Big Daddy , another lulu, depicts a stereotypically Jewish professor trying unsuccessfully to indoctrinate a good blond Aryan kid with the lie that granddad was a gorilla. Actually, Chick likes Jews, knowing that their eventual conversion to Christianity will herald the Apocalypse. In Chick's scheme, the Catholics are currently busy creating the One World Government. Funny, Chick is a real Pope-hater, yet he borrows the old church tradition of using ghastly horror stories to save souls, reveling in the lives and ordeals of martyrs, making their torture more hideous in each new version. Comics reduce the human condition to its purest form.
Chick confirms our worst fears of ignornance and prejudice.
To read Chick is to have the thrill of horror comics restored for the first time since childhood. Raeburn not only managed to get a profile of Chick but has also written an incisive analysis of the worship of power in Chick comics, especially as seen in the recurrent theme of Jesus as the king ass-kicker in the universe. A favorite plot of Chick's is to have tough guys convert when they learn that Jesus wasn't just a long-haired sissy. Hide your Satanist paraphernalia when shopping there.