resurrection
Explanation
This comic depicts a scene of divine resurrection gone wrong. A beam of light comes down from heaven as a voice announces: "Steve! Steeeve! This is the resurrection! I'm bringing back your body and everything!" Steve's spirit, appearing as a ghost, says excitedly: "Behold!"
But what emerges is just a pile of dirt or decomposed remains. A small label reads "Dust to dust." Steve's ghostly form looks at the pile, and someone (possibly Steve himself) observes: "Your body has been fully reconstituted." But the red blood cells or some other component protests: "He told us 'red blood cells, act like you're in a Renaissance painting!' but that freaked me out the most."
In the final panels, the now-resurrected Steve asks: "Can I go back to doing penance in Hell now?" The punchline is that the physical resurrection -- supposedly the ultimate divine reward -- is so grotesque and horrifying that Steve would actually prefer to return to Hell.
The comic plays with the theological concept of bodily resurrection, which many religious traditions promise as part of the afterlife. The joke is that reassembling a decomposed body would actually be a horrifying biological process rather than a miraculous and beautiful one. The gap between the theological promise (glorious resurrection) and the biological reality (reconstituting a pile of organic matter) provides the humor.