I also enjoyed how none of Mr. Parker’s good neighbors deigned to go as well, but it’s only scandalous how his estranged daughter didn’t show.
But then, perhaps if this particular paper ran the obituary before the service, people would, like, be able to attend.
You aren’t kidding! I though for sure that was just your interpretation, but that entirely seems to be the point. God kills the kids to make a woman feel bad, so she’ll then get saved. It wasn’t even the kids’ fault at all.
I noticed at the top of the page there is a link reading ‘Place order’. So I clicked on it and typed in ‘I order you to stop with this silly shit, already.’ There, that’s taken care of.
It sure looks like the same guy, but if it is, he combed his hair and put on a jacket, shirt, and tie between the two panels. Maybe what he thinks is stupid is the punctuation in “Lot’s of prayer!”
Think how Momma’s boys obits must have read. “Hated local delinquent killed by God in car crash”, “Bastard 2 hangs himself, school calls holiday” and “God 3, Momma Aught”.
I’m thinking this was inspired by the Book of Job although obviously Petunia is rather less righteous…
“I’ll be praying God will make you fear him, Petunia - no matter what it takes!”
Damn. You don’t screw with Pastor Sammy. 
“Wait, Petunia, I bring **good **news ! Turns out God is as much of an asshole as you ! You two should get along splendidly !”
What, exactly, were they expecting the Mayor to do about her? It is not like he can round up a posse and run her out on a rail.
Geez, is Chick even still alive? Looking him up in Wikipedia, I see he’s 87. He was the font of much mirth and ridicule among my circle of friends back in Texas … all except for one who was genuinely mentally disturbed. I mean under a doctor’s care and medication, the whole nine yards. He took Jack Chick as gospel truth and for the longest time thought we all did too. He was especially worshipful of any of the tracts that portrayed the Catholic Church in general and the Jesuits in particular as the direct source of all evil in the world today. We finally had to tell him point blank what we thought of Chick, and I think he probably had to have his meds upped after that, he seemed so shocked.
Per your link,
Strangely, the same can be said of Cecil Adams.
Could Jack T. Chick be an alter ego of the Perfect Master?
Some questions should be left unanswered…
Honestly it reminded me of the lynching of Ken McElroy (people might not think of it as a lynching but that’s what it was). He was town as the town bully, there were town meetings with citizens complaining that the authorities should do something about it and they finally solved their problem by shooting him in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses. Nobody was ever convicted.
Chick is a mental case. This strip really confirms it.
They are a joke, but unfortunately not the humorous kind. Far too many people really believe they are receiving the wisdom of God from Chick tracts.
Sounds like a fascinating case. Did you read the book?
Best part: panel 19, when the Pastor says, “Lot’s of prayer!”
Lot’s? “Lot is of prayer”? Or is it “of prayer belonging to Lot”? 
It’s a good thing I’m an atheist. If a bitch like that can get into heaven, I don’t want to be anywhere NEAR the place!
Wait a sec, the father of her kids got hanged? So they lived in Washington state?
Bonus: the cop’s laptop had a banana logo on it.
I don’t get why the middle kid committed suicide. Is learning that he’s not Momma’s favourite (or at least that he wasn’t - with the death of his brother, he’s due for a promotion) enough to push him over the edge?
Well, nobody’s ever seen both of them in the same room. Just sayin’.
Chick 11:17 For God so loved Petunia that he sent her second begotten son to burn forever in the lake of fire for the sin of suicide to save her eternal soul.
I think we can all learn from this.
The youngest kid, Billy Bob, seems to suffer some sort of TIA. Note the problem with his tongue.
Mean Mama needs to lay off the pork sausage.