Comments on: Six by 6 by 6 | Six comics that scared the $#!@% out of us

By: Diego B

Diego B — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:07:35 +0000

ps. i’m going to sleep (it’s night here in italy), i hope that picture doesn’t haunt my dreams too… and i’m not that easy to scare

By: Diego B

Diego B — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:04:12 +0000

i went mad finding the last page of bully. now i (nearly) wish i didn’t find it… truly truly scary. especially at 4 A.M.
and reminded me something of Go Nagai’s Devilman, does someone agree?

By: Chris K

Chris K — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:22:52 +0000

Sandman #25 by Gaimen in the storyline Season of Mists, regarding the young boy in the boarding school being tormented by the ghosts of the bullies, and the demonic headmasters is one of the greatest horror stories ever produced. An absolute must read. And there are a ton of Constantines that I can’t remember the number.

By: NakedOni

NakedOni — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:32:07 +0000

I would have to add two to this list. The first is the Walking Dead issue where the General (or whatever the eye-patch guys name is) storms the prison where the main characters have been living. That issue really shook me up. Also, I’d add Miracleman vol. 3, where Kid Miracleman comes back full force. The manner in which he comes back, as well as the way Miracleman ends it was really disturbing to me.

By: Jon Carroll

Jon Carroll — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:09:11 +0000

Mention also deserves to be made of several issues of Gaiman’s Sandman back when he was writing it as a straight forward horror comic: both Passengers and 24 Hours (issues 5 and 6). The resolution of the relationship between Dr. Destiny and Nurse Rosemary was chilling because it was so sudden and completely logical at the same time and 24 Hours was one of the few stories in any medium that kept me up at night as an adult due to the very disturbing way in which it builds up the characters while simultaneously tearing them down.

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:10:42 +0000

Kanak: Words can’t even approach doing it justice. You really need to see it for yourself.

By: The Relic

The Relic — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:35:30 +0000

Some of the best horror is firmly based on the truth. And seldom can you get scarier IMO than Nakazawa Keiji’s Barefoot Gen, especially the first volume. Nakazawa in the 1970s had a style very much influenced by Tezuka Osamu (Astroboy, among others). Now imagine that style, as it is used to tell the story of the Hiroshima bombing, as filtered through the eyes of a six-year old child.

You saw scenes of horses in panicked agony as they burst into flames; people walking, their flesh hanging in shreds from their arms, little girls, their eyes melted from their sockets, head to toe in glass shards. And add this to the knowledge that the author saw all this, as a six-year old boy.

I first read that chapter in Fred Schodt’s Manga Manga book in the early 80s, and later bought I Saw It! (Nakazawa’s autobio on the bombing), then the 4 original translated volumes. Nearly 25 years later it still shakes me to read it (the whole series is being released now).

By: Eliot

Eliot — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:24:31 +0000

Hello
The most scared I’ve been by a comicbook was scalped … and the drugs.
Eliot

By: Ben Morse

Ben Morse — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:44:33 +0000

Here’s mine: http://thecoolkidztable.blogspot.com/2009/10/scariest-comic-i-ever-read.html

By: shaun dixon

shaun dixon — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:09:45 +0000

There was that story by chester brown in taboo 1,I think,with the rabbit and the owl,disturbing stuff.

By: Name

Name — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:01:30 +0000

Don’t forget Jim Woodring’s run on Aliens.

By: Van GoghX

Van GoghX — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:09:38 +0000

Hope it’s alright if we add our own.

The first Aliens b&w series from Dark Horse. I can still get stoned, crawl under my covers, reading it with a flashlight and get serious shivers. Very cinematic and very scary. The later series… not so much.

By: michael

michael — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:31:35 +0000

interesting…thanks for the thrills! ;D

By: kanak

kanak — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:16:48 +0000

umm can anyone spoil me about bully???

By: The Crate

The Crate — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:20:39 +0000

“Just tell it to call you Billie!”

By: Scott T

Scott T — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:03:52 +0000

I was just thinking about Creepshow a cople of days ago. I couldn’t remember what it was called. It is the one with Ted Danson and the afair + beach + tide, right?

It was the meteorite+green body moss story that stuck with me.

Why did my parents let me watch that in grade 4???

By: stealthwise

stealthwise — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:51:18 +0000

I’d mention a few scenes from Black Hole, because the art in that thing is just downright creepy.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:45:57 +0000

Another ex-coward here. I saw Creepshow last year and that movie would have scared me shitless years ago. Still pretty horrifying, but I can handle it (somewhat) now.

My dad had told me once how when he was a kid he saw original Invisible Man with his friends one night and he ran all the way home scared that the Invisible Man would catch him afterwards.

By: chad

chad — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:54:36 +0000

nice to see swamp thing on the list for that issue scared me along with the one where Arcane took over abbys husbands body as a fly . and i would also want to add the issue in sandman where dr. destitny is sitting in the diner testing Morpheuse ruby that issue still creeps me out .

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:53:10 +0000

And the Doom Patrol mention too.

The Whorrison fan that I am.