A spread from a comic I did last year. Basically it's a Little Red Riding Hood -adaptation. It's in Finnish but the story goes like this: The guy's girlfriend gives him a pack of cigarettes to take to her grandmother. The guy doesn't smoke so when a bum asks him for a cigarette he just says he doesn't have any. Well, the bum just happens to be the old Finnish overgod "Ukko" (which is nowadays used as a word meaning "old guy" or "father" or "husband" -make of that what you will...) and sees the pack of cigarettes in the guy's back pocket. He takes offense and this is what follows.
Where I live there are a lot of people who live on the street. A lot of these people are in a really bad state but some of them are surprisingly lucid. Because they can be very strong characters and their outward appearance is quite similar to the depictions of Ukko, I just thought, what if Ukko didn't go anywhere when Christianity arrived?
The rest of the comic can be found on my blog. Just scroll down a bit.
