I would guess that "Mickey's Inferno" is the darkest Disney Comics story I've every read. I have a morbid fear of not experiencing an "afterlife", after my time in this Earthly existence (life) is done. So, being punished for all eternity after death is not a pleasant thing for me to think about, especially if birds devour the meat off my bones while my head and brain still are "alive" to sense pain (Big Bad Wolf).
I would guess that "Mickey's Inferno" is the darkest Disney Comics story I've every read. I have a morbid fear of not experiencing an "afterlife", after my time in this Earthly existence (life) is done. So, being punished for all eternity after death is not a pleasant thing for me to think about, especially if birds devour the meat off my bones while my head and brain still are "alive" to sense pain (Big Bad Wolf).
Yes, this scene with Big Bad Wolf that you are talking about was one of the most shocking scenes that I have seen in a Disney comic story. One of the good things that made me happy about this story is that Big Bad Wolf have survived instead of dying because it would be very sad and dark if Li'l Bad Wolf lost his father after this "tragedy". Here is a scan of this scene:
PKNA #33, "Il giorno che verrà"(The day to come) is IMHO much darker. It's a complete downer ending, unlike the upkeep ending of Trauma. And #34, "Niente di personale"(psssh nothin personnel... kidNothing Personal) is a compilation of EVERYTHING GOES WRONG AND IT'S AWFUL AND HORRIBLE(thanks god for the ending)
PKNA #33, "Il giorno che verrà"(The day to come) is IMHO much darker. It's a complete downer ending, unlike the upkeep ending of Trauma. And #34, "Niente di personale"(psssh nothin personnel... kidNothing Personal) is a compilation of EVERYTHING GOES WRONG AND IT'S AWFUL AND HORRIBLE(thanks god for the ending)
Oh yes, but I haven't read them yet!
In just almost three years you will;)
Also, I guess Italians are kind of vaccinated against the sheer horror of Mickey's Inferno by default. I wonder what did Lil' Wolf do to ends up in hell where his father keeps getting killed time and time again.
Also, I guess Italians are kind of vaccinated against the sheer horror of Mickey's Inferno by default. I wonder what did Lil' Wolf do to ends up in hell where his father keeps getting killed time and time again.
He broke one of The Ten Commandments - The one that tells us each to "Honour Thy Mother and Father. He didn't help his father with the latter's life's work (to catch pigs). Rather, he sabotaged him in that effort. That is one of the most important of The Commandments. So, naturally, he ended up in one of the very lowest rungs (outlined by Dante).
Guido Martina isn't dark. He use darkness to be hilarious, you are never scared reading his stories.
Dark≠Scary. Anyway, you yourself seem to be admitting that he IS dark ("he uses darkness to be hilarious"). Your mileage may vary, hilarity-wise; a lot of us Americans find his portrayal of Scrooge as a pure psychopath (not that he ALWAYS does this, mind) incredibly off-putting. But in either case: definitely dark.
...are we forgetting Van Horn's "Black Moon," a creepy story in which it is strongly suggested that all the characters are shortly going to die hideous deaths in the blackness of space? Yeah, that's pretty good.
Wow, this is one of my childhood stories! Back then, i wondered how the ducks escaped this. Well, there are two cases... -They noticed the drops and got rid of them in time. -Their ship exploded but another ship passed by and collected them.
Of course, there is an even darker scenario: They took the drops to Earth and the whole planet was drowned!
...are we forgetting Van Horn's "Black Moon," a creepy story in which it is strongly suggested that all the characters are shortly going to die hideous deaths in the blackness of space? Yeah, that's pretty good.
Wow, this is one of my childhood stories! Back then, i wondered how the ducks escaped this. Well, there are two cases... -They noticed the drops and got rid of them in time. -Their ship exploded but another ship passed by and collected them.
Of course, there is an even darker scenario: They took the drops to Earth and the whole planet was drowned!
Well yes, as I had said on the comments of GeoX's review of that story, I always understood it as the latter. That they might die in space hadn't occurred to me — I just thought the gag was that there would be a whole new mess on Earth for them to solve.
The Floyd Gottfredson suicide strips are so dark to me. The daily strip of one day ends with the panel of mickey going for the gun on the wall! Jesus christ! So WAKing dark. In the Fantagraphic's collection they discuss how this was actually Walt Disney's idea, he thought it was funny even, and this is still early in Gottfredson's career, went along with it.
Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Aug 28, 2016 9:22:25 GMT
Well, I don't see any problem with it, actually… Sure, it's a little out of character for Mickey, but I do think those strips are funny. Try to imagine Daffy Duck or Droopy Dog in Mickey's place -- it's more that kind of humor.
I wanted to start a thread “The freakiest moments in Disney comics”, but then I found this one, so I just add mine:
8. King Scrooge the First When we last see Swami aka King Khan Khan, we are left with no doubt he’s about to die.
7. Looter of the Lake Scrooge taking a bath in the wastewater polluted by himself, losing all his feathers and looking all the more like a fried chicken: a singular experience.
6. Paperino e il grande Barunz The meanest of all of Martina’s Scrooge depictions? The young miser leaves his partner to blood-thirsty Indians to keep all the gold they dug together for himself. It’s somewhat of a classic and should be printed in the US.
5. The March of the Giant Termants Yes, it’s only a crossbreed of termites and ants, but they’re oversized, so you can actually see their cute faces – and they’re all drowning!
4. Having a Panic The giant snails in this story are nothing compared to the thought of normal sized snails JUMPING at you in the jungle and frisking you for crab grass as experienced by Donald and Ludwig here.
3. The Strange World of Gregory Gopher The gopher- and plants-turned-to-humans surely freaked me out as a kid and the rather ugly drawing style of Jack Manning certainly helped a lot. Even O’Hara looks like he came right out of a horror movie.
2. Mickey Mouse and the Gypsies aka Mickey Mouse and the Ransom Plot Minnie being tied to a millstone by “Romani” and about to be squashed. If you wanna be a success, “torture the women!” no other than Hitchcock said, but Gottfredson knew it before him.
1. Mickey’s Inferno Chickens ripping the meat off Zeke’s bones, so you actually see his skeleton. Plus several other scenes like the infamous censored one.
Honorable mentions:
Donald Duck in Ancient Persia Several people “go to the driers” here, i.e. turn to dust. But even as a 13-year-old way back when I wasn’t really freaked out. ‘Twas all in good fun, somehow.
Hook, Line And Succor! A Taliaferro onepager in which Donald drowns Goofy. Or does he??
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1. Mickey’s Inferno Chickens ripping the meat off Zeke’s bones, so you actually see his skeleton. Plus several other scenes like the infamous censored one.
"Infamous censored one"? It so happens I have not a clue what you're talking about. Care to enlighten me?
TVTropes tells me of a story where Donald discovers that the entire Duck Universe exists only within the mind of a sleeping Lovecraftian abomination, and his whole world will be destroyed if it ever wakes up. This legit?
Last Edit: Jul 31, 2017 5:31:11 GMT by stuftmcduck