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5. Comment #146008 by movingshadow on March 18, 2008 at 1:22 pm

[quote]I like how the man wanting equality is white and male[/quote]

so?

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6. Comment #146040 by sidfaiwu on March 18, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Quality stuff. I like how the Gideons are giving away free dictionaries in the last frame.

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7. Comment #146102 by stereoroid on March 18, 2008 at 3:56 pm

Nice to know that the world will be going Metric after the Apocalypse! (Check out the price of onions.)

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8. Comment #146106 by Trainload of Fools on March 18, 2008 at 4:02 pm

Mero, I think the whole thing is a reference to the Four Horsemen discussions between Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett and Harris as featured on this very site.

Also I think that that your comment kind of misses the point of equality.

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9. Comment #146110 by Trainload of Fools on March 18, 2008 at 4:05 pm

Speaking of onions, stereoroid, that's a bargain!

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10. Comment #146128 by Big T on March 18, 2008 at 4:33 pm

The person doing the comic strip apparently picked Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens to caricature because they are such visible spokesmen for atheism, I should think. Anyone who can see racism or sexism in that is either too culturally enlightened or too just plain sensitive for me.

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11. Comment #146146 by mero on March 18, 2008 at 5:11 pm

I forgot my {/devil's advocate] tag.

Just some light humour, all. Back to your originally scheduled reading.

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12. Comment #146224 by the_ultimate_samurai on March 18, 2008 at 7:39 pm

yeah its an obvious reference to the four horsemen discussion between haris, dawkins, hitchens, and denett.

now why they chose equality for hitchens the world may never know.

funny comic though, if not too utopian.

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13. Comment #146232 by digitalia on March 18, 2008 at 7:49 pm

the guys is wearing a freakin QUEBEC NORDIQUES shirt! hahahahah! (speaking of extinct/endtimes)

Edit: oh, and Hitchens should've been holding a Martini, or at least a cigarette.

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14. Comment #146234 by Greyman on March 18, 2008 at 7:52 pm

I love the gothic dripping text when they condem the world to a new age of ... reason and compassion!

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15. Comment #146242 by natheist on March 18, 2008 at 8:05 pm

It's perfect!

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16. Comment #146335 by Koreman on March 19, 2008 at 1:10 am

Great comic, but it is not based on real future events. Horseman Equality talks about genital mutilation of girls only.

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17. Comment #146372 by Slippy on March 19, 2008 at 2:24 am

Can't agree that this is good, self congratulatory rubbish I say. It re-enforces the image of atheist 'spiritual leaders' and the grouping of atheists as having a common belief and goal. I don't have a goal as an atheist other than to live my life without it being interfered with by other peoples belief.

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18. Comment #146761 by bad_andy on March 19, 2008 at 11:21 am

I think it's great. Takes the fear, uncertainty and doubt our detractors try to smear the Four Horsemen with and reflects the positive future they want instead. More please.

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19. Comment #146772 by Shaden on March 19, 2008 at 11:47 am

It appears that the two people have quests available once they see the four horsemen approaching.

...I wonder how much experience the party got

Heh, looking at the differences in the before and after scenes reminds me of the child magazine Highlights.

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20. Comment #146777 by Yggdrasill on March 19, 2008 at 11:55 am

lol, i read the lines out loud in a dark "metal" tone and got louder and sounder angry at the bold statements. i almost fell off my chair

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21. Comment #146791 by Geoff on March 19, 2008 at 12:09 pm

I kinda like it, but a bit more attention to spelling would have been nice.

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22. Comment #147071 by steveroot on March 19, 2008 at 6:33 pm

6. Comment #146040 by sidfaiwu on March 18, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Quality stuff. I like how the Gideons are giving away free dictionaries in the last frame.

Yes and the incidence of STD in teenage girls has dropped considerably. (No doubt because more of them will be practicing abstinence after the apocalypse!) :O

All in all, I thought this was pretty well done.
Ste5e

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23. Comment #148590 by quantum tuba on March 23, 2008 at 11:06 am

I think they chose equality for Hitchens simply because he's the most political of the Four Horsemen. The rest are academics of some sort (Dawkins is a biologist, Dennet and analytic philosopher, which might make him better suited for "reason" and Harris is a neuroscientist).

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24. Comment #149024 by sarah95 on March 25, 2008 at 1:37 am

Comment #146335 by Koreman

Great comic, but it is not based on real future events. Horseman Equality talks about genital mutilation of girls only.

Well, if it's a comic, it's not supposed to be based on real future events, now is it? The point of talking about the future was to accurately show what the Horsemen want, instead of what some worried moderates think the Horsemen want. Whether any of it will happen doesn't matter as much.

As for genital mutilation, Hitchens and Harris have talked about circumcision a lot. To hear Hitchens talk about it, simply listen to his Seattle and Toronto speeches and Q & A, along with several of his radio interviews. Also, I was at the American Atheists conference this weekend in Minneapolis, and while there were no groups present as advocates against FGM(it's kind of a default position for most people already), there was a group with it's own booth promoting the rights of men and boys and handing out anti-circumcision literature. They were even taking donations. Make no mistake, male circumcision is getting plenty of bad press from The Horsemen or New Atheists or whatever silly name we want to put on them.
While mainstream conversation usually tends to focus on FGM, atheist conversation of late has taken a fairer appraisal and been very critical of MGM.

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25. Comment #151644 by Enlightenme.. on March 29, 2008 at 6:04 am

Love Harris' costume as a sort of spock-jedi.

But I'm sure they got the wrong Hitchens, that looks more like his brother peter to me.

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26. Comment #152259 by Lil_Xunzian on March 30, 2008 at 2:40 pm

Aw, that was cute.

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27. Comment #153830 by AKirkland on April 2, 2008 at 6:19 am

Anyone else think that Daniel Dennett looked like Gary Gygax in that armour?

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28. Comment #158564 by Soul Harvester on April 10, 2008 at 6:48 pm

This is fantastic! :D

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29. Comment #176117 by LiseYates on May 6, 2008 at 3:37 pm

That's awesome! I'm 25. After spending 18 years of my life irrationally afraid of the events discussed in Revelations, this is a breath of fresh air. And I don't think this marks atheism as a religion (depicting famous atheists as the Four Horsemen). If you know anything about Christianity eschatology, you'd know that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is synonymous with popular Christian thought and to use it against religion is priceless.

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