Moo Lucky

This is a submission to the October 2024 48-hour comic book jam. Tools used are classic paper, crow quill, and brush pen in a few cases (the much fatter pages), and Krita for the others.

All art by me. I was straining for an idea, then I was talking with a friend about "Rem Lazar" (you really gotta look that one up...) and this just kind of popped into my head magically.

As to Moloch, we're pretty sure at this point that the Cult of Moloch never actually existed; but, it's thoroughly a part of our cultural zeitgeist thanks to a bunch of bored and creative monks (who quite possibly hated kids) mistranslating old texts. The TLDR is that "MLK" more accurately means human sacrifice, and is very close to the word for "king" in a few languages. Hebrew's lack of vowels didn't especially help here, apparently, but thanks for the effort guys.

The idea of Moloch (or Malik, or Molech) was that he was an outside god whose worship revolved around the construction of a massive bronze idol, which would be heated until it was white-hot and then fed infants and small children. Their screams would be drowned out by the drums and dancing. Personally, I think these monks had a better calling as screenwriters, but the field didn't exist yet.

Human sacrifice will perhaps never go entirely out of style. But what else can be said, it just isn't that socially acceptable a thing to do.

So, in a universe in which Moloch did have a cult, I give you... Moo Lucky!