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?
Yup. IDW published it, too. It's called The Call of C'Ruso, and it's pretty much a Grandi Parodie of The Call of Cthullhu, but instead of some kind of historical counterparts it features the usual characters. Because of this, kiddy-me (who had never heard of Cthullhu and didn't realise this was a parody story rather than a normal one) was thoroughly, thoroughly disturbed by this story.
I'm not sure I agree with you, Nectaria. The way you put it is "too dark", which to me implies "so dark it's lost the usual acceptable tone for a Disney comic". In that sense, PKNA may be the closest I've read (but Rosa's Prisoner of White Agony Creek's the only one that really broke that mood for be, despite not being dark).
anyways, my disagreement here is with considering the Dracula story dark at all- Dracula, the Bram Stoker book, gets pretty dark, but that Disney adaptation... everyone just gets turned into beetroot! There's no murder or even maiming Just find it curious to see it listed as "darker than Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine"
Well, no problem at all because I know that some other fans will not find the Dracula story being dark. Sure, this adaptation of the Dracula novel has no actual deaths but that's just my opinion about finding it too dark or being darker than Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine . Fans can have a different opinion about finding a Disney story being dark but some other fans will not find the same story being that dark.
I think Egmont's Dracula homage is far, far darker - one of the worst comics I've ever read, actually.
Edit. Now I see another Rune Meikle story has already been posted, you may as well add these into the mix:
inducks.org/story.php?c=D+99195 Violating several taboos and in an undignified way (compared to the death scene in Life and Times of Scrooge). Donald gets hypnotised because they found out that he was the reincarnation of some Egyptian pharaoh or something. At one point he basically re-lives the scene where he gets killed, "It was horrible, I just ceased to exist". Oh thanks, this is what I want to read in a Disney comic
inducks.org/story.php?c=D+97104 Scrooge has experienced an out-of-body period after a heavy hit on the head, and he basically asks people to knock him out again and again because he wants to travel into the future. Pretty disgusting IMO, and the story even plays with the reader thinking Scrooge actually died for a while. inducks.org/story.php?c=D+97428 Some kind of dark sect wants Scrooge to do strange rituals and burn all his money, pretty disturbing story.
inducks.org/story.php?c=D+97372 The resolution of this werewolf appearance is acceptable, but before that it's almost unbearably dark
Last Edit: Oct 11, 2017 13:30:32 GMT by Spectrus: Jesus, just reminding myself of all these comics is not pleasant at all.
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?
Yup. IDW published it, too. It's called The Call of C'Ruso, and it's pretty much a Grandi Parodie of The Call of Cthullhu, but instead of some kind of historical counterparts it features the usual characters. Because of this, kiddy-me (who had never heard of Cthullhu and didn't realise this was a parody story rather than a normal one) was thoroughly, thoroughly disturbed by this story.
We have something in common! As a matter of fact, I think 80-90% of the Shaw stories that we poor German readers were confronted with month after month are disturbing nonsense. Many of them seem to be construced around violence scenes. Worst of all is perhaps this one: inducks.org/story.php?c=D+98058
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?
Yup. IDW published it, too. It's called The Call of C'Ruso, and it's pretty much a Grandi Parodie of The Call of Cthullhu, but instead of some kind of historical counterparts it features the usual characters. Because of this, kiddy-me (who had never heard of Cthullhu and didn't realise this was a parody story rather than a normal one) was thoroughly, thoroughly disturbed by this story.
Yup. IDW published it, too. It's called The Call of C'Ruso, and it's pretty much a Grandi Parodie of The Call of Cthullhu, but instead of some kind of historical counterparts it features the usual characters. Because of this, kiddy-me (who had never heard of Cthullhu and didn't realise this was a parody story rather than a normal one) was thoroughly, thoroughly disturbed by this story.
What happened at the end of that story?
C'Ruso, the eldritch being inside whose dream all of the universe exists, begins to wake up, unravelling all of creation as C'Ruso wakes up from its dream and begins to remember "true" reality, twisting the dream to resemble it. Everything is erased except for the location closest to C'Ruso in-dream counterpart, and even there the characters begin to morph into tentacled monstrous shapes. Before the process can be complete however, Donald manages to lull C'Ruso back to sleep, and the world gently reappears around them.
C'Ruso, the eldritch being inside whose dream all of the universe exists, begins to wake up, unravelling all of creation as C'Ruso wakes up from its dream and begins to remember "true" reality, twisting the dream to resemble it. Everything is erased except for the location closest to C'Ruso in-dream counterpart, and even there the characters begin to morph into tentacled monstrous shapes. Before the process can be complete however, Donald manages to lull C'Ruso back to sleep, and the world gently reappears around them.
C'Ruso, the eldritch being inside whose dream all of the universe exists, begins to wake up, unravelling all of creation as C'Ruso wakes up from its dream and begins to remember "true" reality, twisting the dream to resemble it. Everything is erased except for the location closest to C'Ruso in-dream counterpart, and even there the characters begin to morph into tentacled monstrous shapes. Before the process can be complete however, Donald manages to lull C'Ruso back to sleep, and the world gently reappears around them.
So, that being will be sleeping forever?
Oh, no. It's explained that C'Ruso enters a phase of waking every hundred years (or something). The world is safe for the duration, but a hundred years after the end of the story we'd better hope there's someone else around to sing "lull-a-bye-baby" to C'Ruso.
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?
I, too, would like to know what this "infamous censored" scene consists of.
Oh well, C'Ruso does not look very creative, it is a green color octopus monster with many eyes. I do like the story, although I can understand why it feels scary.
This is weird. I jus realised Donald Duck #16 is missing from my Comixology cloud reader (or whatever you call it), though I can still download it on my phone.
From the many Disney Stories I have read by far the darkest story is Paperino 3d, written 1954 by the great Italian author Guido Martina and drawn by Romano Scarpa (his first Duck story). In this story, which is also a sarcastic parody of beginning television, Donald lives in a murderous world (also his Uncle Scrooge is a potential murderer who wants to kill him) where the only "human" place is the mental home (there people believe to be flowers).
Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Nov 11, 2017 8:41:11 GMT
I just read the 2005 Halloween story Spook and Quackers and it's fantastic. It's almost everything you'd want a Halloween story to be (creative, funny in a Haunted Mansion sort of way, well-drawn, and including Halloween folklore in its premise). And it has what may be one of the darkest plotlines in a Disney comic, which I am very surprised the censors let slip. Not going to spoil it unless someone asks, but suffice to say…