# Epitome of Chick Tracts **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 20, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379 "2005-12-20T00:51:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/1 "2005-12-20T00:51:54Z")
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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=349751) . 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. ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/2 "2005-12-20T01:09:29Z")
Some classics: [Big Daddy](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp), Chick’s destruction of evolution, includes a HAW HAW. [The Death Cookie](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0074/0074_01.asp), the “truth” about the Catholic church. [Dark Dungeons](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp), about the dangers of role playing games. ---
**Author:** ![Tevildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Tevildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tevildo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/3 "2005-12-20T01:12:01Z")
For Little Suzy, I can recommend [Birds and the Bees](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1052/1052_01.asp) - aren’t the little demons so cute? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/4 "2005-12-20T01:20:15Z")
Browse at your leisure. [http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractlist.asp](http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractlist.asp) Enjoy. 🆒 We got anti-Catholic, anti-Muslim, anti-abortion, anti-evolution… But I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for [“Titanic!”](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0048/0048_01.asp) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/5 "2005-12-20T01:31:35Z")
And of course there are a bunch of Chick parody sites that are hilarious, such as [this one](http://www.weirdcrap.com/chick) . ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/6 "2005-12-20T01:46:50Z")
[losing battle nitpick] \*epitome \*does not mean the best; it means a representative example. It’s closer to meaning “average” than “best.” [/losing battle nitpicknitpick] ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/7 "2005-12-20T01:57:46Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > And of course there are a bunch of Chick parody sites that are hilarious, such as [this one](http://www.weirdcrap.com/chick) . But the **best** parody is [_Eaten First!_](http://www.geocities.com/tribhis/cthulhutract.html). It just doesn’t get any better than that, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/8 "2005-12-20T01:58:29Z")
> [@mkl12](#): > > [Dark Dungeons](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp), about the dangers of role playing games. Or if you want the [MST3K version](http://www.fecundity.com/darkdung/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/9 "2005-12-20T02:37:10Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > [losing battle nitpick] > > \*epitome \*does not mean the best; it means a representative example. It’s closer to meaning “average” than “best.” > > [/losing battle nitpicknitpick] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/10 "2005-12-20T03:50:52Z")
Daniel Clowes did a great parody, I have it in a book of short stories he had in different issues of 8-Ball. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/11 "2005-12-20T04:06:16Z")
**mkl12** referred to three true classics. An archetypal sample of Chick, however, MUST include [This Was Your Life](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0001/0001_01.asp), 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… ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/12 "2005-12-20T04:59:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/13 "2005-12-20T05:03:01Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I also hear a lot of references to Little Suzy, Bob, and HAW HAW HAW. [nitpick] I believe the proper cliché is “HAW HAW”. Not sure if he ever wrote three in a row. [/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/14 "2005-12-20T05:05:13Z")
My very first Chick tract was [Where’s Rabbi Waxman?](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0014/0014_01.asp) 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. 😉 The woman in my sig is probably a fan. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/15 "2005-12-20T15:11:37Z")
If Jesus is God and knows everything, why does he always ask some flunky angel if someone’s name is in the book of life? ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/16 "2005-12-20T15:47:22Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > If Jesus is God and knows everything, why does he always ask some flunky angel if someone’s name is in the book of life? The angels have themselves a pretty good union. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/17 "2005-12-20T17:33:16Z")
You just have to love the “Chick” ads up now. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/18 "2005-12-20T17:57:20Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > And of course there are a bunch of Chick parody sites that are hilarious, such as [this one](http://www.weirdcrap.com/chick) . Not safe for work if your speakers are on. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/19 "2005-12-20T18:53:27Z")
I loves me some death cookies. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379/20 "2005-12-20T19:20:41Z")
I like the pre-Alberto/Catholic-obsession classics- ones which actually focues on salvation through Christ. the original edition of “The Beast” -a bit larger than the standard Chicklet, and showing the AntiChrist in a suit rather than Papal robes This Was Your Life Creator or Liar? One Way The Empty Tomb, The Greatest Story- and other “Life of Jesus” summaries Holy Joe A Demon’s Nightmare Somebody Goofed [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epitome-of-chick-tracts/336379.md?page=2)