FFF Results Post #140—Buh!

On Friday afternoon, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Moments You Found Scary, Eerie, Chilling or Otherwise Unsettling In A Comic." This is how they responded.


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Tom Spurgeon

1. That dog running on two legs towards Maggie in Ghost of Hoppers.
2. The horrific murder of Ophelia's friends while Luba hides in the bushes in Poison River.
3. That giant bug crawls down Matthew Cable's throat.
4. Superman's body being stretched out by a black hole while he loses his shit.
5. 9-Jack-9 kills that girl really quietly in (I think) Zot! #23.

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Russell Lissau

1. The girl who poked her own eyes out in the first arc of The Sandman
2. Eric watching his girl attacked as he died in The Crow
3. The giant space squid that destroys NYC in Watchmen
4. The first gruesome shootout in The Punisher (Max)
5. The Corinthian (also from Sandman)

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Mark Coale

1. The "I can see you" page from Animal Man
2. The Corinthian taking off his sunglasses for the first time in Sandman
3. Johnny Bates killing the nurse after turning into Dark Miracleman
4. Spider-Man being buried Alive in Kraven's Last Hunt
5. That House of Mystery story where the kid with the powers gets lobotomized

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Chris Mautner

1) That dog with the hand in its mouth from Kevin Huizenga's "Green Tea."
2) A Jack Davis EC story where a bunch of ruthless land developers build a highway over a cemetery. Then the corpses come up from their graves and drive a steamroller over them! That shit really freaked me out as a kid.
3) That scene when Kid Miracleman is going to kill that nurse, decides not to because she was nice, then comes back and changes his mind again cause he's gotta protect his rep.
4) The kindergartners decide to fly off the top of the school building in Umezu's Drifting Classrom and fall and die.
5) That full-page panel at the end of the Junji Ito story "The Bully." I don't want to spoil it by describing it. Just go read the story.

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Grant Goggans

1. That diner episode of Sandman.
2. When Guadalupe tells Heraclio that she'd seen Tonantzin under thatblasted tree at the end of Human Diastrophism.
3. When Slaine is informed, one by one, that all four of his adopted children have drowned.
4. That cover with Superman turned half to crystal shouting that he's going to get whoever did that to him. I just saw that in a house ad when I was six and knew I never wanted to read it.
5. That Hellblazer issue by John Smith set in the coin laundry, withthe two old ladies waiting for their dead friend.

*****



Jones

1. The psychogeography chapter of From Hell
2. Man-Hog flaying his own leg
3. The guy with crustaceans in his eyes in Eightball #1
4. The abomination in Cerebus #299
5. The snake-eating-the-frog page in Cat-Eyed Boy

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Chris Noble

1. Marshall Rogers' Joker-fish in Detective Comics.
2. Satan leaving chicken tracks in Xaime's "Flies on the Ceiling".
3. New York blown the hell up in Watchmen #12.
4. Erskine in "Wayfaring Stranger", from Lloyd Llewellyn
5. The first appearance of the Outer Church in "The Invisibles: Bloody Hell in America".

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Sean T. Collins

* The demonic baby appears in the Bendis and Maleev's Daredevil: Decalogue
* The snail kid slithers into the classroom in Uzumaki
* The Hooded One confronts Tarsil in Bone
* Dark Side's minions torture Shiloh Norman in Grant Morrison's Mister Miracle
* The last page of B.P.R.D.: Killing Ground

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Chance Fiveash

1. Swamp Thing #38 (1985)... I was 13 and flipped through this at my local gas station/minute market... and it creeped me out so much that I didn't pick up the title again until Moore had long since left it. I was/am a p*&%y.
2. Creepy #146 This was the 1 shot Harris revival from 1985..I remember flipping through it at my local pick n save... it really disturbed me, big time...
3. Hate #?..when Stinky kills himself....I couldn't believe it...it seemed surreal....I was so in tuned to that comic that it really did affect me at that point in my life...
4. Any S. Clay Wilson comic story...
5. Walking Dead... I haven't read this in a few years, but it would always freak me out when a character would get bitten from out of nowhere! That's why I don't like zombie films... people eating people freak me out!

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Wesley Osam

1. Ray Smuckles has dinner with Cartilege Head, from Achewood.
2. Glenn Ganges sees a dog with a living arm reaching out of its throat, from the Kevin Huizenga adaptation of "Green Tea."
3. Frank attends a party in honor of the dead at the House of Mystery.
4. Charlie Brown sees the giant head of Alfred E. Neumann looming over the horizon. (I was six, and genuinely unsettled.)
5. The narrator of Neil Gaiman's Mr. Punch comes upon a Punch-and-Judy show playing to a deserted beach... but there's no puppeteer behind the stage.

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Michael Grabowski

5. The image of Earth being shattered in Metamorphosis Odyssey.
4. Woodrue destroys the town of Lacroix by making everyone's plants pump out excess oxygen, until someone lights a cigarette and it all blows up. A kid is forced to film it.
3. Kid Miracleman kills that nurse.
2. Cerebus' son Shep-Shep's vision of himself as a sphinx being worshiped by Egyptians.
1. "A Load of Baloney," an Ernie Pook's Comeek from 1991. In text, Mr. Ludermyer rants about the war and Maybonne imagines a passing airplane is a bomber just as a bookshelf crashes. In images, the moon rises behind the top of his head, then becomes the focus, then is the spotlight for the airplane, then is a bomber's target sight. "Our father who art in heaven I don't even know what to say to you anymore."

