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Explanation
The Joke
A man prays to God, confessing that ever since he was a child, instead of collecting Batman or communion wafers, he would "stash them in my pocket." He then reveals that he has amassed 80 pounds of communion wafers, "which is approximately the weight of a human body." Given that Catholic doctrine holds that communion wafers are literally the body of Christ through transubstantiation, the man asks: "Does that mean I have the softening-up body of Christ here? Does that mean I just get to have Jesus, like, here, right now?" A woman nearby responds with shock: "Yes! Oh my God!"
In the "Later" panel, we see the man on a desert landscape with what appears to be a Jesus figure made of communion wafers, with the caption: "Thanks. I'm amazed more people don't do this." The joke takes the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation -- the belief that consecrated communion wafers literally become the body of Christ -- and follows it to an absurd logical conclusion: if each wafer is literally Christ's body, then collecting enough wafers should give you an entire physical Jesus.
The Humor
The comedy derives from applying strict literal logic to a religious doctrine that is typically understood in a more mystical or metaphorical sense. The man treats transubstantiation as a straightforward material fact rather than a theological mystery, essentially "reassembling" Jesus like a jigsaw puzzle from communion wafers. The punchline -- showing the man casually hanging out with his wafer-Jesus in the desert -- treats this theological hack as something obvious that nobody else thought to try. The title text ("Later it turns out he was talking to Satan. But, it's okay because he has gold") adds another layer of irreverent humor about religious loopholes.
References
Transubstantiation is the Catholic doctrine that during the Eucharist, the bread and wine literally become the body and blood of Jesus Christ, even though they retain the outward appearance of bread and wine. This was formally defined at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 and reaffirmed at the Council of Trent. The comic plays on the tension between the literal theological claim and its practical absurdity when taken at face value.