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ALT Text: Scene is WAITROSE. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone.

BECKY [on phone]: Yeah, hiya...

2 BECKY: Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs.

3 BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]: Sorry what was your name again?

4 [Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.]

PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility

5 BECKY Sorry - Your name is Easter…?

PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre.

6

[Vicky pauses, trying to take this in].

VICKY: Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs.

7 PAGAN GODDESS: Sorry love, what’s your name?

BECKY: Becky

PAGAN GODDESS: Well, Vicky -

8 PAGAN GODDESS: If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here -

TEENAGE BOY: Muuum…

9 PAGAN GODDESS: ….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too!

10 PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!

11 BECKY: You mean… Jesus…?

PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky.

12 PAGAN GODDESS: Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4?

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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Think of all of the millions that Christians butchered over this... then, they destroyed every single trace of any other religion, erasing centuries of cultural history.

Today, Catholics alone own over 170 million acres of land, much of it stolen from those same people, and they enjoy tax-free status all over the world. Horrifying.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I love the passive-aggressive move of Ēostre intentionally getting Becky's name wrong in return

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago

Vicky had it coming tbh…

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 67 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What better way to symbolize shagging in a kid-friendly way than an egg hunt? Look at all those little sperms go, trying to find the egg as quickly as possible after all being released at the same time?

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a nice idea, but eggs were associated with the Christian Easter (Pascha in Latin, which is roughly the name for Easter in most countries that celebrate it), probably as a custom from Persia going through to what's now Eastern Orthodoxy and from there to Catholics/Protestants as a way to celebrate the end of Lent (eggs being prohibited during that time). It's still possible it was also Pagan and forgotten, decorating eggs is at least 60k years old, but its association with Easter was only (re-?) initiated through Christianity.

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 1 points 12 hours ago

The thousands of years old tradition from non-Abrahamic Persia, (in fact a proto-IE region with shared religious rites with Slavic, Celtic and Germanic Europe), predating not only the splits of Christianity into Eastern Orthodox and Other, but of Christianity actually existing, doesn't show it was a Pagan tradition?

What else do you call non-Abrahamic religious rites?

(And apparently new evidence has since backed up Bede's account of Pagan Oestra in the British Isles, too.)

[–] 1dalm@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

They don't care. They need their anti-intellectualism as badly as fundamentalist Christians.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 day ago (1 children)

transcription for the visually impaired?

Baaaased

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Slightly differs from the actual comic, though.

"Give birth to Spring itself" and "hang on, Spring" vs "give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here"

And ends with TEENAGE BOY: MUUUUM

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

It also says he's a "normal human teenager," which he clearly is not.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 2 points 18 hours ago

Point; I meant to include that one. Is also green like mum but wearing a hoody.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Methinks it was generated. Shame.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I got the comic and the Alt Text from this mastodon post which specifically says the author does the alt text himself. I couldn’t find evidence of that though I didn’t look tooooo hard…

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hmmm, maybe they were going off an earlier script *shrug*

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 day ago

Entirely plausible.

[–] rapchee@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

"normal human teenager" hmmmmmmmm

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 31 points 1 day ago
[–] ech@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

That's not even a checkout line, so the man behind Spring is just there to watch the drama.

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