2:10 PM
Via BoingBoing, a profile of fire-and-brimstone cartoonist Jack Chick. I stumbled across a battered copy of exactly the Chick tract described in the article at a rural McDonalds over the weekend, and edutained myself as I ate an vanilla cone.

The first panel immediately plunges you into the action, as a paramedic huddles over Bobby, a teen who just overdosed on speed (we know this because the paramedic tells the crowd "HE OVERDOSED ON SPEED!"). "Wow! What a drag!" thinks one bystander. An elderly man preaches the gospel to a kid and is mocked and beaten by a man in a leisure suit. The bully drives off with the kid; their car is immediately hit by a speeding train. "YAAAAAA!" they scream. In the next panel they're in the Inferno.

Sadly, while I was entertained I was not saved. I blame the cursed frogurt.

You can check out some Chick tracts for yourself on his website, or read some parodies at the Jack Chick Parody Archive.