trisen
Explanation
The Joke
The comic begins with the crucifixion of Jesus and the announcement "He is risen" three days later. But then, three more days later, he rises again -- "Wow! Another one!" Three days after that, he has risen a third time: "Trisen!" The pace is increasing, with each resurrection happening a little faster than the one before. The characters note they will be "inundated." Elsewhere, someone has found Jesus's tomb acting like an oven, producing multiplying Jesuses at an accelerating rate. They try to turn it off but are told it "has to cool down for a bit." When asked "how much Jesus are we talking?" the answer is alarming enough that someone says "Sit tight, I have an idea." The final panel shows someone declaring they need to "Build an Ark" -- as risen Jesuses flood the world the way water did in Noah's time.
The Humor
The comic takes the Christian concept of the Resurrection and treats it as a replicating physical process that has gone out of control. Instead of being a singular miraculous event, Jesus's rising from the dead becomes an exponentially accelerating phenomenon -- a runaway chain reaction of resurrections. The word "Trisen" (risen three times) is a delightful neologism. The humor escalates as the situation is treated like a practical engineering problem: the tomb is overheating, it needs to cool down, and someone needs to calculate the output rate. The final callback to building an Ark ties it back to another Biblical disaster narrative, implying that a flood of Jesuses is the new deluge threatening civilization.
References
The comic references the Christian belief in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, who according to the Gospels rose from the dead three days after his crucifixion. The "Build an Ark" ending references the story of Noah's Ark from Genesis, in which God instructs Noah to build a large vessel to survive a catastrophic flood. The comic's treatment of exponential growth also evokes concepts from physics and biology, such as chain reactions and exponential bacterial reproduction.