Moment in a comic that disturbed/upset you the most?
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Until I just finished Age of Apocalypse, I would've said Vargas killing Psylocke was the scene that upset me the most in a comic.
However seeing Colossus uncaringly mow down Shadowcat in AoA I think just tops it. Poor Kitty!
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However seeing Colossus uncaringly mow down Shadowcat in AoA I think just tops it. Poor Kitty!
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The Walking Dead #100
Ralph Dibny (The Elongated Man) crying (and losing control of his body) at his wife's funeral, in the fantastic "Identity Crisis" in DC comics.
It might seem trite now, but Ralph was a much loved character and the events had real impact on the DC universe as a whole.
(BTW DC, please bring Ralph back in the current "52" universe!)
Batman finding Jason Todd's/Robin's body in burning wreckage and the final splash-page of him carrying the corpse. All comic readers had been moaning about Jason, but this brought home the loss of the character and the affect on Bruce.
You have to remember here that these were different times. Most comic characters stayed dead when they died (Barry Allen and Ted Kord most readily come to mind).
Unfortunately most "deaths" these days in comics are seen as cynical exercises in publicity. I remember rolling my eyes at Cap America's "death" and Thor's most recent demise ...
The one recent exception is the death of Peter Parker in the Ulimate Universe.
The death of Marvel Girl in X-Men and the the death of Supergirl in Crisis.
Both were very poignant.
shocked me
There was one amazing storyline when the Deathlords of Nox set up the death shield around London and forced people to walk into it through mind control in order to flush out Doomlord, but he didn't give himself up. He's then quoted as saying "the death of many outweighs the death of a few" and then you knew, although he was Earth's saviour, he was quite willing to see lots of people die in order to protect it.
Doomlord, from 80s Eagle. I remember that. He started as some sort of spearhead for a proposed invasion, but then became some sort of environmentalist after getting stuck on earth, didn't he?
I remember one of his stories featured some bloke who got caught out in some big league wrongdoing, on a chat show, and poisoned himself live on air, which was quite shocking. Also, the way people's eyes went blank and white, when Doomlord clasped their heads, to absorb their personalities, was quite grotesque.
Do you remember the Collector stories, in the Eagle? They were a different story each week, with the Collector as link man. They usually had an unexpected or macabre twist-and a lot of them ended very creepily. The fact that the comic then was a photo-strip comic, with stories posed by models, made the stories more involving and affecting.
Also "Batman: Holy Terror" when the Flash died.
2. Jason Todd getting killed by The Joker. My favourite Robin.
3. Although it hasn't happened yet, The Joker's new look is creeping me out, going by the preview advert
Why'd you have to mention that, ten years of therapy down the drain.
The last issue of Y the last man may have caused me to shed a manly tear.
Also the end of Sandman (not the last issue)
I take it you didn't read the What If story in 200AD Prog 1772...
After getting Ock (sans tentacles) to agree to help, he takes him to the hospital in the Fantasticar. Ock sees a Daily Bugle billboard with Spider-Man on and loses it big time. He mentally summons his tentacles and fights Reed.
Reed finally calms him down, and they arrive at the hospital only to discover they are too late and the baby is stillborn.
I remember Doomlord ( scared me as I was 7 ) and The Collector...The later being quite macbre and twisted for a kids comic
Late reply - indeed I remember the Collector well, I was reading a few stories the other day!
I've got Eagle from issues 1 to around 150, and I'm contemplating scanning them in for general delectation - the old photo stories are the best ones for me. Even the likes of Sgt Streetwise always had that more 'affecting edge' because of how they were made.
Well done you for not spoiling it. Now that it's coming to an end I'm considering reading it.
I don't normally get grossed out by this stuff, but this shocked me as it was a world away from the comics I read when I was a kid.