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Originally published at SpaceBattles Forums. August 11th, 2017. The Last Generation (1972). Tract #031. Art by Fred Carter - © 1972 Chick Publications

Originally published at SpaceBattles Forums
August 11th, 2017


 
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The Last Generation - Tract #031 (LSTG)
Art by Fred Carter - © 1972 Chick Publications


Big Brother's nightmarish world order is just around the corner. Christ is coming soon for believers. Will you be left behind?

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Slick146Slick146 Well. After that fiasco, we need a good breather. Especially given what I have in mind next.

This is the original version of the Last Generation, written in 1972. And....it manages to be both crazier and more sane than the 2013 version.

Weird, uh? Than again, Jack wrote it thinking the world would end in 1988. Yeah, nice try Jack.


 

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Slick146Slick146 Let's get this over with.

 

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Slick146Slick146 A Polish judge...totally saw it coming.
Based upon the Genocide Act
What. What did you just say? How was that even passed? The discussion on the Genocide Act must have been the single most interestingly ridiculously stupidly interesting thing ever. Of all time.

 

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Slick146Slick146 Heck is the news reporter doing in the corner?

I love how in this version, they have something called a Genocide Act, meaning that they shouldn't have any reason to hide that they want to kill all Christians. Well, Jack's version of Christian, anyway.

Actually, vicarious means to do an action for others, or something along those lines. It doesn't mean dying for others sins. It means to do something for others. Which Jesus did, but all the same....it is very misleading.

 

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Slick146Slick146 Oh, because he admitted that he believes Jesus died for our sins, he can't get a decent job. What is his job? Fast food restaurant?

If they are on the list, where is the secret police. You'd think they'd show up in seconds, having preempted the Supreme Court's decision, like any good dictatorship. A lack of competence, but hey, THE POWER OF PLOT ARMOR COMPELS THEM!


 

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Slick146Slick146 Ha! Silly science! Like it could deal with ecology! Jesus controls everything!
Dad, with reports of cannibalism in major cities, the massive starvation and uncontrolled crime,
Sounds like Leningrad, actually.

Wait, why does he refer to his wife's dad as dad? Are they in an incestuous marriage or something?

It started on May 14, 1948.
The day of your birth, Charles.

 

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Slick146Slick146 1988 for Jack Chick must have been what 2012 was like for people who believed in the Mayan calendar.

Oh hey, Bobby's back! I remember Bobby.

He's actually crazier here.

Why didn't his parents go to pick him up from school? No cars or something? Wow, aren't they jerks.

 

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Slick146Slick146 Oh yeah, this was written well before gay marriage was a thing, and Jack just worried about divorce destroying is all.

Those were good times.

Bobby isn't as bad as last time.....I think, anyway. He's coming off as being more sane for one thing, but he's also a bit....well, see for yourself.

 

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Slick146Slick146
How in the world could you be fond of a stupid animal?
Your parents are fond of you, Bobby.

Who calls their father by his first name? Is it supposed to show how disrespectful Bobby is?

So, all the cats and dogs were eaten, uh? Rodent populations must have exploded. Which probably made the famine worse.

 

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Slick146Slick146 Yeah, fuck world peace! Who cares about the chance at world brotherhood and understanding? Let's destroy free will as well, and eat popcorn while Jesus burns the world!

 

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Slick146Slick146 No wonder everything's gone to shit. The police are uncaring assholes who let assault just go unnoticed.

Oh yeah, going to concentration camps for child abuse. Sure, whatever, just report them now before they force you to go to bed. Be free, Bobby!


 

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Slick146Slick146 Oh, sure, blame how bad your kid has become on the state, and not your horrific parenting.

That accursed church being the Roman Catholic Whore of Babylon, right? Eh, should have seen it coming.

It started in the early 1970's with Jesus Christ Superstar.
....this is new. Can't say I've ever heard of really cared about it....but apparently, it gives the story of Jesus a modern setting in some way? I don't know, I think it's some kind of trippy drug thing or whatever? I honestly have no idea.

