When Death is more important than Birth...

Author's Note: Today marks ten years since my father passed away. At the time of his death, the state of the world was very turbulent, but now that turbulence has grown a lot worse.

In Ecclesiastes 7:1, it was stated that the day of death is better than the day of birth because in two major instances of birthdays being mentioned in the Bible, they both mentioned somebody dying in a very horrible way, namely the Pharaoh's chief baker and John the Baptist. Therefore, remembering death anniversaries make more sense. In fact, a few European countries in recent years celebrated the lives of a few emperors of the Holy Roman Empire on the death anniversaries of these people. However, these Europeans do not know that these emperors had to cause so much suffering just to shape Europe to what it is today.

Speaking of Rome, the Roman Empire used to observe the Anno Mundi Calendar until Julius Caesar made the Romans ditch the Anno Mundi Calendar in favour of the Julian Calendar, believing that it will make death anniversaries easier to remember, and it did when he was assassinated on the 15th of March, 44 BC. Several centuries later, the Julian Calendar was reworked, resulting in the creation of the Gregorian Calendar. Both the Julian and Gregorian Calendars, however, are not approved by God because they do not follow the Anno Mundi Calendar, which explicitly states that the year begins on the first day of spring, while these two man-made calendars force humanity to start the new year in the middle of winter. In other words, Rome had indeed made a huge mistake in its bid to rule the world.

Reactions to an Endgame Aftermath

Accept it, Jenova. Your dark plans would be far too extreme for a malevolent purple head who tried to take over Sony, which is why he will never allow you to be part of his army. Also, that purple head would rather sign a peace agreement with Master and Crazy Hands.

Remember when I made a comic about how Kazuya's Quest would end? While none of the predictions that I made came true, it ended with Sephiroth getting defeated by Kazuya and Kirby. To add insult to injury, Sephiroth's army disbanded, headed for home and called the Bringer of Despair a loser. Now Professor Hojo is going to hate himself even more than he normally would because he is going to end up being a laughing stock in addition to being a worse father than Kazuya's father Heihachi. As for Jenova, she would not take Sephiroth's defeat and humiliation at the hands of Kazuya and Kirby very lightly. But she can do nothing about it because even if she decides to join forces with Polygon Man, that purple head would not allow her to be part of his army. Perhaps it's because being an Eldritch Abomination, she is uglier than even the Chimera from Sony's Resistance franchise, and the Chimera are ugly aliens.

P.S. Jenova rarely talks. But when she did, she taunted Cloud by saying "Because, you are... a puppet".

Final Fantasy VII © Square Enix.

Charles Martinet Passes The Baton

It's official. Charles Martinet has passed the Mario voice acting baton to a new voice actor, meaning those who suspected that Mario sounded differently in the first trailer of Super Mario Bros Wonder because they claim that Mario is now voiced by a different person were right all along. Nintendo has also announced that Charles Martinet is not voicing Wario in WarioWare: Move It! as well. This is also due to Charles Martinet passing the Wario voice acting baton to a new voice actor.

Some wonder if Charles Martinet's decision to step down from being the voice of Mario as well as Wario was due to Gary Oak's voice actor James Carter Cathcart being forced to retire due to being diagnosed with cancer. This is going to leave Dr Eggman's voice actor Mike Pollock with a very difficult dilemma, and Charles Martinet isn't even at Death's Door yet. He's just moved on to being Mario Ambassador.

Update: Charles Martinet's successor has been revealed, and his name is Kevin Afghani. Hailing from Los Angeles, Kevin Afghani's biggest voice acting role before taking up the mantle of voicing Mario as well as Wario was Arnold from Genshin Impact. Looks like a new voice acting superstar has risen.

Tentacle Crime 3

Characters getting molested by a Blooper in this comic, from top to bottom: Samus (In her two-piece swimsuit from the Metroid Zero Mission ending), Arle (PuyOlympics bikini), Peach (In her Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games swimsuit), Daisy (In her Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games swimsuit), Elena (Street Fighter 3).

Yet another comic about a Blooper molesting female characters? This Blooper is going to be in serious trouble with the police, and nobody wants to get captured by the police these days...

Tentacle Crime 2

Characters getting molested by a Blooper in this comic, from top to bottom: Samus (In her two-piece swimsuit from the Metroid Fusion ending), Female Swimmer Trainer (Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire), Female Swimmer Trainer (Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl), Tharja (Red bikini) (Fire Emblem Awakening), Tatra (Magic Knight Rayearth).

Another comic about a Blooper molesting female characters by touching their bottoms with tentacles? This Blooper is really asking for trouble...

Tentacle Crime

Characters getting molested by a Blooper in this comic, from top to bottom: Samus (In her black bikini from the Super Metroid ending), Peach (In her Seaside Kingdom pink bikini from Super Mario Odyssey), Female Swimmer Trainer (Pokemon X and Y), Female Swimmer Trainer (Yellow bikini version) (Pokemon Sun and Moon), Female Swimmer Trainer (Black bikini version) (Pokemon Sun and Moon).

