Scariest Comic Book Moments
Scenes you might thrill at every reading, or just skip the pages of altogether. BOO!
Scenes you might thrill at every reading, or just skip the pages of altogether. BOO!
"I saw the Devil." (shudder) Yeeesh, Richard Corben, I knew you had it in you but still.
Purple Man fights dirty with a horrible sight to wake up next to.
The first appearance of that... demon baby. Ugh.
Carnage shows someone what really goes on in his filthy brain.
Joker's funhouse of torture. "Don't eeever get mad!"
Reality and sanity unravels in the name of Dr. Destiny.
The infamous story, Foul Play, which made even its creators cringe.
Jenifer, expertly illustrated by Bernie Wrightson.
Cottonmouth, a disgusting tale of revenge that caused the comic some trouble.
Shut-In, also adapted into an equally effective short film.
The Bully, a story grounded in disturbing reality.
Library of Illusions. Serious, Hellskin freaked me the hell out.
Not so much Gyo itself, but the famous bonus story, Enigma of Amigara Fault.
Um... I can't decide yet, there's so much to choose from.
The Braille Encyclopedia.
Much like a slasher movie, he just keeps coming back!
The startling fourth wall break.
The first sighting of the ostracized teens. "Guh uhweeh..."
Three words: wicker Sue Dibney
The mindless drone cornering a child.
In Deep
A distant stranger menacing the Wallace Expedition.
His Face All Red
The enigmatic story that made Emily Carroll an overnight sensation.
The surreal and schizoid Al Columbia's story Amnesia.
The Upturned Stone, a great story. My pick for scariest scene was the dream of the young victim.
A Frog is a Frog, another chilling story in a natural setting.
Black Mask earns his place on my Disturbing Characters list.
The sad outcome of this world's Hulk.
Basically a scene which encompasses just how awful the Ultimate universe ended up being: Blob eats Wasp.
Mr. Hyde lets the punishment fit the crime... and Captain Nemo finds out the one way an Invisible Man can become seen.
A murder that kickstarted the term "fridging".
A beginning that will affect how you think of trees.
There are dogs in this series. Make of that what you will.
The Mary Kelly murder.
Agent Corrigan encounters her first ghost.
Also counts as one of the series' most heartbreaking moments: Abigale realizes the awful truth about Matt.
Hershell loses his daughters... and finds them again.
Bushman becomes a twisted offering to Khonshu.
The well ghost.
I could've done without the kids with the telltale signs of rape, thank you very much. Fuck you.
The ROT.
The deranged and deadly urge brought on by the demon Mnemoth.
Scarecrow actually being scary. Dragging that pitchfork... SCRAAAPE SCRAAAPE
The death of Jesse's parents.
Bonus pick because the corpse skewered on the old rabbit ears tv set was a visual I happened across as a kid. Nowadays, eh. Bastard had it comin'.
The slashing and gang rape of Safa.
The discovery of the first young victim.
Sure, the bullies were assholes, but watching their cancer grow to hideous size in a manner of seconds makes for a disturbing, agonizing death.
A look into Luba's childhood recounts brutality and the helpless viewing of her guardians forced to dig their own graves.
Incriminating evidence against Homelander leaves nothing to the imagination.
There's just something about our unfortunate lead being overtaken by an infection resembling swarms of oversized larvae, while he screams for help which won't come.
The Laughing Man, a beautifully paced, deliciously ironic, perfectly chilling Bernie Wrightson story.