I also can’t stand the King Jimmy Bible, don’t do “sinners prayers,” have no use for overbearing witnessing, I like Harry Potter, Dungeons & Dragons, have no real love of Israel, don’t think Allah is just a glorified moon god… I’d say I’m taking the Jack T. Chick expressway right to the deepest pit Hell’s got.
HA HA HA HA HA!
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Bryan, that link blew my mind because of this quote:
My landlord’s wife (who died about 9 years ago) was an underground comic, and her main character was “Jerry the Vampire”!!!
Ooohhh, it makes me wonder!
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No, no, it’s pronounced:
HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW!
I’m a big fan of this one, for numerous reasons. Even though it’s tame as Chick tracts go (one of his “Bible Comics on Angeldust” series), there’s so much to poke fun at. The anachronistic hairdos, the Goliath who looks like that dude from the Fantastic Four, the voyeuristic portrayal of God, the shameless implication that women are property, the “posthumous filmstrip” technique…
The only problem is, how does one make fun of Chick? I mean, the man is a parody of himself! He apparently thinks society should return to stoning as a punishment for adultery. But the absolute BEST PART of this tract is the fact that, while Chick obstinately insists on using the KJV for everything, he has no qualms about naming the sheep Fluffy!
Instead of the ancient Hebrew “Tubal-Fluffy,” which translates roughly to “Beloved by Scotsmen.”
This is one of my favorite chick parodies. It’s very funny and would really piss Jack off.
I also like this one, even though it’s another one of those tracts where Chick actually hired semi-competent illustrators. I notice they outfitted Bobby (who looks sort of like Danny Torrance from The Shining) in a Nazi uniform. I also enjoy the unintentional double-entendre of “Their clothes are on the floor… but where are they?” And I want an outfit like that “New Age Healer” guy.
Has anyone ever considered the possibility that some of Chick’s staff are SubGenius moles? Lately, I’ve been noticing that a disproportionate number of people in Chick tracts are named Bob (Bobby in this one) and Connie.
“Third eye”
What I don’t understand is why he thinks that no one has ever heard of the Bible or looked at any scripture - in all of his tracts, the True Believer comes up to the Heathen, shows him the Bible, and the Heathen says ‘wow, that’s amazing! let me accept Christ RIGHT NOW!’. Most people in the US today have heard of and have probably seen a Bible, but haven’t converted. In the Jewish tract linked to above, for example, the Rabbi is mad that someone showed him the scriptures - isn’t it pretty damn likely that a Rabbi has seen them before?
Probably the reason most Americans haven’t converted to Christianity is… most Americans are already Christian. So you gotta wonder about a man who makes his life trying to witness, or whatever, to a nation that’s already 80% Christian… oh, but wait, we’re not all fundie nutjobs, so we’re not “real Christians.” Right. Uh huh. Sure.
Actually Chick and his ilk can’t accept that Christianity is dominant and in no danger of loosing that position. After all according to the Bible they’re supposed to be persecuted to the insane degree shown in the last generation. The general lack of Satanic One World Conspiracies and Christian majority in the world’s mightiest nation forces Chick Fundementalists deeper into their delusional la la land. Even a relatively reasonable fundementalist friend of mine (he prefered the term hard core Christian) saw persecution of Christianity where none was. It of course helps both Chick and my friend that persecution in this case seems to mean allowing non Christians and their ideas to be given civil treatment.
I like the one about the witches that sacrifice babies and kill people. That’s just… wow. Really cute.
I think I must have missed that chapter in my witch’s book.
Oh wait, no I didn’t. It’s just not in there.
I find it most amusing that, as a long-haired male whose friends include a Heathen, a Wiccan, a D & D gamer, a Catholic, and a variety of Atheists, I’m apparently going straight to hell. And yet, I’m just coming up to the 10-year anniversary of my baptism.
Jack Chick should be shot, repeatedly, by Marilyn Manson, the Pope, and the creators of D & D.
Jonny T.