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Disturbing scenes in comics

  
  

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deja_vroom
11:26 / 21.06.02
1) Daredevil - Bullseye killing Elektra. I no longer have the book with me, and I was only a kid when I saw it. But I still remember Bullseye's expression, grinning, and the expression in Elektra's face, her eyebrows, the blood in her mouth. And that long sai piercing through her chest, lifting her from the gorund. One of the most chocking, saddest things I ever seen in comics. Perhaps I was too sensible back then. I would have to check the book today and compare my reactions.
2) Preacher - The "Salvation" arc. Jesse walks into Quicannon's abattoir to see the guy having sex with a monstrous female-like body build with pieces of meat. Fuck. Just thinking about it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. That was some fucked up shit.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
13:36 / 21.06.02
i think when ROM the Space Knight did, well, anything, it left me kinda messed up.

but really, umm, In Watchmen, Rorshachs fate made me pretty sad
 
 
Sax
14:15 / 21.06.02
Anything by Howard Chaykin, but especially Black Kiss.

Conan the Barbarian forcing any number of lithe Nubian women into the hay - with the looks on their faces telling you they rather like being manhandled by a brooding Cimmerian.

The bit in Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron when Clay goes to visit his mate who's had his eyes removed and some wiggling crustaceans inserted in the sockets to clean them out.

Ditto the bit where Tina has laid eggs and is literally sweating for Clay to come and fertilise them.
 
 
Jack Fear
16:35 / 21.06.02
Jesse walks into Quincannon's abattoir to see the guy having sex with a monstrous female-like body built with pieces of meat.

You call it "disturbing."

Some just call it "Saturday night."
 
 
Ria
16:36 / 21.06.02
oh just about at least one scene per issue of the great Wasteland comic. any excuse to mention this fifty cent bin classic.
 
 
Ria
16:42 / 21.06.02
okay, I will tell you one other which really bothered me (yes I like old horror comics very much...): the Weird War Story with the grounded submarine. this one panicky enlisted man has these hallucinations of his shipmates as walking dead, okay? at the end he tries to escape the submarine and his hardass officer pulls him back from the hatch. another submarine finds the ruined submarine and the skeleton of an officer holding back the skeleton of the enlisted man, frantically trying to reach the surface to escape. I don't know if the writer intended that but I thought at the time that the crew had already died. only the one of them realized that, though.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
21:24 / 21.06.02
Anything involving dental injuries. Like Azzarello's second Hellblazer storyline, where the guy sticks the lead pipe in the other guy's mouth and breaks his teeth up. Or in the recent Marvel Knights Double Shot Punisher story, where the point of view is from the inside of some guy's mouth as the Punisher yanks his teeth out.

Brrrrrrr...
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
11:37 / 22.06.02
I think the most distrubing thing I ever saw outside of an EC comic was when Elektra sits behind Ben Urich and kills the man sitting next to him with a sai through the back of the seat.

*shudders*

I STILL get a bit nervous about people sitting behind me in a movie theater. Never even thought I was vulnerable there.
 
 
rizla mission
17:42 / 22.06.02
I thought that bit in Preacher (and indeed, just about all of Preacher post-War in the Sun) was just silly.

The earlier story arc with Jody and TC and Gran'ma - that was disturbing..

The first thing that comes to mind is Rorshach's origin story in Watchmen, which I suppose is a fairly obvious choice, but none the less.. still deeply disturbing, even after numerous re-reads..
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
17:52 / 22.06.02
I was considerably freaked out by elements of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run, especially the way the man dies from drinking toxic waste in The Nukeface Papers.
 
 
El Gato Was Right: the t-shirt
22:57 / 22.06.02
How about in "Watchmen" when the dude winds up duking it out with the radioactive flesh-eatish sheep after the bomb, mutates, and later his wife fucks him in the hospital. He's got the bulbous head, she's got this garter belt exposed, and she forces him into sex. He's like, "no, no" or something... *shudder*
 
 
El Gato Was Right: the t-shirt
23:00 / 22.06.02
Oh, and speaking of Weird War Tales. I had one where this scientist sort of adopts the "Frankenstien's monster" soldier. Later, there's some scene where the old scientist gets exposed by the nazis as a old lady, gets beaten and cries. Hard to explain, but I was young when read it, and shaken as hell.
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
07:39 / 23.06.02
Some of the most disturbing comics stuff I've read was in the old Taboo series that Steve Bisette put out in the eighties–I'm sure some of you remember it. S. Clay Wilson's stuff was pretty fucked up, but for over-the-top revulsion, can't beat the Matt Howarth story where he just draws out various inventive ways to torture and kill babies, or the Howard Chaykin story about a guy with a tapeworm in him that forces him to kill prostitutes. I miss that series, there was also some grade-A stuff in there, too... From Hell, for one! And Lost Girls!
 
 
Ria
22:10 / 23.06.02
Howard Chaykin did not do that story. Fleming from Ambush Bug did it. he got in trouble for appropriating some of the art from a foreign language comic without the creators' permission.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
02:15 / 24.06.02
Not Fleming...he was just the scripter. It was Keith Giffen.

Who broke in as a Kirby tracer, and STILL hasn't found a style that's HIS.
 
 
Laughing
02:20 / 24.06.02
GM'S "Imaginary Friends" (Doom Patrol 25 or so), when Damn All sews the door shut as he chants "Sewing! Sewing! Sewing shut the door!"

For some reason this creeps me the fuck out.
 
