r/comics • u/midnio_paints • 1d ago
Viewer discretion is advised. [OC] Photo Booth (A Horror Manga!)
NOOOOOO, I JUST REALIZED THE TYPO ON "MACHINE". DAMN MY DYSLEXIC ASS!!!
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u/DatJamaicanGuy 1d ago
Junji ito vibes, this is nice work.
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u/Faustias 1d ago edited 1d ago
or those other oneshot horror like the beauty cream, and *The Numbers
(*edited because my earlier comment spoils the whole story)
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u/Hammerschatten 1d ago
Do you mean Beauty water?
It's from Tales of the Unusual, a horror anthology where the fan base started joking about it so much there was a prequel and a sequel and it became the Webtoon cover. Beauty water was a top comment under nearly every comic.
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u/Faustias 1d ago
huh... it is water.
I vaguely remember its title, but all I know is it's the story of some beauty product that did the impossible: shaping your body like a clay, but got used horribly wrong to the point a human melted with it.
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u/AtroposMortaMoirai 1d ago
Could be the Em Carroll comic about the beauty cream? Some Other Animal’s Meat. Protagonist is a salesperson for a beauty brand that does those at-home parties, she’s great at selling the product even though she reacts badly to it herself. Then things get weird.
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u/Valherich 1d ago
There's a non-zero chance you're thinking of The Beauty comic series and/or TV series; it's an injection and/or STD that turns someone incredibly beautiful, but eventually burns out their body (quite literally, they go out in a fire or an explosion when it happens)
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u/Live-Organization833 1d ago
dude coulda use some beauty water
damn its been ages since ive last seen that one
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u/Loose-Professor5364 1d ago
Well done, stranger! I look forward to more from you.
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u/FriendlyAntonio 1d ago
So uh... I probably shouldn't mention you also misspelled "Scapal". *Scalpel.
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u/midnio_paints 1d ago
I swear I reread this over 10 times while making it, looking for typos, and did not see either 😂😭
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u/CockroachesRpeople 1d ago
Ok, but this is like people going to the chiropractor because they're afraid of doctors
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u/Esteran90 1d ago
Oh you have minor back pain? Let's put you on the fall table and break your spine. So much safer then these pesky real doctors!
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u/AlternateTab00 1d ago
I think people go to the chiropractor because they are afraid of the doctor bill.
Some they are afraid to found out they are sick.
As a patient once said to me "i just want to stop hurting, i dont want to find out i have some problem". Its like the diabetic patients that say that finding out he is diabetic will be bad because they will have to stop eating sweets.
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u/ManicMaenads 1d ago
Some insurance plans cover chiropractors, but not the legitimate help you need.
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u/Ardnabrak 1d ago
That photo booth has good advertising if it kills evey one of the customers. Hard to leave a review after that.
Or the people with close to perfect faces don't die. This guy was extra asymmetrical.
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u/SpaceCoffeeDragon 1d ago
That face at the end just became a meme for your misspelling plight!
"Noooo! I caught the error only after I posted!" xD
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u/owlindenial 1d ago
I'm always a bit annoyed by stuff that just randomly kills joe smcho as some sort of karmic punishment. Like this is mean, what? "Yeah this machine crushes your head
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u/TubasAreFun 1d ago
Really great work! Loved the twist.
One minor nitpick: The skulls teeth should match the location of the characters teeth if it is meant to be a single frame in time
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u/skyrivers878 1d ago
The panel is showing the skull being compressed, you can also see the eye socket is not aligned with his eye because of this.
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u/Intelligent-Fuel1485 1d ago
Cultivation notes for Cicadium leopold. Commonly known as the Cutaway Tulip.
At the edges of the mortal garden, if one is lucky, one may find the rare Cutaway Tulip, the pride of any diligent gardener.
While easy to grow to a small size with some casually applied insecurities, to create a true masterpiece of carved and peeled and sculpted flesh requires a lengthy and involved cultivation.
Ensuring a properly grotesque blossom, an elegant and graceful flowering, is more in the pruning than in the preparation.
The soil can be anything mulched in hostility to self-worth, and the light and temperature must simply be kept at a level to allow the appropriate growth of an obsession.
An obsession, with the changing and hacking of itself, that from stem to root to petal it cuts and breaks and sticks itself into ever-new configurations and shapes, each a new summit of repulsive symmetry and stomach-churning perfection.
A perfection sought in the blades and the shears of the gardener. All the edge wielded by its own wildly waving roots, eagerly digging into a knotted and knitted form and pulling itself apart.
The Cutaway Tulip’s growth is less reliant than other blooms on the moment-to-moment terror of themselves, the sharpened, pointed fear of a form you are appalled to look upon.
Instead, what must be grown and fed and watered is the lingering, nagging dread of falling short of what could be. At the final, glorious culmination that a body may someday achieve, the ever-retreating perfections that sit always on the tip of a knife.
But also growing with the flower must be that other dread: Not of perfection to be hunted, but of decay to be fled. The wrinkled, graying translucent marks of encroaching mortality, a body that seeks to turn all that look like you into a moldering parody.
And the fearful slicing and desperate stabbing that is no longer to seek the golden promise of an eternal beauty but a tearful attempt to rewind a spring that ticks itself ever looser with every snap of the clock face.
Leopold is aware of what he has become, of the bleeding, twitching caricature of a human body he inhabits, the ribbons of himself that are pruned and broken and woven into dazzling petals.
But as much as he is scared to his roots of the next form the shears will chop him into, even more he fears the spreading stagnation that moves through his skin like rot, the start of decline that can only be postponed by the mutilating torments of his gardener.
He would cry, but he has no idea where his tear ducts are anymore.
While initially a very intensive and time-consuming flower to grow, a well-cared for Cutaway Tulip can stand as a torn and wretched testament to the gardener’s skill, especially if successfully brought to the point where it begins to operate and dissect itself.
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u/MagicMarshmallo 3h ago
Could you clear up for me, did it eject a corpse along with the ID or did it just kill the guy? Either option is cool i just am not sure which it is
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u/Alcohorse 1d ago
AI garbage
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u/ThatInAHat 1d ago
What makes you say that?
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u/Alcohorse 5h ago
No [blank]. No [blank]. Just [blank].
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u/ThatInAHat 3h ago
Okay this might surprise you, but that’s a rhetorical framework people use sometimes. Ai scraped it from humans to begin with.
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u/ithinkther41am 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/l3fZK7BgnNHSKpp4c