In this thread, some friendly advice from Jack T Chick

While the preachings and messages behind the Jack Chick comics are completely offensive to me, I think Chick is a great cartoonist. He has a style that's completely his own. All facial hyperboles, inconsistencies in the expressions, physical point of views in the panel, the dialog style... all very well done. (I'm saying this without irony.)

are you on drugs? he makes the funniest webcomics i've ever seen.

it smells of devils and death - and god hates it!

DB's point is actually right on -- Chick's style is definite and catchy, if certainly very easy to mock at the same time. Daniel Clowes has done a parody and there are plenty of others.

Chick was my first encounter with rapidly fundamentalist Christianity when I was very young, thanks to some tracts brought over by a babysitter when I was eight or nine. I was terribly upset by what I read in them, but thankfully my parents sorted it out very thoroughly. :-)

http://www.chick.com/images/whathappens.jpg

new tract is out!

in this one, Jack Chick channels Robert Louis Stevenson as Officer OJ Simpson and Dr Kleiner search for a little girl who's apparently been kidnapped as a reward to converting to christianity! also, a pic of rumply, gorey jesus!

Let a man with an eyepatch guide you to the "truth"

http://www.catholic.com/library/sr_chick_tracts_p2.asp

http://www.catholic.com/images/Image34.gifAnother of Chick’s attempts to link the Eucharist with paganism is found in his frequent depictions of the host imprinted with the letters IHS. He tells the reader that this stands for a trio of Egyptian gods (who were not a trinity, incidentally). Chick’s claim is nonsense. The letters aren’t English at all, but Greek. In fact, they are the first three letters of Jesus’ name in Greek: iota-eta-sigma (capital eta in Greek looks like the English H). This has been a common abbreviation for Jesus throughout Church history...

I guess they lean on the hellfire imagery so much because they think scare tactics work better than honesty, and it's easier to churn out that kind of stuff than to put any actual thought into their work.

im not sure they aren't being honest as far as their own loony theology is concerned.

This is making me want to write to them with all kinds of suggestions. I could be like a double agent, telling them the REAL ways to convert people! Then one day, they realize how silly some of their theology is, and everyone lives happily ever after.

Wacky good times:

http://jimmyakin.typepad.com/defensor_fidei/images/jackchick.jpg

My favourite Chick moment is where some arab claims that Islam has brought the United Kingdom to its knees. If it has, I really must not have been paying attention.

That's just the standard complaint of people like Mark Steyn. Their paranoia is depressing but amusing.

HARRY POTTER, oh noes!

i like

kinda long

I like how the essential conceit underpinning it is that MAGIC IS REAL

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/5018_04.gif

This has gotta be the coolest-looking kid ever! The shades, the ponytail, the hat, the skull and the peace sign!

haha wow

ranger hats are big with satanists these days I hear

uncle bob looks like john waters!!!!!!!!!!!!!

found via here

But it seems that when someone is campaigning against the book or the films, the leader of the campaign is invariably a fundamentalist Christian. For instance, fundamentalist Laura Mallory, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, tried to ban the Potter books from the public school library. She says the books have “evil themes” because they speak of witchcraft and spells. And the Bible clearly teaches such things are immoral. One child who opposed her efforts saw things more clearly. He said, “never at any time did I think the books are true.” But fundamentalists do think that there is truth in these books. Unlike most rational people, they do believe that witches and spells exist. They have no choice since the Bible condemns such things. To say they don’t exist questions the infallibility of Scripture. Most people are not offended by the theme of the Potter series because they don’t believe the “dark forces” actually exist...

+ the story of saul going to see the witch is one of the funniest things in the bible

Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged

...Hosts Robert S.McGee, author of The Search For Significance, and Caryl Matrisciana, author and occult researcher, answer these questions and show Rowling's presentation of the following elements of Witchcraft: Mother Goddess, evolution, reincarnation, communing with the dead and spirit world, seasonal nature celebrations, sorcery, divination, spells, curses, meditation, occult symbology, black magic, demon possession, "dark" aspects of Witchcraft, and more.

Viewers will see how young readers today, more than any other time in history, have an abundance of occult resources easily available to them. They will also learn how to answer difficult questions and clearly explain the Harry Potter series to their children, grandchildren and concerned friends...

oh no, meditation! evolution!

http://www.atlanticbullionandcoin.com/images/HarryPotter.jpg

But I like how ever the discerning duo of Cox & Forkum laugh at these folks:

http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/WizardHunt-X.gif

I love this bit of classic Chick dialogue in the "Bad Bob" comic cited in the link with the photo of Jack Chick that Ned linked to above.

