The Annunciation is portrayed here using real, actual, genuine, I-kid-you-not pages from a coloring book that I found in a creepy, god-fearing suburban discount store. (Okay, I made up all the stuff that Angel Gabriel says inside the card, but I did NOT make up the fact that A.G. looks like FABIO!) How comforting for creepy, god-fearing suburban children to know that Mary was a BLOND BABE and Gabriel was a BLOND HUNK, i.e., that they were both ANGLOS. I guess showing Mary (sans fluffy pillow and awesome hair) as an ordinary middle eastern peasant girl lying on a dirt floor next to a bunch of goats wouldn't have been as much fun to color. Too many browns and grays.
to color. Too many browns and grays.