Remember, folks. Outrage of modesty is a crime that can get you locked up behind bars. As a Singapore Police Force anti-molestation campaign slogan goes, "If you molest, we will arrest".

A Blooper's tentacle touching anybody's bottom is not just an outrage of modesty, it is also an inappropriate act that is considered "Not Safe For Work". Looks like the Blooper that is molesting other people is going to be in big trouble...

Stab The Eggman

Wielders of swords stabbing Dr Eggman: Schezo Wegey (Puyo Puyo), Yuko Asou (Valis), Guts (Berserk), Kirito (Sword Art Online).

Schezo had already stabbed Dr Eggman before, but that was the Sega Mega Drive version of Dr Eggman who got stabbed. In this comic, the Dr Eggman that is being stabbed in this comic is the version whose design debuted in Sonic Adventure and has since been the design Sonic fans are all familiar with.

A Showdown with no Second Face-off

Back in 2001, during National Day, Pokemon and Cardcaptor Sakura had a face-off. No, it did not have them fight each other. Rather, it was a TV marathon. And when it ended, viewers such as myself were left wishing that one day, Ash Ketchum and Sakura Kinomoto will face each other again in the future. Unfortunately, it didn't happen because neither character was eligible for Nintendo's Super Smash Bros series due to licensing issues. Maybe Masahiro Sakurai knew about the licensing issues concerning Tatsunoko vs Capcom, which is why he enforced a "no non-video game characters allowed" policy for the Super Smash Bros series. But if licensing issues are not the reason, then the lore of both franchises will be the reason. Pokemon was always considered a very dangerous series because of backstories having wars in them, while Sakura Kinomoto's magical girl escapades were only made possible due to the dark events of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle had a stabbing incident where it turns out the Sakura that got stabbed was a clone. For all we know, the real reason Ash never grows old was because Pokemon had been all just a dream from a dying, mentally ill Ash living in a mundane world all along. Even then, the producers do not want to mention that he was a Zainichi Korean as well.

All in all, we will have to accept the fact that we cannot have nice things...

The Flag of Singapore that never was

While Colonial Singapore did have a flag, it is unknown if there was a flag design contest in the years leading up to self-rule in 1959. If there was a flag design contest, the proposed flag of Singapore featured in this comic would have been one of the many competing designs that eventually lost out to the current flag.

Kingdoms of Culture

Let's face it. The empires represented in the statue of Daniel 2 will have their cultural legacy replaced by God's culture because God sees the cultures conceived by human nature as unacceptable. Although losing one's cultural heritage has terrible consequences, living by the wrong cultural heritage is just as bad, if not worse...

When the Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD, there have been many attempts to revive the Roman Empire, as well as the rise of kingdoms that claim to be the successor of the Roman Empire. One kingdom, however, is doing both of these tasks, and it's called the Holy Roman Empire. It warred against pretenders that claim to be the Roman Empire's successor, with the most notable ones being Czarist Russia, Ottoman Turkey, and the British Empire. The Holy Roman Empire also had a great culture, but it was not peaceful. For example, we all like to listen to classical music (Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, etc.), but to be tone deaf to the screams of prisoners being tortured is not good. This was what exactly happened in the Holy Roman Empire. The same can be said about Japan during the first 20 years of the Showa Era, which saw many of the worst atrocities committed in human history, with the proposed eradication of Korean culture being one of them. That is why peace and culture rarely go hand in hand, until God decides to replace human nature with God's culture, which is what the huge boulder that smashed the statue of Daniel 2 represents. Only then will the kingdoms of Earth stop fighting over who the successor of the Roman Empire is, because God's Kingdom does not believe in being the Roman Empire's true successor. The empires that the statue of Daniel 2 represent, including the Roman Empire, will have their cultural legacies swept away after being replaced by God's Kingdom and God's culture.

Now one must wonder what God's culture will be like, other than peace and culture going hand in hand at long last after years of blood, sweat and tears...

Keeping Up With Commodore

As an Australian Commodore C64 commercial slogan goes, "Are you keeping up with the Commodore? 'Cause the Commodore is keeping up with you!" The title for this comic is loosely based on that catchy slogan from the Australian Commodore C64 commercials.

There was a time when during the days of arcades being prohibited in Singapore, computer shops would let people play on computers for a rental fee. One of these computers people played on was the Commodore C64. It was simply put it, the saviour of the video game scene in Singapore during the 1980s. The Commodore C64 also became popular in Poland in the years that followed after the fall of communism (In 2016, an article was written about a Polish auto repair shop in Gdansk being the owners of a Commodore C64 that was still running for 25 years). Commodore's C64 also laid the foundations for the Amiga, another Commodore product that, like the C64, has a special place in our hearts long after Commodore went out of business. It gets better when you find out that Sega had ports of After Burner and Golden Axe on both the C64 and Amiga, even when the Sega Genesis was already available on the market at that time. How's that for an incredible legacy?