 
Mazarine
02:24 / 24.06.02
In a manga called the Spiral Horror, a man breaks every bone in his body to wind himself into a spiral. Pretty freaky.
 
 
the Fool
03:05 / 24.06.02
Strange Kiss #1, the scene where the patient in the bed reveals his rotted away penis. Foul, foul, foul.
 
 
moriarty
04:16 / 24.06.02
El Gato, are you sure that radioactive sheep thing is Watchmen? Sounds identical to the Shadow annual.

If you're talking Giffen appropriation, then you should know he was nicked for ripping off Munoz. Don't know if that's specifically the case you're talking about or not. I do know we talked about that before on the board.

That Spiral Horror comic was in the manga anthology Pulp, under the name Uzumaki. Every one of those stories was creepy. The best part was that each of them was practically self-contained. Brillant stuff. There's a trade out which I still have to pick up.

I can't even begin to think of a good creepy comic scene. I'm drawing a blank. I will admit to loving those old Weird War Tales. The continuing features weren't so hot, but some of the one-offs were just bizarre. WWT gave you the feeling that you were reading something that was just wrong, sometimes due to the occasional lacklustre artwork. It reeked of feverish desperation.
 
 
The Natural Way
10:12 / 24.06.02
Some 'Frank' stuff is just too horrible for words.

Someone mentioned it before, but:

LIKE. A. VELVET. GLOVE. CAST. IN. IRON.
 
 
The Natural Way
10:17 / 24.06.02
And when I were a nipper: (I've mentioned this'n before too) Spidey ripping Doc Ock's tentacles off. NASTY. And Annhilus - I always "heard" his dialogue as this godawful shriek.
 
 
inca
13:27 / 24.06.02

hitchcock blue section of Grendel: Devil's Quest

especially, the urine ending of the bar fight
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
20:08 / 24.06.02
Here's a second vote for Frank. The story where Manhog starts carving the flesh from his leg and painting the muscle w/silver paint, for instance. Even the narrator is repulsed... "Let's look out the window now, shall we? Oh, look at the pretty flowers..." or somesuch.
 
 
Chuckling Duck
20:46 / 24.06.02
Virtually every page of Black Hole is disturbing. It’s a comic about teens who contract a sexual disease that causes horrible deformities. The most disturbing single scene for me is when a girl is moved to kiss the second mouth that has formed on her infected boyfriend’s larynx, and it kisses her back . . .
 
 
Baz Auckland
23:47 / 24.06.02
What freaked me out in comics as a kid (other than Struwwelpeter) was an issue of Fantastic Four where this kid sets himself on fire so he can be like the human torch. (shudder). Pretty creepy.
 
 
rizla mission
09:38 / 25.06.02
What about the Renee French book, 'Marbles in my Underpants'?

In terms of sheer visual fucked-ness, it really is beyond compare.. the first story in it, with the guy who's turned on by animal innards, and the rabid badger and the severed nipple and the dog without a dick .. I don't even want to think about it..
the whole book just seems to come from the same place as Eraserhead, only much, much more so .. nasty.
 
 
The Natural Way
12:00 / 25.06.02
Now, it's interesting that Barry should mention Struwwelpeter, cause that panel in Doom Patrol...that really upset me:

The door burst open....in he ran....THE GREAT LONG-LEGGED SCISSORMAN!

The whole, evil, grand-guignolness of it...makes me shiver.
 
 
Axel Lambert
14:24 / 25.06.02
Preacher: Arse-face after his attempted suicide and multible operations, trying to be nice to his dad.
 
 
Axel Lambert
14:25 / 25.06.02
And Grant's Hellblazer (ARCH-BISHOP BOMB): the grown-ups wearing the children's faces as masks (orlando, anyone?).
 
 
El Gato Was Right: the t-shirt
15:59 / 25.06.02
Moriarty is right, the scene I mentioned is from a (Chaykin?) Shadow annual.
 
 
deja_vroom
17:56 / 25.06.02
Sebastian O.-The dentist character(already creepy as hell) dies when the fat priest activates the mechanical flowers. It sprouts from the ground like a metallic drill and pierces through the guy's asshole, exiting through his belly. He stands there upright, dead, bleeding through his anus... uck...
 
 
Sandfarmer
03:35 / 26.06.02
That time Marvel let Rob Liefeld take over Captain America shaved a few years off my life.

Seriously though, a few issues of both Doom Patrol and Animal Man left me feeling pretty uneasy. Not good comics to read right before you fall asleep.
 
 
Margin Walker
06:46 / 26.06.02
Luckily, I've never come across it, but the whole premise behind the manga "Rapeman" is pretty fucked. As I understand it, it's about a guy who rapes women to teach them a lesson about their "uppity" (read: actually thinking for themselves) ways. Steve Albini's post-Big Black band named itself after the comic. Man, Japan's one fucked up place....

And I second (or is it third?) "Like a velvet glove cast in iron". Reading that was like chewing on tin foil. Especially the aforementioned bit about fertilizing the eggs.

Preacher: When Cassidy's buddy Sy carves off a man's face and pounds it back onto his skull with 9 penny nails.
 
 
grant
13:36 / 26.06.02
Jimmy Corrigan: stuttering, middle-aged "boy genius" looking out office window at the body of Super Man lying face down in the street after jumping off the building. And still lying there as night falls and the crowds disperse.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
14:32 / 26.06.02
OH YEAH JIMMY VORRIGAN AND THE SLASH YER BACK OPEN WITH A BOTTLE SCENE........

so nasty I had to say it capitals
 
  

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