Charlie Hebdo has revealed the cover image for its first issue after twelve employees were murdered in the French satirical magazine’s offices last week:  A cartoon of a crying Prophet Mohammed holding a “Je Suis Charlie” sign under a banner reading, “All is forgiven”. 

The surviving staff says it is gearing up for a run of 3 Million copies, way more than the usual 100,000 or so per week it printed for past issues.  But Charlie Hebdo’s new friends should not expect to famously caustic magazine to go easy on any of their sacred cows. 

“We vomit on all these people who suddenly say they are our friends,” said Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Bernard Holtrop, referring specifically to Pope Francis, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin.  “It really makes me laugh.  A few years ago, thousands of people took to the streets in Pakistan to demonstrate against Charlie Hebdo.  They didn’t know what it was. Now it’s the opposite.”

Holtrop’s life was saved by his distaste for editorial meetings – when the gunmen Cherif and Said Kouachi stormed the Paris office and murdered twelve people, Holtrop wasn’t even in the building.  Still, he says the survivors will show the world that Charlie Hebdo will continue.