Through the art of civil war re-enactment. Do these people know how to draw soldiers from this century?

Excuse me young man, I seem to have lost my glasses and I need to finholy shit rocket-propelled horses

Boy, Greg sure does like to point.

Which has recently become an island for some reason.

One might assume the extensive use of Russia in this comic was just a side effect of the times; there needed to be a superpower boogieman as a part of the prophecy, and the USSR happened to fit in nicely. That's half true. Gog and Magog are two names mentioned in end times prophecy, but their placement in the world has been a matter of some dispute. Most dispensationalists claimed they represented Russia, based on vague clues in the text and the fact that, hey, if anybody's going to attack anything it'd be those damned commies. But despite the books and this comic that proclaim it as fact, the Bible doesn't quite say "and then the Ruskies came and mucked things up" anywhere.

Fun fact: The Left Behind book and movie series, which follows very strongly in the PMD tradition and was influenced by writers like Hal Lindsey, features an attack by Russia and Ethiopia on Israel in which Russia expends its entire nuclear arsenal to destroy a nation the size of New Jersey. The attack, consisting of thousands of nuclear missiles, is entirely negated by a giant fireball in the sky which saves Israel from any and all harm and yet few if any of the people within the story seem to take this as a sign of divine intervention.

Sigh.