"Cut Me Up In A Thousand Pieces And Each One Will Say I Love You!"

Boing Boing just posted this great cover to the Christian comic The Cross and the Switchblade. Certainly, the main conflict of the cover is delightful: Ghastly Ingels-like, I imagine a gory blob of preacher chunks, resurrected through the power of Christ, advancing upon its murderer, extending the dripping appendages of gelatinous arms for one eternal […]

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Boing Boing just posted this great cover to the Christian comic The Cross and the Switchblade. Certainly, the main conflict of the cover is delightful: Ghastly Ingels-like, I imagine a gory blob of preacher chunks, resurrected through the power of Christ, advancing upon its murderer, extending the dripping appendages of gelatinous arms for one eternal hug.

But the small details are what makes it. What's going on with the girl in the bottom right hand corner? I've only ever seen that expression in one context: when a bad tab of acid makes you believe that your entire body is crawling with millions of invisible insects.

Also, note the unorthodox price of the comic: $0.39?

Cross and Switchblade comic book cover [Boing Boing]