When I came up with this one, I had in mind a more detailed design with additional symbology. Once I had done the basic design, I found that I liked it even better. It conveys the message more powerfully, and adding to it would just distract and thus subtract its effect. Less is more and all that.

Conceived November 2005, illustrated December 2005.

The upper left triant represents America / The West
The upper right triant represents China / The East
The lower triant represents Islam / The Base
The center pivot represents Israel / The Catalyst

Note: As far as I know, no word exists that is defined as “an arc of 120 degrees that is one third of a circle” so I had to make one up. Triant is a neologism, a logical alteration of the words quadrant and octant. I think a submission to wiktionary and/or merriam-webster is in order. I suppose that I could have omitted the word or replaced it with another word like “portion”, but that would be no fun. Anyway this digression has little to do with the apocalypse.

Variations on the name: Apocalypse Emoticon, Apocalyptemoticon, Apocalypsicon, Apocalypticon.