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Leon's WTF Theater: "THE SISSY"
You wouldn't know it to talk to me now but way back when I was just a wee Leon, I was quite a God-fearing, Charlie Church of a kid. I mean why not when every Sunday your parents took you to a place where for two hours everyone talked and sang songs about a guy with super powers. I don't think I ever questioned any of what I was told until I saw the original BEDAZZLED (1966) one late night on television, and even then not much. It wasn't until I was a teenager and read one of the Jack Chick comics I found on the floor of a Hall & Oates concert that the whole thing began to unravel.
Jack Chick's "Chick Tracts" are all written with the single goal of converting the reader to the most literal, conservative and fundamentalist brand of Christianity possible via sequential art and scare tactics. I would dare say these comics (that I continued to find dropped in odd places, mostly public restrooms) scare the be-Jesus out of me, because of how extreme, hypocritical and unintentionally hilarious the philosophies they espouse are.
Where as some of the comics are straight retelling of stories from the bible (usually with beautifully drawn artwork), the more memorable stories are full of paranoia against Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Mormons, Dungeons & Dragons, Halloween, rock music and pretty much anything that wasn't begging Jesus to come into your heart. Even the idea of just being a good person was spit upon.
But as I said, what was scary to me as a little kid (and kicked off the ultimate WTF? question) provides me with way too much enjoyment as an adult. I now possess a sizable collection of these comics (you can still buy almost a whole set for dirt cheap here) and while my all-time favorite is "Holy Joe", running also in the Top 5 is "The Sissy":
~Duke thought Jesus was a sissy, until a trucker explained to him the horrible price Jesus paid so his sins could be forgiven. Then Duke saw that Jesus had more guts than anyone who ever lived.
The reason I'm revisiting these comics is because just yesterday I discovered that Chick publications has begun giving them the "Pixar treatment". That is, producing their own 3D computer animated adaptations of the stories.
I've run some of the original cartoon along the side so you can read all of it's goodness for yourself →
(to can read the whole thing click here)...OR you can skip right on to the main feature below.
Are they any good? Hell no.
Are they awesomely entertaining in all the wrong ways? Oh, HELL YES!!!!!
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Comment by Maciek of Poland on February 5, 2011 at 8:44am -
I LOVE Jack Chick, but then agina I'm a 100% right wing Christian Catholic...
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Comment by Eoin Mason on January 15, 2011 at 1:27pm -
meant World's Most Inhuman looking boy.
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Comment by Eoin Mason on January 15, 2011 at 1:17pm
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and believe it or not...there's another one. I bring to you, Tiny Shoes (aka World's Inhuman looking Boy)
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Comment by Often-Confused on January 15, 2011 at 12:44pm -
Holy crap it's it's Hulk on a Jesus kick. lol love it
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Comment by JobyWonKanobi on January 15, 2011 at 1:47am -
oh yeah jack chick i remember this guy (even though i didn't know who he was at the time) i read his comics not at church or found on the ground nope it was in my 7th grade art class my flipping teacher used to bring the things to class the only one i remember reading was a comic that started off with a gay rights rally with two cameramen covering it and one started talking about soddam and gammorah only rather than gay people in the cities it was a bunch of fat hairy pedophiles running after very scared kids, and i all i can think after that was how fucked up the writer was and how disgusted i was with my art teacher for bring them in..what a class act
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Comment by ghostwriter on January 14, 2011 at 6:32pm -
Christianity is about God's Love and Tolerance....two things Chick seems to have forgotten. It's disturbing to see these things stir up distrust of other religions.
But as far as the animation.....whew, that was bad but seeing WTF Theatre return is good!
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Comment by Mr. Bubbles on January 14, 2011 at 6:16pm -
Wow, that animation is terrible. Did they even bother to check if the arms were animated properly? They keep pinching and clipping into themselves.
@The Leo of Costa Rica
Oh god, I remember Bibleman. That show was hilariously bad. XD
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Comment by O-Town 84 on January 14, 2011 at 3:26pm -
I am truly ashamed to say that I have cousins whose favorite T.V. show is Bibleman.
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Comment by TheCynicalReaper on January 14, 2011 at 2:51pm -
So... You lost your faith thanks to a mildly funny Brit film and a (series of) crappy/hilarious propeganda comic(s)?
...Okaaay~. Some lose faith over the loss of loved ones, over disease, over traumatic events...and some over blatant propaganda comics. *rubs back of neck* To each their own, I suppose?
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Comment by The Milkman on January 14, 2011 at 1:56pm -
I'm pretty sure the big trucker told Duke at one point that you don't have to be a good person
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