Jack Chick has released yet another example of his literature for the halfwitted in Lil’ Susy, which, oddly enough, doesn’t bash Catholics, gays, Muslims or Jews.
I have to admit that when I read the line, “When the baby was born, God was inside the little boy,” my first thought was, “So, Michael Jackson IS God!”
In addition, check out the righthand panel of page 11–is that kid channeling Carrie White after the prom or what?
And was the only one who thought that Jack was going for full-on underage lesbian porn anime at the end?
“Sisters, Cathy, and I love you!”
“And I love you, Susy. I’ve never been so happy!”
Those are some scary looking girls when they get angry. When Susy tells Cathy that her father sinned, it looks like she’s ready to exact God’s vengeance here on earth.
Do tell. Chick tracts are, of course, drawn by different artists, but I don’t think I’ve seen this guy drawing the tracts before. He seems to have some trouble drawing facial expressions. Especially with the non-ponytailed hirl in the panels 7 and 11 - what the hell is going on? Demon possession?
The theme, where the poor sinner who gets saved has never heard of Jesus or, indeed, anything related to religion (“What is sin?”), hears the words of Jesus Chick and is insta-converted. I wish I had that power. Um, I wouldn’t misuse it, of course. Nooo.
Also, I love the way Jack’s explained every fourth word or so in the short Bible quote at the end of the track. “The world” means “everybody?”
Hey now. I mean, I don’t want my kids anywhere near it, and the art is seriously scary, but you gotta admit that for Jack Chick this thing is really quite sweet and sensitive. I kept trying to be offended, but I had to give up.
Please step over here to the right, miss, to fully renounce your status as doper. We’ll need your username, your Fighting Ignorance badge, putzrifle and the secret “What is the third -gry word?” card.
