Religion In The Comics - 013

[Cartoonist]

Are you familiar with the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Its premise is that a town is overtaken by alien seed pods that assimilate the physical characteristics, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it. Such a fate befell the citizens of Riverdale when the publishers of Spire Comics visited their evil upon it. Witness these pages of horror:







I suppose the real villain here is Archie Comics for letting Spire usurp the minds of characters that have become friends to the comic reading public. I've read Archie comics all my life and while they aren't Literature, they have provided me with humor and a feeling of what it is to be part of America. White America, to be sure, but a secular version that treated everyone in its pages as free to believe what they will. This kind of heavy handed evangelizing is an insult to the generations of readers that enjoy Archie comics.


A tip of the Papal Mitre to onager for directing me to these pages.

[Lordquinton]

1. They absorb any kind of water!

I mean, it'll absorb heavy metals right along with it, and other kinds of nastyness, but hey if G_d says it's ok, then surely a little lead between friends won't hurt!

Reading these is so surreal. It's like an episode of a TV show where they are in an alternate reality where everyone is their stereotype.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Yeah, you really dont want to eat melons in india.

In some cases, they're watered with untreated sewage water.

Went there to teach, learned a lot myself.

[onager]

7. Same in Egypt.

The Nile Delta is very rich farmland, watered by a huge, complex network of irrigation canals dating back to the days of the Pharaohs.

Many times, on my work commute, I saw the rotting carcasses of donkeys and horses being pulled out of those canals. Let alone the...human element. No dead bodies I know of, but humans tend to relieve themselves in the nearest large body of water, so...

Still, I ate lots of tasty veggies and fruits raised by the local folks. And just tried not to think about how they were watered.

One of my favorite meals in Alexandria was a roast chicken dinner, sold by street vendors all over the place. A whole roast chicken, a bunch of delicious pickled vegetables, and a pile of fresh, hot flatbread. All for about three dollars US. Couldn't beat it.

Having eaten food all over Asia, Europe, Central America and the Middle East: the only place in the world I ever got food poisoning, weirdly, was in Italy - a nation that worships food. That was in Venice, and I suspect it was water-related too. I was eating a lot of raw oysters there, and I'm pretty sure that's what did me in. It sure was an epic attack. Every joint in my body ached and I not only felt like I was going to die, I was almost looking forward to it.

[AlbertCat]

4. They absorb any kind of water!

Even Heavy Water?

Anyway, I thought a combination of evolution and selective breeding made melons so good.


I wonder what a "vulgar" cantaloupe looks like. (y'know, in nature). To Wikipedia!


"Although truly wild forms of C. melo have not been found, several related wild species have been noted in those regions."

[AlbertCat]

3. "Y'mean he keeps you from blowing..... er.... your top. yeah that's it... Your top....

That explains it....damnit!"

[mr blur]

5. Archie never meant much to us in the UK -

even when I used to read them in the '60s it always seemed to be about an alien world from a time gone by. I mean, why is that jerky one always wearing a paper hat from a Christmas cracker? Why is Archie such a dick head? I suppose it's a cultural thing; when I was growing up our cities still had the debris of bomb sites and Anderson shelters and even in the country you would still see the occasional old machine gun bunker. Archie was...unreal.

Archie and God always seemed the perfect fit, to me. Though I understand that they recently featured a gay marriage.

[Cartoonist]

6. The whoopee cap

From Wikipedia
A whoopee cap is a style of headwear popular among youths in the mid 20th century in the United States. It was often made from a man's felt fedora hat with the brim trimmed with a scalloped cut and turned up. In the 1920s and 1930s, such caps usually indicated the wearer was a mechanic.

[Warren Stupidity]

11. No it was unreal here too. The only place I got to read comics was the barber shop,

and if the only comics left were archies it was a real bad hair day. Superman, batman, fantastic four - ok. Archie was lame.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. That is incredible.

Since I was just a kid when I read Archie comics, I cannot recall the preaching. Then again, I didn't think much about it at that time, since I was going to church when I was young. Looking at it now, my mouth is agape.

[Cartoonist]

9. This was just a phase

Spire Comics got permission to use the Archie characters to spread their gospel. They were not distributed as widely as the other titles, and you probably never saw them.

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Good.

Good that I probably never saw them....or few others saw them.

[edhopper]

12. I am with you

this makes me a little ill.
I guess they realized their mistake.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

13. Ugh