The artist says of this week’s Jesus and Mo cartoon, called “eager” that “This is a rewrite of a 15-years-old strip, with only the first and last lines untouched, and a couple of additional add-on pleonasms added.”
There’s also a note on the strip: “That’s a pleonastic superfluity.” “Pleonastic” means “tautological”, like a “free gift” or an “old antique.” The hook here is, of course, that the barmaid completely rejects religion from the outset.
A superbly brilliant semantically tricky word play.