T-Rex: Cargo cults are religions that have developed during World War II in island tribal societies exposed to the West! Islanders saw planes delivering amazing and valuable cargo to the troops, and believed it to be divine.

Narrator: KARGO KULT KOMICS

T-Rex: During the war, the islanders would see this cargo going to the troops and would grow to believe that the gods meant it for them - that the white people were just getting it sooner because of their influential rituals. And of course, after the war ended and the troops left, the cargo stopped being dropped too.

Utahraptor: So what happened then?
T-Rex: The islanders started mimicking what they'd seen the troops doing!

T-Rex: The result was ersatz marches, imitation airstrips and walkie talkies made out of wood and bamboo, and even torch signal flares, used to signal divine planes that never come!
Utahraptor: Wow! It recasts Western military culture and tools as religious practice and iconography, respectively!

T-Rex: I know! It's CRAZY! Not in the pejorative sense, but in the more esoteric "Holy crap the Prime Directive on Star Trek was RIGHT" sense of crazy. It's a very particular sense of crazy but I'm feeling it right now!
Off panel: I'm feeling it right now too, and I don't even watch nerd shows!!

October 29th, 2007: Guys. T-Rex might have had three fingers. I - I don't know what to say.

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One year ago today: gimme a hug

– Ryan