We here at Stupid Comics - that's us, here at Mister Kitty Dot net - we here occasionally will feature the hamfisted prosletyzing of Christian comics. On other occasions we're delighted to highlight the attempts of Western artists to imitate, take inspiration from, or just plain swipe from the world of Japanese anime and manga. However, recently we brought both these types of comics onto a bumpy amusement park ride. As a result a big debate is currently raging as to whether the fake manga got into the Christian comic, or if the Christian comic got into the fake manga! Are these two tastes that taste great together?

Our Stupid Comics guideline here is that these are comics we physically own, that someone paid good money for and is therefore fair game for our tomfoolery. But this particular comic, well, we didn't buy it and we don't own it. In fact we don't know who does. All we do know is that this comic was distributed at a Japanese anime convention in California sometime in the 1990s, and that a copy was picked up and brought home from the con. Years later photos were taken of this artifact, and those photos made their way onto social media, and that's how we came across it. Please bear this in mind when you see how rough some of these images are. So let's go!


This question is seemingly being asked by the entire medium of Japanese animation. What HAVE they done to deserve this kind of bad fan-art treatment? Well, it's called Chargeman Ken, that's what you did, anime industry.


Without company, without hope, without punctuation, without any sort of plan for this panel. Got it.


Certainly, one might come across the star of Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami's "Crying Freeman" imitating the "Hanging Man" Tarot card. It's definitely a thing that maybe could happen.


(Satan and fallen angels not shown - the artist couldn't source a copy of "Devilman" to trace from)


We're only on page two, caption. Man up! We have a long way to go.


Why, we couldn't possibly expect them to draw something more horrible than anyone can imagine!


Even Priss, the leader of the "Knight Sabers" who don robotic battlesuits to fight the android menace of "The Boomers" in the anime series "Bubblegum Crisis" - even she could find herself in Hell. But she's not worried. How bad could eternal damnation be?


"All my friends are hellbound sinners" is what she's saying. Gee thanks Priss


Cut to Jimmy Swaggart on TV, sweating in the hot lights, caught mid-rant: "and YOU over there, you think HELL's gonna be ONE BIG PARTY? That it's just some kinda BIG JOKE?!"


Here we go, here's that Lynn Minmay slander anime fans of the 90s were all about.


(torment not shown)


To be fair, this is what pretty much every viewer of "Robotech" was saying somewhere halfway through episode 9.


Characters from Rumiko Takahashi's "Ranma 1/2" express the feelings of this tract's readers


Oh, so NOW we get to see who our author's anime dream girls are, his waifus are the Dirty Pair, of course THEY get to go to Heaven.


Kei straight up talks back to the narrator as she reminds us all that we are saved by FAITH not WORKS, that all your murders and crimes mean nothing to God as long as you are SAVED, praise Jesus, can I get an "amen."


"It's not our fault we keep repeatedly finding ourselves in situations that result in death and destruction." Well, technically, I guess these disasters are the fault of the authorities that keep sending you into these situations, knowing full well what's likely to result. For further information please consult the 1985 Nippon Sunrise TV series "Dirty Pair" and its subsequent feature film and direct-to-video releases.


All it takes is one minister's son to wrest souls from Satan's grasp. But he has to be cute!


"After he talked, we lived our lives differently. Apparently we still dressed in space bikinis and blew things up, but we did so with Jesus in our hearts."


Not really sure who they swiped for this angel character - kind of some Sara Yuki from "Dancougar" vibes going on, but who knows. This could be lifted from a "Gundam" show or "Saint Seiya" or "Fist Of The North Star". There are a lot of them Japanese cartoons. Anyway, Jesus died for your sins, sins which include making unauthorized copies of Japanese cartoons.


"We're in Heaven and we can't want wrong things now, so let's go find that minister's son and get it on! Because he's probably dead too, right?" You go, girls. Meanwhile, what do YOU need to do to get to Heaven and/or complete your traced-cartoon-character Christian witnessing tract? 1. ADMIT you are vague on how exactly this all works. 2. BELIEVE you can find proper documentation somewhere. 3. ASK your local Christian bookstore if they have any Chick tracts you can photocopy some text out of. Bingo, you're done, souls saved, nothing else to do but sit back and wait for (checks notes) the apocalyptic rise of the Antichrist and the end of the world. Wheeee!

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