{"id":2363,"date":"2007-06-17T00:58:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T07:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/06\/17\/boing-boinged\/"},"modified":"2007-06-17T00:58:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T07:58:36","slug":"boing-boinged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/06\/17\/boing-boinged\/","title":{"rendered":"Boing Boinged"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am pretty sure that the Al Hartley library of Spire Christian comics are extent online somewhere or other.\u00c2\u00a0 Boing Boing has found its way to a couple of items without it.\u00c2\u00a0 (The effect is similar to when Boing Boing<\/a> posted a link to scans of a Jack T Chick tract, and then scans of another Jack T Chick tract, and then finally received the email update suggesting — Why not just link to Jack Chick’s website which has… all of his tracts?)
\nBut here’s Archie stuck not in the 50s, but in the 20s — say, Tennessee, Scopes Monkey Trial, Inherit the Wind…
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

The story goes that the publishers of Archie Comics– notably Jewish– were getting a little annoyed when Al Hartley found Jesus and started ebbing Fundamentalist messages into their comics.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose because he ever-so-desired to create a branch of Evangelistic Christian Archie Comics, he asked if he could create them for Spire Christian Comics, and they let him do so.<\/p>\n

There are, if you click the link, anti-busing political messages extent in this bizarro-Christian Archie Comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is just as well, because his other work for this Christian comic company includes a biography of Chuck Colson<\/a>.
\nBoing Boing later uncovered the comics of… um… <\/a>The Cross and the Switchblade<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Meaning it is only a matter of time before they discover that this line of Christian comics also includes something called:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

… based on a true story, I hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am pretty sure that the Al Hartley library of Spire Christian comics are extent online somewhere or other.\u00c2\u00a0 Boing Boing has found its way to a couple of items without it.\u00c2\u00a0 (The effect is similar to when Boing Boing posted a link to scans of a Jack T Chick tract, and then scans of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}