(Clip of Ticker-Tape Parade)
WHOO!! There’s a new one out! I love em, I’m an addict! I wonder if there’s a support group for this, and if there is, I wonder if it’s run by a church… talk amongst yourselves.
A little of the typical old-testament smiting, a nice, strong anti-gay message, and mainly a lot of seriously goofy shit. I don’t know what’s up with this one, it makes me laugh. Chick has clearly not interacted with a human in decades, because people DO NOT act like this. Freakin’ wierd I tell you.
Also, the random bolding makes me think of that Asian Prince website. Either that or the characters are engaging in some kind of inside joke that the reader isn’t in on… put a lot of emphasis on all the words and you’ll see what I mean.
Bob is back, of course. His contract must have come up and he scored big parts in all the new tracts… at least this time he’s pulling a Jesus and going to hang with the “undesirable” skate-punks and tell them what’s going on (from his perspective of course). I do love the frame that shows the school as one giant skate park though, as though rubber wheels = evil.
I should have also commented on the fact that one of those kids is as satanic as they come: he’s a pony-tailed peace-promoting park ranger! Flee!! Fleee!!!
If the kids’ ^%%# bit were “Jesus Christ” they certainly swear oddly.
“Where the Jesus Christ have you been?”
“What the Jesus Christ is wrong with you?”
“So what? That’s none of your Jesus Christ business.”
“What’s your Jesus Christ problem?”
I kind of like this one, really. He gets in jabs at everything: homosexuals, Catholics, Halloween (at least, that’s what it looks like to me – a Halloween party), and more.
And my favorite line: “You just took the name of the Lord in vain!” No, I think he said “at, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, star, star, exclamation point.”
This one features one of my favorite Chick themes–the idea that there is a vast segment of the population in what appears to be modern-day America that has never heard of this Christianity thing.
You know, this tract made me realize something that I’ve never thought of before: according to the Bible, God destroyed mankind before giving us the “rules to live by.” Good going, God! What timing!
Unfortunately for him, I don’t think that’s what Jack Chick wanted to get across… I can hear him now “Jesus Christ it! Another Jesus Christ soul lost!”
