Support the show for $3/month at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult and get a bonus episode every week. At the end of September, we will donate half of this month's income to abortion mutual aid providers in Texas. This week we explore "The Infidel, featuring Pigman," a 2015 comic book about a handsome comic book author who draws the anti-muslim superhero "Pigman," and also fights muslims himself Filled with fascinating ideas about Islam (it's gay), Frank-Miller inspired illustrations and ideology, and plenty of Randian Objectivism, Pigman is a fascinating look at someone whose claim to fame is drawing Muhammed "over 500 times"
I think maybe we should just give a little background on Bosch-Faustin, but after we do that, I think the only way to really talk about this comic, the comic is called The Infidel.
It's The Infidel featuring Pigman.
So already you're, like, assuming that people know who Pigman is and that he's gonna be, I don't know, such a popular figure that you can just name your comic The Infidel featuring Pigman and have that I don't know, be SEO.
Quality SEO, somehow.
It's a bit misleading.
It's not, um, it's not... I don't know, we don't know what this could have been.
I feel like maybe he was stifled.
I just think name it Pigman.
That's maybe what I would say.
Or just The Infidel.
Yeah, um...
Looking at the back of this, of this comic, uh, we have, uh, the character who's the, like, his, I don't know, mild-mannered persona?
The superhero's, you know, alter ego?
You know, who's to say who the real, the real personality is here, but when he's not Pigman, I think he's Frank something?
Uh, on the back it has Frank saying, Jihadists are a superstitious and cowardly lot, so my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts.
I must become something terrible, something they fear, dot dot dot dot dot dot.
I shall become a pig.
Yeah, whenever I was grocery shopping with my mother as a child, whenever we would pass by the bacon meat aisle, she would faint and flee.
Just scream.
Yeah, that's one thing we know, and you can't really deny this, it's that Muslims are afraid of pigs.
It strikes fear into their heart.
How else could you avoid eating delicious bacon if you weren't deathly afraid of it?
Yeah, it's not just like a simple dietary choice that doesn't affect you at all growing up.
It's just, no, you must be afraid of the pig.
You know, when you're first in Islamic school, actually, which I did attend as a kid, they would put you in front of a video in like Clockwork Orange style, show you images of like pigs eating people and boar attacks.
And then to cleanse your palate, they would show you a factory farming video.
Yes.
He's like, don't worry.
We're fighting back here.
Yeah.
We own Maple Leaf Farms.
I love that it's like, it's, it's like a extremely stupid version of Batman, right?
Because it's like, Batman dons the bat, you know, because, is it because he's afraid of them or is that just the movie?
It's because he is afraid of them.
It's because he must become the thing he fears.
That's what I always thought it was, but I realized I might be, you know, just absorbing the Christian Bale Batman.
Yeah, he becomes the bat because he is afraid of them, not because he thinks criminals are afraid of bats.
And then second of all, um, I mean, I shall become a pig.
That's so fucking good.
Uh, but this reminds me of like the Ku Klux Klan wearing white robes because black people are afraid of ghosts.
I mean, we are afraid of ghosts.
If I saw a ghost, I'd be scared.
But if I saw like a guy in a, like a costume, like a, like a sheet thing, I don't think I'd be.
As scared as like a poltergeist.
But that's what a ghost is, Tony.
It's a sheep.
It's a...
I didn't see that, I didn't see that one, that guy, I didn't see that version of Ghost, that guy got cancelled.
We haven't yet described, the listener is probably like, what do those two ghostly white pillars on the chest symbol actually mean?
They're not, they couldn't be for, you know, the pillars of Islam or whatever, and you may have deduced that they're for the Twin Towers.
Dude has the...
Two World Trade Center towers in the center of his shirt with a red, like, S slash kind of over, like, behind and across them.
And you're like, okay, that's weird because it just blatantly looks like the Superman logo with Twin Towers in the center of it.
Which probably exists somewhere.
But they're gonna have the antenna still.
So if you're confused at all by this, don't worry because the second to last page is a full page explanation of the meaning behind Pigman's chest symbol.
And so it's blown it up bigger.
So you see the two towers, you see the red stripe going across it, but you also notice there's two notches off of the right tower for some reason.
You're like, I thought each tower got hit once.
What's up with these, you know?
Um, so I'm reading here.
The two white rectangles represent the Twin Towers with the red S making it read September 11th.
It's definitely what it makes it read.
Sure.
I, we knew that right away, which is why we're reading this explanation and describing it slowly to our listeners.
Uh, it honestly just looks like the Ghostbusters symbols.
This seems like, but instead of busting ghosts, they're just busting the trade center.
Because it looks like it's crossing it out with the S across it.
I ain't afraid of no towers!
The S is also a nod to Superman's S. Oh, really?
The part of the S that goes off to the left side makes out a 9, making it 9-11 as well.
So, like, the little back hook of the S kind of comes off so it looks like a 9.
The left tower looks like a 9, I guess.
It's a stretch.
That's a big stretch.
You're like, damn, that's a lot of meaning for your chest symbol.
But don't worry, I'm only like a third of the way through this.
It gets crazy.
And since he's a capitalist pig, the design makes out a dollar sign.
9-11 was all about the money.
That's what he's, like, there's a really good interpretation of this.
That involves, uh, you know, the stocks that were shorted before 9-11.
