# New Chick Tracts: "Evil Eyes" and "It's A Deal" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 27, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803 "2009-05-27T16:15:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [May 27, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/21 "2009-05-27T21:38:07Z")
Boy, that doctor’s bedside manner could use a little work: “I feel like I’m dying.” “Unfortunately, you are. I give you a week.” ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/22 "2009-05-27T21:51:42Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > No, because our protagonist’s brother, who was a Christian, was also good at basketball. In fact, he had “won awards in every sport” (which I’m assuming was hyperbole on his father’s part). One of his awards appears to be a Heisman Trophy ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/23 "2009-05-27T21:54:43Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Boy, that doctor’s bedside manner could use a little work: > > “I feel like I’m dying.” > “Unfortunately, you are. I give you a week.” “Despite the fact that I can’t actually diagnose you!” Definitely seems like he’s in a bit of a hurry to hit the golf course! ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/24 "2009-05-27T21:58:45Z")
OTOH, Chick seems to appreciate the blunt approach. “_I’m_ going to Hell?” “You sure are!” Definitely Evil Eyes is the winner for the cool cartoon demons being cast out! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/25 "2009-05-27T22:01:21Z")
When Roberto said “my Jesus” would help Carlos, I thought for sure his gay lover, Jesus Gonzales, had come up right behind him with a gay zombie-be-gone-dance. Once again Chick surprises me with his clever plot twists. And Denzel didn’t even have to repent himself; just his mom saying ‘In Jesus name’ did the trick. Satan doesn’t have very good R&D not to see the possibility of a preacher’s wife doing that for her son. And I thought the ending would be Denzel in the hospital saying “Shit man, I got raised from the dead and pulled out of hell just in time to get to the party at Dre’s house, there’s gone be all _kinds_ of pussy there!” and leaving the hospital, but again Chick surprises me: Denzel becomes a Christian. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/26 "2009-05-27T22:12:46Z")
Embrace the crazy…! -XT ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/27 "2009-05-27T22:14:08Z")
Is there any difference between a devil [lower case], a demon, and a devil in the shape of a demon? (I think a devil in the shape of a poodle would be really scary.) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/28 "2009-05-27T22:16:04Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Is there any difference between a devil [lower case], a demon, and a devil in the shape of a demon? The first’s Lawful Evil, the second’s Chaotic Evil, the other’s a LE disguised as a CE, presumably to spy on the demons. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/29 "2009-05-27T22:16:17Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Is there any difference between a devil [lower case], a demon, and a devil in the shape of a demon? (I think a devil in the shape of a poodle would be really scary.) [/QUOTE] It’s all in the shape of the eyes. Myself, I’m terrified of the thought of a woodchuck shaped demon… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/30 "2009-05-27T22:58:22Z")
**Warning** : Any deal with the devil is phony. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/31 "2009-05-27T22:59:35Z")
> [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](#): > > Evil Eyes rips the crucifix for having a dead Jesus on it, but there is a crucification scene in almost every one of Chick’s tracts. Yeah, but to be fair, it’s usually followed by a live, resurrected Jesus. On second thought, what the heck is “crucification”? ---
**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:** [May 27, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/32 "2009-05-27T23:34:14Z")
> [@villa](#): > > But what on earth is the guy doing behind him? For the love of God, Jack, could you use any more of a caricature? Isn’t that Ice Man, demonstrating that murderers get off scot-free? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/33 "2009-05-28T00:15:52Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > It’s all in the shape of the eyes. Myself, I’m terrified of the thought of a woodchuck shaped demon… > > -XT How many souls could a soulchuck chuck if a soulchuck could chuck souls? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/34 "2009-05-28T00:16:35Z")
Good thing Denzel switched doors. The odds favoured it. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/35 "2009-05-28T01:15:13Z")
> [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](#): > > Denzel looks like he’s 65 when he’s in high school. To quote that comedienne, “The child just ain’t right” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/36 "2009-05-28T01:16:45Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > When Roberto said “my Jesus” would help Carlos, I thought for sure his gay lover, Jesus Gonzales, had come up right behind him with a gay zombie-be-gone-dance. Already been done. Thriller 😃 ---
**Author:** ![auRa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/37 "2009-05-28T11:23:28Z")
[QUOTE=True Blue Jack] I certainly had the impression, though, that the basic idea was that they were so miserably unsuccessful because they really, really sucked. [/QUOTE] Oh, come now. How could you say that about a band whose inspirational lyrics include “Embrace Me, Love Of Death” and the ever-classic “[We’re gonna Rock, Rock, Rock/Rock with the ROCK!](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0034/0034_01.asp)”? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/38 "2009-05-28T16:52:24Z")
One detail I had missed before was the [cover](http://www.chick.com/tractimages83000/1109/1109_01.gif) for _It’s a Deal_. All by itself it conveys the message: Lawsy, sho nuff I don’ wanna be messin’ wit dat old debbil. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/39 "2009-05-28T17:38:47Z")
I like how Ice Man says “Gotcha!” during the drive by. I also like his cameo mugging behind the newsman at the hospital at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803/40 "2009-05-28T17:58:12Z")
I like how being possessed by a devil makes you a zombie. “Must… eat… Catholic… braaaiiiiinnnnsss!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tracts-evil-eyes-and-its-a-deal/497803.md?page=3)