Peter at Catholicae Testudines has come up with a great Jack Chick parody. Just click next on each panel to read the whole strip.
Cheek Tract
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"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." GKC
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You’re really all too kind. I was actually inspired by some other guy who drew an absolutely hilarious parody of a Chick comic evangelizing Lovecraft’s Cthulu mythology (his art was much better, too, Mark).
Anyway, the first Chick comic I ever read was “Murph”, the story of a cop who is dying from a gunshot. He asks his priest if he’ll go to Heaven when he dies, and the priest goes absolutely BALLISTIC on him in the hospital. The image has…haunted me ever since.
Indeed, I think my favorite Chick comics are the ones where priests flip their lids when someone questions Church doctrine.
Oh, if only more Catholic priests really did foam at the mouth at the first sign of heresy…
HAHAHA… that’s AWESOME. It looks just like Chick’s, except more charitable.
St. Peter kinda looks like Santa Claus, or maybe David the Gnome, though.
Must be the hat.
OUTSTANDING! I hope he will do many more!
This is hysterical! Thanks.
Haw! Haw! Haw!
LOL. So funny… and true! And yes, a LOT more charitable towards Protestants than Chick tracks are to Catholics, who are condemned to hell for being ‘deceived’ according to him.
Purgatory? I wish the cartoonist had shown Click heading towards purgatory saying “Oh no, not purgatory, you Catholics and your….wait, purgatory, yes,yes purgatory works for me. Hell, that’s much better than….how could I have had it so wrong?”
That wasnt funny. Darnit I cried a little. Why do you persecute me. OK so maybe it is funny and Im preggy?
It would have been funnier if the artist was actually as good as the artists Chick uses.
Very funny – but I guess only for people who know the original Chick tract. Imagine if someone thought Catholics really did try to evangelize with that sort of schlock!
Anyway, I harbor a certain fondness for the Chick comic books. They’re so wrong-headed and full of factual errors that they’re hilarious to someone who knows better. I read many of them before I finally came home to the Church, and it was through my protests against all the misrepresentations in them that I realized how much I’d already come to believe Catholicism was true. In fact, I’ve often said, only half in jest, that Jack Chick and John Calvin between them made me a Catholic. [chuckle]
The sad thing, though, is that people who don’t know better accept the Chick tracts as true. [sigh]
The illustrations alone were damnable! I’ve never seen any Chick Tracts, but if it’s a replica of them, well… we’ve got Michealangelo.
Peter–I think your next spoof should be a Watchtower parody.