I wondered that myself. I reckon the number has some sort of “spiritual deep meaning” among “true Christians” like Chick. Googling turns up innumerable possibilities which I won’t bother to share.
Well, I’m convinced. Praise Jebus!
Hey, I don’t think this thread belongs in the Pit! This is one of the greatest forms of entertainment around and should be placed in CS.
Naw Jack always goes to the pit… with all them firey deamons HAW HAW HAW!!
But the Pit is for rants about things we hate. Chick tracts are so bad they’re good! In CS there are threads about some of the most abhorrently terrible and mindless forms of entertainment to ever defile humanity.
Chick tracts are educational (I never knew that dinosaurs were brought on the Ark or that they had eyelashes), entertaining (the dino trying to hide under a cloud was hilarious) and creative (the artwork is better than anything a retarded quadriplegic chimp could produce with a pen in its mouth).
I loved the dinosaur “A-plot”, but felt that the storyline really fell flat after the dinos snuffed it… I couldn’t wait for the tract to end after that.
Still, some of the earlier images more than made up for the weak second half. The eyelashed dinosaur hiding in the clouds was a gem, but I also liked the panel where the Geico gecko tempted Adam and Eve with savings of fifteen percent or more on car insurance.
Finally, when will the holy rollers learn that they’ll never lure people away from paganism if they make it look so much fun? You’ve got priests in party hats, a giant muppet with a double-pointy party hat, and a flower-bedeck’d callipygian hippy chick. Plus, they’re being responsible partiers and keeping the baby warm against the brisk night air. [Alternatively, it’s a game of touch football using a doll instead of a ball; the guy in back is signaling a touchdown, but the official on the left is pointing back at where “pass interference” occurred.] Either way, count me in!
Well, I DO love to hate his tracts.
But the pit is appropriate for one very crucial reason. Only in the pit can we pretty much say anything we like about anyone. I mean, except for wishing death on someone, and a few other things like that. (You may want to check the stickies at the top of the BBQ thread listing for the few exceptions to total flame-broiling someone. I mean, if you are curious.)
I have not only yet to say everything that came to me upon reading his latest unholy holy travesty, I have yet to really let loose on the disasterous and deliberately-ignorant boooob author.
In one tract (“Ivan the Terrible” I think) he actually proclaimed through his heroic character for the tract that Eastern Orthodoxy was doctrinally identical to Roman Catholicism, except for whether it is okay to live with Communism. (This actually would be a policy difference, not a matter of stated dogma or doctrine, BTW.) That make NO existing differences before about 1917. :dubious: So what de heck did East and West split over, genius? 
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True Blue Jack
But just now I saw that Fang was worked in.
Page 6*, left-side panel.
I’m sure the dog was thinking, “Why can’t I have some of those great dino-burgers?” 
(This is where whatsisname gets confused over his own “clarification” --It should have been drago-burgers. And the expression is in the mouth of one of the hunters, not a caption.)
True Blue Jack
- The official page-numbering convention is to count the cover as “Page 1” and the introductory page as 2. Pages are one higher in official count than what most people would think.
P.S. Many of you are talking about what the pre-wrath serpent looked like. Well, you haven’t lived until you see how he looked in “In the Beginning”…
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Forget Dino-Satan. What blows me away is that the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil was a friggin’ yam!
…or was Adam just playing the ocarina?
:eek: It’s the GEICO gecko! :eek:
Naw, that’s no Gecko, unless it got zapped by Wayne Szalinski’s enlarging ray.
The hunter promises the kid dino-burgers, but then in panel 10 they’re eating dino-kebab. Why the menu change???
And the Lord sayeth, “Thou shalt cut down on thy carbs, or thou shall surely perish!”
Adam and Eve were cavemen?
The panel before the picture of Noah’s Ark being built explains a lot- I guess some early folks misread the Bible and decided to worship Godzilla.
CAn anyone find a translation of Genesis 7 that specifically mentions dragons on the ark? I can’t find one.
I’m surprised he didn’t rant on the gay and lesbian dinosaurs: the megasoreass and the lickalottapus.
The proselytizer looks too slimy to be even a used car salesman…or politician.
I was already reasonably familiar with Chick Tracts through the criticism of them on the web (but I’ve never actualy encountered them in real life), but this thread inspired me to look up some background on the guy. As for the crazyness, I think it can be attributed not only to his Christian Fundamentalism, but the fact he’s ~83 now. So if his stuff has gotten nuttier or lazier lately, keep that in mind.
Oh, and do check out the wikipedia article on him, there’s a single panel from a tract (presumably about sodom and gamorra) that’s absolutely bat-shit insane. Why anyone would ever show that to a child is beyond me, but there’s something about the pedophiles statement “It’s that time again” and the look on the kid’s face that I find hilariously disturbing. It easily beats anything I’ve ever seen while playing Google Seppuku.
…I think it’s because when I read that panel, I imagine him talking with a gruff voice like a monster in a children’s cartoon might talk, saying it in an almost cheerful way, like an announcer at the beginning of a show.
Something about the contrast of such a silly line with the dark subject matter being implied cracks me up.
Apropos of not very much, the drawn portrait of Chick at the top of the Wiki article looks like it came from the hand of Dolcett.