rapture-2
Explanation
This comic imagines the Biblical Rapture actually happening — and people's reactions being underwhelming.
In the first panel, the sky is splitting open with divine light and a character exclaims: "Oh my God, it's the Rapture! The good people are ascending to Heaven!"
In the second panel, someone notices: "Huh, guess it's mostly children. I wonder why." This is a darkly funny observation — if only the truly good are taken, it makes sense that mostly children (who haven't had time to sin) would qualify, implying that virtually all adults are too morally compromised.
In the final panel, someone addresses God directly: "Hey God, are you gonna leave the books behind? I mean, since those people aren't using them." The response: "This is why Ted. This. Right there." The joke is that Ted's immediate, self-interested reaction to a divine apocalyptic event — scavenging the departed's belongings — is precisely the kind of behavior that explains why he wasn't raptured. His response to witnessing proof of divine judgment is to loot, which perfectly demonstrates why he was left behind.
The title "Rapture" (with the "-2" indicating it's the second SMBC comic with this title) plays on the gap between the awesome theological concept and the petty, materialistic way humans would actually respond to it.