# New chick tract! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 10, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract/563630 "2010-12-10T05:11:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract/563630/61 "2010-12-16T20:15:56Z")
> [@shy\_guy](#): > > I’m also not sure what to make of the “Why are all these foreign troops still pouring in all around us, Paul?” panel. If it’s the early 1970s, obviously those are troops from Communist countries – a _Red Dawn_ scenario, except that, in the Chickiverse, Communists, like Nazis and Freemasons and Muslims and Mormons and all other Forces of Evil, really take their marching orders, ultimately, from Satan by way of the Vatican. (Even the Pope is a puppet, BTW – the real man in charge is the Jesuit General.) It does make you wonder, though – if a _Red Dawn_ scenario had played out IRL during the Cold War, how would the Soviet occupiers have dealt with American Communists, Socialists, Weather Underground, Symbionese Liberation Army, etc.? Delegation, or death? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract/563630/62 "2010-12-16T20:16:51Z")
> [@shy\_guy](#): > > Holy shit, that one is _awesome_ > > I am disappointed that one of the hippies got taken out by a _tank_ and we didn’t get to see it. I’m also not sure what to make of the “Why are all these foreign troops still pouring in all around us, Paul?” panel. The whole struggle for power thing is very confusing. On the one hand they are killing the police and are going up against tanks (presumably from the army), so it appears that they are utilizing personal weapons to attack state actors. However it appears that registration of personal weapons by the state is what allows them to take over. I assume that Friar Ted is right, Chick et al. wanted to put out a pr 2nd amendment anti-gun control tract and so just added a couple of panels into the center of an otherwise pro state anti-hippy tract with the result being utterly incoherent. Regarding the foreign troops, I must assume that the revolutionaries were really pawns being used by their foreign commie masters. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract/563630/63 "2010-12-16T22:18:32Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > It _is_ kind of disorienting to have a Chick Tract where Satan is effectively saying, “We need to dial back the implausibility here.” Yeah… _ **OHHHHH the irony!!!** _ * * * I’m glad there’s a thread on this tract. What struck me as odd is that practically everyone who works with this guy knows exactly how horrible he is. Yet the boss is stupid enough to promote him to a juicy postition in the Big Apple. And worse, he is stupid enough to “lay off” a good worker on the basis of something that the biggest phony ever claimed. (Not that the otherwise good worker was any less fooled by his “good friend” Joe, even up to swallowing his sympathy act.) And, come on! Coming into work on a day off with a present for the wife of the boss? I think that’s making the ass-kissing a little too obvious. Eh? Now, if that’s how perceptive Mr. Casey usually is, maybe there should have been a panel or two about hundreds of people praying to keep him in business. Now, **that’s** what I call the power of prayer! _ **- Jack** _ ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract/563630/64 "2010-12-16T22:47:26Z")
> [@Trans Fat Og](#): > > I’m glad there’s a thread on this tract. What struck me as odd is that practically everyone who works with this guy knows exactly how horrible he is. Yet the boss is stupid enough to promote him to a juicy postition in the Big Apple. After three decades in business, that’s one of the few things in the thread I found plausible. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract/563630/65 "2010-12-17T13:24:34Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [This one](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0065/0065_01.asp) is interesting. Note that the revolutionary-state official who sentences the revolutionist to death looks like a Jew in a Catholic priest’s collar. Them non-Christians are all the same, really. Now, THAT’s what I’m talking about, that’s pure Chick. It’s like a mix between Charles Burns’ Blackhole and Reefer Madness. ---
**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 17, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract/563630/66 "2010-12-17T13:51:52Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I suspected it might be that old despite the 2010 copyright. The artistic style is much better than Chick’s, and exactly like that of the guy (whoever he was) who used to illustrate Chick’s _Crusader Comics._ Fred Carter, who still works with Chick. He’s a black pastor & from what I gather, the two Crusaders characters were kind of young idealized versions of Jack & Fred. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract/563630.md?page=3)