It Came From Anti-Chick: WAGES OF SIN from ART D'ECCO

[jlroberson]

From what's still one of my all-time favorite comics, New Zealand's Andrew & Roger Langridge's ART D'ECCO (which you can buy here, and I recommend it). Burn, sinner!


(c)1989 Andrew & Roger Langridge.

Suggested tags: subject: jack t. chick, genre: parody,creator: andrew langridge, creator: roger langridge, title: art d'ecco, publisher: fantagraphics, char: kitsch, savior: Jesus, theme: anti-chick

Comments

[mugiwara]

Wait, I don't get it... What did the granny wrong with the 1st commandement? (what is the 1st commandement, by the way?)

[jlroberson]

I am the Lord the God, who brought you out of Egypt. You shall have no gods before me.

That's me, understand. I don't know what the other one said.

[geoffsebesta]

I'm betting it's something to do with taking the Lord's name in vain.

[jlroberson]

Nope, that's third.

[kamino_neko]

Or second. Depending whose dividing them up. Idolatry's part of the first by the Catholic enumeration.

[icon_uk]

Ummm.... The first commandment is "I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other gods than Me" (in one variation opf the wording or another).

In what way did granny break it? Spending her money on the house and admiring it?

[jlroberson]

You're asking it to make sense at that point?

[icon_uk]

Well, until that point it's at least internally consistent and approaching the coherent in it's approach to Biblical interpretation. Granny dying because of the First Commandment doesn't even make sense in it's own story.

[jlroberson]

Well, it's meant to parody the incoherence of Chick tracts.

[icon_uk]

But loathe though I am to say it, the few Chick tracts I've made it through aren't THAT incoherent. They're insane, and offensive on just about every level I know and probably numerous layers beyond that, but they're consistently insane.

[jlroberson]

Well, given the L Bros were still in New Zealand at the time, I would imagine this might even be more a parody of a second or third generation Chick-style knockoff of a sort I imagine one sees a lot of in the Pacific.

[kamino_neko]

Seems that EVERYBODY is having that reaction.

I suppose it could be calling the house a 'false idol', but that'd twisting the commandment even further than the other instances in the story...

Perhaps they meant the second commandment - 'Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain', which is variously interpreted as 'don't swear false oaths', 'don't blaspheme', 'don't try to tell God what to do', and 'don't use dirty language' - which can be bent slightly to make it apply to what she did. (Specifically the third interpretation.)

[thanekos]

I thought the last one was going to be Matthew 7:2

[jlroberson]

"For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

Now this is a quote I bet Chick thinks the Devil slipped in.

[stubbleupdate]

Is it meant to have terrible spelling?

[jlroberson]

sigh...Yes. Everything you see is deliberate. THIS IS A PARODY FOLKS. SEE TAGS.

It seems there's some confusion about the makers of this. Remember FIN FANG FOUR? One of these guys drew that.