<$BlogRSDUrl$>

Thursday, May 08, 2003

Introducing...

Mr. Jack Chick!

Read this article quickly folks, as I'm not sure how long this link will be viable.

The experience of reading a Chick tract can seem disarmingly familiar. In many ways the stories adhere to the standard rules and visual language of comic books: When people are angry or stressed, huge beads of sweat shoot off their foreheads. Bad men say things like "@#$%!"; exclamation points are everywhere. Characters, with their side parts, bell-bottoms, and stilted language, have the stuck-in-time quality of Archie comics. But behind the reader-friendly style is a disturbing, hateful message: There are demons hiding everywhere. There are devil worshipers in the federal government and gay men plotting to taint the nation's blood supply with AIDS. The pope is an agent of Satan. So is your next-door neighbor.


Interestingly enough, the only place I've ever seen Chick Tracts is in public restrooms. Hrm... I wonder what the correlation is.


Comments: Post a Comment

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?