“Guess Who’s Coming to Heaven” is a story about Joe and Alice being accepted by their church. It was influenced in part by my wife and my early attempts at getting pregnant, including a miscarriage. The ultra-sound image at the bottom of the cartoon is the actual picture of our youngest, Warren, in the womb. Warren is now grown into a fine and healthy young man.
This cartoon was never one of my favorites for whatever reason, and certainly hasn’t improved with age. It does have the distinction of the being the last one in the tabloid format, and coincidentally it was also the last one featured in the book collection of comics that was released in 1992. So the rest of the comics to be posted in this blog were never reprinted after their initial appearance in Cornerstone, and may be unfamiliar to those loyal readers who purchased the book. BTW, the book “OBOE JONES” has been out of print since its initial press run. But I have seen used copies available online from time to time. I do have a few pristine copies of the book in a box somewhere, but I’m saving them for my kids.
A few inside jokes in this one, like the milk container Alice is holding in one scene which is meant to look like the weird “milk in a bag” containers they use in Canada. The pizza is certainly a Giordonos deep-dish pizza, and Warren’s due date appears after my signature. He was a little late.
