03/06/2026
Well, well, well, Who do we have here?
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JOKE-OGRAPHY:
In this Bible story (John 4), Jesus rests by a well while His disciples go to buy food. It's near noon, so the sun is hot, and when a Samaritan woman comes to the well to draw water, Jesus asks her for a drink. She's surprised, because He's a Jew, and the Jews of that time famously hated the Samaritans, who were seen as half-breeds and heretics. The story continues with the woman opening up about her life of adultery, and Jesus offering her water that will never leave her thirsty again. The story is filled with powerful imagery of salvation, marriage, mercy, and evangelism, but I can't do it all justice here, so here's a short video about it that I absolutely loved: Bishop Robert Barron on The Woman at the Well.
In this cartoon, the Samaritan woman (later dubbed "St. Phontini" by some Christians) sneaks out of her home and out of town to draw water from the well alone. Normally, drawing water would be done in the cooler parts of the day, and you'd go together with friends to socialize as you walked, but this woman goes alone at high noon. She's clearly ashamed and chooses to come to the well when no one's around. Alas, on this lonesome journey, she happens to find a tired but driven Messiah waiting for her.
You may be asking yourselves, "Tom, have you not sworn a blood pact with St. Lawrence to include comedy in all your cartoons? Yet this one is played so straight. Will you not suffer your patron's wrath for this subversion?" Too true. I'll add a joke here as a consolation, then. "Why did the banana cross the road? Because it was stapled to the chicken." Are you not entertained?
