NOTE: I’m not sure exactly where this fits in the greater scheme of board organization, but since Chick threads always seem to end up in the Pit, I’ll follow the standard set before me unless this one is moved.
I’m a relative newcomer to the field of Chick tracts, which means I don’t ever keep up with new developments unless someone starts a thread about the latest one . I’ve heard a lot of “he’s not as ‘good’ as he used to be” or “he’s lost the fire and brimstone we’ve come to love/hate.” I also hear a lot of references to Little Suzy, Bob, and HAW HAW HAW. I have vague ideas of who and what these are because someone will usually link to a tract featuring them in the course of the thread, but like I said, I’m new to this. So what is the “best” of the Chick tracts and/or which one would you recommend to someone who wants to see ol’ Chicky in his prime hellfire and damnation days?
Cause, you know, I don’t get enough hellfire and damnation in my daily life here as a pagan in the Bible Belt.
Big Daddy, Chick’s destruction of evolution, includes a HAW HAW. The Death Cookie, the “truth” about the Catholic church. Dark Dungeons, about the dangers of role playing games.
Enjoy. We got anti-Catholic, anti-Muslim, anti-abortion, anti-evolution…
But I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for “Titanic!” in which the aunt-cursing money-loving ass-kissing Chester is forced to drown when God apparently magically takes his life jacket away from him. See? There he is in his life jacket, then there he is cursing God, then there is he, drowned–sans life jacket.
Not really. “Epitome” means example, but in the sense of a prototype - it means the best example of something, not a run-of-the-mill example. Which is not to say that “epitome” should mean the same as, say, “acme” - it’s not the most extreme example of something, but the best example of something necessarily means that it clearly shows the salient properties of the set. There’s nothing about the definition of “epitome” that implies average; an example of something can’t exemplify very well if it doesn’t do a decent job of showing off the qualities in question.
An archetypal sample of Chick, however, MUST include This Was Your Life, probably Chick’s most widely distributed tract, not just translated but culturally retrofitted to numerous other languages, and featuring one of his great trademarks, the Court of Faceless God and His Lake of Fire.
BTW. “Little Suzy” is a newcomer to the Chick Comic universe, but has been a big hit in part because of an uncomfortable undertone of inherent creepiness, and in part because she’s such a transparent attempt at manga-fying the whole deal…
My hubby gave me 70 chick tracts for my birthday last month, including 2 **Little Suzys ** and several Bobs.
He couldn’t understand why I would want them, but bought them on E-bay anyway.
I knew there was a reason I loved that man.
My very first Chick tract was Where’s Rabbi Waxman? I got it from a sweet-looking Mennonite lady at a farmer’s market in rural Pennsylviania. I could not believe what I was reading, since I had grown up naive and sheltered in the Bronx.
We got anti-Catholic, anti-Muslim, anti-abortion, anti-evolution…