Paul Whicker

Paul Whicker the tall Vicar is a fictional cleric who appears in the adult Humour comic Viz. He is portayed as a corrupt, misanthropic, violent and hypcritical character ill suited to being in the Christian Priesthood and often gambles with the church funds. He even complain to his readers that "it doesn't pay for my fags and beer".

In one strip, he commits insurance fraud to maintain them by gambling (which he appropriates for his own use). He is often challenged by his supierior, an unnamed bishop who tries to thwart Whicker's schemes. At one point, he is about to be arrested by police only to tell the bishop and the arresting officer that he won a bet on the horses and the parish funds are five thousand pounds up as a result. Although amoral, Whicker has ironically been known to expose the hypocrisy of his superiors. Especially as Whicker uses "missionary work" as an excuse for drug trafficking after being shunted from parish to parish, covering up his misdeeds (sleeping with the bishop's wife and daughter). He's even been known to have connections to corrupt officials, such as a customs officer.

One early strip has a frame with a skinhead and media studies lecturer sit on the bench where Whicker pans on getting drunk. The media studies lecturer gives his thoughts on the strip as an indictment of piuous hypocrisy, whereas the skinhead thinks he's "A fuckin' magic violent Vikka(sic)". Indeed, the whole strip can be seen as a satire on pious and institutional hypocrisy.