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Whoa. My appreaciation for horror has jumped tenfold because of this entire thread. Thanks to all of you for this interesting material.
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Much like Mr Gorilla above, I never read any horror comics until this thread. Reading though the Junji Ito stuff on OpenAwesome has been fun. It's interesting that this stuff can get to you. I mean, it's just a bunch of silly drawings in the daytime, but read it for a few hours before bed and you might have some... peculiar thoughts. Hooray for having an overactive imagination. Like someone said earlier, it might look goofy at the time, but there there's usually an image or two from a story that will linger around in a vague cloud of unease... One Ito story I haven't seen mentioned is Secret of the Haunted House. Fairly straight-forward little yarn, but if you're in the right frame of mind, reading it late at night...  I also made the terrible mistake of reading The Holes. gently caress that story.  I honestly had problems falling asleep last night because that godawful thing kept bouncing around in my head. Makes it even worse knowing that somewhere, someone is super into that   Does anybody know what the deal is with Nakayama Masaaki? The stuff on there all seem to be like 3-4 page jump scares. Nice enough, but it seems a bit unsubstantial. Was this stuff sold as small collections or am I missing something?
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Aug 16, 2014 16:24
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david_a posted:One Ito story I haven't seen mentioned is Secret of the Haunted House. Fairly straight-forward little yarn, but if you're in the right frame of mind, reading it late at night... Edit: The woman at the end is also from an old Ito comic, but I forget what it was called.
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Aug 16, 2014 19:39
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FactsAreUseless posted:Edit: The woman at the end is also from an old Ito comic, but I forget what it was called. "Fashion Model", from "Souichi's Diary of Curses". EDIT: Anyway, I read "The Secret of the Haunted House" and I was thinking "Why the hell does that guy look so familiar" then finally when he shot the nails out of his mouth, I finally realized it was Souichi. I looked over it a second time and noticed the dolls' heads, which are the same as the "Mannequin Teacher" . Nice touch right there. VoodooXT fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Aug 16, 2014 |
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Aug 16, 2014 19:47
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david_a posted:Does anybody know what the deal is with Nakayama Masaaki? The stuff on there all seem to be like 3-4 page jump scares. Nice enough, but it seems a bit unsubstantial. Was this stuff sold as small collections or am I missing something? Yeah, it's all from a series of collected shorts called Seeds of Anxiety. It got a live action adaptation a year or so ago, though I haven't watched it.
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Aug 16, 2014 20:03
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It is also better known as "Fuan No Tane".VoodooXT posted:"Fashion Model", from "Souichi's Diary of Curses". Fashion Model is one of my favorites because there isn't even a token explanation.
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Aug 17, 2014 20:53
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Fashion Model is one of my favorites because there isn't even a token explanation. That's actually one of my favorite things about Japanese horror: there is no explanation, they just are.
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Aug 17, 2014 21:11
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I've spent the past few days of summer vacation reviewing my collection of Junji Ito comics, and I've come to the conclusion that while the majority of his work appears intended to creep the audience on a surface level, later introspection can reveal silly and absurd amusement. Some panels are so funny when viewed in isolation and out-of-context, that I have been in tears from laughter. "Splatter Film" in particular is his funniest work, with the "HONEY TIME!" climax with its tiny final panel (SPLAT!), and the various ways that characters are depicted slurping their fingers. "Licking Woman" is similarly ridiculous, with the sad fate of Pyon-Chan, and the out-of-nowhere line "If you want potassium cyanide, I've got that." I'm going to have to go through and re-read everything, doing a "Where's Waldo" hunt for funniest isolated panels. 
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Aug 18, 2014 04:28
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Went on a bit of a Junji Ito binge last night and I have to recommend Mimi's Ghost Stories. It's one of his few works that manages to be both scary and really loving funny.  And here's the scary (spoilers): http://i.imgur.com/TObKjnp.jpg Also read Gyo and my god, that was loving weird. I'll give him props for alluding to Unit 731 and the hosed-up poo poo they did in there, though.
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Aug 18, 2014 05:00
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One man's quest to hump every gravestone can only end in tears.
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Aug 18, 2014 07:42
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Speedball posted:One man's quest to hump every gravestone can only end in tears. You ain't swole until even the dead notice it. Just read that book tonight. Very...ahem...errrrrrr...Ito.
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Aug 18, 2014 10:58
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I love the Patented Junji Ito Wall Of Scary Faces. How many of his comics use it? I can think of this, Uzumaki, the best scene in Gyo... maybe in a Tomie somewhere?
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Aug 18, 2014 12:30
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Here's a bright & cheerful little Junji Ito short to read before bedtime! http://openawesome.com/junji-ito-horror-manga/hellodollies.html Hello Dollies aka A Doll's Hellish Burial. Erm... Enjoy?
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Aug 18, 2014 22:16
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Umiapik posted:Here's a bright & cheerful little Junji Ito short to read before bedtime! Not a lot of things get under my skin, but I'll admit this one did. 
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Aug 18, 2014 23:35
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Umiapik posted:Here's a bright & cheerful little Junji Ito short to read before bedtime! You missed the apostrophe, it's actually Hell'o Dollies. 
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Aug 18, 2014 23:37
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Umiapik posted:Here's a bright & cheerful little Junji Ito short to read before bedtime!  at the silly concept and  at that last panel.
