You know what’s weird? I don’t even remember doing this… and it’s a very good costume! Apparently done in a sick, psychotic, amnesiac blackout or something. And for what? Am I scary at all? I mean, look. LOOK.
Are there any comics that won't never be covered in the Long Box of the Damned because it was either too disturbing or too inappropriate?
More like “This is not fun to talk about,” as a shorthand.
I can count the number of Longbox episodes I started and then abandoned on one hand. The ones I remember are:
-Curse of the Were-Woman - thought it’d be horror, but it’s not. Misogynistic dude gets turned into a woman. Hijinx ensue.
-Friday the 13th: Bad Land. A weird two-issue miniseries showing a parallel timeline of a Native American family getting attacked (the woman getting sexually assaulted, at that) by some white settlers while also showing Jason killing a couple. There was just something very iffy and gross about paralleling racist murder and rape with a consensual couple having fun in the woods. I know it wasn’t intentional and I was probably reading too much into it, but it did not feel like the kind of thing I wanted to talk about as Moarte.
-The House of Montresor. A comic sequel to the Casque of Amontillado, it was actually going reeeaaally well for most of it. Tension, horror, a likeable, innocent protagonist… aaaand the ending came in and it turned out she was being deliberately tormented by Montresor’s descendants for stupid, horrible reasons that had nothing to do with her and this innocent person is killed through no fault of her own and the journey was NOT worth it for an “evil wins” kind of story. A comic where the ending completely ruins the book and I knew I would not enjoy making a Longbox out of it.
Just curious: Remember back when you said that Spider-Man was dead to you after One More Day and that you wouldn’t read or review comics that came out after OMD unless OMD itself got undone? Well, just curious: Does that also include spinoff comics that came out after OMD and don’t directly feature Spidey himself, but still feature Spider-adjacent characters (ex: Venom, Black Cat, Carnage, Miles Morales, Silk, Superior Foes Of Spider-Man, etc)? Do they count? And what about comics where Spider-Man is there, but he’s mostly in the background? I’m asking this because I just realized that since you reviewed Secret Empire and Civil War II, that means you’ve technically already had post-OMD Spidey on the show, even if he wasn’t the main character of those stories, so we’re kinda dipping into more of a nebulous grey area here.
It’s not like there’s some hard and fast rule that I have to go spin around three times and do 15 Hail Marys if I break it here. XD
I’m not buying Amazing Spider-Man or any ongoing where he’s the main character or whatever. He’s going to show up in other books and event comics and if I review them it’s not really me supporting a book with him as the feature, especially because I still tend to slip in jokes about him selling his marriage to the devil.
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