I‘m feeling a bit poorly today, so in lieu of an actual post, here’s an old comic I found on a blog called Grottu. I’m pretty sure this is what our old friend NWOslave sees when he looks at the world.
Slightly more on topic, here’s a frame from an old romance comic; you can find a discussion of the somewhat, er, problematic story it’s from on Sequential Crush.
Hooked on Sex and Drugs, eh? Well, two out of three ain’t bad.
Is that top one a Chick Tract? It’s certainly the type of thing that would be in one but every one I’ve seen has been black and white not color.
Those are odd…
Chick’s artwork is goofier.
Definitely has that stupid Chick Tract feel to them.
I’m feeling a Chick vibe from them, too…it’s quite creepy, although Chick’s tracts are usually MUCH creepier. *shudders*
Those Spire comics are absolutely hilarious.
Both of them are Spire comics. Al Hartley (who did the art for Archie comics) was the artist.
Here you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire_Christian_Comics
I used to think the Archie comics were okay…until this very moment. 🙁
They were never ok.
“jeering laughter jolted my eyes out of focus”
What the hell did the English language ever do to you?
What the fuck is a chick tract?
And please, someone pass the brain bleach. I just read what’s happening to women in the congo, and realized that there are a great many men in the west that wouldn’t mind it happening here too.
Brain bleach coming up!
http://youtu.be/S_NSa1mqh54
Nice to see Maru exact his terrible vengence on the box of torture!
So what the hell is a chick tract?
Pillowinhell, behold the majesty of Jack Chick and his cartoon tracts!
https://www.chick.com/default.asp
pillowinhell, a Chick tract is absolutely crazy fundamentalist Christianity shoehorned into a small “comic” with black-and-white illustrations, illogical arguments and plots, conspiracies galore (“Metal is satanic! Satanists are molesting your kids! Satanists are killing your kids! Gays are indoctrinating your kids! King James Only Bibles are the only way to go or you’ll burn in Hell! Environmentalists worship different gods and are trying to doom us all!”), and a toxic dose of bigotry. Heck, there’s even misogyny in some of the tracts!
That’s my rundown of them, anyhow. I had the misfortune of reading one out of curiosity and I felt like somebody had stirred my brain with a spoon – it was so alien to me that I couldn’t understand what I just read. “Fractal wrongness” is the term you could use.
So what the hell is a chick tract?
Here‘s a pretty good primer. You might also consider looking up “Insane Troll Logic” while you’re at TVTropes. Between the two, you’ll have a pretty solid understanding.
Not just metal. All Rock, including Christian Rock, because all Rock is based on the rhythms of the drums the Druids used at their rituals of human sacrifice.
I am dead fucking serious.
So, Chick Tract is short for Has The Brain of An Unhatched Chicken Tract …
His own, very much so. But he’s had some decent artists working for him over the years.
He may have had better artists later on, but the writing pretty much destroys what little merit the art may have had.
Blech, sorry for the double dose of ‘may have’. I’ve been doing quite a bit of writing today. :p
I know. Tragic, really.
The chick tract on D&D is particularly amusing.
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp