Durkon contacts Thor for some spells. Thor, however, is quite busy...
Cast
Transcript
- Panel 1
Thor approaches a village that is being attacked by the fire giant Surtur.
Thor: Stand true, loyal worshippers! I, Thor, come to defeat Surtur in your hour of need!
Surtur: Grrr!
Villager #1: Look! It's Thor!
Villager #2: Sweet!
Villager #3: Help us, Thor!
Villager #4: I'm scared!
Villager #5: Eeeeek!
The planetar's headset goes "ring! ring!"
- Panel 2
Planetar (into headset): Hello? Yeah... yeah, he's right here. OK, hold on.
Planetar: Sir, there's a "Durkon Thundershield" on Line 2. he's asking for three Lesser Restorations.
- Panel 3
Thor: Ach, let the machine get it. I'm busy here!
Planetar: We had to get rid of the machine, sir. Too many complaints about unintentional colon tumors.
- Panel 4
Planetar: Uh huh. Yeah, uh huh. Sir, he says it is an emergency.
- Panel 5
Thor: Fine! I'll talk to him. Geez.
Thor (into headset): Hello, Durkon. Yes, yes, praise me, can we get on with this? How many 1st level spells are you going to need today?
Villager #1: Praise Thor!
Villager #2: Hail Thor!
Surtur: ?
- Panel 6
Surtur grabs several villagers while Thor is distracted on the phone.
Villager #1: What's he doing?
Villager #2: Thor has abandoned us!
Villager #3: Help us, Thor!
Villager #4: Aaaa!
Surtur: heh heh!
Thor (off-panel): Uh huh... and what do you want for the domain spell?
- Panel 7
Surtur tosses a dozen villagers into his mouth.
Villager #1: The humanity!
Villager #2: Oh sweet apathetic gods!
Villager #3: Our lives meant nothing!
Villager #4: Mommy what's happening>
Thor (off-panel): What about 2nd level spells?
Thor (off-panel): And the domain slot?
- Panel 8
Above Durkon's head, "DING!"
Durkon: Spells're ready!
Roy: Well it's about friggin' time.
D&D Context
- Divine spellcasters like Durkon must pray to their god in order to be granted their spells each day.
- Lesser Restoration is a spell useful for removing negative effects and ability damage on allies.
- Surtr is the god of Fire Giants in D&D.
Trivia
- This is Thor's first appearance.
- This is Surtur's first appearance.
- Like Eugene, Thor and Surtur have colored speech bubbles.
- The title is a reference to the 1980 South African film The Gods Must Be Crazy.
- "The Machine" referenced in this comic first appeared in #7, ThorPrayer.
- This is the first comic which reveals Durkon's last name to be Thundershield.
- In addition to being a D&D Monster, Surtr is a figure from Norse mythology like Thor.