Just in time for Passover, Danny Shanahan has delivered an Exodus-themed cartoon. Moses is standing atop Mount Sinai, where he’s receiving the Ten Commandments from God, who’s presenting the Decalogue on a peel, the shovel-like tool that’s used to slide pizzas into and out of ovens. The Commandments are piping hot. Moses’s mouth is closed,…
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