#netherworld

[kantharohs]

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[tomicscomics]

09/25/2025

The man's in heck and STILL digging himself a deeper hole.

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JOKE-OGRAPHY:

1. In this Bible story, Jesus tells a parable about a rich man and a poor man. The rich man lives luxuriously while the poor man, sickly and starving, wastes away just outside his gate. When they both die, the poor man is comforted by Father Abraham in paradise while, just across an impassable chasm, the rich man is trapped in a place of fire and torment. The parable doesn't say the rich man did anything overtly evil in his life. His only implied sin is that, for all his wealth and feasting, he failed to show charity to the poor man right outside his home, and for this, he's condemned. It's a harrowing reminder that failing to do the good we're capable of can be just as bad as doing evil.

--- 1a. By the way, I think Lazarus is the only named character in all of Jesus's parables. Makes you wonder why Jesus bothered naming him... especially when He has a friend that shares that very name. (Thank you, sam, on Patreon, for pointing this out!)

--- 1b. Also, it's interesting that the rich man calls Lazarus by name once they're both dead. Is this just a case of characters in old stories growing in knowledge at the same pace as the reader, rather than having separate awareness? Or could Jesus be implying the rich man was so familiar with the poor sickly man on his step that he knew him by name? (Thank you, sam, for pointing this out as well!)

2. In this cartoon, the rich man asks Abraham why he's been condemned. Abraham explains that the rich man didn't help the poor stranger, Lazarus, who was just outside his door. The rich man argues that, aktshually, Lazarus was no stranger; he was ALWAYS outside the rich man's door, so the rich man knew him well. Abraham stares at the rich man for a moment, then points out that the fact the rich man knew Lazarus so well and STILL NEVER HELPED HIM kind of makes his lack of charity even worse, not better.

[iz1331]

When you think about it, Betelgeuse has probably been providing or helping Lydia with ghost hauntings for Ghost House and making sure Lydia won't be lacking of "clients" and content for her show.

Beej supporting his wifey even from the Afterlife. The Juice even "hired" a whole department of shrinkers (shrink heads?) to manage all the newlydeads wanting Betelgeuse's professional haunting expertise!

From someone who just stays in his grave, sitting on his ratty couch, in his robe, and searching for potential clients from reading the obituary, probably taking up jobs whenever he feels like it because his profession as a bio-exorcist is uniquely his own and definitely not into the whole bureaucracy crap he did when he was Juno's assistant all those centuries ago, a real loose cannon...

To someone who has his own employees, a huge ass office, and mainstreaming his services where the newlydeads and other ghosts were now demanding his work 24/7!

All those centuries of his bio-exorcist schtick before meeting the Deetz-Maitlands, Lydia especially, and he changed his whole work ethic maybe around the same time he found out about Lydia's new career as a ghost haunting show host and exorcist (maybe not exorcist, but she talks to them and makes the arrangements for both living and dead to coexist).

I won't be surprised if in one of Lydia's visits to the haunted houses, Betelgeuse is there and just watches her work. Maybe make himself appear for a split-second to scare or just "say" hello to Lydia, lol. Betelgeuse is such a sucker for her, so obsessed loyal to Lydia that he didn't even try to make another alive person marry him. If he ever gets married (a second time), it's only gotta be with Edgar Allan Poe's daughter (I'm referring to Lydia, btw).

Anyways, basically they're work spouses. Even though one of them doesn't know it, and the other has been pining for the last 30 or so years.

[milly1111]

And then.... The stars aligned 💍👻🪲🧃🖤💚

Beetlejuice: @thewickedwarrior

[shadowman2333777]

“Beneath twin moons and a sky torn by ashwinds, the Wasteland Walker carves silence into the howling dark. Sand-devils fall like dust… and the dunes remember his name.”

Illustrated by John H. Drew Jr

[mephistosdreamvisons]

Psychopomps by Nederworld

[vertigoartgore]

Countdown to Thor #800 (2026) : 2007's Thor Vol.3 #1 (LGY : #588) page 14. Script by J. Michael Straczynski, art by Olivier Coipel, inks by Mark Morales, colors by Laura Martin and lettering by Chris Eliopoullos. Source