Comic #5705: salt

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Description

Comic Description:

• Panel 1:
  • Background: A chaotic scene depicting the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. There are fiery explosions, smoke rising, and debris falling from the sky.
  • Foreground: A man with a beard and curly hair is animatedly speaking. He is wearing a simple tunic. He gestures with both hands toward a figure on his right.
  • Text (in a speech bubble): "NO! SHE LOOKED BACK AT THE MAYHEM AND DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH, EVEN THOUGH IT PROVIDED NO ADDITIONAL RELEVANT INFORMATION! NOW SHE IS 100% SALT!"
• Panel 2:
  • Foreground: To the right, there's a ghostly figure resembling a woman, covered in a flowing robe or cloak, with a headscarf and a blank expression. This figure represents Lot's wife, turned into a pillar of salt.
  • Text (below the panels): "What if the story of Lot’s Wife was actually a homily about avoiding cable news?"

Overall Theme: The comic humorously reinterprets the biblical story of Lot's Wife turning into salt as a metaphor for the dangers of being overly involved in sensational news.