I’m not sure why young Henry had a shiner; seems like a plot point was dropped on the cutting room floor. I was expecting Mom or Dad to be abusive. Or maybe Henry just likes people beating on him, he hangs out at a run-down mission so the people there will give him the beatings he craves.
With “such a one no not to eat” is awfully awkward phrasing.
And the megachurch preacher is played by Elsa Lanchester.
It’s the mothers fault. She dragged the kids out late on a sunday night when they all knew they should be home in bed so they’d be rested for school, they even said so! No wonder three of them are going to hell. 
It does sound odd, but apparently it is in the King James Version. (Strictly speaking, it should be “such an one”.) Translation weirdness somewhere.
Jack really has mellowed in his old age. There’s very little to really mock here. Okay, there’s still something, but it’s nothing compared to “Dark Dungeons” or “Death Cookie”.
Only vaguely paranoid (I suspect panel 12 is some bizarro-world version of “stop protelytizing at work”). Not insultingly ignorant of other religions. Not chock full of conapiracy theory. The Christian, if judgemental, helps the poor and the downtrodden. One of the villains is the kind of hypocrit we all love to hate.
Needs more Jesuit conspiracies.
Naw, it’s the three angels’ fault. Notice how Henry’s angel doesn’t give up; he’s in there snatching snakes away from the unregenerate brat’s ankles and rooting for him all the way. The other three angels are quitters, abandoning their charges at the first discouraging sign, mumbling excuses about how “the word of God didn’t take root in him” and “I was told to leave” and “I’ve seen enough of this kid’s porn addiction”.
The truth is, of course, they just wanted to get back to their poker game with St. Peter. How can you expect a guy to avoid the snares of sin when his guardian angel is such an unmotivated defeatist? I mean, really.
No, it’s there: Tom, the guy he bails out of jail, says “I’m sorry I hit you again.”
No, Biffy, why did young Henry have a shiner, i.e., as a kid at the revival meeting?
(cynical answer: so the artist could make him more recognizable among his brothers by giving him similar injuries in the later frames.)
The Guardian Angel sitting on the roof of that guy’s car reminded me of Rusty Jones.
And on rereading, I notice I inadvertently called Gaudere Guin. Sorry about that, I guess my angel’s attention wandered.
Oh, duh. I was so distracted by the Band-Aid (the kid cut himself shaving or what?), I didn’t even notice the black eye until we saw him as an adult.
I think Henry was a clumsy SOB, hence the bumps and bruises.
SPLORT!!!
I didn’t see that one coming. Thanks for a good laugh, Rune!
From Henry’s perpetually battered and bloody face we can infer that, while his guardian angel handles the big stuff (e.g. snakes and knife wielding non-whites), he’s on his own for the little bumps and bruises.
I thought it was Cheech Marin (circa 1974).
Because we all know that pot smoking makes you want to stab childern.
Huh? I think you quoted someone else-unless you were picking up something I said in one of the Chick threads Rune linked to.
But they really spring into action if any of the charges try to use a credit card other than Capitol One’s.
She quoted me, Guin.
I knew it was in the KJV because I looked it up, having a brief period of hope that Chick had made a typo (write-o?) and I’d be able to call him on it. Sadly, it was accurate. Still a weird phrase though.
Don’t be so harsh. Maybe it wasn’t poker. Maybe they had to go find the local video store.