Is Jack Chick getting mellow in his old age?

I find this new tract extremely interesting because of how mild it seems (also, because of the artwork's crudity, but that's neither here nor there). Sure, Betsy gets saved and all, but the mean kids neither get saved nor explicitly rejected savedness. Miss Johnson's "you don't have to do spells to get good grades" seems more like a mild injunction against a largely inconsequential social ill ("you don't need to use bad words to have a good time") than anything fire-and-brimstoney. And then "don't do witchcraft...do your homework!" seems like it's trying to take things out on a humorous note. There's no indication that the children's efforts at magic were actually abetted by satanic forces, or, indeed, that they were anything other than a childish prank, for which a simple rebuke is enough to absolve them. In the old days, they would have succeeded in summmoning Satan, who would have murdered the shit out of them. Betsy would only have been saved by her faith. Maybe I'm just getting soft, but I think I prefer the kinder, gentler Jack Chick. Though I imagine the old one will be back with a vengeance soon enough.