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The way I have my comics stored, I've got a bunch of short boxes on shelves, and I keep the box tops underneath them - this way I can access the collection much more easily than having to pull the box off and open it up. It's not a lot of time, but it also looks pretty nice. (I'll have to post some pics of my comic book kingdom one of these days.) Since the lids are on the bottom, I'm able to display a single comic by sliding into the lid. My plan this week was to read all of the comics that I've selected as the display comics right now. They change every couple of month, and I always try to put interesting or novel things on display.
Archie's Parables was displayed on the box containing my Spire Publishing/Barbour Publishing Christian Archie comics, so I thought I'd give it a try. I remember talking to Mike at Purple Gorilla Comics here in Calgary about these comics, and how one very rarely finds them in good shape. His theory was that kids got tricked by them (I know I did), thinking they were Archie comics, and then getting to the end of literally every story and the punchline, so to speak, was God. And re-reading this comic today, I don't think I'd realized just how Evangelistic they are. However, I think it's best to let Al Hartley's classic art, and, really, horrendously Christian writing, to speak for itself:
As a friend of mine noted upon seeing this sequence, it really does look like Archie has some salacious ideas about those filthy books.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that these comics are ridiculously Creationist. *sigh*
More to follow.
Related Posts and Further Reading
I had a bit more to say about Hartley's art and his adaptation of Corrie Ten-Boom's The Hiding Place.
And if you're interested, here's some other things I've written about Christian comics.
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