See it while you can: a good parody of a Jack Chick comic. Unfortunately, Chick Publications is a notoriously litigious outfit, and I expect cease and desist letters from lawyers will be arriving any time now.
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That argumentum ad baculum gets 'em every time
Category: Creationism • Humor
Posted on: March 28, 2006 6:59 AM, by PZ Myers
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Fighting fire with fire: A "Chick Tract" remixed. from Stupid Evil Bastard
Go and read this before Jack Chick's lawyers force them to take it down. It's a surprisingly good remix of a classic Chick Tract. Just a shame the folks who really need to read it probably won't. Sample panel below:
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A tasty Chicklet from Neural Gourmet
View larger image Rockstars’ Ramblings has produced an amusing parody of a Jack Chick comic. Not laugh out loud funny, but amusing all the same. Besides, I’ve got to heap bonus points on anybody who can work ‘argumentum ad baculum’ Read More
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Roasted! from Brick and Mortar
Remember those Jack Chick tracts? The ones your evangelical friends thought would turn you away from all that evil in your life. The really boring, preachy, totally inaccurate ones? Here's a better version. Unfortunately, it's likely not long for... Read More
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Posted by: Joseph O'Donnell | March 28, 2006 7:22 AM
It will live on through the underground like the Jack Chick tract that got hit with a dose of Cthulhu. You can never destroy what the internet creates [muahahhaha and all that stuff].
Posted by: Left_Wing_Fox | March 28, 2006 8:18 AM
So... um...
Ok, so does an "Argumentum ad baculum" mean an argument from the penis? Or is the bone named after "The Stick" in Latin? Because if so, then the phrase "Stick it to him" takes on sinister new meanings.
It also means the last argumentum ad baculum I was exposed to was the comparative physiology teacher who threatened cheaters with death by walrus oosik.
Which makes this comic impossible to read with a straight face. Or at work. "Mooom! Amy's being a dick!"
Ah frinktank, we hardly knew ye.
Posted by: BronzeDog | March 28, 2006 8:44 AM
And here I was hoping to remain just obscure enough to pass under that nutbar's radar. And here, I find a link from Pharyngula. Oh well. :) At least my readership will probably get a spike.
"Argumentum ad Baculum" means "appeal to the cudgel" or "stick." It's also known as "appeal to force."
Posted by: pablo | March 28, 2006 8:51 AM
Every now and then I find a pile of Chick mini-comics at the library (and I hasten them to the recycling bin). Wouldn't it be fine to find one of these at the library instead?
Posted by: DJ | March 28, 2006 8:53 AM
"Which makes this comic impossible to read with a straight face."
Isn't that the idea?
Posted by: Gobear | March 28, 2006 9:03 AM
Chick's lawyer likes write threatening letters, but parody is protected under the 1st amendment, so Chick's fundy hordes might threaten you with lega action, but they have no ability to carry out any threat of litigation. Witness an instance of protected parody of fundy morons here.
http://www.waynebesen.com/2006/03/ex-gays-drop-threat-of-parody-lawsuit.html
Posted by: BronzeDog | March 28, 2006 9:06 AM
Yeah, I figured as much, thanks also going to the Fair Use Act of 1976 or something like that. But force of money sometimes seems to ignore little things like Constitutional freedoms.
Posted by: BronzeDog | March 28, 2006 9:09 AM
Oh, I've also given full permission for copying and distribution, just in case.
Posted by: John M. Price | March 28, 2006 9:44 AM
9:42 AM your time.
Can't display this page.
Feel free to send the image(s). My email can handle it easily. (Well, to about 5 megs each....)
TIA
Posted by: george cauldron | March 28, 2006 11:08 AM
I think Ivan Stang nailed Jack Chick best when he described his stuff as exhibiting 'a prehuman level of hate'. I always feel unclean after looking at it.
Posted by: Kristine | March 28, 2006 11:14 AM
Ha, ha! Awesome! May I leave some copies on the bus and at bus stops?...
(BTW, I saw the 'hood Jehovah Witness who tried to push a Watch! mag on me at my bus stop getting hammered at the local drinking hole down the street just yesterday, wonder what his story is... I'll give him one.)
Posted by: BronzeDog | March 28, 2006 11:59 AM
Leave copies wherever you like. I'd like a wide distribution.
Posted by: wswilso | March 28, 2006 12:52 PM
I asked my undergrad biology TA why so few mammal species have bacula. When he said he didn't know, I enlightened him: Nature abhors a baculum!
Posted by: george cauldron | March 28, 2006 1:03 PM
I asked my undergrad biology TA why so few mammal species have bacula. When he said he didn't know, I enlightened him: Nature abhors a baculum!
Thank you! Thank you! I'm here all week!
Posted by: wamba | March 28, 2006 2:36 PM
You're being a bit harsh on the prehumans, aren't you?Posted by: BronzeDog | March 28, 2006 3:42 PM
I think maybe we should try overwhelming Jack: Let's all try making parodies of his stuff. Would be fitting for a particular upcoming holiday.
Posted by: Azkyroth | March 28, 2006 3:54 PM
I'll drink to that.
I can't draw, but I was already planning to write a fairly serious satire of his "Gunslinger" tract.
Posted by: Quentin Long | March 28, 2006 4:54 PM
I suspect I know which Cthulhu-tainted Chick tract Joseph O'Donnell was referring to: Who Will be Eaten First?. If he was thinking of WWBEF?, the original version of which was indeed taken off the net by its creator after a threatening letter from a Chick lawyer, it is very definitely appropriate to mention that it hath risen from the dead like the Great Old One rising from sunken R'lyeh.
Since Chick's complaint was that WWBEF? plagiarised Chick's art, the obvious solution was to re-draw the thing so that no jot or tittle of Chick's original art remained. And, well, that's what I did. And with the original creator's permission, I posted my re-drawn version as part of my netzine, TSAT. Those who are interested can check it out for themselves:
http://tsat.transform.to/i.34/cmc.34.mr.html -- main site
http://tsat.xepher.net/i.34/cmc.34.mr.html -- mirror site
Posted by: Lars | March 28, 2006 6:08 PM
Funny, I always thought that "argumentum ad baculum" translated as "argument from a dick". Shows what I know.
Posted by: BronzeDog | March 28, 2006 6:16 PM
Well, considering that we're talking about my parodies of Jack Chick, I think that other translation is quite appropriate.
Posted by: Paul Koeck | March 29, 2006 6:13 AM
So it has nothing to do with Scott Bacula?
Posted by: Angra "Johnson" Mainyu | March 31, 2006 12:24 AM
Tisk tisk. The preposition "ad" means "towards", as in "advancement". Besides, "baculum" is clearly not in the ablative case, which agrees with prepositions that indicate going away from.
Honestly, I think that some people don't know Latin anymore.
And it just so happens that I have a copy of the original "Who will be eaten first" ferreted away on my hard drive...