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Gil Roth

* Flies on the Ceiling. The whole thing.
* The taxi coming closer in Bible John.
* Linda turning out to be a mermaid in Strange Tales #97.
* The Joker in Arkham Asylum not bothering to unmask Batman because "that IS his real face."
* Clay watching the snuff movie of his wife in Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron.

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Richard Pachter

* The conclusion of Lee and Ditko's "Worm Man" in STRANGE TALES 78 (11/60)
* Lois Lane marries X-Plam in Superman 136 (4/60)
* Guardian blowed up real good in Alpha Flight 12 (7/84)
* The death of Superman (But it was an imaginary story! Whew!) in Superman No. 149 (11/61)
* The conclusion of Lee and Ditko's "Worm Man" in STRANGE TALES 78 (11/60) (because it still upsets me!)

*****



Eric Reynolds

1. When Ed the Happy Clown's leg breaks in two places
2. When Stinky shot himself
3. When that guy on all fours in Velvet Glove says to Clay, "I'm very lonely, do you want to get together later?"
4. When Manhog shaved the skin off his leg
5. Gritbath

*****



Don MacPherson

1) Sandman #6 "24 Hours" -- I found the horrors that the diners visit upon one another enthalling and appalling.
2) Batman: The Killing Joke -- The Joker's decision to show Commission Gordon the despicable things he'd done to his daughter made him the epitome of evil.
3) All of the little-girl vampires from various 30 Days of Night comics.
4) Swamp Thing #21 -- When Swampy learns he's a plant and never a man "The Anatomy Lesson" -- hoo boy.
5) Mr. Hyde's bloody violation of his invisible ally in the second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series.

*****



Eric Knisley

1. The birth and cannibal frenzy of the monstrous human/fish/vampire hybrid from Swamp Thing ("Still Waters", I think was the story).
2. The Specter's defeat by the Big Black Hand of Evil in Swamp Thing.
3. Manhog's self-flaying from "Manhog Beyond the Face" by Jim Woodring("Now he's...I wonder what's going on outside the shed. I wish we could look out the window. I wonder how many grains of rice there are in a fifty pound sack")
4. The cover of OMAC #1 by Jack Kirby.
5. The discovery of the throat-mouth in "Black Hole: Racing Towards Something" by Charles Burns. As well as pretty much the entire series, the covers to the comics, the hardback collection, its slipcover, the spot it occupies on my bookshelf...

*****



Jeffrey Meyer

1. The Hostess cupcakes ad with Batman, where a musician is sucked into a piano
2. All of Jaime's "Flies on the Cieling" but especially the human-sized bird-footprints
3. The demon-possessed pigs hurtling off the cliff in one of Chester Brown's gospel adaptations
4. "The Trumpets They Played" by Al Columbia
5. When they lose gravity on the flight to the moon in Herge's "Explorers on the Moon"

*****



Buzz Dixon

1. News of the self immolation in Gilbert Hernandez' Blood of Palomar.
2. Pretty much all of Barefoot Gen (aka Gen of Hiroshima)
3. Finding out what Fletcher Hanks was really like in I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets
4. "Self" by Vaughn Bode'
5. "... and then some idiot turned out the lights..."

*****



Evan Dorkin

1. The baseball game with a corpse used as the playing equipment in the EC story, "Foul Play."
2. The butcher counter full of the butcher's body parts in the EC story, "Taint The Meat, It's The Humanity."
3. The two-page spread of a woman's ghost crawling on the ceiling and around a corner, from a story in the first volume of the manga Mail
4. When people start entering the human-shaped holes in the side of a mountain in a story from the second volume of Junji Ito's Gyo
5. The dead baby is found in the sewer in Tatsumi's The Push Man and other Stories

*****



Ryan Kirk

1. Chris gets a beating in Charles Burns' Black Hole
2. Rachel and Susie are found in the prison barber shop in The Walking Dead
3. The "24 Hours" issue of Neil Gaiman's Sandman
4. Orange gets... peeled in The Breakfast Crew (Mome, Vol. 12)
5. The Hulk rips apart Tigra in The Last Avengers Story.

*****



Justin Colussy-Estes

1. That moment in Sandman when Doctor Dee is hanging out in the diner, swinging -- what was it, a watch chain?
2. When the guy pushes the baby out the window in the one Cry for Dawn I ever read. It harrowed me so much I never picked up another issue again. the rest are kind of cheats)
3. The first moment I saw work by Charles Burns: Some El Borba piece that terrified me so much I couldn't even pick up the comic.
4. My first exposure to Renee French--The Ninth Gland? Earlier? Her art was just so damn unsettling...
5. Every panel of Nurture the Devil by Jeff Johnson. When I discovered this comic, I had to purchase it, even though it made me feel like I was buying porn. Sinister, evil, dangerous porn.

*****



Michael Spence

1. Chester Brown eats a booger
2. Young Phoebe Gloeckner and her mom's boyfriend get it on
3. That hairy dog from Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
4. Life on the Hell Planet (Complete)
5. That seven headed thing in "The Trumpets they Play"

editor's note: if he didn't mean "prisoner on the hell planet," I'm changing his answer so he meant it

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