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This week at Stupid Comics we take a look at the long form Crusaders series by recently deceased religious pamphleteer Jack T. Chick. These are comics that scared the bejeezus out of me as a kid and they have an undeniable power, both from the cultural boost they get from piggybacking on our culture's religious underpinnings, and from the lurid, sensual artwork of Fred Carter.







Perhaps the most widely-read independent comics publisher of all time, Chick's work is grindhouse Christianity, boiled down to the KJV and the horrors that await all who fail to take Jesus into their hearts, with the extra added spice of the various looney-tunes conspiracy theories Chick bought into wholesale. We won't see his like again, and that's probably a good thing.