Jack Chicks The Prophet :: Islam Religion Comic Papers

dickhead Chicks The Prophet If one and only(a) were asked to comment on influential and supplyful pieces of literature, one would expect the usual suspects to come to mind. There are those time-honored classics put in bound, leather volumes that are on everyones bookshelves. M any celebrated modern works grow the distinction of having been awarded a Nobel or Pulitzer Prize. It was not rightfully until Art Spiegelmans Pulitzer Prize winning Maus (Parts I and II) that we could realize the awesome power of literature in a comic form. Literature in any form is also a double-edged sword. It can incise care a scalpel or detonate like a bomb. The endless rearrangement of twenty- vi letters to form words represents both thought and action. Both shed the potential to be positive or negative. The Chronicles of the Learned Elders of Zion, an apocryphal and f completelyacious anthology, helped stir up anti-Semitic strife in a pre-Holocaust Europe. In a mere thirty-two pages, Jack Chick s comic, The Prophet, conveys much the same attitude as that which dominated the fascist landscape of the Nazi Reich less than six decades ago. The Prophet is nothing more than than a disgusting piece of bit and propaganda. The assertions made about the origins, history, and motivations of Islam are so ridiculous, that at some show one cannot help but laugh at the stupidity necessitate to write such trash. This makes Chicks work both comic and tragic. Unfortunately, free vernacular even applies to the ignorant and those consumed with hatred. On the other hand, freedom of thought allows us to evaluate, criticize, and reject them.The story begins with the civil war in Beirut, Lebanon in the other(a) 1980s. It is here that a reporter is terrorized by the stereotypical wild-eyed Moslem fundamentalist. Before the reporters enlightenment by the warped Dr. Alberto Rivera, he neatly sums up the situation in the Middle East as most Americans have been trained to do - dismissing every one there as being crazy and magnanimous up on even an iota of understanding (Chick, Jack T., The Prophet, P. 3-4). Luckily, Dr. Rivera is at the terminal snackbar so he can make sense of all of human history. His story is so convoluted that he manages to solve more mysteries than Matlock and Columbo did I their entire television careers. The only question that trunk at the end of his idiotic expose is Where was he when the Warren heraldic bearing needed him?