But Jack blames it for starting the end of the world.

Okay, sure, sure....he can do whatever he likes. He's dead, after all.

Jack must have lost it when Jesus Christ Superstar became a film the year after this tract was released.

 

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Slick146Slick146 Ah, brainwashing, the conspiracy theorist answer to everything. Wake up, sheeple! Otherwise, you will miss us ascending into Heaven on the day of reckoning, when we can gloat all we want at you!

Jack was most likely looking forward to that.

Jesus speaking a word against Rome has to do with this how? Oh, because of the whole part of Him being a revolutionary and social reformer?

Jesus was both of those things, along with being the Son of God. He is concerned with the souls of men, and to save them, He showed us the way. His teachings were actually revolutionary at the time and would go on to shape western civilization, and he never took up arms or was violent, save for the incident in the temple of Jerusalem, and even then, he did it very calmly, simply driving out the people who had turned His Father's house into a market place. His message of love, peace, charity, kindness, forgiveness, compassion and mercy was revolutionary because they were seen as weaknesses by the Romans.

Denying Jesus was a social reformer pretty much ignores what he spent his whole life doing.

Was this whole thing written in response to Jesus Christ Superstar?

 

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Slick146Slick146 Oh look, it's this guy again.

I know he's supposed to be a New Age healer, but how are we supposed to take somewhere wearing a hippie symbol and giving the peace sign seriously as a villain? And what is with that snake, is that supposed to be the same snake which serves as a symbol of medicine and healing, the bronze serpent? That was used by the Hebrews on God's instruction, to cure them by looking at it.

Anyone else think the kids hands are just waving in the air, like, hanging there, doing nothing? Cause I do.

 

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Slick146Slick146 What if they suspect that teacher of being a violator, or each other? Or the new age healer? What then?

As for that reward, I bet it's not free drugs this time.


 

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Slick146Slick146 Bobby, ever hear of subtlety? It can be very useful in trying to get your grandfather killed.

Naturally, the grandfather just decides to walk right into it, like a dumbass.


 

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Slick146Slick146 They don't even try to stop Bobby, do they? No, just....just let him go get those healers. Yeah, sure. Go ahead! Run to the cabin with Paul.

We all know what happens next, folks. Sorta, anyway.


 

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Slick146Slick146 They give up just like that? Really? Guys, you just programmed him, everything has a breaking point! Come on, you wanna serve the Antichrist? Break this old man! Don't give up so easily! The people of East Asia are depending on you!

Okay, that last part was a lie, but.....


 

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Slick146Slick146 Connie went to the cabin in the woods.....in heels. Fuck does she think this is, Jurassic World?

There goes Paul, ready to fuck shit up!


 

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Slick146Slick146 Good god, this again. The free drugs. What do they got, all the pills you could ask for? Heron? Crack?
Of course, friend.
"The fuck did you just call me, baldie?"

SAVE US, LAWD JEZUZ!


 

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Slick146Slick146 One, two, three, WAIT, JUST KICK DOWN THE DOOR NOW! BLOW UP THE HOUSE! BE COMPETENT PEOPLE!

Wanna know where they went?

They were actually six ducks in people costumes. Three in each. Duh!

 

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Slick146Slick146 Hey, what about that world brotherhood? Wasn't there a one world government?

Shit, Soviet Russia are the good guys here. Well, time to get as red as the Communist Manifesto!

CAUSE IT'S WORLD WAR 3, AND WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE! WE REALLY HAD IT COMING, EXCEPT FOR SWITZERLAND!

 

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Slick146Slick146 I thought Jesus was gonna burn the world in Global Warming? Why use nuclear weapons instead?

 

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Slick146Slick146 Okay, we all had a good laugh?

Good.

Cause next is the Uninvited. It has to do with AIDS victims....


 

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