There will be no Readers’ Wildlife for the forseeable future, as I have no submissions. But here is a reposted Jesus and Mo strip, announcing a compilation of the best of the strips.
A friday flashback from 16 years ago. A “best of” Jesus & Mo collection is in the pipeline with about 150 strips from the collection. In plenty of time for Christmas. If you have any particular favourites you’dlike to see included, let me know in the comments.
You can comment on the site’s Patreon page, and I urge you to throw a few bucks towards the continuation of this strip (remember, the artist has to remain anonymous for obvious reasons).
The strip jibes with Richard Dawkins’s comment in River Out of Eden (1995):
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are being slowly devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst and disease. It must be so. If there is ever a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.
That guy can write!
