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Creator of the Chick Tracts and Dark Dungeons has passed away.
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Hm. I'm conflicted on this.
There were many pieces of literature he made that was simply incorrect.
Yet, I know, for all his faults, he wanted the best for everyone.
I am extremely sorry for any friends or family that he leaves behind and pray that they find joy and comfort, even during such a trying time as this. And I hope he finds what he was looking for in the hereafter, though I expect a few surprises in store for him. Either way, I look forward to meeting him someday.
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I wish there was a hereafter, just so I could imagine the surprise that awaited him.
But who will provide horribly intolerant religious comics for me to laugh at now?
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"They say you shouldn't say nothin' about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good!" -- Jackie "Moms" Mabley
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He was finally consumed by guilt over the death of Black Leaf.
I find it hard to look for the good in him. Thus, I do not. Rest well, sir, regardless of deserving it.
The thing is...Jack Chick kind of comes off to me as a sort of Negative Ed Wood. His tracts were full of bigotry and hate, but they were amusing in their weird way. Death with scythe striking down the man...(and knocking his pipe out) or how Dungeons and Dragons trained Elfstar to assume the powers of a real witch... Or my particular favorite. "This Was Your Life.". complete with projection screen and all.... that, and the faceless angels.
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I suppose some comfort regarding him is that roleplayers were pretty far down the list of people he hated. The most hilarious tract is the one about the roman catholic church.
Bye, Jack. You don't have to live in fear anymore.
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Don't know how to feel.
May he rest peacefully.
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May he find the peace in the afterlife that he did not find in this life. All in all a sad man.
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In his own unintentional way, he was very much a part of the RPG world - I daresay he gained more fame through our derision than by any other avenue. I am sort of sad - he was awful, but too much of a flaming crackpot to be dangerous (as opposed to, say, James Dobson, whose "Jekyll/Hyde" personality and insidious means of cultural influence we cannot be rid of soon enough), and like others have already said, his work was "so bad it was good."
As for what awaits him now? I'm suddenly put in mind of Deacon Vorbis at the end of Terry Pratchett's Small Gods.
Maybe Gary Gygax can be there to take the role of Brutha.
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As for what awaits him now? I'm suddenly put in mind of Deacon Vorbis at the end of Terry Pratchett's Small Gods.
I loved Small Gods. :) It was pretty awesome.
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Who was he now.
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Who was he now.
No one really knows. All I know is he made my life hell in middle school and high school.
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No one really knows. All I know is he made my life hell in middle school and high school.
Actually, he was a pretty well known Christian publisher
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Crystal,
I knew that. I meant more like there were always rumors about him being a fictional author. Or some others that he was a complete recluse.
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Funny thing is, that Wikipedia article arguably does not answer the question. :P
We only ever made fun of that hateful bigot. That won't change. I am sorry he's dead, though.
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K-Cleaver,
I'm not sure I'll make fun of him just be glad he's finally out of my life.
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Who was he now.Google is your friend
Ha! My phone considers it offensive content (whatever it is) and won't let me see it. :-)
Maybe I'll check it out on the computer later. Maybe.
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Rumors of my demise are, sadly, no longer exaggerated.
Who was he now.
You know those black covered little mini comics which showed you all the ways you were going to Hell? You probably sat on one on a bus or bus stop somewhere? He was the man behind them.
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He did a great service to our hobby by putting the worst myths into a form so easily mocked.
Who was he now.You know those black covered little mini comics which showed you all the ways you were going to Hell? You probably sat on one on a bus or bus stop somewhere? He was the man behind them.
No, can't say I did.
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I've mentioned this before, but while playing D&D in my friend's dorm room in late 1985 or early 1986 someone slid a copy of "Dark Dungeons" under the door and took off running down the hall. We never knew who did it. We'd also never heard of Jack Chick before and found the tract to be kinda funny. We'd planned to have an adventure where Black Leaf was actually rescued from hanging herself and then went on to save herself from being turned into a "real witch", but we never played it.
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Hm. I'm conflicted on this.
There were many pieces of literature he made that was simply incorrect.
Yet, I know, for all his faults, he wanted the best for everyone.
I am extremely sorry for any friends or family that he leaves behind and pray that they find joy and comfort, even during such a trying time as this. And I hope he finds what he was looking for in the hereafter, though I expect a few surprises in store for him. Either way, I look forward to meeting him someday.
You are a better man then I am Tacticslion. Well said.
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I'm always conflicted when somebody whose life's work was to harm others passes away. I will only say that I hope that if there is an afterlife, it's a much friendlier one than the one which he imagined for me.
