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Scariest Comics

eoghand · 2008-10-30 03:20:54

What have been the scariest comics you have read as part of an on-going series or a stand alone? Just got 30 Days of Night, seen the movie but haven't read the comic.

30-10-2008 3:20am

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What have been the scariest comics you have read as part of an on-going series or a stand alone?
Just got 30 Days of Night, seen the movie but haven't read the comic.

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#2 30-10-2008 9:09am

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I don't think a Comic has ever scared me.

Plenty have made me laugh,feel good and even Cry(In a Mannly fashion).
Some have done all 3.

I'm sure there have been one in which I fear for the characthers I'm reading about.(Walking dead was always good for that.) But I can't honestly think of any that have frighten me.

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#3 30-10-2008 9:17am

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I don't scare very easy wither its books, comics or films but anything by Thomas Ott is scary in a "there's something wrong with that guy in the head" way.

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#4 30-10-2008 10:09am

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I don't scare easily but I do enjoy horror concepts that would be terrifying if you were actually living them yourself. Walking Dead or 30 Days Of Night being good examples. Hellblazer has some great moments, although it can be a bit patchy depending on what kind of horror you prefer. Overall though a lot of horror comics aren't really straight-up horror so much as action/horror or supernatural horror; other than some stuff in Hellblazer (ironically a book with a heavy supernatural aspect) I can't think of any recent comics that are non-genre horror books. There are plenty of zombie books out these days, but most aren't very good imo. Ditto the 30 Days of Night books - first one was quite nice, but after that it goes downhill...

There's an old thread in the Horror forum about this that might give you a few more ideas.

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#5 30-10-2008 12:13pm

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I'm a wimp but still have to find a horror comic that is even slightly scary. Plenty has been said about the merits of Japanese horror manga masters Umezu or Junjo Ito and while there are plenty -too much for my taste- of disconcerting (guro nonsense) and perplexing (modern continuity) comics out there, nothing has come close to the sleepless nights that cinema or books can cause.

I enjoy horror when its done well, and would love to read a comic that would scare the crap out of me. The Walking Dead doesn't nearly cut it.

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#6 30-10-2008 2:02pm

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When I was a kid a comic came out called SCREAM (from the makers of titles I already got like 2000AD, Battle, Roy of the Rovers etc) and some of bits of it were quite scary at that age although looking back at it now its not really. It still looks great though, tragic it ended after only a few issues.

http://www.backfromthedepths.co.uk/issues/issue1.1/page1.htm

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#7 30-10-2008 3:46pm

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Well really,since you`re able to just skip ahead a few pages and see the ending of a comic,I`ve never really been scared by any modern zombie comics.

old ECs and are always great for that lingering scare.i.e,when you`re a kid and you need to go to the toilet in the middle of the night but you`re too scared because of that gimpy little fecker in Tales From The Tomb....
I`d also recommend the EC`s because they always had the best artists(Wally Wood,Jack Cole,Bob Powell...)for the kind of gruesome gritty "human horror"(murderous dentists and people sticking pins in people`s eyes and crazy sh*t of that nature)and the "moral horror"(farmer chops chicken`s heads off for fun,mutated chicken then chops the farmer`s family`s heads off)

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