Hitler's back. A mad scientist thought he could reform him; make Hitler a productive member of our future society. He was wrong. Now, the only thing standing between mankind and total oblivion is Albert Einstein. Einstein has hand picked the greatest minds in history to face off against this great evil. But who will prevail the latest iteration of The Third Reich? Or the Heroes of Science!
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Panel 4This page has more crazy hieroglyphics. There's Jesus being born in a woodshed, a young Jesus throwing a friend off a roof (as inspired by the apocryphal "Infant Gospel of Thomas,"), Jesus going apeshit at bankers at the temple, and other, less interesting, stuff.
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Finally I reveal the identities of the villains of this chapter. Fred Phelps is a genuinely evil individual. He was a civil rights lawyer way-back-when, but instead of actually trying to set prescident he instead dangled lawsuits over people's heads then ran for the hills at the first sign of money. Later on he decided to troll funerals for gay people, hoping to get beat up. If he got beat up he could sue. If he could sue he wouldn't have to work at a real job. And everything was all well and good until America invaded Iraq. Funerals for soldiers killed overseas presented a better opertunity for him and his followers to get beaten up, so he's changed his stance.
The other villain is Jack T. Chick. He's not really evil, just a stupid, insane, conspiracy monger. He believes "Dungeons & Dragons" teaches you how to be a real evil wizard, and that everybody is involved in some elaborate Satanic conspiracy. He also believes the end is nigh, and has been nigh for fifty years. And he hates the Catholics because they're not Christian enough. I'm only using him because I needed somebody to play off Fred Phelps in the "Spider-Man meets Superman and they compliment eachother on what awesome superheroes they are" way.
