Few folks realize that along with SHAFT, SUPERFLY, COFFY, and CLEOPATRA JONES, one of the great pieces of BLAXPLOTATION entertainment was the 1977 Jack Chick tract SOUL STORY.  Yep, you heard me right! In this great comic, Chick gets in touch with his black roots and tells a story of being saved from an African American perspective in a BAAAADASSS fashion that hasn't been seen again since PENITENTIARY 2.  So without further delay, let's enjoy SOUL STORY...SUCKA!

From the look of this warden's face CODE BLUE must mean he's extremely constipated.   Something about that riot is phony, indeed.  If you look carefully, you'll see the inmates are stomping their foot before they punch each other for dramatic effect. Pretty good paramedic, too...just runs out with a stethoscope and bitches about them finding out Jackson was a "snitch."  Must be an HMO.

So far the characters are named LEROY and JACKSON.  Looks like Chick boned up on his black culture by watching an all-night GOODTIMES marathon.  I love his grandma, "Got whey they call CANCER!".   There's a missing panel when she asks for a Kleenex cause, "I got what they call A COLD!".  Boy, Leroy sure keeps those guards terrorized with comments like, "YOU WHITE @*!!!"  With a mouth like that you'd think he grew up with Q*Bert.  Actually that last panel looks a bit like a scene from THE GREEN MILE.   Maybe Leroy's just concerned about the guard's bad prostate.

Wow...he's not just Leroy, he's LEROY BROWN.  He's the baddest man in the whole damn town!   Badder than old KING KONG and meaner than a JUNK YARD DOG! (Sorry, couldn't resist).  Anyway, it's nice to see The Supreme Court has added the case of Leroy Brown to their busy schedule.  If you look carefullly, you'll see Leroy's little brother is apparently a member of the deadly Fat Albert Gang.

I've seen crazy pimp outfits before, but nothing like this get-up!  Looks like a transporter beam mishap with a Pirate, Superfly, a Pilgrim and a Leprechaun.  He's a fancy lad!  But if you can bust a door off its hinges with one hand, I suppose you're entitled to wear what you please.   By the way, get a load of how long Leroy's left arm is.  Did he turn in to Plastic Man while he was in jail?  It's no wonder why people are willing to follow Leroy, with such intimidating insults as "YOU STUPID JIVE TURKEY!" He's certainly a ladies man, though.  Just seconds after beating up RD (nice touch of him spitting his teeth out), Gloria's practically mounting him where he stands.

Hey look!  It's Jimmie Walker! DYN-O-MITE!  Leroy's ended up with with a pretty swank office.  With all those curtains and tassles, it makes you wonder if he set up shop at the Victoria's Secret at the mall.  And what's up with that last panel?  She calls him "son", but he's calling her "Grandma".  I didn't know this comic was set in Tennessee.

I've not been to many funerals, but I've never known them to be held at nighttime in the middle of the rainstorm.  The only time you go to a graveyard in that kind of weather is if you need to put an iron stake in Jason's heart to kill him once and for all.  Pretty convenient to have the burial just 5 feet from a busy highway, though...makes those drive by shootings so much effective.

"BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA?"   Is this a Jack Chick comic or SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS?   Boy, that Leroy's a real piece of work, eh?  Just moments after his girlfriend is killed, he's havin a smoke in the morgue and picking up on her sister.  Dont' hate the playa, just hate the game.

OK...the weird sexual overtones in this comic are just getting creepier.  Not only does his grandma call him "son", but when he meets a new hot chick, he can't help but think how much she reminds him of her!  When Leroy tells her, "Maybe I could cross over", I thought he was talking about recording a country music song. 

By the way, looks like Samuel L. Jackson would be a dead ringer for ol' Leroy Brown in the film version of SOUL STORY.

You have to admit this is a pretty action!  If you didn't know any better you'd think this was an old Luke Cage comic.   SWEET CHRISTMAS!  I'm surprised Chick failed to mention that the "KAVOOM!" sound effect was from the Revelations 30:14.

Jeez, you'd think she could have made a quick call to 911 before testifying to Leroy, just in case.  I mean, the man just survived getting shotup with a ton of bullets, and a huge-ass gernade blast, and then walked out and drove to her house.  I'd figure he would last another 30 minutes at least.  And who the heck talks like that anyway.  In her last words, she's speaking in parentheses and even tells him the passage of The Bible the quote is from, just in case he wants to look it up himself.  The original version of this comic had Leroy saying, "Listen bitch..enough of the god-talk, just give me a fucking band-aid!

You know, with that 1st panel perspective hapenning outside of her apartment, and Leroy making that "UNGHHHH!" sound, you really wonder what's actually going on in there.  Well Leroy Brown made it just in time.  He may have thought he was the baddest man in town, but it just goes to show you that if you're a mnurderous pimp gangleader, you can put off salvation until 3 seconds before you die, and everything's going to be allright.

Man, that Jesus is one baaaaaaaad mutha-

SHUT YO MOUTH!

Hey, I'm just talkin' bout Christ!  

-Robert