Armor of God

Have you ever wondered what kind of armor Paul would have used if he had written his epistle to the Ephesians today? The Kevlar vest of righteousness? Gas mask of faith? Hard ballistic plate of courage?

(Read a bonus strip here.)

Baptism By Fire

I suspect that the families of Elders Hammer and King are collecting all of their emails with thoughts of publishing them in some sort of anthology of horror short stories.

This is a Recording

This wasn't uncommon on my mission.

(Here's today's Deseret News strip.)

Forgive and Forget

It's very likely that my subconscious stole this from a 30 year old Family Circus joke I read as a kid. At any rate, this gag appears in this month's New Era.

Ill-Gotten Gain

As a missionary, I was always getting mistaken for authority figures. Although it never got to this point.

If you're reading this you either have some interest in missionary work or you're really, really bored. Either way, I'd like to recommend to you the fascinating new documentary series airing on BYUtv titled The District. In it, a camera crew follows eight missionaries in their day to day life. After only two episodes, it has become absolute must-see TV for my wife and I.

(Here's another strip for deseretnews.com.)

Vampire Word of Wisdom

October is monster month at Mormon Cartoonist. We'll take a one-week break next week, but otherwise it's all about the scary guys this month.

The last time we saw these two missionaries,* they were teaching Frankenstein and his bride. Now they're teaching Dracula. Just a typical day in the Transylvania Central Mission.

*I'm calling them Elders Hammer and King.

2012 Fall General Conference Recap Packet

Here's the General Conference Recap Packet. I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoy putting them together.

(Also, don't forget to check out fellow Mormon Cartoonist Kevin Beckstrom's Conference Notes. They are, as always, brilliant.)

UPDATE: A downloadable pdf of the packet is now available at the Idea Door and Sugar Doodle.

Go Fish

Just a reminder: please check back later today for my General Conference recap packet. (And with the number of talks on Peter the fisherman this weekend, this seemed like an appropriate strip to run today.)

(And here's this week's strip featured on deseretnews.com.)

Missionary Work in the Land of Oz

A mission in the Land of Oz would be, I imagine, a frustrating thing. Without a brain, you'd have to teach the Scarecrow even the simplest concepts over and over again. Forget about the Tin Man ever feeling the Spirit--he doesn't have a heart. And any Lion investigators would never show the courage of commitment.

And then there's the Wicked Witch of the West: if anyone in Oz needs the cleansing power of the gospel it's her (what with her likely Munchkin genocide and unnatural primate experimentation). And yet, thanks to her severe allergy to water, baptism will forever be out of the question.

On another topic, General Conference is this weekend. Here's a rundown on all the Mormon Cartoonist resources you can use to keep your little ones (and big ones) with poor attention spans on task:

• A General Conference Activity Packet available to download at sugardoodle.net and ldsclipart.com.
• The LDS Scripture Heroes app includes dozens of scripture heroes from the Standard Works in five different puzzles games.
• The LDS Coloring Book app now includes over a dozen different coloring books covering a number of different topics. It's awesome and will keep your kids busy for hours (you can also print each of the coloring books and color them with crayons and paper, just click on each individual coloring book from the link provided above).
• LDS Laughs isn't much of a resource for anything, but you're more than welcome to downloaded it in preparation of this weekend anyway.

MTC Weight Gain 5

Here is the conclusion of Elder Strong's struggles with weight gain in the MTC. Next week Elder Van Dyke will return to the mission field.

(But if you can't wait until then to see Elder Van Dyke back in Laputania, you can always check out this week's deseretnews.com strip.)