I maintain, based on Fenris unbelievable knowledge of all-things-comic-book, that he is the result of a secret lab experiment. Tissue samples from Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and others were mixed with crushed Philosopher’s Stone, glowing ooze from a cracked meteorite and printer’s ink. The mixture was then exposed to cosmic rays and the light from an oval TV showing Superman episodes. I, and I mean this as a sincere gesture of respect, bow to your wisdom.
I thought I knew about comics but, to quote one of my favorite series “If you drew me 2 inches tall, you’d need a page the size of Canada to show {Fenris}”
Like many Chick readers, I want a free copy of every tract. The fact that Chick writes these as a serious attempt to convert people is the funniest and most unbelievable thing of all. There are many fine parody sites on the web. Due to threats of legal action, these now use original artwork rather than original Chick drawings. Somewhere on the web also is a hilarious site in which Dark Dungeons is given the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment. Best line 'This can’t be an RPG group! Where are all the cases of Mountain Dew?"
I remember that too…G-d said the magic words He says in every Jack Chick panel, “Depart from me into everlasting fire.”, and then Rabbi Waxman is being poked by pitchforks. I think it loses something this way. Before, you had to love the contrast…Rabbi Waxman in hell, while meanwhile, little Nathan was in heaven. The old way also answers the question in the title of the tract, “Where’s Rabbi Waxman?”
Mr. Jack T. Chick just needs to get this translated into… (what’s the language… Urdu?) the language of the Taliban and then drop plane loads of this stuff all across Afghastan.
They’ll know they’re dealing with truly sincere religio-paths.
First off, I am not a “fundie,” although I too accept the Bible as the inspired Word of God (and in law libraries you’ll find it so defined in the dictionary-encyclopedia Words and Phrases.)
But the hellfire preaching of Jack Chick and his ilk repels me. I saw something similar one year when, with a friend, I attended a play at the Hope Chapel in Hermosa (the only time I’ve been there), which was fire-and-brimstone at its very worst.
Interestingly, some commentators noticed that, once the Egyptian hieroglyphics were deciphered, there was no mention of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt. Small wonder; the Egyptian chronicles were written and maintained by the Pharaohs and the priestly scribes. But a severe setback for Israel was certainly commemorated–the defeat by Pharaoh Shishak, or Sheshonk. This is mentioned in the Bible and was recorded by Shishak on the wall of his temple at Karnak.
I find it as hard to accept the bellowing of preachers such as Jack Chick as those preachers might find it to accept the Biblical aside that Jesus himself was in “hell.” (Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:28-31)
I got my first example of the hellfire concept, of all places, in John Steinbeck’s novel Grapes of Wrath, when the Joads, in the California migrant-worker shanty town, encountered the “Jesus-lovers” (a blind woman said, “I can see you a-burinin.’ I can see the child in that gir’ls belly [Rose of Sharon, who later had a miscarriage] a-burnin’”).
I checked, btw (There’s an interesting reference book called The World of Chick which discusses every known Chick comment and varients. Weirdly the author doesn’t mention the missing panel. And the author’s a kook (he believes in astrology (“Chick must be a jerk because he’s <whatever> sign”) while mocking Chick. That said, though it’s the best reference work on Jack Chick out there. And it comes with 5 free Chick tracts, including one in Swahili!)
Anyway from The World of Chick, “Where’s Rabbi Waxman” is even more disgusting than I’d rememembered
I suspect that the fact that Rep. Waxman is a liberal ljust puts more salt in Chick’s wounds. And on behalf of Republicans everywhere, let me say “Jack Chick does NOT speak for me.” The pamphlet is just disgusting. You’ve gotta wonder how Representative Waxman feels about it. If it were me, I might laugh at first, but after a while the accumulated hate would start to get creepy…
Same for many Christians as well. The next time I hear someone bitch about Christians having a bad reputation, I’ll start explaining the cause by pointing them in Jack Chick’s direction.
The problem is, you can also point to Phelps, Buchanan, Falwell… We’ve got way too many loose canon rolling about the decks of the Good Ship Christianity these days.
Indeed. But the vast majority of Christians I know would be appalled by his ideas. Like Guin said, you always remember the assholes.
(Of course, the vast majority of Christians I know are also Catholic, and by Chick’s reckoning therefore not Christian at all. :rolleyes: )
(BTW, I think it’s creepy enough to have your surname appear in a Chick track when Jack doesn’t know you exist. I have the same name as the evil GM in “Dark Dungeons,” a fact which is both unsettling and amusing. :p)
I should’ve known all along! Chick’s true goal is not to gain converts, but to discredit Christianity. I have no evidence whatsoever, but Occam is behind me on this one.
Exactly what brand of Christianity does Jack endorse? I know he has ‘revealed’ as Satanists-Catholics, Jesuits, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Mormons. Is there a tract I missed entitled “Southern Baptists-The True Christians”?
I find it useful to always carry a Chick tract. Whenever any fundie insists that I take their crap, I insist that they take mine.
I think that this is definitely one of my favorites. The devil is… get ready… Colonel Sanders! Didn’t see that one coming, did you? Haw Haw Haw!!
Actually I always suspected Colonel Sanders was the devil.
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I hated the colonel, with his wee, beady eyes! He puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave for it nightly. And that smug look on his face! “Oh, you’re gonna buy my chicken, oh yeah, ohhh”
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Brief hijack for a return to the subject originally raised.
I personally found this new work to be surprisingly lacking in lurid detail, with few of the mesmerisingly bad drawings of evil that are so prized by regular chick-lovers.
Also the central bad character lacked the hideous demonic friends that I usually enjoy.
However I was impressed that scenes from the Cecil B. De Mille version of “The Ten Commandments” were used as the basis for drawings so frequently. This of course adds to the realism of the tract, since we have so often seen the orginal scenes IN REAL LIFE!!
Also highly prized were the teachers comments “Oh brother, how did I get into this?” and “What has this got to do with the ten commandments”, both of which were **entirely accurate ** expressions of the thoughts of the reader. Well done, Jack!
On the other hand, I admit to being shocked that a regular member of these boards seems to believe that the Harry Potter books are part of a witchcraft conspiracy. What nonsense, vanilla.
Or to put it more elegantly, Oh brother, how did I get into this?
