May 29 2007
Christian Comic Books
posted by Ana Samways at 3:36 pm
In The Cross and the Switchblade a small town pastor goes to the big smoke and finds it littered with gang heathens to save. True story, too. Read the full comic version here.
In Crossfire, a Christian cop tries to reconcile his job with his faith.
Read the full comic here.
In Hello I’m Johnny Cash we see how God and June Carter saved him from the slippery slope into sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll and marched him back to his gospel roots.
Read the full comic here.
May 29th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
I once (on 3 occasions actually) spent a month on an ocean liner (not a cruise ship). They had a small cinema & they played one or two films per week. Over & over again…
Ocean voyages are very boring, so I saw some movies many more times than once – Billy Jack, Dirty Harry (this is dating me – I was technically too young for both these, but no-one checks on the lawless oceans), A Bush Christmas, an Elvis flick with Mary Tyler Moore and the Cross & the Switchblade…
Pat Boone was the preacher, Erik CHiPs Estrada was the punk who needed god in his life…
I remeber the scene pictured on the cover above.
AVOID AVOID AVOID!
May 30th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Christians are so much nicer in comic books than in real life…
May 30th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Can you pout up some Chick tracts as well? Just so we can be sure that the Catholic Church is really the Whore of Babylon?
I remember that Cross movie too, I was ahuled in off the street to watch it when the God-botherers came to town one day. They let me go when I told them I was Jewish and asked could I have my God back, please.
May 30th, 2007 at 9:34 am
And, by the way, Nicky Cruz’s autobiography that TCATS is based on, Run Baby Run, is a much better read.
June 2nd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Growing up as a “PK” kid (pastors kids) these same comics were pretty much my first reading material and the only stuff (apart from that other big book that’s got no pictures – no fun!)I was allowed to read, loved them at the time. Anyone remember the tiny little comic books evangelicals would hand out on the street all about sinners going to hell trying to convert people through fear? I think I had the whole collection…