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Aug 19, 2014 01:26
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I appreciate that the horror of that comic is "dead bodies continue to decompose." Seriously guys, don't keep a dead girl sitting on your living room couch. Just don't do it. And also don't do drugs. Splatter Film taught me that.
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Aug 19, 2014 11:40
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FactsAreUseless posted:I appreciate that the horror of that comic is "dead bodies continue to decompose." At no point does it say explicitly that the girl is dead.
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Aug 19, 2014 19:35
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Wachter posted:At no point does it say explicitly that the girl is dead. In fact, I'm pretty sure that the wooden shell is a kind of eldritch cocoon for whatever unimaginable horror the DollGirls eventually become The only thing that could make this even more Ito as gently caress is if they actually treated the girl like a doll, then decades later they find an empty doll-husk and open the cellar to find...  
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Aug 19, 2014 20:20
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I actually love this Junji Ito story called "Dead Man Calling". On the surface, it's about two siblings being haunted by a dude who ruined their lives but it's really about survivor's guilt.
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Aug 19, 2014 20:26
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VoodooXT posted:I actually love this Junji Ito story called "Dead Man Calling". On the surface, it's about two siblings being haunted by a dude who ruined their lives but it's really about survivor's guilt. That and also the death penalty as a way of giving closure to victims.
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Aug 19, 2014 22:01
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I've been looking for a good Junji Ito collection. Any good suggestions?
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Sep 14, 2014 04:43
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Hip-Hoptimus Rhyme posted:I've been looking for a good Junji Ito collection. Any good suggestions? In English or in Japanese? Whispers in the Dark 1 and 2 are good but only in Japanese (though you can find fan translations). In fact, most of his short stories are only fan translated for some reason. I think the only stories that exist in English are Uzumaki, Gyo, and Tomie. Oh, and Flesh Colored Horror, though that's out of print. If you don't mind fan scans, Whispers in the Dark are pretty good, and they include one of my favorites; Anything But a Ghost.
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Sep 14, 2014 04:56
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Hip-Hoptimus Rhyme posted:I've been looking for a good Junji Ito collection. Any good suggestions? As Hellburger said, most of his stuff hasn't been officially translated. Of the English stuff, there's Uzumaki and Gyo. There is also the Tomie collections, though I'm not sure if they're out of print now. There's three volumes, collectively called Museum of Terror. The first two volumes collect Tomie. I'm not sure just how much of the Tomie stories are collected, but it's a pretty good collection. The third one is called The Long Hair in the Attic and collects a bunch of unrelated shorts by him, ranging wildly in style and tone. It's got some good stuff. Other than that, I believe everything else is fan translated.
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Sep 14, 2014 05:07
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On the writings of Ito, some of the stuff he made is just poo poo. Weird as hell, but I admit to laughing like an 8-year-old at the poo poo-puns...
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Sep 14, 2014 10:42
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KC Green is going to be doing horror comics all month over at Gunshow. Like so:
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Oct 2, 2014 05:49
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Lurdiak posted:KC Green is going to be doing horror comics all month over at Gunshow. Like so: Considering it's KC Green I'm guessing the horror is supposed to be in the dude's no doubt intentional resemblance to Jon Arbuckle.
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Oct 2, 2014 06:07
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Well, the box does have black and orange stripes.
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Oct 2, 2014 11:14
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"Horror Garfield" is always fun.
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Oct 2, 2014 15:00
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Lurdiak posted:KC Green is going to be doing horror comics all month over at Gunshow. Like so: This is loving great.
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Oct 3, 2014 18:18
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:This is loving great. KC Green has always had some horror chops.
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Oct 3, 2014 21:50
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I haven't been too big on Gunshow's horror comics so far, but this latest one struck a chord with me. I like it.
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Oct 9, 2014 05:57
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Lance Streetman posted:I haven't been too big on Gunshow's horror comics so far, but this latest one struck a chord with me. I like it. Ooh, I like it too. The windows still being light when there was only darkness in the doorway was a nice touch on rereading.
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Oct 9, 2014 06:10
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Lance Streetman posted:I haven't been too big on Gunshow's horror comics so far, but this latest one struck a chord with me. I like it. The video linked in the Gunshow comic comment is pretty cool, too.
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Oct 9, 2014 16:14
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e:double post
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Oct 9, 2014 16:15
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This may be much more sci-fi than it is horror, but I think this old classic by The Original Writer deserves a spot in this thread.
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Oct 12, 2014 11:03
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That was neat; reminded me of Pontypool. But, uh... what was that at the end? Suddenly a Kree or something pops out and it ends on a comedic note?
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Oct 12, 2014 12:29
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That's Tharg. He's effectively a fourth wall breaking "editor" of 2000AD books. He's not actually a part of the story. It's basically an editor note at the end of a story.
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Oct 12, 2014 12:37
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Yeah, he's like the crypt keeper but not funny or interesting.
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Oct 12, 2014 12:39
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The 2014 edition of BOO! is up for pre-order on Comixology. This year all the stories are in one volume, 64 pages for $1.99. This year features stories and art by such people as Chris Sims and Erica Henderson (also: me) in a variety of styles and subjects, but all in homage to classic horror anthology comics and horror host TV shows. If you missed last year's BOO!, which was a four-issue mini-series, you can pick them up for 99 cent each here.
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