I’m sorry - what was the point of the old lady falling in the beginning, again? Was it to establish that Joe was a bad guy? That was pretty clear from his hobnobbing with demons, and every other frame in the tract.
I like how they broke the fourth wall in the last panel.
One good thing you can say about Jack. He doesn’t use Comic Sans.
Granny sure holds a grudge.
I also like the implication that people who win the lottery are evil.
If the daughter KNEW that Mom might fall, why in the world did she not insist that Mom stay with her? Just about every pharmacy has a place to sit down. And if Mom knew that she was likely to fall, why did she insist on going outside? Those two might be lambs of God, but lambs and sheep are not known for their common sense.
Right. His standard font is Comic Sans Logic.
This sounds like the latest compilation CD advertisement at 3am…
:rolleyes:
“Oh no! That’s Annie Taylor! I thought she died in China!”
Bwuh?
Also, you’d think that such powerful, unholy spirits would keep more up-to-date files on their Godly foes.
The whole “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” is sooo 1992!
Overseeing the sweatshop that makes her clothes?
He’s dead, [del]Jim[/del] Jack.
But that’s not the implication. Here you have a character whose love of money was the root of all his evil, and was close to being reformed through having lost all his money. In his case, having a couple of mil dumped into his lap was like an addict who’d just about got clean finding that someone’s hidden a huge stash in his mailbox. Arguing from that to the conclusion that all lottery winners are evil would be… something or other.
On the plus side, he does have powers of clairvoyance given that he guessed Joe’s name 4 panels after cheering him up.
I’ve never ever ever read more than about a third of these things. It’s not that I find them offensive or anything. I just get bored.
Yeah, what the fuck was that? In fact, the entire business with the old lady has nothing to do with the rest of the comic. This one was just totally incoherent.
Points given for a Fang appearance, but minus major points for no “Haw Haw,” no faceless God tossing the guy into the lake of fire, and the fact that it makes no sense. I did like the angel with the sword, though.
Wow. that was just like The Screwtape Letters.
If C. S. Lewis had been a no-talent misanthrope.
The old lady was praying for Joe - that’s why the angel showed and he was nearly saved, apparently showing the power of prayer - <MS>missed it by that much</MS>
Joe
not that Joe, a different Joe
One thing I want to know is why are all atheists jerks in the tracts? I mean, wouldn’t they be more threatening if they were friendly? They’d be more likely to trick you.
Probably because the average Tract reader/believer isn’t smart enough for that kind of nuance.
Shoulda had a panel where the old lady gets sent to hell for not praying hard enough to foil the debbil’s plans…