http://www.chick.com/catalog/comics/crucifixion.asp
Behold Chick’s Passion of the Christ! Done about 25 years ago.
Btw, the site has an article criticizing Mel’s movie for, of course, the Catholic stuff.
Yeah, but not for that reason. I’ve encountered born-again Christians who insist that the Bible was written by God; Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and everyone else were just transcribers. Sounds like JTC is saying his tracts are an extension of that.
I like this part on his explanation behind the B’s & B’s.
Ya know, it would be really cool if James Lileks would give Chick the treatment he so richly deserves.
Robin
Actually, coming to think about it more, I sort of like the first tract, if only because it’s sort of anti Gospel of Wealth and all that. I mean, Jimmy is a total loser that everything bad happens to and that nobody loves. But somebody does love him…God. God loves Jimmy so much that he came down to earth as Jesus, to be the “ultimate loser”, put to death even though he didn’t do anything wrong. Jimmy’s unfortunate circumstances aren’t God’s curse or His punisment.
This message, at least, however boneheaded and hateful some of Chick’s other tracts may be, is inclusive, not exclusive. Look who the message is for…“if you’re unloved and unwanted and your family has rejected you…” So, the first tract, at least, I can’t find anything really bad about the message.
I don’t think that’s too far out there – it’s the standard inerrant-literalist viewpoint. What I took umbrage at was the idea of Chick comparing himself to the Apostles, bringing us the very Word of God in comicbook form. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, he ain’t.
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Seen the best use for an unused URL in the history of the internet yet? 
Fuggin hamsters stole my slash.
“God expects a man to marry a woman and have children.”
Is that all men and women? Because if it is, then I’ve let God down anyway. I’ve never married and my childbearing days are quickly coming to a close. Maybe I should go out, grab some schmoe, marry him and get it on before it’s too late.
Or maybe not.
Or maybe it means that all men should be married but any leftover women are OK by God.
About the whole gay thing, Jack seems to coveniently forget that little Biblical line that says, “Thou shalt not judge.” It doesn’t say, “Thou shalt not judge, except when it suits your purposes.”
In reading the first tract, I can’t help but thinking that God could have at least cured the guy’s cancer. I mean, you know, look at the shit God put that poor bastard through, and then the guy converts to Chickianity, so you’d think that God could at least cut him the same deal He did with Job.
As for the second tract, well, that was pretty lame. I mean, you know, it had gays, and Chick hates gays, so you think that he could have had a panel showing Satan using some kind of creative punishment on those guys. After all, I’m sure Chick would be happy to show demons sodomizing (Why does Sodomy get all the attention and not Gomorrha?) heterosexuals in Hell, why not show gay men being forced to perform cunnilingus or lesbians forced to perform oral sex on demons? Equal time and all that.
Nothing wrong with thinking that. I personally prefer Debbie from Dark Dungeons though. She’s already a hottie, and she’s into D&D… very very sexy. drools
In tract #2, page 18, I particularly like the line “…God fire-bombed the cities and turned them to ashes.”
AND the image, in that same panel, of a Sodomite having a hole blown right through him by one of the fire bombs.
Additionally, Suzy’s line about “I feel so bad about all the kids who’ll be tricked into believing it’s OK to be Gay and not believing in Jesus.”
…Like being one is exclusive of the other.
And why does he feel the need to capitalize the words Gay and Queer, but not the word angel?
Oh, and one more thing. That doesn’t look like a demon hugging Larry on page two. Looks like a cicada to me.
That’s the thing I don’t get; these hyper-fundies are all about ‘salvation through faith alone; there’s absolutely no other way you can get to heaven except believing, there’s absolutely nothing you can do to make yourself worthy and there’s absolutely nothing you’ve done that makes you beyond the reach of salvation; you just have to believe in Jesus, that’s all, nothing more, nothing less, oh and also you have to not be gay’
Well, I think the idea is, if you believe in Jesus, you won’t be gay…you know, that people have decided to reject God and be gay.
Why didn’t you say so? 
OK, Jimmy the Loser at least has someone get redeemed after having had a sucking life. Little if any spewing of hatred. As mentioned, we don’t even get to see his parents, sister, her kids and the senator get thrown into the Lake of Fire to the accompaniment of Haw-Haw-Haw-ing demons. Nice breather
Little Susy, OTOH, is just an ever deeper journey into her evil parallel universe. Yikes! (BTW, fret not FriarTed, a mild lolicon vibe has earlier been pointed out as present in the Little Suzy series :eek: . What we need is to find a decent doujinshi artiste who’ll improve one of her stories with few tentacle-monsters.)
Tuckerfan, now that would be some research project: “Gomorry - a perversion lost forever to history?”.
Not at all, the tract fails to mention what firm Nancy is with.
Yes, advancment can be quick at Wolfram and Hart.
Retirement plan sucks though.
I dunno, musk vs. sulphur is a tossup. I’d have to go with musky smell; at least when you bathe a ferret it goes away for a while, plus they’re quieter about the whole process. (And pet demons really fuss when you bring them to the vet to get the scent glands removed. They called in a couple priests when I brought mine in…)
What exactly is it about Lil’ Susy that creeps me out?
Is it the massive vacant eyes and that miniscule button nose?
Is it the way she sounds like a possessed mouth-piece for her Grandpa?
Is it the way she has the makings of her own little cult among her classmates?
Is it the way she has a unexplicable encyclopedic knowledge of the ways of Satan?
No, I think it’s the way her face turns into a hate-filled, twisted mask when she really gets warmed up.
I forsee a degree in law, followed by career in politics.
So is that how Sharpton got started?