"best comic book adaptation to date"

[Quirkafleeg]

I need to see this film....

Link: http://www.nypress.com/17/11/film/DVD2.cfm" target="_blank">Top review

[JTurner]

Wow! Where can I find this?

[Steamboy]

the review certainly made me laugh, glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks the Bible(particularly the Old Testament)is a violent bloody piece of work, come to think of it the New Testament isn't all that lovey either. Not a big Bible person but revelations is New Testament yes?
cause thats really nasty that one(used to scare me mates by reading the nastier bits of the Bible to em, yeh i was a weird kid).

CU Krestel

[JTurner]

The old testament is a nasty piece of work, and it inspired my thread on another site - "If God was running for Prime Minister, would you vote for him?". He certainly wouldn't be running as a liberal...

[Priv8eye]

I'm presuming that this would be like an eighteen certificate, yeah?

[House of Usher]

Jack Chick's comics essentially boil down to hellfire and damnation hate literature that vilifies Catholics, Muslims, gays and anyone who has sex before they are married. I really would hate to live inside that man's head.

Which kind of brings me round to Stront's moral dilemma from yesterday, 'would you accept a gift of a large amount of cash if you knew that it almost certainly came from a dubious source?'

How about this one:

"Could you take the money if you knew it had come from the proceeds of DVD sales of The Light of the World written by Jack Chick?"

I know I couldn't.      ;)

[Generally Contrary]

But it would stop Jack Chick having the money.

When I was first pointed in the direction of his comics I thought it was a joke, a parody.  Every strip ends with a guy kneeling on the floor begging fogiveness from a nasty, vengeful and egotistical God.  Then you can fill in a tick box form to make sure that the last panel of damnation will not be your fate.

[House of Usher]

But it would stop Jack Chick having the money.

Oh, quite. If the money had been nicked directly from Jack's bank account, then fine. But if someone was going out there selling this stuff in order to give me the cash, then no. That wouldn't be right!

[Generally Contrary]

It's only $19.95 Gary, straight from the man himself.

http://www.chick.com/catalog/videos/LOTW.asp

[Generally Contrary]

'Chick, 79,...  became a Christian in 1948 while honeymooning in Canada' - presumably after he'd got all his premarital sex out of the way.

http://www.chick.com/catalog/videos/filmreview.asp

[Dudley]

The biography's brilliant!  Sample line:

"Her aunt had been a missionary in Africa. While pregnant, she was being carried across a river on a stretcher, when one of those carrying her lost a leg to an alligator."

This man must be taking the piss, surely?

[House of Usher]

Here's a bunch of links that anyone who's interested may find amusing. Alternatively, just do a google search for 'Jack Chick' and you'll find some funny stuff.

Firstly, This is a REAL example of Jack's work, warning about the dangerous, unholy influence of science fiction, fantasy and role-playing games:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

and here's a parody of the very same (apparently the most frequently parodied of his cartoon strips):

http://www.epsilonminus.com/darquedungeon/

More parodies (potentially quite boring):

http://www.weirdcrap.com/chick/

A counterblast, explaining it all:

http://www.revolting.com/1.2/chick/chick.html

and some poor sod whose Cthulhu parody of a Jack Chick evangelical/propaganda tract was stopped following a threat of legal action over copyright.

http://www.howardhallis.com/bis/cthulhuchick/

Link: http://www.epsilonminus.com/darquedungeon/" target="_blank">for anyone who can't be bothered to copy and paste

[Steamboy]

my God(oops better watch the sky thats blasphemy) I didn't realize it was seriouse i thought it was ALL a parody.  CRazy crazy world.  he he the Goth parody one made me laugh and give me an idea of what his real stuff would be like...

CU Krestel