The most shocking thing you have ever seen in a comic

twilightzone

SPOILER ALERT! Having recently read issue 100 of The Walking Dead, it is clear in my mind that it is the most disturbing issue of a comic book I have ever seen.

Glenn receives a barbed wire encrusted baseball bat to the head, completely destroying his brain despite his cries for his wife.

Gripping and sad, it blew me away. Have you ever felt this way reading a comic, and if so, what comic was it!

Fysh

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Not The Real Scarecrow

twilightzone wrote: »

SPOILER ALERT! Having recently read issue 100 of The Walking Dead, it is clear in my mind that it is the most disturbing issue of a comic book I have ever seen.

Glenn receives a barbed wire encrusted baseball bat to the head, completely destroying his brain despite his cries for his wife.

Gripping and sad, it blew me away. Have you ever felt this way reading a comic, and if so, what comic was it!

Thanks for ruining that for me.

twilightzone

Meatwad wrote: »

Thanks for ruining that for me.

I did say SPOILER ALERT in capital letters. You fail.

Not The Real Scarecrow

twilightzone wrote: »

I did say SPOILER ALERT in capital letters. You fail.

Unfortunately for me once my eyes see a few sentences,the brain kind of absorbs the whole thing and not just the first few words ,as I don't read with my fingers under the text.
Fortunately though I've abused substances enough that I'll forget I read it very quickly.
Might help if you put spoiler aleart in any future thread titles though.

Fysh

twilightzone wrote: »

I did say SPOILER ALERT in capital letters. You fail.

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Morag

Warren Ellis; Black Gas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackgas

Neonatal nurses biting into the belly of premie newborns like they were large hotdogs

Crossed; Garth Ennis & David Lapham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossed_%28comics%29

It is the most Gore comic I have ever read, really really not for the faint of heart.

First issue opens with a 'crossed' ****ing a dolphin in the blow hole while disemboweling the dolphin and worse get done to humans.

twilightzone

Morag wrote: »

Warren Ellis; Black Gas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackgas

Neonatal nurses biting into the belly of premie newborns like they were large hotdogs

Crossed; Garth Ennis & David Lapham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossed_%28comics%29

It is the most Gore comic I have ever read, really really not for the faint of heart.

First issue opens with a 'crossed' ****ing a dolphin in the blow hole while disemboweling the dolphin and worse get done to humans.

Nasty stuff. Are you a fan?

Morag

I'm a Warren Ellis fan and it was his only comic on zombies to date, but I still wasn't expecting that.

As for Crossed, well I am a Clive Barker fan but Crossed, crosses certain lines even for me, still it's nice to know that I do have limits and Crossed hit them hard and fast so much so I never got further then half way through Volume 2.

Fysh

I remember the

dolphin thing

from Crossed: Wish You Were Here alright, it's a moment that's both shocking and kind of hilarious (thank you Spurrier for your inventive swearing!). I found that a lot of the Crossed stuff I've seen has felt a bit too much like juvenile shocks for the sake of it - hell, the whole concept sounds a bit too much like Ennis at his laziest (he can do some great character writing when he wants to, but he all too frequently decides that provocative imagery is a good substitute for character or narrative).

That being said, the bit towards the end of Wish You Were Here with

the story about the nun and Shaky's reasoning for wanting to go off the island

worked for me, as a shocking moment that didn't feel cheap.

In Transmetropolitan,

Vita Severn's murder

was pretty shocking, in no small part down to how it was depicted.

Having said that, I still don't think anything in any medium is ever going to top Takashi Miike's "Visitor Q". That film is pretty much Miike working his way through a list of every possible taboo he can think of and breaking it on screen, with hilarious results

old hippy

A graphic birth scene in Alan Moore's Miracleman. Was quite controversial at the time (mid 80s, iirc). Attracted an equal amount of plaudits and complaints to the Eclipse postbag.

Bistoman

I dont think I need a spoiler for this BUT Dr Manhation's

8 Ft dick

in Watchmen has to go down as an "Oh MY F*****G GOD" Moment :P

mike65

Hardcore for 12 years olds in 1977 (sadly it got banned, can't imagine why!)

Bistoman

mike65 wrote: »

Hardcore for 12 years olds in 1977 (sadly it got banned, can't imagine why!)

What the Hell was that? I recognize the artwork from Battle and 2000 AD But I dont remember This, Was It Scream?

mike65

Kids Rule Okay was in the first incarnation of Action comic (before it got merged with Battle in Nov 1977)

http://www.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/?p=196

Bistoman

mike65 wrote: »

Kids Rule Okay was in the first incarnation of Action comic (before it got merged with Battle in Nov 1977)

http://www.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/?p=196

Yeh I Just found it on Wikipeadia , I have never heard of this before, Thanks for bringing it to My attention, I'll have to have a look around for this.

BlaasForRafa

Bistoman wrote: »

Yeh I Just found it on Wikipeadia , I have never heard of this before, Thanks for bringing it to My attention, I'll have to have a look around for this.

This long out of print book has the full Kids Rule Ok story reprinted in it, including the couple of stories that were never published because the comic was pulled off the shelves. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Action-The-Story-Violent-Comic/dp/1852860235/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362427084&sr=8-1

If you look around you might find a cheaper copy somewhere, its worth a read.

Bistoman

mike65 wrote: »

Hardcore for 12 years olds in 1977 (sadly it got banned, can't imagine why!)

Amazingly enough I went into the Wax Museum today and found that exact copy, Action No 31 1976. form what I have read it was that story that finally got the comic banned. Later they rehashed the story's called them scifi and launched 2000AD

Draco

Fysh wrote: »

I found that a lot of the Crossed stuff I've seen has felt a bit too much like juvenile shocks for the sake of it - hell, the whole concept sounds a bit too much like Ennis at his laziest

Was reading recently that alot of the stuff he's depicted he's gotten from UN reports on atrocities. I've yet to decide if this makes it worse or not. I stopped reading after the second arc (

with the kid tearing the foetus from her belly, eating it and saying "Daddy let me keep the good meat")

as I just couldn't handle it any more.

The gutting and sleeping in the fat lad she'd just ridden in a Empire Strikes Back homage made me laugh like a drain for some reason though