The black people in “Hard Times” are just black versions of the characters in “Somebody Loves Me”, which as Eve noted, seems to star a young Peter Lorre and Janeane Garofalo. This one just stars Webster and a younger Whoopie Goldberg. The art for the original SLM is definitely Chick, as is “This Was Your Life”.
The new “black” series art is done by Fred Carter, who is black. He just darkened SLM’s characters while he totally redid TWYL as “It’s Your Life”.
Well. one recent research study showed that having people pray for hospitalized patients didn’t improve their medical course.
Thanks to Jack Chick, we have a great idea for a followup: is there any significant increase in morbidity and mortality when hospital employees tell patients they’re going to hell? Or do they get better out of spite?
Stay tuned.
I was thinking that my life would make a pretty good movie (well, the teens and twenties, anyway) but then I realized y’all would get to see me picking my nose, french-kissing my dog and eating entire bags of Starbursts in one sitting. Do you think if you’re really good, god lets you fast forward through those bits? I mean, will it really be heaven after everyone saw that you let your cat hump your leg that one time? (He was OLD, okay? And I thought I might just let him have his fun. Is that so wrong?)
Let’s see. First, I’ll give him credit for getting off his butt and making a new comic instead of reecycling 4 Brothers as 4 Angels.
But, number one: How plausible is it that NOBODY called this guy dirty before when a typical movie includes not only nudity, but a sex scene (or two)?! If not for the cleaning woman, he would get his rude awakening once and only once, albeit with tons of people chiming in with THE BIG GUY to condemn him.
(Maybe it’s the quasi-Midwestern Western New York city I grew up in and have spent almost all my life in-- But I have literally been called the perv-word or told I have “a dirty mind” just for enjoying a MILDLY dirty joke here and there. I can only guess what these folks would have said if I had produced films with “adult” scenes even if they had tons of “redeeming value.”)
Oh, yes, Chick has a “puritan” bent even if he is not really a “prude.” (And he has even been playfully accused by critics of having a “suspiciously enthusiastic” way of portraying sin.) Nothing new here. Check out THIS WAS YOUR LIFE, one of the very first tracts. The two first sins shown in the replay were BOTH sexually-oriented. “Not THAT joke!!! Not HERE!”
But now he is really wearing his subconscious on his shirtsleeve. The confrontation comes from a CLEANING WOMAN?! Who cleans TOILETS? And that, I think, is the reason he has her strangely give priority to her job over saving a soul.
Just in case you think Jack is running out of originality after all there years we DO have a FIRST here. For the 1st time, someone ORDERS someone to get on their knees (HMMM!) and receive da’ Lawd!
All these stupid tracts have the same odd naivete and simplistic approach to witnessing and sinners.
No one really has a solid counter-argument to all the cliched fundie hashie-washie thrown at them. the ONLY reason someone would resist the hell-fire threat plus offer of escape is the they ENJOY SINNING too much! With one exception: OR they trust their religious leaders to much, and the leaders in question are not Chickoids, hence they are on a greased pole to Lava Lake.
Finally we are once again told that it’s REAL SOON, something that Jack has been driving at since the 1966 urban riots. Please, please, Jack, just for once set an exact date or limited time-range. Did it ever occur to you, GENIUS, that you only hurt your own cause by doing this???
But I think the last item deseves a whole new thread, with plenty of details re Jack and other PROPHETS OF GAWD.
It’s almost as much fun reading the Google Adsense “topic related” ads at the bottom as it is to read the posts: three Chik-Fil-A franchise ads and one “become a minister” ad. I couldn’t write better satire if I tried.
So, the clear lesson we should take from this tract is-
Masturbate to pictures of dead stars who you think have made it into heaven.
That way, when you die, these dead celebrities will see the film of your life, notice you masturbating to their likeness, and be flattered. If you do make it into heaven, they’ll be more likely to have sex with you.
I should probably start a new threa-Hot Dead Celebrities Who Are Probably In Heaven.
