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Broodhollow, a webcomic by Kris Straub, is an interesting combination of Disney Magic and Hell. Set in Prohibition-era USA, Broodhollow follows the story of Wadsworth Zane, a down-on-his luck encyclopedia salesman trying to make an honest living. Obsessed with the idea of patterns having an effect on his day-to-day life, Wadsworth nevertheless finds himself struggling with bills and money. That is, until a letter comes telling him that he has inherited the estate of a distant relative.
The art is cute, the main character is lovable, and the story seems harmless so far.
It's all a lie.
The cuteness of Broodhollow is merely a facade for a dark, gripping horror webcomic about a little town haunted by the dead. Wadsworth's constantly questioned sanity provides a perfect backdrop for the death and chaos that the people of Broodhollow constantly ignore. And if the webcomic doesn't scare the life out of you, h͔͓̠̲͍̲͇͖͕̲́̕͢͡ͅé̡̨̝͖̫̮͍̗̪̱̫̭͖̬̞̗̕͜ḷ̵̨̜̲̱̯̦̀͜͢ṕ̧̧̘̪̺̖̪̫̯͍͜
Some of Kris Straub's other works include:
Chainsaw Suit, a gag-a-day comic.
Starslip, a completed sci-fi comic.
Ichor Falls, a collection of short horror stories writted by Kris Straub and other submitters.
Lance Streetman fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Oct 21, 2013
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Is it that hard to link to the comic itself?
http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/2013/06/10/protector/
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http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/2013/06/14/him/
I can't help but wonder who "him" is.
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Man, this new Broodhollow really cracks me up.
http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/
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It was a dark and stormy night (in Seattle), much like tonight, when the unthinkable happened.
Broodhollow updated
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http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/2013/07/01/perchance-to-dream/
And you people thought they would believe him.
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http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/2013/07/05/a-stitch-in-time/
That's a sick tatt, Zane.
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5 seconds. Takes 5 seconds to link the page before talking about it.
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Well, here we are again. Making a new post reminding people to link the new page.
http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/page/2013/10/14/welcome-back/
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Oct 14, 2013 18:52
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http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/page/2013/10/18/sorry-were-open/
Mayor Osgood, where are your feet?
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http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/page/2013/10/28/dear-diary/
Well this should be interesting.
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http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/page/2013/10/30/private-conversation/
Perfectly sane and rational.
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Th original Candle Cove strip of chainsawsuit was a gif with a super slow framerate, so I wouldn't put that sort of thing past Straub.
For those who have never seen it, this is the strip as it was shown that day: http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/candlecovecomic/
But for the full effect, switch tabs back to here after reading the strip once (don't linger) and read this, which was the newspost for that day:
quote:NetNostalgia Forum – Television (local)
Skyshale033
Subject: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Does anyone remember this kid’s show? It was called Candle Cove and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in Ironton at the time. I don’t remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
it seems really familiar to me…..i grew up outside of ashland and was 9 yrs old in 72. candle cove…was it about pirates? i remember a pirate marionete at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
YES! Okay I’m not crazy! I remember Pirate Percy. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn’t belong on the body. I don’t remember what station this was! I don’t think it was WTSF though.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Sorry to ressurect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think Candle Cove ran for only a couple months in ‘71, not ‘72. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember.
It took place in Candle cove, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn’t a very good pirate because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don’t remember the girl’s name. Janice or Jade or something. Think it was Janice.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Thank you Jaren!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the Laughingstock and channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
ha ha i remember now too.  do you remember this part skyshale: “you have…to go…INSIDE.”
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Ugh mike, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That’s what the ship always told Percy when there was a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Laughingstock’s face with each pause. YOU HAVE… TO GO… INSIDE. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap and awful.
You guys remember the villain? He had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above really tall, narrow teeth.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i honestly, honestly thought the villain was pirate percy. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
That wasn’t the villain, the puppet with the mustache. That was the villain’s sidekick, Horace Horrible. He had a monocle too, but it was on top of the mustache. I used to think that meant he had only one eye.
But yeah, the villain was another marionette. The Skin-Taker. I can’t believe what they let us watch back then.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
jesus h. christ, the skin taker. what kind of a kids show were we watching? i seriously could not look at the screen when the skin taker showed up. he just descended out of nowhere on his strings, just a dirty skeleton wearing that brown top hat and cape. and his glass eyes that were too big for his skull. christ almighty.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Wasn’t his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children’s skin??
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
yeah i think so. rememer his mouth didn’t open and close, his jaw just slid back and foth. i remember the little girl said “why does your mouth move like that” and the skin-taker didn’t look at the girl but at the camera and said “TO GRIND YOUR SKIN”
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
I’m so relieved that other people remember this terrible show!
I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, and just all screaming, screaming. The girl was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i don’t think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.
Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole show.
kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
maybe i’m manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed.
Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Oh God. Yes. The little girl, Janice, I remember seeing her shake. And the Skin-Taker screaming through his gnashing teeth, his jaw careening so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges. I turned it off and it was the last time I watched. I ran to tell my brother and we didn’t have the courage to turn it back on.
mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
i visited my mom today at the nursing home. i asked her about when i was littel in the early 70s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she remebered a kid’s show, candle cove. she said she was suprised i could remember that and i asked why, and she said “because i used to think it was so strange that you said ‘i’m gona go watch candle cove now mom’ and then you would tune the tv to static and juts watch dead air for 30 minutes. you had a big imagination with your little pirate show.”
Now look at the comic again.
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Mr. Mayor, please stop phasing in out of the snow like that.
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Nov 1, 2013 19:02
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Mr. Loucks, please stop being creepy.
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One of these days, I'm just gonna snap and murder somebody, and the cops'll just find "they didn't link the comic" written on the wall in blood.
Also you're still being creepy, Mr. Loucks.
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Goddamn, I love boxcar diners
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Ah, bullies. The worst monsters in Broodhollow.
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Or you could just put a blanket over it. That works too.
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I'm not sure if Wadsworth has terrible eating habits or if the food at Cubby's is just that bad.
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I don't think being more organized is the solution.
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Not a problem. Give it a few days and he'll be out of town before you know it.
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The Disney-esque art really kinda drives home how hosed up this whole situation is.
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Yeah, there was blood there before. I remember thinking it felt out of place.
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Look, you can't just pay people with gratitude. It doesn't work like that.
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And it's a double update.
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Jesus, that's a beautiful first panel.
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This fucker better die by the end of the comic.
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No seriously, when does this rear end in a top hat get his face ripped off.
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I would totally pay for a Cadavre figurine.
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Twas a... hot? Winter night...
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Even as the forums are breaking, I ceaselessly post new no
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I wonder if it has anything to do with how hot he was last comic, despite it snowing inside.
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Hello Hello Hello, Broodhollow thread.
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I don't think we want to understand the nightmares, doc.
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He has a point.
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there's a really serene, unsettling feel to the whole page. Well, except for the last panel.
