I see we're going to have a lot of BEM Popes doing inter-dimensional travel.
@kmcleod: Well, get one of your ideas going, anyway, if you're not doing it already. Deadline is Wednesday. Funny - the Pope's own deadline will be the day after. Thursday February 28th, he officially stands down.
dnewling & curb - my thanks to you both. I was kind of surprised to be the start.
Herr Hussein - thanks, it's good to be kind of alive.
Oxbrow - love the (dare i say it?) concept!
imaginarypeople - No worries - there's no conflict. They're both tentacled but, if you look at the eyes of my guy, you'll see that he's sad and trapped to be in the position, not the menace seen in the Squid Pope's eyes. (Well, hopefully you'll see it. That's what i tried to convey)
Sadly, too tired to continue and comment on other excellent results at this time. But - there IS an art thread these days? Didn't see it when i stopped in last weekend. But, now that i know, i'll head over and post what i've been workiing on since the 'ressurection'.
This challenge dovetails nicely with a story told in one of my comics ...
In an alternate universe in which the Blessed Virgin had an abortion, the fetus resurrected and called disciples anyway. One of them realized that the Messiah's omnipluripotent embryonic stem cells would grant people eternal life, and nailed Him to a board to harvest them. Pope Judas I has been transfigured by two millennia of celebrating this Eucharist, and now resembles the Fetus Christ.
I'm glad there's a robopope in here. After bitching and moaning about no R&R for a while, one shows up and I have no time to fit it in. Now I have to go draw a "buff, ripped Leprechaun lifting guiness pints like weights"... Some days I hate my clients, but I have learned to just lay there and turn my head when they try to kiss me.
Pope John Paul George Ringo III; 2590-2612; Pool of Liver; genetically mutated multi-headed papal entity; once claimed to be more popular than Jesus; variants 1 & 2 killed by own hand over arguments over who got to wore the hat, God Rest Their Rubber Soul
Pope Tyto the Seventh; 2013-2037; rider of the Horse-Tree, teacher of humility through the Night Scream and leader of the charitable doe-mouthed maids; he left a world with more forests and less churches.