Middle-aged woman: Bad Bob is crude, rude, and socially unacceptable, but we just love him!
Middle aged woman #2: Bob's the best connection we've ever had. He can get us acid, smack, dust, coke, speed and black beauties. It's too bad he's such a sleaze.

"You got a job?" is an awesome pre-emptive shootdown of the I found God revelation though.

is it me or is it kinda weird that Chick just skips the actual praying both times in that strip. Like, I wonder what magic happens in those "10 minutes"

This one's a doozy:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP

Legendary, that one.

Wait is the dude still alive?

88 apparently.

thing i like about that one is that debbie learns the secret real spells beneath d&d as a reward for reaching level 8, which is like if the church of scientology told you about xenu and the volcanoes after you gave them $20.75

Satanists are an undiscriminating bunch compared to Scientologists.

"Dark Dungeons" is getting its own film adaptation, played straight.

http://darkdungeonsthemovie.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk2Pr9jXCr8

How people have committed suicide due to RPGs?

The American Association of Suicidology has concluded that RPGs don’t play a role in suicide, and the Association of Gifted-Creative Children of California did a survey of all psychological autopsies of adolescent suicides and could not find a single one that was linked to RPGs. However, that DOES NOT mean that it doesn’t happen. For all we know, BIG-GAMING may just be very good at covering them up.

What evidence is there that RPG’s use real world spells?

William Schnoebelen has publically stated that, as a witch high priest (Alexandrian tradition) during the period 1973-84, he was approached by a roleplaying company to make sure their spells were accurate; http://www.chick.com/articles/dnd.asp

In addition he warns us the “the Necronomicon and the Cthulhu mythos are quite real” which is why those dangers are exposed in Dark Dungeons the movie

http://www.chick.com/articles/frpg.asp

I call your use of the words "played straight" into question.

Finally, something to fit that double bill with Mazes & Monsters!

Well they weren't winking directly into the camera lens, is what I'm saying.

Plus I enjoyed the shot of D20s splashing thru cheap movie blood syrup

"In addition he warns us the “the Necronomicon and the Cthulhu mythos are quite real”

God I hope so

This was his life!

https://twitter.com/ChickPub/status/790604219376033792

somebody goofed :(

"Open the book of life!"
"His name does not appear Lord"

So mentioning it on a public twitter account brings out the batshit rightwingers.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2016/10/24/haw-haw-haw/

...Chick’s cartoons were infused with the abominable fancy — the idea that the supreme delight awaiting true believers in Heaven would be that they got to watch the eternal torment of wicked sinners in Hell. That was pretty much the essence of Chick’s faith. Nowhere in his ubiquitous cartoon pamphlets would you find any hint of love for God, love for Jesus, or love for neighbor. That wasn’t what animated him. He was driven, instead, by the eschatological hope that one day God would settle all the arguments he was never able to win here on earth — settle them with remorseless, bloodthirsty finality.

[...]

That stunted, hostile form of religion was expressed not just in Chick’s tracts, but in the way those tracts were employed as a kind of passive-aggressive “evangelism.” This was never primarily an attempt to “seek and to save the lost,” but rather a way of fulfilling some perceived minimal obligation that would exculpate believers from any responsibility for the longed-for damnation of others. These tracts, in other words, don’t seem to be distributed in the hope that others will read them and “get saved,” but with the idea that they will make it impossible for the doomed and damned to claim they were never told. They weren’t an attempt to nudge others toward Heaven, but to amplify the case that they deserved Hell.

When someone gives you a Jack Chick tract, it’s not because they don’t want you to go to Hell, it’s because they don’t want you to be able to blame them for not warning you before you do. They’re just hoping to dispel any potential guilt that might one day detract from their full enjoyment of the abominable fancy. They want to look down from Heaven and watch your eternal torment in Hell unbothered by any lingering regret.

good riddance to human garbage. and human garbage who sucked at drawing!

A collection of mock Tracts: some worthwhile, others are weird.

http://foo.ca/wp/chick-tract-satire/

Does anybody know where I would find the spoof one, I think repurposed from the real D&D one, where the girl screams "I'll destroy anyone who opposes the furious countercultural assault of noise music"?