That said, let’s dive right in!

A hired killer trusts Christ and, at death, goes to heaven. But the law-abiding marshal who hunted him rejects Christ and goes to hell. Clearly shows that salvation is through grace, not works.

As usual, by the way, my comments will appear like this, with preceding J:.

Also, what are those two white lines trailing parallel to each other behind his head? Is that temporally anachronistic jet exhaust?

Uh. So kill him? Seriously, if you’ve killed people for it before, what’s stopping you now?

Jeez, he slammed the guy so hard into the wall he knocked his unibrow off.

Why’s this guy have a portrait of Queen Amidala hanging from his wall?

More fashion weirdness, I thought this was the wild west? Why does our Gun Slinger have a WWII-era SS-Totenkopf headpin? I would think the Nazis would want to kill a grim specimen of humanity like this.

Also, I think the Gun Slinger’s “nose” is actually a potato that’s inexplicably growing out of/lodged in the front of his face. I’ll bet he doesn’t get blackheads but long, tentacly eyes he has to cut out with a paring knife.

Where’d the Zorro mask come from, by the way? Does he just sort of tug it on briefly when making promises about killing, for dramatic effect? Looking ahead, I don’t think we see this for the rest of the Tract, so probably yes.

“Have you seen this man? He walks these streets, a loaded six-string on his back. He plays for keeps, ’cause he might not make it back. He’s a cowboy — on a steel horse, he rides. And he’s wanted–” “Yes, yes, we know the song. He went to Bottlesville. Do you HAVE to do that EVERY time you show us one of these?”

Oh, yeah, this is a great plan. After all, it worked out so well in Waco.

So the man in black fled across the desert, and the white marshal followed? Jack, you’ve made the worst Dark Tower tribute strip ever D: I can’t even make a proper DT joke! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?

Insert vitriolic rant against the crucifixion story here.

At some point in his past, someone stabbed him down the cheek with a hair pick.

It irritates me to no end that there’s no scale of justice here. We have a self-professed murderer who gets forgiven of his crimes, ok cool, illustrates God is supposedly merciful, I can dig it. But then what about the people who spend their lives doing well, never harming anyone else, in the service of Christ? There’s some mention about a crown and radiance in heaven, but oh wait we’re not supposed to be doing it for the reward. There’s no scale, no sense to it. It’s a bunch of meaningless bullshit drivel that’s supposed to make me feel humble and wonderful that god views me the same way as a merciless serial killer. It’s reason-killing insanity, and I have to go vomit now.

God Jack.

GOD.

I like the implication of Chick’s condemnation toward the marshal’s attitude, here, about “getting exactly what he deserved”. By the fundamentalist God’s model, people should actually be getting punishments infinitely worse than what they deserved. Now that’s a reasonable model for morality if I ever saw one!

One thing I do have to give Jack props for, he’s been much more consistent with his backgrounds in this strip. They’re rather conspicuous compared to his use in Guilty. Did he improve, or regress? I need to find out which strip came first.

Snakes, by the way, are known for climbing to the tops of rocks and aggressively and without provocation going after the faces of humans riding other large mammals.

Apparently the demons ripped the marshal’s shiny white teeth out and gave them to Tom, whose neck already seems to be receding as he wanders off into heaven, waving to imaginary nobodies.

Wait, I thought believers got new bodies in heaven? Why does Tom still have his mangled old head? Dammit, false advertising!